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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... -
Quasicyclammina gen. nov. and Thalmannammina (Foraminiferida) from the...
The new genus Quasicyclammina is described from the Lagaip Beds of upper Paleocene age in the Wabag area, Papua New Guinea; it is placed in the subfamily Cyclammininae of the... -
Geochemistry of LIL-element enriched tholeiites from the Marum ophiolite...
Geochemical data are presented for a sequence of spilitic pillow basalts (Tumu River basalts) associated with peridotites and gabbros of the Marum ophiolite complex in northern... -
The Karumba Basin, northeastern Australia and southern New Guinea
The Karumba Basin in its present form coincides areally with the Gulf of Carpentaria and the river systems draining into it. The Basin is mainly of Cainozoic age, epi-cratonic,...