Landforms and soils of Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve, Western Australia

W. M. McArthur; G. A. Bartle; K. A. Evans; I. M. Tyler

doi:10.1071/PC24092

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Landforms and soils of Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve, Western Australia

W. M. McArthur ^A ^† , G. A. Bartle ^A ^† , K. A. Evans

^B ^* and I. M. Tyler

^C ^D

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- Author Affiliations

^A Formerly of: CSIRO Division of Water Resources, Perth, WA, Australia.

^B School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6845, Australia.

^C CSIRO Mineral Resources, ARRC, 26 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, WA 6151, Australia.

^D School of Earth Sciences/Centre for Exploration Targeting, University of Western Australia, M0006, Perth, WA 6009, Australia.

^* Correspondence to: k.evans@curtin.edu.au

^† Deceased. W. M. McArthur and G. A. Bartle were contributors to the original version of this paper, which was written for a special bulletin of on the natural history of Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve, but never published.

Handling Editor: Mike Calver

Pacific Conservation Biology 30, PC24092 https://doi.org/10.1071/PC24092

Submitted: 27 November 2024 Accepted: 5 December 2024 Published: 23 December 2024

© 2024 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

Abstract

Context

This paper is one of a series on the natural history of Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve on the south coast of Western Australia.

Methods

Landforms and soils of the Reserve were mapped by W. M. McArthur and G. A. Bartle in the mid- to late 1980s with some verification by K. A. Evans in 2023–2024.

Key results

A map of the landforms and soils of the Reserve is presented. The complex and variable topography and soils have arisen through a combination of in-situ weathering processes, transportation of dune sands, and lacustrine deposition.

Conclusions

The topography and soils of the Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve are complex and variable.

Implications

The distribution of the landforms and soils of the Reserve can be explained by the geological and geomorphological framework described in the paper.

Keywords: aeolian, coastal, dune, granite, lacustrine, landform, soil, Two Peoples, Western Australia.

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