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Custom Soil Resource Report <br />Map Unit Legend <br />IHuerfano County Area, Colorado (00627) i <br />Map Unit Symbol Map Unit Name I Acres in AN Percent of AOI <br />16 <br />Totals for Area of Interest <br />Farisita very gravelly sandy <br />loam, 10 to 35 percent slopes <br />Map Unit Descriptions <br />The map units delineated on the detailed soil maps in a soil survey represent the <br />sols or miscellaneous areas in the survey area. The map unit descriptions, along <br />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 <br />major kinds of soil or miscellaneous areas. A map unit is identified and named <br />according to the taxonomic classification of the dominant soils. Within a taxonomic <br />class there are precisely defined limits for the properties of the soils. On the <br />landscape, howeverr the soils are natural phenomena, and they have the <br />characteristic variability of all natural phenomena. Thus, the range of some <br />observed properties may extend beyond the limits defined for a taxonomic class. <br />Areas of soils of a single taxonomic class rarely, if ever, can be mapped without <br />including areas of other taxonomic classes. Consequently, every map unit is made <br />up of the soils or miscellaneous areas for which it is named and some minor <br />components that belong to taxonomic classes other than those of the major soils. <br />Most minor soils have properties similar to those of the dominant soil or soils in the <br />map unit, and thus they do not affect use and management. These are called <br />noncontrasting, or similar, components. They may or may not be mentioned in a <br />particular map unit description. Other minor components, however, have properties <br />and behavioral characteristics divergent enough to affect use or to require different <br />management. These are called contrasting, or dissimilar, components. They <br />generally are in small areas and could not be mapped separately because of the <br />scale used. Some small areas of strongly contrasting soils or miscellaneous areas <br />are identified by a special symbol on the maps. If included in the database for a <br />given area, the contrasting minor components are identified in the map unit <br />descriptions along with some characteristics of each. A few areas of minor <br />components may not have been observed, and consequently they are not <br />mentioned in the descriptions, especially where the pattern was so complex that it <br />was impractical to make enough observations to identify all the soils and <br />miscellaneous areas on the landscape. <br />N <br />100.0% <br />100.0°% i <br />