In Australia, the large
endorheic playa lake systems of lakes Eyre, Frome, Callabonna,
Blanche and Gregory are situated in the arid interior of the continent,
and have played a central role in reconstructing regional-scale
changes in paleoenvironments and hydrology (Nanson and Price,
1998). Early studies made use of discontinuous lacustrine sedimentary
archives in the central parts of the lake basins to infer
changes in depositional environments over time (Bowler et al.,
1986; Magee et al., 1995).