Profile Number 14

Laboratory number:	1005	Profile Description
Site number:	723	A₁	0 - 20 cm	Very dark greyish brown (10YR 3/2) light clay; moderate crumb structure; rough-ped fabric; hard when dry; abundant roots; 5% bedrock fragments up to 5 mm; pH 5.5; smooth boundary
Classification:	Northcote (1979) - Uf6.11 Stace et al.(1972) - Brown Earth	B₂₁	20 - 60 cm	Very dark greyish brown (10YR 3/2) medium clay; moderate fine (6 mm) subangular blocky structure; rough-ped fabric; firm when moist; many roots; 5% bedrock fragments up to 5 mm; pH 5.0; smooth boundary
Location:	Moe 8121, grid ref. 546487 Road cutting 12 km SE of Churchill	B₂₂	60 - 70 cm	Dark brown (10 YR 3/3) medium clay; moderate fine (6 mm) subangular blocky structure; rough-ped fabric; firm when moist; many roots; 10% bedrock fragments up to 10 mm; pH 4.5; smooth boundary
Land system, component:	Gunyah, 1	C	70 - 120+ cm	Dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) medium clay; moderate fine (6 mm) angular blocky structure; rough-ped fabric; firm when moist; 70% soft Cretaceous mudstone fragments up to 50 mm; pH 4.0
Topography:	40% hillslope facing NE
Elevation:	640 m
Drainage:	Good
Parent material:	Cretaceous mudstone and siltstone
Vegetation:	Shrubby woodland II: Acacia dealbata, Prostanthera lasianthos, Pittosporum bicolor and Cassinia aculeata

LABORATORY ANALYSES 1005
Horizon	Sample Depth cm	Lab. texture	Particle size distribution					Atterberg limits				1:5 soil water suspension			Clay mineralogy by x-ray diffraction
Horizon	Sample Depth cm	Lab. texture	Gravel %	Coarse sand % f.e.	fine sand % f.e.	Silt % f.e.	Clay % f.e.	liquid limit %	plastic limit %	plasticity index %	linear shrinkage %	pH	EC 25°C uS/cm	Cl- %	Depth cm	Composition %
Al	0 - 10	C	18	8	15	23	42					4.4	79	0.004
Al	10 - 18	C	17	5	13	24	50					4.3	59	0.003
B21	20 - 30	C	5	3	13	23	51					4.6	52	0.002
B21	30 - 60		6					73	40	33	16
B22	60 - 70	C	9	5	14	23	55					4.5	46	0.002
C	90 - 120	C	0	11	24	24	36					4.5	43	0.003

Horizon	Sample Depth cm	Org. C %	Total N %	1.3C N	Free Fe₂O₃ %	Available		HCl extract		Exchangeable cations
						P ppm	K ppm	P %	K %	Ca	Mg	K	Na	CEC	Ca % of CEC	Mg	K	Na	H
						P ppm	K ppm	P %	K %	Milliequivalents/100g				CEC	Ca % of CEC	Mg	K	Na	H
Al	0 - 10	5.5	0.43	17	3.4	14	480	0.032	0.39	0.5	1.1	1.3	0.2	48.4	1.	2	3	<1	94
Al	10 - 18	4.7	0.37	17	3.3	12	360	0.027	0.44	0.06	0.3	1.0	0.2	46.9	<1	1	2	<1	97
B21	20 - 30	3.8	0.32	15	3.2	7	340	0.022	0.44	<0.01	0.2	1.0	0.2	44.2	<1	<1	2	<1	98
B21	30 - 60
B22	60 - 70				3.6			0.022	0.39	<0.01	0.08	0.5	0.2	37.6	<1	<1	1	1	98
C	90 - 120				3.3			0.036	0.44	0.02	0.07	0.4	0.2	35.0	<1	<1	1	1	98

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