Legacy Bulletins
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The earliest Bulletins pre-date the creation of the Bureau of Mineral Resources. They were written by the first two Commonwealth Palaeontologists, Frederick Chapman and Irene Crespin, and published as Palaeontological Bulletins between 1932 and 1938. When the BMR decided to launch a regular series of Bulletins in 1952, these three earlier works were retrospectively included. The purpose of the later Bulletins was to present broad regional or thematic summaries of the agency's investigations, often aggregating results described in a number of earlier Records, Reports or other publications. The series ceased with Bulletin 247 in 2001.
| Bulletin Number | Title |
|---|---|
| The Tertiary geology of East Gippsland, Victoria : as shown in borings and quarry sections | |
| The larger Foraminifera of the Lower Miocene of Victoria | |
| The occurrence of Lacazina and Biplanispira in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea [and] A Lower Miocene limestone from the Ok Ti River, Papua | |
| Wauchope wolfram field, Northern Territory | |
| Australian resources of sulphur-bearing minerals | |
| The geology and mineral resources of the Hatches Creek Wolfram Field, Northern Territory | |
| A study of Australian diatomites with special reference to their possible value as filter media | |
| Ochre deposits, Rumbalara, Northern Territory | |
| The stratigraphy of the Tertiary marine rocks in Gippsland, Victoria | |
| Piezo-electric quartz | |
| The King Island scheelite mine | |
| The geology and mineral resources of the Brock's Creek District, Northern Territory | |
| Notes of the occurrence of piezo-electric quartz in Australia with special reference to the Kingsgate field | |
| The bauxite deposits of the Boolarra-Mirboo North area, South Gippsland, Victoria | |
| Foraminifera in the Permian rocks of Australia | |
| A geological reconnaissance of the Katherine-Darwin region, Northern Territory with notes on the mineral deposits | |
| The opal industry in Australia | |
| Gravity and magnetic reconnaissance, Roma district, Queensland | |
| Geophysical surveys, Oaklands-Coorabin Coalfield, New South Wales | |
| Geology of the Broken Hill ore deposit, Broken Hill, NSW | |
| The Cape Range structure, Western Australia. Pt 1: Stratigraphy and structure. Pt 2: Micropalaeontology | |
| The geology and mineral deposits of the Tennant Creek goldfield, Northern Territory | |
| Coral faunas from the Silurian of New South Wales and the Devonian of Western Australia | |
| Bauxite in Australia | |
| The Giralia and Marrilla anticlines, North West Division, Western Australia | |
| The geology and mica fields of the Harts Range, central Australia | |
| The geology of the Ord-Victoria region, northern Australia | |
| Beach sand heavy-mineral deposits of eastern Australia | |
| Permian pelecypods from the Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia | |
| Geophysical investigations of water deposits, Western Australia | |
| Assaying of radioactive rocks and ores | |
| The geology of the Canberra City district | |
| Gravity survey of the Perth Basin, Western Australia | |
| Permian Bryozoa from the Fitzroy Basin, Western Australia | |
| The investigation of deep leads by the seismic refraction method | |
| The geology of the Fitzroy Basin, Western Australia | |
| The Maranboy tin field, Northern Territory | |
| The 1951 eruption of Mount Lamington, Papua | |
| The Permian Orthotetacea of Western Australia | |
| Permian Productacea of Western Australia | |
| Lower Permian pelycepods and gastropods from the Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia | |
| The Cambrian trilobite Redlichia; organization and generic concept | |
| Geophysical survey of the Renison Bell Tinfield, Tasmania | |
| Magnetic prospecting at Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, 1935-37 | |
| Devonian brachiopods from the Fitzroy Basin, Western Australia | |
| Pendulum measurements of gravity in Australia, 1950-51 | |
| Permian foraminifera of Australia | |
| The Cambrian geology of Australia | |
| Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian bryozoa of Australia | |
| The Precambrian mineral belt of north-western Queensland | |
| A contribution to the geology and glaciology of the western part of the Australian Antarctic Territory | |
| Cambrian geology and palaeontology of the headwaters of the Burke River, Queensland | |
| New Aconeceratinae (Ammonoidea) from the Albian and Aptian of Australia | |
| Devonian and Carboniferous brachiopods from north-western Australia | |
| Carboniferous and early Permian brachiopods from Western and Northern Australia | |
| Upper Cretaceous foraminifera from the Toolonga Calcilutite and Gingin Chalk, Western Australia | |
| Upper Cretaceous ammonites from the Carnarvon Basin of Western Australia. I, The Heteromorph Lytoceratina | |
