GEOMORPHOLOGY REPORT - CRC LEME

1 INTRODUCTION
This study covers the River Murray Corridor (RMC) between Merbein and the South
Australian Border (Figure 1).
Figure 1. The Lindsay-Wallpolla and Lake Victoria-Darling Anabranch study area. Green boxes
from left to right are for Figures 10, 9, 19, and 8, respectively.
The two main areas of interest are Lindsay and Wallpolla “islands”, areas of the floodplain
largely isolated by secondary anastomosing channels branching off from the Murray River,
and the matching floodplain on the New South Wales side of the River. The area was visited
by the authors between the 17 th and 26 th of January (Figure 2). The aim of this visit was to
validate landforms units mapped on the DEM and satellite imagery and to collect soil samples
for ground truthing of the physical and chemical properties of the surface materials..
Figure 2. Typical landscape close to Murray River on Wallpolla Island
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