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Custom Soil Resource Report Map Unit Legend Ridgway Area,Colorado,Parts of Delta,Gunnison,Montrose,and Ouray Counties(C0677) Map Unit Symbol Map Unit Name Acres in AOI Percent of AOI 701 Montrose-Delta complex,0 to 2 1.6 0.2% percent slopes 705 Allerton silty clay loam,0 to 5 26.5 3.7% percent slopes 708 Calimesa clay loam,0 to 2 36.9 5.1% percent slopes 721 Gyprockmesa-Gypimack 12.6 1.8% complex,2 to 5 percent slopes 741 Capsand silt loam,2 to 12 25.7 3.6% percent 760 Mesa clay loam,0 to 2 percent 347.9 48.3% slopes 761 Mack clay loam,0 to 2 percent 14.0 1.9% slopes 764 Mesa gravelly loam,0 to 2 5.4 0.8% percent slopes 795 Waterdog loam,0 to 2 percent 7.6 1.1% slopes 802 Typic Haplocambids, 12 to 60 80.2 11.1% percent slopes 806 Fluvaquents,occasionally 38.6 5.4% flooded-Torrifluvents complex,0 to 2 percent slopes 809 Typic Haplocambids,very 5.8 0.8% stony-Typic Endoaquolls complex,5 to 60 percent slopes 901 Gravel pits 117.3 16.3% Totals for Area of Interest 720.2 100.0% Map Unit Descriptions 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 descriptions, along with the maps, can be used to determine the composition and properties of a unit. 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 and named according to the taxonomic classification of the dominant soils. Within a taxonomic class there are precisely defined limits for the properties of the soils. On the landscape, however, the soils are natural phenomena, and they have the characteristic variability of all natural phenomena. Thus, the range of some 11