Murray Basin: a unique archive of late neogene global change

Was the Oligocene-Miocene a time of fire and rain? Insights from brown coals of the southeastern Australia Gippsland Basin

Guy R Holdgate, Malcolm W Wallace, Ian RK Sluiter, Daniel Marcuccio, Thomas A Fromhold, Barbara E Wagstaff

2014-10-01

Lithotype cycles (ranging from 10 to 30. m thick) in the brown coals of the Latrobe Valley, Gippsland Basin, Australia, display we..

The development of a climate: an arid continent with wet fringes

S MCLAREN, MW Wallace, SJ Gallagher, BE Wagstaff, AMP Tosolini

2014-01-01

This book provides a critical appraisal of ecosystem theory using case studies of biological invasions in Australasia.

The Late Pleistocene evolution of palaeo megalake Bungunnia, southeastern Australia: A sedimentary record of fluctuating lake dynamics, climate change and the formation of the modern Murray River

Sandra McLaren, Malcolm W Wallace, Tess Reynolds

2012-02-01

The ephemeral lacustrine carbonates of the Bungunnia Limestone, deposited in palaeo megalake Bungunnia, preserve a detailed record..

Palaeogeographic, climatic and tectonic change in southeastern Australia: the Late Neogene evolution of the Murray Basin

Sandra McLaren, Malcolm W Wallace, Stephen J Gallagher, John A Miranda, Guy R Holdgate, Laura J Gow, Ian Snowball, Per Sandgren

2011-05-01

The Murray Basin is a low-lying but extensive intracratonic depocentre in southeastern Australia, preserving an extraordinary reco..

Plio-Pleistocene climate change and the onset of aridity in southeastern Australia

Sandra McLaren, Malcolm W Wallace

2010-03-01

Extreme global climate change in the Late Neogene is well known. In Australia, climate changed from wet conditions in the Late Neo..

Tectonism and eustasy across a Late Miocene strandplain: The Loxton-Parilla Sands, Murray Basin, southeastern Australia

John A Miranda, Malcolm W Wallace, Sandra McLaren

2009-07-15

Sediments of the Loxton-Parilla Sands form a progradational strandplain that stretches for over 350 km across the Murray Basin, in..

Age constraints on Oligocene sedimentation in the Torquay Basin, southeastern Australia

S McLaren, MW Wallace, SJ Gallagher, JA Dickinson, A McAllister

2009-01-01

The Otway, Gippsland and central coast basins (including the Torquay Basin, Sorrento Graben and Port Phillip Basin) preserve one o..

Eocene-Miocene carbon-isotope and floral record from brown coal seams in the Gippsland Basin of southeast Australia

Guy R Holdgate, Brian McGowran, Tom Fromhold, Barbara E Wagstaff, Stephen J Gallagher, Malcolm W Wallace, Ian RK Sluiter, Michael Whitelaw

2009-01-01

The carbon-isotope and palynological record through 580 m thick almost continuous brown coal in southeast Australia's Gippsland Ba..

Revised stratigraphy of the Blanchetown Clay, Murray Basin: age constraints on the evolution of paleo Lake Bungunnia

S McLaren, MW Wallace, BJ Pillans, SJ Gallagher, JA Miranda, MT Warne

2009-01-01

Paleo Lake Bungunnia covered more than 40 000 km2 of southern Australia during the Plio-Pleistocene, although the age and origin o..

Tectonic framework for the Cenozoic cratonic basins of Australia

M Sandiford, M Quigley, P de Broekert, S Jakica

2009-01-01

Variations in the extent of Cenozoic marine inundation of Australia, as revealed by the distribution of marine and nearshore depos..

Enhanced intraplate seismicity along continental margins: Some causes and consequences

Mike Sandiford, David Lundbek Egholm

2008-10-01

In Australia, much of the seismic activity is restricted to zones up to several hundred kilometres wide inboard of continental mar..

No mountains to snow on: major post-Eocene uplift of the East Victoria Highlands; evidence from Cenozoic deposits

GR Holdgate, MW Wallace, SJ Gallagher, BE Wagstaff, D Moore

2008-01-01

Since the idea of the Pliocene Kosciusko Uplift in the Southeastern Highlands of Australia was first introduced, there has been co..

Landscape responses to intraplate tectonism: Quantitative constraints from Be-10 nuclide abundances

Mark Quigley, Mike Sandiford, L Keith Fifield, Abaz Alimanovic

2007-09-15

Cosmogenic 10Be concentrations in bedrock and alluvium combined with structural studies provide a novel approach for identifying n..

The tilting continent: A new constraint on the dynamic topographic field from Australia

Mike Sandiford

2007-09-15

A pronounced latitudinal asymmetry in the present-day morphology of the Australian continental shelf is reflected in Neogene strat..

Revised Oligo-Miocene stratigraphy of the Murray Basin, southeast Australia

SJ Gallagher, TL Gourley

2007-08-01

This paper reconciles the outcrop and subsurface Oligo-Miocene marine stratigraphy of the Murray Basin to arrive at a basin-wide c..

Cenozoic fault control on 'deep lead' palaeoriver systems, Central Highlands, Victoria

GR Holdgate, MW Wallace, SJ Gallagher, RB Witten, B Stats, RE Wagstaff

2006-06-01

Basaltic eruptions across the Central Highlands of Victoria have sealed in-place Early to middle Cenozoic palaeodrainage systems (..