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Carboniferous and Permian palynostratigraphy in Australia and Antarctica: a review
Continued research In late Palaeozoic palynological biostratigraphy In Australia since about 1970 permits the delineation of a series of informally defined palynostratigraphic... -
The seafloor geomorphology of the Windmill Islands, Wilkes Land, East...
High-resolution marine sonar swath mapping, covering an area of ca. 33 km2 in the vicinity of the Windmill Islands (67° S, 110° E), Wilkes Land, east Antarctica, permits... -
Quaternary Antarctic ice-sheet fluctuations and Southern Ocean...
In its first three years, the Antarctic CRC s Natural Variability Program has focussed research effort on understanding changes in the extent of the East Antarctic ice sheet,... -
Geochemistry, origin, and tectonic setting of granitic rocks of the Prince...
Granitic rocks in different terranes and of different ages in the Prince Charles Mountains (PCM) show systematic compositional differences. Archaean granitic basement rocks of... -
Geochemistry of Precambrian metapelites from East Antarctica: secular and...
Early Archaean ( >3 b.y. old) metapelites from the Napier Complex of East Antarctica are enriched in MgO and depleted in K2O and Rb compared with late Archaean and... -
Geology of the northern Jetty Peninsula, Mac.Robertson Land, Antarctica, GIS Dataset
The Geology of the Northern Jetty Peninsula GIS dataset contains the shapefiles and tables of the basement geology of the Northern Jetty Peninsula in East Antarctica. This... -
Australian magnetic observatories
Magnetic observatories capable of providing long-period results in absolute measures have been operated in Australia and its territories on and off since 1840. As the first such... -
The late Cainozoic East Antarctic ice sheet
A review, mainly of East Antarctic late Cainozoic (post 40 Ma) geological and geomorphological evidence, supports the hypothesis of the continuous presence of an ice sheet, of... -
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... -
Testing methods for marine sediment characterisation from a nearshore...
This study tested and assessed several methods for identifying and describing physical and chemical characteristics of nearshore sediments in East Antarctica. The study... -
Archaean and Proterozoic geological relationships in the Vestfold...
The Archaean cratonic block of the Vestfold Hills, Princess Elizabeth Land is one of only three well-documented examples in East Antarctica. It is characterised by tectonically... -
Paleocene-Eocene biostratigraphy and palaeoenvironment of East Antarctica:...
The Mac. Robertson Shelf and western Prydz Bay, on the continental shelf of East Antarctica, were the sites of seismic/coring programs in February- March 1995 and 1997, and of... -
Gravity evidence for a major crustal fracture in eastern Australia
Gravity data are presented for 220 sites covering 180 000 square kilometres in the Prince Charles Mountains area of eastern Antarctica. Bouguer anomalies range from +60 m Gal... -
Late Cambrian trilobites from the Mariner Group, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica
This paper describes the youngest Late Cambrian trilobite assemblage so far discovered in the Mariner Group (Bowers Supergroup) northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. It occurs... -
First record of Tethyan palynomorphs from the Late Triassic of East Antarctica
A well-preserved Late Triassic palynoflora from the upper Flagstone Bench Formation, Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica, contains taxa that are also widely distributed in... -
Metasomatic zoning in sapphirine-bearing granulites from Antarctica
Highly magnesian (mg about 98) granulites, containing sapphirine, enstatite, spinel, phlogopite, and cordierite, occur as xenoliths in Precambrian orthopyroxene-bearing granitic... -
Zircon U-Pb ages and geochemistry of igneous and metamorphic rocks in the...
High-grade metamorphic and felsic igneous rocks from the northern Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica, have been characterised geochemically and dated from SHRIMP zircon... -
Geo-heritage of the Larsemann Hills
Video of the geo-heritage aspects of the rocks of Stornes Peninsula, Larsemann Hills -
Extent of Archaean and Late Proterozoic Rocks under the ice cap of Princess...
A helicopter survey has mapped gravity and magnetic anomalies and ice thickness over a 100 km by 100 km ice cap area, inland from coastal outcrops of Archaean and Late... -
Geology of the Stillwell Hills GIS dataset
The Stillwell Hills region comprises granulite-facies gneisses which record evidence for multiple episodes of deformation and metamorphism spanning more than 2500 million years....