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Sea Level, Storm, Or Tsunami: Engimatic Sand Sheet Deposits In A Sheltered Coastal Embayment From Southeastern New South Wales, Australia, Edward Bryant, Brian Jones, Kevin Pucillo, Rabea Haredy, Adam Switzer Jun 2013

Sea Level, Storm, Or Tsunami: Engimatic Sand Sheet Deposits In A Sheltered Coastal Embayment From Southeastern New South Wales, Australia, Edward Bryant, Brian Jones, Kevin Pucillo, Rabea Haredy, Adam Switzer

B. G. Jones

No abstract provided.


The Sedimentary Record Of Palaeoenvironments And Sea-Level Change In The Gulf Of Carpentaria, Australia, Through The Last Glacial Cycle, Jessica Reeves, Allan Chivas, Adriana Garcia, Sabine Holt, Martine Couapel, Brian Jones, Dionisio Cendon, David Fink Jun 2013

The Sedimentary Record Of Palaeoenvironments And Sea-Level Change In The Gulf Of Carpentaria, Australia, Through The Last Glacial Cycle, Jessica Reeves, Allan Chivas, Adriana Garcia, Sabine Holt, Martine Couapel, Brian Jones, Dionisio Cendon, David Fink

B. G. Jones

Environmental evolution of the Gulf of Carpentaria region, the world's largest tropical epicontinental seaway, through the last glacial cycle has been determined from a series of six sediment cores. These cores form the focus of a multi-disciplinary study to elucidate sea level, climate and environmental change in the region. The sedimentary record reveals a series of facies including open shallow marine, marginal marine, estuarine, lacustrine and subaerial exposure, throughout the extent of the basin during this period. The partial or complete closure of the central basin from marine waters results from sea level falling below the height of one or …


Aspartic Acid Racemisation Dating Of Mid-Holocene To Recent Estuarine Sedimentation In New South Wales, Australia: A Pilot Study, C Sloss, C Murray-Wallace, B Jones, T Wallin Jun 2013

Aspartic Acid Racemisation Dating Of Mid-Holocene To Recent Estuarine Sedimentation In New South Wales, Australia: A Pilot Study, C Sloss, C Murray-Wallace, B Jones, T Wallin

B. G. Jones

The degree of aspartic acid racemisation measured in radiocarbon-dated specimens of fossil estuarine molluscs, collected from Lake Illawarra, a Holocene barrier estuary in New South Wales, Australia, is evaluated in the context of results of laboratory-induced racemisation established in heating (simulated ageing) experiments. The general kinetic trend of aspartic acid racemisation in both heating experiments and fossil molluscs Anadara trapezia and Notospisula trigonella conforms to a model of apparent parabolic kinetics. Using the apparent parabolic kinetic model, numeric ages based on the degree of aspartic acid racemisation in the fossil molluscs have been calculated. An aminostratigraphy of the Lake Illawarra …


Holocene Sea Level Fluctuations And The Sedimentary Evolution Of A Barrier Estuary: Lake Illawarra, New South Wales, Australia, Colin Murray-Wallace, Brian Jones, Craig Sloss, C.E. Mcclennen Jun 2013

Holocene Sea Level Fluctuations And The Sedimentary Evolution Of A Barrier Estuary: Lake Illawarra, New South Wales, Australia, Colin Murray-Wallace, Brian Jones, Craig Sloss, C.E. Mcclennen

B. G. Jones

No abstract provided.


The Charophyte Lamprothamnium Succinctum As An Environmental Indicator: A Holocene Example From Tom Thumbs Lagoon, Eastern Australia, Adriana Garcia, Brian Jones, Bryan Chenhall, Colin Murray-Wallace Jun 2013

The Charophyte Lamprothamnium Succinctum As An Environmental Indicator: A Holocene Example From Tom Thumbs Lagoon, Eastern Australia, Adriana Garcia, Brian Jones, Bryan Chenhall, Colin Murray-Wallace

