Phreatic drainage conduits within quartz sandstone: Evidence from the Jurassic Precipice Sandstone, Carnarvon Range, Queensland, Australia

Geomorphology

Volumn 110, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 203-211

  Wray, Robert A L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conduit; Epiphreatic; Karst geomorphology; Phreatic; Quartz sandstone; Solutional weathering

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; JURASSIC; KARST; LIMESTONE; PERMEABILITY; PHREATIC ZONE; QUARTZ; SANDSTONE; WEATHERING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 67651124841     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.04.007     Document Type: Article

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