1983 QA. 1 (1 & 2).

Bowler, J. (1983). Reflections on INQUA 1982. Quaternary Australasia, 1 (1 & 2.):49-53.

Subject: 1982 INQUA Congress.

Geographical area: Moscow.

Keywords: Congress report.

Chen, E.K.Y. (1983). Late Cenozoic Environments of East Asia. Quaternary Australasia, 1 (1 & 2):48.

Subject: Late Cenozoic environments, South East Asia.

Geographical area: Hong Kong, East Asia.

Keywords: Conference report.

Gill, E.D. (1983). Evolution and sea levels. Quaternary Australasia, 1 (1 & 2.):45-46.

Subject: Sea levels & coastal evolution.

Geographical area: Victoria.

Keywords: Otway coast, supra-tidal platforms, coastal evolution, Last Interglacial peak, coastal erosion.

Green, N., Caldwell, J., Hope, J. and Luly, J. (1983). Pollen from an 1800 year stick-nest rat (Leporillus sp.) midden from Gnalta, western New South Wales. Quaternary Australasia, 1 (1 & 2):31-41.

Subject: Vegetation history.

Geographical area: Western NSW.

Keywords: Pack rat middens, pollen analysis, vegetation history of arid/semi arid areas.

Hope, J. (1983). Quaternarists in confrontation : The Franklin controversy. Quaternary Australasia, 1 (1 & 2):2-19.

Subject: Franklin River Dam Controversy.

Geographical area: Tasmania.

Keywords: Franklin River, Dam, archaeology, Kutikina, environmental movement, politics.

Macphail, M. (1983). Holocene pollen sequences: A personal view. Quaternary Australasia, 1 (1 & 2.):20-30.

Subject: Holocene pollen sequences.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Holocene environmental change, palynology.

Spriggs, M. (1983). Mungo's Echo? Pleistocene Terrace formation in the Western Pacific. Quaternary Australasia, 1 (1 & 2):42-44.

Subject: The Pleistocene.

Geographical area: Western Pacific.

Keywords: Aneityum, Pleistocene river terrace formation, cf Mungo-Zanci Arid period 25,000-15000BP.

Walker, M. (1983). Archaeometry and Science. Quaternary Australasia, 1 (1 & 2):53-55.

Subject: Archaeometry.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Archaeometry, Archaeology, undergraduate training, science teaching, specialist techniques.

1984 QA. 2 (1 & 2).

Anderson, M., Capel, J., Galloway, D., Holmes, D., Houghton, G., Male, L., Moss, S., Potter, J., Pyemont, B., Thorley, P., Yeomans, A. and Russell, G. (1984). Aboriginal occupation of the Lake Mungo region during Mid-Late Holocene Times. Quaternary Australasia, 2 (1 & 2):16-23.

Subject: Archaeology.

Geographical area: N.S.W.

Keywords: Lake Mungo, archaeology, artefacts, dry lake floor, aboriginal occupation, Holocene.

Barbetti, M. (1984). The N.W.G. Macintosh Centre for Quaternary Dating. Quaternary Australasia, 2 (1 & 2):39-40.

Subject: Radiocarbon Dating.

Geographical area: Sydney, N.S.W.

Keywords: Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, renaming of, price list.

Barbetti, M., Bird, T., Francey, R., Nanson, G. and Colhoun, E. (1984). Wanted-Information on the whereabouts of trees, stumps and old logs. Quaternary Australasia, 2 (1 & 2):33-37.

Subject: Dendrochronology, palaeoenvironmental reconstruction.

Geographical area: Stanley River, Tasmania.

Keywords: Dendrochronology, Stanley River, Pine tree growth rings, palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, stable isotope analysis, radiocarbon dating, palynology.

Bednarik, R.G. (1984). The Australian Rock Art Research Association. Quaternary Australasia, 2 (1 & 2):38.

Subject: Rock Art Research.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Association formation, membership etc.

Gill, E.D. (1984). International Symposium on Coastal Evolution in the Holocene. Quaternary Australasia, 2 (1 & 2):30.

Subject: Holocene coastal evolution.

Geographical area: Global.

Keywords: Conference report, Tokyo, Japan.

Hopley, D. (1984). Quaternary Research at James Cook University of North Queensland. Quaternary Australasia, 2 (1 & 2):27.

Subject: Quaternary Research.

Geographical area: Townsville, Great Barrier Reef.

Keywords: Quaternary development, Great Barrier Reef.

Lawrence, C.R. (1984). IGCP Project No.184-Palaeohydrology of low latitude deserts. Quaternary Australasia, 2 (1 & 2):31-32.

Subject: Low latitiude deserts.

Geographical area: Global-between latitudes

35 Degrees North & 35 Degrees South.

Keywords: Desert landscape investigation, remote sensing imagery, geological interpretation, geomorphological interpretation, hydrological interpretation, national & continental scale investigations.

McPhail, S. (1984). Australian Radiometric Laboratories. Quaternary Australasia, 2 (1 & 2):41.

Subject: Radiocarbon Dating.

Geographical area: Drummoyne, NSW.

Keywords: Radiometric dating, price lists.

Paterson, S.J. (1984). Quaternarists in confrontation: the Franklin controversy- a rebuttal. Quaternary Australasia, 2 (1 & 2):1-7.

Subject: The Franklin Dam Controversy.

Geographical area: Tasmania.

Keywords: Franklin River dam, Hydro-Electric Commission, Tasmania, geomorphology, archaeology, High Court, controversy.

Wasson, R.J. (1984). The Swaziland Symposium on Palaeoclimates of the Southern Hemisphere, and the Johannesburg Workshops on the Late Cainozoic of Southern Africa. Quaternary Australasia, 2 (1 & 2):8-15.

Subject: Palaeoclimates.

Geographical area: Southern Hemisphere.

Keywords: Report on Swaziland Symposium on Palaeoclimates of the Southern hemisphere.

1985 QA. 3 (1 & 2).

Barbetti, M., Taylor, G. and Pham, M. (1985). The N.W.G. Macintosh Centre for Quaternary Dating. Quaternary Australasia, 3 (1 & 2):30-31.

Subject: Quaternary dating facilities.

Geographical area: Sydney, Australia.

Keywords: Report update (see; Q.A. Vol. 2, pp 39-41).

Galloway, R.W. (1985). Conference on geomorphic and stratigraphic indicators of Neogene/Quaternary climatic change in arid and semi-arid environments. Quaternary Australasia, 3 (1 & 2):29.

Subject: Past climatic change indicators in semi-arid/arid environments.

Geographical area: Global.

Keywords: United States Geological Society, Lake Havasu City, Arizona,14-19th April 1985. Conference report.

Hope, J. and Thom, B.G. (1985). Minutes of the Inaugural AQUA Committee Meeting, Grand Hotel, Mildura, July 12th 1985. Quaternary Australasia, 3 (1 & 2):8-9.

