Geological Survey

Geoscience Publications - Scientific Papers

A selection of externally published papers written by GSNSW staff and collaborators. Compilation of this list commenced in 2010. Papers published in prior years will not be listed here until they are compiled into complete years.

2011

Bruce M.C. 2011. Geodiversity of the southern Barrington Tops lava field, New South Wales: A study in petrology and geochemistry. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 132, 55–69.
Forster D.B., Carr G.R. & Downes P.M. 2011. Lead isotope systematics of ore systems of the Macquarie Arc — implications for arc substrate. Gondwana Research 19, 686–705.
Glen R., Quinn C. & Xiao W. 2011. Island Arcs: their role in the growth of accretionary orogens and mineral endowment. Gondwana Research 19, 567–570.
Glen R.A., Saeed A., Quinn C.D. & Griffin W.L. 2011. U/Pb and Hf isotope data from zircons in the Macquarie Arc, Lachlan Orogen: implications for arc evolution and Ordovician palaeogeography along part of the east Gondwana margin. Gondwana Research 19, 670–685.
Greenfield J.E., Musgrave R.J., Bruce M.C., Gilmore P.J. & Mills K.J. 2011. The Mount Wright Arc: A Cambrian subduction system developed on the continental margin of East Gondwana, Koonenberry Belt, eastern Australia. Gondwana Research 19, 650–669.
Meakin S. 2011. Geodiversity of the Lightning Ridge area and implications for geotourism. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 132, 71–82.
Musgrave R.J. & Fussell M.S. 2011. Paleosecular variation during the Kiaman Superchron: a 1150-year record from glacial varves of the Seaham Formation, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 58, 375–389.
Percival, I.G., Cooper, R.A. Zhen, Y.Y., Simes, J.E. & Wright, A.J. 2011. Recent discoveries and a review of the Ordovician faunas of New Zealand, pp. 421–428. In: J.C. Gutiérrez-Marco, I. Rábano & D. García-Bellido (eds), Ordovician of the World. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, 14. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid.
Percival, I.G., Popov, L.E., Zhan, R.B. & Ghobadi Pour, M. 2011. Patterns of origination and dispersal of Middle to Late Ordovician brachiopods: examples from South China, East Gondwana, and Kazakh terranes, pp 413–419. In: J.C. Gutiérrez- Marco, I. Rábano & D. García-Bellido (eds), Ordovician of the World. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, 14. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid.
Percival, I.G. & Quinn, C.D. 2011. Reassessment of Lower Palaeozoic geology west of the Catombal Range, Wellington region, central New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 132, 221–235.
Sherwin L. 2011. East Gondwana - an extended mobile zone. Siluria Revisited, Ludlow, International Subcommission on Silurian Stratigraphy, Abstracts.
Wan B., Xiao W.-J., Windley B.F., Zhang L.-C., Han C.-M. & C. D. Quinn 2011. Contrasting styles of mineralization in the Chinese Altai and East Junggar, NW China: Implications for the accretionary history of the southern Altaids: Journal of the Geological Society [London]. in press.

