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The Gulf Fall and Uplands, an interim Australian bioregion, is located in the
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comprising . Described in IBRA5.1 as "undulating terrain with scattered low, steep hills on
Proterozoic The Proterozoic ( ) is the third of the four geologic eons of Earth's history, spanning the time interval from 2500 to 538.8 Mya, and is the longest eon of Earth's geologic time scale. It is preceded by the Archean and followed by the Phanerozo ...
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Palaeozoic The Paleozoic ( , , ; or Palaeozoic) Era is the first of three geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon. Beginning 538.8 million years ago (Ma), it succeeds the Neoproterozoic (the last era of the Proterozoic Eon) and ends 251.9 Ma at the start of ...
sedimentary rocks, often overlain by lateritised Tertiary material; skeletal soils and shallow sands; Darwin box (''Eucalyptus tectifica'') and variable-barked bloodwood (''Corymbia erythrophloia'') woodland to low open woodland with spinifex understorey." The abbreviation for the bioregion is GFU.


See also

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Geography of Australia The geography of Australia describes the systematic study of Australian sovereign territory, which, in a geographical sense, refers to the mainland Australia (also called continental Australia), the insular state of Tasmania and thousands of L ...


References


Further reading

* Thackway, R and I D Cresswell (1995) ''An interim biogeographic regionalisation for Australia : a framework for setting priorities in the National Reserves System Cooperative Program'' Version 4.0 Canberra : Australian Nature Conservation Agency, Reserve Systems Unit, 1995. Carpentaria tropical savanna IBRA regions {{Queensland-geo-stub