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Ground Description
Ground Description
Ground Description
1
Soils of Land Complex 1 and 5 generally make up almost half
of the total land surface covering 28 840 hectares and
represents the land of geographically recent lava flows.
Land unit 5.4 comprises almost flat and gently undulating land
with comparatively less strongly-marked terrain features.
Hummocks are of low relief and have smooth form resulting
from the moderate degree of weathering on Late Lavas of
intermediate age and more readily weatherable scoriaceous
basalts extruded in thin flow. The soils are mostly moderately
shallow to shallow Latosolic Brown Forest which in places trend
in having greater depth and lower content of rock fragments. At
the other extreme they become quite stony and boulder. Most of
this land unit was under cultivation to tea and sugar cane
and particularly on the south eastern inland slopes. The soil
stratigraphy will be revealed by
trial pits excavated in consultation with Wastewater management
Authority.