2018, ISBN: 1332309119

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Paperback, [EAN: 9781332309115], Forgotten Books, Forgotten Books, Book, [PU: Forgotten Books], 2018-02-25, Forgotten Books, Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. 25 The physical features of the country forming the "foot," or southern portions of Yorke Peninsula, are very singular and interesting. Taking the latitude of Stansbury as a northern limit, the district includes the Hundreds of Dalrymple, Melville, Moorowie, Parawurlie, Coonarie, Carribie, and Warrenben, extending about forty miles by twenty miles, or an area of 800 square miles. Throughout this considerable extent of country there are no rivers or running streams, and, consequently, the drainage of the land finds no outlet to the sea. Under such conditions it follows, as a matter of course, that the inland centres of drainage become the repositories of saline deposits from the concentrated mineral substances in the waters, but there are special features pertaining to the physiography and geology of the country which makes the origin of the lagoons a subject of considerable interest. The unusual feature of hundreds of saucer-shaped depressions, irregularly scattered over most of the country named, have to be accounted for. The official maps, on a scale of one inch to the mile, record no less than 200 within the district, but the maps do not include a vast number of minor depressions which are frequently met with in travelling through the country, and which may or may not contain saline deposits. In a recent visit to the locality I observed many such areas, which do not rank as lagoons; they receive but little drainage, and the bottom, instead of being a lake, support a saliferous flora. Whatever may have caused these remarkable superficial depressions, it is evident they have had a common origin, and the agency that has produced these results must have operated over a wide extent of country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important histo, 277972, Animal Sciences, 277975, Animal Rights, 277976, Behaviour, 277990, Birds, 922098, Butterflies, 278393, Dinosaurs, 922206, Extinction & Endangered Species, 922118, Habitats, 922102, Insects & Spiders, 277978, Invertebrates, 277993, Mammals, 922106, Marine Life, 277986, Physiology, 922096, Reference, 922116, Reptiles & Amphibians, 277988, Vertebrates, 277912, Biological Sciences, 57, Science & Nature, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books<

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Paperback, [PU: Forgotten Books], Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. 25 The physical features of the country forming the "… More...

Paperback, [PU: Forgotten Books], Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. 25 The physical features of the country forming the "foot," or southern portions of Yorke Peninsula, are very singular and interesting. Taking the latitude of Stansbury as a northern limit, the district includes the Hundreds of Dalrymple, Melville, Moorowie, Parawurlie, Coonarie, Carribie, and Warrenben, extending about forty miles by twenty miles, or an area of 800 square miles. Throughout this considerable extent of country there are no rivers or running streams, and, consequently, the drainage of the land finds no outlet to the sea. Under such conditions it follows, as a matter of course, that the inland centres of drainage become the repositories of saline deposits from the concentrated mineral substances in the waters, but there are special features pertaining to the physiography and geology of the country which makes the origin of the lagoons a subject of considerable interest. The unusual feature of hundreds of saucer-shaped depressions, irregularly scattered over most of the country named, have to be accounted for. The official maps, on a scale of one inch to the mile, record no less than 200 within the district, but the maps do not include a vast number of minor depressions which are frequently met with in travelling through the country, and which may or may not contain saline deposits. In a recent visit to the locality I observed many such areas, which do not rank as lagoons; they receive but little drainage, and the bottom, instead of being a lake, support a saliferous flora. Whatever may have caused these remarkable superficial depressions, it is evident they have had a common origin, and the agency that has produced these results must have operated over a wide extent of country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.<

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2015, ISBN: 1332309119

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