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Are all Australian deserts sandy

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10y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

Not at all. There are large tracts of sandy desert in Austalia, but many of the deserts are composed of clay-like soils, saltpans, or gibber. Gibber means a flat, treeless desert with a surface of many small pebbles and stones.

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