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Soilscape of Barx soil; San Juan County, Utah

Barx very fine sandy loam, 1 to 4 percent slopes (foreground).

 

For additional information about the survey area, visit:

archive.org/details/usda-utah

 

The Barx series consists of very deep, well drained soils that formed in alluvium or slope alluvium, including reworked eolian material derived from sandstone. These soils are on fan remnants, structural benches, dipslopes, plateaus and mesas. Slopes are from 0 to 15 percent. Mean annual precipitation is about 279 mm, and mean annual temperature is about 9.4 degrees C.

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Ustic Calciargids

 

USE AND VEGETATION:

These soils are used mainly for rangeland. Native vegetation is Indian ricegrass, galleta, Wyoming big sagebrush, and winterfat.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Barx soils are extensive in southeastern and central Utah, northwestern Arizona, and southwestern Colorado, about 350,000 acres.

 

For a detailed soil description, visit:

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

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

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

 

 

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Uploaded on March 16, 2022
Taken on May 27, 2009