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Custom Soil Resource Report <br /> Minimum tillage <br /> Only the tillage essential to crop production and prevention of soil damage. <br /> Miscellaneous area <br /> A kind of map unit that has little or no natural soil and supports little or no <br /> vegetation. <br /> Miscellaneous water(map symbol) <br /> Small, constructed bodies of water that are used for industrial, sanitary, or <br /> mining applications and that contain water most of the year. <br /> Moderately coarse textured soil <br /> Coarse sandy loam, sandy loam, or fine sandy loam. <br /> Moderately fine textured soil <br /> Clay loam, sandy clay loam, or silty clay loam. <br /> Mollic epipedon <br /> A thick, dark, humus-rich surface horizon (or horizons) that has high base <br /> saturation and pedogenic soil structure. It may include the upper part of the <br /> subsoil. <br /> Moraine <br /> In terms of glacial geology, a mound, ridge, or other topographically distinct <br /> accumulation of unsorted, unstratified drift, predominantly till, deposited <br /> primarily by the direct action of glacial ice in a variety of Iandforms. Also, a <br /> general term for a Iandform composed mainly of till (except for kame moraines, <br /> which are composed mainly of stratified outwash) that has been deposited by a <br /> glacier. Some types of moraines are disintegration, end, ground, kame, lateral, <br /> recessional, and terminal. <br /> Morphology, soil <br /> The physical makeup of the soil, including the texture, structure, porosity, <br /> consistence, color, and other physical, mineral, and biological properties of the <br /> various horizons, and the thickness and arrangement of those horizons in the <br /> soil profile. <br /> Mottling, soil <br /> Irregular spots of different colors that vary in number and size. Descriptive <br /> terms are as follows: abundance—few, common, and many;size—fine, <br /> medium, and coarse; and contrast—faint, distinct, and prominent. The size <br /> measurements are of the diameter along the greatest dimension. Fine indicates <br /> less than 5 millimeters (about 0.2 inch); medium, from 5 to 15 millimeters (about <br /> 0.2 to 0.6 inch); and coarse, more than 15 millimeters (about 0.6 inch). <br /> Mountain <br /> A generic term for an elevated area of the land surface, rising more than 1,000 <br /> feet (300 meters) above surrounding lowlands, commonly of restricted summit <br /> area (relative to a plateau) and generally having steep sides. A mountain can <br /> 55 <br />