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Local Knowledge And The State: The 1990 Floods In Cunnamulla, Queensland, Australia, Emily O'Gorman
Local Knowledge And The State: The 1990 Floods In Cunnamulla, Queensland, Australia, Emily O'Gorman
Emily O'Gorman
In April 1990, record-breaking floods in the Warrego River threatened the rural town of Cunnamulla, located in Queensland, Australia. The floods had already inundated the upstream town of Charleville causing significant damage to property and the mass evacuation of residents. This article explores the 1990 floods in Cunnamulla in the context of two key elements of Australian history: first, several decades of rural decline in southwestern Queensland, and second, state responses to floods that had become increasingly centralized over the preceding two decades. I first examine the wider historical contexts of colonial settlement, environmental changes, and past floods in Cunnamulla …
Gpr Surveys Of Vegetated Linear Dune Stratigraphy In Central Australia: Evidence For Linear Dune Extension With Vertical And Lateral Accretion, Gerald Nanson, Brian Jones, David Price, C Bristow, Cameron Hollands, Maria Coleman
Gpr Surveys Of Vegetated Linear Dune Stratigraphy In Central Australia: Evidence For Linear Dune Extension With Vertical And Lateral Accretion, Gerald Nanson, Brian Jones, David Price, C Bristow, Cameron Hollands, Maria Coleman
B. G. Jones
No abstract provided.
Holocene Sea-Level Change On The Southeast Coast Of Australia: A Review, Colin Murray-Wallace, Brian Jones, Craig Sloss
Holocene Sea-Level Change On The Southeast Coast Of Australia: A Review, Colin Murray-Wallace, Brian Jones, Craig Sloss
B. G. Jones
No abstract provided.
Late Quaternary Mega-Lakes Fed By The Northern And Southern River Systems Of Central Australia: Varying Moisture Sources And Increased Continental Aridity, T Cohen, G Nanson, John Jansen, B Jones, Z Jacobs, J Larsen, J.-H May, P Treble, D Price, A Smith
Late Quaternary Mega-Lakes Fed By The Northern And Southern River Systems Of Central Australia: Varying Moisture Sources And Increased Continental Aridity, T Cohen, G Nanson, John Jansen, B Jones, Z Jacobs, J Larsen, J.-H May, P Treble, D Price, A Smith
B. G. Jones
Optically stimulated and thermoluminescence ages from relict shorelines, along with accelerator mass spectrometer 14C ages from freshwater molluscs reveal a record of variable moisture sources supplied by northern and southern river systems to Lake Mega-Frome in southern central Australia during the late Quaternary. Additional lacustrine, palynological and terrestrial proxies are used to reconstruct a record that extends back to 105 ka, confirming that Lakes Mega-Frome and Mega-Eyre were joined to create the largest system of palaeolakes on the Australian continent as recently as 50-47 ka. The palaeohydrological record indicates a progressive shift to more arid conditions, with marked drying after …
Use Of 210pb And 137cs To Simultaneously Constrain Ages And Sources Of Post-Dam Sediments In The Cordeaux Reservoir, Sydney, Australia, Ava Simms, Colin Woodroffe, Brian Jones, H Heijnis, Rob Mann, J. Harrison
Use Of 210pb And 137cs To Simultaneously Constrain Ages And Sources Of Post-Dam Sediments In The Cordeaux Reservoir, Sydney, Australia, Ava Simms, Colin Woodroffe, Brian Jones, H Heijnis, Rob Mann, J. Harrison
B. G. Jones
Environmental radionuclides can be employed as tracers of sediment movement and delivery to water bodies such as lakes and reservoirs. The chronologies of sediments that have accumulated in the Cordeaux reservoir in Sydney, Australia, were determined by the rate of change of 210Pbex with depth and indicate slow accretion in the reservoir. The ratio of enrichment of radionuclides in sediment cores to 210Pbex and 137Cs concentrations in a reference soil sample within the Cordeaux catchment indicates that the dominant source of sediment in the Cordeaux reservoir is surface erosion (detachment and removal of sediment at depths less than 30 cm). …
On The Possible Origins Of An Unusual (Mid To Late Holocene) Coastal Deposit, Old Punt Bay, South-East Australia, Brian Jones, Adam Switzer, S Haslett, Dale Dominey-Howes, D Everett, C Courtney, B Mamo, L Strotz
On The Possible Origins Of An Unusual (Mid To Late Holocene) Coastal Deposit, Old Punt Bay, South-East Australia, Brian Jones, Adam Switzer, S Haslett, Dale Dominey-Howes, D Everett, C Courtney, B Mamo, L Strotz
B. G. Jones
