The Flood Revisited I

This years flooding of northern Australia and the Arnhem Land sandstone plateau is nothing new.

In the mid-Proterozoic, about 1 billion years ago, huge deposits of fluviatile sediments covered much of the region and now form the relatively flat-bedded sandstone plateaus which, with their escarpments, dominate the landscapes of Kakadu, the Kimberly and Cape York. These sandstones have all the expected features of shallow water deposition: cross-bedding, ripple marks, mud cracks and rain prints. The theory it seems is that these sands were deposited in vast river deltas which over time took many different courses over northern Australia.

Assassin Bug II Reduviidae sp. Close Up Sandstone Country

Assassin Bug II Reduviidae sp. Sandstone Country

Assassin Bug Reduviidae sp. Sandstone Country

Blue Argus Junonia orithya albicincta catepillar Feeding On Buchnera sp. Sandstone Country

Broadmouthed Fly Euprosopria inermis Sandstone Country

Buchnera sp. Sandstone Country

Cleome viscosa Sandstone Country

Clerodendrum floribundum In Flower Sandstone Country

Clerodendrum sp Budding Sandstone Country

Common Assassin Bug - Pristhesancus plagipennis 3rd Instar With Prey Sandstone Country

Common Assassin Bug - Pristhesancus plagipennis 4th Instar Sandstone Country

Common Assassin Bug - Pristhesancus plagipennis 4th Instar With Prey Sandstone Country

Common Assassin Bug - Pristhesancus plagipennis 5th Instar Sandstone Country

Common Crow Euploea core corinna Mating Sandstone Country

Cricket GRYLLIDAE sp. Sandstone Country

Cricket Salmanites taltantris Nymph Sandstone Country

Erebus terminitincta Adult Moth Sandstone Country