Subject: AQUA Committee.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Formation of AQUA, Inaugural AQUA Committee meeting.

Soons, J.M. (1985). Report on CLIMANZ workshop, 4-8th February 1985. Quaternary Australasia, 3 (1 & 2):11-13.

Subject: CLIMANZ.

Geographical area: Hari Hari, South Westland, New Zealand.

Keywords: Workshop report.

Thom, B.G. (1985). Quaternary Studies in Australia: Future Directions. Quaternary Australasia, 3 (1 & 2.):16-28.

Subject: Quaternary research.

Geographical areas: Australia.

Keywords: Summary of Quaternary research programmes over past 2 decades, (a) thematic & (b) geographic gaps in research programmes, dating techniques (especially AMS) and other equipment needs, organisation of Quaternary research in Australia.

Thom, B.G. and Galloway, R.W. (1985). National Committee for Quaternary Research. Quaternary Australasia, 3 (1 & 2):2-5.

Subject: Commitee meeting & report.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Australian Academy of Science, National Committee for Quaternary research, Agenda item 1-Organisation of AQUA.

Williams, P. (1985). New Zealand facilities for dating the Quaternary. Quaternary Australasia, 3 (1 & 2):13-15.

Subject: Quaternary dating facilities

Geographical area: New Zealand.

Keywords: List of dating facilities for New Zealand derived from Royal Society of New Zealand Committee for Quaternary Research, 1984.

1986 QA. 4 ( 1 & 2).

Berryman, K. (1986). Current Quaternary studies in Southern North Island, New Zealand. Quaternary Australasia, 4 (1 & 2):12-13.

Subject: Quaternary Research.

Geographical area: Southern North Island, New Zealand.

Keywords: Early Quaternary stratigraphy, palaeontology, Wanganui, Hawkes Bay, Wairarapa, Late Quaternary geomorphology, loess, tephra, glacial deposits, palynology, palaeoecology, tectonics, fluvial systems.

Bowler, J. (1986). Obituary. Dr. Dominic Williams (1947-1984). Quaternary Australasia, 4 (1 & 2):68.

Subject: Obituary.

Head, L. and Gell, P. (1986). Fire & vegetation workshop-Monash University 27-28 February 1986. Quaternary Australasia, 4 (1 & 2):4-6.

Subject: Fire & vegetation, charcoal studies; methods & results.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Fire & Vegetation Workshop report.

McLaughlin, R.J. (1986). Obituary. Edwin Sherbon Hills, CBE, PhD (Lond), Hon DSc (Durh), DSc, FIC, FAA FRS. Quaternary Australasia, 4 (1 & 2):64-65.

Subject: Obituary.

Sherwood, J. (1986). Obituary. Edmund Dwen Gill, B.A.,B.D.,F.G.S., F.G.S.Am. Quaternary Australasia, 4 (1 & 2):62-63.

Subject: Obituary.

Suggate, R.P. (1986). Obituary. Ian Charles McKellar (1919-1986). Quaternary Australasia, 4 (1 & 2.):66-67.

Subject: Obituary.

Suggate, R.P. (1986). Wanganui Quaternary Workshop. Quaternary Australasia, 4 (1 & 2):7-9.

Subject: Quaternary research.

Geographical area: Wanganui, New Zealand.

Keywords: Geological framework, coastal terraces, amino-acid racemisation, volcanic ashes, fission-track dating, biostratigraphy, palaeomagnetics.

Walker, D. (1986). ANU-Academica Sinica Quaternary Studies Programme. Quaternary Australasia, 4 (1 & 2):18-20.

Subject: Joint Chinese & Australian Quaternary research.

Geographical area: China & Australia.

Keywords: China, Australia, joint research, salt lakes & aeolian systems, quaternary palynology, palaeoanthropology, coral reefs & coasts.

Wyrwoll, K.H. (1986). A register of Quaternary work being undertaken in Western Australia. Quaternary Australasia, 4 (1 & 2):14-17.

Subject: Quaternary research.

Geographical area: W. A.

Keywords: Register of Quaternary research workers in W.A. at 1986.

1987 QA. 5(1).

Adamson, C.L. (1987). Earth degradation and the Quaternary. Quaternary Australasia, 5 (1):17.

Subject: Quaternary research; the importance of.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Earth degredation & the Quaternary, Quaternarists action required, increased knowledge of the Quaternary required.

De Deckker, P. (1987). SLEADS is very much alive and well. Quaternary Australasia, 5 (1):10.

Subject: SLEADS.

Geographical area: ANU, Canberra.

Keywords: Arid-zone hydrology, geochemistry, stratigraphy & palaeoenvironments.

Galloway, R.W. (1987). Letter from AQUA President. Quaternary Australasia, 5 (1):2.

Subject: AQUA President & Committee.

Kelts, K. (1987). IGCP Project No.219-Comparative lacustrine sedimentology in space and time. Quaternary Australasia, 5 (1):16-17.

Subject: Lacustrine basins.

Geographical area: Global.

Keywords: Lacustrine sedimentology, modern lake systems, palaeoenvironments, mineral resources, Mesozoic lake basins, Cenozoic lacustrine basins, Palaeozoic/Precambrian lake basins.

Kershaw, P. (1987). A report on the Mt Gambier AQUA meeting. Quaternary Australasia, 5 (1):3-4.

Subject: AQUA Conference

Geographical area: Mt Gambier, S.A.

Keywords: Conference report.

Mcbryde, I. (1987). Professor D.J. Mulvaney. Quaternary Australasia, 5 (1):18-19.

Subject: Personal tribute.

Murray-Wallace, C.M. (1987). Amino acid racemisation dating of Quaternary marine sediments-A progress report. Quaternary Australasia, 5 (1):11-12.

Subject: Amino acid racemisation.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Comments on the application of amino acid racemisation to the dating of Australian Quaternary sediments. Outlines some of the findings of Murray Wallace's doctoral thesis, particularly the importance of the recognition of error sources for reliable data interpretation.

Pirazzoli, P.A. (1987). IGCP Project No. 200-Sea level Correlation and its Applications. Quaternary Australasia, 5 (1):14-15.

Subject: Sea levels.

Geographical area: Global.

Keywords: Sea level change, oceanographic fluctuations, tectonic fluctuations, climatic fluctuations, tidal fluctuations, local histories & global correlations.

Starkel, L. and Berglund, B. (1987). IGCP Project No.158-Palaeohydrology of the Temperate Zone. Quaternary Australasia, 5 (1):13-14.

Subject: Palaeohydrology.

Geographical area: Global Temperate Zone.

Keywords: Multidisciplinary research, hydrological regime changes, temperate zone, fluvial environments, lake & mire environments.

Suguio, K. (1987). IGCP Project No.201-Quaternary of South America. Quaternary Australasia, 5 (1):15.

Subject: Quaternary research.

Geographical area: South America.

