Surface Soil Texture

Created 04/05/2025

Updated 04/05/2025

Surface texture (which refers to approximate clay content) influences many important soil qualities such as waterholding capacity, fertility and erodibility. Mapping shows the most common surface texture within each map unit, while more detailed proportion data are supplied for calculating respective areas of each surface soil texture class (spatial data statistics).

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Field Value
Title Surface Soil Texture
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/3ee7c63d-cae6-4076-a394-4db4a158e740
Remote Last Updated 18/02/2020
Contact Point
Department for Environment and Water
datasa@sa.gov.au
Reference Period 09/06/2016
Geospatial Coverage SA0062407: South Australia
Data Portal data.gov.au

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on South Australia Government "Surface Soil Texture". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/surface-texture