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Kalbarri National Park is located 485 kilometres (301 mi) north of Perth, in the Mid West region of Western Australia. The major geographical features of the park include the Murchison River gorge which runs for nearly 80 kilometres (50 mi) on the lower reaches of the Murchison River .
Kalbarri is a coastal town in the Mid West region located 592 km (368 mi) north of Perth, Western Australia. [3] The town is located at the mouth of the Murchison River , which has an elevation of 6 metres (20 ft). [ 4 ]
The Tumblagooda Sandstone is a geological formation deposited during the Silurian or Ordovician periods, between four and five hundred million years ago, and is now exposed on the west coast of Australia in river and coastal gorges near the tourist town of Kalbarri, Kalbarri National Park and the Murchison River gorge, [1] straddling the boundary of the Carnarvon and Perth basins. [2]
It is located at 1] [2] about 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of Kalbarri, in the Kalbarri National One of four lookouts in the national park, it is situated on a sharp bend in the gorge. The view includes an excellent section through the Tumblagooda Sandstone , a geological sequence of fluvial and coastal deposits over one kilometre (0.62 mi) deep.
The Murchison River rises on the southern slopes of the Robinson Ranges, about 75 km (47 mi) north of Meekatharra in central Western Australia.From there it flows in a westerly direction for about 130 km (81 mi) to its junction with its largest tributary, the Yalgar River, then west for another 100 km (62 mi) before turning south-southwest for 120 km (75 mi), at which point it is joined by the ...
Shell House is an area of coastal cliffs located between Red Bluff and Bluff Point in Kalbarri National Park in Mid West Western Australia.They are highly regarded for their scenery, and also for the exposures of geological strata, which include Ordovician Tumblagooda sandstone, Triassic Wittecarra sandstone and Kockatea shale.
All following user names refer to en.wikipedia. 2006-10-01 11:37 Mike Bruss 1600×1200× (426166 bytes) Michael Bruss Personal Library Photograph taken Kalbarri National Park 2005
Birds of the area include the emu, although this has been hunted as a pest by the wheat-growing community, and the honey-eating western spinebill.Mammals include the honey possum (Tarsipes rostratus) and the southwestern pygmy possum (Cercartetus concinnus), both of which feed on nectar from the wildflowers.