This product is a useful resource for anyone wishing to gain a better understanding of the natural environment. It is an inventory of the soil and landscape features covered by the Penrith 1:100,000 map sheet and identifies major soil and landscape limitations to development.
It uses soil landscapes – areas of land with unique landform features containing a characteristic set of soils – to identify, map and describe soils, land capabilities, constraints and hazards, and provides recommendations for land and soil management.
Available formats:
- Access online using eSPADE.
- Download the map, report or GIS shapefiles from SEED
- Purchase a hard-copy map
Note: Hard-copy report (no longer available) and digital disc format is discontinued.
Visit our website for further information about soils and land degradation in NSW, soil and landscape mapping and systems.
Authors: Bannerman, S.M. and Hazelton, P.A. (report); Bannerman, S.M., Hazelton, P.A. and Tille, P.J. (map)
Book ISBN: 9781742329178 | 140 pages | Edition 1 - digital reprint (2011) | A4 (reprint edition)
Map: Edition 1 -reprint (2010) | A1 Landscape| Folded
Publishers: NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (report); NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (map)
This mapping product belongs to the Soil Landscape Series. Other related products are also available through this site.