PHYSIOGRAPHY OF THE SOUTHERN TABLELAND OF N.S.W. 333 



In 1907, J. Griffith Taylor 1 described the Lake George 

 Basin and comes to the conclusion that it occupied an area 

 of subsidence (Senkungsfeld) bounded on the west by a fault 

 plane with a throw of about 400 feet. This he calls the 

 Cnllarin Fault. 



In 1908, Prof. T. W. E. David 2 gave a further description 

 of the glaciation of the Kosciusko tableland with some 

 notes on the physiography of adjoining areas. These notes 

 will be quoted later. 



C. General Description.— The area to be referred to and 

 termed the Southern Tableland, extends from the southern 

 border of New South Wales to that part of the southern 

 railway line joining Goulburn and Oootamundra. A line 

 south from the latter town to the Victorian border forms 

 (approximately) the western boundary, while to the east 

 lies the Pacific Ocean. The line taken for the northern 

 boundary may not be a very natural one, but is convenient 

 for the writer's present purpose. The northern and north- 

 western part of this area is drained by the Murrumbidgee 

 River and its tributaries, the southern and south-western 

 portion by the Snowy and Murray Rivers, while the Shoal- 

 haven and various coastal rivers drain the eastern portion. 

 In it, therefore, lie the sources of some of our largest rivers. 

 The altitude of different portions of this area varies con- 

 siderably, so much so, that it is really a group of distinct 

 tablelands, which are separated from one another in most 

 cases by abrupt differences in elevation. The following is 

 a list of these separate areas, with the names suggested 

 for them together with their approximate elevation above 

 sea-level : — 



Altitude. 



The Yass-Canberra Tableland ... 1,800-2,000 feet 



The Kiandra Tableland 4,800 „ 



The Tinderry Tableland 4,000 „ 



' Loc cit., Vol. xxxn, part 2, p. 335. 2 hoc. cit., Vol. xxxiii. p. 657. 



