gibber plain

== English == === Etymology === From gibber (“stone”) + plain. === Pronunciation === === Noun === gibber plain (plural gibber plains) (Australia) A large desert pavement. 2011, Julie E. Laity, 9: Pavements and stone mantles, David S. G. Thomas (editor), Arid Zone Geomorphology: Process, Form and Change in Drylands, unnumbered page, Gibber plains vary in character according to local sources of bedrock, with limestone gibbers, for example, adjacent to the northern Flinders Ranges (Twidale, 1994) and silcrete gibbers mantling a deflated surface in the Sturt Stony Desert (Thomas, Clarke and Pain, 2005). ==== Synonyms ==== stony desert, stony mantle