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Soil Information for All Uses <br /> Soil Reports <br /> The Soil Reports section includes various formatted tabular and narrative reports <br /> (tables)containing data for each selected soil map unit and each component of <br /> each unit. No aggregation of data has occurred as is done in reports in the Soil <br /> Properties and Qualities and Suitabilities and Limitations sections. <br /> The reports contain soil interpretive information as well as basic soil properties and <br /> qualities. A description of each report(table) is included. <br /> AOI Inventory <br /> This folder contains a collection of tabular reports that present a variety of soil <br /> information. Included are various map unit description reports, special soil <br /> interpretation reports, and data summary reports. <br /> Component Text Descriptions <br /> The map units delineated on the detailed soil maps in a soil survey represent the <br /> soils or miscellaneous areas in the selected area. The component descriptions in <br /> this report, along with the maps, can be used to determine the composition and <br /> properties of a unit.A map unit delineation on a soil map represents an area <br /> dominated by one or more major kinds of soil or miscellaneous areas. A map unit is <br /> identified and named according to the taxonomic classification of the associated <br /> soils. Within a taxonomic class there are precisely defined limits for the properties of <br /> the soils. On the landscape, however,the soils are natural phenomena, and they <br /> have the 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 (components)for which it is named and some <br /> minor components that belong to taxonomic classes other than those of the major <br /> soils. <br /> The "Map Unit Component Nontechnical Descriptions" report gives a brief, general <br /> description of the soil components that occur in a map unit. Descriptions of nonsoil <br /> (miscellaneous areas)and minor map unit components may or may not be included. <br /> This description is written by the local soil scientists responsible for the respective <br /> 38 <br />