Description |
Large area of coalesced fans of glacial outwash gravels and alluvial deposits, 0-300m a.s.l.; some beach gravels, swamp deposits, dunes; very low rainfall; shallow, stony droughty soils on lower terraces, deep, clayey loess soils on higher terraces, alluvial soils on river flats, some peaty soils, saline soil (near Ellesmere) etc.; former vegetation mainly short tussockland and scrub, some floodplain forest, swamplands, riparian woodland; now mostly farmed with small remnants of indigenous vegetatioon types. |
