1973 AQN. (1).

Hope, G.S. (1973). Book Reviews. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 1:13-14.

Subject: Books related to Quaternary studies.

Hope, J. and Thom, B. (1973). Australian Quaternary Newsletter Introductory Editorial. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 1:1-2.

Subject: Australian Quaternary Newsletter, scope & direction.

Geographical area: Australasia.

Keywords: Quaternary studies in Australia, New Guinea and the Indonesian archipelago.

Hope, J. and Thom, B. (1973). Research Reports. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 1:7-13.

Subject: Quaternary research reports.

Geographical area: Qld, N.S.W., A.C.T., Vic., S.A., Tas., W.A., New Guinea & Indonesia.

Keywords: Soil mapping, archaeology, geology, sedimentology, marine geology, palaeogeography, geomorphology, vegetation history, sea levels, glaciation, coastal morphology & stratigraphy, molluscan fauna, seismic & volcanic activities.

1973 AQN. (2).

Hope, G.S. (1973). Organic deposits as a vanishing Quaternary Resource. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 2:10-12.

Subject: Quaternary study of peat deposits.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Swamp peats, lake gyttyas, pollen analysis, peat mining, stocktake & risk assessment of suitable organic deposits for Quaternary research.

Hope, J. and Thom, B. (1973). Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1973. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 2:9-10.

Subject: Quaternary research report.

Geographical area: North Queensland.

Keywords: Great Barrier Reef, scientific expedition.

Hope, J. and Thom, B. (1973). Research Reports. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 2:13-19.

Subject: Quaternary research reports.

Geographical area: Qld., N.S.W. & the A.C.T., Vic., W.A., S.A. & the N.T., Tas., New Guinea & Indonesia.

Keywords: Coral reef surface sediments & geologic history, basaltic soils, archaeological site surveys & taphonomic studies, Pliocene-Pleistocene New Guinea & Australian marsupial palaeontology, mammalian & avian fossils, foraminifera, pollen analysis, geomorphology, alluvial fan morphology, sea levels, molluscs, quaternary calcretes, phosphate & bat guano, climate geomorphology & groundwater relationships, soil formation, radiocarbon chronologies, vegetation history, New Guinea volcanics, tephrochronology.

1974 AQN. (3).

Hope, G.S. (1974). At the Core.... A report on the IX INQUA Congress, Christchurch, N.Z. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 3:5-6.

Subject: IX INQUA Congress.

Geographical area: Christchurch, N.Z.

Keywords: Conference report.

Hope, J. and Thom, B.G. (1974). Calibration of radiocarbon dates. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 3:1-2.

Subject: Radiocarbon dating.

Geographical area: U.S.A.

Keywords: Radiocarbon dating, dendrochronology, calibration curves.

Hope, J. and Thom, B.G. (1974). Caving Literature in Australia. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 3:3-5.

Subject: Caving literature.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Caves, geomorphology, speleology, scientific research, journals, literature, Australia.

Hope, J. and Thom, B.G. (1974). Lake Mungo. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 3:6-7.

Subject: Ongoing research at Lake Mungo.

Geographical area: Western N.S.W.

Keywords: Lake Mungo, Willandra Lakes System, archaeological & palaeoanthropological research, aerial photography & its use in stratigraphic mapping, paleomagnetism, radiocarbon dating & chronological analyses.

Hope, J. and Thom, B.G. (1974). Research Reports. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 3:7-11.

Subject: Quaternary Research.

Geographical area: Qld, Vic., S.A., Tas., New Guinea & Indonesia.

Keywords: Atherton Tableland biogeography, benthonic foraminiferal studies, abyssal plain deposits, tree-ring studies in Australia, Lancefield deposits palaeontology, Devil's Lair archaeological excavations, Wyrie swamp archaeological excavations & paleobotanical research, Lake Eyre Basin palaeontology, Coorong dolomite formations, Quaternary history of the coastal plains of southest S.A., U/Th dating of raised coral terraces from Timor, Tasmanian higlands vegetation history, East Indonesian neolithic archaeology, New Guinean vegetation history & glacial history, Javan prehistory.

