Author: Walter Edmund Roth
Publisher:
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Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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details of manufacture - koolamons, native chisels (throughout N.W.

Author: Jenny Milson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780734500830
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Author: Jenny Milson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780734500823
Category : Arid regions plants
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Author: Di Perkins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646301198
Category : Queensland
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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Category : Queensland, Northwestern
Languages : en
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Author: John A. Talent
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048134285
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1104

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This volume focuses on the broad pattern of increasing biodiversity through time, and recurrent events of minor and major ecosphere reorganization. Intense scrutiny is devoted to the pattern of physical (including isotopic), sedimentary and biotic circumstances through the time intervals during which life crises occurred. These events affected terrestrial, lacustrine and estuarine ecosystems, locally and globally, but have affected continental shelf ecosystems and even deep ocean ecosystems. The pattern of these events is the backdrop against which modelling the pattern of future environmental change needs to be evaluated.

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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 662

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Author: Michael Archer
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253339140
Category : Animals, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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In Queensland, in northeast Australia, lies one of the most significant fossil deposits in the world—Riversleigh. Here, the remains of many thousands of weird and wonderful prehistoric animals have been superbly preserved in the limestone outcrops. There are marsupial lions, carnivorous kangaroos, 23-foot long pythons, primitive platypuses, and early ancestors of the now extinct Tasmanian tiger. So important is this site to our understanding of what has happened to Australia and its living cargo over the last 25 million years that Riversleigh has been inscribed on the World Heritage List. Michael Archer, Suzanne J. Hand, and Henk Godthelp, the principal scientists on a remarkable excavation since 1976, explain the vast environmental and geographic changes that have occurred in this area since Australia broke away from the supercontinent of Gondwana, and how the animals on board this continental raft evolved through the ages. Photographs and evocative artwork bring to life the teeming tropical world that once existed in the now arid wastes of Riversleigh, and the authors discuss some of the unusual techniques used on a dig. They describe how to recognize fossils, how to date them, and how to reconstruct extinct animals from them. Originally published as Riversleigh: The Story of Animals in Ancient Rainforests of Inland Australia, this award-winning book is being issued for the first time in the United States.

Author: Bronwyn Blake
Publisher: Hachette Australia
ISBN: 0733642217
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Twenty women share their incredible stories of surviving and thriving in the remote Australian 'Gulf Country', near the Gulf of Carpentaria. Gulf women are self-sufficient, generous, and can cope with almost anything that life and the environment throws at them: floods, drought, sickness, emergencies. Whether they are graziers, fisherwomen, ringers, women in tourism, aviation and education, Indigenous women or descendants from early women settlers, this powerful book gives these women a voice to tell their own stories. There are stories of new mothers on properties isolated and inaccessible for months in the wet season; women giving birth at home with only neighbours to assist; reminiscences from last century and World War II, and accounts of fishing in the Gulf in sometimes unimaginable conditions. From the kids wanting a baby croc for a pet to the terror of a snake bite with a flooded airstrip and impassable roads, these women treat the extraordinary events in their lives as just part of their remote way of life. Set in a world of vast landscapes, distance and merciless climate, Beyond the Outback contains riveting tales of the lives of the women who live, work and raise families in one of Australia's most isolated regions. It will be loved by readers of Sara Henderson, Toni Tapp Coutts and Terry Underwood.

Author: Arthur Bache Walkom
Publisher:
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Category : Copper mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 482

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