Profile Number 72

Laboratory number:	0950	Profile Description
Site number:	397	A1	0-15 cm	Very dark greyish brown (10YR 3/2) organic sand; apedal; sandy fabric; loose when dry; abundant roots; pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary
Classification:	Northcote (1979) – Uc4.22 Stace et al (1972) - Podzol	A2	18-90 cm	Greyish brown (10YR 5/6) sand; apedal; sandy fabric; soft when dry; pH 5.5; wavy boundary
Location:	Sale 8321, grid ref. 181744 15 km SE of Sale	B2h	90-110 cm	Dark yellowish brown (10YR ¾) sand; apedal; sandy fabric; loose when dry; common roots; 2% ferruginous nodules up to 150 mm; clear irregular boundary
Land system, component:	Dutson 2	B2ir	110-200 cm	Dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) to yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sand; apedal; sandy fabric; loose when dry; 1% ferruginous nodules up to 100 mm at 120 cm; increasing to 30% ferruginous concretions up to 300 mm at 200 cm; pH 5.7
Topography:	2% slope on undulating sand sheet
Elevation:	20 m
Drainage:	Good
Parent material:	Pleistocene aeolian sand
Vegetation:	Pine plantation

LABORATORY ANALYSES 950
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 µS/cm	Cl- %	Depth cm	Composition %
A1	0-10	S	3	58	32	4	4					5.0	30	0.001
A2	60-90	S	6	56	38	5	1					5.3	7	0.001
B2h	90-110	S	8	57	35	5	3					5.4	16	0.001
B2ir	110-120	S	6	56	37	5	2					5.5	17	0.001

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
A1	0-10	1.21	0.076	21	0.1	3	40	0.004	0.020	1.3	0.4	0.1	0.04	6.1	21	7	2	1	69
A2	60-90	0.17	0.007	32	0.1	<1	<1	0.001	0.010	0.07	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.80	9	3	3	3	82
B2h	90-110	0.22	0.014	20	0.5	2	<1	0.001	0.013	0.2	0.1	0.04	0.07	4.3	5	2	1	2	90
B2ir	110-120	0.24	0.015	21	0.4	4	<1	0.001	0.012	0.3	0.1	0.04	0.07	3.8	8	3	1	2	86

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