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Table 3

Characteristics of the soil units in study area

Soil unit	Characteristics
NW 05	Undulating to rolling high plateaux and bench terraces on basalt at the edge of the escarpment, mostly covered by deep or medium-deep colluvium
NW 11	rolling plain mod. deep to deep colluvium; some cracking clay
NW 13	steep-sided valleys; long, mass-movement slopes; very diverse soils and much deep colluvium
NW 14	rounded ridge crests and upper convex slopes on limestone: shallow and stony soils, with associated pockets of deep colluvium
NW 19	strongly rolling terrain: convex upper slopes and interfluves: shallow to moderately steep, stony colluvium cover
NW 21	steep-sided minor valleys and convex upper slopes; shallow and stony colluvium
NW 22	Plateaux at the top of the escarpment, and convex upper slopes mostly rocky and shallow, but some deep colluvial pockets
NW 30	undulating plains, deep colluvial/aeolian mantle weathered to cracking clays
NW 37	low limestone hillocks at the edge of the plain and pockets of deep colluvium
YAR	stony to very stony clay loam, clay and silty clay loam

Soil unit	Characteristics
NW 05	Undulating to rolling high plateaux and bench terraces on basalt at the edge of the escarpment, mostly covered by deep or medium-deep colluvium
NW 11	rolling plain mod. deep to deep colluvium; some cracking clay
NW 13	steep-sided valleys; long, mass-movement slopes; very diverse soils and much deep colluvium
NW 14	rounded ridge crests and upper convex slopes on limestone: shallow and stony soils, with associated pockets of deep colluvium
NW 19	strongly rolling terrain: convex upper slopes and interfluves: shallow to moderately steep, stony colluvium cover
NW 21	steep-sided minor valleys and convex upper slopes; shallow and stony colluvium
NW 22	Plateaux at the top of the escarpment, and convex upper slopes mostly rocky and shallow, but some deep colluvial pockets
NW 30	undulating plains, deep colluvial/aeolian mantle weathered to cracking clays
NW 37	low limestone hillocks at the edge of the plain and pockets of deep colluvium
YAR	stony to very stony clay loam, clay and silty clay loam

Source(s): Table by authors, Ministry of Agriculture (1993)