Great Victoria Desert: Development and sand provenance

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 289-299

  Pell, S D ^a   Chivas, A R ^c   Williams, I S ^b  

^a QNTBU   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Australian continental dunefield; Great Victoria Desert; Oxygen isotopes; Provenance; Radiometric dating; Sand

Indexed keywords

DUNE FIELD; DUNE FORMATION; PROVENANCE; SAND;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0033120266     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-0952.1999.00699.x     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. ASH J. E. & WASSON R. J. 1983. Vegetation and sand mobility in the Australian desert dunefield. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, Supplementband 45, 7-25.
2. BLACK L. P., HARRIS L. B. & DELOR C. P. 1992. Re-working of Archaean and Early Proterozoic components during a progressive, Middle Proterozoic tectonothermal event in the Albany Mobile Belt, Western Australia. Precambrian Research 59, 95-123.
3. CARROLL D. 1939. Appendix. Sand-plain soils from the Yilgarn goldfield. Geological Survey of Western Australia Bulletin 97, 161-182.
4. CLAYTON R. N. & MAYEDA T. K. 1963. The use of bromine pentafluoride in the extraction of oxygen from oxides and silicates for isotopic analysis. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 27, 43-52.
5. COMPSTON W. 1974. The Table Hill Volcanics of the Officer Basin-Precambrian or Palaeozoic? Journal of the Geological Society of Australia 21, 403-412.
6. CONEY P. J., EDWARDS A., HINE R., MORRISON F. & WINDRIM D. 1990. The regional tectonics of the Tasman orogenic system, eastern Australia. Journal of Structural Geology 12, 519-543.
7. DANIELS J. L. 1969. Sand ridge distribution in the Gibson and Great Victoria Deserts of Western Australia. Geological Survey of Western Australia Annual Report 1968, 38-39.
8. FOLK R. L. 1971. Longitudinal dunes of the northwestern edge of the Simpson Desert, Northern Territory, Australia, 1. Geomorphology and grain size relationships. Sedimentology 16, 5-54.
9. FOLK R. L. 1978. Angularity and silica coatings of Simpson Desert sand grains, Northern Territory, Australia. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 48, 611-624.
10. FRIEDMAN G. M. 1961. Distinction between dune, beach and river sands from their textural characteristics. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 31, 514-529.
11. FRYBERGER S. G. & AHLBRANDT T. S. 1979. Mechanism for the formation of eolian sand seas. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie 23, 440-460.
12. GRAY C. M. 1979. Geochronology of granulite-facies gneisses in the western Musgrave Block, central Australia. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia 25, 403-414.
13. IRELAND T. R., BRADSHAW J. D., MUIR R., WEAVER S. & ADAMS C. 1994. Zircon age distributions in granites, greywackes, and gneisses from the southwest Pacific Gondwana region. Eighth International Conference on Geochronology, Cosmochronology and Isotope Geology 1994, Abstracts, p. 151. US Geological Survey Circular 1107.
14. JACKSON M. J. & VAN DE GRAAFF W. J. E. 1981. Geology of the Officer Basin. Bureau of Mineral Resources Bulletin 206.
15. JACKSON M. L., SAVIN M. & CLAYTON R. N. 1976. Hexafluorosilicic acid reagent modification for quartz isolation. Journal of the Soil Science Society of America 40, 958-960.
16. KNAUTH L. P. & EPSTEIN S. 1976. Hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios in nodular and bedded cherts. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 40, 1095-1108.
17. LANCASTER N. & OLLIER C. D. 1983. Sources of sand for the Namib sand sea. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie Supplementband 45, 71-83.
18. MABOKO M. A. H., WILLIAMS I. S. & COMPSTON W. 1991. Zircon U-Pb chronology of the pressure and temperature history of granulites in the Musgrave Ranges, central Australia. Journal of Geology 99, 675-697.
19. MADIGAN C. T. 1946. The Simpson Desert Expedition. 1939 Scientific Reports: No. 6 Geology - the sand formations. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 70, 45-63.
