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Site Information
- Site number:
-
17
- Authors:
-
IBC, GGC
- Date recorded:
-
1964/11/02
- Reason Sampled:
-
Soil characterisation
- Description:
-
On the northeast slopes of Felsite Island, on a gently sloping scree mantled slope below grewyacke and quartz outcrops
- Altitude:
- 125 m
- Aspect:
-
NE
- Slope:
- 10 °
Location Data
| Observer |
IBC |
|---|
| GPS |
No |
|---|
| Latitude Longitude DMS |
72° 26' S 169° 49' E |
|---|
| Latitude Longitude DD |
-72.433 169.817 |
|---|
| Latitude longitude precision DD |
0.008 0.008 |
|---|
| Locality |
Northern Victoria Land near Hallett Peninsula; on Felsite Island at the southern end of Edisto Inlet |
|---|
| Survey |
MZMS 166; 1960 Tucker Glacier |
|---|
Climate
- Soil climate zone:
-
Coastal Antarctic
- Estimated mean annual temperature:
- -15
°C
- Frozen ground depth:
- 25 cm
- Frozen type:
-
hard ice-cemented
- Frozen comment:
-
25cm
Geology
- Geological setting:
-
Folded Robertson Bay Group metagreywacke with quartz veins outcrop extensively and have a thin cover of bedrock-derived slope detritus and minor till
- Patterned ground:
-
- Surface weathering or surface features:
-
surface boulders partly rounded by wind abrasion; fragments of quartz outcrops spread 20m downslope; surface rocks mostly unstained; moderately developed cobble pavement
Soil
- Soil parent material:
-
Stony metagreywacke slope detritus with minor inclusion of felsitic material
- Previous disturbance:
-
Nil
- Soil weathering stage:
- 6
2
(Campbell & Claridge 1975)
- Soil moisture status:
-
Oceanic subxerous, no snow cover
- Biological activity:
-
Nil observed
Profile Description
| Horizon | Depth | Description |
|---|
| 17a |
0
–
7
cm |
pale yellow (5Y 7/3) pebbly gravelly sand; loose; rock particles angular and unstained; indistinct boundary, |
| 17b |
7
–
25
cm |
pale yellow to pale olive (5Y 7/3-6/3) pebbly granular sand; weakly frosted; some coatings on rock particles; sharp boundary, on frozen ground |
Sample Data
Physical Data
| Sample name | Depth description | Top (cm) | Base (cm) | Bulk Density | Dry Bulk Density | Gravimetric Moisture | Vol. Moisture (BD=2) |
|---|
| 17a
| 0-7cm
| 0.0
| 7.0
|
|
|
|
|
| 17b
| 7-25cm
| 7.0
| 25.0
|
|
|
|
|
Sample solution chemistry
| Sample name | pH | Na meq/100g | Ca meq/100g | Mg meq/100g | K meq/100g | Cl meq/100g | SO4 meq/100g | NO3 meq/100g | EC mmho/cm | Soluble Salt | Notes |
|---|
| 17a
|
8.3
|
0.2
|
<0.1
|
<0.1
|
0.01
|
0.1
|
<0.1
|
<0.05
|
.
|
0.04
|
|
| 17b
|
8.2
|
0.1
|
<0.1
|
<0.1
|
0.01
|
0.1
|
<0.1
|
<0.05
|
.
|
0.02
|
|
Particle size distribution
| Sample name | < 2 mm | 2 - 0.5 mm | 0.5 - 0.25 mm | 0.25 - 0.1 mm | 0.1 - 0.05 mm | 0.05 - 0.02 mm | 0.02 - 0.002 mm | < 0.002 mm | Fe2O3 | CaCO3 | Notes |
|---|
| 17a
| 54
| 51.1
| 22.0
| 16.0
| 4.2
| 3.1
| 3.0
| 0.4
| 0.13
| .
|
|
| 17b
| 54
| 48.8
| 20.1
| 18.4
| 4.8
| 4.4
| 2.9
| 0.5
| 0.18
| .
|
|
Clay Mineralogy
| Sample name | Mica | IHM | HIV - IHM | ICHL | VT | HIV | CHL | SM | CHL SM | FE - CHL | HT | QTZ | FLD | HB | CAL | Notes |
|---|
| 17a
|
60.0
|
.
|
20.0
|
.
|
5.0
|
.
|
10.0
|
5.0
|
.
|
.
|
.
|
.
|
.
|
.
|
|
|
| 17b
|
50.0
|
.
|
10.0
|
.
|
.
|
.
|
15.0
|
25.0
|
.
|
.
|
.
|
.
|
.
|
.
|
|
|
National Soil Archive Samples
| Sample name | NSA Sample Id | Container type | Fraction type |
|---|
| 17a
|
M22/0457
|
medium
|
coarse
|
| 17a
|
M22/0458
|
White lid small
|
fine
|
| 17a
|
M22/6722
|
Glass vial metal lid
|
|
| 17b
|
M22/0459
|
medium
|
coarse
|
| 17b
|
M22/0460
|
medium
|
fine
|
| 17b
|
M22/6723
|
Glass vial metal lid
|
|
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