The dataset contains polygons of soils of Kaingaroa Plateau, mapped at 1:100 000. This dataset is compiled from earlier reports by Pullar (1980), Vucetich et al (1960), and Vucetich and Wells (1978). The attributes contain the soil series and the soil classification. No analytical properties of the soil are included.
Source
The Soil Survey was compiled by Rijske. (DSIR, Soil Bureau in 1988).
This map was published in 1988. It was digitised in 1992 and the data were stored in ArcGIS.
NZSC was determined in 2005.
Incidental error correction has been carried out as necessary.
Rights
These data were mapped at 1:100 000 and should not be used at scales greater than this.
Rights
As soil variabliity is usually very high, the polygons in this map are not necessarily pure and so may contain inclusions of other known, and variants of unknown soils.
Coverage
-38.909102 176.064233 -38.252798 176.79242
Format
Shapefile
Identifier
http://lris.scinfo.org.nz/layer/160/
Language
eng
Subject
farming
Subject
environment
Subject
geoscientificInformation
Subject
Soil, Land Resource, Soil Conservation, Land Management, Land Planning
Subject
Franklin County, Waikato, North Island, New Zealand
