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Map Unit Description(Brief,Generated)—El Paso County Area,Colorado Ellicot Sand and Gravel-Schubert <br /> Ranch <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, provide information on the composition of map units <br /> and properties of their components. <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 /> El Paso County Area, Colorado <br /> Map Unit: 5—Bijou loamy sand, 1 to 8 percent slopes <br /> Component: Bijou (85%) <br /> The Bijou component makes up 85 percent of the map unit. Slopes are 1 to 8 <br /> percent. This component is on plains, stabilized sand sheets.The parent material <br /> consists of eolian sands. Depth to a root restrictive layer is greater than 60 <br /> inches. The natural drainage class is somewhat excessively drained. Water <br /> movement in the most restrictive layer is high.Available water to a depth of 60 <br /> inches(or restricted depth)is low. Shrink-swell potential is low.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 1 percent.This <br /> component is in the R067BY024CO Sandy Plains ecological site. Nonirrigated <br /> land capability classification is 4e. Irrigated land capability classification is 4e. <br /> This soil does not meet hydric criteria. There are no saline horizons within 30 <br /> inches of the soil surface. <br /> Qg Natural Resources Web Soil Survey 3/27/2018 <br /> i� Conservation Service National Cooperative Soil Survey Page 1 of 6 <br /> 28 <br />