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Native trees and shrubs of South-Eastern Australia
Native Trees and Shrubs of South-Eastern Australia, by Leon Costermans, embraces an area that stretches from the Flinders and Mt Lofty Ranges in South Australia, across Victoria and southern New South Wales to the NSW South Coast.
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Water security in the Mount Compass area
Communities and businesses in Mount Compass rely on the Permian sand aquifers for safe drinking, industrial and irrigation water supplies. In 2025, the Department of the Environment and Water provided a factsheet on the water security, which demonstrated that the sand distribution is spread unevenly across the region with significant variation in the depth of…
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Swamps of the Fleurieu Peninsula
The Swamps of the Fleurieu Peninsula are localised wetlands occurring in high rainfall areas in the local catchment areas of Tookayerta, Hindmarsh, Parawa, Myponga, Yankalilla, Onkparinga, Currency Creek and Finniss. They are densely vegetated and occur adjacent to waterlogged soils around low-lying creeks and flats. The Swamps are typified by their reedy or heathy vegetation…
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Geology of Mount Compass
Mount Compass has an ancient geology spanning back in time some 2500 million years, including a complete glaciation in the Permian period yielding much of its present topography.
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Coastal Landscapes of South Australia
Geologically, the South Australian coast is very young, having evolved over only 1% of geological time, during the past 43 million years since the separation of Australia and Antarctica. It is also very dynamic, with the current shoreline position having been established from only 7000 years ago.
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Bull 054: Geology of South Australia. Volume 2: The Phanerozoic
This report provides a comprehensive view of the geology of South Australia during the Phanerozoic era.
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Bull 054 Geology of South Australia. Volume 1: The Precambrian
The Precambrian geological record of South Australia spans a period from late Archaean (~2700 Ma) to the end of the Neoproterozoic (540 Ma). Major Precambrian geological provinces are the Gawler Craton in the centre of the State, Musgrave Block and part of the Officer Basin in the northwest, Coompana Block in the southwest, Curnamona Craton…
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Dune is a four-letter word
Dune is a Four-letter Word tells the story of Griselda and Reg Sprigg’s pioneering desert adventures – not only in the Simpson Desert but all over the vast Australian outback.
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Bull 053 The Adelaide Geosyncline: late Proterozoic stratigraphy, sedimentation, palaeontology, and tectonics
The Adelaidian Geosyncline is a geological formation which stretches from Kangaroo Island across the Mount Lofty ranges up to the Flinders ranges.
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Value(s): Building a better world for All
A bold and urgent argument by the Prime Minister of Canada and former bank governor on the radical, foundational change that is required if we are to build an economy and society based not on market values but on human values. Our world is full of fault lines—growing inequality in income and opportunity; systemic racism; health…
