Category Archives: Desert Pavements
Strzelecki Desert Australia
South of Birdsville you drive the Birdsville track through the Strzelcki Desert. This is white sands powdery fine known as Bulldust. It is very dusty and at times the bulldust collects along the roads and it can be slippery. The roadsides are rich with wildflowers in September http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strzelecki_Desert The Strzelecki Desert /tʃəˈlɛtski/[1] is locatedContinue reading “Strzelecki Desert Australia”
Desert Pavements…Sturt Stony Desert
A desert pavement is a desert surface that is covered with closely packed, interlocking angular or rounded rock fragments of pebble and cobble size. Several theories have been proposed for their formation.[1] The more common theory is that they form by the gradual removal of the sand, dust and other fine grained material by theContinue reading “Desert Pavements…Sturt Stony Desert”
