The Filling and Drying of Lake Eyre

Bonython, C. Warren; Mason, Betsy

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“…Over last five decades, several filling and drying periods have been recorded at Lake Eyre (Bonython and Mason, 1953;Dulhunty, 1975;Tetziaff and Bye, 1978;Dulhunty, 1984Dulhunty, , 1986Allan et al, 1986). Three major fillings occurred in 1949, 1974 and 1984 together with a number of minor fillings (Dulhunty, 1990).…”

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“…His observation was the perceived wisdom until the 1949-50 flooding which was the first known and well documented flood. However, there are records of earlier instances when the lake held water, that have been highlighted by Bonython and Mason (1953) as follows. In 1840 a flood was reported by E.J.…”

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“…More water reached the lake in the 1890s, and in 1922 the Royal Australian Air Force reported that one third of the lake was flooded. Recorded rain data suggested that water might have reached the lake in 1890, 1906, 1916, 1917and 1920(Bonython and Mason, 1953. Dulhunty (1975) demonstrated three prehistoric fillings in Lake Eyre to levels of 280, 160, and 70 cm above the 1974 filling.…”

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“…Mean maximum winter temperature is 17°C in July and it may reach as low as 5°C. However, the drainage system headwaters are located in more humid monsoonal regions (Bonython and Mason, 1953). Most of the flood waters come from the northern and northeastern part of the catchment, which has annual rainfalls of 370-500 mm (Dulhunty, 1990).…”

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Desert pavement development on the lake shorelines of Lake Eyre (South), South Australia

Al-Farraj¹

2008

Geomorphology

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Desert pavement development on the lake shorelines of Lake Eyre (South), South Australia

Al-Farraj¹

2008

Geomorphology

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“…Because of the prevailing aridity such accessions of water and detritus are infrequent, and Lake Eyre is dry at most times. During this century it filled bricfly in 1949-50 (Bonython and Mason, 1953) and was a lake also in the period 1973-8 inclusive.…”

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The Simpson Desert, Central Australia

Twidale

1980

South African Geographical Journal

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The Simpson Desert dune field is of Holocene age. The sand from w:lich the dunes are built is derived from the. granites. sands tones and silcrete that form extensive outcrops within the catchment of the Lake Eyre drainage system. Rivers carry large volumes of water and sediment to the lower parIs of the catchment from time to time under the present arid climatic regime: even larger vo!umes were transported during the pluvial conditions of the Late Pleistocene.Strong winds from the SE and SW develop intense though shortlived turbulence as they pass over debris mounds that border playas and aIiuvial valley floors. Sand tails develop between the turbulent vortices and some of them pcrsist. and ex~end downwind under the influence of the bi-directional win:! regime to become part of the SSE-NNW trending dune field.

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Old red sandstone sedimentation—an example from the brownstones (highest lower old red sandstone) of south central wales

Tunbridge

1981

Geological Journal

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The Brownstones form the highest Lower Old Red Sandstone in South Wales and the Welsh Borderlands. Sections from the Brecon Beacons of Central South Wales consist of laterally extensive sheets of interbedded sandstone and siltstone. Facie sequence A consists of parallel laminated sheet sandstones and siltstones and is interpreted as a sandy sheetflood and distal muddy floodflat association. Facies sequence B comprises sheet sandstones composed of multistorey channel fills, small calcrete-clast filled channels and massive siltstones with thin interbedded sandstones. This sequence is interpreted as low sinuosity channel deposits merging laterally and downslope into a muddy floodbasin, with calcrcte clasts i d l i n g intrabasinal channel systems. Facies sequence C consists of multistorey sandstones and is interpreted as a proximal low sinuosity channel system. The Brownstones of the Brecon Beacons formed on an extensive alluvial plain with low sinuosity sand-bed channels merging downslope into sheetfloods and muddy floodflats, in a system broadly analogous to that of the Eyre Basin of South Australia. KEY WORDSOld Red Sandstone t o w sinuosity channels Sheet-floods Mudflats Alluvial sediments South Wales

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The Filling and Drying of Lake Eyre

Cited by 30 publications

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Desert pavement development on the lake shorelines of Lake Eyre (South), South Australia

Desert pavement development on the lake shorelines of Lake Eyre (South), South Australia

The Simpson Desert, Central Australia

Old red sandstone sedimentation—an example from the brownstones (highest lower old red sandstone) of south central wales

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