Hope, J., Thom, B.G., Langford-Smith, T., Hopley, D., Bourman, R.P., Chick, N.K., Colhoun, E.A. and Gill, E.D. (1974). Quaternary Shorelines. 1972-73 Research on Quaternary Shorelines in Australia and New Zealand- A Summary Report of the ANZAAS Quaternary Shorelines Committee. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 3:11-15.

Subject: Quaternary Shorelines.

Geographical area: Australia & New Zealand.

Keywords: Presents summaries of published and unpublished Quaternary Shorelines research for 1972-73 in N.S.W., Qld., S.A., Tas. and Vic.

1974 AQN. (4).

Hope, G.S. (1974). Book Review: Quaternary Plant Ecology. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 4:9.

Subject: Birks,H.J.B. & West,R.G. (eds.) Quaternary Plant Ecology. The 14th Symposium of the British Ecological Society.

Hope, J. and Thom, B. (1974). Quaternary Discussion Groups. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 4:7-9.

Subject: Quaternary discussion groups.

Geographical area: Qld, Vic., W.A. & A.C.T.

Hope, J. and Thom, B. (1974). Research Reports. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 4:10-15.

Subject: Quaternary research reports.

Geographical area: Qld, S.A., A.C.T., N.S.W., New Guinea, Central Sahara, Sudan Gezira & East Central Ethiopia.

Keywords: Great Barrier Reef Province sedimentary processes," raised" coral reefs of Moreton Bay, growth distribution and microstructure of scleractinian corals, coastal processes and sand transport, Brisbane river valley geomorphic history, geological evolution of Fraser Island, coastal inlets of Moreton Bay, Lake Eyre Basin quaternary stratigraphy & depositional environments, Lake Frome quaternary rock units, quaternary paleosols in southern Australia, Huon Peninsula sea level studies & upper quaternary tectonics, New Guinea Highlands quaternary history, quaternary history of the Sydney Basin, river sediment budgets and coastal sand sources of Southern N.S.W., sedment and wave energy along Broken Bay beaches, history & nature of alluvial fan depostion in semi-arid western N.S.W., prehistoric & present environments of the Central Sahara, Sudan Gezira & East Central Ethiopia, N.T. slope wash & soil creep studies.

1975 AQN. (5).

Bloom, A. (1975). Project on "Sea Level Movements During the last 15,000 Years". Australian Quaternary Newsletter. 5:15-16.

Subject: Sea levels.

Geographical area: Global.

Keywords: International Geological Correlation Programme (IGCP), mean sea level trends from deglaciation to present, climate change and the ice/water hydrologic balance, global relative sea level moments.

Crawford, I. (1975). The Australian Archaeological Association. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 5:2-4.

Subject: The Australian Archaeological Association.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: AAA-its role & function.

Hope, G.S. (1975). G-J. Bartstra & W.A. Casparie (eds.) 1975. Modern Quaternary Research in Southeast Asia. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, pp114. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 5:8-9.

Subject: Book review.

Hope, J. and Thom, B. (1975). Northern Australian Research Unit (A.N.U.). Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 5:4-7.

Subject: Research in Northern Australia.

Geographical area: Northern Australia.

Keywords: Northern Australia Research Unit (N.A.R.U.), activities, scope, services, Darwin Directorate.

Hope, J. and Thom, B.G. (1975). Research Reports. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 5:10-14.

Subject: Quaternary research.

Geographical area: Qld, A.C.T., N.S.W., P.N.G., S.A.

Keywords: Herbet/Burdekin district, archaeology, Lake George pollen analysis, Gwydir riverine plain morphology, Mt Giluwe P.N.G. glacial history, mineralogy, stratigraphy & hydrology of the Coorong, Th-230/U-234 age determination of Coral reef terraces (Portugese Timor & New Hebrides Is.), S.A. vertebrate palaeontology.

Hopley, D., Langsford Smith, T., Schofield, J.C., Williams, M.A.J., Bourman, R.P., Chick, N.K. and Gill, E.D. (1975). 1973-1974 Research on Quaternary Shorelines in Australia and new Zealand a summary report of the ANZAAS Quaternary Shorelines Committee. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 5:16-30.

Subject: Quaternary shorelines.

Geographical area: Australia & New Zealand.

