Note: Intro -- Preface -- References -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- About the Author -- 1 The Coorong Coastal Plain, Southern Australia-An Introduction -- Abstract -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Coorong Coastal Plain as a Morphotectonic Province -- 1.3 Historical Background -- 1.4 Geological and Geomorphological Setting of the Coorong Coastal Plain -- 1.5 Pre-Quaternary Geology-An Antecedent Framework for Quaternary Coastal Landscape Evolution -- 1.6 Early Notions of Aeolianite Formation and Pleistocene Sea Levels-the Relevance of the Coorong Coastal Plain -- 1.7 Arrangement of This Book -- References -- 2 The Pleistocene Barrier Sequence of the Coorong Coastal Plain, Southern Australia -- Abstract -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Pleistocene Bridgewater Formation-A Record of Successive Coastal Barrier Formation -- 2.3 Facies Associations Within the Coastal Barrier Complexes of the Bridgewater Formation -- 2.4 Sediment Properties of the Pleistocene Bridgewater Formation -- 2.5 Other Quaternary Stratigraphical Units Relevant to the Evolution of the Coastal Plain -- 2.5.1 Coomandook Formation -- 2.5.2 Padthaway Formation -- 2.5.3 Glanville Formation -- 2.5.4 St. Kilda Formation -- 2.6 Early Pleistocene Coastal Sedimentation-Robe to Naracoorte Line of Section -- 2.6.1 Marmon Jabuk Range -- 2.6.2 Cannonball Hill Range -- 2.6.3 Coonalpyn Range -- 2.6.4 Mount Monster Range -- 2.6.5 The Black Range -- 2.6.6 Hynam-Koppamurra Range -- 2.6.7 East Naracoorte Range -- 2.7 Middle Pleistocene Coastal Sedimentation-Robe to Naracoorte Line of Section -- 2.7.1 West Naracoorte Range -- 2.7.2 Harper Range -- 2.7.3 Stewarts/Cave Ranges -- 2.7.4 Woolumbool and Peacock Ranges -- 2.7.5 Baker Range -- 2.7.6 Lucindale Range -- 2.7.7 Ardune -- 2.7.8 East Avenue Range -- 2.7.9 West Avenue Range -- 2.7.10 Reedy Creek Range and East and West Dairy Ranges -- 2.7.11 Neville Range. , 2.8 Late Pleistocene Coastal Sedimentation-Robe to Naracoorte Line of Section -- 2.8.1 Woakwine Range -- 2.8.2 Robe Range -- 2.9 Coastal Plain Sedimentation-Mount Gambier Region -- 2.9.1 Dismal Range -- 2.9.2 Mingbool Range -- 2.9.3 Compton Range -- 2.9.4 Glenburnie Range -- 2.9.5 Gambier Range -- 2.9.6 Caveton Range -- 2.9.7 Burleigh Range -- 2.9.8 MacDonnell Range -- 2.9.9 Robe Range (Canunda Range) -- 2.10 Coastal Plain Sedimentation-River Murray Mouth Region -- 2.11 Summary and Conclusions -- References -- 3 Holocene Coastal Sedimentary Environments of the Coorong Coastal Plain, Southern Australia -- Abstract -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Physical Processes in the Modern Shelf and Coastal Environments -- 3.3 The Terminal Lakes to the River Murray-Lakes Alexandrina and Albert -- 3.4 Younghusband Peninsula-A Holocene Analogue for the Pleistocene Barrier Successions -- 3.5 The Coorong Lagoon and Associated Saline Lake Environments -- 3.5.1 North Stromatolite Lake -- 3.5.2 Dolomite and Pellet Lake -- 3.5.3 Halite Lake -- 3.5.4 Milne Lake -- 3.6 Soft Sediment Deformation Structures in Lagoonal Muds -- 3.7 Holocene Lake Environments Near Robe -- 3.7.1 Lake Fellmongery -- 3.7.2 Lake Robe and Fresh Dip Lake -- 3.8 Holocene Beach Ridge (Relict Foredune) Deposition -- 3.9 Holocene Biogenic Carbonate