Profile Number 9

Laboratory number:	0952	Profile Description
Site number:	399	A₁	0 - 12 cm	Very dark grey (10YR 3/1) coarse sand; apedal; sandy fabric; soft when dry; few roots; 10% quartz gravel up to 10 mm; pH 4.5; clear smooth boundary
Classification:	Northcote (1979) - Uc4.22 Stace et al. (1972) - Earthy sand/ Incipient Podzol	A₂	12 - 30 cm	Dark greyish brown (10YR 4/2) coarse sand; apedal; sandy fabric; soft when dry; few roots; 30% quartz gravel up to 20 mm; pH 5.5; diffuse irregular boundary
Location:	Bairnsdale 8422, grid ref. 607191 by Omeo Highway about 3.5 km SW of Nicholson Road bridge, Sarsfield	B₂	30 - 45 cm	Dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) coarse sand; apedal; common prominent brown mottles
Land system, component:	Stockdale, 1	B₃	45 - 150+ cm	Yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly sand; apedal; sandy fabric; hard when dry; few roots; 80% quartz gravel (10 mm), occasional ferruginous concretions; pH 6.5
Topography:	Slope of low hill, 4% gradient
Elevation:	100 m
Drainage:	Good
Parent material:	Tertiary coarse-textured sediments
Vegetation:	Shrubby woodland I: Eucalyptus globoidea, E. polyanthemos and E. cypellocarpa, Platylobium formosum, Kunzea ericoides, Epacris impressa, Cassinia aculeata, Themeda australis, Poa sp. and Pteridium esculentum predominant understorey species

LABORATORY ANALYSES 952
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 %
Al	0 - 10	LS	19	60	25	10	5					4.8	10	0.001
A2	20 - 30	LS	25	55	28	12	3					5.4	10	0.001
B2	30 - 45	LS	18	65	18	11	4					5.3	11	0.001
B3	60 - 90	LS	39	84	5	10	1					5.5	15	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
Al	0 - 10	0.91	0.028	42	0.4	2	5	0.003	0.026	0.3	0.2	0.08	0.02	4.9	6	4	2	<1	88
A2	20 - 30	0.30	0.015	26	0.2	2	<1	0.002	0.010	0.9	0.2	0.05	0.03	3.6	25	6	1	1	67
B2	30 - 45				1.0	2	<1	0.004	0.035	0.7	0.2	0.04	0.03	3.0	23	7	1	1	68
B3	60 - 90				0.8	3	10	0.005	0.031	0.3	0.2	0.07	0.06	2.8	11	7	2	2	78

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