B. G. Jones

The palaeobiota from a middle to late Holocene succession in Tom Thumbs Lagoon, N.S.W., Australia, reflects a range of environmental conditions caused by sea-level changes and active estuarine sedimentation. At the base of the succession (~ -0.4 m AHD) a thin bed, containing molluscs dated at 6.7 ka B.P. by radiocarbon and amino acid racemisation, and foraminifers is indicative of open estuarine conditions. From +0.35 m AHD towards the top of the sequence the charophyte Lamprotharanium succinctum occurs in subrecent deposits. This species is charactedsed here by statistical measurements, and new characters are described and illustrated. The charophytes record a …


Anthropogenic Effects In A Coastal Lagoon: Geochemical Characterization Of Burrill Lake, Nsw, Australia, Brian Jones, Hannah Killian, Bryan Chenhall, Craig Sloss Jun 2013

Anthropogenic Effects In A Coastal Lagoon: Geochemical Characterization Of Burrill Lake, Nsw, Australia, Brian Jones, Hannah Killian, Bryan Chenhall, Craig Sloss

B. G. Jones

Burrill Lake, a small coastal lagoon on the south coast of New South Wales, developed as an impounded drowned river valley following the post-glacial marine transgression. Marine sand fills the entrance to the lagoon whereas the back-barrier basin has accumulated organic-rich mud and sandy bayhead deltas. The bilobate form of the estuary coincides with two different catchment lithologies and land use patterns. The northern lobe drains an agricultural catchment and has a much larger bayhead delta than the southern lobs that drains natural and state forest. Sedimentation rates within the muddy lagoonal deposits are about 1.7 mm/yr. The distributions of …


Setup, Deposition And Sedimentary Characteristics Of Two Storm Overwash Deposits, Abrahams Bosom Beach, Southeastern Australia, Brian Jones, Adam Switzer Jun 2013

Setup, Deposition And Sedimentary Characteristics Of Two Storm Overwash Deposits, Abrahams Bosom Beach, Southeastern Australia, Brian Jones, Adam Switzer

B. G. Jones

No abstract provided.


Ichnological And Sedimentologic Signatures Of Mixed Wave- And Storm-Dominated Deltaic Deposits: Examples From The Early Permian Sydney Basin, Australia, Brian Jones, Stuart Tye, James Maceachern, Kerrie Bann, Christopher Fielding Jun 2013

Ichnological And Sedimentologic Signatures Of Mixed Wave- And Storm-Dominated Deltaic Deposits: Examples From The Early Permian Sydney Basin, Australia, Brian Jones, Stuart Tye, James Maceachern, Kerrie Bann, Christopher Fielding

B. G. Jones

No abstract provided.


Fluvial Architecture Of The Hawkesbury Sandstone (Triassic), Near Sydney, Australia, Andrew Miall, Brian Jones Jun 2013

Fluvial Architecture Of The Hawkesbury Sandstone (Triassic), Near Sydney, Australia, Andrew Miall, Brian Jones

B. G. Jones

The Hawkesbury Sandstone has long been assumed to represent the deposits of a large braided river system, comparable in style and magnitude with the modern Brahmaputra River of Bangladesh. Such an interpretation is based mainly on the common occurrence of very large-scale crossbedding, but no architectural studies of the unit have hitherto been carried out. This paper represents a first attempt to estimate the magnitude of Hawkesbury channels and bars on the basis of the preserved architectural evidence. Photomosaics were constructed of two cliff sections south of Sydney, one 5.6 km in length. On the basis of these profiles we …


Aminostratigraphy Of Two Holocene Wave-Dominated Barrier Estuaries In Southeastern Australia, Colin Murray-Wallace, Brian Jones, Craig Sloss Jun 2013

Aminostratigraphy Of Two Holocene Wave-Dominated Barrier Estuaries In Southeastern Australia, Colin Murray-Wallace, Brian Jones, Craig Sloss

B. G. Jones

No abstract provided.


Sediment Mixing At Nonda Rock: Investigations Of Stratigraphic Integrity At An Early Archaeological Site In Northern Australia And Implications For The Human Colonisation Of The Continent, Richard Roberts, C White, L K Fifield, Christian Turney, M Bird, John Tibby, Bruno David, John Magee, Jerome Mialanes Mar 2013

Sediment Mixing At Nonda Rock: Investigations Of Stratigraphic Integrity At An Early Archaeological Site In Northern Australia And Implications For The Human Colonisation Of The Continent, Richard Roberts, C White, L K Fifield, Christian Turney, M Bird, John Tibby, Bruno David, John Magee, Jerome Mialanes

Richard G Roberts

No abstract provided.


