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Primary Production Landscapes Soils - Eastern Uplands

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Primary Production Landscapes of Victoria

Dominant soil order (ASC)

Factual
Key

Soil Distribution within AEL


Description
Management Issues

Other Management and related Issues
Representative sites Benchmark and demo sites. VRO examples


Acidity Surface


Acidity

subsoil


Alkalinity
surface


Alkalinity
subsoil


Surface structure


Wind erosion


Water erosion


Water-
logging


Sodicity
surface


Sodicity
subsoil
Eastern Plains

Sodosols

Dy

40%
Loamy (fine sandy) surface and bleached subsurface visibly over a mottled brown, yellow and grey clay subsoil. Occasionally calcareous at depth. Found on plains.Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention, potential surface sealing.
Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content, shrink-swell properties.
Eastern Plains

Chromosols

Dy

30%
Loam (fine sandy) often with bleached subsurface visibly over brown, yellow or grey clay subsoil (often with red mottles). Found on terraces and alluvial plains.Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention, potential surface sealing, pans and gravel.
Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content, shrink-swell properties.
Eastern Plains

Dermosols, Hydrosols

Gn

10%
Fine deep structured black and grey clay loam to heavy clay soils. Found on alluvial plains.Surface: Nutrient retention, occassional shrink-swell properties, compaction.
Subsoil: high clay content,dense and coarse structure, compaction.
Eastern Plains

Kurosols

Dy

10%
Sandy loam surface and bleached subsurface containing buckshot (ironstone gravels) visibly over a heavy mottled brown, yellow and grey subsoils. Found on undulating slopes and plains.Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention, potential surface sealing.
Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content, shrink-swell properties.
Eastern Plains

Podosols

Uc, Gn

8%
Sandy soils that may have a restrictive horizon (iron/organic pan) at depth below a bleached horizon. Found on dunefields and sandplains.Surface: nutrient retention, water repellence.
Subsoil: pans or dense soil at depth.

Eastern Plains

Vertosols, Hydrosols

Ug

2%
Black and grey cracking clay soil with a self-mulching to coarse structured surface. High shrink-swell soils causing local irregular ground surface (melonhole/gilgai). Found in depressions or alluvial plains.Surface: compaction, high clay content and shrink-swell properties.
Subsoil: compaction, coarse structure, high clay content and shrink-swell properties.
Eastern Uplands: Northern valleys and plains

Kandosols, Kurosols

Gn, Db, Dy, Dg

55%
Sand to loam surafces with a bleached subsurface visibly over a weakly structured brown, yellow or red clay loam to heavy clay subsoil. Found on alluvial plains, terraces and slopes.Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention.
Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content, shrink-swell properties.

pringhurst/Byawatha hills, granitic?
NE26
Kurosols
Eastern Uplands: Northern valleys and plains

Dermosols

Gn

30%
Finely structured (friable in moist areas) deep red and brown loamy to clayey soils (hard-setting surafces in drier areas). Found on undulating to steep slopes.Surface: stoniness, nutrient retention and variable soil depth.
Subsoil: stoniness, compaction, variable soil depth, high clay content.

NE30

NE32
Eastern Uplands: Northern valleys and plains

Chromosols

Dr

15%
Loamy (fine sandy) surface and bleached subsurface visibly over a red clay subsoil. Found on lower slopes and moist areas of alluvial plains.Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention, potential surface sealing.
Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content, shrink-swell properties.
Eastern Uplands: Southwest valleys and plains

Chromosols

Dr, Db, Dy

40%
Loamy (fine sandy) surface and bleached subsurface visibly over a red or brown clay subsoil. Occasionally calcareous. Found in valleys and undulating to rolling slopes.Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention, potential surface sealing, pans and gravel.
Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content, shrink-swell properties.

Shire of Cardinia S42

S41
Eastern Uplands: Southwest valleys and plains
Dermosols/
Kandosols

Gn

30%
Finely structured (friable) red, brown, yellow and grey clay loam to heavy clay soils (some with hard-setting sandy surfaces). Found on terraces and undulating to rolling slopes.Surface: stoniness and variable depth, nutrient retention, compaction.
Subsoil: stoniness, compaction, variable soil depth, high clay content.
Eastern Uplands: Southwest valleys and plains
Ferrosols, Dermosols

Gn

10%
Fine strongly structured (friable) red clay loam to heavy clay soils with high iron content. Found on volcanic plateaux and associated slopes.Surface: stoniness and variable soil depth.
Subsoil: stoniness, compaction, variable soil depth, high clay content.

