EGG5
Location: Flaggy Creek
Australian Soil Classification: Melacic-mottled, Mesotrophic, Brown CHROMOSOL
Map Unit: Stockdale Munro complex
Previous Site Names: EG5, EG250
General Landscape Description: Undulating Low Hills.
Site description: North-west slope of low rise (7%).
Native Vegetation: Yellow stringy bark, Gippsland grey box, Black wattle.
Geology: Neogene sediments.
EG5 Landscape
Soil Profile Morphology:
Surface Soil
| A1 | 0-25 cm | Very dark grey (10YR3/1); loamy sand; weak medium sub-angular blocky structure; very weak consistence moderately moist; pH 5.5; clear and smooth change to: |  EG5 Profile |
| A21 | 25-65 cm | Yellowish brown (10YR5/4); sand; single grain; very weak consistence moderately moist; pH 6.0; clear and smooth change to: | |
| A22 | 65-80 cm | Light yellowish brown (10YR6/4); loamy sand; single grain; very weak consistence moist; contains many coarse ferruginous nodules; pH 6.5; abrupt change to: | |
| Subsoil |  | | |
| B2 | 85-120 cm | Strong brown (7.5YR5/6), with many coarse prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR4/6) and light yellowish brown (10YR6/5) mottles; medium clay, sandy; weak medium angular blocky structure; firm consistence moderately moist; pH 6.0; gradual change to: | |
| C | 120-150 cm | Yellow (10YR7/6), with many coarse prominent light olive brown (2.5YR5/8) mottles; clayey sand; massive structure; firm consistence moderately moist; pH 5.6. |
Soil Profile Characteristics:
Chemical and Physical Analysis:
Horizon | Horizon Depth (cm) | pH (water) | pH (CaCl2) | EC dS/m | Exchangeable Aluminium ppm | Exchangeable Acididty meq/100g | Exchangeable Cations | Coarse Sand (0.2-2.0 mm) % | Fine Sand (0.02-0.2 mm) % | Silt (0.002-0.02 mm) % | Clay (<0.002 mm) % | Field Capacidty % w/w | Wilting Point % w/w | |||
Ca | Mg | K | Na | |||||||||||||
meq/100g | ||||||||||||||||
A1 | 0-25 | 5.5 | 4.2 | 0.06 | 8.5 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 0.53 | 0.17 | 0.13 | 32 | 56 | 4 | 5 | 13.2 | 5.1 |
A21 | 25-65 | 6.0 | 5.0 | <0.05 | 4.1 | 0.57 | 0.67 | 0.29 | 0.08 | 0.08 | 30 | 58 | 5 | 6 | 12.3 | 2.6 |
A22 | 65-85 | 6.5 | 5.4 | <0.05 | 3.2 | | 0.49 | 0.59 | 0.11 | 0.14 | 29 | 58 | 5 | 8 | 11.9 | 2.8 |
B2 | 85-120 | 6.0 | 4.6 | 0.06 | 8.7 | | 0.18 | 4.9 | 0.09 | 0.68 | 14 | 32 | 3 | 48 | 30.0 | 17.2 |
C | 120-150+ | 5.6 | 4.4 | 0.06 | 4.1 | | 0.05 | 1.9 | <0.05 | 0.55 | 20 | 51 | 9 | 18 | 19.9 | 9.0 |
Profile Described By: David Ress and Ian Sargeant, 22nd September 2005.
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