An unusual coarse, shelly sedimentary unit is found elevated above present mean sea level in a sheltered pocket embayment at Old Punt Bay in south-eastern Australia. The coarse sediments, diverse microfauna, and large shelly macrofauna of mixed affinity suggest that the deposit is the result of high-energy deposition. The deposit was previously thought to have been deposited 1000-1300 cal bp based on one shell dated using 14C and amino acid racemisation. However, additional 14C dating indicates a likely age of ~2500 cal bp. Regardless of age constraints, the presence of rock-encrusting oyster shells and large articulated bivalves, suggests that the …
Patterns And Rates Of Sedimentary Infill In The Minnamurra River Estuary, South-Eastern Australia, K Panayotou, Colin Woodroffe, Brian Jones, Bryan Chenhall, Errol Mclean, H Heijnis
Patterns And Rates Of Sedimentary Infill In The Minnamurra River Estuary, South-Eastern Australia, K Panayotou, Colin Woodroffe, Brian Jones, Bryan Chenhall, Errol Mclean, H Heijnis
B. G. Jones
This paper presents a revised process-based model that explores aspects of estuarine geomorphology and the rates and patterns of sedimentary infill based upon the Minnamurra River estuary, a mature barrier estuary in south-eastern Australia. The Minnamurra River is located on the south coast of New South Wales and is characterised by three main facies: a marine flood tide delta/barrier, a central lagoon/estuary and a fluvial delta. The sedimentary record in this system was examined in detail to quantify the rate of estuarine infill. This predominantly infilled mature barrier estuary is now largely dominated by river influence. In the early stages …
Mobility Of Sediment Grain Size Distributions On A Wave Dominated Continental Shelf, Southeastern Australia, Brian Jones, Jonathan Griffin, Mark Hemer
Mobility Of Sediment Grain Size Distributions On A Wave Dominated Continental Shelf, Southeastern Australia, Brian Jones, Jonathan Griffin, Mark Hemer
B. G. Jones
No abstract provided.
Contrasting Sedimentation Rates In Lake Illawarra And St Georges Basin, Two Large Barrier Estuaries On The Southeast Coast Of Australia, Colin Murray-Wallace, Brian Jones, Craig Sloss, H Heijnis, B Brooke
Contrasting Sedimentation Rates In Lake Illawarra And St Georges Basin, Two Large Barrier Estuaries On The Southeast Coast Of Australia, Colin Murray-Wallace, Brian Jones, Craig Sloss, H Heijnis, B Brooke
B. G. Jones
Sedimentation rates over the last 100 years within two lagoons on the southeast coast of Australia, Lake Illawarra and St Georges Basin, have been quantified to determine the effects of catchment land use change and native vegetation clearance on infill rates, and spatial variations in the rate at which the estuaries have filled. Both catchments have similar lake and catchment area but have experience different degrees of modification due to land clearing for agriculture practices, urbanisation and industrialisation. Results indicate that in the heavily modified catchment of Lake Illawarra sedimentation rates close to fluvial deltas can be in excess of …
Reconstructing Recent Sedimentation In Two Urbanised Coastal Lagoons (Nsw, Australia) Using Radioisotopes And Geochemistry, Brian Jones, H Heijnis, J. Harrison, Suzanne Hollins, S Hankin, Atun Zawadzki
Reconstructing Recent Sedimentation In Two Urbanised Coastal Lagoons (Nsw, Australia) Using Radioisotopes And Geochemistry, Brian Jones, H Heijnis, J. Harrison, Suzanne Hollins, S Hankin, Atun Zawadzki
B. G. Jones
In this study, we combined grain size and geochemical analyses with radioisotope analysis of lead-210 (210Pb), caesium-137 (137Cs) and radiocarbon (14C) ages to reconstruct the sedimentation history of two urbanised coastal lagoons in south-east Australia. Towradgi and Fairy Lagoons were both found to exhibit slow initial sedimentation of less than 1 mm year-1 prior to anthropogenic influences. Land clearing in the catchments increased runoff and erosion in the creeks feeding into the estuaries, and has resulted in progradation of fluvial material into the estuarine systems with a marked increase in sedimentation to between 2 and 7 mm year-1. The upper …
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
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
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 …
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
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.
