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" The Stony Desert, in fact, is due to the absence of water. The country where it occurs was once covered by a sheet of the rock known as Desert Sandstone, in which there are abundant pebbles of quartz, sandstone, and other hard materials. The Desert Sandstone... "
The Dead Heart of Australia: A Journey Around Lake Eyre in the Summer of ... - Page 70
by John Walter Gregory - 1906 - 384 pages
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The Geographical Journal, Volume 28

Electronic journals - 1906 - 802 pages
...sea-floor, as was at one time supposed. "The country where it occurs was once covered with a sheet of tho rock known as Desert Sandstone, in which there are...decayed under the action of the weather, the loose sandstone has been blown away by the wind, and the hard fragments remain scattered over the ground,"...
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In Praise of Australia: An Anthology in Prose and Verse

Florence Gay - Aboriginal Australians - 1912 - 276 pages
...an old sea-floor. The pebbles of the stony plains, however, show no signs of water action. Blurt's view is an illustration of the habit, so prevalent...the hard fragments remain scattered over the ground. JW Gregory. Tht Dead Heart of Australia. Murray. By permission. SEPTEMBER IN AUSTRALIA GREY wbter hath...
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Scottish Geographical Magazine, Volume 23

Electronic journals - 1907 - 774 pages
...this, Dr. Gregory tells us that the pebbles of the stony plains show no signs of the action of water. " The Stony Desert, in fact, is due to the absence of...which there are abundant pebbles of quartz, sandstone, aud other hard materials. The Desert Sandstone has slowly decayed under the action of the weather ;...
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Great Warm Deserts of the World: Landscapes and Evolution

Andrew Goudie - Nature - 2002 - 488 pages
...sees the stones as being remnants of a formerly more extensive cover of 'Desert Sandstone' (silcrete): The Stony Desert, in fact, is due to the absence of...Desert Sandstone has slowly decayed under the action of weather; the loose sand has been blown away by the wind, and the hard fragments remain scattered over...
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The Geographical Journal, Volume 28

Geography - 1906 - 758 pages
...an old sea-floor, as was at one time supposed. " The country where it occurs was once covered with a sheet of the rock known as Desert Sandstone, in...decayed under the action of the weather, the loose sandstone has been blown away by the wind, and the hard fragments remain scattered over the ground,"...
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