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Table 3. Physiographic groups, soil types, selected soil properties and land uses in Aceh Barat District (Adapted from Land Unit and Soil Map
of Takengon Sheet ( 0520), Sumatra, Puslittanah dan Agroklimat, 1990).
Physiographic
Groups
Sub-groups Soils Soil depth, acidity, texture Land Use
Alluvial
Hydraquents,
Deep - very deep, slightly acid, fine Rice field, aqua culture, swamps
Plain(transition to Endoaquepts,
marine)
Endoaquents
Flood Plain Endoaquepts
Deep-very deep, slightly acid - neutral, Rice field, shrubs/ bushes
Alluvial
Endoaquents
slightly coarse - fine
(fine to coarse
Fluventic Eutrudepts
sediments)
River Terraces Dystrudepts,
Deep - very deep, acid - neutral, slightly fine Rice field, settlement, upland agriculture
Fluventic Eutrudepts
Endoaquepts
- fine
Back swamp Endoaquepts
Endoaquents
Very deep, acid, fine Forest, shrubs/ bushes
Beach ridge and Udipsamments
Deep - very deep, neutral, slightly coarse – Coconut garden, settlement, rice field,
swale
Hydraquents
peaty
shrubs/bushes
Hydraquents
Very deep, neutral, slightly coarse - fine Shrubs/bushes, forest, swampy forest
Tidal Plain
Sulfaquents
Endoaquepts
Marine
(fine to coarse
sediments)
Estuary plain
Coastal Plain
Fluvaquents
Fluvaquents,
Halaquepts,
Udi Psamments
Very deep, neutral, slightly coarse - fine
Very deep, neutral, slightly coarse – slightly
Mangrove forest, swampy bushes
Pond, settlement, rice field, shrubs/bushes
Endoaquepts,
Eutrudepts
fine
Marine Terraces Dystrudepts,
Deep – very deep, acid - neutral, slightly Upland agriculture, mixed garden
Eutrudepts
Endoaquepts
fine
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