Total contribution of six recently discovered submerged coral reefs in northern Australia to Holocene neritic CaCO3, CO2, and C is assessed to address a gap in global budgets. CaCO3 production for the reef framework and inter-reefal deposits is 0.26-0.28 Mt which yields 2.36-2.72 x105 mol yr-1 over the mid- to late-Holocene (<10.5 kyr BP); the period in which the reefs have been active. Holocene CO2 and C production is 0.14-0.16 Mt and 0.06-0.07 Mt, yielding 3.23-3.71 and 5.32-6.12 x105 mol yr-1, respectively. Coral and coralline algae are the dominant sources of Holocene CaCO3 although foraminifers and molluscs are the dominant constituents of inter-reefal deposits. The total amount of Holocene neritic CaCO3 produced by the six submerged coral reefs is several orders of magnitude smaller than that calculated using accepted CaCO3 production values because of very low production, a 'give-up' growth history, and presumed significant dissolution and exports. Total global contribution of submerged reefs to Holocene neritic CaCO3 is estimated to be 0.26-0.62 Gt or 2.55-6.17 x108 mol yr-1, which yields 0.15-0.37 Gt CO2 (3.48-8.42 x108 mol yr-1) and 0.07-0.17 Gt C (5.74-13.99 x108 mol yr-1). Contributions from submerged coral reefs in Australia are estimated to be 0.05 Gt CaCO3 (0.48 x108 mol yr-1), 0.03 Gt CO2 (0.65 x108 mol yr-1), and 0.01 Gt C (1.08 x108 mol yr-1) for an emergent reef area of 47.9 x103 km2. The dilemma remains that the global area and CaCO3 mass of submerged coral reefs are currently unknown. It is inevitable that many more submerged coral reefs will be found. Our findings imply that submerged coral reefs are a small but fundamental source of Holocene neritic CaCO3, CO2, and C that is poorly-quantified for global budgets.

Contents: 1.Cooper WV, McKavanagh B, Boreham B, McCue K, Cuthbertson R, Gibson G. The regional seismographic network and seismicity of central Queensland. 2.Alley NF, Clarke JDA. Stratigraphy and palynology of Mesozoic sediments from the Great Australian Bight area, southern Australia. 3.Shafik S. Eocene and Oligocene calcareous nannofossils from the Great Australian Bight: evidence of significant reworking episodes and surface-water temperature changes. 4.Jones MJ, Truswell EM. Late Carboniferous and Early Permian palynostratigraphy of the Joe Joe Group, southern Galilee Basin, Queensland, and implications for Gondwanan stratigraphy. 5.McCue KF, McArdle A. More on earthquake fatalities in Australia: note. 6.O'Brien PE, Christie Blick N. Glacially grooved surfaces in the Grant Group, Grant Range, Canning Basin and the extent of Late Palaeozoic Pilbara ice sheets. 7.Ferguson J, Etminan H, Ghassemi F. Salinity of deep formation water in the Canning Basin, Western Australia.

Contents: 1.Black LP, Bultitude RJ, Sun SS, Knutson J, Blewett RS. Emplacement ages of granitic rocks in the Coen Inlier (Cape York): implications for local geological evolution and regional correlation. 2.Michael Leiba M, Malafant K. A new local magnitude scale for southeastern Australia. 3.Pain CF, Ollier CD. Ferricrete in Cape York Peninsula, north Queensland. 4.Nicoll RS. Analysis of conodont apparatus organisation and the genus Jumudontus (Conodonta), a coniform-pectiniform apparatus structure from the Early Ordovician. 5.Schairer G, Zeiss A. First record of Callovian ammonites from West Kalimantan (Middle Jurassic, Kalimantan Barat, Borneo, Indonesia). 6.Doutch HF. Aspects of the structural histories of the Tertiary sedimentary basins of east, central and west Kalimantan and their margins. 7.de Keyser F, Noya Sinay J. History of geoscientific investigations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Contents: 1.Bock G. Depth phases from local earthquakes. 2.Lavering IH. Quaternary and modern environments of the Van Diemen Rise, Timor Sea, and potential effects of additional petroleum exploration activity. 3.Stait K, Druce EC. Conodonts from the Lower Ordovician Coolibah Formation, Georgina Basin, central Australia. 4.Bowman JR, Muirhead K, Spiliopoulos S, Jepsen D, Leonard M. A test of a global seismic system for monitoring earthquakes and underground nuclear explosions. 5.Colwell JB, Coffin MF, Spencer RA. Structure of the southern New South Wales continental margin, southeastern Australia. 6.Shergold JH. The Iverian, a proposed Late Cambrian stage, and its subdivision in the Burke River Structural Belt, western Queensland. 7.Wright C, Goleby BR, Shaw RD, Collins CDN, Kennett BLN, Lambeck K. Seismic structure and continuity of the Redbank Thrust Zone, central Australia. 8.Michael Leiba M, Jensen V. The West Tasman Sea (Flinders Island) earthquake of 14 September 1946.

