General Soil Type:

X1

Region:

X

Map Unit Description:

Soils of the Channeled Scablands: shallow, stony soils formed in loess over cataclysmic glacial outburst flood-scoured basalt occur in complex landscape patterns with moderately deep soils formed in loess over silty, sandy, or cobbly flood sediment; includes small areas of very deep loessial soils and poorly drained salt-affected alluvial soils

Moisture Regime:

Aridic

Temperature Regime:

Mesic

Taxonomic Classification:

Lithic Xeric Haplocambids, Lithic Xeric Torriorthents,

Xeric Haplocambids

Major Soil Series:

Starbuck-Schawana-Prosser