Zircons within the Eocence Garford Paleochannel, central South Australia, were derived from two main sources: (1) local Archean-Mesoproterozoic rocks of the Gawler Craton exposed within the paleocatchment, including the 2525-2440 Ma Mulgathing Complex and 1595-1575 Ma Gawler Range Volcanics-Hiltaba Suite, and (2) Phanerozoic sedimentary rocks within the catchment that contribute a late Mesoproterozoic to Cretaceous component of recycled zircons from a variety of primary sources. These sources include the 1190-1120 Ma Pitjantjatjara Supersuite and 1080-1040 Ma Giles Complex, within the Musgrave Province; c. 510 Ma syn-Delamerian magmatism possibly derived from the Adelaide Rift Complex; and Jurassic-Cretaceous zircons ranging from ~220 Ma to ~100 Ma, with one statistical population at 122 ± 3 Ma. It is likely that zircons from these sources outside the paleocatchment were transported into the Mesozoic rocks of the Eromanga Basin within the catchments, before being re-eroded into the Garford Paleochannel. Given the presence of significant gold mineralization within the Neoarchean rocks of the Gawler Craton, the abundance of locally-derived Archean zircons may support the potential for paleoplacer gold deposits within the Eocene paleodrainage system. Likewise, the abundance of zircons derived from the Gawler Range Volcanics/Hiltaba Suite may support the notion that potential secondary uranium mineralisation within the paleochannels may have a source in these commonly uranium-enriched Mesoproterozoic volcanics and granites. Finally, these data suggest that the Garford Paleochannel was not a major contributor to the zircon budget of the paleo-beach heavy mineral sands province of the adjacent Eucla Basin.

Seismic reflection data show the existence of two major sedimentary basins along the continental margin of Wilkes Land and Terre Adélie, East Antarctica, that contain more than 5 s TWT (> 9 km) of sediments. Four seismic megasequences are identified (MS4 to MS1) that are bounded by: basement, unconformities of interpreted Turonian, Maastrichtian and early Middle Eocene age, and the seafloor. The 4-5 km thick rift and pre-rift sediments are concentrated in a margin-parallel basin (Sabrina Basin). On the basis of seismic correlation with the Australian margin, this basin is interpreted to be of Late Jurassic to mid-Cretaceous age. The post-rift sediments are generally thick along the margin and in the adjacent deep-ocean basin, but are particularly thick in a major depocentre off west Wilkes Land, named here the Budd Coast Basin (BCB). The BCB contains a maximum observed thickness of 5 s TWT (9 km) of post-rift sediments and its location suggests that the sediments were largely derived from a sub-glacial basin currently occupied by the Totten Glacier.

Two facies models are proposed to explain siliciclastic and carbonate depositional systems of 1800 Ma to 1640 Ma age in the Western Fold Belt of the Mt Isa Inlier. Both models record the response of depositional systems to storm-driven processes of sediment transport, dispersal and deposition on a shallow water shelf. The same suite of facies belts can also be identified in sedimentary successions of the Eastern Fold Belt. Slope driven processes of sediment transport and dispersal characterise turbidite and debrite deposits of the Soldiers Cap Group and Kuridala Formation and provide evidence for significantly greater water depths in this part of the basin from ~1685 Ma. Through the recognition of unconformity surfaces, their correlative conformities, maximum flooding and ravinement surfaces the facies belts are packaged into 7 supersequences for the interval 1800-1640 Ma. The new correlations are shown in an Event Chart that correlates linked depositional systems across the entire Mt Isa Inlier. Thick successions of turbidite and debrite deposits are restricted to the eastern parts of the Mt Isa Inlier and do not occur in the Western Fold Belt. A major phase of extension and rifting commenced at ~1740 Ma and by ~1690 Ma led to significant crustal thinning and increased rates of accommodation over an area east of the Selwyn Fault and Burke River Structural Belt. In the Mitakoodi and Selwyn Blocks the rapid transition from shallow water shelf depositional systems of the Prize Supersequence to significantly deeper water slope environments of the Gun Supersequence coincided with the development of a platform margin, the deposition of turbidite and debrite deposits in deep water on the continental slope and the intrusion of mafic sills and dykes. Turbidite and debrite depositional systems of the Soldiers Cap Group and Kuridala Formations are restricted to a lowstand wedge of siliciclastic facies deposited basinward of a platform margin. Basin geometries and sediment architectures associated with this extensional event and recorded in the Gun Supersequence (~1685 Ma to 1650 Ma) provide an explanation for the geographic separation and fluid evolution pathways responsible for the Mt Isa Type and Broken Hill Type Zn-Pb-Ag deposits.

