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Custom Soil Resource Report <br />Map Unit Legend <br />Moffat County Area, Colorado (CO686) <br />Map Unit Symbol Map Unit Name Acres in AOI Percent of AOI <br />10 ( Battlement fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent 1 97.31 11.3% <br />slopes <br />44 Cowestglen sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes <br />D <br />i 31.9 <br />65 <br />2 3.7% <br />7 <br />6% <br />umps, m <br />ne <br />60 . . <br />77 Forelle loam, 3 to 12 percent slopes 57.2 6.7% <br />130 Maysprings coarse sandy loam, 3 to 12 percent 248.7 28.9% <br /> slopes <br />131 Maysprings-GretdMd complex, 10 to 20 percent ; 229.5 1 26.7% <br /> slopes <br />173 Ryark-Powderwash complex, 2 to 15 percent 99.61 11.6% <br /> slopes <br />I <br />185 1 Taffom sandy loam, 3 to 15 percent slopes 30.01 3.5% <br />Totals for Area of Interest 859.3 100.0% <br />Map Unit Descriptions <br />The map units delineated on the detailed soil maps in a soil survey represent the soils <br />or miscellaneous areas in the survey area. The map unit descriptions, along with the <br />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 <br />major kinds of soil or miscellaneous areas. A map unit is identified and named <br />according to the taxonomic classification of the dominant soils. Within a taxonomic <br />class there are precisely defined limits for the properties of the soils. On the landscape, <br />however, the soils are natural phenomena, and they have the characteristic variability <br />of all natural phenomena. Thus, the range of some observed properties may extend <br />beyond the limits defined for a taxonomic class. Areas of soils of a single taxonomic <br />class rarely, if ever, can be mapped without including areas of other taxonomic <br />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 <br />other than those of the major soils. <br />Most minor soils have properties similar to those of the dominant soil or soils in the <br />map unit, and thus they do not affect use and management. These are called <br />noncontrasting, or similar, components. They may or may not be mentioned in a <br />particular map unit description. Other minor components, however, have properties <br />and behavioral characteristics divergent enough to affect use or to require different <br />management. These are called contrasting, or dissimilar, components. They generally <br />are in small areas and could not be mapped separately because of the scale used. <br />Some small areas of strongly contrasting soils or miscellaneous areas are identified <br />by a special symbol on the maps. If included in the database for a given area, the <br />contrasting minor components are identified in the map unit descriptions along with <br />some characteristics of each. A few areas of minor components may not have been <br />Cf - 10