THE SOIL PATTERN AND TRENDS IN WEST COAST AGRICULTURE SINCE 1964

1981 ◽  
pp. 19-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.B. Wright
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Dairy Production ◽  
Waste Land ◽  
Development Costs ◽  
Coastal Soils ◽  
Physical Features ◽  
Soil Pattern ◽  
Great Scope

The physical features, climate and soils of the West Coast are described. Expansion since 1964 of dairy production, sheep and beef cattle numbers, and areas of improved grassland are highlighted, as is the role of the Crown in land development and settlement. While isolation and distance, development costs, river problems, and farmer attitude and knowledge are considered limitations, great scope exists for increased production by the adoption, of more intensive techniques, including horticulture on the best coastal soils, and by development of waste land.

scholarly journals Multitemporal soil pattern analysis with multispectral remote sensing data at the field-scale

2015 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Blasch ◽  
Daniel Spengler ◽  
Christian Hohmann ◽  
Carsten Neumann ◽  
Sibylle Itzerott ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Pattern Analysis ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Field Scale ◽  
Sensing Data ◽  
Multispectral Remote Sensing ◽  
Soil Pattern

THE SOILS OF OTAGO AND THEIR PROBLEMS

1958 ◽  
pp. 27-40
Author(s):  
J.D. Raeside ◽  
E.J.B. Cutler
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
Soil Resources ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Soil Pattern

The soil resources of Otago present a challenge to agriculture, for, although much has already been done to promote their development through the efforts of the Department of Agriculture and the imaginative and enterprising work of many farmers, their potentialities are still far from exhausted. Hitherto only the best soils of Otago have been developed to a high productive level, and most of the soils are at a stage of development far below their capacity. As agricultural development expands and becomes more diverse limitations imposed by the nature of the soils will become of overriding importance, and the pattern of agriculture will have to be more carefully adjusted to the soil pattern of the province.

The distribution and pedology of soil mosaics, Barossa District, South Australia

Soil Research ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 231
Author(s):  
CB Wells
Keyword(s):  
South Australia ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Parent Material ◽  
Metamorphic Rocks ◽  
Substantial Part ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Normal Expectation ◽  
High Plain ◽  
Soil Pattern ◽  
Soil Groups

Black earths and Australian brown earths occur in ways contrary to normal expectation in the red brown earth zone of southern Australia. The soil pattern is an intimate fine-grained mosaic of the three great soil groups changing within a few yards from one to another in an erosional landscape and quite out of accord with the underlying Precambrian metamorphic rocks. Field studies reported here ascribe the black earths to thin intermittent remnants of a lacustrine Tertiary clay as parent material, and the brown earths to a mixture of the clay with the normal weathering products of the underlying rocks. A substantial part of the evidence for this is derived from their distribution as a horizontal lamina tracing out a contour band in the mid and upper mid slope topography. There is a nice accordance between the elevations of this band and of an adjacent, elevated, dissected black clay plain. The three soils are everywhere found in places which are consistent with the postulate that their parent materials were put there by processes of erosion, dissection, and redistribution of distinctly separate hill and high plain landscapes.

Methane Budget of a Black Forest Spruce Ecosystem Considering Soil Pattern

2005 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Fiedler ◽  
B. S. Höll ◽  
H. F. Jungkunst
Keyword(s):  
Black Forest ◽  
Methane Budget ◽  
Soil Pattern
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