In the Geographical Journal (Nos. 1–3, Vol. 109, 1947, p. 157) Dr. R. W. Fairbridge gives details of slight rises of sea-level on the coast of Western Australia. These, as he suggests, can doubtless be correlated with the general recession of glaciers which has definitely been established in the northern hemisphere and of which there is accumulating evidence in parts of the southern.
In the succeeding issue (Nos. 4–6, p. 288) Dr. C. Teichert supplements these remarks with evidence on which these conclusions had been based. He concludes “Western Australia … provides a natural eustatic gauge, equipped with a sensitive recording material. More intensive studies of the coastal physiography of Western Australia such as are now being ably prosecuted by Dr. Fairbridge are bound to result in a better understanding of eustatic movements during the Late Quaternary, especially the Recent, period.”
