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title	:	Rain Forest Into Desert : Adventures in Australia's Tropical North
author	:	Wohl, Ellen E.
publisher	:	University Press of Colorado
isbn10 | asin	:	087081334X
print isbn13	:	9780870813344
ebook isbn13	:	9780585004068
language	:	English
subject	Rivers--Australia--Northern Territory, Rivers--Australia--Queensland, Geomorphology--Australia--Northern Territory, Geomorphology--Australia--Queensland.
publication date	:	1994
lcc	:	GB568.89.W64 1994eb
ddc	:	508.9429
subject	:	Rivers--Australia--Northern Territory, Rivers--Australia--Queensland, Geomorphology--Australia--Northern Territory, Geomorphology--Australia--Queensland.

Location map of northern Australia.

Rain Forest Into Desert Adventures in Australia's Tropical North Ellen E. Wohl UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO

1994 by the University Press of Colorado P.O. Box 849 Niwot, Colorado 80544 The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado. University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College of Colorado. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of paper for printed library materials. ANSI Z39.48-1984 Lines 6-11 from "Too Anxious for Rivers" appearing in Chapter 1 is reprinted with permission from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Latham. Copyright 1975 by Lesley Frost Ballantine. Copyright 1947, 1969 by Henry Holt and Company. Ltd. Permission for use within the British Commonwealth courtesy of Robert Frost and Jonathan Cape Ltd. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wohl, Ellen E., 1962 Rain forest into desert: adventures in Australia's tropical North / Ellen E. Wohl p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87081-334-x 1. RiversAustraliaNorthern Territory. 2. RiversAustraliaQueensland. 3. GeomorphologyAustraliaNorthern Territory. 4. GeomorphologyAustraliaQueensland. 1. Title. GB568.89.W64 1994 508.9429dc20 94-11605 CIP

In memory of Keith Katzer, good friend, who would have written a better book

Contents Preface ix Part I: Queensland: Reef and Rain Forest 1 1 The Restless Earth 3 2 Seeking a Beach Beyond Reach 39 3 West to Mt. Isa 74 Part II: The Northern Territory: Australia's Outback 98 4 Unknown Water 107 5 A Tremendously Rocky Country 126 6 South to Uluru 150 Part III: And So, Contrary to Reality, an End 187 Selected Bibliography 196 Index 201

Page ix Preface This book is the result of a year spent in Australia doing field research for my doctoral dissertation in geology, and of a second visit three years later to complete that research. In the tradition of geologist and river explorer John Wesley Powell, I have combined various trips into a single narrative for the purpose of brevity and accordingly have taken some liberties. I focused on my initial, most challenging experiences, when I worked alone. On subsequent visits to the sites, I had excellent field assistants, who made both the work and the whole experience much more enjoyable. My specialty within geology is fluvial geomorphology; fluvial means river, geo- means earth, morph is form, and -ology is the study of. I study the processes and landforms associated with rivers, which Thoreau has likened to the veins of a leaf crossing the earth's flesh. I am fortunate in my profession. Rivers occur in every environment on earth, and with the globe as my laboratory I follow my work across its surface. My choice of Australia grew from my fascination with tropical rivers, which have received relatively little attention from geomorphologists. Australia provides an accessible tropical region with no language difficulties, no political unrest or guerilla activities, no real danger of tropical diseases like malaria, and a fairly good support system of roads and equipment access: in short, the physical and climatic setting of the tropics, without all the usual social and logistical difficulties. I also chose Australia because of its geographic location with respect to global climatic circulation patterns. My research in Australia involved using sedimentary deposits emplaced by floods to reconstruct flood characteristics and then relating those floods to past climate and to channel morphology. During the summer wet season in northern Australia, the monsoonal rains keep the rivers high. Superimposed on this widespread precipitation are the intense rains associated with tropical cyclones moving inland from the sea. The great clockwise gyres of the cyclones whirl inland, bending the resilient palm trees and flattening the houses as they pass, dumping twenty-five centimeters of rain in a few hours. Behind them come the floods, massive pulses of water sweeping everything before them. The floods inundate the flat river basins, sending the animals into the treetops or floating on rafts of vegetation. I wanted to use the distribution through time of these large floods as a record of cyclone fluctuations.

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