Urban Capability Study: South West Tumut
This study covers an area of 140 hectares immediately southwest of the present town of Tumut.
Publisher: Soil Conservation Service of N.S.W.
Cost: Free
Language: English
File: PDF 2.25 MB / Pages 0
Name: urban-capability-study-south-west-tumut.pdf
The soils are derived from Blowering porphyry, Silurian sediments, and metamorphic rocks from the contact zone of these two geological groups. They have been mapped as four basic units.
On the ridges the soils are derived from Silurian sediments, they are highly erodible and shallow.
The drainage lines contain colluvial soils and one small area of heavy black soil of high plasticity.
The soils formed on Blowering porphyry are deeper, red podsolic soils of moderate erodibility.