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Appendix To "Report On The Land Units Of Mt. Bundey Station."

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Title

Appendix To "Report On The Land Units Of Mt. Bundey Station."

Creator

Fogarty, P. J. (Peter John)

Collection

E-Publications; PublicationNT; E-Books; Technical Report LRD78011

Date

1980-00-00

Description

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

Notes

Date:1980

Language

English

Series

Technical Report LRD78011

File type

application/pdf.

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Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/230202

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/671312

Page content

Technical Report LRD75016 Viewed at 08:02:02 on 18/02/2010 Page 48 of 110. Unit 6a1 Physiography Surface Drainage Soils Vegetation Limitations Potential Land Use I : I : 30. Drainage lines in rugged terrain; narrow ( < 200 m), normally incised to < 2 m. Imperfectly to poorly drained; waterlogged with'moderate periods of inundation,during wet season. Yellow earths (Tortilla II); moderately deep and usually sandy in upper reaches; weakly developed solodics (Bundey I) in lower reaches towards major alluvials. Very variable; woodland to open forest ~. polycarpa, .E. grandifolia, ~. papUMa, E. ,bigalerita" Melaleuca spp.) and perennial grass land (Arundinaceum. nepalensis, Eriachne burkittii, CoelorhEichis, Panicwn spp., Themeda australis) or sedgeland (Cyperus sp., Fimbristylis spp., 'Scleria sp., Rhynchospora ap.). Waterlogging and inundation; very erodible. Suitable for rough grazing during dry season; stocking should be controlled to ensure grass i cover always provides good surface prote'ction. .'