The soil profile to a depth of 48 inches or more is a silt 

 loam. 



Permcabilir*' is moderate and available water capaci ty is 

 about 8 inches in the upper 48 inches. 



The soil is suited to irrigated crops. This map uni t is class 

 2 irrigated. 



82 - Floweree silt loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes. This deep, 

 well drained soil is on fans, terraces and uplands. It formed 

 in alluvium. Slope is 2 to 8 percent. 



The soil profile to a depth of 48 inches or more is a silt 

 loam. 



Permeabilit)' is moderate and available water capaci ty is 

 about 8 inches in the upper 48 inches. 



This soil is suited to irrigated crops. This map unit is 

 dass 2 irrigated 



89 - Gerdrum clay loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes. This deep, 

 well drained, sodium and salt-afFected soil is on fans and 

 uplands. It formed in alluvium. Slope is 2 to 8 percent. 



The surface layer of this soil is a clay loam about 7 inches 

 chick. The subsoi 1 is a clay about 6 i nches ch ick. The substra- 

 tum to a depth of 48 inches or more is mainly a silty clay or 

 silty clay loam. 



Permeability is slow and available water capacity is 

 about 5 inches in the upper 48. inches. 



The soil is not suited to irrigated crops because of slow 

 permeability, sodidry and salinity in the root zone. This soil 

 is dass 6 irrigated. 



91 -Gerdrum-Kobarsiltyclay loams, 2 to 8 percent slopes. 

 This map unit is on fans and uplands. Slope is 2 to 8 percent. 



This unit is about 55 percent Gerdrum silty day loam 

 and 45 percent Kobar silty day loam. They formed in 

 alluvium. 



The sodium and salt affeaed Gerdrum soil is deep and 

 well drained. The surface layer is a silty day loam about 7 

 inches thick. The subsoil is a siltvdav about 12 inches thick. 



The substratum to a depth of 48 inches or more is a sil cy day 

 loam. Permeability is slow and available water capacity is 

 about 5 inches in the upper 48 inches. 



The Kobar soil is deep and well drained. The soil profile 

 to a depth of 48 inches or more is a silty day loam. Per- 

 meability is slow and available water capadty is about 7 

 inches in the upper 48 inches. 



This map uni t is poorly suited to irrigated crops because 

 of slow permeability, sodi city and salinity in the root zone ot 

 the Gerdrum soiL This map unit is class 6 irrigated. 



95 - Glendive loam, to 2 percent slopes, occasionally 

 flooded. This deep, well drained, occasionally flooded soil 

 is on flood plains and low terraces along the Tongue River. 

 It formed in alluvium. Slope is to 2 percent. 



The surface layer of this soil is a loam about 10 inches 

 thick. The underlying material to a depth of 48 inches or 

 more is mainly a sandy loam that has strata of loam and 

 loamy sand. 



Permeability is moderately rapid and available water 

 capadty is mainly 5 or 6 inches in the upper 48 inches. This 

 soil is subjea to occasional periods of flooding during spring 

 and early in summer. 



The soil issuited to irrigated crops.This map uni t is dass 



2 irrigated. 



96 - Hanly-Glendive loams, occasionally flooded, to 2 



percentslopes. This map unitis on lowstrcam terraces along 

 the Tongue River and Rosebud Creek. Slope is to 2 

 percent 



This unit is about 55 percent Hanly loam and 45 

 percent Glendive loam. These occasionally flooded soils 

 formed in alluvium. 



The Hanly soil is deep and somewhat excessivdy 

 drained. The surface layer is a loam about " inches thick. The 

 underiying material to a depth of 48 inches or more is 

 mainly stratified loamy sand, fine sandy loam and fine sand. 

 Permeability is rapid and available water capadty is mainly 



3 to 4 inches in the upper 48 inches. 



The Glendive soi 1 is deep and well drained. The surface 

 layer isa loam about 8 inches thick. The underlying material 



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