Your gateway to a wide range of natural resources information and associated maps

Victorian Resources Online

  1. Victorian Resources Online
    1. Landform
    2. Land Use
    3. Soil
      1. Soil Health
      2. Soil Health Checklist
      3. Soil Management
      4. Coastal Acid Sulfate Soils
      5. Soil Matters
      6. Soil and Land Survey Directory
      7. Soil pH
      8. Soils Glossary
      9. Soil Texture
    4. Land and Water Management
  2. Catchment Management Regions
  3. Soil and Land Survey Directory
  4. VRO Sitemap
  5. VRO Feedback

SFS 19b

Location: Teesdale-Inverleigh Road
Aust. Soil Class.:Ferric, Eutrophic, Brown CHROMOSOL

General Landscape Description: Level Plain, “outside north paddock
Site Description: Gently undulating plain tending to gently undulating rises

Image: SFS 19b landscape
SFS 19b

Soil Profile Morphology:

Surface Soil

Ap

A2

Subsoil
B21

0-18 cm

10-30

Darker, mostly loamy:

35 cm wavy boundary; 80% gravel 10-40 mm


Light clay; darker coatings on main peds and brighter interiors than SFS19. Brown (10YR4/3) with red (10R4/8) mottles.
Image: SFS 19b profile
SFS 19b

Key Profile Features:
  • Strong texture contrast between surface (A) horizons and subsoil (B21) horizon.

Soil Profile Characteristics:


pH
Salinity Rating
Subsoil
(B21 horizon)
Moderately Acid
Low
Non-Sodic
None1
1 Complete dispersion after remoulding

Horizon
Horizon Depth
(cm)
pH
(water)
pH
(CaCl2)
EC
dS/m
NaCl
Exchangeable Cations
Ca
Mg
K
Na
meq/100g
B21
40-50
6.0
5.4
0.20
0.06
4.7
7.9
1.1
1.2
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)
B21
40-50
<10
11.0
40.5
28.5
6.0
3.3
2.5
87.5

Management Considerations:

Whole Profile
  • Plant available water capacity (PAWC) is considered to be low/medium (estimated at 100 mm) in the upper 80 cm of this soil profile. Effective rooting depth (ERD) is restricted to 80 cm due to the basalt below this depth.
Notes
  • Profile described by Richard MacEwan & Mark Imhof, June 2000.


Page top

For information about DJPR please contact:

Phone: 136 186

National Relay Service: 133 677 or relayservice.gov.au

Email: customer.service@ecodev.vic.gov.au

Online: Contact us

Copyright

Privacy

Disclaimer

Accessibility
Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions - State Government of Victoria

© State of Victoria (Agriculture Victoria) 1996 - .

Creative Commons License

This work, Victorian Resources Online, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. You are free to re-use the work under that licence, on the condition that you credit the State of Victoria (Agriculture Victoria) as author, indicate if changes were made and comply with the other licence terms.


The licence does not apply to ‘branding’ or some ‘images or photographs’ that may be owned by third parties. We ask you to seek prior approval to use images using the VRO feedback form. Access to higher quality images can also be provided on request.


This page was last updated on .