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Location: Dargo

Australian Soil Classification: Acidic, Dystrophic,Brown Kandosol

Map Unit: Talbotville
Previous Site Name: AL11

General Landscape Description: Steep hills.
Site Description: North aspect (28% slope).
Land Use: Forest.
Native Vegetation: Shrubby dry forest.
Geology: Palaeozoic siltstones and shales.


Soil Profile Morphology:

Surface Soil
A10 – 5 cmDark brown to brown (7.5YR4/4); gravelly clay loam; apedal; slightly hard dry; 30% small bedrock fragments up to 20 mm; pH 4.8; clear boundary to:
Soils and lanforms of the Bairnsdale Dargo region - a guide to the major agricultural soils of East Gippsland 2011 - Talbotville Profile 11 - profile
Shallow stony typical Talbotville soil profile: Cutting along Bairnsdale – Dargo Road

Subsoil
B5 – 22 cmStrong brown (7.5YR5/6); gravelly clay loam; apedal; friable, moist; 30% small bedrock fragments up to 20 mm; fragments up to 80 mm common below 10 cm; pH 5.0:
R22+ cmBedrock.


Key Profile Features:

Chemical and Physical Analysis:
Horizon
Horizon Depth
(cm)
pH
(water)
EC
dS/m
Organic Carbon
%
Total
Nitrogen
%
Free
Fe2O3
% w/w
Exchangeable Acididty
meq/100g
Exchangeable Cations
Coarse Sand
(0.2-2.0 mm)
%
Fine Sand
(0.02-0.2 mm)
%
Silt
(0.002-0.02 mm)
%
Clay
(<0.002 mm)
%
Ca
Mg
K
Na
meq/100g
A1
0-5
4.8
<0.05
3.8
0.19
2.6
30.5
0.05
0.09
0.7
0.07
18
18
31
19
B
5-10
5.0
<0.05
1.8
0.11
2.9
20.7
<0.05
0.05
0.7
0.09
15
23
34
23
B
10-20
5.0
<0.05
1.8
0.10
3.3
21.2
<0.05
0.08
0.7
0.05
13
22
35
28


Profile Described By: J.M. Aldrick, 1978.
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