Keywords: Presents summaries of published and unpublished Quaternary Shorelines research for 1973-1974 in NSW., Qld., N.Z., N.T., S.A., Tas. & Vic.

Thom, B.G. (1975). Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Coral Reefs, Great Barrier Reef Committee, Brisbane, 2vols., 1974. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 5:10.

Subject: Book Review.

Thom, B.G. (1975). W.W. Bishop & J.A. Miller (eds.) 1972. Calibration of Hominoid Evolution-Recent advances in isotropic and other dating methods applicable to the origin of man. Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 487pp. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 5:8.

Subject: Book Review.

1975 AQN. (6).

Hope, G.S. (1975). Climatology discovers the Quaternary. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 6:8-10.

Subject: Quaternary studies and Climatology.

Geographical area: Global.

Keywords: Comment on a trend evident in conferences, newpapers and reports towards a wider discussion of palaeoclimates. States that the Quatenary is more than its climates and thus it is necessary for quaternarists to explain the source of climatic inferences extracted from data.

Hope, J. and Thom, B.G. (1975). A National Approach to Earth Sciences. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 6:7.

Subject: Earth Sciences.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: National approach to earth science research, Bureau of Mineral Resources, geoscience research rationalization within government.

Hope, J.S., Thom, B.G., Rich, T.R., Woodford, E.R., Doutch, H.F. and Flenley, J.R. (1975). Research Reports. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 6:15-23.

Subject: Quaternary Research.

Geographical area: Australia & Indonesia.

Keywords: Outlines ongoing research including, Kangaroo Island Prehistory, fossil excavations at Lancefield , Morwell open cut mine fossil salvage, environmental research in the Gippsland Lakes, the Quaternary History of the Karumba Basin (Qld) and Quaternary palynology in Indonesia.

Thom, B.G. (1975). Proposal to establish geomorphologic (landform) reserves in Australia. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 6:2-6.

Subject: Geomorphologic landform reserves.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Proposal prepared for Interim Committee on the National Estate. Designed to provide a view on what approaches should be taken towards landforms and geomorphic processes which are part of the National Heritage.

1976 AQN. (7).

Hope, J., Jennings, J.N., McDougall, I., Thorne, A.G. and Walker, D. (1976). Report on a visit to the People's Republic of China by six Quaternary scientits from ANU. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 7:1-38.

Subject: Quaternary Research

Geographical area: China.

Keywords: Entire issue of AQN devoted to visit by six ANU Quaternarists to China during November 1975. Topics discussed include Chinese research into Quaternary stratigraphy, palaeontology, palaeoanthropology, palynology, paleomagnetism & radiocarbon dating techniques.

1976 AQN. (8).

Bowler, J.M. (1976). Sign of the Times? Quaternary Geology and the International Congress. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 8:5-6.

Subject: Quaternary Geology.

Geographical area: Global.

Keywords: Report of the Quaternary Geology section of the International Geological Congress, Sydney 1976.

Davies, P.J. (1976). Barrier Reef studies-Capricorn and Bunker Reefs. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 8:11-12.

Subject: Barrier Reefs

Geographical area: Central Coastal Queensland.

Keywords: Wreck, Masthead, Sykes, One Tree, Lamont, Fitzroy and Fairfax Reefs, Scientific Expedition, specific investigation of (a) shape & age of unconformity on which the present Reefs rest, (b) present hydraulic regimes and Reef growth, (c)time frame of modern Reef growth, (c)Reef lithification processes (d)potential for metal acumulation in Reef sediments.

Hope, G.S. (1976). Reflections on the 47th ANZAAS Hobart, May 1976. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 8:7-8.

Subject: Quaternary Research & the 47th ANZAAS Conference.

Geographical area: Australia & New Zealand.

Keywords: Conference report.

Hope, J. and Thom, B.G. (1976). Natural Hazards Symposium, May 1976, Canberra. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 8:9-10.

Subject: Natural Hazards.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Symposium report.

Hopley, D., Langford-Smith, T., Williams, M. and Chick, N.K. (1976). 1974-1976 Research on Quaternary Shorelines in Australia and New Zealand- a summary report of the ANZAAS Quaternary Shorelines Committee. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 8:15-29.

