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Chilicotal soil series

The Chilicotal series consists of very deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils that formed in loamy gravelly piedmont sediments from igneous mountains. These soils are on gently undulating to strongly rolling fan remnants and alluvial fans. Slopes range from 1 to 50 percent.

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic Ustic Haplocalcids

 

USE AND VEGETATION: Livestock grazing and wildlife habitat. Grasses in most areas are mainly chino grama, slim tridens, black grama, and threeawns with woody vegetation of lechuguilla, creosotebush, skeletonleaf goldeneye, catclaw, sotol, yucca, and ceniza.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: West Texas in MLRA 42. The series is of moderate extent.

 

For a detailed description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/C/CHILICOTAL.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#chilicotal

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Uploaded on January 14, 2011
Taken in January 2000