Natural History of the Adelaide Region - Editors: C. R, Twidale, M. J. Tyler and B. P. Webb
ISBN: 0 9506627 3 1
Copyright © Royal Society of South Australia Inc.
Published by: Royal Society of South Australia (Inc.)
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Format: glossy pictorial softcover
Total print-bearing Pages: estimated 192 pages in total (preliminary section: 3 unnumbered pages + 189 numbered pages [text])
Size: approx. 17.7cm x 25.0cm x 1.5cm
Mass: approx. 630g
Special Attributes: First published in 1976 – stated 1988 reprinting; pictorial stiffened plasticized softcover; sown binding/ glued cover; comprises very high quality (photographic plate) thick papers; contains 14 chapters/ papers (essays); papers in traditional scientific format closing with references; prolifically illustrated (photographs, diagrams, sketches; cross sections); tables; graphs; text in dual column format; footnoted; maps; opening section includes [1] Preface; no index
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Description: Collection of 12 scientific papers (essays) dealing with various aspects natural history of the Adelaide Region.
According to the Preface “This year, 1976, sees the centenary of publication of the ‘Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia’. To mark the occasion the Council has adopted a suggestion that the Society produce a special publication devoted to papers concerned with various aspects of the natural history of the Adelaide region. Such a commemorative volume is surely appropriate, and is not without precedent, for in an Anniversary Address published in Volume I of the Philosophical Transactions (as the Transactions then were) Professor Ralph Tate reported on progress that had been made towards "a better knowledge of the natural history of South Australia" (Tate 1878). The Society has a long involvement and concern with the natural history of the State, and it seems eminently worthwhile to produce a conspectus of the advances achieved during the last hundred years. ….”
“… The Adelaide region is taken in very general terms to include the Mount Lofty Ranges and adjacent plains and waters. The Murray Basin and River and related plains are excluded from consideration. The natural environment embraces the rocks, landforms, soils and waters, both fresh and oceanic, and associated biota that live on and in the various terrestrial and aquatic habitats. Anevolutionary view has been adopted wherever possible. The basic question asked is, "How and when did the present situation come into being?"”
“The aboriginal peoples who lived in the area are discussed, but European man has been excluded from consideration save insofar as he has influenced, and continues to affect, the various facets of the natural setting. To do otherwise would be to extend beyond what long have been the main interests of the Society, and into such fields as sociology, economics and politics, in which we have an interest but claim no expertise.”
“It is hoped that this collection of essays represents an authoritative and balanced review of the natural history of the Adelaide region as we now see it, useful and interesting for the present,and a reliable historical document capable of serving as a viable basis for comparison when our successors come to review the second century of publication of the ‘Transactions’ of the Royal Society of South Australia a hundred years from now.”
Contents:
technical notes/ publication details
includes
list of titles of 5 Occasional Papers published by the Royal Society of South Australia (Inc.) acknowledgement re South Australian Centre for Remote Sensing
table of Contents
PREFACE – C. R, Twidale
chapters/ essays
1. GEOLOGY – B. DAILY, J.B. FIRMANT, B.G. FORBEST & J.M. LINDSAY
2. GEOMORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION – C. R. TWIDALE.
3. SOILS – K. H. NORTHCOTE
4. CLIMATE – P. SCHWERDTFEGER.
5. HISTORY OF GROUNDWATER DEVELOPMENT – R. G. SHEPHERD.
6. HYDROLOGY OF THE COWANDILLA PLAINS, ADELAIDE, BEFORE 1836 – J. W. HOLMES AND M. B. IVERSEN.
7. VEGETATION – R. T. LANGE.
8. THE ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT – R. W. ELLIS.
9. TERRESTRIAL FAUNA AND AQUATIC VERTEBRATES – M. J. TYLER, G. F. GROSS, C. E. RIX AND R. W. INNS.
10. FRESHWATER INVERTEBRATES – K. F. WALKER, J. E. BISHOP, R. J. SHIEL AND W. D. WILLIAMS.
11. PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY OF GULF ST VINCENT AND INVESTIGATOR STRAIT – JOHN A. T. BYE.
12. SUBSTRATE, SEDIMENTS AND SUBTIDAL ECOLOGY OF GULF ST VINCENT AND INVESTIGATOR STRAIT – S. A. SHEPHERD AND R. C. SPRIGG.
13. INTERTIDAL ECOLOGY – H. B. S. WOMERSLEY AND I. M. THOMAS.
14. MARINE FISHES AND MAMMALS – C. J. M. GLOVER AND J. K. LING.
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