Thematic issue

Contents: 1.Exon N, Hill P. Seabed mapping using multibeam swath-mapping systems: an essential technology for mapping Australia's margins. 2.Harris PT, Howard W, O'Brien PE, Sedwick PN, Sikes EL. Quaternary Antarctic ice-sheet fluctuations and Southern Ocean palaeoceanography: natural variability studies at the Antarctic CRC. 3.Colhoun EA. The Late Cainozoic East Antarctic ice sheet. 4.Quilty PG, Truswell EM, O'Brien PE, Taylor F. Paleocene-Eocene biostratigraphy and palaeoenvironment of East Antarctica: new data from the Mac. Robertson Shelf and western parts of Prydz Bay. 5.McCorkle DC, Veeh HH, Heggie DT. Glacial-interglacial palaeoceanography from Australian margin sediments: northwest Australian margin and Great Australian Bight. 6.Heggie DT, Skyring GW, Berelson WM, Longmore AR, Nicholson GJ. Sediment-water interaction in Australian coastal environments: implications for water and sediment quality. 7.Stagg HMJ, Willcox JB, Symonds PA, O'Brien GW, Colwell JB, Hill PJ, Lee CS, Moore AMG, Struckmeyer HIM. Architecture and evolution of the Australian continental margin. 8.Birch GF, Eyre BD, Taylor SE. The use of sediments to assess environmental impact on a large coastal catchment - the Hawkesbury River system. 9.Ferguson A, Eyre B. Behaviour of aluminium and iron in acid runoff from acid sulphate soils in the lower Richmond River catchment. 10.Longmore AR, Heggie DT, Flint R, Cowdell R, Skyring GW. Impact of runoff on nutrient patterns in northern Port Phillip Bay, Victoria. 11.Heggie DT, Skyring GW. Flushing of Australian estuaries, coastal lakes and embayments: an overview with biogeochemical commentary. 12.Perry CJ, Dennison WC. Microbial nutrient cycling in seagrass sediments. 13.Taylor SE, Birch GF. Contaminant dynamics in offchannel embayments of Port Jackson, New South Wales. 14.Heggie DT, Bishop JH, Evans D, Reyes EN, Lee CS. Methane anomalies in seawaters of the Ragay Gulf, Philippines: methane cycling and contributions to atmospheric greenhouse gases. 15.Williamson PE, Forman DJ, le Poidevin S, Summons RE, Stephenson AE. Where is Australia's petroleum and how long will it last? 16.Shaw RD, Korsch RJ, Boreham CJ, Totterdell JM, Lelbach C, Nicoll MG. Evaluation of the undiscovered hydrocarbon resources of the Bowen and Surat Basins, southern Queensland. 17.Wilkins RWT. The problem of inconsistency between thermal maturity indicators used for petroleum exploration in Australian basins. 18.Kennard JM, Allen GP, Kirk RB. Sequence stratigraphy: a review of fundamental concepts and their application to petroleum exploration and development in Australia.

Contents: 1.Truswell EM, Sluiter IR, Harris WK. Palynology of the Oligocene-Miocene sequence in the Oakvale-1 corehole, western Murray Basin, South Australia. 2.Wellman P, Murray AS, McMullan MW. Australian long-wavelength magnetic anomalies. 3.McClenaghan MP. Granitoids of northeastern Tasmania. 4.Drake LA. The response and calibration of seismographs at Riverview College Observatory, New South Wales, 1909-1962. 5.Wilson IH, Derrick GM, Perkin DJ. Eastern Creek Volcanics: their geochemistry and possible role in copper mineralisation at Mount Isa, Queensland. 6.Sweet IP. Relationship of the Maloney Creek Inlier to other elements of the western Lawn Hill Platform Cover, northern Australia. 7.Withnall IW. Geochemistry and tectonic significance of Proterozoic mafic rocks from the Georgetown Inlier, north Queensland. 8.Shafik S. Cretaceous coccoliths in the middle Eocene of the western and southern margins of Australia: evidence of a significant reworking episode. 9.Jones PJ, Nicoll RS. Late Triassic conodonts from Sahul Shoals No.1, Ashmore Block, northwestern Australia.

