The Lake Eyre Basin: Cainozoic Sediments, Fossil Vertebrates and Plants, Landforms, Silcretes, and Climatic ImplicationsR. A. Callen |
Contents
CONTRIBUTORS | 6 |
LAKE EYRE AND BIRDSVILLE BASINS | 16 |
MidTertiary arenites | 29 |
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aeolian ancestral river basal beach ridges beds Birdsville Basin Callen carbonate cemented clasts clay claystone cliff Cooper Creek correlation Cretaceous cross-bedded Diprotodon Diprotodontidae dolomite drainage Dulhunty dune field Eocene Etadunna Formation Eyre Formation Eyre North facies Fauna fluvial fluviatile Frome Goyder Channel grey groundwater gypcrete gypsite gypsum Kanunka Katipiri Formation Kutjitara Formation lacustrine Lake Eyre Basin Lake Eyre South Lake Palankarinna Lake Torrens laminated lithology longitudinal dunes Macropodidae Madigan Gulf mammal Mampuwordu Sand margin Marree meander belt Mesozoic Miocene mounds mudstone Muloorina Ngapakaldi nodules northern outcrop overlain overlying Paleocene playa Pleistocene Poole Creek present Prior streams quartz Quaternary region saline Sandstone sequence shale shoreline silcrete silcrete floras silcrete pebbles silica silicified silt Simpson Desert South Australia southern Stirton strandline STRATIGRAPHIC UNIT Stuart Creek Tedford Tirari Desert Tirari Formation Warburton River Watchie Sandstone Waterhole Willalinchina Sandstone Willouran Ranges Wipajiri Formation Woodburne Wopfner