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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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