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17 2C 45 76 87 ee Totals for Area of Interest Map Unit Legend San Miguel Area, Colorado, Parts of Dolores, Montrose, and San Miguel Counties (C0873) Mai Unit Symbol Map Unit Name Acres in AO1 Barx Progresso complex 3 to 12 percent slopes Bodot cry-Ustic Toff orthents complex 5 to 50 perosnt slopes Glade' Bond Ro :< outcrop complex 1 to 5C percent slopes Prnon- Bawdish -Rock outcroo complex. 3 to 30 per:ell slopes Rock atilcrop Custom Soil Resource Report Rock outcrop- Orthelts complex 40 to 9C percent 323 T 22 5Sk scopes Map Unit Descriptions The map units delineated on the detailed soil maps in a soil survey represent the sods or miscellaneous areas in the survey area. The map unit descriptions 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 class there are precisely defined limits for the properties of the soils On the landscape, however, the soils are natural phenomena and they have the charactenstic variability of all natural phenomena Thus the range of some observed properties may extend beyond the limits defined for a taxonomic class. Areas of soils of a single taxonomic class rarely if ever. can be mapped without including areas of other taxonomic classes Consequently, every map unit s 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 noncontrasting, or similar, components They may or may not be mentioned in a particular map unit description Other minor components, however have properties and behavioral charactenstics 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 the scale used Some small areas of strongly contrasting soils or miscellaneous areas are identified by a special symbol on the maps If included in the database for a given area, the contrasting minor components are identified in the map unit descriptions along with some characteristics of each A few areas of minor components may not have been observed, and consequently they are not mentioned in the descriptions, especially where the pattern was so complex that it was impractical to make enough observations to identify all the soils and miscellaneous areas on the landscape. 10 B -4 84 8 733 4 34 0 234 8 Percent of AOI 5 0 509'4 2 4 =4 18 3 299 2 1,440.4 100 0%