Geographical area: Australia & New Zealand.

Keywords: Presents summaries of published and unpublished Quaternary Shorelines research for 1974-1976 in N.S.W., N.Z., Qld., N.T., Tas. & Vic.

Magee, J. (1976). Willandra Lakes Symposium-Stratigraphy and Archaeology. Australian Quaternary Newsletter., 8:11.

Subject: Willandra Lakes

Geographical area: Western N.S.W.

Keywords: Report of Symposium held at ANU, Canberra.

Murray, P. (1976). Investigations of Late Pleistocene Cave deposits in Tasmania. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 8:13-14.

Subject: Pleistocene cave deposits.

Geographical area: Tasmania.

Duck River Dolomite, Montagu karst, Smithton Northwestern Tasmania, fossil mammals, 10,000 years BP., Florentine valley, Central Southwestern Tasmania, Beginner's Luck cave, archaeological horizon, 12,000 + 200 years BP.

National Committee for Quaternary Research, A.A.S. (1976). Annual Report for 1975. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 8:3-5.

Subject: Quaternary Research.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: National Committee for Quaternary Research, Australian Academy of Science (A.A.S.) ,Annual Report.

1977 AQN. (9).

Gillespie, R. (1977). Radiocarbon dating of marine mollusc shells. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 9:13-15.

Subject: Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory.

Geographical area: Sydney, NSW.

Keywords: Sydney University Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, marine shell dating, potential usefulness & problems.

Hope, J. and Thom, B.G. (1977). National Committee for Quaternary Research, Australian Academy of Science. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 9:2-4.

Subject: National Committee for Quaternary Research.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: March 12th 1976 & March 4th 1977, Committee Meeting reports.

Hope, J. and Thom.B.G. (1977). Palynology at Monash University. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 9:17-18.

Subject: Palynological research.

Geographical area: Monash University, Melbourne.

Keywords: Palynology, Lynch's Crater, Atherton Tabelands, Mt Buffalo, Victoria.

Ogden, J. (1977). Progress in Dendrochronology in Australia: 1974-1977. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 9:5-13.

Subject: Dendrochronology.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Dendrochronology, Australia. Review presentation of developments 1974-1977 in dendrochronology in Australia. Research areas discussed include Tasmania, Southern Highlands of N.S.W., Victorian Highlands & the Atherton Tablelands, Qld.

Van de Graaff, W.J.E. (1977). Quaternary geology in Western Australia. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 9:15-16.

Subject: Quaternary Geology.

Geographical area: Western Australia.

Keywords: Details research into western Australian Quaternary shoreline features & tectonism at Cape Range Peninsula, Lake Macleod, Cape Cuvier, Shark Bay, Swan & Scott Coastal Plains, Rottnest Island & Geraldton.

1977 AQN. (10).

Bowler, J. (1977). An Australasian Quaternary Association, To Be or Not to Be? Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 10:2-3.

Subject: Australasian Quaternary Association.

Geographical area: Australia & New Zealand.

Keywords: Discussion on the formation (or otherwise) of an Australasian Quaternary Association, its nature & function, attached questionnaire for reader response & suggestions.

Bowler, J.M. (1977). A report on INQUA Birmingham, August 1977. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 10:4-6.

Subject: Xth INQUA Congress.

Geographical area: Birmingham, UK.

Keywords: Congress report.

Callen, R.A. and Tedford, R.H. (1977). New Late Cainozoic rock units and depositional environments, Lake Frome area, South Australia. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 10:9.

Subject: Late Cainozoic Geology.

Geographical area: Lake Frome, SA.

Keywords: Five new rock units defined; Namba Formation, Willawortina Formation, Millyera Formation, Eurinilla Formation & Coonarbine Formation, the depositional environments of each are discussed.

Hope, J. and Thom, B.G. (1977). Book Notice. Sunda & Sahul: Prehistoric Studies in Southeast Asia, Melanesia and Australia. J.Allen, J.Golson & R.Jones (eds.) Academic Press. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 10:3.

Subject: Book Notice.

