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SFS19b

Location: Teesdale.

Australian Soil Classification: Ferric, Eutrophic, Brown CHROMOSOL

General Landscape Description: Level plain within a gently undulating plain tending to gently undulating rises
Site Description: Southern Farming Systems (SFS) raised bed site.
Geology: Moorabool Viaduct Formation
Native Vegetation: Remnant Red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis).
Land Use: Wheat.

Image:  SFS 19b landscape
SFS19b Landscape.

Soil Profile Morphology:

Surface Soil

Ap0-18 cmLoam:
Image:  SFS 19b profile
SFS19b Profile.
A2c18-30/35Abundant coarse gravel with slight alluvial quartz; abrupt and wavy change to:
Subsoil
B2130/35-65 cmBrown (10YR4/3) with red (10R4/8) mottles; light clay; coarse ferruginised sand, bleached margins of fractures which contain illuviated clay; strong consistence dry; pH 6.0.

Key Profile Features:
  • Strong texture contrast between surface (A) horizons and subsoil (B21) horizon.

Soil Profile Characteristics:



pH

Salinity Rating
Subsoil
(B21 horizon)
Moderately Acid
Low
Non-Sodic
None1
1 Complete dispersion after remoulding.


Horizon
Horizon Depth
(cm)
pH
(water)
pH
(CaCl2)
EC
dS/m
Exchangeable Cations
Ca
Mg
K
Na
meq/100g
B21
30-65
6.0
5.4
0.20
4.7
7.9
1.1
1.2


Horizon
Horizon Depth
(cm)
Exchangeable Aluminium
mg/kg
Exchangeable Acidity
meq/100g
Field
Capacity
pF2.5
Wilting Point
pF4.2
Coarse Sand
(0.2-2.0 mm)
Fine Sand
(0.02-0.2 mm)
Silt
(0.002-0.02 mm)
Clay
(<0.002 mm)
B21
30-65
<10
11.0
40.5
28.5
6
3
3
88

Management Considerations:

Whole Profile
  • Plant available water capacity (PAWC) is considered to be low/medium (estimated at 100 mm) in the upper 80 cm of this soil profile. Effective rooting depth (ERD) is restricted to 80 cm due to the basalt below this depth.

Profile Described By: Richard MacEwan & Mark Imhof (September 2000).
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