EGS246
Location: Chandlers Creek
Australian Soil Classification: Bleached-Mottled, Eutrophic, Red KANDOSOL
Map Unit: Ambyne (Component 1)
Previous Site Name: EG246
General Landscape Description: Rolling to steep hills
Site Description: Upper slope, 8% slope to north
Land Use: Native forest
Native Vegetation: Grassy dry forest
Geology: Granite
Soil Profile Morphology:
| Surface soil |  | |  |
A11 | 0 – 30 cm | Pinkish grey (7.5YR6/2); coarse sandy clay loam; weak coarse granular structure; weak consistence moist; pH 5.2; gradual change to: | |
A2 | 30 – 60 cm | Pinkish grey (7.5YR7/2); conspicuously bleached, coarse sandy loam; massive; weak consistence moist; gradual change to: | |
| Subsoil | | | |
B2 | 60 – 1.0+m | Mottled pinkish grey, yellowish red (5YR4/6) and strong brown (7.5YR4/6); coarse sandy light clay; weak coarse polyhedral structure; firm consistence moist; pH 5.9. |
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 | 0-20 | 5.2 | 4.4 | <0.05 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.12 |
B1 | 60-80 | 5.9 | 4.6 | <0.05 | 1.2 | 5.7 | 3.7 | 0.25 | 0.34 |
Profile Described By: Ian Sargeant, 2011.
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