Keywords: South America, Quaternary deposits, improved correlations, marine and continental lithostratigraphy, Quaternary mammal fauna, glaciology, geomorphology.

Thiramongkol, N. (1987). IGCP Project No.218-Quaternary processes and events in Southeast Asia. Quaternary Australasia, 5 (1):16.

Subject:The Quaternary.

Geographical area: Southeast Asia.

Keywords: Southeast Asia, exogenic and endogenic Quaternary processes, stratigraphic correlations.

Thom, B.G. (1987). National Committee for Quaternary Research. Quaternary Australasia, 5 (1):1.

Subject: National Committee for Quaternary research.

Geographical area: Mt Gambier, S.A.

Keywords: National Committee for Quaternary research, meeting report.

1987 QA. 5(2).

Galloway, R.W. (1987). Conference Report: "Cenozoic of the Australian Region". Quaternary Australasia, 5 (2):9.

Subject: Research in the Cenozoic of Australia.

Geographical area: Warnambool, Victoria.

Keywords: Conference report, Warnambool, Victoria.

Galloway, R.W. (1987). Conference Report: "Climanz III". Quaternary Australasia, 5 (2):9.

Subject: Climate modelling & Quaternary field research.

Geographical area: Global.

Keywords: Conference report, Melbourne Victoria..

Galloway, R.W. (1987). Conference Report: "Greenhouse 87". Quaternary Australasia, 5 (2):9.

Subject: Possible impacts of increasing atmospheric concentrations of Greenhouse gases.

Geographical area: Global.

Keywords: Conference report, Melbourne Victoria.

Galloway, R.W. (1987). Impressions of INQUA 1987. Quaternary Australasia, 5 (2):8.

Subject: 12th INQUA Congress.

Geographical area: Ottawa, Canada.

Keywords: Congress report.

Hopley, D. (1987). A review of sea level research in the Australian region, 1984-1987. Quaternary Australasia., 5 (2):14-15.

Subject: Sea level research.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Quaternary climate change, oxygen isotopes and sea level, climatic variability, sediment budgets, global modelling, morphostratigraphic research.

Humphreys, G.S. (1987). New Items on the Quaternary in P.N.G. Quaternary Australasia, 5 (2):12.

Subject: Cenozoic/Mezozoic sedimentary record.

Geographical area: Papua new Guinea.

Keywords: Field guide books, Port Moresby-Yule island, Central Highlands.

Lundqvist, J. (1987). IGCP 253: Termination of the Pleistocene. Quaternary Australasia, 5 (2):18-19.

Subject: The Pleistocene.

Geographical area: Global.

Keywords: Glacial-interglacial transition, global hydrological cycle, 18,000-8,000 yrs B.P., geologic parameters, palaeoclimatic parameters, palaeohydrological parameters, Milancovitch parameters, desertification, moonsoonal circulation, ENSO.

Schluchter, C. (1987). INQUA at the crossroads? Quaternary Australasia, 5 (2):21.

Subject: INQUA.

Geographical area: Global.

Keywords: Reflection on the progress of INQUA during the past five years & some thoughts on the principles and aspirations of INQUA.

Southern, W. (1987). Quaternary Research in Fiji. Quaternary Australasia, 5 (2):10-12.

Subject: Quaternary research report.

Geographical area: Fiji.

Keywords: Details some current Quaternary research projects in Fiji inclusive of; geological mapping of the volcanic and limestone landscapes of Fijian Islands (eg Tavenui), examination of sequences derived from coral reefs, coastal dunes & estuaries, pollen sequences from coastal swamps & archaeological investigations.

Thom, B.G. (1987). RE: INQUA CONGRESS 31 July to August 1987. Quaternary Australasia, 5 (2):2-7.

Subject: 12th INQUA Congress.

Geographical area: Ottowa, Canada.

Keywords:12th INQUA Congress Report by the Chairman of the National Committee for Quaternary Research.

1988 QA. 6(1).

Deynoux, M. (1988). IGCP Project No. 260-Earth Glacial Record. Quaternary Australasia, 6 (1):34.

Subject: Glaciation.

Geographical area: Global.

Keywords: Tectonic activity & glaciation, effects on global climate.

Galloway, R.W. (1988). Editorial: Quaternary Studies and other Earth Sciences. Quaternary Australasia, 6 (1):1.

Subject: Quaternary studies.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Quaternary research, higher education, The Australian public.

Galloway, R.W. (1988). Geomorphological mapping in China. Quaternary Australasia, 6 (1):36.

Subject: Geomorphology.

Geographical area: China.

Keywords: 1:4,000 000 geomorphic map preparation for China.

Galloway, R.W. (1988). Views on the current state of Quaternary Research in Australia. Quaternary Australasia, 6 (1):4-7.

Subject: Quaternary Research.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: National Committee of Quaternary Research.

Joyce, E.B. (1988). Death Valley, California: A friends of the Pleistocene meeting. Quaternary Australasia, 6 (1):9-11.

Subject: Quaternary tectonics.

Geographical area: Death Valley, California.

Keywords: Field meeting, Pleistocene studies, Death Valley.

Kelts, K. (1988). IGCP Project No.219-Comparative lacustrine sedimentology in space and time. Quaternary Australasia, 6 (1):30-32.

Subject: Research update (lacustrine basins).

Geographical area: Global.

Keywords: Lacustrine sedimentology, modern lake systems, palaeoenvironments, mineral resources, Mesozoic lake basins, Cenozoic lacustrine basins, Palaeozoic/Precambrian lake basins.

Milnes, A.R. (1988). Current Quaternary Research in South Australia. Quaternary Australasia, 6 (1):12-15.

Subject: Quaternary research.

Geographical area: South Australia.

Keywords: Regolith, calcareous landscapes, ferruginous landscapes, silica accumulations, soil forming processes, soil genesis, amino-acid racemisation, organic matter diagenisis, beach aggradation & depletion, beach platforms, coastal quaternary sediments, sea-levels, coastal aeolinites, Murray river fluvial history.

Petit-Maire, N. and Dieng, B. (1988). IGCP Project No. 252-Past and future evolution of deserts. Quaternary Australasia, 6 (1):33-34.

Subject: Deserts.

Geographical area: Global.

Keywords: Deserts, physical and biological processes, prequaternary deserts, palaeodrainages and aquifers, human and desert evolution in time and space, atmospheric circulations, coastal deserts, palaeoclimates, isochrone mapping, periequatorial belt climate changes.

Pirazzoli, P.A. (1988). ICGP Project No. 200-Sea level Correlation and its Applications. Quaternary Australasia, 6 (1):pp14-15.

Subject: Research update (Sea levels).

Geographical area: Global.

Keywords: Sea level change, oceanographic fluctuations, tectonic fluctuations, climatic fluctuations, tidal fluctuations, local histories & global correlations.

Starkel, L. and Berglund, B. (1988). IGCP Project No.158-Palaeohydrology of the Temperate Zone. Quaternary Australasia, 6 (1):27.