2010

Atkinson G., Och D.J. & Percival I.G. (compilers) 2010. Field Guide to the Geodiversity, Geoheritage and Geotourism Potential of the Port Macquarie–Laurieton–Kempsey–South West Rocks region, Mid North Coast of New South Wales. Linnean Society of New South Wales, Sydney.
Blevin P.L. & Chappell B.W. 2010. The use of the K/Rb ratio as a metallogenic discriminant: the example of the eastern Australian granites. Zeitschrift für Geologische Wissenschaften 38, 235–241.
Blevin P.L., Chappell B.W. & Jeon H., 2010. Heat generating potential of igneous rocks within and underlying the Sydney Basin: some preliminary observations p. 18. In: A. Hutton, C. Ward & H. Bowman (eds), Proceedings of the 37th Symposium on the geology of the Sydney Basin. Pokolbin, NSW, May 6–7, 2010.
Blevin, P.L. & Norman M., 2010. Cassiterite — The Zircon of mineral systems? A scoping study, pp. 399–400. In: Geological Society of Australia, 2010 Australian Earth Sciences Convention (AESC) 2010, Earth systems: change, sustainability, vulnerability. Abstract No 98 of the 20th Australian Geological Convention, National Convention Centre, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. July 4-8.
Blevin P.L. 2010. Granite-related mineral systems of New South Wales, Australia. In: N.J. Cook et al (eds), Giant ore deposits down under. Proceedings of the 13th Quadrennial IAGOD Symposium 2010, Adelaide, pp. 27–28. International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits.
Bodorkos S., Simpson C.J., Thomas O.D., Trigg S.J., Blevin P.L., Campbell L.M., Deyssing L.J. & Fitzherbert J.A., 2010. New SHRIMP U-Pb zircon ages from the eastern Lachlan Orogen, New South Wales, July 2008–June 2009. Geoscience Australia Record 2010/31.
Buckman S. & Blevin P.L. (eds) New England Orogen 2010: Proceedings of a conference held at the University of New England, N.S.W., November 2010. University of New England, Armidale.
Burton G.R. 2010. New structural model to explain geophysical features in northwestern New South Wales; implications for the tectonic framework of the Tasmanides. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 57, 23–49. DOI: 10.1080/08120090903416195.
Cooper M., Caritat P. de, Burton G., Fidler R., Green G., House E., Strickland C., Tang J. & Wygralak A. 2010. National Geochemical Survey of Australia: Field Data. Geoscience Australia, Record 2010/18.
Downes P.M. & Phillips D. 2010. Contrasting age and isotope characteristics of volcanic-hosted and skarn-type mineralisation near The Glen, Goulburn, in the Lachlan Orogen, New South Wales. Quarterly Notes Geological Survey of New South Wales, 133, 1–18.
Forster D.B., Carr G.R. & Downes P.M. 2010. Lead isotope systematics of ore systems of the Macquarie Arc — implications for arc substrate. Gondwana Research. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2010.11.010.
Forster D.B., Carr G.R., Downes P.M., Faundez M.V. & Gilmore P. 2010. Tracing metallogenic events in New South Wales — release of the statewide lead isotope dataset. 13th Quadrennial IAGOD Symposium 2010, Adelaide, pp. 34–35. International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits.
Glen R.A., Saeed A., Quinn C.D. & Griffin W.L. 2010. U–Pb and Hf isotope data from zircons in the Macquarie Arc, Lachlan Orogen: Implications for arc evolution and Ordovician palaeogeography along part of the east Gondwana margin. Gondwana Research. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2010.11.011.
Musgrave R. & Rawlinson N. 2010. Linking the upper crust to the upper mantle: comparison of teleseismic tomography with long-wavelength features of the gravity and magnetic fields of southeastern Australia. Exploration Geophysicists. 41(2), 155–162. doi:10.1071/EG09024.
Norman M., Blevin P.& Hough R., 2010. Application of LA-ICPMS to ore deposit research. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 74(12). A765.
Percival I.G., Brock G.A., Valentine J.L., Wright A.J. & Strusz D.L. 2010. 6th International Brachiopod Congress, Excursion E4: Ordovician–Silurian–Devonian brachiopods of central New South Wales. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Field Guide No. 3, Geological Society of Australia, Sydney.
Percival I.G. & Zhan R.B. 2010. Brachiopod-based biogeographic linkages between Eastern Australia and South China in the later Ordovician (Darriwilian–Katian). In: Shi G.R., Percival I.G., Pierson R.R.& Weldon E.A. (eds) Program & Abstracts, 6th International Brachiopod Congress, 1–5 February 2010, Melbourne, Australia, p. 87. Geological Society of Australia Abstracts No. 95.
