(A) Physical Significance. 

 It will be advisable here to briefly summarise the main 



topographic features of Kast.ern Australia and to ascertain 

 their relationships to the topography of the associated 



coastal, ami a continental shelf area. Kaeh is roughly 

 parallel to the coast line, and each presents a convex front 

 to the Pacific Ocean. The Victorian Alps lag several 

 hundreds of miles behind the apparent motion of the Queens- 

 land ami Xew South Wales highlands towards the Pacific. 



time. The plateaus fall away in terraces, in senkungsfelder 



faulted blocks in the central highland* is incomplete, nnil 

 the complete dissection of the plateau, even by canons, is 

 still far away in time. Thus the Snowy drains several 

 distinct faulted blocks, and each block serves as a tempor- 



y the upfaultcd mass of Kosciusko 

 ich open out on to the undissected 

 The Dalgety plateau is still nu- 

 ll block to the immediate south of 