Subject: Research update (Palaeohydrology).

Geographical area: Global Temperate Zone.

Keywords: Multidisciplinary research, hydrological regime changes, temperate zone, fluvial environments, lake & mire environments.

Suguio, K. (1988). IGCP Project No.201-Quaternary of South America. Quaternary Australasia, 6 (1):29-30.

Subject: Research update (The Quaternary of South America).

Geographical area: South America.

Keywords: South America, Quaternary deposits, improved correlations, marine and continental lithostratigraphy, Quaternary mammal fauna, glaciology, geomorphology.

Thiramongkol, N. (1988). IGCP Project No.218-Quaternary processes and events in Southeast Asia. Quaternary Australasia, 6 (1):30.

Subject: Research update (The Quaternary of South east Asia).

Geographical area: Southeast Asia.

Keywords: Southeast Asia, exogenic and endogenic Quaternary processes, stratigraphic correlations.

Wasson, R.J. and Clark, R.L. (1988). The Quaternary in Australia-Past, Present and Future. Quaternary Australasia, 6 (1):17-22.

Subject: The Quaternary.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Palaeoecology, applied environmental history, landscape management.

1988 QA. 6(2).

Bishop, P. (1988). Conference on the Cenozoic of the Australian Region. Quaternary Australasia, 6 (2):6.

Subject: The Cenozoic.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Conference report.

Dodson, J. (1988). Book review: Cainozoic vegetation in Tasmania. Colhoun,E. (ed.) 1988. Department of Geography, University of Newcastle,Australia. Quaternary Australasia, 6 (2):20.

Subject: Book review.

Galloway, R.W. (1988). Recent Quaternary Research in Tasmania. Quaternary Australasia, 6 (2):9-10.

Subject: Quaternary research.

Geographical area: Tasmania.

Keywords: Quaternary deposits, King Valley, Tasmania.

Galloway, R.W. (1988). Report on Symposium. Lessons for human survival: Nature's record from the Quaternary. IGC Congress, Sydney, 22 August 1988. Quaternary Australasia, 6 (2):7-8.

Subject: Quaternary.

Geographical area: Global.

Keywords: Symposium report, topics included; greenhouse gases, sea level rises, environmental management, palaecological studies.

1989 QA. 7(1).

Beanland, S. (1989). Buller Valley field trip Anzac weekend 1988. Quaternary Australasia, 7 (1):15.

Subject: Buller Valley Field trip.

Geographical area: New Zealand.

Keywords: Field trip report.

Bowdery, D. (1989). Phytoliths: Where are we at in Australia? Quaternary Australasia, 7 (1):7.

Subject: Phytoliths.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Phytolith analysis, recent Australian applications & reseach.

Bowler, J. (1989). The Palaeoenvironment of East Asia from the Mid-Tertiary, Proceedings of the Second Conference held in the centre for Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, January 1987. Quaternary Australasia, 7 (1):42-43.

Subject: Book review.

Boyd, W.E. (1989). Comment: Environmental responsibility in Quaternary research. Quaternary Australasia, 7 (1):23-24.

Subject: USERP.

Geographical area: Australia, global.

Keywords: United Scientists for Environmental Responsibility & Protection.

Boyd, W.E. (1989). Pollen analysis of mound springs swamp deposits at Dalhousie Springs, Northern South Australia. Quaternary Australasia, 7 (1):5.

Subject: Pollen analysis.

Geographical area: South Australia.

Keywords: Dalhousie Springs, mound springs, Late Holocene vegetation change, arid zone palynology.

Brookfield, H. (1989). Human dimensions of global change: a research programme on human interactions with the earth. A preliminary report. Quaternary Australasia, 7 (1):25.

Subject: Human-earth interactions.

Geographical area: UNU, Tokyo, Japan.

Keywords: Conference report.

Chalson, J. (1989). The Identification of Myrtaceae pollen and vegetation history. Quaternary Australasia, 7 (1):6.

Subject: Pollen analysis.

Geographical area: N.S.W.

Keywords: Blue Mountains, vegetation history, species level identification of Myrtaceae pollen.

Cook, P.J. (1989). Summary report on an IUGS-UNESCO workshop held at Interlaken, Switzerland. Quaternary Australasia, 7 (1):13-14.

Subject: Past & future global change.

Geographical area: International.

Keywords: Conference report.

D'Costa, D. (1989). Pollen analyses of Long Cores from Lake Terang, Western Victoria. Quaternary Australasia, 7 (1):8.

Subject: Pollen analysis.

Geographical area: Western Victoria.

Keywords: Lake Terang, volcanic western plains, 36M core analysed, cyclical vegetation change, deduced climatic change, interstadials vs interglacials.

Dyall, L. (1989). Two coastal Aboriginal sites south of Newcastle. Quaternary Australasia, 7 (1):8-9.

Subject: Coastal archaeology.

Geographical area: Central coast, N.S.W.

Keywords: Coastal middens, Swansea channel, Birubi.

Francis, D. (1989). Field trip, the Late Quaternary succession at Wangunai 29th May-1st June 1988. Quaternary Australasia, 7 (1):15-16.

Subject: Late Quaternary succession.

Geographical area: New Zealand.

Keywords: Field trip report.

Gale, S.J. (1989). Castleguard cave and the Cenozoic evolution of the southern Canadian Rockies. Quaternary Australasia, 7 (1):9-10.

Subject: Glacial lansdscape evolution.

Geographical area: Rocky Mountains, Canada.

Keywords: Glacial landscapes, age estimation of relief, Tertiary vs Quaternary evolution of landscape elements.

Hayward, B. (1989). N.Z. Archaeological Association Conference, Auckland, May 1988. Quaternary Auatralia, 7 (1):16.

Subject: N.Z. Archaeological research.

Geographical area: New Zealand.

Keywords: Conference report.

Humphreys, G.S., Osborne, P.L. and Polunin, N.V.C. (1989). Late Holocene changes in sediment source in a tropical lowland basin: Waigani Lake, Papua New Guinea. Quaternary Australia, 7 (1):11-12.

Subject: Holocene sedimentation.

Geographical area: Papua New Guinea.

Keywords: Waigani lake, Waigani basin, sediment sources, Waigani & Laloki catchments, clay mineralogy, XRF element determination.

Kodela, P. (1989). Late Holocene vegetation and environment of the Moss Vale-Robertson area of New South Wales. Quaternary Australasia, 7 (1):7.

Subject: Pollen analysis.

Geographical area: Central Tablelands, N.S.W.

Keywords: Rainforest, Eucalypt forest, modern pollen rain cf fossil assemblages, Wildes Meadow, Wingercarribee.

Kodela, P.G. and Mackillop, R.D. (1989). Weed pollen, a geomorphological application (Introduced pollen taxa as indicators of post-European sediments). Quaternary Australasia, 7 (1):34-26.

Subject: Pollen analysis.

