GEOLOGY OF THE OFF-SHORE AREAS OF NORTH-WESTERN AUSTRALIA

CONTOURING of Admiralty Chart No. 475 "North West Coast of Australia with the Off-lying Island and Reefs", 1928-1950, has revealed the existence of a number of offshore ridges along the outer edge of the Australian Continental Shelf. These ridges connect the coastal ranges of Exmouth Gulf in Western Australia with Sahul Banks, opposite Timor. Some of them are very large features and they are separated from the Continental Shelf by pronounced troughs. On the other hand, an even deeper trough separates them from the islands of Timor, Roti and Sawu. Other swells, rising almost to sea level, run parallel with them further out to sea. Geological comparisons are drawn which suggest that a deep stratigraphic section may be present in the general area where these ridges occur. Evidence is also presented to show that these features are tectonically and positively active, whereas the bounding troughs are in process of structural sinking. The size of some of these ridges, which approach the dimensions of the Lesser Sunda Islands, suggest that they are largely submerged and complex folded ranges, of which considerable parts are accessible to exploration. It is shown that these ranges all occur within the boundaries of Teichert's "Westralia Geosyncline". It is suggested that folding, intermediate in in tensity between the Alpine nappes of Timor-Roti and the gently warped sediments of the continental sedimentary basins of Australia, may be present in them.If so, these somewhat sharper folds may prove to be suitable for considerable accumulation of petroleum, as so often happens in the fore-front folds of other Alpine belts.

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Балцкія элементы ў граматыцы традыцыйных мясцовых гаворак паўночна‑заходняй Беларусі

Acta Baltico-Slavica ◽

10.11649/abs.2012.005 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 36 ◽

pp. 51-59

Author(s):

Вера [Vera] Астрэйка [Astrėĭka]

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

North West ◽

Language Support ◽

The North ◽

The Status ◽

Formal Level ◽

The Baltic ◽

Language Assimilation ◽

The Given ◽

North Western

The Baltic elements in the grammar of traditional local dialects of north-western BelarusThe article analyzes a number of grammatical features typical for the North-West dialect zone of the Belarusian language. These peculiarities are interpreted as a possible result of Slavic-Baltic contacts in the region. Some phenomena can be explained as a Baltic (mainly (great)Lithuanian) substratum in North-West Belarusian dialects.The factor of areal neighborhood has to be taken into consideration too. Such phenomenon as language support has effect just in connection with the last one. A lot of the appropriate lingual facts are in restricted and inconsistent use. However, it is possible to be said about more or less significant (now or/and before) tendencies of regional lingual development. These tendencies has not got the status of a structural (= constitutional) lingual regularity. As a rule the wide and compact areas are characterized of some lingual facts (= lexemes), which illustrate the given transformations in the system of Belarusian dialects. Baltic influence upon the North-West Belarusian dialects grammar is detected on as the formal level so the structural one. And it is not noticeable at all times. The definite changes in the sphere of morphology and syntax can provoke different modifications in the other parts of a language system (word building, semantics). The results of this process are the evidences of ethnic and language assimilation of native Balts by Slavs in the region. That comes in support of forming the singular North-West Belarusian regiolect (= the regionally marked variety of a dialect language). Балтийские грамматические элементы в говорах северо-западной БеларусиВ статье анализируется ряд грамматических черт, характерных для говоров северо-западной диалектной зоны беларусского языка. Эти особенности квалифицируются автором как весьма вероятное следствие славяно-балтского языкового взаимодействия в соответствующем регионе. Отдельные явления есть основания рассматривать в качестве возможного проявления балтского (главным образом (пра-) литовского) субстрата в северо-западных беларусских говорах. Фактор ареальной смежности здесь также должен быть принят во внимание. В связи с последним следует упомянуть и действие феномена языковой поддержки. Многие соответствующие языковые факты имеют существенные ограничения в употреблении, в говорах выступают не всегда последовательно и регулярно. В некоторых случаях, однако, можно говорить о действии более или менее выраженных (в настоящем и/или прошлом) тенденций регионального языкового развития, которые пока не приобрели статус структурно значимой (= конститутивной) языковой закономерности. Широкие и компактные ареалы образуют, как правило, лишь отдельные языковые факты (= лексемы), иллюстрирующие данные трансформации в системе традиционных беларусских говоров. Балтское влияние на грамматический строй беларусских говоров северо-западной диалектной зоны выявляется как в плане формального выражения, так и на внутриструктурном уровне. Оно не всегда может быть заметно на первый взгляд. Определенные сдвиги в сфере морфологии и синтаксиса могут повлечь за собой изменения в других областях языковой системы (словообразовании, семантике). Результаты этого процесса являются ярким свидетельством того, что на отмеченной территории действительно имела место этноязыковая ассимиляция неславянского (= балтского) населения и происхо- дило формирование своеобразного северо-западного беларусского региолекта (= регионально обусловленной разновидности диалектной речи).

