This aerial photograph shows a flat mesa top (dark brown in centre) surrounded by highly dissected colluvial slopes of the Franklin land system. The width of this 2005 image is about 3km. Photo: Landgate Stylised block diagram showing location of land units for the Franklin land system (numbers on diagram represent land units in table below) Table of Franklin land system land units. + Pasture types described in Appendix 1; – Note: Proportions and occurrence of pasture types within land units are subject to change over time due to invasion by native and introduced species, seasonal conditions, fire frequency and grazing management. Approx. Pasture Unit area Landforms Soils Vegetation type+ (%) Snappy gum sparse low Wonorah woodland shallow phase (Eucalyptus brevifolia) - red-brown or stringybark - Gentle slopes 1 10 clay loam with bloodwood woodland SSPP above scarps many (Corymbia ferruginous dichromophloia), both concretions. with soft spinifex (Triodia pungens). Outcrops of Snappy gum sparse low ferruginous, woodland Steep scarps mottled, and (E. brevifolia) with soft 2 2 and upper pallid zones SSPP spinifex (Triodia slopes with pockets pungens) or lancewood of skeletal forest with bare ground. soils. Snappy gum sparse low Moderate Shallow woodland (E. brevifolia) colluvial reddish soils with soft spinifex 3 50 slopes with with much SSPP (Triodia pungens) or many small ferruginous upland tall grass gullies gravel. (Sorghum timorense). Frayne - brown loam Bloodwood - southern Moderate to merging into box woodland 4 25 gentle lower dark red clay; (Corymbia terminalis) TTGP slopes some Argyle - with Tippera tall grass brown (Themeda triandra). cracking clay. 5 10 Valley floors MGAP Cununurra - Mitchell and other
This aerial photograph shows a flat mesa top (dark brown in centre) surrounded by highly dissected colluvial slopes of the Franklin land system. The width of this 2005 image is about 3km. Photo: Landgate Stylised block diagram showing location of land units for the Franklin land system (numbers on diagram represent land units in table below) Table of Franklin land system – land units. + Pasture types described in Appendix 1; Note: Proportions and occurrence of pasture types within land units are subject to change over time due to invasion by native and introduced species, seasonal conditions, fire frequency and grazing management. Unit Approx. area (%) Landforms Soils Vegetation Pasture type+ 1 10 Gentle slopes above scarps Wonorah shallow phase - red-brown clay loam with many ferruginous concretions. Snappy gum sparse low woodland (Eucalyptus brevifolia) or stringybark - bloodwood woodland (Corymbia dichromophloia), both with soft spinifex (Triodia pungens). SSPP 2 2 Steep scarps and upper slopes Outcrops of ferruginous, mottled, and pallid zones with pockets of skeletal soils. Snappy gum sparse low woodland (E. brevifolia) with soft spinifex (Triodia pungens) or lancewood forest with bare ground. SSPP 3 50 Moderate colluvial slopes with many small gullies Shallow reddish soils with much ferruginous gravel. Snappy gum sparse low woodland (E. brevifolia) with soft spinifex (Triodia pungens) or upland tall grass (Sorghum timorense). SSPP 4 25 Moderate to gentle lower slopes Frayne - brown loam merging into dark red clay; some Argyle - brown cracking clay. Bloodwood - southern box woodland (Corymbia terminalis) with Tippera tall grass (Themeda triandra). TTGP 5 10 Valley floors Cununurra - Mitchell and other MGAP