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. | |
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. | |
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. | |
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. | |
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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