The GeoQuEST Research Centre represents an interdisciplinary team from the Faculties of Science and Engineering that has a focus on environmental and climate change research under the overall theme of Earth System Science and Technology. The centre brings together outstanding researchers studying the atmosphere (Atmospheric Chemistry), earth (Geography and Geology), and water (Environmental Science and Environmental Engineering) who share central interests in environmental processes and climate change.

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Papers from 2008

Scavenging of atmospheric trace metal pollutants by mineral dusts: Inter-regional transport of Australian trace metal pollution to New Zealand, Samuel K. Marx, Balz S. Kamber, and Hamish A. McGowan

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Images of diagenetic textures in Porites corals from Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, Helen V. McGregor and N J. Abram

Least action principle, equilibrium states, iterative adjustment and the stability of alluvial channels, Gerald C. Nanson and He Qing Huang

Fluvial transport as a natural luminescence sensitiser of quartz, Gerald C. Nanson, Jonathon M. Olley, and Tim Pietsch

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Alluvial evidence for major climate and flow regime changes during the middle and late Quaternary for eastern central Australia, Gerald C. Nanson, David M. Price, B. G. Jones, Jerry C. Maroulis, Maria Coleman, Hugo Bowman, Timothy J. Cohen, Tim Pietsch, and Joshua R. Larsen

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Palaeoproterozoic and Archaean gneiss complexes in northern Greenland: Palaeoproterozoic terrane assembly in the High Arctic, Allen Phillip Nutman, Peter Dawes, Feiko Kalsbeek, and Mike Hamilton

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The nagssugtoqidian orogen in South-East Greenland: evidence for paleoproterozoic collision and plate assembly, Allen Phillip Nutman, Feiko Kalsbeek, and Clark R L Friend

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Measurement of methanol emissions from Australian wildfires by ground-based solar fourier transform spectroscopy, Clare Paton-Walsh, Stephen R. Wilson, N. B. Jones, and D. W. T. Griffith

Development, composition and age of indurated sand layers in the Late Quaternary coastal deposits of northern Moreton Bay, Queensland, David M. Price, Brendan Brooke, Jonathon M. Olley, Tim Pietsch, M Cox, R Lee, and Paul Preda

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Distribution and sources of organic carbon, nitrogen and their isotopic signatures in sediments from the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) continental shelf, northern Andaman Sea, V Ramaswamy, Birgit Gaye, P V. Shirodkar, P S. Rao, Allan Chivas, David J. Wheeler, and Swe Thwin

The sedimentary record of palaeoenvironments and sea-level change in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia, through the last glacial cycle, Jessica M. Reeves, Allan Chivas, Adriana Garcia, Sabine Holt, Martine J. J Couapel, Brian G. Jones, Dionisio I. Cendon, and David Fink

Effects of environmental ageing on the static and cyclic bending properties of braided carbon fibre/PEEK bone plates, Thomas Schambron, Adrian Lowe, and Helen V. McGregor

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Assessing soil remobilisation in catchments using a 137 Cs-sediment hillslope model, Ava D. Simms, Colin D. Woodroffe, Brian G. Jones, Henk Heijnis, Jennifer Harrison, and Rob Mann

Use of 210Pb and 137Cs to simultaneously constrain ages and sources of post-dam sediments in the Cordeaux reservoir, Sydney, Australia, Ava D. Simms, Colin D. Woodroffe, Brian G. Jones, H Heijnis, Rob Mann, and J. Harrison

Cupules and geomorphological phenomena, Andy Spate and Robert A. L Wray

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Validation of ACE-FTS N2O measurements, K Strong, M Wolff, T Kerzenmacher, K A. Walker, Nicholas B. Jones, David W. Griffith, E Mahieu, S Wood, M De Maziere, P Demoulin, T Blumenstock, J Jin, J Hannigan, M Coffey, M Hopfner, P Duchatelet, J Mellqvist, A Strandberg, J R. Taylor, Thorsten Warneke, J Urban, D Murtagh, E Dupuy, V Catoire, C Piccolo, C Robert, C Senten, C Tetard, K W. Jucks, C Boone, N Glatthor, M Schneider, S Mikuteit, G P. Stiller, P Bernath, O Schrems, H Kuellmann, P Raspollini, A Lambert, J McConnell, J kittippurath, K Semeniuk, M Toohey, M Ridolfi, and Justus Notholt

