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Primary Production Landscapes Soils - Central Victoria

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Primary Production Landscapes of Victoria

Dominant soil order (ASC)

Factual
Key

Soil Distribution within AEL


Description
Management Issues

Other Management and related Issues
Representative sites Benchmark and demo sites. VRO examples


Acidity Surface


Acidity

subsoil


Alkalinity
surface


Alkalinity
subsoil


Surface structure


Wind erosion


Water erosion


Water-
logging


Sodicity
surface


Sodicity
subsoil
Central Victoria: Northern slopes

Sodosols

Dr

80%
Loamy (fine sandy) surface and bleached subsurface visibly over a red clay subsoil. Occasionally calcareous. Found on low undulating slopes and plains.Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention, potential surface sealing.
Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content, shrink-swell properties.

LP9
LP98
Bet Bet3
Central Victoria: Northern slopes

Chromosols

Dr

5%
Loamy (fine sandy) surface and bleached subsurface visibly over a red clay subsoil. Occasionally calcareous. Found on undulating slopes and plains.Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention, potential surface sealing.
Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content, shrink-swell properties.

LP40
LP80
LP60
LP62
Central Victoria: Northern slopes

Kurosols

Dy

5%
Sandy loam surface, often with a bleached subsurface containing buckshot (ironstone gravels) over a heavy mottled brown/yellow and grey subsoil. Found on undulating slopes.Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention, potential surface sealing.
Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content, shrink-swell properties.

LP44

Bet Bet
Central Victoria: Northern slopes

Sodosols

Db, Dy

5%
Loam (fine sandy) surface and bleached subsurface visibly over a mottled brown, yellow and grey clay subsoil. Found on undulating slopes and plains.Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention, potential surface sealing.
Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content, shrink-swell properties.

LP97
LP63
WLRA143
Central Victoria: Northern slopes

Vertosols

Ug

3%
Black and grey cracking clay soil with self-mulching to coarse structured surfaces. High shrink-swell soils causing local irregular ground surface (melonhole/gilgai). Found in depressions or on alluvial plains.Surface: compaction, high clay content and shrink-swell properties.
Subsoil: compaction, coarse structure, high clay content and shrink-swell properties.
Central Victoria: Northern slopes

Tenosols

Uc/Gn

2%
Sandy soils that are acidic and may have a restrictive horizon (iron/organic pan/clay) at depth below a bleached horizon. Found on plains and rises.Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention.
Subsoil: nutrient rentention.

Mid Loddon
Central Victoria: Southern slopes; eruption points

Sodosols

Db, Dy

45%
Loamy (fine sandy) surface and bleached subsurface visibly over a mottled brown/yellow/ grey or black clay subsoil. Found on undulating slopes and plains.Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention, potential surface sealing.
Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content, shrink-swell properties.

GL169
GL168
Bet Bet 2
Central Victoria: Southern slopes; eruption points

Chromosols

Dy, Db, Dr

20%
Loamy (fine sandy) often with a bleached subsurface visibly over brown, yellow or grey clay subsoil (often red mottled). Found on undulating slopes, terraces and alluvial plains.Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention, potential surface sealing, pans and gravel.
Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content and some shrink-swell properties.

LP82
LP60

LP62
GL166
GL171
Central Victoria: Southern slopes; eruption points

Dermosols

Gn

15%
Finely structured (friable) red and black clay loam to clay soils. Found on volcanic eruption points.Surface: stoniness and variable soil depth.
Subsoil: stoniness, compaction, variable soil depth, high clay content.
Central Victoria: Southern slopes; eruption points

Kurosols

Dy, Db

10%
Sandy loam surface often with a bleached subsurface containing buckshot (ironstone gravels), visibly over a heavy mottled brown, yellow and grey subsoil. Found on undulating to rolling slopes.Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention, potential surface sealing.
Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content, shrink-swell properties.

GH5

GH6
Central Victoria: Southern slopes; eruption points

Tenosols, Rudosols and Kandosols

Uc, Um

5%
Sandy soils that may have a restrictive horizon (iron/organic pan or clay) at depth below a bleached horizon. Found on granitic slopes and sandplains.Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention.
Subsoil: nutrient rentention.

Sutton grange? Cobaw, Campapse? Baynton?
Central Victoria: Grampians

Tenosols, Rudosols, Podosols and Kandosols

Uc, Um

45%
Sandy soils that may have a restrictive horizon (iron/organic pan) at depth below a bleached horizon. Found on footslopes and sandplains.
Central Victoria: Grampians

Sodosols, Chromosols

Dy

30%
Loamy (fine sandy) surface and bleached subsurface visibly over a mottled brown, yellow and grey clay subsoil. Found on footslopes and plains
Central Victoria: Grampians

Kurosols

Dy

25%
Sandy loam surface often with a bleached subsurface containing buckshot (ironstone gravels) visibly over a heavy mottled brown, yellow and grey clay subsoil. Found on undulating to rolling slopes.
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