The Face of Australia: The Shaping of a Continent |
Contents
The Australian Landscape | 1 |
By Way of Explanation | 6 |
The Bush Comes to Australia | 13 |
Copyright | |
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ancient Barrier Reef basalt basin beds belt beneath Blue Mountains bush Cambrian caves centre channel cliffs climate coast coral crater Cretaceous deep deposited depth Devonian dunes east eastern elevation erosion escarpment eucalypts fault feet above sea feet high flows folded formations fossils geological glacial glaciers gorges granite Gulf Harbour height highlands hills Island jungle Kimberleys Lake Lake Eyre land landscape lava limestone mainland mallee margins masses miles million years ago nearly northern Nullarbor Plain ocean Ordovician original peaks Permian pines plants plateau Pleistocene Port Jackson present Proterozoic quartzite Queensland rain forest rainfall Range ridge rising River rocks rocky sand sandstone scenery scrub sea level shales shallow shore side slopes soil South Australia South Wales southern species Stirling Range streams subsidence summit surface Tasmania Tertiary Period topography trees tropical valleys vertical Victoria Vincent Gulf volcanic volcanoes Western Australia Yilgarnia