On the left is a typical landscape of rolling hills supporting rainforest with relatively shallow soils but a deeply weathered schistose saprolite near Tully, north Queensland.
For more information see McKenzie, N. J., Jacquier, D. W., Isbell, R. F. and Brown, K. L. (2004). Australian Soils and Landscapes: an illustrated compendium. 416pp (CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne).
Photographer : Mike Laffan on January 01 1984.
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