Land Research Series, Issue 27Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia, 1970 - Agriculture |
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... Pleistocene . A third important geomorphic event was the Pleistocene glaciation ( Plate 4 , Fig . 1 ) of the highest mountain peaks : Mt. Wilhelm and Mt. Herbert ( Rickwood 1955 ) , Mt. Hagen and Mt. Giluwe volcanoes , and several peaks ...
... Pleistocene . A third important geomorphic event was the Pleistocene glaciation ( Plate 4 , Fig . 1 ) of the highest mountain peaks : Mt. Wilhelm and Mt. Herbert ( Rickwood 1955 ) , Mt. Hagen and Mt. Giluwe volcanoes , and several peaks ...
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... Pleistocene volcanic ash deposits . It also occurs frequently on the little - dissected parts of Pleistocene alluvial fans and is a component of the soil pattern of nearly all mountainous and hilly areas where it is most common on ...
... Pleistocene volcanic ash deposits . It also occurs frequently on the little - dissected parts of Pleistocene alluvial fans and is a component of the soil pattern of nearly all mountainous and hilly areas where it is most common on ...
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... Pleistocene alluvial deposits and , rarely , on river terraces . These are more than 4 ft deep moderately brown and grey mottled firm to very firm clay to heavy clay soils with a normally 6-15 in . thick black to very dark grey- brown ...
... Pleistocene alluvial deposits and , rarely , on river terraces . These are more than 4 ft deep moderately brown and grey mottled firm to very firm clay to heavy clay soils with a normally 6-15 in . thick black to very dark grey- brown ...
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GEOLOGIC AND GEOMORPHIC HISTORY OF THE GOROKAMOUNT | 19 |
CLIMATE OF THE GOROKAMOUNT HAGEN AREA By J R McAlpine | 66 |
GENERAL CLIMATIC CHARACTERISTICS | 69 |
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Aiyura alluvial altitude Area Unit sq Banz beech forest Bismarck Bismarck Range brown clay soils Capillipedium Capillipedium grassland Chimbu colluvial soils crests CSIRO cultivation dissected Drainage Status Elimbari fans field pH flood-plains forest type ft high garden regrowth gardens and garden gleyed latosols Goroka grass and shrub grassland Guinea highlands humic brown clay Kaugel Koge Kubor Land Class Land Forms land system land use capability land use intensity lateritic lateritic and gleyed locally meadow podzolic soils meadow soils Minj mixed forest moderately montane Moruma Mount Hagen mountains mudstone Nunga occur Ogelbeng Okapa Omahaiga organic matter organic soils pattern permeable Phragmites Phragmites swamp Pleistocene podzolic poorly drained Population and Land population density rainfall red latosols run-off shrub regrowth slopes Soils and Drainage sq miles steep subsoil suite super ft sword grass Tambul terraces Territory of Papua topsoil tree crops Unit sq miles volcanic ash Wahgi Winjaka yd wide