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  • The Gulf Fall, which dominates the western portion of the ecoregion, is an area of dissected Proterozoic sediments and metamorphics backed by extensively laterized Proterozoic hills with shallow stony soils.

    Carpentaria tropical savanna 2008

  • In the north there are massive red earths derived from laterized surfaces, Cretaceous sediments, and sediments carried by rivers draining from the Einasleigh Uplands.

    Carpentaria tropical savanna 2008

  • East of the McBride basalt is the Lucy Tableland, an eroded laterized Tertiary remnant.

    Einasleigh upland savanna 2008

  • It was at that juncture, when true soldiers held back aghast, that this creature, more loathsome than a toad, or vampire, or devil fish, came for name, laterized, as soldier.

    Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906

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