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Map Unit Description(Brief,Generated)---Rio Blanco County Area,Colorado Collett Property <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 /> Rio Blanco County Area, Colorado <br /> Map Unit: 12—Bucklon-Inchau complex, 25 to 50 percent slopes <br /> Component: Bucklon (55%) <br /> The Bucklon component makes up 55 percent of the map unit. Slopes are 25 to <br /> 50 percent. This component is on mountain slopes. The parent material consists <br /> of colluvium over residuum weathered from sandstone and shale. Depth to a root <br /> restrictive layer, bedrock, paralithic, is 10 to 20 inches. The natural drainage <br /> class is well drained. Water movement in the most restrictive layer is low. <br /> Available water to a depth of 60 inches (or restricted depth) is very low. Shrink- <br /> swell potential is moderate. This soil is not flooded. It is not ponded. There is no <br /> zone of water saturation within a depth of 72 inches. Organic matter content in <br /> the surface horizon is about 4 percent. This component is in the R048AY238CO <br /> Brushy Loam ecological site. Nonirrigated land capability classification is 7e. This <br /> soil does not meet hydric criteria. There are no saline horizons within 30 inches <br /> of the soil surface. <br /> usDA Natural Resources Web Soil Survey 1/4/2023 <br /> Conservation Service National Cooperative Soil Survey Page 1 of 2 <br />