claypan

The claypan and surrounding outcrops are also a significant archaeological site.

The claypan is a slightly concave surface approximately 100m across.

They are typically found are temporary claypan and flooded grassland habitats.

The unit was involved in the construction of facilities for the nuclear tests conducted at Emu Claypan during the 1950s.

Favoured soils are deep grey sandy loams or shallower sand overlying claypan.

There's a sunset-viewing platform and a 10-minute walk skirts the claypan and leads around the foot of the bluff to mushroom rock.

Cuddie Springs is an open site, with the fossil deposits preserved in a claypan on the floor of an ancient ephemeral lake.

Fogarty's Claypan 9.

This type of landscape typically has a shallow basement layer such as bedrock, hardpan, claypan, or densely bedded gravel.

In addition to the dominant tallgrass prairie, Konza contains forest, claypan, shrub and riparian communities.

It is common in freshwater wetlands, around the edges of lakes and billabongs, and in shallow, temporary claypan pools.

The level topography and presence of a claypan in the soil of these areas cause these sites to be excessively wet in winter and spring.

The claypan fills with water after local rainstorms and often takes months to dry, a fact which facilitated the survival of fossils over a long period of time.

Because much of the topsoil is underlain by claypan, drainage is poor, and heavy rainfall periodically converts vast parts of the region to swamp.

Cuddie Springs has been known as a fossil megafauna locality since the late 1870s, when a well was sunk into the centre of the claypan.

The main feature of the area is a set of about 1000 petroglyphs, distributed among the rock outcrops to the south and south-east of the claypan.

The area has six different woodland types, two granite heath types, a mallee vegetation type and the last two claypan wetland areas remaining in the state.

These landforms are characterized by strongly developed soils that usually have a relatively impermeable layer (claypan or silcrete duripan) in the subsoil.

The Ewaninga Conservation Reserve is an area of low sand dunes, rocky outcrops and a claypan about 35 km south of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.

In geology, a claypan is a dense, compact, slowly permeable layer in the subsoil having a much higher clay content than the overlying material, from which it is separated by a sharply defined boundary.

The Edmund has six tributaries: Edmund Claypan Creek, Rock Hole Creek, Dingo Creek, Bobbamindagee Creek, Dundagee Creek and Donald Creek.

The District has a variety of habitats: mixed grass prairie, river bottom, green ash draws, sand dunes along the South Fork of the Grand River, badlands, sandstone outcrops and buttes, and claypan areas with a few small playas in Corson County.