Lands of the Port Moresby-Kairuku Area, Territory of Papua and New Guinea |
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LAND SYSTEMS OF THE PORT MORESBYKAIRUKU | 19 |
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LITTORAL PLAINS ZONE | 75 |
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50 yd wide Acid red agglomerate alluvium Angabunga River back plains backing ranges beach ridges brown clay soils coastal hill zone cracking clay soils creeks crests Dark cracking clay drainage drained alluvial soils evergreen thicket flood-plains fluvial plains fluvial plains zone foot slopes foothill zone ft deep ft high ft wide gabbro Galley Reach grey sticky clays herbaceous Imperata inland Jackson's Airport land system layer limestone lithosols locally Low evergreen forest lower lowlands luvial soils mainly mangrove margins Mid-height evergreen forest mile wide minor Miocene mixed herbaceous vegetation Moderately well-drain mudstone occur olive silty clays Ophiuros Pandanus peats Pliocene Port Moresby prior channels rain days red to brown rocks SAN DIEGO sand sandy savannah semi-deciduous thicket slightly deciduous forest small Land Form Sogeri Plateau SQ MILES swamps Tall evergreen forest Tall grassland Saccharum Themeda tidal flats tuff Unit Area upland zone valley heads Vanapa volcanic WAIGANI yd long