EGRS212
Location: Orbost
Australian Soil Classification: Bleached-mottled, Eutrophic, Brown CHROMOSOL
Map Unit: Murrungowar
Previous Site Name: 212
General Landscape Description: Rolling low hills
Site description: Lower slope of a low hill, NW aspect 20% slope
Land Use: Native forest
Native Vegetation: Lowland forest
Geology: Granite
Soil Profile Morphology:
| Surface soil |  | |  Road cutting near Wangarabell. |
A1 | 0 – 6 cm | Brown (10YR4/3); light sandy loam; weak structure; clear change to: | |
A2 | 6 – 45 cm | Light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), conspicuously bleached (2.5Y8/2); loamy sand; massive abrupt change to: | |
Subsoil | | | |
B2 | 45 – 70 cm | Light olive brown (2.5Y5/4), many orange and light grey mottles; gritty medium clay; moderate angular blocky structure; gravelly, clear boundary to: | |
C | 70 – 1.4m | Weathered granite becoming hard rock. |
Chemical and Physical Analysis:
Horizon | Horizon Depth (cm) | pH (water) | pH (CaCl2) | EC dS/m | Exchangeable Acididty meq/100g | Exchangeable Cations | |||
Ca | Mg | K | Na | ||||||
meq/100g | |||||||||
A1 | 0-6 | 5.6 | 4.3 | <0.05 | 1.2 | 88 | 0.1 | 0.81 | 0.10 |
B2 | 45-70 | 5.9 | 4.3 | <0.05 | 9.6 | 118 | 0.21 | 8.61 | 0.21 |
Profile Describe By: David Rees 1989.
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