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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 landforms. Also, a <br />general term for a landform 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 />Custom Soil Resource Report <br />49 Index #10