Profile Number 3

Laboratory number:	0986	Profile Description
Site number:	1034	0₁	50-30 cm	Very dark brown (7.5YR 2/2) organic horizon; fibrous; non-sticky when wet; clear boundary
Classification:	Northcote (1979) - 0 Stace et al. (1972) - Acid Peat	0₂	30 - 0 cm	Black (10YR 2/1) organic silty loam; apedal; slightly sticky when wet; clear boundary
Location:	Matlock 8122, grid ref. 384126 0.4 km E of Mount Saint Phillack	C	30-10 cm	Very dark grey (10YR 3/1) loamy sand; smooth-ped fabric; slightly sticky when wet; 10% weathered granite fragments (20 mm) small mica particles common
Land system, component:	Baw Baw, 3
Topography:	Low hummocky terrace in drainage line, 0% slope
Elevation:	1420 m
Drainage:	Very poor
Parent material:	Organic accumulations and Devonian granodiorite
Vegetation:	Bog community with Richea continentis, Calorophus sp. and Sphagnum sp.

LABORATORY ANALYSES 986
Horizon	Sample Depth cm	Lab. texture	Particle size distribution					Atterberg limits				1:5 soil water suspension			Clay mineralogy by x-ray diffraction
Horizon	Sample Depth cm	Lab. texture	Gravel %	Coarse sand % f.e.	fine sand % f.e.	Silt % f.e.	Clay % f.e.	liquid limit %	plastic limit %	plasticity index %	linear shrinkage %	pH	EC 25°C uS/cm	Cl- %	Depth cm	Composition %
01	50 - 40		0
02	10 - 0		9									5.4	57	0.002
C	0 - 10	LS	17	54	24	11	9					5.8	9	0.001

Horizon	Sample Depth cm	Org. C %	Total N %	1.3C N	Free Fe₂O₃ %	Available		HCl extract		Exchangeable cations
						P ppm	K ppm	P %	K %	Ca	Mg	K	Na	CEC	Ca % of CEC	Mg	K	Na	H
						P ppm	K ppm	P %	K %	Milliequivalents/100g				CEC	Ca % of CEC	Mg	K	Na	H
01	50 - 40	46.2	2.0	30		68	460	0.036	0.10
02	10 - 0	11.8	0.70	22		19	40	0.028	0.12	0.3	0.07	0.1	0.08	65.2	<1	<1	<1	<1	99
C	0 - 10									0.2	0.06	0.06	0.03	15.1	1	<1	<1	<1	98

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