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PART 1 - The Environmental Factors
1.1 Introduction
T.E. Baker
Physiographic |
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The Coast Mountains and Islands |
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The Interior |
3 |
The Columbia Mountains and Southern Rockies |
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The Northern and Central Plateaus and Mountains |
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The Great Plains |
Soils and man are products of their environment. Man inherits many
of his characteristics from his parents and soils also reflect in their
appearance and in the way they function the influence of the parent
materials from which they have developed. Changes in the environment
also cause differences to develop. All these factors result in the different
soils and people we find. Therefore, we can think of soils as individuals.
It is important to know what they are like and how they behave within
a given environment.
To gain this understanding it is best to consider separately the components
which make up the soil environment. Part 1 of this report gives basic
information about climate, geology, physiography and vegetation. The
remainder of the text describes the types of soils and regional soil
landscapes that are found within British Columbia. The province has
been divided into five regions based primarily on physiographic divisions
as defined by S.S. Holland in a 1964 publication on the Landforms of
British Columbia (B.C. Dept. Mines and Pet. Res. Bull. 48). These five
physiographic regions are shown in Figure 1.1.1.
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