Titles in this newsletter: Platinum group minerals from a layer in the Munni Munni Complex of the Pilbara Block Review of Baas Becking Geobiological Laboratory BMR enhances database activity The Exmouth Plateau revisited Gold medal awarded to BMR Welcome: Dick Henley Palaeogeographic map project Corrigendum: 'Red Book' New Australian distributor Southwest Pacific research cruise Murray Basin subsurface stratigraphic database Towards the integration of image processing and computer graphics in BMR Woodlark Triple junction: Sonar imagery from a spreading back-arc basin Marine heatflow: A new field for Australian marine geoscience Stable isotopic evidence for high rates of organic carbon accumulation in the Late Proterozoic The notion and motion of the Australian lithosphere Computer modelling for gold tax inquiry French expeditions to the southern Kerguelen Plateau Global Geosciences Transect Project Seismic symposium Reflections of an Australian's visit to China: Rifts and resources World Ni resources 1986 BMR Research Symposium, 13-14 November - program Hydrocarbon fluid inclusions and timing of oil migration

Titles in this newsletter: Transpressional strike-slip faulting in the Mount Isa Inlier Sedimentary phosphate discovered on the South Tasman Rise Honour: Dan Bubela Deep-tow side-scan sonar: a new tool for seafloor studies Australian Iron Ore Industry Mission to Brazil, July 1985 Polymetallic nodules: a commercial product or a collectors' item? Erratum: BMR Report 268, Australian Geoscience 1984 Location of the southmagnetic pole737 The Nth-root stack: a process for enhancing the interpretation of geophysical data The oldest age determined for Pilbara greenstones The Ocean Drilling Program: proposed Australasian sites Mineral potential of the southwest Pacific Northeast Australia research cruises Proof of explosive origin for the Lawn Hill circular structure BMR seismic line in SE Queensland probes shallow and deep sedimentary basins Lord Howe Rise cruise: data release Towards the completion of reconnaissance aeromagnetic coverage of Australia Honour: Peter Davies Forthcoming publication: Uranium - world perspective Farewell: Cliff Oilier Research on radioisotope-rich granites International Volcanological Congress, New Zealand: Explosive volcanism, geochemistry, hazards, and metallogenesis US/Australia Joint Scanner Project: Technological advances in remote sensing applied in Australia Otway Basin: Processing of recent regional marine seismic data nears completion Archaean volcanics in the Pilbara Block: Petrogenetic, tectonic, and economic implications of a trace-element study

Titles in this newsletter: Thermogenic gases in the offshore Otway Basin and western Tasmania margin Applied Extension Tectonics 1987 BMR Research Symposium, 24-26 November, Canberra Government Geoscience Database Policy Advisory Committee (GGDPAC) Seabed sampling off southeast Australia Geochemical research cruise off northern NSW finds evidence for new mechanism of marine phosphorite formation North Perth Basin project Recent publications and data releases More power to the Marine Division: RV Rig Seismic's seismic source upgraded Thick-skinned tectonics in central Australia: Deep seismic results from a multidisciplinary study New Hydrogeological Map of Australia Thrust sheets in the northeastern Amadeus Basin, NT: stratigraphic repetition enhances hydrocarbon prospects New model for evolution of Amadeus Basin Book review: Recent advances in understanding Precambrian gold deposits, edited by S.E. Ho & D.I. Groves Chemical modelling of ore fluids: the CSIRO-SGTE THERMODATA programs established at BMR Extensional tectonics in the Tumut Trough BMR completes study of hydrocarbon prospectivity of the Middle Proterozoic McArthur Basin McArthur Basin Bulletin released Seismic survey provides new information on eastern margin of Surat Basin, Qld Palaeogeographic Maps project: drawing to a close as a successor waits in the wings Googong Dam and the Upper Naas Valley earthquake of 4 April 1987 Cadoux earthquake, 7 March 1987

Titles in this newsletter: Graphite-bearing ignimbrites and granites at Croydon, Queensland, and their relationship to gold mineralisation Extension tectonics extended: new results from the Mount Isa Inlier A New Mount Isa Bulletin Collaborative regional geochemical survey in Kalimantan: results of gold analyses New tectonic map of the Tasman Fold Belt System Biomarker research and its application in petroleum exploration Petroleum potential of the Clarence-Moreton Basin upgraded Professor Rutland honoured Bass and Otway Basin study folios ISMI-cobalt: a new report on world cobalt reserves Landsat Thematic Mapper: a valuable geological tool, but... Brave new world in cartography Kimberlites and diamonds in China A possible joint Sino-Australian project in Xinjiang, China Probing the Canning's secrets: a new, five year study Ordovician magmatism, gold mineralisation, and an integrated tectonic model for the Ordovician and Silurian history of the Lachlan Fold Belt in NSW Growth of the Lachlan Orogen by eastwards accretion AMEC's Working Party on Gemstone Processing Bicentennial earthquakes at Tennant Creek Release of the Australian Geomagnetic Reference Field, 1985 New datafile on WA gold deposits Recent publications and data releases

