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San Miguel Area Colorado, Pans of Dolores, Montrose. and San Miguel Counties (CO575) Map Unk Symbol Map Unit Name Acres in A01 Percent of AOI 40 Farb -Rock outcrop complex 110 30 percent slopes 1,082 4 40 4% 43 Fluvaquents, 0 to 6 percent slopes, frequently flooded 279 4 10 4% 45 Gladel- Bond -Rock outcrop complex 1 to 50 percent slopes 4 3 0 2% 52 Kilpadc -0eaver loans, 2 to 15 percent slopes 52 7 2 0% 57 Mindiey fine sandy loam, 1 to 10 percent slopes 369 9 13 8% 87 Rock outcrop 206 8 7 7% 88 Rock outcrop - Orthents complex, 4010 90 percent slopes 620 7 23 2% 112 Water 64 7 2 4% Totals for Area of Interest 2,680.9 100.0% Map Unit Legend Custom Soil Resource Report Map Unit Descriptions The map units delineated on thedetailed soil maps in a soil survey represent the soils or miscellaneous areas in the survey area. The map unit desaipbons, along with the maps, can be used to determine the composition and properties of a unit 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 and named according to the taxonomic classification of the dominant soils. Within a taxonomic Bass there are precisely defined limits br the properties of the soils. On the landscape, however, the soils are natural phenomena, and they have the characteristic variability of all natural phenomena. Thus, the range of some observed properties may extend beyond the limits defined for a taxonomic Bass. Areas of soils of a single taxonomic class rarely, if ever, can be mapped without including areas of other taxonomic d asses. Consequently, every map unit is made up of the soils or miscellaneous areas for which it is named and some minor components that belong to taxonomic classes other than those of the major soils. Most minor soils have properties similar to those of the dominant soil or soils in the map unit, and thus they do not affect use and management. These are called noncontrasbng, or similar, components. They may or may not be mentioned in a particular map unit description. Other minor components, however, have properties and behavioral characteristics divergent enough to affect use or to require different management These are called contrasting, or dissimilar, components. They generally are in small areas and could not be mapped separately because of th a scale used. Some small areas of strongly contrasting soils or miscellaneous areas are identified by a special symbol on the maps. If in duded in the database for a given area, the contrasting minor components are identified in the map unit descripbons along with some characteristics of each. A few areas of minor components may not have been B -4 10