Contents: 1.Etheridge MA, Branson JC, Falvey DA, Lockwood KL, Stuart Smith PG, Scherl AS. Basin-forming structures and their relevance to hydrocarbon exploration in Bass Basin, southeastern Australia. 2.Sheraton JW, Ellis DJ, Kuehner SM. Rare-earth element geochemistry of Archaean orthogneisses and evolution of the East Antarctic shield. 3.Page RW, Bower MJ, Guy DB. An isotopic study of granitoids in the Litchfield Block, Northern Territory. 4.Wellman P, McConnell K, Williams JW. Australian gravity base-station network: 1980 survey. 5.Needham RS, Stuart Smith PG. Revised stratigraphic nomenclature and correlation of Early Proterozoic rocks of the Darwin-Katherine region, Northern Territory. 6.Young GC. New discoveries of Devonian vertebrates from the Amadeus Basin, central Australia. 7.Denham D, Jones T, Weekes J. The 1982 Wyalong earthquakes (NSW) and recent crustal deformation. 8.Stait B, Laurie JR. Ordovician nautiloids of central Australia, with a revision of Madiganella Teichert and Glenister.

Contents: 1.Wells AT, O'Brien PE, Willis IL, Cranfield LC. A new lithostratigraphic framework for the Early Jurassic units in the Bundamba Group, Clarence-Moreton Basin, Queensland and New South Wales. 2.McCue K, Gibson G, Wesson V. The earthquake near Nhill, western Victoria, on 22 December 1987 and the seismicity of eastern Australia. 3.Bolton BR, Exon NF, Ostwald J. Thick ferromanganese deposits from the Dampier Ridge and the Lord Howe Rise off eastern Australia. 4.Challinor AB. A belemnite biozonation for the Jurassic-Cretaceous of Papua New Guinea and a faunal comparison with eastern Indonesia. 5.von Rad U, Schott M, Exon NF, Mutterlose J, Quilty PG, Thurow JW. Mesozoic sedimentary and volcanic rocks dredged from the northern Exmouth Plateau: petrography and microfacies. 6.Shafik S. The Maastrichtian and early Tertiary record of the Great Australian Bight Basin and its onshore equivalents on the Australian southern margin: a nannofossil study. 7.Veevers JJ, Stagg HMJ, Willcox JB, Davies HL. Pattern of slow seafloor spreading (<4 mm/year) from breakup (96 Ma) to A20 (44.5 Ma) off the southern margin of Australia. 8.Glikson AY, Mernagh TP. Significance of pseudotachylite vein systems, Giles basic/ultrabasic complex, Tomkinson Ranges, western Musgrave Block, central Australia. 9.Lindsay JF. Forearc basin dynamics and sedimentation controls, Tamworth belt, eastern Australia. 10.Nicoll RS. The genus Cordylodus and a latest Cambrian-earliest Ordovician conodont biostratigraphy. 11.McCue K, Wesson V, Gibson G. The Newcastle, New South Wales, earthquake of 28 December 1989.

Contents: 1.Dent VF. Hypocentre locations from a microearthquake survey, Cadoux, Western Australia, 1983. 2.Glen RA. Inverted transtensional basin setting for gold and copper and base metal deposits at Cobar, New South Wales. 3.Perry WJ, Williamson PE, Simpson CJ. NOAA satellite data in natural oil slick detection, Otway Basin, southern Australia. 4.Stuart Smith PG. The Gilmore Fault Zone - the deformational history of a possible terrane boundary within the Lachlan Fold Belt, New South Wales. 5.Lavering IH. Observations on the geological origin of the 'C' horizon seismic reflection, Eromanga Basin. 6.Jankowski J, Jacobson G. Hydrochemistry of a groundwater-seawater mixing zone, Nauru Island, central Pacific Ocean. 7.Shafik S. Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary stratigraphy of the Fremantle Canyon, South Perth Basin: a nannofossil assessment. 8.Nicoll RS, Shergold JH. Revised Late Cambrian (pre-Payntonian-Datsonian) conodont biostratigraphy at Black Mountain, Georgina Basin, western Queensland, Australia.