Percival I.G. 2010. A brief history of trimerellide brachiopods, and the role of pentamerides and megalodont bivalves in their demise. Programme & Abstracts, International Palaeontological Congress, London, June 28–July 3. 2010, p. 310.
Percival I.G. 2010. Ordovician biodiversification trends in East Gondwana: comparison between cratonic and island arc settings. Programme & Abstracts, International Palaeontological Congress, London, June 2 July 3. 2010, p. 310.
Percival I.G. 2010c. Biotic characteristics of deep-water cherts in the Ordovician of Eastern Australia, and their correlatives in Kazakhstan and Scotland. Programme & Abstracts, International Palaeontological Congress, London, June 2– July 3. 2010, p. 311.
Percival I.G. (ed.) 2010. Symposium on Geodiversity, Geological Heritage and Geotourism — Sea Acres, Port Macquarie, September 2010: Program, Abstracts and Field Guide. Linnean Society of New South Wales, Sydney.
Percival I.G. 2010. Palaeontological geoheritage in Australia: is the Paleopark concept the solution to combining preservation and education? In: Percival I.G. (ed.) 2010. Symposium on Geodiversity, Geological Heritage and Geotourism — Sea Acres, Port Macquarie, September 2010: Program, Abstracts and Field Guide, pp. 17–18. Linnean Society of New South Wales, Sydney.
Quinn C.D. & Percival I.G. 2010. Correlating Ordovician elements of the Lachlan and New England Orogens, eastern Australia. In: Buckman S. & Blevin P.L. (eds) New England Orogen 2010: Proceedings of a conference held at the University of New England, N.S.W., November 2010, pp. 276–280. University of New England, Armidale.
Rawlinson N., Kennett B.L.N., Vanacore E., Glen R.A. & Fishwick S. 2010. The structure of the upper mantle beneath the Delamerian and Lachlan orogens from simultaneous inversion of multiple teleseismic datasets. Gondwana Research. doi 10.1016/j.gr.2010.11.001.
Sherwin L. 2010. Gondwanan tectonics and European events in the Silurian of Australasia. In: Time and life in the Silurian; a multidisciplinary approach; Subcommission on Silurian Stratigraphy field meeting 2009, Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana, 49(1), 83–88.
Sherwin L. & Meakin N.S. 2010. The Early Devonian trilobite Craspedarges from the Winduck Group, western New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 131, 111–118.
Shi G.R., Percival I.G., Pierson R.R. & Weldon E.A. (eds) 2010. Program & Abstracts, 6th International Brachiopod Congress, 1–5 February 2010, Melbourne, Australia. Geological Society of Australia Abstracts No. 95.
Wu R.C, Percival I.G. & Zhan R.B. 2010. Biodiversification of Early to Middle Ordovician conodonts: a case study from the Zitai Formation of Anhui Province, eastern China. Alcheringa 34, 75–86.
Zhan R.B., Liu J.B., Percival I.G., Jin J. & Li G.P. 2010. Biodiversification of Late Ordovician Hirnantia Fauna on the Upper Yangtze Platform, South China. Science China, Earth Sciences 53, 1800–1810. doi: 10.1007/s11430-010-4071-3.
Zhan R.B., Li R.Y & Percival I.G. 2010. Brachiopod biogeographic change during the Early to Middle Ordovician of South China. In: Shi G.R., Percival I.G., Pierson R.R.& Weldon E.A. (eds) Program & Abstracts, 6th International Brachiopod Congress, 1–5 February 2010, Melbourne, Australia, p. 125. Geological Society of Australia Abstracts No. 95.
Zhen Y.Y., Burrett C.F., Percival I.G. & Lin B.Y. 2010. Late Ordovician conodont fauna from the Lower Limestone Member of the Benjamin Limestone in central Tasmania, and revision of Tasmanognathus careyi Burrett, 1979. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 131, 43–75.

GS reports – internal publications available in DIGS®
Possible diatremes in the Murray Basin .GS2010/0535
Diamond core tails from across the Thomson, A New Frontiers Initiative GS2010/0173
Glen R.A., Saeed A., Hegarty R., Percival I.G., Bodorkos S. & Griffin W.L. 2010. Preliminary zircon data and tectonic framework for the Thomson Orogen, northwestern NSW. Geological Survey of New South Wales Report GS 2010/0379.

Further publications

Go to Palaeontological publications for a comprehensive list of publications by GSNSW staff and collaborators.

Go to List of Publications, 1875-1994 for a list of published and unpublished publications of the Division of Resource and Energy, Mineral Resources Branch compiled in 1994.