Selected publications relating to geoscience in South Australia published in key scientific journals or by the Government of South Australia's Mineral Resources and Energy Resources Divisions are listed below. Mineral Resources and Energy Resources authors are shown in bold.
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Baudet E, Giles D, Tiddy C and Hill SM 2018. Evaluation of cover sequence geochemical exploration sample media through assessment of element migration processes. Ore Geology Reviews 102:449–473. doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2018.09.017
Betts MJ, Paterson JR, Jacquet SM, Andrew AS, Hall PA, Jago JB, Jagodzinski EA, Preiss WV, Crowley JL, Brougham T, Mathewson CP, García-Bellido DC, Topper TP, Skovsted CB and Brock GA 2018. Early Cambrian chronostratigraphy and geochronology of South Australia. Earth-Science Reviews 185:498–543. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.06.005
Beyer SR, Kyser K, Polito PA and Fraser GL 2018. Mesoproterozoic rift sedimentation, fluid events and uranium prospectivity in the Cariewerloo Basin, Gawler Craton, South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 65(3):409–426. doi: 10.1080/08120099.2018.1439098
Brotodewo A, Tiddy CJ, Reid AJ, Wade C and Conor C 2018. Relationships between magmatism and deformation in northern Yorke Peninsula and southeastern Proterozoic Australia, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 65(5):619–641. doi: 10.1080/08120099.2018.1470573
Brown O 2018. Important enough to stand alone – the new Department for Energy and Mining. MESA Journal 87:46–47. Department for Energy and Mining, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: MESAJ 087
Cann JH and Jago JB 2018. Rapidly spreading mangroves at Port Gawler, South Australia: an update. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 65(2):243–247. doi: 10.1080/08120099.2018.1414076
Cherry AR, Kamenetsky VS, McPhie J, Thompson JM, Ehrig K, Meffre S, Kamenetsky MB and Krneta S 2018. Tectonothermal events in the Olympic IOCG Province constrained by apatite and REE-phosphate geochronology. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 65(5):643–659. doi: 10.1080/08120099.2018.1465473
Conor C and Preiss WV 2018. Origin, classification and modes of emplacement of Sturtian glaciomarine megaclasts of the MacDonald Corridor, Bimbowrie Conservation Park, near Olary, South Australia, Report Book 2018/00039. Department for Energy and Mining, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: RB 2018/00039
Cox GM, Isakson V, Hoffman PF, Gernon TM, Schmitz MD, Shahin S, Collins AS, Preiss WV, Blades ML, Mitchell RN and Nordsvane A 2018. South Australian U-Pb zircon (CA-ID-TIMS) age supports globally synchronous Sturtian deglaciation. Precambrian Research 315:257–263. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2018.07.007
Curtis S, Wade C and Reid A 2018. Roopena Basin: sedimentary basin formation associated with Mesoproterozoic mineralising event in the Gawler Craton. MESA Journal 87:28–33. Department for Energy and Mining, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: MESAJ 087
Curtis SO, Wade CE and Reid AJ 2018. Sedimentary basin formation associated with a silicic large igneous province: stratigraphy and provenance of the Mesoproterozoic Roopena Basin, Gawler Range Volcanics. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 65(4):447–463. doi: 10.1080/08120099.2018.1460398 (Open Access)
Davies M and Twining M 2018. Magnetite: South Australia’s resource potential. MESA Journal 86:30–44. Department of the Premier and Cabinet, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: MESAJ 086
Department of the Premier and Cabinet 2018. Mineral exploration in South Australia 2017: commodity report, Report Book 2017/00047, Mineral Resources Division. Department of the Premier and Cabinet, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: RB 2017/00047
Domnick U, Cook NJ, Bluck R, Brown C and Ciobanu CL 2018. Petrography and geochemistry of granitoids from the Samphire Pluton, South Australia: implications for uranium mineralisation in overlying sediments. Lithos 300-301:1–19. doi: 10.3390/min7100202