Mammalian Responses To Pleistocene Climate Change In Southeastern Australia, Richard Roberts, Jonathon Olley, John Hellstrom, Dirk Megirian, Gavin Prideaux, Kira Westaway Mar 2013

Mammalian Responses To Pleistocene Climate Change In Southeastern Australia, Richard Roberts, Jonathon Olley, John Hellstrom, Dirk Megirian, Gavin Prideaux, Kira Westaway

Richard G Roberts

No abstract provided.


Late-Surviving Megafauna In Tasmania Australia, Implicate Human Involvement In Their Extinction, Christian Turney, T Flannery, Richard Roberts, Craig Reid, Keith Fifield, T Higham, Zenobia Jacobs, Noel Kemp, Eric Colhoun, R.M. Kalin Mar 2013

Late-Surviving Megafauna In Tasmania Australia, Implicate Human Involvement In Their Extinction, Christian Turney, T Flannery, Richard Roberts, Craig Reid, Keith Fifield, T Higham, Zenobia Jacobs, Noel Kemp, Eric Colhoun, R.M. Kalin

Richard G Roberts

Establishing the cause of past extinctions is critical if we are to understand better what might trigger future occurrences and how to prevent them. The mechanisms of continental late Pleistocene megafaunal extinction, however, are still fiercely contested. Potential factors contributing to their demise include climatic change, human impact, or some combination. On the Australian mainland, 90% of the megafauna became extinct by ≈46 thousand years (ka) ago, soon after the first archaeological evidence for human colonization of the continent. Yet, on the neighboring island of Tasmania (which was connected to the mainland when sea levels were lower), megafaunal extinction appears …


A High-Resolution Record Of Vegetation And Climate Through The Last Glacial Cycle From Caledonia Fen, Southeastern Highlands Of Australia, A Kershaw, G Mckenzie, N Porch, Richard Roberts, J Browne, H Heijnis, M Orr, Geraldine Jacobsen, P Newall Mar 2013

A High-Resolution Record Of Vegetation And Climate Through The Last Glacial Cycle From Caledonia Fen, Southeastern Highlands Of Australia, A Kershaw, G Mckenzie, N Porch, Richard Roberts, J Browne, H Heijnis, M Orr, Geraldine Jacobsen, P Newall

Richard G Roberts

A blocked tributary has provided a rare site of long-term sediment accumulation in montane southeastern Australia. This site has yielded a continuous, detailed pollen record through the last ca. 140 000 years and revealed marked vegetation and environmental changes at orbital to sub-millennial scales. Radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL, or optical) ages provide some chronological control for the last ca. 70 000 years. Most of the sediment is inorganic but with well preserved pollen that accumulated under unproductive and probably largely ice-covered lake conditions. The lake was surrounded by low-growing plants with an alpine character. Exceptions include three discrete …


Age Constraints On Pleistocene Megafauna At Tight Entrance Cave In Southwestern Australia, Richard Roberts, L K Fifield, R. Grun, Richard Jones, M Bird, Gavin Prideaux, G Gully, Linda Ayliffe, Richard Cresswell Mar 2013

Age Constraints On Pleistocene Megafauna At Tight Entrance Cave In Southwestern Australia, Richard Roberts, L K Fifield, R. Grun, Richard Jones, M Bird, Gavin Prideaux, G Gully, Linda Ayliffe, Richard Cresswell

Richard G Roberts

No abstract provided.


