Location: Tallangatta Valley Landcare Group. | Australian Soil Classification: Bleached, Eutrophic, Red CHROMOSOL |
Northcote Factual Key: Dy 2.42 | Great Soil Group: red podzolic. |
General Landscape Description: Level plain which receives wash from granite hills. Original vegetation included Blakely’s Red Gum (Eucalyptus blakelyi). |
Site NE22 Landscape |
A1 | 0-10 cm | Very dark greyish brown (10YR3/2); sandy loam; weak blocky structure; firm consistence moist; contains a few (5%) quartz gravels (3 mm average diameter); pH 5.5; abrupt change to: | Site NE22 Profile |
A2 | 10-40 cm | Light brown (7.5YR6/5) conspicuously bleached (10YR7/3d); coarse sandy loam; firm consistence moist; contains a few (7%) quartz gravels; pH 6.1; clear change to: | |
Subsoil | |||
B21 | 40-90 cm | Yellowish red (5YR5/7); sandy clay loam (becoming lighter with depth); firm consistence moist; contains a few (5%) quartz gravels (3 mm average diameter); pH 6.4; gradual change to: | |
B22 | 90+ cm | Yellowish red (5YR5/6); light sandy clay loam; soft consistence moist; contains a moderate (20%) amount of quartz gravels (5 mm average diameter) and a few (5%) quartz pebbles in patches (up to 100 mm diameter); pH 6.5. | |
Horizon | pH | Salinity Rating | ||
Surface (A1 horizon) | strongly acid | very low | non-sodic | none |
Subsoil (B21 horizon) | slightly acid | very low | non-sodic | none1 |
Deeper subsoil (at 90 cm) | slightly 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 | ||||||||
A1 | 0-10 | 5.5 | 4.7 | 0.07 | 5.9 | 1.2 | 0.6 | <0.1 |
A2 | 10-40 | 6.1 | 5.2 | <0.05 | 14 | 0.6 | 0.4 | <0.1 |
B21 | 40-90 | 6.4 | 5.3 | <0.05 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 1.4 | <0.1 |
B22 | 90+ | 6.5 | 5.5 | <0.05 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.8 | <0.1 |
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) |
A1 | 0-10 | <10 | 21 | 8 | 44 | 25 | 14 | 11 |
A2 | 10-40 | 14 | 3 | |||||
B21 | 40-90 | 18 | 7 | 39 | 26 | 14 | 23 | |
B22 | 90+ |