Roe Plains

The Roe Plains is a plain in the southeastern corner of Western Australia.

View of the Roe Plains from Eucla, Western Australia

The Plains are bounded on the north by the Hampton Tableland escarpment rising to the Nullarbor Plain and to the south by the Great Australian Bight.

The Eyre Highway traverses the Roe Plains between the Eucla Pass on the east and the Madura Pass on the west.

The only current human settlements on the Roe Plains are Madura and Mundrabilla roadhouses and the nearby stations — Madura Station and Mundrabilla Station. The Roe Plains extend further west than Madura Pass to the Nuytsland Nature Reserve, roughly south of Cocklebiddy on the Eyre Highway and Nullarbor Plain.

Similar to the caves of the Hampton Plains, Roe Plains have a resource of fossil deposits.[1]

The plains are considered geologically to be late Neogene.[2]

The Roe Plains are predominantly marine dunes on a coastal plain.[3]

References
  1. Kendrick, George W; McNamara, Kenneth J; Brimmell, K; Western Australian Museum. Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences (1997), A guide to the fossils of the Roe Plains, Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Western Australian Museum, retrieved 14 December 2015
  2. James, NP; Bone, Y; Carter, Bob; Murray-Wallace, CV (June 2006), Origin of the Late Neogene Roe Plains and their calcarenite veneer: implications for sedimentology and tectonics in the Great Australian Bight, Taylor & Francis, retrieved 14 December 2015
  3. "Crossing the Nullarbor". Travelling Australia. Retrieved 26 September 2015.

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