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Recent Advances in Science in Western Australia Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 83:41-57, 2000 Earth Sciences p 41, Biological Sciences p 45, Agricultural Sciences p 51, Chemical Sciences p 54 Earth Sciences BIROL F & MORROW R 1999 A study of the south-east Indian Ocean from altimetric, wind and XBT data Physics AHAMMAD H & CLEMENTS K W 1999 What does & Chemistry of the Earth Part A-Solid Earth & Geodesy minerals growth mean to Western Australia? Resources 24:387-391. Policy 25:1-14. BOLCH C J S, ORR P T, JONES G J & BLACKBURN S I 1999 ALLOUC J, SAMAMA J C & FAUVEL P J 1999 Iron-titanium Genetic, morphological, and toxicological variation rich grains occurring along the coastline of Senegal — among globally distributed strains of Nodularia Characterization and a study of their origins. Journal of (Cyanobacteria). J Phycol 35:339-355. African Earth Sciences 28:553-580. BOUDREAU A E & MEURER W P 1999 Chromatographic AMELIN Y, LEE D C, HALLIDAY A N & PIDGEON R T separation of the platinum-group elements, gold, metals 1999 Nature of the Earth’s earliest crust from hafnium and sulfur during degassing of a compacting and igneous isotopes in detrital zircons. Nature 399:252-255. crystal pile. Contributions to Mineralogy & Petrology ARCHBOLD N W 1999 Permian Gondwanan correlations: 134:174-185. the significance of the western Australian marine Permian. Journal of African Earth Sciences 29:63-75. BROCKS J J, LOGAN G A, BUICK R & SUMMONS R E 1999 Archean molecular fossils and the early rise of ARNDT N 1999 Why was flood volcanism on submerged eukaryotes. Science 285:1033-1036. continental platforms so common in the Precambrian? Precambrian Research 97:155-164. BROWN M A N, JOLLY R J H, STONE W & COWARD M P BAGAS L 1999 Early tectonic history of the Marymia Inlier 1999 Nickel ore troughs in Archaean volcanic rocks, and correlation with Archaean Yilgarn Craton, Western Kambalda, Western Australia: indicators of early Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 46:115-125. extension. Fractures, Fluid Flow and Mineralization:197- 211. BARLEY M E & PICKARD A L 1999 An extensive, crustally- derived, 3325 to 3310 Ma silicic suite in the eastern Pilbara BRUGUIER O, BOSCH D, PIDGEON R T, BYRNE D I & Craton: evidence from the Kelly Dome and Corunna HARRIS L B 1999 U-Pb chronology of the Northampton Downs Batholith. Precambrian Research 96:41-62. Complex, Western Australia - evidence for Grenvillian BARLEY M E, PICKARD A L, HAGEMANN S G & sedimentation, metamorphism and deformation and FOLKERT S L 1999 Hydrothermal origin for the 2 billion geodynamic implications. Contributions to Mineralogy & year old Mount Tom Price ore deposit, Hamersley Petrology 136:258-272. Province, Western Australia. Mineralium Deposita 34:784- CAS R, SELF S & BERESFORD S 1999 The behaviour of the 789. fronts of komatiite lavas in medial to settings. Earth & BARNES R W & HILL R S 1999 Macrofossils of Callicoma and Planetary Science Letters 172:127-139. Codia (Cunoniaceae) from Australian cainozoic sediments. CAWTHORN R G 1999 Platinum-group element Australian Systematic Botany 12:647-670. mineralization in the Bushveld Complex - a critical BARNES S J & BRAND N W 1999 The distribution of Cr, Ni, reassessment of geochemical models. South African and chromite in komatiites, and application to exploration Journal of Geology 102:268-281. for komatiite-hosted nickel sulfide deposits. Economic CHENG C Y, MISRA V N, CLOUGH J & MUN R 1999 Geology & the Bulletin of the Society of Economic 94:129- Dephosphorisation of Western Australian iron ore by 132. hydrometallurgical process. Minerals Engineering BARRIE C T, CORFU F, DAVIS P, COUTTS A C & 12:1083-1092. MACEACHERN D 1999 Geochemistry of the Dundonald CLARK D J, KINNY P D, POST N J & HENSEN B J 1999 komatiite-basalt suite and genesis Dundeal Ni deposit, Relationships between magmatism, metamorphism and Abitibi subprovince, Canada. Economic Geology & the deformation in Fraser Complex, Western Australia: Bulletin of the Society of Economic 94:845-866. constraints from new SHRIMP U-Pb zircon BARRIE I J & TOURET J L R 1999 Fluid inclusion studies of geochronology. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences gold-bearing quartz veins from the deposit, Sula 46:923-932. Mountains greenstone belt, Masumbiri, Sierra Leone. Ore CLARKE C J, BELL R W, HOBBS R J & GEORGE R J 1999 Geology Reviews 14:203-225. Incorporating geological effects in modeling of BAYUSENO A P, LATELLA B A & O’CONNOR B H 1999 revegetation for salt-affected landscapes. Environmental Resistance of alumina-spodumene ceramics to thermal Management 24:99-109. shock. Journal of the American Ceramic Society 82:819- 824. COLLINS W J & VAN KRANENDONK M J 1999 Model for the development of kyanite during partial convective of BEAUMONT V & ROBERT F 1999 Nitrogen isotope ratios of Archean granite-greenstone terranes: the Pilbara Craton, kerogens in Precambrian cherts: a record of the evolution Australia. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 17:145-156. of atmosphere chemistry? Precambrian Research 96:63-82. BENEDIX G K, KEIL K & MURAKAMI J Y 1999 CONDIE K C & MYERS J S 1999 Mesoproterozoic Fraser Classification of ten new Nullarbor Region meteorites. Complex: geochemical evidence for multiple subduction- Meteoritics 34:813-815. related sources of lower crustal rocks in the Albany- Orogen, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Earth © Royal Society of Western Australia 2000 Sciences 46:875-882. 41 Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 83(1), March 2000 COTTER K L 1999 Microfossils from Neoproterozoic GERSBACH G H, PATTIARATCHI C B, IVEY G N & Supersequence 1 of the Officer Western Australia. CRESSWELL G R 1999 Upwelling on the south-west coast Alcheringa 23:63-86. of Australia - source of the Capes Current? Continental CRAME J A, MCARTHUR J M, PIRRIE D & RIDING J B Shelf Research 19:363-400. 1999 Strontium isotope correlation of the basal GHADERI M, PALIN J M, CAMPBELL I H & SYLVESTER P Maastrichtian Stage in Antarctica to the European and US J 1999 Rare earth element systematics in scheelite from biostratigraphic schemes. Journal of the Geological hydrothermal deposits in the Kalgoorlie-Norseman Society 156:957-964. region, Western Australia. Economic Geology & the DALSTRA H J, RIDLEY J R, BLOEM E J M & GROVES D I Bulletin of the Society of Economic 94:423-437. 1999 Metamorphic evolution of the central Southern Cross GRAHAM S, LAMBERT D D, SHEE S R, SMITH C B & Province, Craton, Western Australia. Australian Journal REEVES S 1999 Re-Os isotopic evidence for Archean of Earth Sciences 46:765-784. lithospheric mantle beneath Kimberley block, Western DAMMER D, MCDOUGALL I & CHIVAS A R 1999 Timing Australia. Geology 27:431-434. of weathering-induced alteration of manganese deposits GRAMMER G M, CRESCINI C M, MCNEILL D F & in western Australia: Evidence from K/Ar and Ar-40/Ar- TAYLOR L H 1999 Quantifying rates of syndepositional 39 dating. Economic Geology & the Bulletin of the Society marine cementation in deeper platform environments - of Economic 94:87-108. New insight into a fundamental process. Journal of DAVY R, PIRAJNO F, SANDERS A J & MORRIS P A 1999 Sedimentary Research Section A-Sedimentary Petrology Regolith geochemical mapping as an adjunct to geological & Processes 69:202-207. mapping exploration; examples from three contiguous GREY K & BLAKE D H 1999 Neoproterozoic (Cryogenian) Proterozoic basins in Western Australia. Journal of stromatolites from the Wolfe Basin, Kimberley, Western Geochemical Exploration 66:37-53. Australia: correlation with the Centralian Superbasin. DE NICOLA A & RANDOLPH M F 1999 Centrifuge Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 46:329-341. modelling of pipe piles in sand under axial loads. GUO B, ZHU R X, DING Z L & SUN J M 1999 Upper Geotechnique 49:295-318. Jaramillo polarity transition and short geomagnetic event EDGECOMBE G D & MORGAN H 1999 Synaustrus and the in a loess section at Jingbian, northern China. Chinese euthycarcinoid puzzle. Alcheringa 23:193-213. Science Bulletin 44:1907-1914. EL TABAKH M, GREY K, PIRAJNO F & SCHREIBER B C HENG I S, TOBAR M E & BLAIR D G 1999 Filtering and 1999 Pseudomorphs after evaporitic minerals interbedded calibration of data from a resonant-mass antenna. with 2.2 Ga stromatolites of the Yerrida Basin, Western Classical & Quantum Gravity 16:3439-3456. Australia: Origin and significance. Geology 27:871-874. HOBDAY D K & GALLOWAY W E 1999 Groundwater ERIKSSON P G, MAZUMDER R, SARKAR S, BOSE P K, processes acid sedimentary uranium deposits. ALTERMANN W & VAN DER MERWE R 1999 The 2.7- Hydrogeology Journal 7:127-138. 2.0 Ga volcano-sedimentary record of Africa, India and HOCH M 1999 Geochemistry and petrology of ultramafic Australia: evidence for global and local changes in sea lamprophyres from Oasis, East Antarctica. Mineralogy & level and continental freeboard. Precambrian Research Petrology 65:51-67. 97:269-302. HOFFMAN P F 1999 The break-up of Rodinia, birth of ESAT T M, MCCULLOCH M T, CHAPPELL J, PILLANS B & Gondwana, true polar wander and snowball Earth. OMURA A 1999 Rapid fluctuations in sea level recorded Journal of African Earth Sciences 28:17-33. at Huon Peninsula during penultimate deglaciation. HOFMANN H J, GREY K, HICKMAN A H & THORPE R I Science 283:197-201. 1999 Origin of 3.45 Ga coniform stromatolites in FATMI A N & KENNEDY W J 1999 Maastrichtian Warrawoona Group, Western Australia. Geological ammonites from Balochistan, Pakistan. Journal of Society of America Bulletin 111:1256-. Paleontology 73:641-662. HOLLINGS P & KERRICH R 1999 Trace element systematics FUJIYASU Y & FAHEY M 2000 Experimental study of of ultramafic and mafic volcanic rocks 3 Ga North evaporation from saline tailings. Journal of Geotechnical Caribou greenstone belt, northwestern Superior Province. & Geoenvironmental Engineering 126:18-27. Precambrian Research 93:257-279. 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