Droser ML, Evans SD, Dzaugis PW, Hughes EB and Gehling JG 2018. Attenborites janeae: a new enigmatic organism from the Ediacara Member (Rawnsley Quartzite), South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences doi: 10.1080/08120099.2018.1495668
Dutch R, Pawley M, Wise T, Jagodzinski EA, Tylkowski L, Lockheed A and McAlpine S 2018. Breaking down the Coompana Drilling Project. MESA Journal 87:30–44. Department for Energy and Mining, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: MESAJ 087
Dutch R, Wise TW, Pawley MJ and Petts AE eds. 2018. Coompana Drilling and Geochemistry Workshop, 2018. Extended abstracts, Report Book 2018/00019. Department for Energy and Mining, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: RB 2018/00019
Dzaugis PW, Evans SD, Droser ML, Gehling JG and Hughes IV 2018. Stuck in the mat: Obamus coronatus, a new benthic organism from the Ediacara Member, Rawnsley Quartzite, South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences doi: 10.1080/08120099.2018.1479306
Elliott P 2018. Strontioperloffite, SrMn22+Fe32+(PO4)3(OH)3, a new bjarebyite-group mineral from the Spring Creek mine, South Australia, Australia. European Journal of Mineralogy doi: 10.1127/ejm/2019/0031-2816
Evans SD, Dzaugis PW, Droser ML and Gehling JG 2018. You can get anything you want from Alice's Restaurant Bed: exceptional preservation and an unusual fossil assemblage from a newly excavated bed (Ediacara Member, Nilpena, South Australia). Australian Journal of Earth Sciences doi: 10.1080/08120099.2018.1470110
Fabris A, Katona L, Gordon G, Reed G, Keeping T, Gouthas G and Swain G 2018. Characterisation and mapping of Cu–Au skarn systems in the Punt Hill region, Olympic Cu–Au Province. MESA Journal 87:30–44. Department for Energy and Mining, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: MESAJ 087
Fabris AJ, Katona LF, Gordon G, Reed GD, Keeping T, Gouthas G and Swain GM 2018. Characterising and mapping alteration in the Punt Hill region: a data integration project, Report Book 2018/00010. Department for Energy and Mining, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: RB 2018/00010
Foss CA, Gouthas G, Wise TW, Katona LF, Hutchens MF and Reed GD 2018. Gawler Craton Airborne Geophysical Survey Region 2A, Murloocoppie – Enhanced geophysical imagery and magnetic source depth models, Report Book 2018/00015. Department of the Premier and Cabinet, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: RB 2018/00015
Foss CA, Gouthas G, Cowley WM, Katona LF, Hutchens MF and Reed GD 2018. Gawler Craton Airborne Geophysical Survey Region 3A, Andamooka – Enhanced geophysical imagery and magnetic source depth models, Report Book 2018/00037. Department for Energy and Mining, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: RB 2018/00037
Foss CA, Gouthas G, Fabris AJ, Werner M, Katona LF, Hutchens MF and Reed GD 2018. Gawler Craton Airborne Geophysical Survey Region 3B, Torrens – Enhanced geophysical imagery and magnetic source depth models, Report Book 2018/00038. Department for Energy and Mining, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: RB 2018/00038
Hall CMS, Droser ML, Clites EC and Gehling JG 2018. The short-lived but successful tri-radial body plan: a view from the Ediacaran of Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences doi: 10.1080/08120099.2018.1472666
Hall JW, Glorie S, Reid AJ, Boone SC, Collins AS and Gleadow A 2018. An apatite U–Pb thermal history map for the northern Gawler Craton, South Australia. Geoscience Frontiers 9(5):1293–1308. doi: 10.1016/j.gsf.2017.12.010 (Open Access)
Hall JW, Glorie S, Reid AJ, Collins A, Jourdan F, Danišík M and Evans N 2018. Thermal history of the northern Olympic Domain, Gawler Craton: correlations between thermochronometric data and mineralising systems. Gondwana Research 56:90–104. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2018.01.001
