Titles in this newsletter: Mike Etheridge on 'Recent and Future Trends in Geoscience Mapping' Irian Jaya full-colour geoscientific maps released Dr Stan Ozimic Recognising sinters in epithermal gold deposits Plotting spatial data held in an RDBMS Present-day formation waters provide clues to origins of Canning Basin Zn-Pb deposits Geoscience Mapping Towards the 21 st Century: 1989 BMR Research Symposium, 7-9 November, Canberra The airship and the earth scientist Abolition of the Resource Assessment Division and the transfer of functions World graphite resources report New study completed on Bonaparte Basin petroleum accumulations Regional seismic profiling provides new information on tectonic evolutionand possible petroleum plays in the Amadeus Basin, central Australia National Geoscience Mapping Accord Recent publications, maps and data releases BMR publications, maps and data releases and how to obtain them News briefs

Titles in this newsletter: Localisation of mineralisation at Coronation Hill, etc. High-uranium granites and uranium deposits, Kakadu region Stream-sediment geochemistry, Kakadu Conservation Zone New results from the Mount Isa Geotraverse Localisation of the Sons of Gwalia gold deposit, WA LEONORA (WA) geological sheets released GDA upgrade Deep-sea polymetallic sulphides Mud Tank Carbonatite Finger-printing diamonds using nitrogen Workshop on hydrodynamics of basin fluids BMR Mineral Data Analysis System (MDA) Northern Drummond Basin epithermal gold setting Chemical modelling of Canning Basin Zn-Pb deposits Intraplate Volcanism in Eastern Australia & New Zealand Do lamprophyres have high precious-metal contents? Giles Complex, central Australia

Titles in this newsletter: Multibeam sonar reveals sea-bed structure and processes off east Tasmania and Gippsland The continental margin off west Tasmania, and Tasmania's marginal plateaus Multiple filling history in the Gilmore gas field, Adavale Basin, central Queensland Archaean geology of the Lake Violet 1:100 000 Sheet area, Yandal greenstone belt, Eastern Goldfields Province, Western Australia Oil families, petroleum systems and supersystems: North West Shelf and eastern Indonesian synergies - today Australia, tomorrow the world! Lineament interpretation for groundwater assessment in arid central Australia Are there Voisey's Bay-type Ni-Cu-Co sulphide deposits in the East Kimberley of Western Australia? Speculations relating to the layered mafic-ultramafic intrusions of the East Kimberley, Western Australia Nutrients, catchment run-off, and estuarine response in the Swan-Canning estuary, Western Australia Solid geology of the Nabberu 1:250 000 Sheet area, Western Australia

Titles in this newsletter: A newly discovered major Proterozoic granite-alteration system in the Mount Webb region, central Australia, and implications for Cu-Au mineralisation A Mesoproterozoic palaeomagnetic age for the gold-bearing Quamby Conglomerate, Queensland A comparison of Ordovician and Devonian magmatism in the eastern Lachlan Fold Belt: re-evaluating exploration targets AGSO's new confocal laser Raman microprobe Problems with the Cretaceous biostratigraphic system of Australia: time for a review Gamma-ray spectrometric data: modelling to map primary lithology and later chemical mobilisation Using images in a geological interpretation of magnetic data Average composition of the crust in the Australian, Fennoscandian and Ukrainian shields from refraction seismic studies and petrophysical modelling Shrimp U-Pb dating of ignimbrites in the Pul Pul Rhyolite, Northern Territory: A cautionary tale New Nd-isotopic and geochemical data from the west Pilbara: Implications for Archaean crustal accretion and shear zone movement Basement studies in basin analysis: new insights into the evolution of the Lawn Hill Platform

Titles in this newsletter: New clues to petroleum prospectivity of offshore Philippines Basins with AGSO surface geochemical (DHD) techniques Palaeomagnetism delivers a 'whopper' on the southeastern McArthur Basin Geometry of Gunnedah Basin and New England Orogen examined by AGSO deep seismic profile The role of position-located whole-rock geochemical data in exploration Contact relationships and structure of the Hinckley Gabbro and environs, Giles Complex, Western Musgrave Block, W.A. Chinese earthquakes to rock Australian buildings Zircon U/Pb chronology, tectono-thermal and crust-forming events in the Tomkinson Ranges, Musgrave Block, Central Australia Aquifers at risk: towards a national groundwater quality perspective Salt lake dynamics, wastewater disposal and evaporation basins New mapping in the Bathurst Sheet area - increased metallogenic potential Sequence stratigraphic interpretation of Bowen and Surat Basin successions, Taroom region, Queensland The magnetic anomaly map of Australia

