Winnindoo Clay (Wi,c)
Geology
Late Pleistocene alluvial sediments.
Landform
Low-lying area within a stagnant alluvial plain.
Original Vegetation
Skene and Walbran (1949) include this area with the low-lying red gum woodland.
Previous Maps and Reports
The soils were called Type F by Skene and Walbran (1948, 1949). Aldrick et al. (1992) includes these soils in the Valencia Land System.
Soils
Type F, called here Winnindoo clay, is a saline soil type found in badly drained swampland. It may be strongly gilgaied (“crab-holey”). The soil has a shallow dark grey light or medium surface soil up to 15 cm deep. Dominantly grey clays continue to at least 1m depth.
Chemical and Physical Analysis
No analyses of this soil were carried out during the present survey. Site A12 (see Other Site Data) reported in Aldrick et al. (1992) is on the edge of an area mapped as Winnindoo clay.
