Meaning of gibber plain | Babel Free

Definitions

A large desert pavement.

Australia

Examples

“Gibber plains are often covered with a very open⟳ low shrubland (see⟳ below).”

“We were to learn⟳ also, as we approached Bedourie and Sandringham, that to the east the Simpson Desert is bounded by stony desert or Gibber plain, which interdigitates with the sandhill-claypan country.”

“2011, Julie E. Laity, 9: Pavements and stone mantles, David S. G. Thomas (editor), Arid Zone Geomorphology: Process⟳, Form⟳ and Change⟳ in Drylands, unnumbered page, Gibber plains vary⟳ in character according to local sources of bedrock, with limestone gibbers, for example, adjacent to the northern Flinders Ranges (Twidale, 1994) and silcrete gibbers mantling a deflated surface in the Sturt Stony Desert (Thomas, Clarke and Pain, 2005).”

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