The Face of Australia: The Shaping of a Continent |
Contents
The Bush Comes to Australia | 14 |
The Bush Becomes Australian | 28 |
Ancient Lands of the West | 42 |
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ancient Barrier Reef basalt beds belt beneath Blue Mountains bush Cambrian caves cliffs climate coast coastal coral covered crater Cretaceous deep deposited depth dunes east eastern elevation Epoch erosion escarpment eucalypts fault feet above sea feet high Flinders Range flows formations fossils geological glacial gorges granite Gulf Harbour height high land hills Ice Age ice sheet islands jungle Kimberleys Lake Lake Eyre landscape lava limestone lower mallee marine masses miles narrow nearly northern Nullarbor Plain ocean peaks Permian pines plants plateau Pleistocene Port Jackson present probably quartzite Queensland rainfall Range region ridge rift valleys rising River rocks rocky sand sandstone scenery scrub sea level shale shallow shore side slopes South Australia South Wales southern species Stirling Range streams subsidence summit surface tableland Tasmania Tertiary Period topography trees tropical vertical Victoria Vincent Gulf volcanic Western Australia Yilgarnia