Location: Kinimakatka
Australian Soil Classification: Calcic, Mottled-Subnatric, Red SODOSOL
Northcote Factual Key: Dr 3.23
Great Soil Group: red-brown earth (sodic)
General Landscape Description: Upper slope on the eastern side of a north-south trending gently undulating rise.
LS1 Landscape |
A1 | 0-10 cm | Dark brown (7.5YR3/4); sandy clay loam; weakly structured; weak consistence dry; pH 6.0: | LS1 Profile |
A2 | 10-15 cm | Brown (7.5YR4/4); sandy clay loam; weakly structured but tends to fracture into platy like fragments; very strong consistence dry (possible cultivation pan); pH 6.5; sharp boundary change to: | |
Subsoil | |||
B21 | 15-25 cm | Reddish brown (5YR4/4) and dark reddish grey (5YR4/2); heavy clay; strong very coarse prismatic structure; very strong consistence dry; pH 7.3: | |
B22 | 25-60 cm | Yellowish red (5YR5/8) with dark reddish grey (5YR4/2) mottles; heavy clay; strong very coarse prismatic, parting to moderate blocky structure; pH 9.2: | |
B23 | 60-100 cm | Yellowish brown (10YR5/4) with slight red mottles; medium heavy clay; moderate medium prismatic (finer than above) parting to moderate medium blocky structure; contains a common (10 - 20%) amount of soft and nodular carbonate in pockets and very few (2 %) ironstone nodules; pH 9.4. |
- | pH | Salinity | ||
Surface (A1 horizon) | Moderately Acid | Very low | Non-Sodic | None |
Subsoil (B21 horizon) | Slightly Alkaline | Very low | Sodic | Slight |
Deeper Subsoil (at 1 metre) | Very Strongly Alkaline | High | Strongly Sodic | Moderate- Strong |
The surface soil is moderately acid. The subsoil is slightly alkaline becoming very strongly alkaline with depth. | The salinity rating is very low in the surface and upper subsoil becoming high with depth. | The surface is non-sodic. The subsoil is sodic becoming strongly sodic with depth.. |