Primary Production Landscapes Soils - Northern Plains : Riverine Plains
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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 | |||||||
Northern Plains: Riverine Plains | Sodosols, Calcarosols | Dr | 65% | Loamy (fine sandy) surface and bleached subsurface visibly over a red clay subsoil. Occasionally calcareous. Found on riverine plainsparticularly prior streams and upper landscape positions. |  | | | | | | | | | | Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention, potential surface sealing. Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, shrink-swell properties. | LP47, LP87 |
Northern Plains: Riverine Plains | Vertosols | Ug | 25% | 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 swales, depressions or on extensive plains. | | | | | | | | | | | Surface: compaction, high clay content and shrink-swell properties. Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content and shrink-swell properties. | LP69, LP59, LP116 |
Northern Plains: Riverine Plains | Sodosols | Dy | 7% | Loamy (fine sandy) surface and bleached subsurface visibly over a mottled brown, yellow and grey clay subsoil. Occasionally calcareous at depth. Found on riverine plains. | | | | | | | | | | | Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention, potential surface sealing. Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content, shrink-swell properties. | |
Northern Plains: Riverine Plains | Chromosols | Dr | 3% | Loamy (fine sandy) surface and bleached subsurface visibly over a red clay subsoil. Occasionally calcareous. Found on extensive alluvial plains. | | | | | | | | | | | Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention, potential surface sealing, pans and gravel (buckshot). Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content and some shrink-swell properties. | |
Northern Plains: North-east Plains and Slopes | Sodosols | Dy | 60% | Loamy (fine sandy) surface and bleached subsurface visibly over a mottled brown, yellow and grey clay subsoil. Found on plains and undulating low slopes. | | | | | | | | | | | Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention, potential surface sealing. Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content, shrink-swell properties. | |
Northern Plains: North-east Plains and Slopes | Chromosols | Dr | 15% | Loamy (fine sandy) surface and bleached subsurface visibly over a red clay subsoil. Occasionally calcareous. Found on plains and undulating slopes. | | | | | | | | | | | Surface: water repellence, nutrient retention, potential surface sealing. Subsoil: compaction, dense and coarse structure, high clay content, shrink-swell properties. | |
Northern Plains: North-east Plains and Slopes | Sodosols | Dr | 15% | 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. | |
Northern Plains: North-east Plains and Slopes | Vertosols | Ug | 10% | 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 swales, depressions or on extensive plains. | | | | | | | | | | | Surface: compaction, high clay content and shrink-swell properties. Subsoil: compaction, coarse structure, high clay content and shrink-swell properties | |
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