Contents: 1.Nicoll RS, Foster CB. Late Triassic conodont and palynomorph biostratigraphy and conodont thermal maturation, North West Shelf, Australia. 2.Colwell JB, Rohl U, von Rad U, Kristan Tollmann E. Mesozoic sedimentary and volcaniclastic rocks dredged from the northern Exmouth Plateau and Rowley Terrace, offshore northwest Australia. 3.Grant Mackie JA. Mesozoic bivalvia from Clerke and Mermaid Canyons, northwest Australian continental slope. 4.Stanley GD. Upper Triassic spongiomorph and coral association dredged off the northwestern Australian shelf. 5.Campbell JD. Late Triassic brachiopods from a dredge haul on the slope below Rowley Terrace, northwest Australia. 6.Colwell JB, Symonds PA, Crawford AJ. The nature of the Wallaby (Cuvier) Plateau and other igneous provinces of the west Australian margin. 7.Buffler RT. Geologic history of the eastern Argo Abyssal Plain based on ODP drilling and seismic data. 8.Gopala Rao D, Krishna KS, Pillipenko AI, Subrahmanyan V, Dracheva VI, Exon NF. Tectonic and sedimentary history of the Argo Abyssal Plain, eastern Indian Ocean. 9.Exon NF, Colwell JB. Geological history of the outer North West Shelf of Australia: a synthesis. 10.Exon N. An introduction to the geology of the outer margin of Australia's North West Shelf. 11.Crawford AJ, von Rad U. The petrology, geochemistry and implications of basalts dredged from the Rowley Terrace-Scott Plateau and Exmouth Plateau margins, northwestern Australia. 12.Ramsay DC, Exon NF. Structure and tectonic history of the northern Exmouth Plateau and Rowley Terrace: outer North West Shelf. 13.Shafik S. Significance of calcareous nannofossil-bearing Jurassic and Cretaceous sediments on the Rowley Terrace, offshore northwest Australia. 14.Burger D. Palynology of Mesozoic dredge samples from the North West Shelf.

Content: 1.Blake DH, Hoatson DM. Granite, gabbro, and migmatite field relationships in the Proterozoic Lamboo Complex of the East Kimberley region, Western Australia. 2.Black LP, Withnall IW. The ages of Proterozoic granites in the Georgetown Inlier of northeastern Australia, and their relevance to the dating of tectonothermal events. 3.Wright D, le Poidevin S, Morrison G, Thomas R. Potential from enhanced oil recovery applications in Australia. 4.Childs JS, McDonald PS. A preliminary overview of groundwater quality in the Northern Territory. 5.Lavering IH. Gradational benthic marine communities in the Early Carboniferous Rhipidomella fortimuscula Zone (Late Visean), New South Wales. 6.Macphail MK, Kellett JR. Palynostratigraphy of the Bookpurnong Beds and related Late Miocene-Early Pliocene facies in the central west Murray Basin. Part 1: Dinoflagellates. 7.Macphail MK, Truswell EM. Palynostratigraphy of the Bookpurnong Beds and related Late Miocene-Early Pliocene facies in the central west Murray Basin. Part 2: Spores and pollens. 8.Matsumoto T, Skwarko SK. Cretaceous ammonites from south-central Papua New Guinea.

Contents: 1.He F, Conaghan PJ. Diagenesis of Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous sandstones of the Eromanga Basin in New South Wales. 2.Minty BRS, Brodie RC. Mapping 137Cs at Maralinga nuclear test site, South Australia, using conventional 4-channel airborne gamma-ray spectrometry. 3.O'Brien PE, Burne RV. The Great Cumbung Swamp - terminus of the low-gradient Lachlan River, eastern Australia. 4.Foster CB, Gomankov AV. A new structure in pollen assigned to Striatopodocarpites Sedova 1956 and Protohaploxypinus Samoilovich emend. Morbey 1975, from the Late Permian (Tatarian) of the Russian Platform. 5.Foster CB, Balme BE, Helby R. First record of tethyan palynomorphs from the Late Triassic of East Antarctica. 6.Nicoll RS, Romine KK, Watson ST. Early Silurian (Llandovery) conodonts from the Barbwire Terrace, Canning Basin, Western Australia.

