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IGCP 440 Major Scientific Contributions 1999-2000

Publications of the Tectonics Special Research Centre researchers are in bold text.

Journal special issue sponsored by the Project:

Gondwana Research (Vol. 4, No. 1, Jan. 2001) special issue on Crustal Evolution in South and Southeast Asia, co-edited by S. Hada, M. Yoshida, Z.X. Li and X. Wang. It was based on papers presented at the field symposium on Geodynamic and Tectonic Evolution of China and Related Gondwana Crustal Fragments, held in Yichang, 9-20 October, jointly sponsored by IGCP368/411/440.

Journal articles:

Andersson, J., Söderlund, U., Cornell, D., Johansson, L., Möller, C., 1999.
Sveconorwegian (-Grenvillian) deformation, metamorphism and leucosome formation in SW Sweden, SW Baltic Shield: constraints from a Mesoproterozoic granite intrusion.
Precamb. Res., 98: 151-171.

Arouri, K., Conaghan, P.J., Walter, M. R, Bischoff, G. C. and Grey, K., 2000.
Reconnaissance sedimentology and hydrocarbon biomarkers of Ediacarian microbial mats and acritarchs, lower Ungoolya Group, Officer Basin.
Precamb. Res., 100: 235-281.

Burrett, C., Berry R., 2000.
Proterozoic Australia-Western United States (AUSWUS) fit between Laurentia and Australia.
Geology, 28: 103-106.

Calver, C.R., Walter, M.R., 2000.
The late Neoproterozoic Grassy Group of King Island, Tasmania: correlation and palaeogeographic significance.
Precamb. Res., 100: 299-312.

65.  Collins, A.S., Razakamanana, T., Windley, B.F, 2000. 
Neoproterozoic extensional detachment in central Madagascar: Implications for the collapse of the East African Orogen. 
Geological Magazine, 137: 39–51.

Collins, A.S. 2000.
The Tectonic Evolution of Madagascar: Its place in the East African Orogen.
Gondwana Research (Gondwana Newsletter Section), 3: 549-552.

89.  Evans, D.A.D., 2000. 
Stratigraphic, geochronological, and paleomagnetic constraints upon the Neoproterozoic climatic paradox. 
American Journal of Science, 300: 347–433.

52.  Evans, D.A.D., Li, Z.X., Kirschvink, J.L., and Wingate, M.T.D., 2000.
A high-quality mid-Neoproterozoic paleomagnetic pole from South China, with implications for ice ages and the breakup configuration of Rodinia. 
Precambrian Research, 100: 313–334.

114.  Fitzsimons, I.C.W., 2000.
Grenville-age basement provinces in East Antarctica: Evidence for three separate collisional orogens.
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology ,141: 186-200.

93.  Ge, W., Li, X.H., Li, Z.X., and Zhou, H., 2000. 
“Longsheng Ophiolite” in Northern Guangxi revisited. 
Acta Petrologica Sinica, 16 (1): 111–118.

Gehling, J.G., 1999.
Microbial mats in terminal Proterozoic siliciclastics: Ediacaran death masks.
Palaios, 14, 40-57.

Gehling, J.G., 2000.
Sequence stratigraphic context of the Ediacara Member, Rawnsley Quartzite, South Australia: a taphonomic window into the Neoproterozoic biosphere.
Precamb. Res., 100, 65-95.

Gehling, J.G., Narbonne. G.M., and Anderson, M.M. 2000.
The first named Ediacaran body fossil: Aspidella: terranovica Billings 1872.
Palaeontology 43, 427-456.

Gorjan, P., Veevers, J.J., Walter, M.R., 2000.
Neoproterozoic sulfur-isotope variation in Australia and global implications.
Precamb. Res., 100, 151-179.

Grey, K., Blake, D.H., 1999.
Neoproterozoic (Cryogenian) stromatolites from the Wolfe Basin, east Kimberley, Western Australia: correlation with the Centralian Superbasin.
Aust. J. Earth Sci., 46, 329-341.

123.  Hanley, L.M., and  Wingate, M.T.D., 2000.
SHRIMP zircon age for an Early Cambrian dolerite dyke: An intrusive phase of the Antrim Plateau Volcanics of northern Australia.
Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 47 (6): 1029-1040.

Hill, A.C., Cotter, K.L., Grey, K., 2000.
Mid-Neoproterozoic biostratigraphy and isotope stratigraphy in Australia.
Precamb. Res., 100, 281-298.

Hill, A.C., Walter, M.R., 2000.
Mid-Neoproterozoic (~830--750 Ma) isotope stratigraphy of Australia and global correlation.
Precamb. Res., 100, 181-211.

Johansson, L., Möller, C., Söderlund, U., 2000 (in press).
Geochronology of eclogite facies metamorphism in the Sveconorwegian Province of SW Sweden.
Precamb. Res.

75.  Kröner, A., Hegner, E., Collins, A.S., Brewer, T.S., Windley, B.F., and Razakamanana, T., 2000. 
Age and magmatic history of the Antananarivo Block, central Madagascar, as derived from zircon geochronology and Nd isotopic systematics. 
American Journal of Science, 300:  251–288.

Li, X.-H., Sun, M., Wei, G.-J., Liu, Y., Lee, C.-Y., Malpas, J., 2000.
Geochemical and Sm--Nd isotopic study of amphibolites in the Cathaysia Block, southeastern China: evidence for an extremely depleted mantle in the Paleoproterozoic,
Precamb. Res. 102(3-4), 251-262.

118.  Li, Z.X., and Powell, C.McA., 2001.
An Outline of the Palaeogeographic Evolution of the Australasian Region since the beginning of the Neoproterozoic.
Earth-Science Reviews, 53: 237-277.