| Marine fossils from the Upper Jurassic and the Lower Cretaceous of Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia | |
| The geology of the Canning Basin, Western Australia | |
| The molluscan fauna and probable Lower Cretaceous age of the Nanutarra Formation of Western Australia | |
| Miocene and Pliocene planktonic foraminifera, Papua-New Guinea; Rhizocorallium in the Lower Cretaceous rocks of Australia; [and] The Ostracod genus Cryptophyllus in the Upper Devonian and Carboniferous of Western Australia | |
| Permian pelecypods and gastropods from Western Australia | |
| Early Upper Cambrian fossils from Queensland | |
| Chemical analyses of Australian rocks. Pt I: igneous and metamorphic rocks | |
| Lower Cretaceous arenaceous foraminifera of Australia | |
| Australian Mesozoic trigoniids | |
| Australian Permian terebratuloids | |
| A survey of phosphate deposits in the south-west Pacific and Australian Waters | |
| The geology and mineral resources of the Chillagoe district, Queensland | |
| The geology of the Georgetown-Clarke River area, North Queensland | |
| Australian mineral industry : the mineral deposits | |
| Cretaceous stratigraphy and palaeontology of the Northern Territory | |
| The Mindyallan fauna of north-western Queensland | |
| Mesozoic Mollusca from Australia and New Guinea | |
| Volcanic cauldrons, ring complexes, and associated granites of the Georgetown Inlier, Queensland | |
| The geology of the Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. Part 1: Pre-Permian stratigraphy | |
| The geology of the Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. Part 2: Permian stratigraphy | |
| The geology of the Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. Part 3: Post-Permian stratigraphy; structure; economic geology | |
| Chemical analyses of Australian rocks. Part II: sedimentary rocks | |
| Miocene and Pliocene smaller foraminifera from Papua and New Guinea | |
| Palaeontological papers, 1965 | |
| Australian mineral industry: production and trade, 1842-1964 | |
| Geology of the Katherine-Darwin region, Northern Territory | |
| Morphology and sediments of the Timor Sea | |
| Timor Sea continental shelf sediments map | |
| Geology of the Hodgkinson and Laura Basins, North Queensland | |
| Tertiary Diprotodontidae from Australia and New Guinea | |
| Stratigraphy and vertebrate fauna of the Otibanda Formation, New Guinea | |
| The Alcoota fauna, Central Australia : an integrated palaeontological and geological study | |
| Isotopic ages of acid igneous rocks in the Cairns hinterland, north Queensland | |
| Geology and hydrology, Alice Springs Town and Inner Farm Basins, Northern Territory | |
| Permian polyzoa from the Bowen Basin | |
| Groundwater in the Barkly Tableland, Northern Territory | |
| Palaeontological papers, 1966 | |
| Geology of Bougainville and Buka Islands, New Guinea | |
| Sedimentological studies on the Stairway Sandstone of central Australia | |
| Desmodont bivalves from the Permian of eastern Australia | |
| Upper Palaeozoic rocks, Bonaparte Gulf Basin of northwestern Australia | |
| Devonian and Carboniferous conodonts from the Bonaparte Gulf Basin, northern Australia, and their use in international correlation | |
| Upper Devonian ostracoda and eridostraca from the Bonaparte Gulf Basin, northwestern Australia | |
| Geology of the Amadeus Basin, central Australia | |
| Great Lake North engineering geophysical surveys, Tasmania, 1951-1959 | |
| Manual of sedimentary structures | |
| Ordian (Cambrian) Crustacea Bradoriida of Australia | |
| Oryctocephalidae (Trilobita: Middle Cambrian) of Australia | |
| Ice thickness measurements in Mac-Robertson Land, 1957-1959 | |
| Geology of the Kimberley region, Western Australia: The East Kimberley | |
| Metamorphic and igneous rocks of the 'Lamboo' Complex, East Kimberley Region, Western Australia | |
| Palaeontological papers, 1967 | |
| Sedimentology of the Upper Devonian and Carboniferous platform sequence of the Bonaparte Gulf Basin | |
| Cambro-Ordovician conodonts from the Burke River structural belt, Queensland | |
| Stratigraphy of the Georgina Basin | |
| Late Upper Cambrian trilobites from the Gola Beds, western Queensland | |
| Nepeid trilobites of the Middle Cambrian of northern Australia | |
| Redlichia of the Ordian (Cambrian) of Northern Australia and New South Wales | |
| Lower Carboniferous spores from the Bonaparte Gulf Basin, Western Australia and Northern Territory | |
| Palaeontological papers, 1968 | |
| Lower Ordovician conodonts from the Bonaparte Gulf Basin and the Daly River Basin, northwestern Australia | |
| Laverton-Edjudina airborne magnetic and radiometric survey, Western Australia, 1969 | |
| Standard curves for the magnetic anomalies due to spheres | |
| Magnetic survey of the Savage River and Long Plains iron deposits, northwest Tasmania | |