Productivity: The Robe-Woakwine Marine Corridor -- 3.10 Holocene Coastal Sedimentation, Mount Gambier Region -- 3.10.1 Flint Shingle Beach Deposits, Port MacDonnell to Racecourse Bay -- 3.11 A Dynamic Coastline-Coastal Erosion and Holocene Sediment Budgets -- 3.12 Aboriginal Settlement and Coastal Landscape Interactions -- 3.13 Post-European Settlement Human Impacts on the Coastline -- 3.14 Summary and Conclusions -- References -- 4 Pleistocene and Holocene Volcanic Activity and Neotectonism -- Abstract -- 4.1 Introduction. , 4.2 Pleistocene Volcanism-Mount Burr Volcanic Group -- 4.3 Holocene Volcanism -- 4.4 Petrography and Geochemistry of the Newer Volcanics -- 4.5 Age of the Holocene Volcanic Episodes -- 4.6 Neotectonism -- 4.7 Summary and Conclusions -- References -- 5 Soils, Palaeosols, Calcrete and Karst -- Abstract -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Calcretes -- 5.3 Soils of the Coorong Coastal Plain -- 5.3.1 Terra Rossa -- 5.3.2 Calcareous Sands -- 5.3.3 Podzols -- 5.3.4 Humus Podzols -- 5.3.5 Rendzinas -- 5.3.6 Solodized Solonetz and Solodic Soils -- 5.4 Karst in Paleogene-Neogene and Quaternary Sedimentary Carbonates -- 5.4.1 Cenotes -- 5.4.2 Limestone Pavements -- 5.4.3 Solution Pipes -- 5.4.4 Caves and Sinkholes -- 5.4.5 Naracoorte Caves and Fossil Remains -- 5.5 Significance of Karst Forms in Understanding Coastal Landscape Evolution -- 5.6 Human Impacts on the Landscape -- 5.7 Summary and Conclusions -- References -- 6 Geochronological Framework for the Age of the Coastal Barrier Successions of the Coorong Coastal Plain -- Abstract -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Luminescence Dating -- 6.3 Amino Acid Racemization Dating -- 6.4 Other Dating Methods -- 6.4.1 Palaeomagnetism -- 6.4.2 Electron Spin Resonance -- 6.4.3 Radiocarbon Dating -- 6.4.4 Uranium-Series Dating -- 6.5 Summary and Conclusions -- References -- 7 Quaternary Sea-Level Changes and Coastal Evolution of the Coorong Coastal Plain, Southern Australia -- Abstract -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Relevance of Modern and Holocene Sedimentary Environments and Their Inferred Relative Sea-Level Records for Understanding Pleistocene Sea-Level Changes -- 7.3 Why the Coorong Coastal Plain Is Important for Understanding Interglacial Sea Levels -- 7.4 Early Palaeosea-Level Frameworks for the Coorong Coastal Plain -- 7.5 Orbital Forcing Frameworks for Barrier Ages and Inferred Palaeosea-Levels. , 7.6 Nature of the Pleistocene Sea Level Record Inferred from the Coorong Coastal Plain -- 7.6.1 Uplift-Corrected Palaeosea-Levels Derived from the Coorong Coastal Plain -- 7.6.2 The Coorong Coastal Plain-A Revised Palaeosea-Level History -- 7.6.3 Some Reflections on Sea Level History During the Last Interglacial Maximum (MIS 5e) -- 7.7 The Quaternary Sea Level Record of the Coorong Coastal Plain in a Global Context -- 7.7.1 Pleistocene Sea Levels Inferred from Oxygen Isotope Records -- 7.7.2 Pleistocene Sea Level Records from Other Coastal Regions -- 7.8 Quaternary Evolution of the Coorong Coastal Plain -- 7.8.1 Orbital Forcing and Global Climatic Events: The Early-Middle Pleistocene Transition and the Mid-Brunhes Event -- 7.9 Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Epilogue -- References -- Index.