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Map Unit Description (Brief, Generated) <br />Huerfano County Area, Colorado <br />[Minor map unit components are excluded from this report] <br />Map unit: 65 - Penrose-Minnequa complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes <br />Component: Penrose (50%) <br />The Penrose component makes up 50 percent of the map unit. Slopes are 2 to 10 percent. This component is on scarps. The parent <br />material consists of slope alluvium over residuum weathered from limestone. Depth to a root restrictive layer, bedrock, paralithic, is 10 to <br />20 inches. The natural drainage class is well drained. Water movement in the most restrictive layer is moderately high. Available water <br />to a depth of 60 inches is very low. Shrink-swell potential is low. This soil is not flooded. It is not ponded. There is no zone of water <br />saturation within a depth of 72 inches. Organic matter content in the surface horizon is about 1 percent. This component is in the <br />R069XY006CO Loamy Plains ecological site. Nonirrigated land capability classification is 6s. This soil does not meet hydric criteria. The <br />calcium carbonate equivalent within 40 inches, typically, does not exceed 63 percent. <br />Component: Minnequa (35%) <br />The Minnequa component makes up 35 percent of the map unit. Slopes are 2 to 15 percent. The parent material consists of calcreous <br />loamy slope alluvium over residuum weathered from limestone. Depth to a root restrictive layer, bedrock, paralithic, is 20 to 40 inches. <br />The natural drainage class is well drained. Water movement in the most restrictive layer is moderately high. Available water to a depth <br />of 60 inches is low. Shrink-swell potential is low. This soil is not flooded. It is not ponded. There is no zone of water saturation within a <br />depth of 72 inches. Organic matter content in the surface horizon is about 1 percent. This component is in the R069XY006CO Loamy <br />Plains ecological site. Nonirrigated land capability classification is 6e. Irrigated land capability classification is 4e. This soil does not meet <br />hydric criteria. The calcium carbonate equivalent within 40 inches, typically, does not exceed 25 percent. The soil has a very slightly <br />saline horizon within 30 inches of the soil surface. The soil has a slightly sodic horizon within 30 inches of the soil surface. <br />Map unit: 66 - Penrose-Rock outcrop complex, 4 to 25 percent slopes <br />Component: Penrose (50%) <br />The Penrose component makes up 50 percent of the map unit. Slopes are 4 to 25 percent. This component is on hills, ridges. The parent <br />material consists of slope alluvium over residuum weathered from limestone. Depth to a root restrictive layer, bedrock, paralithic, is 10 to <br />20 inches. The natural drainage class is well drained. Water movement in the most restrictive layer is moderately high. Available water <br />to a depth of 60 inches is very low. Shrink-swell potential is low. This soil is not flooded. It is not ponded. There is no zone of water <br />saturation within a depth of 72 inches. Organic matter content in the surface horizon is about 1 percent. This component is in the <br />R069XY058CO Limestone Breaks ecological site. Nonirrigated land capability classification is 6s. This soil does not meet hydric criteria. <br />The calcium carbonate equivalent within 40 inches, typically, does not exceed 63 percent. <br />Component: Rock outcrop (30%) <br />Generated brief soil descriptions are created for major soil components. The Rock outcrop is a miscellaneous area. <br />USDA Natural Resources <br />Tabular Data Version: 5 <br />Conservation Service Tabular Data Version Date: 05/04/2009 <br />Page 1 of 1