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Map Unit Description(Brief,Generated)---Moffat County Area,Colorado New_Shapefile <br /> Map Unit Description (Brief, Generated) <br /> The map units delineated on the detailed soil maps in a soil survey represent the <br /> soils or miscellaneous areas in the survey area. The map unit descriptions in this <br /> report, along with the maps, can be used to determine the composition and <br /> properties of a unit. <br /> A map unit delineation on a soil map represents an area dominated by one or <br /> more major kinds of soil or miscellaneous areas. A map unit is identified and <br /> named according to the taxonomic classification of the dominant soils. Within a <br /> taxonomic class there are precisely defined limits for the properties of the soils. <br /> On the landscape, however, 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 <br /> made up of the soils or miscellaneous areas for which it is named and some <br /> minor components that belong to taxonomic classes other than those of the <br /> major soils. <br /> The Map Unit Description (Brief, Generated) report displays a generated <br /> 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 <br /> description is generated from the underlying soil attribute data. <br /> Additional information about the map units described in this report is available in <br /> other Soil Data Mart reports, which give properties of the soils and the limitations, <br /> capabilities, and potentials for many uses. Also,the narratives that accompany <br /> the Soil Data Mart reports define some of the properties included in the map unit <br /> descriptions. <br /> Report—Map Unit Description (Brief, Generated) <br /> Moffat County Area, Colorado <br /> Map Unit: 2—Abor silty clay loam, 25 to 65 percent slopes <br /> Component:Abor(90%) <br /> The Abor component makes up 90 percent of the map unit. Slopes are 25 to 65 <br /> percent. This component is on hillslopes. The parent material consists of <br /> residuum weathered from shale. Depth to a root restrictive layer, bedrock, <br /> paralithic, is 20 to 40 inches. The natural drainage class is well drained. Water <br /> movement in the most restrictive layer is low.Available water to a depth of 60 <br /> inches (or restricted depth) is low. Shrink-swell potential is high. This soil is not <br /> flooded. It is not ponded. There is no zone of water saturation within a depth of <br /> 72 inches. Organic matter content in the surface horizon is about 2 percent. This <br /> component is in the R034AY289CO Clayey Foothills ecological site. Nonirrigated <br /> land capability classification is 7e. This soil does not meet hydric criteria. The <br /> calcium carbonate equivalent within 40 inches, typically, does not exceed 3 <br /> percent. There are no saline horizons within 30 inches of the soil surface. <br /> Natural Resources Web Soil Survey National 5/22/2017 <br /> Conservation Service Cooperative Soil Survey Page 1 of <br />