These units are on sedimentary terrain (including colluvial material) and generally have low relief with undulating to rolling topography often with short sharp steeper slopes and some drainage line flats. These units occupy the drier areas of the plateau north and east of Bendoc to the border with New South Wales and Coast Range Road to the east. These units are within the drier component of the climatic (rainfall) gradient, which is evident from the very high rainfall of the Errinundra plateau which generally decreases northward. The soils generally have yellow or brown duplex profiles often with a mottled B horizon. The vegetation where not cleared for pasture includes Montane Sclerophyll Forest, Dry Sclerophyll Forest, Wet Sclerophyll Forest and some Montane Forest and Snow Gum Woodland (Mt. Delegate). Geology: Ou; Ordovician sediments. Black slate, phyllite, shale sandstone. Siltstone, minor schist, hornfels, contact rock, breccia, scree, quartzite. Rainfall: 700-1000 mm per annum. Slope: 1-56%, generally 10-32%. Dominant landform element: Slope. Minor landform element: Drainage depression, open depression. |