Riparian vegetation and the late Holocene development of an anabranching river: Magela Creek, northern Australia, Stephen Tooth, John D. Jansen, Gerald C. Nanson, Tom J. Coulthard, and Tim Pietsch

Reactions of small carbon-bearing radicals with unsaturated hydrocarbons: Product detection and low temperature kinetics, Adam J. Trevitt, Fabien Goulay, and Stephen R. Leone

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Environmental effects of ozone depletion and its interactions with climate change: progress report, 2008, S. R. Wilson, C Ballare, L Bjorn, M Caldwell, A Andrady, P Aucamp, A Bais, Keith R. Solomon, Xiaoyan Tang, G Kulandaivelu, J Longstreth, D P. Hader, R C. Worrest, D J. Erickson, J C. van der Leun, A H. Teramura, H Redhwi, Richard L. McKenzie, H D. Kumar, Y Takizawa, F R. Gruijl, R C. Smith, A Torikai, R G. Zepp, A P. Cullen, M Norval, B Sulzberger, Nigel Paul, J R. Bornman, and Mohammad Ilyas

Reef-island topography and the vulnerability of atolls to sea-level rise, Colin D. Woodroffe

Growth-limiting size of atoll-islets: Morphodynamics in nature, Colin D. Woodroffe, Stephen Barry, and P J. Cowell

Australian approaches to coastal vulnerability assessment, Colin D. Woodroffe and N Harvey

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Nearshore wave environments around a sandy cay on a platform reef, Torres Strait, Australia, Colin D. Woodroffe and Bongkoch Samosorn

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Emsian (Early Devonian) Tetracorals (Cnidaria) from Grattai Creek, New South Wales, Anthony J. Wright

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Global AIRS and MOPITT CO measurements: validation, comparison, and links to biomass burning variations and carbon cycle, Leonid N. Yurganov, W. Wallace McMillan, Anatoly V. Dzhola, Evgeny I. Grechko, Nicholas B. Jones, and Guido R. van der Werf

Papers from 2007

A morphodynamic model of reef-island development on atolls, Stephen Barry, P J. Cowell, and Colin D. Woodroffe

Coupled 142Nd-143Nd isotopic evidence for hadean mantle dynamics, Vickie C. Bennett, Alan D. Brandon, and Allen P. Nutman

Pseudomorphs of albite after scapolite, Mary Kathleen area, northwest Queensland, Paul F. Carr and Noel Kennon

Palaeoenvironmental change in the Gulf of Carpentaria (Australia) since the last interglacial based on Ostracoda, Allan Chivas, Adriana Garcia, Patrick De Deckker, and Jessica M. Reeves

Non-marine evaporites with both inherited marine and continental signatures: The Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia, at ~70 ka, Allan Chivas, Adriana Garcia, Anna Trave, Elisabet Playa, and Dionisio I. Cendon

Using multiple geochemical proxies to trace origin of gypsum (Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia, -70ka), Allan Chivas, Adriana Garcia, Anna Trave, Elisabet Playa, and Dionisio I. Cendon

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CO measurements from the ACE-FTS satellite instrument: data analysis and validation using ground-based, airborne and spaceborne observations, C Clerbaux, M George, S Turquety, K A. Walker, Nicholas B. Jones, David W. Griffith, C P Rinsland, E Mahieu, M De Maziere, A. Kagawa, J Hannigan, M Coffey, F Hase, M Hopfner, P Duchatelet, I Kramer, A Strandberg, K Strong, Y Kasai, B Barret, p Ricaud, D Murtagh, E Dupuy, V Catoire, C Robert, C Senten, N J. Livesey, M Luo, M Lopez-Puertas, Ph Medelec, A Pazmino, H Pumphrey, T Borsdorff, P F. Coheur, J P. Cammas, James Drummond, R de Zafra, M Deeter, L Emmons, F Eddounia, J C. Gille, E le Flochmoen, C Boone, B Funke, M Schneider, G P. Stiller, P Bernath, and D P. Edwards