Setup, Deposition And Sedimentary Characteristics Of Two Storm Overwash Deposits, Abrahams Bosom Beach, Southeastern Australia, Brian Jones, Adam Switzer
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
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.
Aminostratigraphy Of Two Holocene Wave-Dominated Barrier Estuaries In Southeastern Australia, Colin Murray-Wallace, Brian Jones, Craig Sloss
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 …
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
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.
The Geography Of Same-Sex Families In Australia: Implications For Regulatory Regimes, Christopher Brennan-Horley, Andrew Gorman-Murray
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: …
Decolonising, Multiplicities And Mining In The Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia, Leah Gibbs
Decolonising, Multiplicities And Mining In The Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia, Leah Gibbs
Leah Maree Gibbs
In this 'postcolonial' era, peoples and places around the globe continue to face ongoing colonisation. Indigenous peoples in particular experience colonisation in numerous forms. Despite recent attempts to 'decolonise' indigenous spaces, hegemonic systems of production, governance and thinking often perpetuate colonial structures and relationships, resulting in further entrenched colonisation or 'deep colonising' (Rose, 1999). The interface between indigenous communities and the mining industry provides fertile ground for the tensions emerging between decolonising and deep colonising. Gold mining operations at Placer Dome's Granny Smith mine in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia present a valuable case study for examining this tension. …
The Cultural Research Network: Opportunities For A Rhizomic Future For Geography In Australia?, Christopher Gibson
The Cultural Research Network: Opportunities For A Rhizomic Future For Geography In Australia?, Christopher Gibson
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.
Counter-Geographies: The Campaign Against Rationalisation Of Agricultural Research Stations In New South Wales, Australia, Christopher Gibson, S Phillips, R. Dufty, Heather Smith
Counter-Geographies: The Campaign Against Rationalisation Of Agricultural Research Stations In New South Wales, Australia, Christopher Gibson, S Phillips, R. Dufty, Heather Smith
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.
Shifting Welfare, Shifting People: Rural Development, Housing And Population Mobility In Australia, Rae Dufty, Christopher Gibson
Shifting Welfare, Shifting People: Rural Development, Housing And Population Mobility In Australia, Rae Dufty, Christopher Gibson
Chris Gibson
Rural welfare is more than addressing problems of ‘poverty’. As we argue here, social policy initiatives are also conceived by governments as solutions to geographical problems about uneven regional development and population distribution. What these problems were, and how welfare provision could solve them, has varied from generation to generation and takes shape in place-specific ways. That welfare provision has operated as de facto geographical development and population policy is particularly the case in Australia, in its context of massive continental size and heterogeneous rural places. In Australia, the ‘rural’ means much more than just the ‘countryside’ surrounding or between …
Geography In Higher Education In Australia, Christopher Gibson
Geography In Higher Education In Australia, Christopher Gibson
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.
Music Festivals And Regional Development In Australia, Christopher Gibson, John Connell
Music Festivals And Regional Development In Australia, Christopher Gibson, John Connell
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.