Heinson G, Didana Y, Soeffky P, Thiel S and Wise TW 2018. The crustal geophysical signature of a world-class magmatic mineral system. Scientific Reports (Nature) 8, Article number: 10608 (2018). doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1920 (Open Access)
Hiern MN 2018. Geological heritage sites in South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences doi: 10.1080/08120099.2018.1528299
Hill S 2018. Geological Survey of South Australia: 2017 highlights. MESA Journal 86:4–13. Department of the Premier and Cabinet, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: MESAJ 086
Hobbs TJ and Schutz A 2018. NVC Rangelands Desktop Assessment Tool for the Cooper-Eromanga: Technical Summary, Report Book 2018/00022. Department for Energy and Mining, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: RB 2018/00022
Hobbs TJ, Wenham D, Herrmann T, Brandle R, Maconochie J, Baird G, Schutz A, Howell S, Spencer J, Owen J, Fitzgerald L, Bowen Z and Wood H 2018. Environmental values in the Cooper-Eromanga Basin, Report Book 2018/00033. Department for Energy and Mining, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: RB 2018/00033
Hough J 2018. Koongawa Grey dimension stone deposit geological investigations: evaluation of gneiss on ML 6426 for use as dimension stone, Report Book 2017/00046. Department of the Premier and Cabinet, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: 2017/00046
Jago JB, Gehling JG, Betts MJ, Brock GA, Dalgarno CR, García-Bellido DC, Haslett PG, Jacquet SM, Kruse PD, Langsford NR, Mount TJ and Paterson JR 2018. The Cambrian System in the Arrowie Basin, Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences doi: 10.1080/08120099.2018.1525431
Joury MRF, James NP and James C 2018. Nearshore cool-water carbonate sedimentation and provenance of Holocene calcareous strandline dunes, southeastern Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 65(2):221–242. doi: 10.1080/08120099.2018.1409802
Katona LF 2018. Mintabie opal resource evaluation: current value of opal resources and projected value of undiscovered resources, Report Book 2018/00025. Department for Energy and Mining, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: RB 2018/00025
Katona LF, Wise TW and Holland CTP 2018. The South Australian Atlas of Geoscience and Mineral Exploration data - Woomera Prohibited Area within the Gawler Craton, Report Book 2018/00018. 2nd edn. Department for Energy and Mining, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: RB 2018/00018
Katona LF, Wise TW and Reid AJ 2018. Vectorisation of residual gravity and TMI data in the northern Gawler Craton: implications for exploration targeting and GIS analysis, Report Book 2016/00037. Department for Energy and Mining, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: RB 2016/00037
Keeling J 2018. Austrian ‘asbestos mystery’ solved with reference to South Australian study. MESA Journal 86:45–48. Department of the Premier and Cabinet, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: MESAJ 086
Keyser W, Ciobanu CL, Cook NJ, Johnson G, Feltus H, Johnson S, Dmitrijeva M, Ehrig K and Nguyen PT 2018. Petrography and trace element signatures of iron-oxides in deposits from the Middleback Ranges, South Australia: from banded iron formation to ore. Ore Geology Reviews 93:337–360. doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2018.01.006
Kontonikas-Charos A, Ciobanu CL, Cook NJ, Ehrig K, Ismail R, Krneta S and Basak A 2018. Feldspar mineralogy and rare-earth element (re)mobilization in iron-oxide copper gold systems from South Australia: a nanoscale study. Mineralogical Magazine 82(S1):S173–S197. doi: 10.1180/minmag.2017.081.040
Krapf CBE, Keeling J and Petts AE 2018. Proceedings for the 5th Australian Regolith Geoscientists Association Conference, Wallaroo, South Australia, Report Book 2018/00011. Department of the Premier and Cabinet, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: 2018/00011
Krapf CBE and Sheard MJ 2018. Regolith hand specimen atlas for South Australia, Report Book 2018/00001. Department of the Premier and Cabinet, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: RB 2018/00001
