265

Site number:

265

Authors:

IBC, GGC

Date recorded:

1969/12/29

Reason Sampled:

Salts examination

Description:

From a saddle on a range to the north of the Cox Peaks, approximately 11.5km east of Mt Crockett

Altitude:

1450 m

Aspect:

Slope:

0 °

Climate

Soil climate zone:

Central Mountain

Estimated mean annual temperature:

-35 °C

Frozen ground depth:

0 cm

Frozen type:

Frozen comment:

Geology

Geological setting:

A granite outcrop with scattered dark coloured rocks

Patterned ground:

Nil

Surface weathering or surface features:

The soil is not strongly weathered but salts are present and occur as encrustations especially beneath dark coloured rocks

Soil

Soil parent material:

Weathering granite and dark coloured rocks

Previous disturbance:

Nil

Soil weathering stage:

6

Soil moisture status:

Biological activity:

Nil observed