Mind the gap: an absence of valley-fill deposits identifying the Holocene hypsithermal period of enhanced flow regime in southeastern Australia, Timothy J. Cohen and Gerald C. Nanson

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The global budget of CO, 1988-1997: source estimates and validation with a global model, B N. Duncan, J A. Logan, I Bey, I A. Megretskaia, R M. Yantosca, P C. Novelli, Nicholas B. Jones, and C P Rinsland

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Interactions between the chloride anion and aromatic molecules: infrared spectra of the Cl-_C6H5CH3, Cl-_C6H5NH2 and Cl-_C6H5OH complexes, Corinna Emmeluth, Berwyck L. J Poad, Christopher D. Thompson, and Evan J. Bieske

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Structural history of the Greenvale Province, north Queensland: Early Palaeozoic extension and convergence on the Pacific margin of Gondwana, Christopher L. Fergusson, R A Henderson, I. W. Withnall, and C M Fanning

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Structural, metamorphic, and geochronological constraints on alternating compression and extension in the Early Paleozoic Gondwanan Pacific margin, northeastern Australia, Christopher L. Fergusson, R A Henderson, I. W. Withnall, C M Fanning, D. Phillips, and K. J. Lewthwaite

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Detrital zircon ages in Neoproterozoic to Ordovician siliciclastic rocks, northeastern Australia: implications for the tectonic history of the East Gondwana continental margin, Christopher L. Fergusson, Robert A. Henderson, C Mark Fanning, and Ian W. Withnall

The fossil record of algae, Adriana Garcia and Geoffrey Playford

The Mekong River: morphology, evolution, management, Avijit Gupta

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Late Quaternary bedrock incision in the Narmada river at Dardi Falls, Avijit Gupta, Vishwas S. Kale, Lewis A. Owen, and A. K. Singhvi

The Mekong from satellite imagery: A quick look at a large river, Avijit Gupta and Soo Chin Liew

Status of Carbonate Reefs of the Amirantes and Alphonse Groups Southern Seychelles, Annelise Hagan, Sarah Hamylton, and Tom Spencer

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Hybrid treatment systems for dye wastewater, Faisal I. Hai, Kazuo Yamamoto, and Kensuke Fukushi

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Classification of seagrass habitat structure as a reponse to wave exposure at Etoile Cay, Seychelles, Sarah Hamylton and Tom Spencer

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Validation of MIPAS ClONO2 measurements, M Hopfner, T von Clarmann, Nicholas B. Jones, David W. Griffith, G C. Toon, E Mahieu, R Zander, S Wood, T Blumenstock, J Hannigan, M Coffey, F Hase, H W. Fischer, J Mellqvist, A Strandberg, Thorsten Warneke, C E. Blom, C Piesch, K W. Jucks, K Chance, W Kouker, T Reddmann, C Boone, H Oelhaf, C Keim, N Glatthor, M Kiefer, S Kellmann, R Ruhnke, A Linden, G Y. Liu, B Funke, M Milz, M Schneider, G Wetzel, T Steck, A Kleinert, S Mikuteit, G P. Stiller, U Grabowski, K A. Walker, P Bernath, F Friedl-Vallon, and Justus Notholt

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Why some alluvial rivers develop an anabranching pattern, He Qing Huang and Gerald C. Nanson

The Beja Layered Gabbroic Sequence (Ossa-Morena Zone, Southern Portugal): geochronology and geodynamic implications, A. Jesus, J. Munha, A. Mateus, C. Tassinari, and Allen Phillip Nutman

Inorganic nitrogen transformations in the treatment of landfill leachate with a high ammonium load: a case study, Dianne F. Jolley, S. R. Wilson, and Stephen Parkes

