Table 4.  Results of the chemical analysis of foredune soil samples collected at a depth of 20 cm.  All cation data are in kg/ha.  Each entry represents a mean of 66 samples (from van der Valk, 1975).
 

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  Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD
Potassium 10.1 10.3 9.3 8.2 6.9 6.9
Sodium 115  86 69 40  73 46
Calcium 8,187 6,255 5,145 4,565 6,435 5,387
Magnesium 64  25 58 18 46 15
Manganese 5.9 1.7 6.5 2.0 5.8 1.8
Zinc 1.1 0.6 1.1 0.7 0.9 0.5
Phosphorus 6.9 0.4 6.7 0.3 6.7 0.3