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The Pirie–Torrens corridor is an approximately 59 km (37 mi) long intermittent watercourse that serves as the only natural outlet of Lake Torrens, a large normally endorheic salt lake in central South Australia.

Only on two recorded occasions — in 1836[citation needed], and again in March 1989 — has Lake Torrens filled high enough to flow out through the corridor to its outlet at the head of the Spencer Gulf.[2][3] The corridor likely flowed in 1897.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Appendix O - Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Sampling in Spencer Gulf: Calibration Report" (PDF), Olympic Dam Expansion Draft Environmental Impact Statement 2009, BMT WBM Pty Ltd., 2009, retrieved 9 June 2019
  2. ^ Bye, John; Stanger, Gordon; Noonan, John (2015). "The major flooding of Lake Torrens in March 1989 (abstract)". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 139 (2): 171–188. doi:10.1080/03721426.2015.1065467. S2CID 83698880.
  3. ^ Williams, W.D.; De Deckker, P.; Shiel, R.J. (1998). "The limnology of Lake Torrens, an episodic salt lake of central Australia with particular reference to unique events in 1989" (PDF). Hydrobiologia. 384: 101. doi:10.1023/A:1003207613473. S2CID 27646645. Retrieved 9 June 2019 – via Australian National University.
  4. ^ John K. Warren (12 June 2006). Evaporites:Sediments, Resources and Hydrocarbons: Sediments, Resources, and Hydrocarbons. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 201. ISBN 9783540323440.


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