Late Quaternary marginal marine palaeoenvironments of northern Australia as inferred from cluster analysis of coccolith assemblages, Brian G. Jones, Allan Chivas, Martine JJ Couapel, and L Beaufort

A model study of ozone distributions over Europe during the August 2003 heat wave., Nicholas B. Jones and Guergana P. Guerova

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Stratomesospheric CO measured by a ground-based Fourier transform spectrometer over Poker Flat, Alaska: Comparisons with Odin/SMR and a 2-D model, Nicholas B. Jones, Y Kasai, E Dupuy, Y. Murayama, J Urban, B Barret, M Sinnhuber, A. Kagawa, T. Koshiro, P Ricaud, and D Murtagh

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Long-term tropospheric formaldehyde concentrations deduced from ground-based fourier transform solar infrared measurements, Nicholas B. Jones, K Riedel, Barbara M. Allen, S. W. Wood, Paul Palmer, K Chance, and Justus Notholt

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Characteristics and error estimation of stratospheric ozone and ozone-related species over Poker Flat (65°N, 147°W), Alaska observed by a ground-based FTIR spectrometer from 2001-2003, A. Kagawa, Y. Kasai, Nicholas Jones, M. Yamamori, K. Seki, F. Murcray, Y. Murayama, K. Mizutani, and T. Itabe

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Reef development at high-latitudes during multiple interglacial cycles: new evidence from Lord Howe Island, Southwestern Pacific, David Kennedy, Colin D. Woodroffe, and J -X Zhao

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Appraisal of a one-dimensional model, field data and dimensionless parameters in a study of estuarine circulation, Errol J. McLean and J. B. Hinwood

Holocene sea-level change on the southeast coast of Australia: a review, Colin V. Murray-Wallace, Brian G. Jones, and Craig R. Sloss

Recognition of the sedimentary architecture of dryland anabranching (anastomosing) rivers, Gerald C. Nanson, Simon Fagan, and Colin P. North

GPR surveys of vegetated linear dune stratigraphy in central Australia: evidence for linear dune extension with vertical and lateral accretion, Gerald C. Nanson, Brian G. Jones, David M. Price, C Bristow, Cameron B. Hollands, and Maria Coleman

Aeolian-fluvial interaction and climate change: source-bordering dune development over the past, c100 ka on Cooper Creek, central Australia, Gerald C. Nanson, David M. Price, Tim Pietsch, and Jerry C. Maroulis

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~3,850 Ma tonalites in the Nuuk region, Greenland: geochemistry and their reworking within an Eoarchaean gneiss complex, Allen P. Nutman, Vickie C. Bennett, Clark R. L Friend, Kenji Horie, and Hiroshi Hidaka

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2635 Ma amphibolite facies gold mineralisation near a terrane boundary (suture?) on Storo, Nuuk region, southern West Greenland, Allen P. Nutman, Ole Christiansen, and Clark R. L Friend

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Comment on "A Vestige of Earth's Oldest Ophiolite", Allen P. Nutman and Clark R. L Friend

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The Itsaq Gneiss Complex of Southern West Greeland and the Construction of Eoarchaean Crust at Convergent Plate Boundaries, Allen P. Nutman, Clark R. L Friend, Kenji Horie, and Hiroshi Hidaka

Apatite recrystallisation during prograde metamorphism, Cooma, southeast Australia: implications for using an apatite - graphite association as a biotracer in ancient metasedimentary rocks, Allen Phillip Nutman

Ajacent terranes with ca.2715 and 2650 Ma high-pressure metamorphic assemblages in the Nuuk region of the North Atlantic Craton, southern West Greenland: complexities of Neoarchaean collisional orogeny, Allen Phillip Nutman and Clark Friend

Patterns and rates of sedimentary infill in the Minnamurra River Estuary, South-Eastern Australia, K Panayotou, Colin D. Woodroffe, Brian G. Jones, Bryan E. Chenhall, Errol J. McLean, and H Heijnis

