West Australian Plateau

Western Australian Plateau ( Western Australian Plateau ; Eng.West-Australian Plateau ) is an area of ​​ancient flattened relief in Western Australia .

The relief is dominated by desert and semi-desert plains with a height of 400 to 600 m, covered with stone ruins and sands . In the northeast are the Kimberley and Antrim plateau . The northwestern part of the mountain, individual massifs and flat-topped mountains elevated to 1200 m in height ( Hamersley , Nicholson ridges). In the east are the mountains of McDonnell and Musgrave , elongated in the latitudinal direction. Between them lies a sandy hilly plain (800–900 m), covered with salt crust, with lakes Amadies , Hopkins and isolated mountain ranges.

In the southwest, ancient granites and gneisses are exposed. There are hollows , often dry, covered with salt crust on the site of dried lakes . In the southeast, the plateau ends with the erosion-cut ledge Stuart . In the central part are the Great Sand Desert , the stony Gibson Desert and the Great Victoria Desert . The southern part of the plateau is occupied by the karst plain of Nullarbor . In the west, the plateau passes into a swampy coastal plain.

The vegetation cover is sparse: rare Spinifex cereals , thickets of malga scrub.