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Ilparpa swamp rehabilitation plan.

Details:

Title

Ilparpa swamp rehabilitation plan.

Creator

Henderson, R.

Collection

E-Publications; E-Books; PublicationNT; Report ; 18/2003

Date

2003

Description

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

Notes

Date:2003

Language

English

Publisher name

Dept. of Infrastructure, Planning and the Environment

Place of publication

Alice Springs

Series

Report ; 18/2003

File type

application/pdf.

Copyright owner

Check within Publication or with content Publisher.

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/227943

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/674804

Page content

I I I DESCRIPTION: Gravelly Lower Wash (1-5%) Slopes with lronwood and sparse Mulga over sparse annual and perennial grasses. I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I GEOLOGY: LANDFORM: SOIL: 0.00 - 0.10 0.10-0.40 Quaternary colluvial gravels. Generally eroded wash material from higher relief Mountains and Rises. The gently inclined slopes of this landform generally have slopes to 5% with a relief to 10m above the surrounding lower lying areas. Clay forms about 20-30% of the soil fraction that would allow rapid runoff with moderate drainage and permeability. Where the surface structure has been disturbed, erosional channelling has resulted. Numerous small (0.5m wide x 0.1 Om deep) incised channels drain portions of the slopes and terminate in small alluvial fans. Example from Site 142 MGA. Coordinates: 7373191mN, 387551mE Al B2 Sandy loam (SL) Sandy clay loam (SCL) 6.0 6.0 20.7 21.4 Red coarse gravelly subrounded tabular sandstone and quartz fragments. 30% 6-2Omm fine gravelly subrounded quartz fragments. 5% 60-200mm subrounded tabular cobbles of and Red (2.5YR4f6). 25% 20-60mm coarse gravelly subrounded tabular sandstone and quartz fragments. 25% 6-20mm fine subrounded VEGETATION: Site 227 (Albrecht, D. & Pitts, B. 1999). Other species Grass, Grass, , Tall Copper Burr, Bindieye, Wireleaf Mistletoe, Tar Vine & Yipa, Variable Daisy, Billybuttons, Yellow Billybuttons, Bogan Flea, Crested Goosefoot, Chenopodium truncatum, Australian Bindweed, Climbing Saltbush, Heliotropium sp. (one or both ofH.cunninghamii & H.tanythrix), Silky Cowvine, Veined Peppercress, Maireana sc/eroptera, Munyeroo, Sand Sunray, Buck Bush, Plumbush, Grey Copper Burr, Nodding Thread-petal, Dwarf Swainsona, Purple Plumegrass, Dead Finish, Wild Turnip, Wild Melon, Turpentine Bush, Serrated Goodenia, Satiny Bluebush, Sclerolaena Sand Sida.