Top Crop11

Site: Top Crop 11

General Landscape Description: Level plain.

Site Description: Cropping paddock

Soil Profile Morphology:

Surface Soil

0-10 cm

Brown (7.5YR4/4); fine sandy clay loam; hardsetting; weak coarse blocky structure; firm consistence (dry); few (2-5%) quartz gravels (2-4 mm); sharp change to:

10-15 cm

Strong brown (7.5YR5/6) with pink (7.5YR7/4) mottles; very fine sandy clay loam; apedal; firm consistence (dry); iron and manganese segregations (2-5 mm); sharp change to:

Note: The A2 horizon is discontinuous – buckshot probably associated with gilgai depression.

Subsoil

15-30 cm

Yellowish brown (10YR5/6) with brownish yellow (10YR6/8) mottles common; medium heavy clay; strong very coarse prismatic, parting to moderate coarse blocky structure; strong consistence (dry); clear change to:

B22

30-55 cm

Brownish yellow (10YR6/6); medium heavy clay; gradual change to:

B23

55-100 cm

Yellowish brown (10YR5/8); medium heavy clay; slightly calcareous; many slickensides present; carbonate silica nodules (at >1m depth occur in patches).

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