PERTH
Bunbury
Albany
I N D I A N
O C E A N
S O U T H E R N O C E A N
Reference Projection:
Grid:
Source data:
Date:
114°00'00" E
34°00'00" S
114°00'00" E
34°00'00" S
120°00'00" E 120°00'00" E
30°00'00" S
LEGEND
Geraldton
Esperance
Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994 Universal Transverse Mercator Zone 50
Natural Resources Assessment Group SOILS WITH SHALLOW WATERTABLES
(Based on proportional allocation of soil groups to mapping units, November 2002)
130°00'00" E
30°00'00" S20°00'00" S 20°00'00" S
14°00'00" S 14°00'00" S
128°00'00" E
Saline watertables Tidal
Salt lakes and saline wet soils
Calcareous Non-calcareous
SHALLOW SOILS
Red shallow sands and loams GRAVELLY SOILS
Sandy/loamy and shallow DEEP SANDY SOILS
Calcareous
Non-calcareous
Yellow and pale Red
DEEP SANDY AND SANDY EARTH SOILS Red
Yellow/pale LOAMY EARTH SOILS
Red loamy earths (some red sands, red loamy duplexes & gravels) Calcareous earths and red loamy earths
Red/brown hardpan shallow loam and red loams
Red/brown hardpan shallow loam and red sands
Shallow calcareous loams (and calcareous loamy earths) Yellow (and pale) loamy earths ROCKY OR STONY SOILS
(with shallow sands/loams)
TEXTURE CONTRAST SOILS Sandy and loamy duplexes
Red Grey/yellow
CLAYEY SOILS Cracking clays
Non-cracking clays Red/brown non-cracking clays with loamy earths Red/brown non-cracking clays with red sands
November 2002
0 500 kilometres
Land system mapping (rangelands), Atlas of Australian Soils
100 100 200 300 400
Kununurra
Kalgoorlie Southern Cross
Carnarvon
Meekatharra Newman Karratha
Port Hedland
Broome
Derby
Boundary of Agricultural Area
AGRICULTURAL AREA (See Characteristic Soils of
South-Western Australia)
