Byron Flora and Fauna Study 1999 - Byron Shire Council

BYRON FLORA AND FAUNA STUDY, 1999
Appendix 1
Soil landscape mapping units, with definitions
and areas
(following Morand 1994,1996)
Geology Map Description Area (ha)
group
code
Basalt bg Bangalow - low rolling hills on basalt 5239.08
cab Carool - steep forested basalt caps over ‘bu’ and ‘bi’ soil landscapes 54.80
co Coolamon - very steep slopes on Lismore basalt 1131.61
ew Ewingsdale - Lismore basalts, low to undulating hills 3892.03
mb Mount Burrel - Lismore basalts, steep hills forming footslopes 769.82
ni Nightcap - Blue Knob basalt - steep mountain tops 1084.24
ro Rosebank - Lismore basalts - rolling low hills and hills 12424.82
wo Wollongbar - Lismore basalt - low to gently undulating to rolling rises
and hills on plateau surfaces 1516.11
woa Wollongbar - Lismore basalt - moderately broad to broad crests
and ridges 649.50
Total basalt 26762.00
Metamorphic bi Billinudgel - low rolling hills on metasediments 3944.24
bia Billinudgel - metasediments forming footslopes 325.08
bu Burringbar - metamorphics high rolling to steep slopes 4696.90
bua Burringbar - metamorphics steep to very steep slopes 380.96
Total metamorphic 9347.18
Rhyolite fh Frogs Hollow - Chillingham volcanics, steep hills 695.82
mi Minyon - rhyolite - plateau tops of rolling hills 1580.40
mic Minyon - rhyolite, level to gently inclined undulating rises with
depressions 165.11
nr Nimbin Rhyolite - cliffs and scarps of Nimbin Rhyolite overlying rhyolite
and Lismore basalt 1391.43
nra Nimbin Rocks - Nimbin rhyolite, precipitous scarps 1219.46
Total rhyolite 5052.21
Aeolian bo Bogangar - very disturbed outer barrier dune 45.12
br Black Rock - aeolian, low to gently undulating beach ridge plains 1049.60
bra Black Rock - extensive sand sheet, possibly Holocene 218.97
eba East Ballina - Pleistocene dunes - overlying barrier sands and
deltaic alluvium 108.33
kib Kingscliff - Pleistocene sands, sand sheets overlying peat and alluvium 103.12
po Pottsville - Pleistocene sand sheets and dunes, poorly drained
depressions 287.05
ty Tyagarah - sediment basins of mixed estuarine and aeolian origin
- level to gently undulating plains 3233.53
wy Wooyung - Pleistocene sands - level to gently undulating
transgressive dunes 27.58
Total aeolian 5073.29
Rhyolite/basalt nrc Nimbin Rocks - cliff footslopes and footslopes, incising Nimbin
Rhyolite and underlying Lismore basalt 1664.72
Total rhyolite/basalt 1664.72
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