37.  Li, Z.X., and Powell, C.McA., 1999. 
Palaeomagnetic study of Neoproterozoic glacial rocks of the Yangzi Block:  palaeolatitude and configuration of South China in the late Proterozoic Supercontinent – Comment. 
Precambrian Research, 94: 1–5.

50.  Li, Z.X., 2000. 
New palaeomagnetic results from the “cap dolomite” of the Neoproterozoic Walsh Tillite, northwestern Australia. 
Precambrian Research, 100: 359–370.

94.  Li, Z.X., 2000. 
Palaeomagnetic evidence for unification of the North and West Australian Cratons by ca. 1.7 Ga:  New results from the Kimberley Basin of northwestern Australia.
Geophysical Journal International, 142: 173–180.

71.  Li, Z.X., Li, X.H., Kinny, P.D., and Wang, J., 1999. 
The breakup of Rodinia:did it start with a mantle plume beneath South China?
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 173: 171–181.

Möller, C., 1999. Sapphirine in SW Sweden:
A record of Sveconorwegian (-Grenvillian) late-orogenic tectonic exhumation.
Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 17: 127-141.

76.  Pisarevsky, S.A., Komissarova, R.A., and Khramov, A.N., 2000.
New palaeomagnetic result from Vendian red sediments in Cisbaikalia and the problem of the relationship of Siberia and Laurentia in the Vendian. 
Geophysical Journal International, 140:  598–610.

Pisarevsky, S.A., Sokolov, S.J. , 1999.
Palaeomagnetism of the Palaeoproterozoic ultramafic intrusion near Konchozero Lake, Southern Karelia, Russia.
Precambrian Research, 93: 201-213.

Preiss, W.V., 2000.
The Adelaide Geosyncline of South Australia and its significance in Neoproterozoic continental reconstruction.
Precamb. Res., 100: 21-63.

Söderlund, U., Jarl, L.-G., Persson, P.-O., Stephens, M. B., Wahlgren, C.-H., 1999.
Protolith ages and timing of deformation in the eastern, marginal part of the Sveconorwegian orogen, southwestern Sweden.
Precamb. Res., 94: 29-48.

Walter, M.R., Veevers, J.J., Calver, C.R., Gorjan, A P.,. Hill, C., 2000.
Dating the 840--544 Ma Neoproterozoic interval by isotopes of strontium, carbon, and sulfur in seawater, and some interpretative models.
Precamb. Res., 100: 371-433.

124.  Wang, J., and Li, Z.X., 2001.
Sequence stratigraphy and evolution of the Neoproterozoic marginal basins along southeastern Yangtze Craton, South China.
Gondwana Research, 4 (1): 17-26.

Wingate, M.T.D. and Compston, W., 2000.
Crystal orientation effects during ion microprobe U-Pb analysis of baddeleyite.
Chemical Geology, 168: 75-97.

110.  Wingate, M.T.D., 2000.
Ion microprobe U-Pb zircon and baddeleyite ages for the Great Dyke and its satellite dykes, Zimbabwe.
South African Journal of Geology, 103 (1): 74-80.

86.  Wingate, M.T.D., Campbell, I.H., and Harris, L.B., 2000.
SHRIMP baddeleyite age for the Fraser Dyke Swarm, southeast Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. 
Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 47: 309–313.

53.  Wingate, M.T.D., and Giddings, J.W., 2000.
Age and paleomagnetism of the Mundine Well dyke swarm, Western Australia: Implications for an Australia-Laurentia connection at 755 Ma. 
Precambrian Research, 100: 335–357.

Zhang, S., Li, Z.X., Wu, H. and Wang, H., 2000.
New paleomagnetic results from the Neoproterozoic successions in southern North China Block and paleogeographic implications.
Science in China, Ser. D, 43 Supp., 233-244.

Government reports


Bagas, L., Grey, K., Hocking, R.M., 1999.
Neoproterozoic successions of the northwestern Officer Basin: a reappraisal.
Geological Survey of Western Australia Annual Review for 1998-99, 39-44.

CARLSEN, G.M., APAK, S.N., GHORI, K.A.R., GREY, K. and STEVENS, M.K., 1999.
Petroleum potential of the Neoproterozoic Western Officer Basin, Western Australia, based on a source-rock model from Empress-1A.
APPEA Journal, v. 39, pt. 1, p. 322-342, Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association Limited.

Grey, K., 1999.
A modified palynological preparation technique for the extraction of large Neoproterozoic acanthomorph acritarchs and other acid insoluble microfossils.
Geological Survey of Western Australia, Record 1999/10, 23 p.

Grey, K., 1999a, Appendix 7:
Proterozoic palynology of samples from Empress 1A in Stevens, M.K. and Apak, S.N., GSWA Empress 1 and 1A Well Completion Report, Yowalga Sub-basin, Officer Basin, Western Australia:
Western Australia Geological Survey, Record 1999/4, 68-69.

Grey, K., 1999b, Appendix 8:
Proterozoic stromatolite biostratigraphy of Empress 1A in Stevens, M.K. and Apak, S.N., GSWA Empress 1 and 1A Well Completion Report, Yowalga Sub-basin, Officer Basin, Western Australia.:
Western Australia Geological Survey, Record 1999/4, 70-72.

GREY, K., APAK, S.N., EYLES, C., EYLES, N., STEVENS, M.K., CARLSEN, G.M., 1999.
Neoproterozoic glacigene successions, western Officer Basin, Western Australia.
Geological Survey of Western Australia Annual Review for 1998-99, p. 73-80.

Preiss, W.V., 1999.
The Curnamona Province and its tectonic setting.
Minfo, New South Wales Department of Mineral Resources, 62, 6-9.

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