Hopley, D., Jones, B.G., Young, R.W., Eliot, I.G., Facer, R.A., Thom, B.G., Schofield, J.C., Gill, E.D., Van de Graaff, W.J.E. and Hails, J.R. (1977). 1976-77 Research on Quaternary Shorelines in Australia and New Zealand-a summary report of the ANZAAS Quaternary Shorelines Committee. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 10:11-26.

Subject: Quaternary Shorelines.

Geographical area: Australia & New Zealand.

Keywords: Presents summaries of published & unpublished Quaternary shorelines research for 1976-1977 in N.S.W., N.Z., Qld, Vic.,W.A. & S.A.

Marsden, M.A.H. and Mallett, C.W. (1977). Quaternary evolution, morphology, and sediment distribution, Westernport Bay, Victoria. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 10:8-9.

Subject: Quaternary Geology.

Geographical area: Victoria.

Keywords: Westernport Bay, Quaternary evolution (e.g. the interplay between tectonics, erosion, depostion & sea level changes), Bay morphology, sediment distribution & net landward re-working of relict sediment.

Ward, W.T. (1977). Geomorphology and soils of the Stratford-Bairnsdale area, East Gippsland, Victoria. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 10:9-10.

Subject: Geomorphology.

Geographical area: East Gippsland, Victoria.

Keywords: Stratford-Bairnsdale area, soil history, soil classification, relict soils, duplex soils, 20 soil associations, 14 related marine terraces, past shorelines and soil evolution.

1978 AQN. (11).

Adamson, D. (1978). Report on the symposium on biological problems in the reconstruction of Quaternary terrestrial environments. Canberra, 21-22 February 1978. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 11:23-24.

Subject: Quaternary terrestrial environments.

Geographical area: Global.

Keywords: Symposium report.

Albani, A.D. (1978). Research in Quaternary Geology at the University of NSW. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 11:30.

Subject: Quaternary geology.

Geographical area: N.S.W.

Keywords: Botany Bay, Pleistocene geomorphology, sedimentological and foraminiferal analysis, seismic lithological change determinations, Continental Shelf.

Bowler, J.M. (1978). Report on INQUA Loess Commission. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 11:21-22.

Subject: INQUA Loess Commission.

Geographical area: Birmingham, UK.

Keywords: Report of INQUA Loess Commission in Birmingham, UK, 1977.

Firman, J. (1978). Report on INQUA Neotectonics Commission. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 11:19-21.

Subject: INQUA neotectonics Commission.

Geographical area: Birmingham,UK.

Keywords: Report of Meeting of INQUA Neotectonics Commission, Birmingham 1977, also notes objectives of the Commission & reports on neo-tectonic studies in New Zealand 1973-1976.

Gill, E.D. (1978). UNESCO/IUGS International Correlation Programme- Project 61 : Sea-level movements during the last deglacial hemicycle (About 15,000 years). Australian Working Group -1977 Report (Birmingham,UK). Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 11:16-18.

Subject: Sea levels.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: 1977 Report o f Working group investigating Australian sea levels during the last 15,000 yrs.

Hills, E.S. (1978). Report on Xth INQUA Congress. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 11:10-12.

Subject: Xth INQUA Congress.

Geographical area: Birmingham, UK.

Keywords: Conference report.

Hope, J. and Thom, B.G. (1978). Australasian Quaternary Association. Report on last issue's questionnaire. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 11:2-7.

Subject: Australasian Quaternary Association.

Geographical area: Australia & New Zealand.

Keywords: Summary of disappointing 15% response rate to questionnaire regarding formation of an Australasian Quaternary Association.

Hope, J. and Thom, B.G. (1978). The Australian Quaternary Newsletter as a publication. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 11:9-10.

Subject: Australian Quaternary Newsletter.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Analysis of the legitimacy of the Australian Quaternary Newsletter as a publication.

Joyce, E.B. (1978). Quaternary Studies at the University of Melbourne. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 11:31-37.

Subject: Quaternary studies & research.

Geographical area: Melbourne, Victoria.

Keywords: Report of University of Melbourne Quaternary Studies Research in the Departments of Botany (Quaternary palynology), Geography (Quaternary coastal geomorphology & conservation) & Geology (Quaternary sedimentology, micropalaeontology, fission track dating & volcanism, prehistory).