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Corrigendum to: Habitat associations of zoophagic bat ensembles in north-western Australia

Australian Journal of Zoology ◽

10.1071/zo19049_co ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 67 (6) ◽

pp. 361

Author(s):

N. L. McKenzie ◽

R. D. Bullen ◽

L. A. Gibson

Keyword(s):

Western Australia ◽

Mangrove Forest ◽

Sedimentary Basins ◽

Habitat Associations ◽

Mangrove Forests ◽

Assemblage Composition ◽

Environmental Controls ◽

Riparian Habitats ◽

Vegetation Structures ◽

North Western

North-western Australia comprises the Kimberley Craton and parts of three adjacent sedimentary basins. It has a tropical climate and habitats that range from semiarid plains supporting grasslands to mesic uplands supporting woodlands as well as narrow riparian forests and patches of rainforest; mangrove forests occur along the coast. Its bat fauna comprises three obligate phytophages and 27 obligate zoophages. Analysis of zoophagic bats at 171 sites scattered throughout this study area revealed two compositionally distinct ensembles. One, comprising 19 species, occupies mangrove forest and includes three species known only to occupy mangroves in Western Australia. The other, comprising 20 species, occupies landward habitats and includes four species that are found only in landward ecosystems. Both ensembles are structured in terms of resource allocation, but nestedness observed in assemblage composition can be explained by environmental factors, implying the influence of environmental controls. Sixteen species belong to both ensembles, but seven of these require cave roosts and occur only near cavernous country while three others are confined to rocky riparian habitats. The richest assemblages were recorded in rugged cavernous landscapes in complex vegetation structures near permanent freshwater pools in the most mesic areas.

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Community structure and zoogeographic affinities of the coastal fishes of the Dampier region of north-western Australia.

Marine and Freshwater Research ◽

10.1071/mf9850247 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

pp. 247 ◽

Cited By ~ 48

Author(s):

SJM Blaber ◽

JW Young ◽

MC Dunning

Keyword(s):

Community Structure ◽

Western Australia ◽

High Tide ◽

Organic Content ◽

Tidal Range ◽

Nursery Ground ◽

North West ◽

Physical Conditions ◽

The North ◽

North Western

The species composition and broad trophic structure of the mangrove creek and open shore fish communities of the Dampier region in tropical north-western Australia are described. The habitats are characterized by a lack of freshwater influence, low turbidity and a tidal range in excess of 4 m. Both mangroves and open shores have a diversity of species typical of Indo-west Pacific coastal waters but the physical conditions have modified the community structure both to exclude many families that prefer areas of higher turbidity and reduced salinity, and to include others that usually occur only in clear waters. The fish faunas of the mangroves (113 species) and open shores (106 species) are compared: 54 species were common to both. The deeper waters were dominated by piscivores, which penetrated throughout the mangroves at high tide. Iliophagous species were abundant, particularly in the mangroves where the organic content of the substratum (7.8-8.2%) was not reduced markedly compared with other areas of the Indo-Pacific, despite the lack of freshwater inflow. The clear and deep water in the mangroves at high tide favour predation on juveniles by piscivorous fishes and reduce the effectiveness of such areas as nurseries. There is virtually no overlap of the fauna with that of the deeper waters (>20 m) of the North West Shelf, and the inshore region is not a significant nursery ground for any of the commercially important deeper water species.

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III.—Some new Rock-building Organisms from the Lower Carboniferous Beds of Westmorland

Geological Magazine ◽

10.1017/s0016756800196955 ◽

1914 ◽

Vol 1 (6) ◽

pp. 265-271 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

E. J. Garwood

Keyword(s):

Presidential Address ◽

The Other ◽

Lower Carboniferous ◽

North West ◽

Western Province ◽

The North ◽

Calcareous Alga ◽

The Village ◽

Important Form ◽

North Western

In my account of the Lower Carboniferous rocks of the North-West of England, published in 1912, I figured an organism, probably the thallus of a calcareous alga, which plays an important part as a rock-builder at the base of the Seminula gregaria sub-zone in Westmorland and Lancashire. More recently, at the meeting of the British Association in Birmingham, I pointed out the need of some distinctive name for this important form, and suggested for it the generic name of ‘Ortonella’, from the village of Orton, near Tebay, in the neighbourhood of which this fossil is specially abundant. Two other structures were mentioned at the same time which occur constantly in microscopic sections of the Lower Carboniferous rocks of the North-West of England and elsewhere. The first of these was alluded to under the general descriptive term ‘festoon structure’, and the other was referred to Gurich's somewhat obscure genus Spongiottroma. In view of the zonal value of these organisms in the North-Western Province and the probability that they will be found to be widely distributed in the Lower Carboniferous rocks elsewhere, I propose here to give a somewhat fuller description of these forms than could be attempted in the limits of a presidential address.

