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Garywash soil series

A representative soil profile of the Garywash series in an area of Garywash gravelly fine sandy loam, 4 to 15 percent slopes. (Interim Report for the Soil Survey of Chemehuevi Wash Off-Highway Vehicle Area, California; by Leon Lato, Carrie-Ann Houdeshell, and Heath McAllister, Natural Resources Conservation Service)

 

The Garywash series consists of very deep, well drained soils. Garywash soils are on fan remnants. Slopes range from 2 to 15 percent. These soils formed in alluvium from granite. Elevations are 300 to 450 meters (about 980 to 1475 feet). The climate is arid with hot, dry summers and warm, dry winters. The mean annual precipitation is about 100 millimeters (about 4 inches) and the mean annual air temperature is about 24 degrees C (about 75 degrees F).

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, hyperthermic Typic Haplocalcids

 

Soil moisture control section: usually dry throughout, rarely moist in some part during summer or winter. The soils have a typic-aridic soil moisture regime.

Soil temperature: 22 to 26.7 degrees C (about 72 to 80 degrees F).

Depth to calcic horizon: 10 to 25 centimeters

Organic matter: 0 to 0.5 percent

Control section -

Rock fragments: averages 15 to 35 percent, mainly gravel

Clay content: 6 to 15 percent

 

USE AND VEGETATION: Garywash soils are used for recreational and wildlife habitat. The present vegetation is mainly creosote bush.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Lower Colorado Desert of southeastern California, U.S.A.; MLRA 31. These soils are of small extent.

 

For additional information about the survey area, visit:

www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/california/CA6...

 

For a detailed soil description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/G/GARYWASH.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

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

 

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Uploaded on May 11, 2021
Taken in January 2000