Joyce, E.B. (1978). Report on INQUA Commission 5 : Tephrochronology. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 11:13-14.

Subject: INQUA Commission.

Geographical area: Birmingham, UK.

Keywords: Teprochronology, report of paper presentations & business meeting.

Joyce, E.B. (1978). Report on INQUA Commission 6 : Palaeopedology. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 11:13.

Subject: INQUA Commission.

Geographical area: Birmingham, UK.

Keywords: Palaeopedology, report of business meeting.

Sparks, R.S.J. and Self, S. (1978). Report of meeting of INQUA Commission on Tephrochronology. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 11:14-15.

Subject: INQUA Commission on Tephrochronology.

Geographical area: Birmingham, UK.

Keywords: Tephrochronology, INQUA Commission meeting report.

Van de Graaff, W.J.E. (1978). Quaternary Shorelines Report, W.A. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 11:37-40.

Subject: Quaternary Shorelines research.

Geographical area: Western Australia.

Keywords: Report of Quaternary research undertaken by members of the Geological Survey of Western Australia & by researchers at U.W.A. Research areas include Cape Range Peninsula, Lake Mcleod, Cape Cuvier, Carnavon Basin, Shark Bay, Perth Basin, Swan & Scott Coastal Plains, Rottnest Island, Geraldton.

Williams, M. (1978). Prehistoric environments in North Africa. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 11:29-30.

Subject: Geology, prehistory.

Geographical area: North Africa.

Keywords: Geology, prehistory, North Africa, fluvio-lacustrine environments, aeolian environments, volcanoclastic and periglacial deposits.

Williams, M., Williams, F., Gasse, F., Assefa, G., Bonnefille, R. and Adamson, D. (1978). Plio-Pleistocene environments in South-Central Ethiopia. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 11:27-29.

Subject: Plio-Pleistocene environments.

Geographical area: Ethiopia.

Keywords: East Africa, difficulties of discernment in depositional changes, lake & river valley deposits, climatic oscillations vs volcanism & tectonism, Cainozoic sediments of the Gadeb Plain, Southeast Ethiopia.

1978 AQN. (12).

Colhoun, E.A. (1978). Recent Quaternary and geomorphological studies in Tasmania. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 12:2-15.

Subject: Quaternary research.

Geographical area: Tasmania.

Keywords: Tasmania, geomorphological analyses, stratigraphic analyses, sedimentary analyses, palynological methods, dendrochronological methods, archaeological methods, 14C dating, amino acid and U/Th dating, Quaternary climate, environmental changes.

Hooley, D. (1978). Inter-dune swamps in the Gippsland Lakes area. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 12:33.

Subject: Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction.

Geographical area: Gippsland, Victoria.

Keywords: pollen, sediment and mollusc analyses, Gippsland Lakes inner barrier swamps. 7,000yrs B.P. to present.

Hope, G. and Chappell, J. (1978). Lakes of the ancestral Darling, Work in Progress. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 12:16-25.

Subject: Riverine Systems.

Geographical area: Western N.S.W.

Keywords: Darling River lakes, Lake Menindee, Lake Tandou, sedimentary sequences, fossils, palaeoenvironments.

Hope, J. and Thom, B. (1978). A bibliography of the Quaternary of Australia 1975-. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 12:39-54.

Subject: Quaternary research literature 1975-1978.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Quaternary research, bibliography, Australia, 1975-1978.

Jennings, J.N. (1978). Reconstruction of the Quaternary environments at Lake George. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 12:29-30.

Subject: Quaternary environments.

Geographical area: Lake George, Southern N.S.W.

Keywords: Seminar report, Lake George, palaeoecology, palynology, sedimentology, hydrology.

Ladd, P. (1978). Vegetation and climatic history on the Delegate River in eastern Victoria, and its relation to some other pollen sites. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 12:34-35.

Subject: Vegetation & Climatic History.

Geographical area: Eastern Victorian Highlands.

Keywords: Delegate River, Sphagnum bog, pollen analysis, vegetation history12,000 yrs B.P. to present, vegetation at 8,000 yrs B.P. cf. to present, vegetation stability cf swamp changes, altered swamps due to river meanders.