Single-Grain Optical Dating Of Grave-Infill Associated With Human Burials At Lake Mungo Australia, Jonathon Olley, Richard Roberts, Hiroyuki Yoshida, James M Bowler Mar 2013

Single-Grain Optical Dating Of Grave-Infill Associated With Human Burials At Lake Mungo Australia, Jonathon Olley, Richard Roberts, Hiroyuki Yoshida, James M Bowler

Richard G Roberts

Recent age constraints on Australia's oldest human remains (Mungo I and III), found at Lake Mungo in western New South Wales, relied on optical dating of sands from the same stratigraphic units as those into which the remains had been inserted (42±3 ka) and those that overlay the graves (38±2 ka), giving a burial age of 40±2 ka. This indirect means of dating the burials was necessary because the original site from which the remains had been excavated had been completely eroded away. At the time of the original excavation of the Mungo III grave, blocks of sediment from the …


New Ages For Human Occupation And Climatic Change At Lake Mungo Australia, James Bowler, Harvey Johnston, Jon M Olley, John Prescott, Richard Roberts, Wilfred Shawcross, Nigel Spooner Mar 2013

New Ages For Human Occupation And Climatic Change At Lake Mungo Australia, James Bowler, Harvey Johnston, Jon M Olley, John Prescott, Richard Roberts, Wilfred Shawcross, Nigel Spooner

Richard G Roberts

Australia’s oldest human remains, found at Lake Mungo, include the world’s oldest ritual ochre burial (Mungo III) and the first recorded cremation (Mungo I). Until now, the importance of these finds has been constrained by limited chronologies and palaeoenvironmental information. Mungo III, the source of the world’s oldest human mitochondrial DNA, has been variously estimated at 30 thousand years (kyr) old, 42–45 kyr old and 62 +/- 6 kyr old. while radiocarbon estimates placed theMungo I cremation near 20–26 kyr ago. Here we report a new series of 25 optical ages showing that both burials occurred at 40 +/- 2 …


An Arid-Adapted Middle Pleistocene Vertebrate Fauna From South-Central Australia, Richard Roberts, Lee Arnold, John Hellstrom, Gavin Prideaux, Mark Hutchinson, Linda Ayliffe, Walter Boles, Matthew Cupper, Paul Devine, Brad Pillans, John Long Mar 2013

An Arid-Adapted Middle Pleistocene Vertebrate Fauna From South-Central Australia, Richard Roberts, Lee Arnold, John Hellstrom, Gavin Prideaux, Mark Hutchinson, Linda Ayliffe, Walter Boles, Matthew Cupper, Paul Devine, Brad Pillans, John Long

Richard G Roberts

No abstract provided.


Chronologies Of Carbon And Of Silica: Evidence Concerning The Dating Of The Earliest Human Presence In Northern Australia, Richard Roberts, Richard Jones Mar 2013

Chronologies Of Carbon And Of Silica: Evidence Concerning The Dating Of The Earliest Human Presence In Northern Australia, Richard Roberts, Richard Jones

Richard G Roberts

No abstract provided.


Tight Entrance Cave, Southwestern Australia: A Late Pleistocene Vertebrate Deposit Spanning More Than 180 Ka, Gavin Prideaux, G Gully, Linda Ayliffe, M Bird, Richard Roberts Mar 2013

Tight Entrance Cave, Southwestern Australia: A Late Pleistocene Vertebrate Deposit Spanning More Than 180 Ka, Gavin Prideaux, G Gully, Linda Ayliffe, M Bird, Richard Roberts

Richard G Roberts

No abstract provided.


Elemental Delta C-13 At Allen's Cave, Nullarbor Plain, Australia: Assessing Post-Depositional Disturbance And Reconstructing Past Environments, C Turney, M Bird, Richard Roberts Mar 2013

Elemental Delta C-13 At Allen's Cave, Nullarbor Plain, Australia: Assessing Post-Depositional Disturbance And Reconstructing Past Environments, C Turney, M Bird, Richard Roberts

Richard G Roberts

No abstract provided.


The Celtic Chronologist: Rhys Jones And The Dating Of The Human Colonisation Of Australia, Richard Roberts Mar 2013

The Celtic Chronologist: Rhys Jones And The Dating Of The Human Colonisation Of Australia, Richard Roberts

Richard G Roberts

No abstract provided.