Geographical area: Bathurst, N.S.W.

Keywords: Palynology, Holocene valley fill deposits, introduced plant species, pollen taxa, post-European sediment identification.

Mckenzie, M. (1989). Charcoal studies from the Central Highlands of Victoria. Quaternary Australasia, 7 (1):8.

Subject: Charcoal studies.

Geographical area: Victorian Central Highlands.

Keywords: Central Highlands, macroscopic charcoal, fire vs climatic effects on Holocene presence of Nothofagus cunninghamii .

Scott, L. (1989). The Pretoria saltpan: A unique source of Quaternary palaeoenvironmental information. Quaternary Australasia, 7 (1):39-41.

Subject: Saltpans, pollen analysis.

Geographical area: South Africa.

Keywords: Pretoria saltpan, Quaternary sediments, radiocarbon dating, pollen analysis.

Singh, G. (1989). Fine resolution palaeoecology and palaeoclimatology at Bega Swamp, S.E. NSW. Quaternary Australasia, 7 (1):5.

Subject: Pollen analysis.

Geographical area: Southeastern NSW.

Keywords: Fine resolution pollen analysis, Bega Swamp, Phase 2, precipitation & fire occurrence cf recent

pollen production & accumulation.

1990 QA. 8(1).

Belperio, A.P. and Gostin, V.A. (1990). Strandline models for cool water carbonate sediments of Southern Australia and neotectonic implications. Quaternary Australasia, 8 (1):6.

Subject: Marine geology.

Geographical area: Southern Australia.

Keywords: Continental Shelf, coastlines, non-tropical biogenic carbonate province, strandline models, shoreline elevation variation, Quaternary neotectonic movement.

Bone, Y., James, N.P., Rice, R., Von der Borch, C.C., Gostin, V.A. and Barnett, E. (1990). Marine Geology of the Lacepede Shelf, Southern Australia- A failed delta. Quaternary Australasia, 8 (1):5.

Subject: Marine geology.

Geographical area: Southern Australia.

Keywords: Laceperde Shelf, flat plateau, loose coarse grained sediments, relict particles, sea level changes.

Boyd, B. (1990). The Holocene: An Environmental History. Roberts,N. Basil Blackwell, Oxford 1989. Quaternary Australasia, 8 (1):9.

Subject: Book Review.

Hope, G. (1990). Henderson-Sellars,A. & Blong,R. (eds.) 1989. The Green house effect-Living in a warmer Australia. Quaternary Australasia, 8 (1):8-9.

Subject: Book Review.

Von der Borch, C.C., Gostin, V.A., James, N.P., Bone, Y., Rice, R., Barnett, E. and Smith, B. (1990). Marine Geology of the Laceperde Shelf: Results of the 1989 Cruise aboard R/V Franklin. Quaternary Australasia, 8 (1):4-5.

Subject: Marine geology.

Geographical area: Southeastern South Australia.

Keywords: Marine geoscience Cruise, L/V Franklin, Laceperde Shelf, seafloor sediment sampling, vibrocoring, high resolution seismic profiling, preliminary results.

1990 QA. 8(2).

Francey, R. and Cook, E. (1990). Tasmanian tree rings: Prospects for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. Quaternary Australasia, 8 (2):22-24.

Subject: Dendrochronology.

Geographical area: Tasmania.

Keywords: Tree rings, Tasmania, palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, King Billy Pine (Athrotaxis selaginoides), Pencil Pine (A. cuppressoides), Huon Pine (Lagarostrobus frankinii), Celery Top Pine (Phyllocladus aspleniifolius).

Murray-Wallace, C.V., Goede, A. and Picker, K. (1990). Last Interglacial coastal sediments at Mary Ann Bay, Tasmania, and their neotonic significance. Quaternary Australasia, 8 (2):26-32.

Subject: Sea level change.

Geographical area: Tasmania.

Keywords: Last Interglacial, quartz sands, Tasmania, coastline, neotectonism, sea level change.

Pickard, J. (1990). Diet of Diprotodons, a mystery of the sands. Quaternary Australasia, 8 (2):25.

Subject: Diprotodons.

Geographical area: Semi-arid Australia.

Keywords: Diprotodons, diet, stomach contents, fossils.

1991 QA. 9(1).

Baynes, A. (1991). INQUA: Cromer Symposium University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK 2-4 September 1990. Quaternary Australasia, 9 (1):6.

Subject: INQUA Symposium.

Geographical area: United Kingdom.

Keywords: Symposium report.

Baynes, A. (1991). Packrat middens: The last 40,000 years of biotic change. Betancourt,J.L., Van Devender,T.R. & Martin,P.S.(eds.) 1990. The University of Arizona Press, Tuscon. Quaternary Australasia, 9 (1):10.

Subject: Book review.

Chivas, A.R. (1991). Origin of surficial sulphate in the Australian landscape. Quaternary Australasia, 9 (1):26.

Subject: Mineralogy.

Geographical area: Southern Australia.

Keywords: _34S values, gypseous modern playa lakes cf bedrock sulfur, marine derived sulfur, salt aerosols.

Gillieson, D., Ingle Smith, D., Greenaway, M. and Ellaway, M. (1991). Flood history of the Limestone Ranges, Kimberleys, Western Australia. Quaternary Australasia, 9 (1):21-25.

Subject: Palaeofloods.

Geographical area: Kimberleys, Western Australia.

Keywords Quaternary science methodologies, Limestone Ranges, palaeofloods, slack water deposit analysis, fluvial geomorphology, applied geomorphology & current design projects.

Kenyon, C. (1991). A Late Pleistocene and Holocene palaeoecological record from Boulders Flat, East Gippsland Victoria. Quaternary Australasia, 9 (1):19.

Subject: Palaeoecology.

Geographical area: Victoria.

Keywords: East Gippsland, Boulders Flat, palaeoecology, alluvial valley, swamps, sedimentology, vegetation history, palaeohydrology, 26,700yrs B.P. to the present.

Pickard, J. (1991). Colonisation after Little Ice Age glaciers in the Yukon: Plants don't walk uphill. Quaternary Australasia, 9 (1):20.

Subject: Vegetation succession.

Geographical area: Canada.

Keywords: Classic vegetation succession models, Little Ice Age glaciation, Keele Peak Yukon Territory, data inconsistent with classic succession model.

Rowe, K. (1991). Sillimanite: A potentially useful indicator mineral. Quaternary Australasia, 9 (1):17-18.

Subject: Mineralogy

Geographical area: North Eastern Victoria.

Keywords: Sillimanite, pollen analysis, Electron Microscope Probe (EMP), X-ray Diffraction (XRD), rare mineral, sediment provenance determinations.

Sutton, D.G., Flenley, J. and Barker, W. (1991). Interim report on recent archaeological research on Rarotonga, Southern Cook Islands. Quaternary Australasia, 9 (1):12-16.

Subject: Archaeology.

Geographical area: Polynesia.

