Mary River Floodplain Vegetation
Lynch, D; Northern Territory. Department of Lands, Planning and Environment. Resource Capability Assessment Branch
E-Publications; E-Books; PublicationNT; Technical Report No. 08/2015
1996
Mary River
The Mary River Flood Plains are approximately 100km east of Darwin and have a catchment area of about 7700 kn12 (Woodroffe 1993). The headwaters are approximately 18Skm inland. The southeast corner of the catchment includes Coronet Hill and a sandstone/siltstone plateau. Further to the south west in the Pine Creek region are undulating to rolling hills (includes strike ridges) of greywacke, sandstone and siltstone. The west side of the catchment includes undulating to rolling granite rises with some rugged hills. The McKinlay River joins the Mary River just south of the Arnhem Highway. From here the river divides into a series of streams and billabongs which are only connected in the Wet season.
Please replace the current item on the system with this report. This is the original report, produced in 1996 by the then Department of Lands, Planning and Environment. The report was resubmitted in order that it could be correctly filed with a Technical report number.
Introduction -- Climate -- Vegetation -- Method -- References
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Floodplains -- Northern Territory -- Mary River; Vegetation surveys -- Northern Territory -- Mary River Region; Floodplain plants -- Northern Territory -- Mary River Region; Mary River Floodplain Vegetation
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The wet season 'builds up' in September/October and showers may fall up until May with a yearly average total of 130().1 mm. The greatest difference in rainfall between years is 852 mm. With 1949.1 mm in 1995, a 'wet' year and l097mm in 1992, a comparatively 'dry' year. The distribution of the rain across the Wet season varies between years also. For example in 1988/89 the Wet season had a heavy early and heavy late season rain. Whilst in other years especially 1990/91, (refer Figure J) most rain for the season fell in the mid Wet Season (Dec,Jan). Figure 1: 500 400 300 200 100 -+ o Jun Jul Aug 1988/89 Sep A l'erage MOllthly RaillJall Middle Point Oct I Nov Dec Jan - - 1989/90 ........ 1990/91 Feb Mar I Apr _. -. 1991/92 May