Group: Springhurst- Byawatha Hills Landcare Group | Australian Soil Classification: Bleached-Mottled, Mesotrophic, Red KUROSOL (thick, moderately gravelly, sandy/clayey) |
Northcote Factual Key: Dr 3.41 | Great Soil Group: red podzolic |
General Landscape Description: Upper slope (9% slope) of a granite hillslope. This site also contains Permian fluvioglacial deposits. Original vegetation included Red Box (Eucalyptus polyanthemos) and Red Gum (E. blakleyii). |
NE16 landscape |
A11 | 0-5 cm | Brown (7.5YR4/4); loamy sand; structureless; firm consistence dry; contains many (40%) quartz gravels (4mm average size); pH 5.5; abrupt change to: | NE16 profile |
A12 | 5-20 cm | Brown (7.5YR4/4); sandy loam; firm consistence dry; contains many (40%) quartz gravels (4mm average size); pH 5.3; abrupt change to: | |
A2 | 20-40 cm | Yellowish red (5YR5/6) conspicuously bleached (5YR7/4d); sandy loam; very firm consistence dry; contains very many (50%) quartz gravels (4mm average size) as well as rounded pebbles of glacial origin; pH 5.3; abrupt and wavy change to: | |
Subsoil | |||
B21 | 40-70 cm | Dark red (2.5YR4/8); medium clay; moderate medium blocky, breaking down to moderate fine blocky structure (shiny faced peds); very firm consistence dry; contains many (40%) quartz gravels (4mm average size) as well as rounded pebbles of glacial origin; pH 5.5; gradual change to: | |
B22 | 70-90 cm | Dark red (2.5YR3/6) with brownish yellow (10YR6/6) mottles; medium clay; strong medium blocky, breaking down to strong fine blocky structure (shiny faced peds); strong consistence dry; contains many (40%) quartz gravels (5mm average size); pH 5.5; abrupt and wavy change to: | |
B3 | 90-110 cm | Light grey (10YR7/2) with dark red (2.5YR3/6) mottles; medium heavy clay; very firm consistence moist; contains weathered granite; pH 4.8: | |
C | 110 cm+ | Weathered granite. |
Horizon | pH | Salinity Rating | ||
Surface (A1 horizon) | strongly acid | very low | non-sodic | none |
Subsoil (B21 horizon) | strongly acid | very low | non-sodic | none |
Deeper subsoil (at 1 m) | very strongly acid | very low | non-sodic | none |
Horizon | Horizon Depth (cm) | pH (water) | pH (CaCl2) | EC 1:5 | Exchangeable Cations | |||
Ca | Mg | K | Na | |||||
meq/100g | ||||||||
A11 | 0-5 | 5.5 | 4.7 | 0.05 | 5.8 | 1.1 | 0.6 | <0.1 |
A12 | 5-20 | 5.3 | 4.4 | <0.05 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 0.6 | <0.1 |
A2 | 20-40 | 5.3 | 4.4 | <0.05 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.3 | <0.1 |
B21 | 40-70 | 5.5 | 4.7 | <0.05 | 2.7 | 3.5 | 1.1 | <0.1 |
B22 | 70-90 | 5.5 | 4.6 | <0.05 | 1.0 | 4.9 | 0.7 | 0.1 |
B/C | 90-110 | 4.8 | 3.9 | <0.05 | 0.2 | 8.5 | 0.7 | 0.3 |
Horizon | Horizon Depth (cm) | Exchangeable Aluminium mg/kg | Field Capacity pF 2.5 | Wilting Point pF 4.2 | Coarse Sand (0.2-2.0 mm) | Fine Sand (0.02-0.2 mm) | Silt (0.002-0.02 mm) | Clay (<0.002 mm) |
A11 | 0-5 | 10 | 18.7 | 9.7 | 32 | 40 | 10 | 11 |
A12 | 5-20 | 140 | 17.1 | 6.8 | 33 | 37 | 14 | 13 |
A2 | 20-40 | 60 | 12.9 | 4 | 34 | 41 | 16 | 11 |
B21 | 40-70 | 39 | 25.7 | 17.8 | 10 | 18 | 9 | 65 |
B22 | 70-90 | 44 | ||||||
B/C | 90-110 | 260 |