Early Human Occupation At Devil's Lair, South-Western Australia, Christian Turney, M Bird, L K Fifield, Richard Roberts, Michael Smith, C Dortch, R. Grun, E Lawson, Linda Ayliffe, G Miller, J Dortch, R Creswell Mar 2013

Early Human Occupation At Devil's Lair, South-Western Australia, Christian Turney, M Bird, L K Fifield, Richard Roberts, Michael Smith, C Dortch, R. Grun, E Lawson, Linda Ayliffe, G Miller, J Dortch, R Creswell

Richard G Roberts

No abstract provided.


Progress Towards Single-Grain Optical Dating Of Fossil Mud-Wasp Nests And Associated Rock Art In Northern Australia, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Richard Roberts, Jon M Olley Mar 2013

Progress Towards Single-Grain Optical Dating Of Fossil Mud-Wasp Nests And Associated Rock Art In Northern Australia, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Richard Roberts, Jon M Olley

Richard G Roberts

No abstract provided.


Mapping Homophobia In Australia, Michael Flood, Clive Hamilton Feb 2013

Mapping Homophobia In Australia, Michael Flood, Clive Hamilton

Michael G Flood

No abstract provided.


The Geography Of Same-Sex Families In Australia: Implications For Regulatory Regimes, Christopher Brennan-Horley, Andrew Gorman-Murray Jan 2013

The Geography Of Same-Sex Families In Australia: Implications For Regulatory Regimes, Christopher Brennan-Horley, Andrew Gorman-Murray

Christopher R Brennan-Horley

Knowledge of the geographical scope of same-sex families is useful in appealing for relationship and family formation rights. This article analyses the geography of same-sex families in Australia through a critical mapping exercise, offering geographical analysis as a means to assist with their human rights claims. While maps have been used to shore up political and legal power, ‘subversive’ maps can visually challenge dominant views and advance minority groups' constitutive and, distributional politics. We utilise 2006 Census data to map the distribution of same-sex couple family households across Australia, including variations by gender and dependent children. Same-sex families are widespread: …


Migration And International Law: The Pacific Solution Mark Ii, Charles Hawksley, Nichole Georgeou Dec 2012

Migration And International Law: The Pacific Solution Mark Ii, Charles Hawksley, Nichole Georgeou

Nichole Georgeou

This is Case Study Number 18 in the Hawksley and Georgeou edited book 'The Globalization of World Politics' (OUP, 2013).


Socio-Institutional Neoliberalism, Securitisation And Australia's Aid Program, Nichole Georgeou, Charles Hawksley Dec 2012

Socio-Institutional Neoliberalism, Securitisation And Australia's Aid Program, Nichole Georgeou, Charles Hawksley

Nichole Georgeou

This is Case Study Number 8 in the Hawksley and Georgeou edited book 'The Globalization of World Politics' (OUP, 2013).


The Grouping And Prioritizing Of Driving Forces For Ict Adoption By Medical Practitioners: Do These Differ Between Rural And Urban Gps In Australia?, Robert Macgregor, Charles Harvie, Peter Hyland Nov 2012

The Grouping And Prioritizing Of Driving Forces For Ict Adoption By Medical Practitioners: Do These Differ Between Rural And Urban Gps In Australia?, Robert Macgregor, Charles Harvie, Peter Hyland

Associate Professor Peter Hyland

Increasing use of ICT technologies in medical practices has led to a number of studies examining their use in rural as well as urban settings. The purpose of this study is to examine how GPs in rural and urban practice group and prioritise the driving forces for ICT adoption. Correlation and factor analysis was performed on the data sets (198 GPs, 122 Rural - 76 urban) obtained by means of a survey questionnaire. Not only do the results show that the drivers can be 'simplified' from 16 to 2 or 3, but they also show that there are differences both …


The Grouping And Prioritising Of Driving Forces For Ict Adoption By Medical Practitioners: Do These Differ Between Rural And Urban Gps In Australia, Peter Hyland, Charles Harvie, Robert Macgregor Nov 2012

The Grouping And Prioritising Of Driving Forces For Ict Adoption By Medical Practitioners: Do These Differ Between Rural And Urban Gps In Australia, Peter Hyland, Charles Harvie, Robert Macgregor

Associate Professor Peter Hyland

No abstract provided.