Territory Stories

Land resources of the Victoria River District

Details:

Title

Land resources of the Victoria River District,

Creator

Napier, Diane E, Hill, Jason V, Northern Territory. Department of Land Resource Management. Land Resource Assessment Branch,

Collection

E-Publications, E-Books, PublicationNT, Technical Report Number 19/2012,

Date

2012,

Location

Victoria River,

Description

This Technical Report describes a land resource survey. It was mapped at a survey scale of 1:100 000 and includes a description of the landforms, soils and vegetation for 237 land units. The surveyed area of 74 502km2 is located 700km south west of Darwin and covers 23 major land holdings in the Victoria River District, (VRD) Northern Territory. The objectives of the project were to map, describe and evaluate the pastoral lands of the VRD and provide this information to land managers, industry, government and other relevant stakeholders.,

Notes

Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT),

Table of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Previous Mapping; 3. Survey Collection Methodology and Data Collection; 4. Lithology and Stratigraphy; 5. Landform; 6. Soil Classification; 7. Vegetation; 8. Land Evaluation; 9. Soil Erosion; 10. Land Unit Descriptions; References; Appendices x 10. Tables x 49. Figures x 10.,

Language

English,

Subject

Soils -- Northern Territory -- Victoria River, Land use -- Northern Territory -- Victoria River, Geology -- Northern Territory -- Victoria River,

Publisher name

Northern Territory Government,

Place of publication

Palmerston,

Series

Technical Report Number 19/2012,

Format

vii, 363 pages : colour illustrations and maps ; 30 cm.,

File type

application/pdf,

ISBN

9781743500187,

Use

Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0),

Copyright owner

Northern Territory Government,

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/,

Related links

http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/metadata/export_data?type=html&metadata_id=2DBCB771205706B6E040CD9B0F274EFE, http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/metadata/export_data?type=html&metadata_id=2DBCB771205706B6E040CD9B0F274EFE,

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/245323,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/588695