Keywords: Raratonga, occurrence of 1st colonisation, sedimentology, pollen analysis.

1991 QA. 9(2).

Baynes, A. (1991). Owls Caves and fossils. Andrews,P.(1990) Natural History Museum Publications, London. Quaternary Australasia, 9 (2):17.

Subject: Book Review.

Bowler, J. (1991). Report on XIIIth INQUA Congress, Beijing, Aug 2-9, 1991. Quaternary Australasia, 9 (2):9-14.

Subject: XIIIth INQUA Congress.

Geographical area: Beijing, China.

Keywords: Congress report.

Boyd, W.E. (1991). The Cainozoic in Australia: A re-appraisial of the evidence. Geological Society of Australia Special Publication 18. Williams,M.A.J., De Deckker,P and Kershaw,A.P.(eds.)1991. Geological Society of Australia, Sydney. Quaternary Australasia, 9 (2):17-20.

Subject: Book Review.

Boyd, W.E. (1991). Lessons for human survival: Nature's record from the Quaternary. Geological society of Australia Symposium Proceedings 1. Bishop,P.(ed.) 1990. Geological society of Australia, Sydney. Quaternary Australasia, 9 (2):17-20.

Subject: Book review.

Boyd, W.E. (1991). Quaternary Dating Workshop 1990. Gillespie,R.(ed.) 1991. Department of Biogeography & Geomorphology, Research School of Pacific Studies, A.N.U., Canberra. Quaternary Australasia, 9 (2):20-21.

Subject: Book review.

Boyd, W.E., Lynch, H. and Pretty, G.L. (1991). Phytoliths from Roonka, South Australia: an introductory report. Quaternary Australasia, 9 (2):33.

Subject: Phytoliths.

Geographical area: South Australia.

Keywords: Phytoliths, archaeology, Australia, Roonka, Phragmites australis, tomb emplacement, cultural significance, Holocene.

Boyd, W.E.B. (1991). Quaternary sediments: petrographic methods for the study of unlithified rocks. Gale,S.J. & Hoare,P.G. 1991. John Wiley, New York. Quaternary Australasia, 9 (2):22.

Subject: Book Review.

D'Costa, D. and Grinrod, J. (1991). Reconstruction of Late Quaternary Environments at Egg Lagoon, King Island, Bass Strait. Quaternary Australasia, 9 (2):32.

Subject: Pollen analysis & environmental reconstruction.

Geographical area: King island, Bass Strait.

Keywords: Quaternary environments, environmental reconstruction, pollen analysis, King island.

Goede, A. (1991). Tasmanian speleothems: Progress and prospects for palaeoenvironment reconstructions. Quaternary Australasia, 9 (2):23-28.

Subject: Speleothems.

Geographical area: Tasmania.

Keywords: Palaeoenvironment reconstructions, calcite stalagmites, Tasmanian research 1979 to present, future research prospects.

Murray-Wallace, C.V. and Belperio, A.P. (1991). The shoreline of the Last Interglaciation in Australia- A review. Quaternary Australasia, 9 (2):31.

Subject: Shoreline history.

Geographical area: Southern Australia.

Keywords: Marginal marine strata, Last Interglacial age, Uranium series dating of corals cf oxygen isotope Stage 5, amino-acid racemisation, Last Interglacial sequence correlations, stable continent, neotonic anomalies, low Last Interglacial sea-surface cf global results, Western Eyre Peninsula.

Pickard, J. (1991). Diet of Diprotodons: A mystery solved. Quaternary Australasia, 9 (2):29-30.

Subject: Diprotodon.

Geographical area: Lake Callabonna, South Australia.

Keywords: Diprotodon diets, stomach contents, relevant literature summary.

1992 QA. 10(1).

Baynes, A. (1992). More on John Pickard's diet of Diprotodons. Quaternary Australasia, 10 (1):32.

Subject: Diprotodon.

Geographical area: South Australia.

Keywords: Diprotodon, stomach contents, radiocarbon analysis, South Australian Museuem, Lake Callabonna, Lake Orroroo, dating discrepencies, dentine, unrealible dating material.

Baynes, A., Guthrie, R.D. and Kendrick, G.W. (1992). Salvage of a Diprotodon from North-Western Australia. Quaternary Australasia, 10 (1):33-34.

Subject: Diprotodons.

Geographical area: Western Australia.

Keywords: Diprotodon, low budject salvage, cyclone prone area, 1st Diprotodon for W.A., dateable marine sediments.

Chalson, J. (1992). The Late Quaternary Vegetation and Climatic history of the Blue Mountains, N.S.W., Australia. Quaternary Australasia, 10 (1):35.

Subject: Vegetation & climatic history.

Geographical area: Blue Mountains, N.S.W.

Keywords: Late Quaternary environmental history , N.S.W. highlands, Myrtaceae pollen identification, methodological problems, pollen analysis, pollen reference collection, long palynological record, regional climatic history.

Head, L. and Fullager, R. (1992). Palaeoecology & archaeology in the East Kimberley. Quaternary Australasia, 10 (1):27-31.

Subject: Archaeology & palaeoecology.

Geographical area: East Kimberley, Northern Territory.

Keywords: Aboriginal land use & resource exploitation, long-term prehistoric record, preliminary results, prehistoric investigation.

Hope, G.S. (1992). Obituary Gurdip Singh. Quaternary Australasia, 10 (1):5.

Subject: Obituary.

Liping, Z., Williams, M.A.J. and Peterson, J.A. (1992). Surface microtexture study of Late Quaternary aeolianite by Scanning Electron Microscopy and its implication for reconstructing the sedimentary environment: A case study from Fingal Beach coast cliff section, Cape Schanck, Victoria. Quaternary Australasia, 10 (1):13-26.

Subject: Environmental reconstruction.

Geographical area: Coastal Victoria.

Keywords: Fingal beach, Scanning Electron Microscopy (S.E.M.), aeolianite sediments, sedimentology, palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, aeolian transportation, subaqueous modification, weathering, pedogenesis, cementation.

1992 QA. 10(2).

Gell, P. (1992). The Caspia Salt Lake Diatom Working Group 2nd & 3rd Workshops. Quaternary Australasia, 10 (2):8.

Subject: Saline lake diatom floras, palaeosalinity, palaeoenvironments.

Geographical area: Paris.

Keywords: Conference report.

Green, J.D. and Lowe, D.J. (1992). Palaeolimnology in New Zealand. Quaternary Australasia, 10 (2):25-34.

Subject: Palaeolimnology.

Geographical area: New Zealand.

Keywords: Palaeolimnology, New Zealand, current research.

Liping, Z. and Williams, M.A.J. (1992). Palaeoenvironmental interpretation from S.E.M. examination of sand surface textures from a late Quaternary aeolianite section, Fingal beach, Nepean Peninsula, Victoria. Quaternary Australasia, 10 (2):12-24.

Subject: Sand surface textures.