Contents: 1.Chaproniere GCH. Pleistocene to Holocene planktic foraminiferal biostratigraphy of the Coral Sea, offshore Queensland, Australia. 2.Nicoll RS. Differentiation of Late Cambrian-Early Ordovician species of Cordylodus (Conodonta) with biapical basal cavities. 3.Matsumoto T, Skwarko SK. Ammonites of the Cretaceous Ieru Formation, western Papua New Guinea. 4.Doyle HA. Earthquake fatalities in Australia. 5.Hopkins D. An overview of arid zone water supplies in Western Australia. 6.McDonald P. Water resources development in the Northern Territory's arid zone. 7.Jacobson G. Arid zone water: a finite resource. 8.Arakel A. Saline water resources in arid zone drainage basins of Australia. 9.Armstrong D. Water and mining in the arid zone. 10.Boyes BA, Hall J. Industrial use of saline water for gold processing in Western Australia. 11.Vellacott S, Nicholson CJ. Progress in the development of a water care ethic for the Pilbara region of Western Australia. 12.Beal A. Low water use horticulture - the Leigh Creek experience. 13.Hazel CP. Great Artesian Basin rehabilitation program. 14.Davis JA, Harrington SA, Friend JA. Unique aquatic communities in the arid zone: how dependent are they on groundwater? 15.Barnes CJ, Jacobson G, Smith GD. High nitrate groundwater in the Australian arid zone. 16.Jolly PB, Chin DN. The Roe Creek borefield, Alice Springs. 17.Walker BW. Aboriginal and islander water supplies: the five R's. 18.Smith I. Alice Springs water management stategy. 19.Smith S. Water usage.

Contents: 1.Stagg HMJ, Willcox JB, Needham DJL. The Polda Basin - a seismic interpretation of a Proterozoic-Mesozoic rift in the Great Australian Bight. 2.Pledge NS. Fossil shark teeth dredged from the Great Australian Bight. 3.Shafik S. Late Cretaceous-Palaeogene nannofossil biostratigraphy of Challenger No.1 well (Challenger Formation type section), offshore Perth Basin, Western Australia. 4.Shaw RD, Tyler IM, Griffin TJ, Webb A. New K-Ar constraints on the onset of subsidence in the Canning Basin, Western Australia. 5.Ghassemi F, Etminan H, Ferguson J. A reconnaissance investigation of the major Palaeozoic aquifers in the Canning Basin, Western Australia, in relation to Zn-Pb mineralisation. 6.Jolly PB, Chin DN. Hydrogeological modelling for an arid-zone borefield in Amadeus Basin aquifers, Alice Springs, Northern Territory. 7.McDonald P. Water resources development in the Northern Territory's arid zone. 8.Vellacott S. Progress in the development of a water-care ethic for the Pilbara region of Western Australia. 9.Wade A. Problem constituents in Australian groundwater drinking-water supplies.

Contents: 1.Senior BR. Mineralogy and chemistry of weathered and parent sedimentary rocks in southwest Queensland. 2.Burne RV, Gorter JD, Saxby JD. Source rocks and hydrocarbon potential of the Palaeozoic in the onshore Canning Basin, Western Australia. 3.Gregson PJ, Paull EP, Gaull BA. The effects in Western Australia of a major earthquake in Indonesia on 19 August 1977. 4.Harvey N, Davies PJ, Marshall JF. Seismic refraction - a tool for studying coral reef growth. 5.Muir MD. A sabkha model for the deposition of part of the Proterozoic McArthur Group of the Northern Territory, and its implications for mineralisation. 6.Rossiter AG. Stream-sediment sampling near two porphyry copper prospects, Georgetown area, Queensland. 7.Colwell JB. Heavy minerals in the late Cainozoic sediments of southeastern South Australia and western Victoria. 8.Backshall DG, Barnett J, Davies PJ, Duncan DC, Harvey N, Hopley D, Isdale PJ , Jennings JN, Moss R. Drowned dolines - the blue holes of the Pompey Reefs, Great Barrier Reef.

Contents: 1.Cull JP, Denham D. Regional variations in Australian heat flow. 2.Sangster DF. Evidence of an exhalative origin for deposits of the Cobar district, New South Wales. 3.Jacobson G, Schuett AW. Water levels, balance, and chemistry of Lake George, New South Wales. 4.Grimes KG. The stratigraphic sequence of old land surfaces in northern Queensland. 5.Burek PJ, Walter MR, Wells AT. Magnetostratigraphic tests of lithostratigraphic correlations between latest Proterozoic sequences in the Ngalia, Georgina and Amadeus Basins, central Australia. 6.Connelly JB. Mode emplacement of the Papuan Ultramafic Belt. 7.Golding LY, Walter MR. Evidence of evaporite minerals in the Archaean Black Flag Beds, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. 8.Colwell JB. Zircons in the granitic rocks of southeastern South Australia. 9.Wasson RJ. The late Cainozoic evolution of the Carpentaria Plains, north Queensland: a discussion. 10.Grimes KG, Doutch HF. The Late Cainozoic evolution of the Carpentaria Plains, north Queensland.