Type E
This also is a minor type, with a shallow surface horizon resting abruptly on grey clay subsoil. The clay is tough and intractable in contrast to the yellow friable clay of Type D. It occurs as a component of Unit 2 as well as irregularly on the sides of some gilgai depressions and on the shelves between them.
Typical Profile
The surface horizon is a grey-brown (10YR5/3) to dark grey loam or clay-loam; 12 to 20 cm thick. It may contain slight buckshot, and it rests abruptly on a yellowish grey (2.5Y5/2-4) or grey and brown mottled clay. The clay is tough and intractable, and yellow and brown colour components increase with depth. At the few sites where the type was examined, the deep subsoil is similar to that in Lilliput loam.
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