Late Cainozoic geology, soils, and landscape evolution of the Torrens Creek area, North Queensland
作者:
R. J. Coventry,
期刊:
Journal of the Geological Society of Australia
(Taylor Available online 1978)
卷期:
Volume 25,
issue 7-8
页码: 415-427
ISSN:0016-7614
年代: 1978
DOI:10.1080/00167617808729051
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
The major features of the geology and geomorphology of the semi‐arid, tropical Torrens Creek area of North Queensland are described. The evolution of the landscape through the late Cainozoic is discussed with reference to three phases of landscape instability and erosion, each separated by phases of stability during which weathering and soil formation proceeded. These erosional periods were probably initiated by episodic uplift of the Great Divide region. Tentative correlations with landscape events in the nearby Nulla Basalt Province suggest that soil profile development probably occurred during late Pliocene (2.3–2.0 m.y. ago), mid‐Pleistocene (1.3–1.1 m.y. ago), and in Quaternary (less than 0.1 m.y. ago) times.
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