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HamiltonTe kaunihera o Kirikiriroa

City Council

Hamilton Soil Map

for Road Reserve Planting

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Wairere Drive

Tramway Road

Proposed E1 - to be built

State Highway 26

State Highway 1

Western Corridor

Cobham Drive

State Highway 3

State Highway 1

Minor Arterials, Collector

& State Highways

& Local Roads

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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State Highway 23

LAKE ROTOROA

SOIL LEGEND ARRANGED PHYSIOGRAPHICALLY

SOILS OF THE LOW ROLLING HILLS

Kainui silt loam

Hamilton clay loam

Ohaupo silt loam

Rotokauri clay loam

Rotokauri clay loam, very gentle sloping phase

SOILS OF THE PLAIN

Te Kowhai silt loam and clay loam

Te Kowhai peaty clay loam

Horotiu sandy loam

Horotiu mottled sandy loam

Horotiu sandy clay loam

Horotiu sand

Horotiu sand with gravels

Te Rapa peaty loam

Te Rapa peaty sandy loam

Te Rapa peaty sand

Kaipaki peaty loam and loamy peat

Rukuhia peat

Tamahere gravelly sand (on Horotiu soils)

SOILS OF THE LOW RIVER TERRACES

Waikato loamy sand, and sandy loam

Tamahere gravelly sand (on Waikato soils)

SOILS OF THE GULLY BOTTOMS

Tamahana soils

SOILS OF THE TERRACE SCARPS AND GULLY SIDES

Kirikiriroa complex

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DESIGN SERVICES

Major Arterials, Major Roads

Soil survey by J.G. Bruce, Soil Bureau, Department of Scientific

and Industrial Research, Hamilton, 1962.

Includes an earlier survey by C.F. Sutherland, Soil Bureau, Department of

Scientific and Industrial Research, Hamilton, 1956.

Base data from Hamilton City Council and Department of Lands and Survey.

Published by the Department of Scientific and Industrial

Research, Wellington, New Zealand, 1979.

Copyright granted to Hamilton City Council for reproduction of

"Soil Map for Hamilton City"

by Landcare Research. December 2006.

KEY

SOIL LEGEND ARRANGED PEDOLOGICALLY

COMPOSITE YELLOW-BROWN EARTHS OVER BROWN GRANDULAR LOAMS

-from loess over tephra (Hamilton Ash)

Kainui series

YELLOW-BROWN PUMICE SOILS

-from rhyolitic alluvium (Taupo Pumice Alluvium)

Waikato series

STEEPLAND SOILS RELATED TO YELLOW-BROWN LOAMS

-from rhyolitic alluvium (Hinuera Formation) mainly

Kirikiriroa series

BROWN GRANDULAR LOAMS

-from tephra (Hamilton Ash)

Hamilton series

ORGANIC SOILS

-from peat

Kaipaki series

Ruakuhia series

GLEY SOILS

-from tephric colluvium

Rotokauri series

-from pumiceous alluvium and thin peat layers

Te Rapa series

-from pumiceous silts and clays

Te Kowhia series

RECENT SOILS

-from alluvium and organic debris

Tamahana series

MAN-MADE SOILS

-from ’transported’ alluvium an on pre-existing soils

Tamahere series

YELLOW-BROWN LOAMS

-from rhyolitic alluvium (Hinuera Formation)

Horotiu series

-from tephra (’Mairoa ash beds)

Ohaupo series