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Map Unit Description <br />The map units delineated on the detailed soil maps in a soil survey represent the soils or miscellaneous areas in the survey area. The map unit <br />descriptions in this report, along with the maps, can be used to determine the composition and properties of a unit. <br />A map unit delineation on a soil map represents an area dominated by one or more major kinds of soil or miscellaneous areas. A map unit is identified <br />and named according to the taxonomic classification of the dominant soils. Within a taxonomic class there are precisely defined limits for the properties <br />of the soils. On the landscape, however, the soils are natural phenomena, and they have the characteristic variability of all natural phenomena. Thus, <br />the range of some observed properties may extend beyond the limits defined for a taxonomic class. Areas of soils of a single taxonomic Gass rarely, if <br />ever, can be mapped without including areas of other taxonomic Gasses. Consequently, every map unit is made up of the soils or miscellaneous areas <br />for which it is named and some minor components that belong to taxonomic classes other than those of the major soils. <br />The Map Unit Description (Brief, Generated) report displays a generated description of the major soils that occur in a map unit. Descriptions of non -soil <br />(miscellaneous areas) and minor map unit components are not included. This description is generated from the underlying soil attribute data. <br />Additional information about the map units described in this report is available in other Soil Data Mart reports, which give properties of the soils and the <br />limitations, capabilities, and potentials for many uses. Also, the narratives that accompany the Soil Data Mart reports define some of the properties <br />included in the map unit descriptions. <br />USDA Natural Resources <br />Survey Area Version: 10 <br />Conservation Service Survey Area Version Date: 09/23/2014 <br />Page 4 of 4 <br />