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Validation and data characteristics of methane and nitrous oxide profiles observed by MIPAS and processed with Version 4.61 algorithm, S Payan, C Camy-Peyret, H Oelhaf, G Wetzel, G Maucher, Nicholas B. Jones, S Wood, M De Maziere, T Blumenstock, P Duchatelet, D Smale, G Bianchini, G Redaelli, F Mencaraglia, M Pirre, N Huret, C Piccolo, U Cortesi, C Keim, N Glatthor, S Mikuteit, G P. Stiller, C Vigouroux, A Engel, M C. Volk, J Kuttippurath, H Kuellmann, P Raspollini, M Mahieu, V Payne, A Bracher, K Grunow, P Jeseck, Y Te, K Pfeilsticker, A Butz, Justus Notholt, and Voltaire A. Velazco

Ages, distributions, and origins of upland coastal dune sheets in Oregon, USA, Curt D. Peterson, Errol Stock, David M. Price, Roger Hart, Frank Reckendorf, Jon M. Erlandson, and Steve W. Hostetler

Fluvial response to late Quaternary climate change in NE Queensland, Australia, David M. Price, Jonathon Nott, Michael F. Thomas, and Andrew S. Murray

Assessing the recent (1834-2002) morphological evolution of a rapidly prograding delta within a GIS framework: Macquarie Rivulet delta, Lake Illawarra, New South Wales, Marjetta L. Puotinen, Brian G. Jones, and Carl Hopley

Initial speleothem results from western Flores and eastern Java, Indonesia: were climate changes from 47 to 5ka responsible for the extinction of Homo floresiensis?, Richard G. Roberts, Allan Chivas, T. Sutikna, Michael J. Morwood, J -X Zhao, and Kira E. Westaway

A review and synthesis of glendonites (pseudomorphs after ikaite) with new data: assessing applicability as recorders of ancient coldwater conditions, Bruce Selleck, Paul F. Carr, and Brian G. Jones

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Annual variation of strato-mesospheric carbon monoxide measured by ground-based Fourier transform infrared spectrometry, Voltaire A. Velazco, S.J. Wood, M Sinnhuber, I Kramer, Nicholas B. Jones, Y Kasai, Justus Notholt, Thorsten Warneke, T Blumenstock, F Hase, F Murcray, and O Schrems

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Ground-based solar absorption FTIR spectroscopy: characterization of retrievals and first results from a novel optical design instrument at a new NDACC complementary station, Aldona Waiacek, J R. Taylor, K Strong, R Saari, T Kertzenmacher, Nicholas B. Jones, and David W. Griffith

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Validation of MIPAS HNO3 operational data, D Y. Wang, M Hopfner, C E. Blom, W E. Ward, Nicholas B. Jones, G C. Toon, E Mahieu, S Wood, M De Maziere, P Demoulin, T Blumenstock, F Hase, H W. Fischer, D Smale, G Bianchini, G Redaelli, F Mencaraglia, J Urban, D Murtagh, M Pirre, V Catoire, N Huret, H Nakajima, C Piccolo, T Sugita, A Kleinbohl, U Cortesi, C Boone, H Oelhaf, C Keim, G Y. Liu, G Wetzel, S Mikuteit, K A. Walker, P Bernath, C Vigouroux, and J Kuttippurath

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Changes in tropospheric composition and air quality due to stratospheric ozone depletion and climate change, Stephen R. Wilson, Keith R. Solomon, and Xiaoyan Tang

Critical thresholds and the vulnerability of Australian tropical coastal ecosystems to the impacts of climate change, Colin D. Woodroffe

Application of GIS to the Coast, Colin D. Woodroffe, Marjetta L. Puotinen, Ronald A. Furness, and E Bruce

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Incremental accretion of a sandy reef island over the past 3000 years indicated by component-specific radiocarbon dating, Colin D. Woodroffe, Bongkoch Samosorn, Q Hua, and Deirdre E. Hart

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The tropical forest and fire emissions experiment: overview and airborne fire emission factor measurements, Robert Yokelson, Thomas Karl, P Artaxo, D Blake, Theodore Christian, David W. Griffith, A Guenther, and W M Hao

