AUSTRALIAN DRYLAND SALINITY ASSESSMENT 2000
Extent, impacts, processes, monitoring and management options
Contents
- National Land and Water Resources Audit
- Preface
- Summary
- Australian Dryland Salinity Assessment 2000
- Dryland salinity in context
- Australia's dryland salinity
- Case Study: Merredin town site, Western Australia
- Dryland salinity by State
- Salt and the Australian landscape
- Understanding salinity
- Case studies
- The framework in action
- Kamarooka Catchment, Victoria
- Wanilla Catchment, South Australia
- Upper Billabong Catchment, New South Wales
- Lake Warden, Western Australia
- Great Southern Region, Western Australia
- Application of Groundwater Flow Systems across Geographic Scales
- Ways forward
- Glossary
- References and further information
- Acknowledgments and photo acknowledgments
- Fact sheets
- Introduction
- Fact Sheet 1: Local flow systems in deeply weathered rocks
- Fact Sheet 2: Intermediate flow systems within sedimentary sequences in-filling large valleys
- Fact Sheet 3: Local flow systems in fractured rocks
- Fact Sheet 4: Local flow systems in deeply weathered fractured rocks
- Fact Sheet 5: Local flow systems associated with colluvial fans
- Fact Sheet 6: Intermediate flow systems in fractured rock aquifers
- Fact Sheet 7: Local flow systems in fine grained unconsolidated sediments
- Fact Sheet 8: Regional flow systems in alluvial aquifers
- Fact Sheet 9: Regional flow systems within unconfined sediments
- Fact Sheet 10: Local flow systems associated with sand dunes
- Fact Sheet 11: Regional and intermediate flow systems within fractured basaltic rocks
- Fact Sheet 12: Intermediate and local flow systems in fractured basaltic rocks and layered sedimentary rocks
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`Australian Dryland Salinity Assessment 2000. Extent, impacts, processes, monitoring and management options.' ISBN: 0 642 37106 7 Editing & design: Themeda Line diagrams: Marco Wallenius Cover design: City Graphics Cover photo: Murray_Darling Basin Commission Printing: Goanna Print January 2001
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