General Soil Type: Dq1 Region: D

Map Unit Description: Dry sandy soils on terraces and dunes that have formed under

sparse dune vegetation or shrub-steppe vegetation in

wind-deposited sand or silt over glaciolacustrine deposits

from cataclysmic glacial outburst floods; most have low

water-holding capacity

Moisture Regime: Aridic

Temperature Regime: Mesic

Taxonomic Classification: Xeric Torripsamments, Xeric Torriorthents, Xerollic

Torriorthents

Major Soil Series: Quincy-Hezel-Burbank