General Landscape Description: Irrigated pasture on a flat plain. | Mapped Soil Type: Fernihust Clay Loam. |
LP76 Landscape |
A1 | 0-15 cm | Brown (10YR4/3); medium clay; firm surface condition; moderate fine polyhedral structure; firm consistence moist; pH 8.1; abrupt and smooth change to: | Lp76 Profile |
Subsoil | |||
B21 | 15-30 cm | Brown (7.5YR4/4); light medium clay; moderate medium blocky, breaking down to moderate fine polyhedral structure (smooth faced peds); strong consistence moist; pH 8.8; clear and wavy change to: | |
B22 | 30-60 cm | Brown (7.5YR4/4); medium heavy clay; moderate coarse blocky structure; very firm consistence moist; contains very few (<2%) carbonate and silica nodules (2-3 cm in size) and few (2-10%) soft carbonates; pH 8.7; gradual and wavy change to: | |
B23 | 60-80 cm | Strong brown (7.5YR5/6); medium heavy clay; moderate medium polyhedral, breaking down to fine polyhedral structure; very strong consistence moist; contains a few (2%) carbonate nodules (2-3 cm in size); pH 9.0; clear change to: | |
B24 | 80+ cm | Strong brown (7.5YR5/8); light medium clay; well structured with small slickensides (smooth faced peds); firm consistence moist; pH 9.3. |
pH | Salinity Rating | |||
Surface (A1 horizon) | moderately alkaline | low | non-sodic | none |
Subsoil (B21 horizon) | strongly alkaline | medium | sodic | none |
Deeper subsoil (at 80+ cm) | very strongly alkaline | very high | very strongly sodic | none |
The surface is moderately alkaline. The subsoil is strongly alkaline becoming very strongly alkaline. | At 15 cm depth the subsoil salinity level becomes very high at about 70 cm. | The subsoil is sodic at 15 cm and becomes very strongly sodic at 60 cm. |