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Title: | Survey of the Cape Midlands and Karroo regions |
Author: | Badenhorst, J.J. |
Year: | 1970 |
Pages: | 118 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | Grahamstown |
Publisher: | Rhodes University, Institute of Social & Economic Research |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | land use agricultural land irrigation physical geography |
Abstract: | A geographical study with special reference to the physiography and elements of land use, made to provide a factual foundation for development planning in anticipation of the completion of the Orange River diversion project. Preface. 1. Elements of physiography and their relation to land use: situation and extent - Relief - Geology - Soil - Climate - Vegetation. 2. Agricultural land use: Chorographic analysis (Stock rearing; Agriculture) - Chorometric analysis. 3. Irrigation (The Orange river project and existing schemes; Minor schemes) - Summary and conclusions. |