Geographical area: Coastal Victoria.

Keywords: Fingal beach, Scanning Electron Microscopy (S.E.M.), sand surface textures, Late Quaternary aeolinite section, aeolian transportation, pedogenesis, weathering, cementation, subaqueous modification.

Shulmeister, J. (1992). Late Quaternary environmental history of Groodte Eylandt, Northern Australia. Quaternary Australasia, 10 (2):35.

Subject: Environmental history.

Geographical area: Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Australia.

Keywords: Groodte Island, geomorphology, palynology, Late Quaternary, Holocene, environmental history, Umbakumba dune field.

1993 QA. 11(1).

Allan, R.J. (1993). Historical fluctuations in ENSO & Teleconnection Structure since 1879: Near Global patterns. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):17-27.

Subject: Climate history & climatic systems.

Geographical area: Global.

Keywords: El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO), near global mean sea level pressure (MSLP), teleconnection phenomena, global climatic system variability.

Croke, J.C. (1993). Episodes of deltaic and fluvial aggradation in the lower Neales River,west of Lake Eyre, Central Australia. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):28.

Subject: Deltaic and fluvial depositional processes.

Geographical area: Arid Central Australia.

Keywords: Lower Neales River, stratigraphy, sedimentology, deltaic aggradation, palaeohydrological fluctuations.

D'Costa, D. (1993). Vegetation responses to climatic conditions of oxygen isotope stage three. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):29.

Subject: Palaeoclimates, vegetation history .

Geographical area: Bass Strait.

Keywords: King Island, oxygen isotope stage 3, complex vegetation response, terrestrial southeastern Australia.

De Deckker, P. (1993). The Late Quaternary record of the oceans adjacent to the Australian continent: Preliminary results. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):30.

Subject: Quaternary marine records.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Marine records, deep sea cores, palaeoceanographic reconstruction, Australia.

Fried, A. (1993). Late Pleistocene river morphological change, southeastern Australia: The potential role of deposition of suspended aeolian sediments in stream catchments. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):1.

Subject: River morphology.

Geographical area: Southeastern Australia.

Keywords: Vegetation changes, stream sediment, erosion, bedload, stream morphology, palaeohydrology, southeastern Australia, catchments.

Gell, P. (1993). Using salt lake diatoms for Palaeosalinity reconstructions: Australia's contribution to the Caspia Project. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):33-34, 93-94.

Subject: Diatoms & palaeosalinity reconstruction.

Geographical area: Global.

Keywords: Diatoms, salt lake diatom working group, Caspia Project, statistics, global data base, salinity indicators, palaeoenvironmental reconstruction.

Grindrod, J. (1993). Mangroves as climatic indicators. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):35.

Subject: Palaeoclimates, vegetation history.

Geographical area: Northeastern Australia.

Keywords: Mangroves, pollen analysis, submerged shelf sediments, climatically sensitive shoreline communities, cf regional terrestrial pollen assemblages.

Haberle, S.G., Bird, M.I. and Chivas, A.R. (1993). A 40,000 year record of d¹³C and Vegetation from New Guinea. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):36.

Subject: Quaternary vegetation history.

Geographical area: Southern Highlands, P.N.G.

Keywords: 40,000 yr pollen record, C3 or C4 photosynthetic pathways, increasing altitude & d¹³ C presence in plant tissue, cf pollen records & d¹³ C isotope ratios in plant tissues.

Harle, K. (1993). The Last Glacial Cycle from the western plains of Victoria. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):37.

Subject: Palaeoenvironmental change.

Geographical area: Western Victoria.

Keywords: Pollen analysis, sedimentology, microfaunal analysis, hydrological monitoring, seasonal diatom assemblages, Lake Keilambete, Tower Hill, Lake Wangoon, Lake Terang, 2 major climatic cycles.

Head, L. (1993). Stick-nest rat (leporillus spp.) nests as sources of arid and semi-arid zone palaeoclimatic data: review and prospects. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):38-42.

Subject: Stick-nest rats & palaeoecological studies.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: palaeoecological studies, Leporillus, stick-nest rat middens, 10,000 yr survival, preservation potential, advantages & limitations of midden analysis.

Hesse, P. (1993). Aeolian dust in Quaternary Tasman Sea sediments. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):43.

Subject: Marine sedimentology.

Geographical area: Tasman Sea.

Keywords: Aeolian dust, sedimentology, mass accummulation rates, particle size distribution, marine cores, Tasman Sea.

Hope, G.S. (1993). Was the onset of the Last Glacial a sudden event? comments on the data. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):44,95-97.

Subject: Palaeoclimates.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: palaeoclimatic models, timing & degree of climatic change, Australian biota as palaeoclimatic indicators, biotic response to change & problems of interpretation.

Hunt, G.R. (1993). Constructing an Australian Quaternary Climatic Database. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):45-49.

Subject: Quaternary climates.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: ORACLE relational database program, palaeoclimatic mapping, database construction, problems and current status.

Jones, R.N., Bowler, J.M. and MacMahon, T.A. (1993). Modelling Water Budgets of Closed Lakes, Western Victoria. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):50-60.

Subject: Closed lakes.

Geographical area: Western Victoria.

Keywords: Maar lakes, Lake Keilambete, Lake Bullenmerri, Lake Gnotuk, water budgets, rainfall, evaporation, lake levels, climatic change, anthropogenic influences, climate modelling.

Kershaw, A.P. (1993). Meeting on " Quaternary palaeoclimate mapping: A protocol for Australia" (Monash University, December 2-4 1992): Introduction, summary of papers, and workshop conclusions. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):14-16.

Subject: Palaeoclimate mapping.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Palaeoclimates, mapping, Australia, Quaternary, pollen records, thermoluminescence, global climate models, diatoms, plant macrofossils.

Kershaw, A.P. (1993). Quantitative palaeoclimatic estimates from bioclimatic analyses of taxa recorded in pollen diagrams. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):61-64.

Subject: Palaeoclimates.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Quantitative palaeoclimatic estimates, bioclimatic analysis & prediction model(BIOCLIM), climatic parameters, derived climatic profiles for taxa within pollen spectra.

Kershaw, A.P., Bulman, D. and Maughan, D. (1993). A southeast Australian pollen data base: potential for palaeoclimatic mapping. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):65.

Subject: Vegetation history, palaeoclimatic mapping.

Geographical area: Southeast Australia.

Keywords: Regional pollen data sets,71 fossil pollen sites, palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, pollen-climate transfer functions, vegetation-climate relationships, BIOCLIM. Holocene, Pleistocene, time series; 18-15ka,12ka, 9ka, 6ka, 3.5ka, 2ka.

Kremenetski, C.V. (1993). Holocene tree migrations as an evidence of past climatic changes. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):66.

Subject: Palaeogeography, palaeoclimates.

Geographical area: Northern Eurasia.

