General Soil Type:

X3

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; dark topsoils

Moisture Regime:

Aridic

Temperature Regime:

Mesic

Taxonomic Classification:

Typic Haploxerolls, Lithic Haploxerolls

Major Soil Series:

Anders-Bakeoven-Benge-Lickskillet