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Report on the lands of the Ord River catchment, Northern Territory

Details:

Title

Report on the lands of the Ord River catchment, Northern Territory

Other title

by J. M. Aldrick, D. F. Howe and C. R. Dunlop.

Creator

Aldrick, J. M.; Howe, D. F. (David F.); Dunlop, C. R. (Clyde Robert)

Collection

E-Publications; E-Books; PublicationNT; 78/24

Date

1978-02-26

Description

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

Notes

Date:1978; Bibliographhy: p. 103.

Language

English

Subject

Land use -- Northern Territory -- Ord River Region

Publisher name

Animal Industry & Agriculture Branch, Dept. of the Northern Territory

Place of publication

Darwin

Series

78/24

Format

109 p.,[23] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 29 cm.

File type

application/pdf.

ISBN

0642913684

Copyright owner

Check within Publication or with content Publisher.

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/228986

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/673490

Page content

Antrim 5 (AS) Rounded Structural basalt bench hill Minor Minor ! clay plain Lower' stream slope channel ~ ~ v v \I " V v v Province - 3,4,6 Geology - Antrim Plateau volcanics. Landform - Rounded basalt hills and structural benches with 80-100% outcrop. Slopes commonly 2 to 10 but locally to 30. Relief commonly 80 ft but rises to 120 ft. Minor lower slopes and high level sedentary clay plains. Soils - Mainly stony skeletal red earths, (loamy) with some outcrop. Minor brown clay inclusions on flatter areas. Vegetation - On skeletal volcanic soils, E.brevifolia forms a low open woodland association over T.roscida and T.inutilis. In areas where the tree cover is sparse, T.roscida occurs alone as a Hummock grassland. On cracking clay soils the tree cover is sparse and variable (mainly E.brevifolia or T.arostrata), and the spinifexes are replaced to a large degree by other annual and perennial grasses: Iseilema, Sehima, Eulalia, Dichanthium. - 56