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: 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: Finding new mineral prospects with HYMAP: early results from a hyperspectral remote-sensing case study in the west Pilbara Nutrient recycling and benthic activity in a shallow coastal lagoon in Western Australia Crustal reflectivity and bulk seismic velocity: how close is the relationship? Ocean-floor volcanism in the Lachlan Fold Belt: new evidence from the Wyalong area, New South Wales The evolution of geoscientific metadata Scientific visualisation and 3D modelling applications for mineral exploration and environmental management Evidence for possible zinc transport in hydrocarbon-bearing (C1-C9) fluids in the formation of Cobar-style deposits? Preliminary AGSO scheme for standard database entry of sequence stratigraphic units New age constraints for Cu-Au(-Mo) mineralisation and regional alteration in the Olary-Broken Hill region Geochemical characteristics of ca 3.0-Ga Cleaverville greenstones and later mafic dykes, west Pilbara: implication for Archaean crustal accretion Small-angle neutron scattering: A new technique to detect generated source rocks Tectonic provinces of the Lord Howe Rise: 'Law of the Sea' study has implications for frontier hydrocarbons

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

Titles in this newsletter: Prospective hot-dry-rock geothermal energy in Australia Origin and timing of petroleum generation in the Bowen and Surat Basins Image separation for map production Mapping of continental and oceanic crust west and south of Tasmania Sulphur-undersaturated magmatism - a key factor for generating magma-related copper-gold deposits Vulcan Sub-basin, Timor Sea: Clues to the structural reactivation and migration history from the recognition of hydrocarbon seepage indicators A proposed extensional transfer structure in the Archaean of the Eastern Goldfields 'Dynamic data exchange' connections to MicroStation from an Excel spreadsheet The Mount Stavely Volcanic Complex, western Victoria: mainland equivalents of the Tasmanian Cambrian Mount Read Volcanics Magnetic secrets of the Palaeoproterozoic Kombolgie Formation revealed: New insights into geological events in the northwest McArthur Basin from palaeomagnetism

Titles in this newsletter: Potential applications of palaeomagnetism to mineral exploration in the Proterozoic of northern Australia Geology and geological processes of Australian national parks Empirical observations on granite-associated gold ± base-metal mineral deposits in the Proterozoic of Australia Geochronological results from the Eastern Fold Belt, Mount Isa Inlier The relationship between granite composition, host rock types, and Au ± base-metal mineralisation in the Cullen Mineral Field, Pine Creek Inlier Environmental monitoring strategies and non-renewable resources, offshore Sydney Correlation of structurally disrupted layered ultramafic-mafic intrusions in the East Kimberley: Is Big Ben part of the Panton intrusion? Mapping natural hazards Earth science and environmental diversity in the Jervis Bay area Hydrocarbon plumes on the continental shelf Nd-isotopic 'fingerprinting' of Cu/Au mineralisation in the Lachlan Fold Belt Pliocene to Holocene stratigraphic chart for Antarctica records a fluctuating ice sheet Albian and Maastrichtian nannofloral biogeographic provinces in Western Australia: Implications for palaeolatitudes and pole positions for Australia High-nitrate groundwater in the Australian arid zone: Origin of the nitrate, and possible denitrification technology

Titles in this newsletter: 'Australian crustal elements' map: a geophysical model for the tectonic framework of the continent A reality and a winner - automated AF demagnetisation comes of age in palaeomagnetic methodology at AGSO Is oil being generated beneath the northern Arafura Sea? Ocean-bottom-seismograph cruise on the North West Shelf NABRE's first field season facilitates the discrimination of sequence boundaries and maximum-flooding and transgressive surfaces in the Mount Isa-Lawn Hill region AGSO's 'fill-spill ' project: reducing exploration risk on the North West Shelf The Fundamental Gravity Network in Victoria Reworked Ordovician conodonts lead to an enhanced mineral and hydrocarbon potential in the southern Petrel Sub-basin, Western Australia The Broken Hill Exploration Initiative - seeking renewed prospectivity in an historically prospective area of New South Wales and South Australia

Titles in this newsletter: Gold targets in the northeast Duketon 1:250 000 Sheet area, Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia How ancient is the Bungle Bungle Range of the East Kimberley, Western Australia? The Mount Isa geodynamic transect: The deep seismic reflection profile south of Mount Isa and Cloncurry The Mount Isa geodynamic transect: Implications of the seismic refraction model The Mount Isa geodynamic transect: A 2.5-dimensional metallogenic GIS analysis A major magmatic event during 1050-1080 Ma in central Australia, and an emplacement age for the Giles Complex The effective elastic thickness of the Australian crust: a major control on the wavelength and shape of topography and basins The precious-metals potential of the Rockley Volcanics in the Lachlan Fold Belt A continued effort to improve lead-isotope model ages

Titles in this newsletter: Re-evaluating the structure of Broken Hill: Implications for mineral exploration and the interpretation ofairborne magnetic data If only Newton had had AGSO's FieldPad New insights to the evolution of the Bass Basin The use of X-rays and neutrons to evaluate hydrocarbon generation in petroleum-source rocks The age of Cu-Au mineralisation, Cloncurry district, Mount Isa Inlier, as determined by 40Ar/39Ar dating Depths of emplacement of Precambrian layered intrusions in the East Kimberley Petroleum systems of the Bowen and Surat Basins Alteration mineral mapping with the laser Raman microprobe: a new technique Complex attributes: new tools for enhancing aeromagnetic data Crustal architecture in northwest Tasmania revealed by deep seismic reflection profiling Sources of fluoride in groundwater in north Queensland Further constraints on sequence stratigraphic correlations in the Mount Isa, McNamara, and McArthur Groups: The Shady Bore Quartzite-Riversleigh Siltstone transition in the 'NABRE'-hood of Riversleigh, northwest Queensland Source and generation history of Palaeozoic hydrocarbons, Petrel Sub-basin

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