Appendix Two Table 8 (cont) Indigenous Vegetation and Landforms - Stokes Ecosystem Landform Components Geology Remnant Native Past and Potential Vegetation Native Vegetation 3. Moderately steep to Siliceous, weakly Forest Forest steep lowe r hill slop es to strongly Rimu/hard beech-toro- 0-600 m. elevation developed kamahi forest with Halls Marlborough totara, miro. Schist Tawa-mixed broadleaf forest. Kohekohe-mixed broadleaf forest. Mixed broad leaf-mamaku forest. Tauhinu-bracken shrubland. 4. Undulating terraces, Recent alluvium Forest Forest floodplains, fans and from (Kahikatea)/tawa-pukatea Kahikatea-pukatea-nikau asso ciated we tlands and predominantly forest on alluvium. swamp forest. de ltas [e.g; P27/980050, schistose rocks Kanuka forest on alluvium. Kahikatea-pukatea-nikau 970098] swamp forest. 0-20 m. elevation 5. Minor progra din g inlet Recent alluvium Forest - Shrubland Forest - Shru bland heads and fans [eg; P26/ from Kohekohe-mixed broadleaf Matai-titoki-tawa forest. 980110, 030165] predominantly forest. Marsh ribbonwood 0-20 m. elevation schistose rocks; Kanuka forest on alluvium. shrubland. Manuka-cCarex minor swamp Kaikomako-kahikatea- shrub sedgeland. deposits mahoe-tawa forest. Kahikatea-matai-totara- Matai-titoki-tawa forest. tawa-titoki forest. Marsh ribbonwood shrubland. Manuka-Carex shrub sedgeland. 6. Beach ridges and dunes Recent marine Spinifex-pingao duneland [eg; P26/056202] sand and gravel 0-20 m. elevation 7. Minor steep to precipitous Siliceous, weakly Horokaka rockland. Horokaka rockland. eroding se a cliffs to strongly Silver tussock tussock- Silver tussock tussock- 0-100 m. elevation schistose loamfield. loamfield. Marlborough SchistTaupata-wharariki-tauhinu Taupata-wharariki- flax-shrubland tauhinu flax-shrubland. A. The Physical Environment 1. Landforms/Geology Weakly to strongly developed schists with correlated varying degrees of foliation into layers. Schist geology responsible for the blocky nature of some of the hill and mountain slopes and crests. Moderate amounts of alluvium. Ecosystem centred on Mt Stokes massif (1203 m) and the main ridge systems leading off it. Mostly very steep to moderately steep evenly contoured hill and mountain slopes. Bluff landforms common. Unlike surrounding ecosystems, the coastline is not excessively dissected but rather moderately to shallowly incised with several large, deeply indented inlets (Port Gore, Anakoha Bay, Endeavour Inlet). A few large and prominent peninsulas and headlands. Fans and alluvial terraces and floodplains are frequent and well-developed compared with the rest of the Sounds - largely from fluvial deposition off Stokes massif. Some fans truncated by coastal erosion. Infrequent or minor landforms include inter-tidal flats at the heads of major inlets (eg; Anakoha, Kenepuru), islets (Clark, Ouokaha), beaches, and dunes (Titirangi). Dunes are a regionally important landform. App Two - 41