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EGRS212

Location: Orbost

Australian Soil Classification: Bleached-mottled, Eutrophic, Brown CHROMOSOL

Map Unit: Murrungowar
Previous Site Name: 212

General Landscape Description: Rolling low hills
Site description: Lower slope of a low hill, NW aspect 20% slope
Land Use: Native forest
Native Vegetation: Lowland forest
Geology: Granite


Soil Profile Morphology:

Surface soilSoils and landforms of Far East Gippsland - Murrungowar Site 212 profile
Road cutting near Wangarabell.

A1
0 – 6 cm
Brown (10YR4/3); light sandy loam; weak structure; clear change to:

A2
6 – 45 cm
Light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), conspicuously bleached (2.5Y8/2); loamy sand; massive abrupt change to:

Subsoil

B2
45 – 70 cm
Light olive brown (2.5Y5/4), many orange and light grey mottles; gritty medium clay; moderate angular blocky structure; gravelly, clear boundary to:

C
70 – 1.4m
Weathered granite becoming hard rock.

Chemical and Physical Analysis:
Horizon
Horizon Depth
(cm)
pH
(water)
pH
(CaCl2)
EC
dS/m
Exchangeable Acididty
meq/100g
Exchangeable Cations
Ca
Mg
K
Na
meq/100g
A1
0-6
5.6
4.3
<0.05
1.2
88
0.1
0.81
0.10
B2
45-70
5.9
4.3
<0.05
9.6
118
0.21
8.61
0.21
Sampled by auger

Profile Describe By: David Rees 1989.

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