Contents: 1.Durney DW, Kisch HJ. A field classification and intensity scale for first-generation cleavages. 2.Mernagh TP, Witt WK. Early, methane-rich fluids and their role in Archaean gold mineralisation at the Sand King and Missouri deposits, Eastern Goldfields Province, Western Australia. 3.Whitaker AJ. Integrated geological and geophysical mapping of southwestern Western Australia. 4.Michael Leiba MO. Fluctuations in seismicity in the Dalton area, NSW, Australia, and their relevance to earthquake forecasting. 5.Ollier CD, Pain CF. Landscape evolution and tectonics in southeastern Australia. 6.Lavering IH. Marine benthic communities in the Early Carboniferous of New South Wales (Visean-Delepinea aspinosa Zone). 7.Palmieri V, Foster CB, Bondavera EV. First record of shared species of Late Permian small foraminiferids in Australia and Russia: time correlations and plate reconstructions. 8.Nicoll RS. Seximembrate apparatus structure of the Late Cambrian coniform conodont Teridontus nakamurai from the Chatsworth Limestone, Georgina Basin, Queensland. 9.Roach IC, McQueen KG, Brown MC. Physical and petrological characteristics of basaltic eruption sites in the Monaro Volcanic Province, southeastern New South Wales, Australia.

Contents: 1.Ewers GR, Mackenzie DE, Cruikshank BI, Andrew AS. Whole-rock regional oxygen-isotope depletion patterns as a guide to epithermal gold exploration in north Queensland. 2.Michael Leiba M, Dennis S. Relationship between body wave and local magnitudes for Australian earthquakes. 3.Nicoll RS, Gorter JD. Devonian-Carboniferous stratigraphy of Quail 1, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia: regional implications for geohistory and hydrocarbon prospectivity. 4.Senior BR, Truswell EM, Idnurm M, Shaw RD, Warren RG. Cainozoic sedimentary basins in the eastern Arunta Block, Alice Springs region, central Australia. 5.McLoughlin S, Haig DW, Backhouse J, Holmes MA, Ellis G, Long JA, McNamara KJ. Oldest Cretaceous sequence, Giralia Anticline, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia: late Hauterivian-Barremian. 6.Wilkie J, Gibson G, Wesson V. Earthquake duration magnitudes in southeast Australia, accounting for site, seismograph and source. 7.Trotter JA, Webby BD. Upper Ordovician conodonts from the Malongulli Formation, Cliefden Caves area, central New South Wales. 8.Warren RG, Thorpe RI, Dean JA, Mortensen JK. Pb-isotope data from base-metal deposits in central Australia: implications for Proterozoic stratigraphic correlations. 9.Wilkie J, Gibson G. Estimation of seismic quality factor Q for Victoria, Australia. 10.Drummond BJ, Goncharov AG, Collins CDN. Upper crustal heterogeneities in Australian Precambrian provinces interpreted from deep seismic profiles and the Kola Superdeep Bore Hole. 11.Mortimer N. Geological note: igneous and sedimentary rocks dredged from the northern Macquarie Ridge, Southern Ocean.

Contents: 1.Powell TG. BMR's legacy and AGSO's mission: strategic influence on the future direction of Australia's national geological survey. 2.Veevers JJ. Australia's buoyancy inherited from Gondwanaland. 3.Coleman PJ. Australia and the Melanesian arcs: a review of tectonic settings. 4.Gunn PJ, Milligan P, Mackey T, Liu S, Murray A, Maidment D, Haren R. Geophysical mapping using the national airborne and gravity datasets: an example focusing on Broken Hill. 5.Rutland RWR. The sustainability of mineral use. 6.Schmidt PW. The sequicentennial of palaeomagnetism and rock magnetism in Australia. 7.Murray AS. The Australian National Gravity Database. 8.Taylor SR. The origin of the Earth. 9.Solomon M, Sun SS. Earth's evolution and mineral resources, with particular emphasis on volcanic-hosted massive sulphide deposits and banded iron formations. 10.Kennett BLN. The mantle beneath Australia. 11.Taylor SR, McLennan SM. The origin and evolution of the Earth's continental crust. 12.O'Reilly SY, Griffin WL, Gaul O. Paleogeothermal gradients in Australia: key to 4-D lithospere mapping. 13.Walter MR, Veevers JJ. Australian Neoproterozoic palaeogeography, tectonics, and supercontinental connections. 14.Davies GF. The mantle dynamical repertoire: plates, plumes, overturns and tectonic evolution.