| Templetonian and Ordian Xystridurid trilobites of Australia | |
| Devonian and Carboniferous brachiopods from Bonaparte Gulf Basin, northwestern Australia | |
| Groundwater in the northern Wiso Basin and environs, Northern Territory | |
| Regional and economic geology of the Herberton-Mount Garnet area, Herberton Tinfield, north Queensland | |
| Geological papers 1969 | |
| Palaeontological papers, 1969 | |
| Marine geology of the Huon Gulf region, New Guinea | |
| Peridotite-gabbro-basalt complex in Eastern Papua an overthrust plate of oceanic mantle and crust | |
| The stability of magnetisation in basic igneous rocks | |
| Geology of the Bowen Basin, Queensland | |
| Primary element dispersions associated with mineralization at Mount Isa, Queensland | |
| Geology of the Drummond Basin, Queensland | |
| Geology of the South Sepik region, New Guinea | |
| Ludlovian and Gedinnian conodont stratigraphy of the Yass Basin, New South Wales | |
| Igneous and metamorphic rocks of Cape York Peninsula and Torres Strait | |
| Marine geology of the northwest Australian continental shelf | |
| Brachiopods of the Murrumbidgee Group, Taemas, New South Wales | |
| Geology of the Middle Cambrian phosphorites and associated sediments of northwestern Queensland | |
| Geological papers, 1970-71 | |
| Palaeontological papers, 1970-71 | |
| Metallogenic provinces and mineral deposits in the southwestern Pacific: a symposium held at the 12th Pacific Science Congress, Canberra, August 1971 | |
| Ulawun Volcano, New Britain | |
| Earth science abstracts, Papua New Guinea, to 1971 | |
| Deformation of the crust and mantle in central Australia | |
| A commentary on the metallogenic map of Australia and Papua New Guinea | |
| Chemical analyses of Australian rocks. Part III: igneous and metamorphic, supplement 1961-1969 | |
| The Lower Carboniferous geology of the Rouchel district, New South Wales | |
| Explanatory notes of the 1:2 500 000 mineral deposits map of Papua New Guinea | |
| Geology the Sydney Basin: a review | |
| Palaeontological papers 1972 | |
| Palynology of the Cenomanian of Bathurst Island, Northern Territory, Australia | |
| Standard curves for interpretation of magnetic anomalies due to thin dykes of finite depth extent | |
| Late Cambrian and early Ordovician trilobites from the Burke River structural belt, Western Queensland, Australia | |
| Permo-Triassic stratigraphy and sedimentation in the Bowen Basin, Queensland | |
| Geology of the Kubor Anticline, Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea | |
| Correlation chart for the Carboniferous system of Australia | |
| Correlation chart for the Permian system of Australia | |
| Correlation chart for the Triassic system of Australia | |
| Marine geology of the Arafura Sea | |
| Conodont biostratigraphy of the Upper Devonian reef complexes of the Canning Basin, Western Australia | |
| Cymbric Vale fauna of New South Wales and early Cambrian biostratigraphy | |
| Palynological papers | |
| Australian and Soviet gravity surveys along the Australian Calibration Line | |
| Geochronology of igneous and metamorphic rocks in the New Guinea Highlands | |
| Marine geology of the Capricorn Channel area | |
| Seismicity and earthquake risk in eastern Australia : a symposium held in Canberra on 5 December 1973 | |
| Geology of the southeast Papuan mainland | |
| Geology of the Surat Basin in Queensland | |
| Geology of the Eromanga Basin | |
| The Precambrian geology of the Victoria River region, Northern Territory | |
| Petrology and geochemistry of acid igneous rocks of northeast Queensland | |
| Sedimentology and holocene history of a tropical estuary (Broad Sound, Queensland) | |
| Cambrian and Ordovician rostroconch molluscs from northern Australia | |
| Middle Cambrian agnostids : systematics and biostratigraphy | |
| An analysis of the geomagnetic diurnal variation during the International Geophysical Year | |
| Australian Ordovician pelecypod molluscs | |
| Dolichometopid trilobites of Queensland, Northern Territory and New South Wales | |
| Indexes to the analyses of calcium and magnesium carbonate rocks and other sedimentary rocks rich in either calcium, magnesium, or phosphorous | |
| The geology and mineral occurrences of Bathurst Island, Melville Island, and Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Territory | |
| Hydrology and sediments of a temperate estuary - Mallacoota Inlet, Victoria | |
| The Queensland Plateau | |
| Guide to the Geology of Australia | |
| Geochemistry of a tropical estuary and its catchment, Broad Sound, Queensland | |
| Australian platform-cover correlation charts - Adelaidean to Recent | |
| The dromornithidae, an extinct family of large ground birds endemic to Australia | |
| Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic conchostracans of Australia : three new studies | |
