Book ID: 58201
White, Mary E.
After the Greening. The Browning of Australia.1994. Many colour-photographs.288 p.4to.Cloth.
Contents (partly): Voyages of Exploration and Discovery/ Rifting,drifting and drying/ Rifting (How Australia was freed from Gondwana/The making and breaking of supercontinents/ Stretching/ Rifting bysea-floor spreading/ The forests of Gondwana/ Worn-out soils, hardcaps and inverted landscapes/ Rivers beheaded, broken and bent)/Drifting/ Drying (Ice age Australia/ How Australia changed in an increasingly icehouse world/ Biotas on the ice age see-saw/ On theslide toward the last glacial maximum/ A land of drifting sand/ etc.)/Unbalancing the biota.