A quantitative synthesis of the sedimentology and geomorphology of the South West Planning Region of Australia. Sediment data used was sourced from previous and new quantitative carbonate and grainsize data generated from surficial seabed sediment samples. All sample information and assays are available in the MARS database. The report and new assays were generated as part of an MOU with the Department of Environment and Heritage (National Oceans Office) and the results are reported in a format appropriate for use in regional marine planning.

Literature review and spatial analysis of the sedimentology and geomorphology of the Northwest Marine Region (boundary as defined by the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts 2007). Sedimentology information is based on consistent quantitative point assays of grainsize (weight % sand/mud/gravel) and carbonate content (weight % carbonate) of sediments in the MARS database at 01/08/07.

This record summarises the physical environments of the seabed for the Ceduna and Eyre Sub-basins.

Seabed sediment textural parameters such as mud, sand and gravel content can be useful surrogates for predicting patterns of benthic biodiversity. Multibeam swath mapping can provide near-complete spatial coverage of high-resolution bathymetry and backscatter data that are useful in predicting sediment parameters. The multibeam acoustic data at a ~1000 km2 area of the Carnarvon Shelf, Western Australia was used in a predictive modeling approach to map eight seabed sediment parameters. The modeling results indicates overall satisfactory statistical performance, especially for %Mud, %Sand, Sorting, Skewness, and Mean Grain Size. The study demonstrated that predictive modelling using the combination of machine learning models has several advantages over the interpolation of Cokriging. Combing multiple machine learning models can not only improve the prediction performance but also provides the ability to generate useful prediction uncertainty maps. Another important finding is that choosing an appropriate set of explanatory variables, through a manual feature selection process, is a critical step for optimizing model performance. In addition, machine learning models are able to identify important explanatory variables, which is useful in explaining underlying environmental process and checking prediction against existing knowledge of the study area. The sediment prediction maps obtained in this study provide reliable coverage of key physical variables that will be incorporated into the analysis of co-variance of physical and biological data for this area. International Journal of Geographical Information Science

The Bland Basin is the broad alluviated palaeovalley of Bland Creek, a tributary of the Lachlan River in the central part of New South Wales, Australia, within the drainage basin of the Murray-Darling River System. It covers about 4000 km2 and contains up to 120 m of terrestrial sediments, interpreted as being deposited by alluvial, colluvial, lacustrine/paludal, and aeolian processes. It is undated, but is likely to be coeval with the downstream contiguous fill of the Lachlan River palaeovalley, dated elsewhere by palynology as Miocene to Recent. The southwestern part of the basin has been studied in detail using airborne geophysics (electromagnetics, magnetics, and gamma ray spectrometry) and drilling. The small erosional catchment area of the modern Basin surface has resulted in a paucity of sediment available for deposition in the Basin, but drainage base level has been driven by the rate of sedimentation of the Lachlan palaeovalley downstream of the Basin. Therefore, most of the sediment derived from the catchment has been trapped in the Basin rather than being transported downstream and into the Lachlan palaeovalley, and at times large lakes and/or swamps have formed in the central part of the Basin. The sediments in the southwest of the Basin are dominated by clay and silt, with local sand and gravel, mostly in basal gravelly sand and a sandier interval in the middle part of the sequence. Quartz silt derived from aeolian dust is a major component of the upper part of the sedimentary sequence. Geophysical responses of the sediment include high conductivity due to saline groundwater, low gamma response dominated by thorium decay emissions due to the leached nature of the sediment, and short wavelength-low amplitude magnetic anomalies resulting from local concentrations of detrital maghemite-rich gravel formed during weathering in the catchment area. Other broad valleys draining to the Lachlan River may contain similar mud-dominated Neogene basins.

The writer spent four days in 1949 in the Adaminaby-Kiandra Area with J. Glover mapping the country north-north-east of the present Tunnel Line. In 1951 a fortnight more was spent on the Tunnel Lines themselves by the writer under the guidance of senior geologist D.C. Moye and geologists K. Sharp and C. Wood, who provided a large amount of information not yet available in written form. All sediments in the Tunnel Area are Ordovician, and in the case of the Tumut Pond beds an even older age is possible.

Recently discovered drift deposits on the Antarctic continental shelf provide access to information on the Holocene palaeoceanography of the bottom current regime within deep shelf basins that were previously inaccessible. The George Vth Basin on the East Antarctic margin has been identified by oceanographers as an important source of Antarctic Bottom Water, hence the Holocene history of bottom current activity here may be relevant to variations in bottom water export.