Ladd, P. (1978). Victorian Quaternary Group, Report on activities. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 12:31-32.

Subject: Victorian Quaternary Group activities.

Geographical area: Victoria.

Keywords: Lake Omeo- Mt Wombargo Field trip.

Thom, B.G. (1978). Aeolian materials, forms and processes in Australia. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 12:27-28.

Subject: Aeolian materials.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Symposium report, traction load aeolian materials, inland and arid coastal australia, transverse clay & gypsum dunes associated with saline environs, longitudinal quartz dunes.

Thom, B.G., Polach, H. and Bowman, G.M. (1978). Holocene age structure of coastal sand barriers in N.S.W., Australia. Abstract. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 12:37-38.

Subject: Coastal sand barriers.

Geographical area: N.S.W.

Keywords: Holocene, sand barriers, coastal N.S.W., morphostratigraphy, prograded dunes, stationary dunes, receded dunes, episodic transgressive dunes.

Wasson, R. (1978). Desert dunes-research activities. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 12:25-26.

Subject: Desert dunes.

Geographical area: Central Australia.

Keywords: Strezlecki dunefield, dunefield evolution, stratigraphy, sedimentology.

Williams, J. (1978). Raised Bog Deposits on Mt. Buffalo. 12:32-33.

Subject: Vegetational change.

Geographical area: Mt Buffalo, Victoria.

Keywords: Sub-alpine bogs, Buffalo plateau, pollen record, vegetation changes of the last 14,000 yrs.

1979 AQN. (13).

Berryman, K.K., Macphail, M.K., McGlone, M.S., Mildenhall, D., Pocknall, D., Soons, J.M. and Vucetich, C.G. (1979). Quaternary Research in New Zealand: After INQUA '73. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 13:3-8.

Subject: Quaternary Research.

Geographical area: New Zealand.

Keywords: New Zealand, Quaternary landforms & sediments, tectonic movements, earth deformations, pleistocene glaciations, palaeotemperatures, sea-level fluctuations, volcanism, tephrostratigraphy, palynology, palaeontology, archaeology.

Bowler, J.M. (1979). INQUA Loess Commission Western Pacific Working Group. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 13:24-25.

Subject: Loess.

Geographical area: Western Pacific.

Keywords: News and Progress report of the above working Group to 28th April 1979.

Hope, J. and Thom, B.G. (1979). Climanz Project. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 13:23-24.

Subject: Climatic Change.

Geographical area: Australia & New Zealand.

Keywords: Climanz Project- the 1st Stage, a proposed conference, summer 1981.

Hopley, D., Roy, P., Thom, B.G., Eliot, I., Schofield, J.C., Pain, C.F. and Gill, E.D. (1979). 1977-78 Research on Quaternary Shorelines in Australia and New Zealand-a summary report of the ANZAAS Quaternary Shorelines Committee. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 13:37-57.

Subject: Quaternary Shorelines.

Geographical area: Australia, New Zealand & Papua New Guinea.

Keywords: Presents summaries of published and unpublished Quaternary Shorelines research for 1977-78 in N.S.W., N.Z., P.N.G., Qld, S.A. & Vic.

Ladd, P. (1979). Bass Strait Biogeography Project. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 13:35-36.

Subject: Biogeography.

Geographical area: Flinders Island, Bass Strait.

Keywords: Flinders Island, report on investigations relating to evidence for prehistoric human occupation and environmental conditions during the Pleistocene & Holocene.

Macphail, M.K. (1979). New Zealand Quaternary researchers. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 13:8-22.

Subject: Quaternary Researchers.

Geographical area: New Zealand.

Keywords: A comprehensive list of Quaternary researchers in New Zealand ( & their research interests) as at 1978.

Wasson, R.J. (1979). The identification of relict periglacial slope mantles. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 13:26-31.

Subject: Periglacial slope mantles.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: periglacial geomorphology, periglacial environments, periglacial slope mantles, periglacial solifluction deposits, fabric & texture of periglacial deposits, speculative nature of palaeoclimate deductions based upon limits of periglacial activity within Australia.

1980 AQN. (14).

Bowler, J. (1980). The Australia-China Connection. Report to the Australian Academy of Science. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 14:3-5.

