Location: Delegate River
Australian Soil Classification: Bleached, Eutrophic, Brown CHROMOSOL
Map Unit: Dellicknora (Component 1)
Previous Site Name: EG241
General Landscape Description: Rolling low hills
Site Description: Upper west slope of low hill 5% slope
Land Use: Grazing
Native Vegetation: Montane riparian woodland and montane dry woodland
Geology: Ordovician sediments
Soil Profile Morphology:
Surface soil | Road cutting adjoining the sampled site | ||
A1 | 0 – 10 cm | Dark greyish brown (10YR4/2); sandy loam; weak coarse polyhedral structure; pH 5.0; gradual change to: | |
A2 | 10 – 35 cm | Light yellowish brown (10YR6/4) conspicuously bleached (10YR7/2d); massive; abrupt change to: | |
Subsoil | |||
B2 | 35 - 60+ cm | Mottled yellowish brown (10YR5/6) and yellow (10YR7/6); medium clay; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; pH 5.8. |
Horizon | Horizon Depth (cm) | pH (water) | pH (CaCl2) | EC dS/m | Exchangeable Acididty meq/100g | Exchangeable Cations | |||
Ca | Mg | K | Na | ||||||
meq/100g | |||||||||
A1 | 0-10 | 5.0 | 4.3 | 0.07 | 9.5 | 2 | 0.75 | 0.23 | 0.1 |
B2 | 35-60 | 5.8 | 4.6 | 0.06 | 8 | 0.71 | 10 | 0.29 | 0.99 |