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SFS9a

See also SFS9b

Location: Woodhouse, Torino

General Landscape Description: Level plain with gilgai micro-relief.
Site Description: Depression or 'hollow' component of gilgai micro-relief

Image:  SFS 9a & 9b landscape
SFS 9a

Soil Profile Morphology:

Surface Soil
Image:  SFS 9a profile
SFS 9a
A10-8/10 cmDark greyish brown (10YR4/2); loam; weak consistence; apedal; rusty root channels; pH 5.0; clear, wavy change to:
A210-60 cmBrown (10YR5/3 moist) with conspicuously bleached; clay loam, fine sandy; lower part of horizon (40-60 cm) has abundant (~90%) buckshot; pH 5.8; clear/abrupt change to:
Subsoil
B21tc60-100 cmDark grey (10YR4/1 moist) with common (10-20%) brownish yellow (10YR6/8) and dark red (2.5R4/8) mottles; heavy clay; common (10-20%) buckshot; friable; fine polyhedral and lenticular peds; pH 7.0; gradual change to:
B22100 cm+Medium heavy clay; fine polyhedral and lenticular peds; with many yellow (30%) mottles with yellow mottles increase and red disappearing at depth.


Key Profile Features:
  • Strong texture contrast between surface (A) horizon and subsoil (B21) horizon.
  • Conspicuously bleached subsurface (A2) horizon.

Soil Profile Characteristics:


pH
Salinity Rating
Surface
(A1 horizon)
Strongly Acid
Low
Non-Sodic
None
Subsoil
(B21 horizon)
Neutral
Low
Sodic
None

Image:  SFS 9a graphs

Horizon
Horizon Depth
(cm)
pH
(water)
pH
(CaCl2)
EC
dS/m
NaCl
Exchangeable Cations
Ca
Mg
K
Na
meq/100g
A2
15-30
5.8
4.9
0.06
3.2
1.4
0.08
0.25
B21k
65-85
7
7
0.13
4
9.1
0.25
2.2

Horizon
Horizon Depth
(cm)
Exchangeable Aluminium
mg/kg
Exchangeable Acidity
meq/100g
Field
Capacity
pF2.5
Wilting Point
pF4.2
Coarse Sand
(0.2-2.0 mm)
Fine Sand
(0.02-0.2 mm)
Silt
(0.002-0.02 mm)
Clay
(<0.002 mm)
A2
15-30
<10
6.7
30.1
7.6
3.3
42.5
32
19
B21k
65-85
40.7
26.7
8.7
11.7
7.5
67

Management Considerations:

Whole Profile Notes
  • Flat gently sloping side of broad depression. Pit excavated ~100 m west of NE gate into paddock. Duplex soil with buckshot gravel. SFS9a hollow and SFS9b is puff. Generally yellow clay in puff, ~30 cm to B, A2 full of buckshots. Greyer soil in hollow, ~ 60cm to B, buckshots only in lower 10 cm of A2 (generalization made on one pit). This site had more earthworms than we have seen at any other SFS site.
  • Soil profile described by Richard MacEwan, May 1999.

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