Len Webb Ecological Images Collection
The cracking clays which contract and expand, depending on rainfall, may form "humps and hollows" on soil surface, called "gilgais" by the Aborigines.
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Image No. 10-3Vegetation Types -- "Brigalow Scrub" Regrowth
Brigalow (Acacia harpophylla)
Clermont-Sarina Road, Queensland
Nov. 1963
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Tropical wet-dry subcoastal plains, with brown/black cracking clays.