Keywords: Holocene, tree migrations, Northern Eurasia, semi- arid & arid climatic zones, climatic change, temperature & precipitation variation relative to tree species decline or expansion.

Magee, J. (1993). Quaternary lacustrine events and chronology in the Lake Eyre Basin. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):67-68.

Subject: Quaternary chronology.

Geographical area: Lake Eyre, South Australia.

Keywords: Quaternary lacustrine sediments, lacustrine & fluvial stratigraphy, Katipiri Formation, wet & dry phases, last full glacial cycle association, TL dating, AAR dating, Quaternary chronologies.

Nanson, G., Page, K.J., Callen, R. and Price, D.M. (1993). Evidence for changes in the climate and moisture regime of Australia over the past 60ka. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):69.

Subject: Palaeoclimates.

Geographical area: Southeast & Central Australia.

Keywords: Thermoluminescence dating (TL dating), terrestrial sediments, Lake Eyre Basin, Lake Urana, semi-arid riverine plain, dunes, rivers, lakes, Mid to Late Quaternary.

Nicholls, N. (1993). Historical influences of the El Nino Southern Oscillation on Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Southwest Pacific. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):70.

Subject: ENSO.

Geographical area: Southwest Pacific, Southeast Asia.

Keywords: El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), climatic effects of ENSO, historical influences of ENSO.

Nicholls, N. (1993). Impacts of El Nino Southern Oscillation on Australian Biota. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):71.

Subject: Climate & Australian Biota.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: ENSO, Australian Biota, Australian rainfall patterning; temporal and spatial variation, evolutionary responses to ENSO by Australian biota.

Nicholls, N., Drosdowsky, W., Frederikson, C. and Indusekharan, P. (1993). Global sea surface temperatures and Australian rainfall variation. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):72.

Subject: Climate.

Geographical area: Global.

Keywords: General circulation models, sea surface temperatures(SST), non-ENSO effects on Australian rainfall, Indian Ocean SST & Australian rainfall.

Nicholls, N., Lavery, B., Kariko, A. and Torok, S. (1993). Development of high-quality historical climate data sets. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):73.

Subject: Climate.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Historical climates, calibration of proxy data, high-quality rainfall stations, long credible rainfall records.

Ogden, R. (1993). Response of the Upper Murray River floodplain to Holocene climatic fluctuations. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):74.

Subject: Late Quaternary climatic fluctuations.

Geographical area: Southeastern Australia.

Keywords: Precipitation-evaporation fluctuations, climatic fluctuations, Holocene, geomorphology, Upper Murray River floodplain, sedimentology, 6,000B.P. pluvial phase, pluvial phase amelioration c.2000 B.P.

Partridge, T.C. (1993). Southern African Palaeoclimates during the Last Glacial Cycle. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):75.

Subject: Palaeoclimates.

Geographical area: Southern Africa.

Keywords: Palaeoclimatic data base, regional palaeoclimates, regional syntheses for Last Glacial Cycle, Last Interglacial climates, Last Glacial Maximum, Holocene.

Peterson, M.J. (1993). The Holocene vegetation and climate history of Mt Read, Western Tasmania, from pollen analysis and tree-ring chronologies. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):76-77.

Subject: Vegetation history, palaeoclimates.

Geographical area: Tasmania.

Keywords: Tasmania, Mt Read Massif, temperate rainforest, dendrochronological techniques, fire-sensitive endemic conifers, Huon pine, genetically distinct pine populations, 10,000 year antiquity, cf Pollen & speleothem records for climatic & vegetation fluctuations, fire and human influence.

Sytkus, J., I. (1993). Palaeoclimatic modelling at CSIRO with use of GCM: A Review. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):78.

Subject: Palaeoclimatic modelling.

Geographical area: Global.

Keywords: General Circulation Model, Quaternary & Holocene climates, international Palaeoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project, Northern Hemisphere ice sheet inception model.

Velichko, A.A. (1993). Principles of palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions as elements for prognosis. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):79.

Subject: Palaeoclimatic & palaeoenvironmental reconstruction.

Geographical area: Global.

Keywords: Palaeoclimatic reconstruction, quantitative estimations of past climate characteristics (mean annual temperature, summer temperature, winter temperature, annual precipitation), past global warming, greenhouse effects, future climate scenarios.

Wasson, R.J. (1993). The Holocene in two hemispheres: a role for the oceans. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):80.

Subject: Holocene palaeoclimates.

Geographical area: Global.

Keywords: Assymetrical heating during Holocene between North & South hemispheres, oceanic heat transfer, ocean dynamics & climate modelling.

Whetton, P. and Pittock, B. (1993). The growing consensus in simulated regional climate for enhanced greenhouse conditions: is there a palaeoclimate analogue? Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):81-87.

Subject: Global climate models.

Geographical area: Global.

Keywords: Greenhouse experiments, global climate models (GCMs), regional climatic reconstructions @6000 B.P., future climate analogues.

Williams, M. (1993). Late Quaternary depositional environments in a low-gradient desert margin system, Western New South Wales. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (1):88.

Subject: Quaternary depositional environments.

Geographical area: Western N.S.W.

Keywords: Western N.S.W., low-gradient desert margin system, complex aeolian, fluvatile & lacustrine sediments, episodic piedmont fans, local source bordering dunes, groundwater window lakes, sporadic aeolian accession, intermittent soil formation, periodic carbonate segregation, gypeous lunette formation, Pleistocene-Holocene dune succession.

1993 QA.11(2).

Cotter, M.M. (1993). Tree-ring Dating and Australian Archaeology: A review. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (2):38-42.

Subject: Dendrochronology, archaeology.

Geographical area: Australia.

Keywords: Tree-ring dating, Australian archaeology, Quaternary studies.

Hope, G.S. (1993). Quaternary Comment: Tilia at ANU. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (2):26-27.

Subject: TILIA Computer software package.

Geographical area: ANU, Monash, UNSW & UWA.

Keywords: Palynological diagrams, Eric Grimm, TILIA, computer software.

Hope, G. (1993). Book review. A pollen flora of the Native plants of South Australia and Southern Northern Territory, Australia. Boyd,W.E.(& Dodson,J.R.) 1992. South Australian Geographical papers No. 3, 1992. Royal Geographical Society of South Australasia (S.A. Branch), Inc. 212pp incl.17pp plates. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (2):37.

Subject: Book review.

Kershaw, P. (1993). Southern African Society for Quaternary Research & Paleoclimates of the Southern Hemisphere. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (2):8-9.

Subject: Quaternary research & palaeoclimates.

Geographical area: Southern Hemisphere.

Keywords: Conference report.

Partridge, T.C. (1993). Development of a palaeoclimate data base for the Southern Hemisphere: Appeal for collaboration. Quaternary Australasia, 11 (2):11-24.

Subject: Palaeoclimate data base.

Geographical area: Southern Hemisphere.

Keywords: Palaeoclimates, Southern Hemisphere, database, research data collaboration.