Soilscape along Fremont River; Caineville, Utah

The soils along the floodplain are in the Billings or Trail series.

 

The Billings series (foreground) consists of very deep, well drained, moderately slowly or slowly permeable soils formed in alluvium derived from marine alkaline shale and mixed sedimentary rocks. Billings soils are on flood plains, flood-plain steps, and valley floors. Slopes are 0 to 10 percent. The average annual precipitation is about 7 inches and the mean annual temperature is about 50 degrees F.

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-silty, mixed, active, calcareous, mesic Typic Torrifluvents

 

USE AND VEGETATION: Where irrigated and not too saline, alfalfa, small grains, sugar beets, and beans are grown. Potential native vegetation is mainly shadscale, Indian ricegrass, galleta, and greasewood.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: The semiarid and arid parts of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah. The series is extensive, about 100,000 acres.

 

For additional information about the survey area, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/B/BILLINGS.html

 

For a detailed soil description, visit:

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

 

 

The Trail series (in pasture) consists of very deep, well drained and somewhat excessively drained soils that formed in stratified alluvium. Trail soils are on floodplains and alluvial fans and have slopes of 0 to 8 percent. The mean annual precipitation is about 8 inches and the mean annual air temperature is about 54 degrees F.

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Sandy, mixed, mesic Typic Torrifluvents

 

USE AND VEGETATION: Trail soils are used for livestock grazing and irrigated cropland. The present vegetation is cottonwood, salt cedar, willow, Russian thistle, camelthorn, fourwing saltbush, and sand dropseed.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Northern Arizona, southern Colorado, northern New Mexico and southern Utah. This series is not extensive, less than 100,000 acres.

 

For additional information about the survey area, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/T/TRAIL.html

 

For a detailed soil description, visit:

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

 

 

Badland (background) is moderately steep to very steep barren land dissected by many intermittent drainage channels in soft geologic material. Ordinarily, it is not stony and occurs in semiarid and arid areas.

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For additional information about soil classification using Soil Taxonomy, visit:

sites.google.com/site/dinpuithai/Home

 

For more information about describing soils using the USDA-Field Book for Describing and Sampling Soils, visit:

www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs142p2_052523...

 

For more information about describing soils using the USDA-Soil Survey Manual, visit:

www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/soils/ref/?cid=n...

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