Papers from 2006

Real-time field measurements of stable isotopes in water and CO2 by Fourier transform infrared spectrsocopy, Glenn W. Bryant, David W. Griffith, Stephen R. Wilson, Stephen Parkes, Ian Jamie, Michael Esler, and Chris Waring

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The Sydney Basin and frozen prawns - the cool mineral connection, Paul Carr, Brian G. Jones, and Bruce Selleck

Diversity and ecology of extant and Quaternary Australian charophytes (Charales), Allan Chivas and Adriana Garcia

Carbon isotope fractionation in wood during carbonization, Allan Chivas, David J. Wheeler, and Christian Turney

Influence of air-sea fluxes on chlorine isotopic composition of ocean water: implications for constancy in delta37 C1-A statistical inference, Allan Chivas, Y K. Xiao, P V. Shirodkar, S G. Dalal, and A Sarkar

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Calculation of the cosmogenic nuclide production topographic shielding scaling factor for large areas using DEMs, Alexandru T. Codilean

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Surface process models and the links between tectonics and topography, Alexandru T. Codilean, Paul Bishop, and Trevor B. Hoey

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New U-Pb SHRIMP zircon ages for pre-variscan orthogneisses from Portugal and their bearing on the evolution of the Ossa-Morena Tectonic Zone, Umberto G. Cordani, Allen Phillip Nutman, Antonio S. Andrade, Jose F. Santos, Maria Do Rosario Azevedo, Maria Helena Mendes, and Manuel S. Pinto

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Ostracodos (Crustacea, Ostracoda) y carofitos (Chlorophyta, Charales) de la Formacion Desencuentro (Mioceno superior), provincia de La Rioja, Argentina, Gabriela Cusminsky, Adriana Garcia, and Rafael Herbst

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Atmospheric carbonyl sulfide (OCS) variation from 1992-2004 by ground-based solar FTIR spectrometry, Nicholas M. Deutscher, Nicholas B. Jones, David W. Griffith, S. W. Wood, and F Murcray

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Comparisons between SCIAMACHY and ground-based FTIR data for total columns of CO, CH4, CO2 and N2O, B Dils, M De Maziere, J F. Muller, T Blumenstock, Nicholas B. Jones, David W. Griffith, C P Rinsland, E Mahieu, S Wood, R de Beek, P Demoulin, M Buchwitz, P Duchatelet, C Frankenberg, A Gloudemans, T Kerzenmacher, I Kramer, J Mellqvist, H Shrijver, A Strandberg, D Smale, W Stremme, A G. Straume, R Sussmann, M van den Broek, T Wagner, K Strong, Aldona Wiacek, J R. Taylor, Hans Fast, Thorsten Warneke, Richard L. MITTERMEIER, Justus Notholt, and Voltaire A. Velazco

Influence of localised igneous activity on cleat dawsonite formation in Late Permian coal measures, Upper Hunter Valley, Australia, A. Golab, Paul F. Carr, and Daniel R. Palamara

Sediment storage and transfer in the Mekong: generalizations on a large river, Avijit Gupta, S C Liew, and Alice W. C. Heng

The changing physical environment of Southeast Asian deltas: a case study on the Mekong, Avijit Gupta, Soo Chin Liew, and Alice W C Heng

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Development of a submerged membrane fungi reactor for textile wastewater treatment, Faisal I. Hai, Kazuo Yamamoto, and Kensuke Fukushi

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Membrane coupled fungi reactor - an innovative approach to bioremediation of hazardous dye wastewater, Faisal I. Hai, Kazuo Yamamoto, and Kensuke Fukushi

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Performance of newly developed hollow fiber module with spacer in integrated anaerobic–aerobic fungi reactor treating textile wastewater, Faisal I. Hai, Kazuo Yamamoto, and Kensuke Fukushi

Morphological and stratigraphic evolution of Wandandian Creek Delta, St Georges Basin, New South Wales, Carl Hopley and Brian G. Jones

Morphological changes, assessed within a GIS framework, in the prograding Macquarie Rivulet Delta, New South Wales, Carl Hopley, Brian G. Jones, and Marjetta L. Puotinen