Titles in this newsletter: Gold mineral systems in the Tanami region: New insights from NTGS-AGSO research A mineralssystems approach to mapping Australia's endowment Sources of organic matter in Wallis Lake Publications involving AGSO authors: December 2000 to April 2001 North Pilbara National Geoscience Mapping Accord project (1995-2000): Scientific highlights Metallogenic potential of mafic-ultramafic intrusions in the Arunta Province, central Australia: Some new insights Rapid mapping of soils and salt stores: Using airborne radiometrics and digital elevation models

Titles in this newsletter: Development of new play concepts using sequence stratigraphy: Devonian- Carboniferous, Canning Basin, Western Australia Ashmore-Cartier prospectivity study, Bonaparte Basin: Ashmore Platform, Vulcan Sub-basin, and Jabiru Terrace Multidisciplinary studies in the Vulcan Sub-basin,Timor Sea Browse Basin Petroleum Prospectivity Study Absolute magnitude of Neogene sea-level fluctuations Eyre Sub-basin: structural framework and hydrocarbon potential Enhanced oil recovery: results and opportunities Towards a balanced future BMR marine program: new basins, new approaches, new ideas Seismic interpretation and mapping of the western Tasmanian margin Age control on sedimentary sequences A prospective sequence in the northern Arafura Basin, NT Preliminary interpretations of BMR and industry seismic from sedimentary basins in eastern Australia Controls on composition of oils and source rocks Palaeogeographic, palaeoenvironmental and age controls on the composition of petroleum source rocks and their derived oils Current development of the BMR National Petroleum Database

Titles in this newsletter: BMR strikes the world's oldest oil Murray Basin: Mid-Tertiary palynological biostratigraphy and climate Heard on the Kerguelen Plateau Structural and tectonic styles in the Eromanga Basin Farewell: John Ferguson Microbiologically enhanced oil recovery Database directory New source for industrial minerals' prices Reviews: Selected recent publications Characterisation of Australian petroleum accumulations BMR's new numerical resevoir simulator PASSCAL: a new high-resolution seismic study of the continents BMR's marine tau-p studies in preparation for a survey of the Exmouth Plateau Central Eromanga region: new ideas on the maturation history and development In-situ crustal stress measurements A new advance in dating weathered profiles BMR's contribution to the Circum-Pacific Map Project Reservoir fluid (PVT) analysis Publication of Project Investigator-1 charts Crustal geophysics research in Europe Highlights of a recent phosphate workshop and symposium, SE USA Review: The Canberra Geomagnetic Workshop, May 1985 BMR's Intergraph workstation Australia/USSR Earth-science co-operation Honour: Liz Truswell New image-processed magnetics for the 'Top End' GPS surveying for the Earth sciences Hydrocarbon indications off western Tasmania

Titles in this newsletter: New models for extension tectonics, and their implications for Australian geology Uranium biogeochemistry in the Pine Creek Geosyncline Honour: David Denham Database advances in palaeomagnetic data processing Gold mineralisation at Pine Creek Geomagnetic observations at Cape Denison New source for daily metal prices Reviews: Selected recent BMR publications New focus in the search for uranium deposits New probe for Division of Petrology & Geochemistry New Ireland Basin petroleum prospectiveness SG2: GSA's Special Group on Solid-Earth Geophysics Ore distribution in the Pine Creek Geosyncline Honour: Mike McElhinny Developing models for gold genesis in northern Queensland Retirement: Keith Carter Gravity units - correction and apology Oolong earthquake series, August-December 1984 Nappe tectonics in the Mount Isa Inlier West Woodlark Basin: structure and potential seafloor mineralisation Australia's first Laser Raman microprobe Distribution of phosphate deposits around the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary BMR's down-hole EM omnidirectional probe Lower Proterozoic migmatites in the Mount Isa Inlier Chemical evolution of Proterozoic felsic igneous rocks Lachlan Fold Belt: magmatic controls of mineralisation Terrains or terranes? Image-processed data: key to the compilation of magnetic maps for enhanced interpretation A new style of mineralisation iin Australia - fact or fantasy?

Titles in this newsletter: Nutrients from sediments: Implications for algal blooms in Myall Lakes More sources for gas and oil in Perth Basin: Study highlights potential for multiple petroleum systems The importance of the 'backend' to online delivery of geoscience information Minerals laboratory staff develops new ICP-MS preparation method Bonaparte Basin: Geochemical characteristics of hydrocarbon families and petroleum systems Customised regolith maps incorporate hydrologic modelled attributes for geochemical exploration Publications involving AGSO authors:May-November 2000