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Lower & Mid Murraylands South Australia |
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Photographs taken of the River Murray at Swan Reach. A unique river of ancient wonder, beauty, and Aboriginal dreamtime beliefs.
The photos feature the river flowing through cliff face refered to as the Mannum Formation.
The formation was exposed by downcutting by the river. The cliffs are generally richly fossiliferous throughout with shallow-water shoreline marine fauna.
The Mannum Formation is thought to be Lower Miocene, 18 to 23 million years old. The Murray Basin appears to have always been shallow in its South Australian portion. Laying of sediment was slow, and strata 1 metre thick may represent up to one million years. |
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A quite peaceful river that has risen, flowed swiftly, and floods severely every 10 to 20 years. |
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Sept 1995, looking upstream from a cliff top look-out 2 miles from Swan Reach. The Aboriginal name for this area is 'Kongorong' home of black swans |
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A mild September day in 1995 on the River Murray, about 3 miles upstream from Swan Reach |
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The area around Swan Reach, is home to turtles, fish, yabbies, lobsters, wombats, kangaroo, emu, lizards, snakes, and hundreds of species of bird. |
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