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SW67

Australian Soil Classification: Bleached-Mottled (& Reticulate), Eutrophic, Brown CHROMOSOLGeneral Landscape Description: Weakly dissected coastal plain, gently inclined undulating plain.
Site Description: Gently sloping above broad plain.Geology: Hanson Plain Sand


Soil Profile Morphology:


Surface Soil


A10-10 cmVery dark grey (7.5YR3/1 moist), dark greyish brown (10YR4/2 dry); fine sandy loam; weakly pedal; weak consistence; pH 5.2; clear and irregular change to:
South West Gasp Pipeline GP67 Profile
SW67 Profile - Note: Surface (A1) horizon has been stripped from profile

A2

40-50/60 cm

Brown (10YR4/3 moist), yellowish brown (10YR5/4 dry) in upper part of horizon, tending to olive brown (2.5Y4/4 moist), light olive brown (2.5Y5/6 dry); fine sandy clay loam; occasional buckshot gravel in lower part of horizon and some manganiferous mottles or soft concretions; faint rusty mottles (~5 mm); weak consistence; pH 5.8; clear and wavy change to:

Subsoil

B21t56/60-90/95 cmDark yellowish brown (10YR3/4 moist); with faint yellow and brown mottles; gravelly clay loam; fine polyhedral structure; firm consistence; friable in moist state; few (5-10%) fine to coarse rounded ironstone buckshot nodules (2-20 mm); pH 6; gradual change to:

B22tg

90-95-120 cm

Dark greyish brown (10YR4/2 moist); with many (30-50%), yellowish brown (10YR5/8 moist) mottles; thick, dark brown (10YR3/3 moist) cutans; yellow, dull red and black ped interiors; manganese coatings on some ped faces and soft accumulations inside peds; diffuse change to:

B23g

210/300 cm

Dark brown (10YR3/3 moist); common (<20%), yellowish brown (10YR5/8 moist) mottles with soft and hard manganiferous concretions (~20 mm) (5-10%); broad tongueing [300 mm] into B/C horizon; pH 6.3; clear to abrupt boundary and tongueing into:

B/C

210/300+ cm

Conspicuous reticulate laminar mottling; "Tiger Mottles", red (10R4/6) and grey (2.5Y6/1). Lamellae 10-20 mm apart; red matrix is rigid strongly cemented ferruginised sand, grey lamellae are soft sandy to clay; margins of lamellae are often yellow (10YR7/8) to yellowish brown (10YR5/8), red matrix frequently presents as angular ironstone gravel (10-20 mm).


South West Gasp Pipeline GP67 Tiger Mottles
Tiger Mottles at 210 cm depth at 210 cm depth


Key Profile Features:
  • Conspicuously bleached subsurface (A2) horizon.
  • Strong texture contrast between surface (A) horizon and subsoil (B2) horizon.
  • “Tiger mottling” in deep subsoil (i.e. below 2 m depth).

Soil Profile Characteristics:

pH
Salinity Rating
Sodicity
Dispersion
Surface
(A1 horizon)
Strongly Acid
Very Low
Non-Sodic
None
Subsoil
(B21 horizon)
Moderately Acid
Very Low
Non-Sodic
None
Deeper subsoil
(at 120-140 cm)
Slightly Acid
Very Low
Non-Sodic
None

South West Gasp Pipeline GP67 Graphs
Horizon
Horizon Depth
(cm)
pH
(water)
pH
(CaCl2)
EC
1:5
NaCl
%
Exchangeable Cations
Ca
Mg
K
Na
meq/100g
A1
0-10
5.2
4.4
0.09
2.1
0.86
0.11
0.22
A2
40-50
5.8
4.8
<0.05
2.1
0.88
<0.05
0.08
B21
70-85
6
5.2
0.06
2.8
7.3
0.12
0.45
B22
120-140
6.3
5.4
0.06

Horizon
Horizon Depth
(cm)
Ex Al
mg/kg
Ex Ac
meq/100g
Field
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)
A1
0-10
130
17
23.7
9
8.8
53.6
13
18
A2
40-50
18
6.9
20.3
7
11.5
54.7
12.5
18.5
B21
70-85
<10
12
37.4
25.4
3.5
21
7
67
B22
120-140

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