Subject: International Quaternary research.

Geographical area: China, Australia.

Keywords: Quaternary research, Australian-Chinese liasons.

Callen, R.A. (1980). Current Research in the Lake Frome-Callabonna Area, South Australia. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 14:12-27.

Subject: Quaternary research.

Geographical area: Lake Frome-Callabonna area, South Australia.

Keywords: Quaternary stratigraphy and palaeoenvironments, geochemistry, vertebrate palaeontology, modern ecology, archaeology.

Kershaw, P. and Peterson, J. (1980). On the requirements of C14 dating users in Australia. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 14:6-8.

Subject: Radiometric dating.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Radiocarbon dates, Australian dating facilities, future dating requirements.

Knight, M.J. (1980). More on Slope Movement. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 14:31.

Subject: Slope movement.

Geographical area: Camden, NSW.

Keywords: Slump-mudflow landslides, fabric analysis, predictive & mechanistic models, slope failure, fabric criteria, erosion.

Loffler, E. (1980). Results from potassium argon dating of Papua New Guinea Highland volcanoes. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 14:30-31.

Subject: Volcanism.

Geographical area: Papua New Guinea.

Keywords: K/Ar dating, P.N.G. Highlands, Volcanoes, Volcanism, Mt Giluwe, Mt Hagen, glacial activity, complex landform development, no single age determination.

Loffler, E. and Sullivan, M. (1980). Lake Dieri: To be or not to be? Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 14:28.

Subject: Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction.

Geographical area: Arid Central Australia.

Keywords: Satellite image assessment, arid Central Australia, lake of large size & longevity postulated, Tertiary period.

Soons, J. (1980). Comment on R.J. Wasson: 'The identification of relict periglacial slope mantles'. Australian Quaternary Newsletter 13, May 1979. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 14:29.

Subject: Quaternary research report.

Geographical area: New Zealand.

Keywords: Periglacial solifluction slope deposits, slope mantles, palaeoclimatic indicators.

1980 AQN. (15).

Barbetti, M. and Temple, R. (1980). Radiocarbon Dating at Sydney University. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 15:2-5.

Subject: Radiocarbon Dating.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Sydney University, Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, sample requirements, sample submission, sample packaging, processing time, charges.

Beaton, J. (1980). Holocene studies at Princess Charlotte Bay, North Queensland. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 15:12.

Subject: Holocene research.

Geographical area: North Queensland.

Keywords: Princess Charlotte Bay, Holocene, coastal progradation, chenier formation, interdisciplinary studies, Aboriginal shell middens, palynology, geomorphology, ecological mapping of shellfish and plant communities.

Golson, J. (1980). The Kuk Project. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 15:13-18.

Subject: Quaternary Research report.

Geographical area: New Guinea Highlands.

Keywords: Kuk Agricultural Research Station, archaeological investigation, history of agriculture, ethnography, geomorphology, vegetation history, soil fertility, agricultural practices, Kuk gardens, palaeobotanical research.

Hope, J. and Thom, B. (1980). ANZAAS Quaternary Shorelines Report. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 15:20-41.

Subject: Quaternary shorelines research.

Geographical area: N. Z., P.N.G., Qld, S.A., W.A., Tas., N.S.W.

Keywords: Holocene shorelines, Pleistocene shorelines, sea levels, Pliocene sea levels, elevated shorelines, marine transgressions, plate tectonics, coastal erosion, coastal geomorphology, coastal sedimentology, costal geophysics, coastal geology, estauries, beach deposits, peat deposits, fossil faunas palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, vegetational history, mangrove evolution.

Temple, R. (1980). Delays in C14 Measurements: the other side of the coin. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 15:6-7.

Subject: Radiocarbon dating.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Sydney University Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, setup, operation, time & financial constraints on dates, equipment, commentary on delays.

Thom, B.G. (1980). Coastal Quaternary excursions. Australian Quaternary Newsletter, 15:10-11.

Subject: Excursion report.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Quaternary coastal sequence excursions to areas South of Adelaide & Perth (e.g. Fleurieu Peninsula, Victor Harbor, Myponga basin, Hindmarsh valley, Adelaide, Swan coastal plain, Mandurah & Lake Preston).