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Foraminiferal signatures of mass transport from the North-West Continental Shelf off Western Australia, IODP Expedition 356

10.1002/essoar.90fed9b62465de5c.6ce6029020894258.1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Briony Mamo ◽

Willem Renema ◽

Cecilia McHugh ◽

Stephen Gallagher ◽

Craig Fulthorpe ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Mass Transport ◽

Continental Shelf ◽

Western Australia ◽

North West ◽

The North

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Taxonomy, ecology and zoogeography of dragonflies (Odonata) from the north-west of Western Australia

Australian Journal of Zoology ◽

10.1071/zo9690065 ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 65 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

JAL Watson

Keyword(s):

Western Australia ◽

High Oxygen ◽

Widespread Species ◽

North West ◽

The North ◽

Limited Dispersal ◽

Oxygen Tensions ◽

North Western

Thirty species of Odonata are known to occur in the north-west of Western Australia, between the De Grey and Gascoyne Rivers. Eight of these species, from the families Coenagrionidae, Protoneuridae, Gomphidae, Corduliidae, and Libellulidae, belong to taxa here described as new. All the north-western dragonflies are either of tropical affinity, or widespread species. The species confined to permanent waters, i.e. to conditions of relatively mild temperatures and high oxygen tensions, are commonly more distinct from closest relatives in the Kimberley region or northern Queensland, than Kimberley and Queensland species are from each other. Such disjunct species show limited dispersal as adults.

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A new wobbegong shark, Orectolobus hutchinsi n. sp. (Orectolobiformes: Orectolobidae) from southwestern Australia

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.1239.1.3 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 1239 (1) ◽

pp. 35 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

PETER R. LAST ◽

JUSTIN A. CHIDLOW ◽

LEONARD J.V. COMPAGNO

Keyword(s):

Continental Shelf ◽

Western Australia ◽

Recreational Fisheries ◽

Rock Lobster ◽

North West ◽

Southwestern Australia ◽

White Spots ◽

By Catch

Orectolobus hutchinsi n. sp.. is a moderate-sized wobbegong shark found in shallow continental shelf habitats off Western Australia. It occurs from Coral Bay (near North West Cape) south to Groper Bluff (west of Bremer Bay) in depths of 9–106 m where it is caught as by-catch of local gillnet, longline, rock lobster and recreational fisheries. It is sympatric with two other commercial wobbegong species, Orectolobus maculatus and O. ornatus, but differs from these and other IndoPacific species in having the combination of a few unbranched dermal lobes, relatively tall dorsal fins, no warty tubercles on the back of adults, and dark brown corrugated saddles without white spots and blotches. Some details of its biology are also provided.

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I.—On some Buildings of the Romano-British Period discovered at Clanville, near Andover, and on a deposit of Pewter Vessels of the same period found at Appleshaw, Hants. With Appendixes

Archaeologia ◽

10.1017/s0261340900003817 ◽

1898 ◽

Vol 56 (1) ◽

pp. 1-20 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

G. H. Engleheart ◽

Charles H. Read ◽

William Gowland

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

North West ◽

Left Hand ◽

The North ◽

Western Border ◽

The One ◽

Point Of Intersection ◽

The Village ◽

The Town ◽

North Western

In the immediate neighbourhood of my house in the village of Appleshaw, on the north-western border of Hampshire, the sites are unusually close together of those dwellings of the Romano-British period which are, with a certain vagueness, termed Roman villas. Appleshaw is distant five miles north-west from Andover; one mile north of Andover two Roman roads intersect, the one running from Old Sarum north-easterly to Silchester, the other from Winchester north-westerly to Cirencester. At Finkley, close to the point of intersection, pottery and other Roman material has from time to time been unearthed, and the locality is one of those which have, by a somewhat unconvincing reference to the Antonine itinerary and to etymology, been identified with the unascertained site of Vindomis. Imagine these two roads at their crossing to stand like an upright capital X over the town of Andover, with that town in the lowest angle; my own nearer neighbourhood will lie in the western or left-hand angle. Three-quarters of a mile east of my house is the lately-examined site upon which I have to report particularly this evening. One mile north and a little west (all the distances mentioned are measured in radius from my house) is a villa on the Redenham estate, excavated some fifty years back by Sir John Pollen, the landowner. It appears that no plans were made and no record kept.

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