MS-MESIC SEMIARID SOILS
MS-MESIC SEMIARID SOILS
Soils with mean annual soil temperatures of 47 to 59 degrees Fahrenheit (8 to 15 C) and 10 to 16 inches (25 to 41 cm) mean annual precipitation. Includes:
- MS1-Tortugas-Purner-Jacks Association: Shallow to moderately deep, gravelly and cobbly, medium and fine-textured, undulating to steep soils on hills and moutains.
- MS2-Winona-Boysag-Rock Outcrop Association: Shallow, medium and fine-textured, undulating to rolling soils and rock outcrop on plateaus and plains.
- MS3-Palma-Clovis-Trail Association: Deep, coarse to moderately fine-textured, nearly level to rolling soils on plains.
- MS4-Rudd-Bandera-Cabezon Association: Shallow, gravelly, cobbly and stony, medium and fine-textured, undulating soils on plains and mesa tops and gently rolling to steep soils on cinder cones.
- MS5-Roundtop-Boysag Association: Shallow and moderately deep, gravelly, fine-textured, undulating to moderately steep soils on plains and mountains.
- MS7-Cabezon-Thunderbird-Springerville Association: Shallow to deep, gravelly, cobbly and stony, fine-textured, nearly level to very steep soils on basaltic plains, mesas and hills.
- MS8-Pastura-Poley-Partri Association: Shallow, gravelly, medium-textured and deep fine-textured, nearly level to rolling soils on plains and hills.
- MS9-Lonti-Balon-Lynx Association: Deep, moderately fine and gravelly, moderately fine and fine textured, nearly level soils on floodplains and undulating to steep valley slopes and plains.
- MS10-Pastura-Abra-Lynx Association: Shallow, gravelly, medium-textured and deep, medium and moderately fine-textured, nearly level to rolling soils on plains and hills.
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