The regional geography of Kangaroo Island, South Australia
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1959
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Bauer, F. H
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Kangaroo Island is a continental island with an
area of 1,673 square miles which lies across the entrance of the Gulf of St. Vincent. Physically
the Island had its origin in detritus from ancient land masses deposited in a great geosynclinal
basin during the long time span between the Proterozoic and Ordovician time. Orogeny resulting from
the collapse of this structure resulted in the erection of the ancestral Central Highlands of South Australia, in which the area now Kangaroo Island
played a marginal and flanking role; the bulk of the Island has been land since this time. During
Permian time a portion of southern South Australia, including the area now the eastern end of
Kangaroo Island, was covered by a continental glacier which moulded
and modified the sub-mature pre-Permian topography.
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