S of Cardinia Silvan

Neerim
Eastern Uplands: Southwest valleys and plains
Sodosols
Db, Dy, Dg
10%
Loamy (fine sandy) surface and bleached subsurface visibly over a mottled brown, yellow and grey clay subsoil. Found on plains and slopes.Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention, potential surface sealing.
Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content, shrink-swell properties.
Shire of Cardinia TSE ;C4 , NoM: Whittlesea
Eastern Uplands: Southwest valleys and plains
Vertosols, Dermosols
Ug
10%
Black and grey cracking clay soil with self-mulching to coarse structured surfaces. High shrink-swell soils causing local irregular ground surface (melonhole/gilgai). Found in depressions or on undulating slopes and plains.Surface: compaction, high clay content and shrink-swell properties.
Subsoil: compaction, coarse structure, high clay content and shrink-swell properties.
S of Cardinia Yarra Valley (Yaf)
Eastern Uplands: Southeast valleys and plains
Chromosols. Sodosols
Dy, Db, Dg
40%
Loamy (fine sandy) often with a bleached subsurface visibly over brown, yellow or grey clay subsoil (often with red mottles). Found on lower slopes, terraces and alluvial plains.Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention, potential surface sealing, pans and gravel.
Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content, shrink-swell properties.
Eastern Uplands: Southeast valleys and plains
Chromosols
Dr, Db
35%
Loamy (fine sandy) surface and bleached subsurface visibly over a red or brown clay subsoil. Occasionally calcareous. Found on mid and lower hillslopesand upper terraces.Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention, potential surface sealing, pans and gravel.
Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content, shrink-swell properties.
FEG: site 197
Eastern Uplands: Southeast valleys and plains
Kandosols, DermosolsUm, Uc
20%
Weakly structured brown, grey and red loam to clay soils. Found on alluvial flats, terraces and slopes.Surface: nutrient retention, water repellence.
Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content, shrink-swell properties.
GL: Tambo 45, 46
Eastern Uplands: Highlands
Dermosols
Gn
75%
Shallow (generally stony) finely structured red and brown loam to clay soils with high organic matter content (hard-setting in drier areas). Found on undulating to steep slopes.Surface: stoniness, nutrient retention and variable soil depth.
Subsoil: stoniness, compaction, variable soil depth, high clay content.
Brown Dermosol, FEG:red Dermosol, Brown Dermosol
Eastern Uplands: Highlands
KandosolsGn
10%
Weakly structured brown, grey and red loam to clay soils. Found on alluvial flats, terraces and slopes.Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention.
Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content, shrink-swell properties.
Granitic
Kandosols
Eastern Uplands: Highlands
KurosolsDb, Dy
10%
Sandy loam surface often with a bleached subsurface contianing buckshot (ironstone gravels) visibly over a heavy mottled brown, yellow and grey subsoil. Found on undulating to rolling slopes.Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention.
Subsoil: compaction, high clay content, shrink-swell properties.
GB survey? FEG: Brown Kurosol
Eastern Uplands: Highlands
RudosolsUm
5%
Shallow and stony weakly structured acidic brown and red loam to clay loam soils. Found on plateaux, mountains and hills.Surface: nutrient retention, stoniness and shallow depth.
Subsoil: shallow, occasional high fine earth (clayey) subsoil.
Eastern Uplands: Eastern Hills and Valleys
Dermosols, KandosolsGn
60%
Finely structured (friable) red and brown loam to clay soils (hard-setting in drier areas). Found on undulating to steep slopes.Surface: variable soil depth, stoniness.
Subsoil: high clay content, stoniness.
FEG:123
Eastern Uplands: Eastern Hills and Valleys
ChromosolsDb, Dr?, Dy
25%
Loamy (fine sandy) often with a bleached subsurface visibly over brown, yellow and grey subsoil (often with red mottles). Occasionally subsoils are red in well-drained positions. Found on lower slopes, terraces and alluvial plains.Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention, potential surface sealing, pans and gravel.
Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content, shrink-swell properties.
FEG::197
Eastern Uplands: Eastern Hills and Valleys
KurosolsDb, Dy
15%
Sandy loam surface often with a bleached subsurface containing buckshot (ironstone gravels) visibly over a heavy mottled brown, yellow and grey subsoil. Found on undulating to rolling slopes.Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention, potential surface sealing.
Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content, shrink-swell properties.
FEG:211
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