| Late Cambrian trilobites from the Chatsworth Limestone, western Queensland | |
| Idamean (Late Cambrian) trilobites, Burke River Structural Belt, Western Queensland | |
| Oligocene and Miocene larger foraminiferida from Australia and New Zealand | |
| Palynological studies in the Lower Cretaceous of the Surat Basin, Australia | |
| Conodonts from the Fairfield Group, Canning Basin, Western Australia | |
| Seismic and gravity investigations along the geotraverse, Western Australia, 1969. A BMR contribution to the Upper Mantle Project | |
| The Crespin volume: essays in honour of Irene Crespin | |
| Geology of the Mary Kathleen 1:100 000 Sheet area, northwest Queensland | |
| Geology of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea | |
| Marine geology of the continental shelf off southeast Australia | |
| Reconnaissance gravity surveys in Western Australia and South Australia, 1969-1972 | |
| Geology of The Granites-Tanami region, Northern Territory and Western Australia | |
| Evaporites in Australia | |
| The Exmouth Plateau : stratigraphy, structure and petroleum potential | |
| The geology of the Fairfield Group, Canning Basin, Western Australia | |
| A geological synthesis of Papua New Guinea | |
| The Mesozoic Carpentaria Basin and the Cainozoic Karumba Basin, north Queensland | |
| Engineering geology of the proposed Darwin East urban development area, Northern territory | |
| Geology and geochemistry of the Tantangara and Brindabella 1:100 000 Sheet areas, New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory | |
| Geology of the Wiso Basin, Northern Territory | |
| Geology of the Officer Basin, Western Australia | |
| Continental shelf sediments: southern Queensland and northern New South Wales | |
| Geological evolution and economic geology of the Burdekin River region, Queensland | |
| Palaeontological papers, 1981 | |
| Geological evolution of the Canning Basin, Western Australia | |
| The Arrinthrunga Formation: Upper Cambrian epeiric carbonates in the Georgina Basin, central Australia | |
| The Ngalia Basin, Northern Territory: stratigraphy and structure | |
| Geology of the Scott Plateau and Rowley Terrace, off northwestern Australia | |
| Atlas of isoseismal maps of Australian earthquakes | |
| Geology of the onshore Canning Basin, Western Australia | |
| Tertiary foraminifera and age of sediments, Ok Tedi-Wabag, Papua New Guinea | |
| Palaeontological papers, 1983 | |
| Superficial sediments of the Tasmanian continental shelf and part of Bass Strait | |
| Geology of the Duchess-Urandangi region, Mount Isa Inlier, Queensland | |
| Geology of the southern McArthur Basin, Northern Territory | |
| Hydrogeochemistry of the upper Hunter River Valley, New South Wales | |
| Atlas of isoseismal maps of Australian earthquakes, part 2 | |
| Geology of an unusual Precambrian high-grade metamorphic terrane : Enderby Land and western Kemp Land, Antarctica | |
| Geology of the Alligator Rivers Uranium Field, Northern Territory | |
| Geology of the Mount Isa Inlier and environs, Queensland and Northern Territory | |
| Geology of the Proterozoic Davenport province, central Australia | |
| Hydrogeology of Australia | |
| Lower Carboniferous Ostracoda (Beyrichicopida and Kirkbyocopa) from the Bonaparte Basin, northwestern Australia | |
| Geology and mineral deposits of the Cullen mineral field, Northern Territory | |
| Hydrogeology and groundwater resources of the Lake Amadeus and Ayers Rock region, Northern Territory | |
| Permian coals of Eastern Australia | |
| The Eromanga-Brisbane geoscience transect : a guide to basin development across Phanerozoic Australia in southern Queensland | |
| Geology of the Canberra 1:100 000 Sheet area, New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory | |
| The Hydrogeology of Norfolk Island, South Pacific Ocean | |
| Geology of the Murray Basin, Southeastern Australia | |
| Geological and geophysical studies in the Amadeus Basin central Australia | |
| The Pacoota Sandstone, Amadeus Basin, Northern Territory: stratigraphy and palaeontology | |
| Commentary on schematic geological map of Antarctica Scale 1:10,000,000 | |
| Geology of the Western Musgrave Block, Central Australia, with particular reference to the mafic-ultramafic Giles Complex | |
| North Queensland geology | |
| Geology and Petroleum Potential of the Clarence-Moreton Basin, New South Wales and Queensland | |
| Petrology and platinum-group-element geochemistry of Archaean layered mafic-ultramafic intrusions, west Pilbara Block, Western Australia | |
| Detailed studies of the Mount Isa Inlier | |
| Geology of the Bunger Hills-Denman Glacier region, East Antarctica | |
| Wire-line Logged Waterbores in the Great Artesian Basin | |
| Geology and economic potential of the Palaeoproterozoic layered mafic-ultramafic intrusions in the East Kimberley, Western Australia | |
| Geology of the Prince Charles Mountains, Antarctica |