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A new late Pleistocene diprotodontid (Marsupialia) from Pureni, Southern...
A new zygomaturine diprotodontid, Hulith erium tomasellii gen. et sp. nov., from 38 000-year-old swamp sediments at Pureni, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea is the... -
Cretaceous ammonites from south-central Papua New Guinea
Eleven ammonite species, including one new taxon, are described from eleven localities in the south-central Papua New Guinea. One of them, Fauriella boissieri (Pictet), is a... -
The occurrence of Thylacinus in Tertiary Rocks from Papua New Guinea
Collecting at the Pliocene Awe fauna type locality (Plane 1967) on the west bank of the Watut River, in the Morobe District of Papua New Guinea during 1962 and 1963 produced a... -
Planktonic foraminifera, age of sediments and polarity reversals, New...
Samples from the Rudiger Point-Cape Ruge area, New Britain, are not from a conformable late Miocene-earliest Pliocene sequence, as was presumed by previous workers, but rather... -
Seismic travel-times to east Papua from USSR nuclear explosions
Recordings of P seismic waves from a Novaya Zemlya nuclear explosion at 26 sites on the east Papuan peninsula show that there are significant apparent departures (residuals)... -
A belemnite biozonation for the Jurassic-Cretaceous of Papua New Guinea and...
Middle and Late Jurassic and some Early Cretaceous Belemnitida collected mostly within the region covered by the Ok Tedi and Mianmin 1:250 000 sheets in the central highlands of... -
The seismic zone of the Papuan Fold Belt
Improved regional seismograph coverage in the 1970s has enhanced the resolution of the seismicity of the southern highlands of Papua New Guinea. Two zones can be defined. The... -
A pygmy cassowary (Casuarius lydekkeri) from late Pleistocene bog deposits...
Bones of a tiny cassowary from late Pleistocene bog deposits in the Southern Highlands of New Guinea are indistinguishable from bones of Casuarius lydekkeri of unknown... -
Ammonites of the Cretaceous Ieru Formation, western Papua New Guinea
Eleven ammonite species from five localities in the Ieru Formation, western Papua New Guinea, are described. Four are identified with the well known and widely distributed... -
Hot-spot volcanism in St Andrew Strait, Papua New Guinea: geochemistry of a...
Four distinct volcanic rock types are found above a conjectured mantle hot spot in St Andrew Strait, northern Papua New Guinea. Hypersthene-normative basalts on Baluan Island... -
Planorbulinella solida sp.nov. (foraminiferida) from the Miocene of Papua New Guinea
Specimens from the Miocene of Papua New Guinea previously identified as Linderina sp. indet. are described as Planorbulinella solida sp. nov., which is widespread in beds of... -
Geology and offshore petroleum prospects of the eastern New Ireland Basin,...
The eastern part of the New Ireland Basin of Papua New Guinea is about 600 km long by 150 km wide and mostly offshore, northeast of New Hanover and New Ireland. Basin geology... -
Evan Richard Stanley, 1885-1924: pioneer geologist in Papua New Guinea
Evan Richard Stanley was the first Government Geologist for Papua, from 1911 to 1924. Under difficult conditions, he conducted geological investigations that resulted in more... -
Effects of a major earthquake near Bougainville, 20 July 1975
On 20 July 1975 a major earthquake (MS7.9) shook the northern islands of the Solomon Islands chain. Damage amounting to at least $300,000 (Australian) occurred in the southern... -
Cainozoic geology and geomorphology of the Wahgi Valley, central highlands...
The Wahgi Valley is a structural depression, between the Bismarck Fault Zone to the north and the Kubor Anticline to the south, which has been enlarged by erosional removal of... -
Papua New Guinea Field Notebooks
This is the collection level record for the N.H. (Doc) Fisher Geoscience Library's 219 Papua New Guinea geological field notebooks. Digitised copies of the notebooks are being... -
Daru 1:250 000, R502 historical topographic map
The R502 series of maps has been replaced by the National Topographic Map Series (NTMS). The R502 series consists of 542 map sheets and covers Australia at a scale of 1:250,000.... -
Mode of emplacement of the Papuan Ultramafic Belt: reply
Rods criticisms of my paper can be summarised as (1) I have not come up with any revolutionary new mechanism for the emplacement of the Belt; (2) the position of the Moho in my... -
Late Albian planktonic foraminifera, Strickland River, Papua New Guinea
A small planktonic foraminiferal fauna from a sample on the Strickland River extends knowledge of mid-Cretaceous foraminifera in Papua New Guinea. Genera recorded are... -
The Late Triassic molluscs, conodonts, and brachiopods of the Kuta...
The Kuta Formation is mainly a limestone deposit which crops out on the flanks of the Kubor Anticline in the Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea. It has been variously...