Bigarella's interpretation: cleared rainforest with subsequent/consequent solifluction erosion, as well as formation of terracettes, etc., typical of basaltic slopes in (often abandoned) dairying country. Mt Mee area, Queensland, June 1980.

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Environmental Factors -- Soils
Bigarella's interpretation: cleared rainforest with subsequent/consequent solifluction erosion, as well as formation of terracettes, etc., typical of basaltic slopes in (often abandoned) dairying country

Mt Mee area, Queensland

June 1980

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(Prof. Webb participated in a field trip in south-east Queensland with Dr. J.J. Bigarella of Curitiba, Brazil, one of the world's experts in palaeosols.)

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