SOME SARAWAK SOILS

Published Date
First published: September 1961

Author

• T. W. W. WOOD,

• P. H. T. BECKETT

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2389.1961.tb00912.x

II. SOILS OF THE BINTULU COASTAL AREA

The sub-mature landscape of the country rock (Miocene fine sandstones and shales) along the coast north of Bintulu gives rise under a mean annual rainfall of 150 in. to highly leached yellow soils, comparable to Kellogg's Red-Yellow Latosols, associated with lowland Dipterocarp rain forest. Areas of level or nearly level coarse-textured marine or estuarine deposits marking successive stages of the fall in sea-level during the Pleistocene are associated with ground-water podzols supporting various forms of the characteristic kerangas forest, which give rise to ‘blackwater’ streams

Citing Literature

• Number of times cited: 1

1. 1Daisuke Hattori, John Sabang, Sota Tanaka, Joseph Jawa Kendawang, Ikuo Ninomiya, Katsutoshi Sakurai, Soil Characteristics under Three Vegetation Types Associated with Shifting Cultivation in a Mixed Dipterocarp Forest in Sarawak, Malaysia, Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 2005, 51, 2, 231

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