Krapf CBE, Werner M, Questiaux D, Spooner N, Williams F and Dutch R 2018. Optically stimulated luminescence dating revealing new insights into the age of major regolith units of the eastern Musgrave Province, South Australia, Report Book 2018/00004. Department for Energy and Mining, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: RB 2018/00004
Kulikowski D and Amrouch K 2018. 4D modelling of fault reactivation using complete paleostress tensors from the Cooper–Eromanga Basin, Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 65(5):661–681. doi: 10.1080/08120099.2018.1465472
Kulikowski D and Amrouch K 2018. 3D seismic analysis investigating the relationship between stratigraphic architecture and structural activity in the intra-cratonic Cooper and Eromanga basins, Australia. Marine and Petroleum Geology 91:381–400. doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2018.01.019
Laflamme M, Gehling JG and Droser ML 2018. Deconstructing an Ediacaran frond: three-dimensional preservation of Arborea from Ediacara, South Australia. Journal of Paleontology 92(3):323–335. doi: 10.1017/jpa.2017.128
Mauger A, Keeling J, Rolley P and Arbon H 2018. Spectral analysis of drill core from the Kanmantoo copper deposit. MESA Journal 88:15–24. Department for Energy and Mining, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: MESAJ 088
Meixner AJ, Jiang W, Holzshuh J, Dutch R, Pawley M, Wise T, McAlpine SRB and Duan J 2018. Pre-drilling geophysics in the Coompana Province of South Australia: benchmarking magnetotelluric and active seismic cover thickness estimates against preliminary drilling results, Record 2018/22. Geoscience Australia, Canberra. doi: org/10.11636/Record.2018.022
Morrissey L, Barovich K, Hand M, Howard K, Payne J, and Reid A 2018. The final event in the long evolution of the Gawler Craton: new constraints on 1450 Ma metamorphism and magmatism. MESA Journal 88:4–11. Department for Energy and Mining, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: MESAJ 088
Nicholas WA, Lachlan T, Murray-Wallace CV and Price GJ 2019. Amino acid racemisation and uranium-series dating of a last interglacial raised beach, Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, southern Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 143(1):1–26. doi: 10.1080/03721426.2018.1532269
Noble RRP, González-Álvarez I, Reid N, Krapf CBE, Cole D, Lau IC, Pinchand T, Fox D, Brant F, White A, Klump J and Petts A 2018. Regional geochemistry of the Coompana area, Report Book 2018/00036. Department for Energy and Mining, South Australia, Adelaide. Also published as CSIRO Report EP187470. SARIG reference: RB 2018/00036
Normington VJ, Hill SM, Tiddy CJ and Giles D 2018. Sedimentology of the late Palaeozoic Cape Jervis Formation, Troubridge Basin, South Australia, Report Book 2018/00026. Department for Energy and Mining, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: RB 2018/00026
Pan T, Murray-Wallace CV, Dosseto A and Bourman P 2018. The last interglacial (MIS 5e) sea level highstand from a tectonically stable far-field setting, Yorke Peninsula, southern Australia. Marine Geology 113(3):597–644. doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2018.01.012
Payne J, Raimondo T, Morrissey L, Hand M, Lilly R, Tomkins A, Reid A, Dutch R and Wade C 2018. Source to Spectrum: project update. MESA Journal 88:12–14. Department for Energy and Mining, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: MESAJ 088
Rajabi M, Tingay M, Heidbach O, Belton D, Balfour N and Bendall B 2018. New constraints on the neotectonic stress pattern of the Flinders and Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia. Exploration Geophysics 49(1):111–124. doi: 10/1071/eg16076
Reid AJ 2018. Geological Survey of South Australia Discovery Day 2018: presentation abstracts and posters, Report Book 2018/00034. Department for Energy and Mining, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: RB 2018/00034
