Image of unvegetated lake bed (unit 4) of the Snap land system. Photo: DAFWA Stylised plan diagram showing arrangement of land units for the Snap land system (numbers on diagram represent land units in table below) Table of Snap land system land units. + Pasture types described in Appendix 1; * – Numbers refer to Soil Groups of Western Australia (Schoknecht 2002); 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. Pasture Landforms Soils* Vegetation area type+ (%) Fringing Red deep sandplains and Hummock sands (445), gently 1 10 lunettes: grasslands of SSPP Red sandy sloping sandy Triodia pungens. earths (463). margins. Woodlands of Eucalyptus victrix Swampy Probably with tussock depressions and sandy grasses such as RGRP 70% 2 20 plains: subject to duplexes (400) Chrysopogon fallax SSPP 30% occasional and sandy and hummock flooding. earths (460). grasses such as Triodia pungens. Scattered E. victrix Probably with tussock sandy Drainage tracts grasses such as duplexes (400) RGRP 60% 3 10 with minor Chrysopogon fallax with minor SSPP 40% channels and hummock non-cracking grasses such as clays (620). Triodia pungens. Various wet Lake beds and soils, including pans: subject to Saline wet 4 60 No vegetation. XXNP occasional soils (101) and inundation. Salt lake soil (102). Satellite image of Snap land system clearing showing the lake beds and pans (unit 4), and fringing plains and lunettes (units 1 and 2). The linear dunes of Camelgooda land system are visible to the north and south-west of the lakes. Width of this image is about 3km. Image: Google Earth
Image of unvegetated lake bed (unit 4) of the Snap land system. Photo: DAFWA Stylised plan diagram showing arrangement of land units for the Snap land system (numbers on diagram represent land units in table below) Table of Snap land system – land units. + Pasture types described in Appendix 1; * Numbers refer to Soil Groups of Western Australia (Schoknecht 2002); 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. area (%) Landforms Soils* Vegetation Pasture type+ 1 10 Fringing sandplains and lunettes: gently sloping sandy margins. Red deep sands (445), Red sandy earths (463). Hummock grasslands of Triodia pungens. SSPP 2 20 Swampy depressions and plains: subject to occasional flooding. Probably sandy duplexes (400) and sandy earths (460). Woodlands of Eucalyptus victrix with tussock grasses such as Chrysopogon fallax and hummock grasses such as Triodia pungens. RGRP 70% SSPP 30% 3 10 Drainage tracts with minor channels Probably sandy duplexes (400) with minor non-cracking clays (620). Scattered E. victrix with tussock grasses such as Chrysopogon fallax and hummock grasses such as Triodia pungens. RGRP 60% SSPP 40% 4 60 Lake beds and pans: subject to occasional inundation. Various wet soils, including Saline wet soils (101) and Salt lake soil (102). No vegetation. XXNP Satellite image of Snap land system clearing showing the lake beds and pans (unit 4), and fringing plains and lunettes (units 1 and 2). The linear dunes of Camelgooda land system are visible to the north and south-west of the lakes. Width of this image is about 3km. Image: Google Earth