IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mirabal
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1965AZ025001
  • User Pedon ID: S1965AZ025001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1965AZ025001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3577
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39242
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 34.1694450
  • Std. Longitude: -112.3238907
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9.5N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4
  • Location Description: About 3.5 miles south of Crown King, Arizona on road to Horsethief recreation area, then 200 feet north of road on a northwest slope.
  • Map Unit: MbF—Mirabal gravelly sandy loam, 20 to 60 percent slopes
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ025—Yavapai
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AZ637—Yavapai County, Arizona, Western Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: James Jay, George Wendt & Robert Mevgibse
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Typic Ustorthents
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mirabal
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Typic Ustorthents
  • Classificaton Date - 5/3/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: granite
  • Landform: near top of ridge
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: strong weathered granite
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/3/1965 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 45143
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PIPO

    POFE

    PSMEG

    QUGA

    Pinus ponderosa

    Poa fendleriana

    Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca

    Quercus gambelii

    ponderosa pine

    muttongrass

    Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir

    Gambel oak

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    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    5/3/1965

    5/3/1965

    5/3/1965

    51

    30

    30

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    9

    7

    9
    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    28

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    2042

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    315

    635

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    7.2

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    O1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A27546
    A1—3 to 16 centimeters (1.2 to 6.3 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; fine gravelly sandy loam; massive, and weak fine and medium granular; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 21.0 fine and medium interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume very strongly coherent cemented 76-?-254 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A27547
    C1—16 to 39 centimeters (6.3 to 15.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; fine gravelly sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots and 21.0 coarse roots; 21.0 fine and medium interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume very strongly coherent cemented 76-?-254 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27548
    C2—39 to 77 centimeters (15.4 to 30.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), 10YR 8/0 (10YR 8/0) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), dry; bedrock; massive; very hard, very firm; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A27549