TAG 166 - Geological Society of Australia

Society UpdateFrom the AJES Hon Editor’s deskReviewers for 2011 and 2012I would like to acknowledge the efforts of our reviewers for 2011and 2012. Each has contributed both their time and expertiseto ensure the quality of papers published in AJES. You can seefrom the list opposite our reviewers are leaders in their fieldsand also some of our biggest contributors as authors.Early/lower, late/upperAuthors (and this editor of AJES) sometimes suffer fromconfusion on the use of early vs lower, late vs upper, when touse capitals, and the use of Ma vs Myr. An author recentlycorrected my understanding of these usages and after someconsultation with some local sages, it turns out we were bothright and wrong. While for many instances it is quite straightforwardthat early/late refer to time and lower/upper refer torock units, but there are many applications where it becomesmore complex and in other areas there is still some controversy.AJES uses the International Chronostratigraphic Chart with anew edition released in August 2012, following the InternationalCommission on Stratigraphy (ICS) meeting at the IGC in Brisbane(available at http://www.stratigraphy.org) but other journalsuse the North American nomenclature.Not wanting to dig myself into a hole on this topic, I won’t beoutlining usage here. Rather, I recommend the North AmericanCommission on Stratigraphy website (http://www.agiweb.org/nacsn). It includes several open-access papers that werepublished in the Journal of Stratigraphy in 2009 on aspects ofthis topic and in particular a paper by Donald E Owen thatincludes an outline of nomenclature for both the NorthAmerican and the International codes and where they differ.This editor is fallible and authors should feel free to disagreewhere they think I am wrong.Upcoming in AJESAJES Vol 60/2CJ Adams, RJ Korsch & WL Griffin:Provenance comparisons betweenthe Nambucca Block, EasternAustralia and the Torlesse Composite Terrane, New Zealand:connections and implications from detrital zircon agepatterns.A Babaahmadi & G Rosenbaum: Kinematics of the DemonFault: implications for Mesozoic dextral strike-slip faulting ineastern Australia.JB Jago, CG Gatehouse, C McA Powell & T Casey: Implicationsof cross-bedding data from the upper part of the Cambriansuccession, Arrowie Basin, South Australia.AC Macken, MC McDowell, DN Bartholomeusz & EH Reed:Chronology and stratigraphy of the Wet Cave vertebrate fossildeposit, Naracoorte, and relationship to paleoclimaticconditions of the Last Glacial Cycle in south-eastern Australia.AS Merdith, TCW Landgrebe, A Dutkiewicz & RD Müller:Towards a predictive model for opal exploration using aspatio-temporal data mining approach.A Rajabi, E Rastad & C Canet: Metallogeny of Permian–Triassiccarbonate-hosted Zn–Pb and F deposits of Iran: a review forfuture mineral exploration.RH Sharma: Evaluating the effect of slope curvature on slopestability by a numerical analysis.PN Southgate, NL Neumann & GM Gibson: Depositionalsystems in the Mt Isa Inlier from 1800 Ma to 1640 Ma:implications for Zn–Pb–Ag mineralisation.Also on the wayRA Glen: Refining accretionary orogen models for theTasmanides of eastern Australia.CJ Carson: The Victoria and Birrindudu Basins, Victoria Riverregion, Northern Territory, Australia: a SHRIMP U–Pb detritalzircon and Sm–Nd study.PF Rey: Opalisation of the Great Artesian Basin (centralAustralia): An Australian story with a Martian twist.Scan for the latest GSA news.ANITA ANDREWHon Editor AJESAJES.Editor@gsa.org.au8 |TAG March 2013