The Kimberley Field Trip

Photos copyrighted 2002 by Don Chesnut, unless otherwise indicated

Darwin, Northern Territory

• Ibises at Bicentennial Park
• Bicentennial Park and Darwin Harbour
• Bicentennial Park and Darwin Harbour
• Bicentennial Park

Flight from Darwin to Kununurra to Broome

• Fitzmaurice River estuary, Keyling Inlet
• Fitzmaurice estuary, white is probably salt, green probably mangrove
• Victoria River estuary
• Victoria River estuary
• dipping strata
• scrubby landscape
• Kununurra Airport, sugar cane fields
• Kununurra Airport, sugar cane fields
• Kimberley Range
• Kimberley Range, note regional joint patterns accentuated by erosion
• Windjana area?
• Fitzroy River?
• Kimberley Range, folded strata, salt-encrusted landscape
• Broome area
• Broome, Damper Creek, a purely tidal creek
• Cable Beach, Broome, note terra rosa (red soil) at left
• Cable Beach
• Cable Beach

Field Conference, The Kimberley, Western Australia

• Day 1
• Day 2
• Day 3
• Day 4
• Day 5
• Day 6
• Day 7
• Day 8

Broome again

• tidal flat at Mangrove Point, low tide. We found abundant Lingula (the "living fossil" inarticulate brachiopod) living on this mudflat.
• same tidal flat: we saw the stair-stepped reflection of the rising full moon at low tide.

Flight from Broome to Alice Springs

• dipping strata, near Alice Springs
• dipping strata, near Alice Springs
• plunging anticline, near Alice Springs

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