Geology Quaternary (Late Pleistocene) alluvium. Landform Alluvial terrace - an earlier flood plain of the La Trobe River. | ![]() | ![]() |
Depth cm | Texture | pH | EC dS/m | Cl % | Nitrogen % | Carbon % | Ca meq% | Mg meq% | K meq% | Na meq% | H meq% | ESP % | Gravel % | Coarse sand % | Fine sand % | Silt % | Clay % | LAT % |
0-20 | LC | 6.3 | 0.66 | 0.11 | 0.21 | 2.8 | 4.2 | 8.8 | 0.2 | 2.2 | 7.2 | 10 | ![]() | 10 | 24 | 21 | 41 | 2 |
20-50 | MHC | 5.9 | 1.7 | 0.38 | ![]() | ![]() | 2.9 | 7.9 | 0.2 | 2.9 | 7.3 | 14 | ![]() | 6 | 21 | 21 | 49 | 2 |
50-85 | MHC | 6.9 | 2.4 | 0.42 | ![]() | ![]() | 3.2 | 9.9 | 0.2 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 18 | ![]() | 5 | 16 | 20 | 57 | 1 |
85-100 | MHC | 7.2 | 2.2 | 0.10 | ![]() | ![]() | 3.3 | 12 | 0.4 | 7.9 | ![]() | 33 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
![]() Vertosols occur in the foreground on the Crooke mapping unit near Rosedale. Note the terrace (Loy Yang mapping unit) in the middle ground and the hills in the background (Stockdale/Gormandale mapping units). These were formed by uplift along the Rosedale fault. |
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