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Location: Kalkee

Australian Soil Classification: Epicalcareous-Endohypersodic, Self-Mulching Red VERTOSOL

General Landscape Description: Crest of a slight rise.
Site Description: Fallow
Geology: Neogene (Tertiary).
Native Vegetation: Savannah Woodland


Soil Profile Morphology:

Surface Soil

A10-10 cmDark greyish brown (10YR4/2); medium clay; weak sub-angular blocky structure; weak consistence moist; pH 8.3; sharp change to:


Subsoil

B2110-30 cmReddish brown (5YR4/4); medium clay; strong sub-angular blocky structure; pH 8.6; gradual change to:

B2230-45 cmBrown (7.5YR4/4); light clay; weak consistence moist; pH 9.0; sharp change to:

B3145-70 cmReddish yellow (7.5YR6/6); light clay; few coarse soft carbonate segregations; highly calcareous; pH 9.2; gradual change to:

B32 70-120 cmLight yellowish brown (10YR6/4); light clay; weak consistence moist; contains few coarse soft carbonate segregations; highly calcareous; pH 8.4.


Soil Profile Characteristics:

pH
Salinity Rating
Surface
(A1 horizon)
Moderately Alkaline
Low
Non-Sodic
Subsoil
(B21 horizon)
Strongly Alkaline
Low-Medium
Sodic
Deeper Subsoil
(at 70-120 cm)
Moderately Alkaline
Very High
Strongly Sodic

Image: WW53  graphs
The surface horizon is moderately alkaline. The upper subsoil is strongly alkaline becoming moderately alkaline at 60 cm depth.The salinity rating in the surface is low. The upper subsoil is low to medium becoming very high with depth.The surface soil is non-sodic. The upper subsoil is sodic becoming strongly sodic at depth.

Chemical and Physical Analysis:


Horizon
Horizon
Depth
(cm)
pH
(water)
pH
(CaCl2)
EC
dS/m
NaCl
%



Exchangeable Cations
Ca
Mg
K
Na
Meq/100g
A1
0-10
8.3
7.8
0.28
0.013
19
5.9
2.6
1.6
B21
10-30
8.6
8.0
0.40
0.025
18
15
3.0
4.4
B22
30-45
9.0
8.4
0.45
0.026
13
18
2.8
5.8
B31
45-70
9.2
8.6
0.68
0.037
10
15
2.3
7.3
B32
70-120
8.4
8.3
3.4
0.088
12
16
2.2
12

Profile Described By: John Martin (August 1971).
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