Primary Production Landscapes Soils - Southern Plains
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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 | |||||||
Southern Plains : Dundas tablelands | Chromosols | Db, Dy | 85% | Loam (fine sandy) often with a bleached subsurface visibly over brown, yellow or grey subsoil (often with red mottles). Found on plateaux (gently undulating 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. | GL164 GL159 GL163 |
Southern Plains : Dundas tablelands | Sodosols | Db, Dy | 15% | Loam (fine sandy) surface and bleached subsurface visibly over a mottled brown, yellow and grey clay subsoil. Found on plains and undulating low slopes. | | | | | | | | | | | Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention, potential surface sealing. Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content, shrink-swell properties. | GL156 GL162 |
Southern Plains : Victorian Volcanic Plain | Sodosols | Db, Dy, Dg | 55% | Loam (fine sandy) surface and bleached subsurface visibly over a mottled brown-yellow-grey or black clay subsoil. Found on plains and undulating low slopes. | | | | | | | | | | | Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention, potential surface sealing. Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content, shrink-swell properties. | SW86 SW90 CRC3 |
Southern Plains : Victorian Volcanic Plain | Hydrosols | Dd, Dg, Uf, Ug | 15% | Clayey soils with a organic rich surface overlying a mottled brown, black, yellow and grey subsoil. May have a loamy surface. Found in depressions and swamps. | | | | | | | | | | | Surface: Nutrient retention, shrink-swell properties, compaction. Subsoil: high clay content, dense and coarse structure, compaction. | CRC5 PVI10 |
Southern Plains : Victorian Volcanic Plain | Vertosols | Ug | 15% | 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 plains. | | | | | | | | | | | Surface: compaction, high clay content and shrink-swell properties. Subsoil: compaction, coarse structure, high clay content and shrink-swell properties. | SW101 SFS2 SW89 PVI4 PVI11 SFS16 |
Southern Plains : Victorian Volcanic Plain | Dermosols | Gn | 10% | Fine moderate to strongly structured red and black clay loam to heavy clay soils. Shallow to moderately deep, stony and well drained. Found on plains, slopes and stony rises. | | | | | | | | | | | Surface: stoniness, nutrient retention and variable soil depth. Subsoil: stoniness, compaction, variable soil depth, high clay content. | SW96 SW26 |
Southern Plains : Victorian Volcanic Plain | Ferrosols | Uf, Gn | 5% | Strongly structured (friable) red clay loam to heavy clay soils with high iron content. Often contains high organic matter levels in the topsoil. Found on volcanic plateaux. | | | | | | | | | | | Surface: stoniness and variable soil depth. Subsoil: stoniness, compaction, variable soil depth, high clay content. | |
Southern Plains : Sedimentary Plain | Chromosols | Dr, Db, Dy | 25% | Loamy (fine sandy) surface and bleached subsurface visibly over a red or brown clay subsoil. Sometimes mottled. Found on sedimentary plains. | | | | | | | | | | | Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention, potential surface sealing, pans and gravel. Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content, shrink-swell properties. | CLRA3 SW34 |
Southern Plains : Sedimentary Plain | Vertosols | Ug | 25% | 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 extensive plains. | | | | | | | | | | | Surface: compaction, high clay content and shrink-swell properties. Subsoil: compaction, coarse structure, high clay content and shrink-swell properties. | CLRA15 SFS21 |
Southern Plains : Sedimentary Plain | Dermosols, minor Kurosols | Gn, Dy | 20% | Finely structured brown, yellow and black clay loam to heavy clay soils (some with sandy surfaces). Found on undulating sedimentary plains. | | | | | | | | | | | Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention, compaction, pans and gravel. Subsoil: stoniness, compaction, variable soil depth, high clay content. | SW32 SW5 CLRA9 |
Southern Plains : Sedimentary Plain | Podosols | Uc, Dy | 15% | Sandy soils that may have a restrictive horizon (iron/organic pan) at depth below a bleached horizon. Found on plains, hillslopes and valley floors. | | | | | | | | | | | Surface: nutrient retention, water repellence. Subsoil: pans or dense soil at depth. | SW61 SW56 |
Southern Plains : Sedimentary Plain | Sodosols | Db, Dy | 15% | Loamy (fine sandy) surface and bleached subsurface visibly over a mottled brown, yellow and grey clay subsoil. Found on plains and undulating low slopes. | | | | | | | | | | | Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention, potential surface sealing. Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content, shrink-swell properties. | SW99 SFS19 |
Southern Plains: Millicent Coast | Kurosols | Dy, Uc | 35% | Sandy loam surface often with a bleached subsurface containing buckshot (ironstone gravels) visibly over a heavy mottled brown, yellow and grey subsoil. Found on gently undulating slopes of dunefields and plains. | | | | | | | | | | | Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention, potential surface sealing. Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content, shrink-swell properties. | GL28 |
Southern Plains: Millicent Coast | Podosols | Uc, Dy | 30% | Sandy soils that may 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. | GL29 |
Southern Plains: Millicent Coast | Ferrosols, Chromosols | Gn, Dr | 25% | 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. | GL41 GL54 |
Southern Plains: Millicent Coast | Rudosols | Uc, Gn | 10% | Light sandy shallow soils that are acidic and occasionally calcareous over unconsolidated sediments or hardpans.Found on sandplains and dunefields. | | | | | | | | | | | Surface: nutrient retention, surface water repellence, stoniness and shallow depth. Subsoil: shallow, stony. | GL39 GL46 |
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