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Location: Warrayure

Australian Soil Classification: Acidic, Lithic, Bleached-Leptic TENOSOL
General Landscape Description: A lower slope between depressions.
Site Description: Lower slope of rise.
Land Unit:
Geology:

Image: CRC9 Landscape
Site CRC9 Landscape


Soil Profile Morphology:

Surface Soil
A10-5 cm Dark brown (10YR3/3); sandy loam; pH 6.0:

A25-30 cmBrown (10YR5/3) conspicuously bleached (10YR8/1 dry); loamy sand; rusty root channel mottling; pH 5.4:

Subsoil

C30+ cmFerruginous sandstone; pH 6.3.

Image: CRC9 Profile
Site CRC9 Profile

Key Profile Features:
Soil Profile Characteristics:

pH
Salinity Rating
Surface
(A1 horizon)
Moderately Acid
Low
Sodic
None
Deeper subsoil
(at 30+ cm)
Slightly Acid
Low
Strongly Sodic
None

Image: CRC9 Graphs

Chemical and Physical Analysis:
Horizon
Horizon Depth
(cm)
pH
(water)
pH
(CaCl2)
EC
dS/m
Exchangeable Aluminium
ppm
Exchangeable Acididty
meq/100g
Exchangeable Cations
Field Capacity
% w/w
Wilting Point
% w/w
Ca
Mg
K
Na
meq/100g
A1
0-5
6.0
5.1
0.19
<10
6.0
1.8
1.8
0.29
1.4
15
14
A2
5-30
5.4
4.6
0.23
<10
1.9
0.31
0.71
<0.05
1.0
8
2
C
30+
6.3
5.3
0.25
<10
2.2
0.37
1.4
<0.05
1.4
8
23


Profile Described By: Mark Imhof, Austin Brown, Darren Bennetts and Malcolm McCaskill - March 2003.
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