Natural History of the Adelaide Region

Description

This book is the first in the series, and was published in 1976, by the Royal Society of South Australia. The contents of this book cover the following:

• 1 the Geology
• 2 Geomorphological Evolution
• 3 Soils,
• 4 Climate
• 5 History of Groundwater Development Hydrology of the Cowandilla Plains and Adelaide before 1836
• 6 The Vegetation,
• 7 the Aboriginal Inhabitants and their Environment
• 8 Terrestrial Fauna and Aquatic Vertebrates,
• 9 Freshwater Invertebrates,
• 10 Physical Oceanography of Gulf St Vincent and Investigator Strait,
• 11Substrate, Sediments and Subtidal Ecology of Gulf St Vincent and Investigator Strait Intertidal Ecology
• 12 Marine Fishes and Mammals.
• The editors are C.R. Twidale M.J. Tyler and B.P. Webb.
  Soft cover.