After the greening: the browning of Australia
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| ISBN: | 086417585X |
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| adam_text | AFTER
THE
GREENING
The Browning of Australia
MARY E WHITE
Kangaroo Press
CONTENTS
PREFACE:
VoyagesofExplorationandDiscovery10
INTRODUCTION:
RIFTING,DRIFTINGandDRYING
TheMakingoftheWideBrownLand13
An Eye-in-the-Sky View of Australia 15
PARTONE:
RIFTING
HowAUSTRALIAWASFREED
FROMGONDWANA
INTRODUCTION:
THEMAKINGandBREAKINGof
SUPERCONTINENTS18
The 400-million Year Cycles of Supercontinent
Building and Fragmentation Earth Monster 22, 23
CHAPTERONE:
STRETCHING
RiftingBegins,byContinentalExtension,in
theftirassicandEarlyCretaceous
160to96millionyearsago25
New Zealand — The Largely Submarine Subcontinent
The Great Artesian Basin 36
Mound-Springs 32
CHAPTERTWO:
RIFTINGbySEA-FLOOR
SPREADING
IntheLateCretaceousandEarlyTertiary
96to50millionyearsago41
The Great Divide and the Great Escarpment 45
CHAPTERTHREE:
THEFORESTSOFGONDWANA
TheLateCretaceoustoPalaeoceneFloraof
SouthernLands96to58millionyearsago47
Africa — South America — Antarctica
—New Zealand 47-51
The Late Cretaceous Flora
of the Antarctica-Australia Rift 51
Flora of the Palaeocene and Early Eocene
in Australia 54
CHAPTERFOUR:
WORN-OUTSOILS,
HARDCAPSandINVERTED
LANDSCAPES
DeepWeatheringandthe
FormationofDuricrusts57
Precious Opal 62
CHAPTERFIVE:
RIVERSBEHEADED,BROKEN
andBENT
ALegacyofRifting67
Rivers of Western Australia and the
Southern Margin of Australia 68
Rivers and Palaeodrainage of Southeastern Australia 69
East Coast Rivers Modified by Rifting 73
Rivers of Northern Australia 73
Rifting Completed — The Drifting Begins 73
8AFTERTHEGREENING
PARTTWO:
DRIFTING
CHAPTERTEN:
ADAPTORMIGRATE
TheChoiceforMiocenePlantsandAnimals
237to53millionyearsago120
CHAPTERELEVEN:
COUNTDOWNTOANICEAGE
TheEarlyandMiddlePliocene
53to24millionyearsago125
INTRODUCTION:
CONTRASTSINSOUTH
AUSTRALIA SDESERT
CoolGreenForestsLockedinHotDesert
Rocks76
CHAPTERSIX:
FLAMETREESILLUMINATETHE
WARMWETFORESTS
TheIslandContinent sOriginal
GondwananFlora78
The Nelly Creek Flora 78
The Stuart Creek Silcrete Flora 85
Other South Australian Silcrete Fossil Localities 90
The Golden Grove Fossil Locality 90
Plants of Anglesea (Victoria)
and Nerriga (N SW) 81
CHAPTERSEVEN:
AUSTRALIAADRIFTINTHE
GOLDENAGE EOCENE
45to38millionyearsago93
Ayers Rock and The Olgas 100
History of the Nullarbor 103
CHAPTEREIGHT:
ACOOLER,DRIERAUSTRALIAIN
THEOLIGOCENE
366to237millionyearsago106
Oligocene, Miocene and Pliocene Vegetation
of New Zealand 110
CHAPTERNINE:
THESWINGINGMIOCENE
FromWarmandWettoCold,DryandFiery
237to53millionyearsago112
The Refrigeration of Antarctica 115
Hominid Evolution and Miocene Climatic Change 118
PARTTHREE:
DRYING
FROM24MILLIONYEARSAGO
TOTODAY
INTRODUCTION:
ICEAGEAUSTRALIA134
CHAPTERTWELVE:
HOWAUSTRALIACHANGED
INANINCREASINGLY
ICEHOUSEWORLD
LatePliocenetoEarlyPleistocene
24millionto700,000yearsago137
CHAPTERTHIRTEEN:
BIOTASONTHEICEAGESEE-SAW
MiddlePleistocenetothestartoftheLast
GlacialCycle
700,000to130,000yearsago145
CHAPTERFOURTEEN:
ONTHESLIDETOWARDTHELAST
GLACIALMAXIMUM
130,000to18,000yearsago151
The History of Lake Mungo
and the other Willandra Lakes 159
CONTENTS9
CHAPTERFIFTEEN:
ALANDOFDRIFTINGSAND
Nitre Bush — Nitraria billardieri 167
CHAPTERSIXTEEN:
THEWIDEST,WIDEBROWNLAND
18,000toIS,000yearsago — TheLast
GlacialMaximum170
• CHAPTERSEVENTEEN:
DESCENTFROMTHEGLACIAL
PEAK
14,000yearsagotothePresent174
Henbury Meteorite Craters 181
CHAPTEREIGHTEEN:
DROUGHTANDFLOODINGRAIN
ENSOcallsthetune183
CHAPTERNINETEEN:
FIRE — IRREGULARAND
INEVITABLE188
CHAPTERTWENTY:
SALT — DESERTMADEAND
DESERTMAKER194
PARTFOUR: —
UNBALANCING
THEBIOTA
200YEARSOFCHANGE
INTRODUCTION202
CHAPTERTWENTY-ONE:
ACONTINENTDOMINATEDBY
TWOGENERA
EucalyptusandAcacia207
C-H APTER TWENTY-TWO:
MULGA,MALLEEandSPINIFEX
TheArid-landTrinity210
A Living Duricrust 213
CHAPTERTWENTY-THREE:
ECOSYSTEMSATRISKFROM
GRAZING
TheChenopodShrublandsandtheTussock
Grasslands227
CHAPTERTWENTY-FOUR:
THEMONSOONALSUMMER
RAINFALLLANDSOFTHENORTH
CHAPTERTWENTY-FIVE:
OPENFORESTSANDWOODLANDS
Brigalow — Going, going, almost gone! 241
CHAPTERTWENTY-SIX:
RAINFORESTS242
CHAPTERTWENTY-SEVEN:
SCRUB-HEATHS,HEATHLANDSand
COASTALVEGETATION246
CHAPTERTWENTY-EIGHT:
OUTOFCONTROL — THEFERAL
PROBLEM251
CHAPTERTWENTY-NINE:
TURNINGTHEISLAND
CONTINENTINTO
ADESERTISLAND262
THELASTPAGE:
IF 265
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS5
GLOSSARY266
REFERENCES269
INDEX:Maps,Diagrams,Charts,
Graphs279
INDEX280
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