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Miocene to Pleistocene foraminiferal biostratigraphy of dredge samples from...
Planktic and larger benthic foraminiferids have been studied in thin section from a suite of dredge samples of two sites on the Marion Plateau, offshore Queensland. The two... -
Application of Landsat-S TM imagery to mapping of the Giles Complex and...
Application of Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper multispectral scanner data to the detailed mapping of the Tomkinson Ranges-Blackstone-Jameson region, western Musgrave Block, provides a... -
Geothermal gradients and heat flow in Australian sedimentary basins
Geothermal gradients in Australian sedimentary basins have been calculated from data obtained from water bores in the Great Artesian Basin and oil exploration wells. The data... -
A non-marine Lower Cretaceous rift-related epiclastic volcanic unit in...
The Early Cretaceous non-marine volcaniclastic Eumeralla Formation accumulated in a rift basin on the southern margin of Australia during the break-up of eastern Gondwana.... -
Aquifer remediation in Australia - current regulatory guidelines, evaluation...
Aquifer remediation is becoming increasingly important in Australia owing to the tightening up of environmental and health standards, and increasing stresses on groundwater... -
Application of aeromagnetic surveys to sedimentary basin studies
While aeromagnetic surveys have been mainly used in the past for mapping depth to magnetic basement of sedimentary basins and for delineating igneous units within the... -
Structure and tectonic history of the northern Exmouth Plateau and Rowley...
A series of regional seismic reflection lines has been recorded, which link three key exploration wells on the northern Exmouth Plateau and Rowley Terrace to the lower... -
Tertiary Foraminiferida and stratigraphy, northern Exmouth Plateau, Western Australia
The foraminiferid faunas of 14 samples of Tertiary nanno foram chalks of Late Paleocene to Early Pliocene age are documented. They are the first described from the Exmouth... -
Fossil woods from the Upper Permian Bainmedart Coal Measures, northern...
Upper Permian silicified gymnospenn woods from the Bainmedart Coal Measures (Amery Group) near Beaver Lake, East Antarctica, are described as two new species, Australoxylon... -
Water supply and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health: an overview
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have lived successfully on the Australian continent for at least 40 000 years. Their quest for water, based on an intimate knowledge... -
Soil genesis in a longitudinal dune-swale landscape, New South Wales, Australia
Dune soils in a longitudinal dune-swale landscape in the Kulwin Dunefield, east of the Darling River, in New South Wales, are classified as Xeric Haplargids in fine-loamy,... -
Environmental and urban geology in Australia: workshop meeting of government...
Environmental and urban geology is an expanding field in which the government geological surveys are inevitably becoming more involved. Throughout the world, pressures for urban... -
The Lithgow earthquake of 13 February 1985: macro seismic effects
The Lithgow earthquake of magnitude ML 4.3, which took place on 13 February 1985, was the largest earthquake to have occurred in the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales... -
The geology and magnetic characteristics of precious opal deposits,...
Precious opal in southwest Queensland is found within a weathered profile developed in sedimentary rocks of the Cretaceous Winton Formation. This kaolinitic profile is the... -
Saline water disposal options in the Murray Basin
Large volumes of saline water are produced in the Murray Basin, principally from naturally occurring saline groundwater discharge to rivers and lakes and discharge induced by... -
The origin and evolution of the Earth's continental crust
The present upper crustal composition of the Earth is attributed largely to intracrustal differentiation, resulting in the production of K-rich granites. The crust grows... -
The gravity field of offshore Australia
The free-air anomaly field of offshore Australia has been divided into about fifty regional gravity provinces, each of which is characterized by uniformity of trend, free-air... -
Palaeontological evidence for the Early Cambrian age of the Bukalara...
The Bukalara sandstone overlies the Proterozoic rocks of the McArthur Basin, Northern Territory. Trace fossils are present in it at 5 localities on the Mount Young 1:250 000... -
Cretaceous ammonites from south-central Papua New Guinea
Eleven ammonite species, including one new taxon, are described from eleven localities in the south-central Papua New Guinea. One of them, Fauriella boissieri (Pictet), is a...