Reid LM, García-Bellido DC and Gehling JG 2018. An Ediacaran opportunist? Characteristics of a juvenile Dickinsonia costata population from Crisp Gorge, South Australia. Journal of Paleontology 92(3):313–322. doi: 10.1017/jpa.2017.142
Reid LM, Holmes JD, Payne JL, García-Bellido DC and Jago JB 2018. Taxa, turnover and taphofacies: a preliminary analysis of facies-assemblage relationships in the Ediacara Member (Flinders Ranges, South Australia). Australian Journal of Earth Sciences doi: 10.1080/08120099.2018.1488767
Schlegel TU, Wagner T, Wälle M and Heinrich CA 2018. Hematite breccia-hosted iron oxide-copper-gold deposits require magmatic fluid components exposed to atmospheric oxidation: evidence from Prominent Hill, Gawler Craton, South Australia. Economic Geology 113(3):597–644. doi: 10.5382/econgeo.2018.4564
Skirrow RG, van der Wielen SE, Champion DC, Czamota K and Thiel S 2018. Lithospheric architecture and mantle metasomatism linked to iron oxide Cu-Au ore formation: Multidisciplinary evidence from the Olympic Dam region, South Australia. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 19 doi: 10.1029/2018GC007561 (Open Access)
Steadman JA, Large RR, Gregory DD, Meffre S, Cracknell M, Kuhn S and Fabris AJ 2018. Summary and final report on pyrite, magnetite and hematite mineral geochemistry, South Australia (including samples from the Mineral Systems Drilling Program and the Emmie Bluff IOCG prospect), Report Book 2018/00003. Department of the Premier and Cabinet, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: RB 2018/00003
Uvarova YA, Pearce MA, Liu W, Cleverley JS and Hough RM 2018. Geochemical signatures of copper redistribution in IOCG-type mineralisation, Gawler Craton, South Australia. Mineralium Deposita 53(4):477–492. doi: 10.1007/S00126-017-0749-1
Valentine JT, Davies MB and Morris BJ 2018. Gypsum resources of South Australia, Report Book 2016/00029. Department for Energy and Mining, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: RB 2016/00029
Werner M, Dutch R, Pawley M and Krapf C 2018. Amata Dolerite, Musgrave Province: connections to Neoproterozoic mantle plume magmatism within Rodinia. MESA Journal 87:34–45. Department for Energy and Mining, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: MESAJ 087
Werner M, Krapf C, Curtis S, Pawley M and Fabris A 2018. Boots on the ground: release of Peltabinna maps and explanatory notes, southwestern Gawler Ranges margin. MESA Journal 86:14–29. Department of the Premier and Cabinet, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: MESAJ 086
Wise T, Dutch R, Pawley M, Foss C and Thiel S 2018. Building the Coompana Province. MESA Journal 88:25–37. Department for Energy and Mining, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: MESAJ 088
Wolff K, Hill SM, Tiddy C, Giles D, Smernik RJ 2018. Biogeochemical expression of buried iron-oxide‑copper‑gold (IOCG) mineral systems in mallee eucalypts on the Yorke Peninsula, southern Olympic Domain, South Australia. Journal of Geochemical Exploration 185:139–152. doi:10.1016/j.gexplo.2017.11.017
Wolff K, Tiddy C, Giles D and Hill SM 2018. Pedogenic carbonate sampling for Cu exploration on the Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. Journal of Geochemical Exploration 194:239–256. doi: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2018.08.007
Wopfner H 2018. “Big Sisters” wake up to Santos, Report Book 2018/00012. Department for Energy and Mining, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: RB 2018/00024
Wopfner H 2018. Chevies or Cadillacs? The decisive year for oil search in South Australia, Report Book 2018/00002. Department of the Premier and Cabinet, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: RB 2018/00002
Wopfner H 2018. A covert operation outside of Santos’ licence, Report Book 2018/00012. Department for Energy and Mining, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: RB 2018/00012
Wopfner I 2018. Reg Sprigg’s dude ranch at Cullyamurra Waterhole, Report Book 2018/00024. Department of the Premier and Cabinet, South Australia, Adelaide. SARIG reference: RB 2018/00006