Location: Clifton Creek
Australian Soil Classification: Sodic, Dystrophic, Yellow CHROMOSOL
Map Unit: Tambo (Component 2)
Previous Site Name: EG262
General Landscape Description: Undulating to rolling low hills.
Site Description: Mid-slope, north aspect, 10 % slope
Land Use: Grazing
Native Vegetation: Shrubby dry forest
Geology: Ordovician sediments
Soil Profile Morphology:
Surface Soil
A1 | 0 – 5 cm | Dark brown (10YR3/2); loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm dry; abrupt change to: | EG262 Profile |
Subsoil | |||
B21 | 5 – 20 cm | Brown (7.5YR4/2), light brown (7.5YR6/3 dry); medium clay (subplastic); moderate coarse prismaticstructure; firm dry; few (<10%) angular medium pebbles (<20 mm); clear change to: | |
B22* | 20 – 30 cm | Brown (7.5YR4/2), few coarse reddish yellow (7.5YR6/6) mottles; light clay; moderate coarse prismatic structure; common (10-20%) angular stones (200-600 mm); clear change to: | |
C | 30 -70 cm | Yellowish brown (10YR5/4); light clay; massive; abundant (>90%) angular soft rock. | |
*This horizon is discontinuous |
Surface soil | Strongly Acid | Non-Sodic | None |
Subsoil (B22 horizon) | Moderately Acid | Sodic | None1 |
Deep subsoil (C horizon) | Slightly Alkaline | Non-Sodic | Moderate2 |
Horizon | Horizon Depth (cm) | pH (water) | pH CaCl2 | CE dS/m | Organic Carbon % | Total Nitrogen % | Exch. Al | Exch. Acididty meq/100g | Exchangeable Cations | Coarse Sand (0.2-2.0 mm) % | Fine Sand (0.02-0.2 mm) % | Silt (0.002-0.02 mm) % | Clay (<0.002 mm) % | Field cap. % w/w | Wilt. point % w/w | |||
Ca | Mg | K | Na | |||||||||||||||
meq/100g | ||||||||||||||||||
A1 | 0-5 | 5.1 | 4.4 | 5.1 | 8.3 | 0.6 | 140 | 21 | 3.2 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 21 | 29 | 20 | 14 | 36.4 | 17.4 |
B21 | 5-20 | 5.7 | 4.7 | 5.7 | 2.3 | 0.11 | 100 | 12 | 0.3 | 1.2 | <0.1 | 0.4 | 18 | 28 | 7 | 41 | 26.9 | 10.3 |
B22 | 20-30 | 6.7 | 5.3 | 6.7 | 13 | 6.1 | 0.1 | 2.6 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 17 | 26 | 28 | 25 | 24.1 | 10.8 | ||
C | 30-70 | 7.6 | 6.4 | 7.6 | <5 | 1.7 | <0.1 | 3.4 | <0.1 | 0.3 | 19 | 18 | 38 | 23 | 21 | 10.3 |