General Soil Type:

L5

Region:

L

Map Unit Description:

Fine-silty loessial soils, many have exceptionally thick, dark-colored, humus rich topsoils; soils on hilltops have thin topsoils and clay subsoils near the surface due to erosion; concave north slopes have thick topsoils underlain by white, leached horizons above clay-enriched subsoils; these soils formed under meadow-steppe vegetation

Moisture Regime:

Xeric

Temperature Regime:

Mesic

Taxonomic Classification:

Pachic Ultic Haploxerolls, Xeric Argialbolls

Major Soil Series:

Palouse-Thatuna