Open AccessSOILS OF THE ROTORUA DISTRICT
Author(s) -
I.L. Baumgart
Publication year - 1949
Publication title -
proceedings of the new zealand grassland association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1179-4577
pISSN - 0369-3902
DOI - 10.33584/jnzg.1949.11.931
Subject(s) - soil water , volcanic ash , geology , volcano , geochemistry , earth science , mantle (geology) , soil science
Over the whole of the Central North Island there is a mantle of volcanic ash deposited as a series of showers, each one generally only a few feet thick. Except on the steepest slopes the underlying rock is completely buried, and it is on the ash showers that the soils are formed.