Neil D. Burgess, Paul Harrison, Peter Sumbi, James Laizer, Adam ...
Neil D. Burgess, Paul Harrison, Peter Sumbi, James Laizer, Adam ...
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SPATIAL PLANNING BASELINE: TANZANIA’S COASTAL FORESTS 2011<br />
Figure 13: Forest areas on the Mbwalawala and Uchungwa Plateaux in Kilwa district, also showing<br />
the location of the bioshape biofuel plantation areas (Perkin et al. 2008c – using data provided by<br />
Sokoine University and Conservation International)<br />
3.8 Lindi Landscape<br />
The landscape includes a narrow coastal plain, rising in a series of sandstone ridges that run more or less<br />
parallel to the coast. The lowland areas have deep, leached sandy soils derived from terrestrial sands,<br />
gravels, calcretes and laterites of Miocene to Pleistocene age (Perkin et al. 2008c).<br />
The Rondo, Noto, Chitoa, Mputwa and Likonde plateaus are composed of soft friable Miocene sands and<br />
the smooth tops of these plateaus appear to be remnants of an ancient rolling Miocene surface that is<br />
being eroded away through a process of retreating scarp erosion (<strong>Burgess</strong> and Clarke 2000). Small<br />
patches of forest are located on and around these plateaus, as well as near the coast.<br />
The altitude of the landscape ranges from 0 m-asl at the coast to 900 m-asl on the western side of the<br />
Rondo plateau. The Noto Plateau extends up to 534 m and the Chitoa plateau extends up to 260 m.<br />
Table 14: Summary of forest reserves in the Rondo Landscape<br />
Forest<br />
Reserves<br />
Area Status Altitude<br />
(m)<br />
Vegetation types<br />
Reference<br />
Chitoa 770* CGFR 240-420 Dry evergreen forest, riverine Clarke (1995),
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