Titles in this newsletter: Rig Seismic inivestigates Tasmanian margin Cambrian palaeogeographic maps published (Palaeogeographic Atlas of Australia) New Southwest Pacific geological map Block and possible terrane boundaries in the Mount Isa Inlier Towards an Australian time scale Epithermal gold, and foreland faulting and magmatism, Kalimantan, Indonesia Release of 'GDA', BMR's new whole-rock geochemical data analysis system Thermogenic gases in sea-floor sediments, offshore Otway and Gippsland Basins Palaeogeography, Sea Level, & Climate: Implications for resource exploration: 1988 BMR Research Symposium, 8-10 November, CanberraBMR publications, maps and data releases, and how to obtain them Recent publications and data releases Issue of Precambrian Research on the Early to Middle Proterozoic of Australia New Davenport Province Bulletin Release of BMR's whole-rock geochemical database 'PETCHEM' Estimation of oil discovery and production in Australia from undiscovered accumulations (onshore) New potential reservoir identified in Clarence-Moreton Basin Is CO2 involved in the migration of hydrocarbons from type-III kerogen? Comparison of Amadeus Basin with Sichuan Basin, southwest China Non-volcanic sources of diamond Non-volcanic sources of diamond: subducted eclogites and peridotite massifs? Use of aeromagnetic flight-lineprofiles: mapping lithologicaltrends in high-grade gneiss Ocean drilling results, S. Kerguelen Plateau New waterguns improveseismic resolutionaboard Rig Seismic Murray Basin Goundwater Project New National Resource Information Centre 'NRIC' Recent symposium, 'Deep Seismic Probing of Continents and their Margins' News briefs [supplement]

Titles in this newsletter: New mapping extends Drummond Basin gold potential Significance of ultrabasic components of the Giles Complex, central Australia Gold potential of early shear zones near Leonora, WA Kalgoorlie regolith results New platinum-group metals report New publications on SW Pacific geology and mineral resources Sequence-stratigraphy, rifts and tides at Mount Isa First palaeomagnetic data:Permo-Carboniferous epithermal activity in the Flinders Ranges? BMR in Indonesia Ocean Drilling Program (Leg 123) drills near Exmouth Plateau Under-way geochemical exploration for offshore petroleum Offshore mineral studies at BMR Bathymetric maps: Offshore Resource Framework Map Series Zeolites and potassium minerals in central Australian salt lakes New facts on old phosphates: Middle Cambrian, Georgina Basin Radioactive tenterhooks Recent publications, maps and data releases BMR publications, maps and data releases and how to obtain them News briefs

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: Triassic and Jurassic carbonate buildups on the Exmouth Plateau Kosciusko geological map heralds new parks mapping project Mapping the offshore Maryborough Basin aboard RV Rig Seismic Otway Basin petroleum accumulations study completed Distributed image processing at BMR A new method of dating Australian Precambrian rocks: Accumulated polar wander The Kakadu GIS High platinum potential in the Lachlan Fold Belt Geochemical discrimination of mafic layered units, eastern Pine Creek Inlier ORGCHEM organic geochemistry database New publications on the Amadeus Basin available soon ODP Leg 121 palaeomagnetism gives new insights into the evolution of Broken Ridge, Ninetyeast Ridge, and the Himalayan collision model Publications and data released during the period 1 March 1990 - 1 September 1990 Bowen Basin tectonic models tested by BMR deep seismic profiles New stable-isotope facility Petroleum source-rock assessment and hydrocarbon generation terrigenous sequences

Titles in this newsletter: Au-Pt-Pd-U mineralisation in the Coronation Hill-El Sherana region, NT Fluid inclusion and oxygen-isotope evidence for low-temperature Au-Pt-Pd(+U) mineralisation at Coronation Hill, NT New results from the BMR Yilgarn granite database: implications for metallogeny, tectonics and lower crustal structure Magmatic and metamorphic evolution and economic potential of the mafic/ultramafic Giles Complex, western Musgrave Block, W.A. 1991 Eastern Goldfields seismic reflection survey Geological investigations in the Kimberley-Arunta region Giant sediment-hosted Pb-Zn deposits: what drives metal enrichment? Metal segregation by magmatic gases - first results from new fluid inclusion technique The Williams and Naraku Batholiths, Mt Isa Inlier: an analogue of the Olympic Dam Granites? New tectonic model for the Cobar Basin, NSW, points to new exploration targets in Lachlan Fold Belt Officer Basin project gets go-ahead Cape York Peninsula update Mapping in high-grade terranes: use of remotely sensed data and airborne geophysics BMR detects hydrocarbon pollution off Sydney