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Primary Production Landscapes Soils - Southern 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
Southern Uplands: Otways

Dermosols

Gn

75%
Shallow stony and finely structured brown and grey/yellow 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.

OTR416
Southern Uplands: Otways

Kurosols, Chromosols

Db, Dy

25%
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.

OTR735

CLRA11
Southern Uplands: Strzelecki

Dermosol

Gn

70%
Shallow stony and finely structured brown and grey/yellow loam to clay soils with high organic matter levels (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.

SG6
SG5
SG12
Southern Uplands: Strzelecki

Ferrosols

Gn, Uf

15%
Strongly structured (friable) red clay loam to heavy clay soils with high iron content. Found on volcanic eruptiion points and associated footslopes.Surface: stoniness and variable soil depth.
Subsoil: stoniness, compaction, variable soil depth, high clay content.

SG13

SG15
Southern Uplands: Strzelecki

Tenosols, Kandosols, Rudosols

Uc, Um

15%
Sandy soils that may have a restrictive horizon (iron/organic pan or clay) at depth below a bleached horizon. Found on plateaux, footslopes and sandplains.Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention.
Subsoil: nutrient rentention.

Tertiary cappings? See Sargeant Kandosols
Southern Uplands: Mornington Peninsula

Chromosols

Db, Dy

35%
Loam (fine sandy) often with a bleached subsurface visibly over a brown, yellow or grey clay subsoil (often with red mottles). Found on dissected plateaux (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.
Southern Uplands: Mornington Peninsula

Podosols, Tenosols & Rudosols

Uc

35%
Sandy soils that may have a restrictive horizon (iron/organic pan) at depth below a bleached horizon. Found on dunefields and sandplains.Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention.
Subsoil: nutrient rentention.

Boneo
Southern Uplands: Mornington Peninsula

Vertosols, Sodosols

Ug

20%
Brown, black and grey cracking clay soil with self-mulching to coarse structured surfaces. High shrink-swell soils causing local irregular ground surface. Found in depressions or on undulating slopes and plateau.Surface: compaction, high clay content and shrink-swell properties.
Subsoil: compaction, coarse structure, high clay content and shrink-swell properties.
Southern Uplands: Mornington Peninsula

Dermosols, Ferrosols

Gn, Uf

10%
Shallow (generally stony) finely structured red and brown loam to clay soils with high organic matter levels (hard-setting in drier areas). Found on undulating to rolling slopes.Surface: stoniness, nutrient retention and variable soil depth.
Subsoil: stoniness, compaction, variable soil depth, high clay content.

Red Hill
Southern Uplands: Wilson's Prom

Dermosols

Gn

40%
Shallow stony and finely structured brown and grey/yellow loam to clay soils with with high organic matter levels. Found on undulating to steep slopes.Surface: stoniness, nutrient retention and variable soil depth.
Subsoil: stoniness, compaction, variable soil depth, high clay content.
Southern Uplands: Wilson's Prom

Kurosols, Podosols

Dy

30%
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 slopes and plains.Surface: nutrient retention, surface water repellence.
Subsoil: compaction, high clay content, occassional pans.
Southern Uplands: Wilson's Prom

Tenosols, Rudosols, Podosols

Uc

30%
Sandy soils that may have a restrictive horizon (iron/organic pan) at depth below a bleached horizon. Found on dunefields and sandplains.Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention.
Subsoil: nutrient rentention.
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