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Map Unit Description <br /> 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 <br /> descriptions in this report,along 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 major kinds of soil or miscellaneous areas. A map unit is identified <br /> and named according to the taxonomic classification of the dominant soils. Within a taxonomic class there are precisely defined limits for the properties <br /> of the soils. On the landscape,however,the soils are natural phenomena,and they have the characteristic variability of all natural phenomena. Thus, <br /> the range of some observed properties may extend beyond the limits defined for a taxonomic class. Areas of soils of a single taxonomic class rarely,if <br /> ever,can be mapped without including areas of other taxonomic classes. Consequently,every map unit is made up of the soils or miscellaneous areas <br /> for which it is named and some minor components that belong to taxonomic classes other than those of the major soils. <br /> The Map Unit Description(Brief,Generated)report displays a generated 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 description is generated from the underlying soil attribute data. <br /> Additional information about the map units described in this report is available in other Soil Data Mart reports,which give properties of the soils and the <br /> limitations,capabilities,and potentials for many uses. Also,the narratives that accompany the Soil Data Mart reports define some of the properties <br /> included in the map unit descriptions. <br /> USDA Natural Resources <br /> Survey Area Version: 14 <br /> Conservation Service Survey Area Version Date: 10/12/2017 Page 3 of 3 <br />