The viticultural area is located on Snipes Mountain, a long anticline ridge that rises from the floor of the Lower Yakima Valley with comparatively unique, rocky soils, called aridisols.
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With the aid of X-ray diffraction, paleosols can now be classified into one of the 12 orders of Soil Taxonomy ( Oxisols, Ultisols, Alfisols, Mollisols, Spodosols, Aridisols, Entisols, Inceptisols, Gelisols, Histosols, Vertisols and Andisols ).
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Other non-sandy deserts consist of exposed outcrops of bedrock, dry soils or aridisols, and a variety of landforms affected by canyon that is over a mile ( 6, 000 feet or 1, 800 meters ) deep in places, exposing strata that are over two billion year old.