20. MAINGUET M. 1978. The influence of trade winds, local air-masses and topographic obstacles on the aeolian movement of sand particles and the origin and distribution of dunes and ergs in the Sahara and Australia. Geoforum 9, 17-28.
21. PAGE R. W. & LAING W. P. 1992. Felsic metavolcanic rocks related to the Broken Hill Pb Zn Ag orebody, Australia: geology, depositional age and timing of high-grade metamorphism. Economic Geology 87, 2138-2168.
22. PELL S. D. 1994. Provenance of the Australian Continental Dunefields. PhD thesis, Australian National University. Canberra (unpubl.).
23. PELL S. D. & CHIVAS A. R. 1995. Surface features of sand grains from the Australian Continental Dunefield. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 113, 119-132.
24. PELL S. D., WILLIAMS I. S. & CHIVAS A. R. 1997. The use of 'expected' histograms in determining the protosource areas for Australian sedimentary samples. Sedimentary Geology 109, 233-260.
25. PIDGEON R. T. & WILDE S. A. 1990. The distribution of 3.0 Ga and 2.7 Ga volcanic episodes in the Yilgarn Craton. Precambrian Research 48, 309-325.
26. RADCLIFFE F. N. 1937. Further observations on soil erosion and sand drift with special reference to south western Queensland. CSIRO Pamphlet 70, 13.
27. ROWAN J. N. & DOWNES R. G. 1963. A study of the land in north-western Victoria. Soil Conservation Authority of Victoria, Technical Communication 2.
28. SAMBRIDGE M. S. & COMPSTON W. 1994. Mixture modelling of multicomponent data sets with application to ion-probe zircon ages. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 128, 373-390.
29. SYERS J. K., CHAPMAN S. L., JACKSON M. L., REX R. W. & CLAYTON R. N. 1968. Quartz isolation from rocks, sediments and soils for determination of oxygen isotopic composition. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 32, 1022-1025.
30. 16O ratios in coexisting minerals of igneous and metamorphic rocks. Geological Society of America Bulletin 73, 461-480.
31. TWIDALE C. R. 1972. Evolution of sand dunes in the Simpson Desert, central Australia. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 56, 77-109.
32. VAN DE GRAAFF W. J. E. 1981. Palaeogeographic evolution of a rifted cratonic margin: S.W. Australia - discussion. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 34, 163-172.
33. VAN DE GRAAFF W. J. E., CROWE R. W. A., BUNTING J. A. & JACKSON M. J. 1977 Relict early Cainozoic drainages in arid Western Australia. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie 21, 379-400.
34. VEEVERS J. J. (Editor) 1984. Phanerozoic Earth History of Australia. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
35. WALKER T. R. 1979 Red color in dune sand. In: McKee E. D. ed. A Study of Global Sand Seas, pp. 62-81. US Geological Survey Professional Paper 1052.
36. WASSON R. J. 1983a. Dune sediment types, sand colour, sediment provenance and hydrology in the Simpson-Strzelecki dunefield, Australia. In: Brookfield M. E. & Ahlbrandt T. S. eds. Eolian Sediments and Processes, pp. 165-195. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
37. WASSON R. J. 1983b. The Cainozoic history of the Strzelecki and Simpson dunefields (Australia), and the origin of the desert dunes. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, Supplementband 45, 85-115.
38. WASSON R. J. 1989. Desert dune building, dust raising and palaeoclimates in the Southern Hemisphere during the last 280,000 years. In: Donnelly T. H. & Wasson R. J. eds. Climanz 3, Proceedings of Symposium, Melbourne 1987, pp. 123-137. CSIRO Division of Water Resources, Canberra.
39. WATKINS K. P. & HICKMAN A. H. 1990. Geological evolution and mineralization of the Murchison Province, Western Australia. Geological Survey of Western Australia Bulletin 137.
40. WATKINS K. P., FLETCHER I. R. & DE LAETER J. R. 1991. Crustal evolution of Archaean granitoids in the Murchison Province, Western Australia. Precambrian Research 50, 311-336.
41. WEIDENBECK M. & WATKINS K. P. 1993. A time scale for granitoid emplacement in the Archaean Murchison Province, Western Australia, by single zircon geochronology. Precambrian Research 61, 1-26.
42. WILSON A. F. 1981. Oxygen-isotope and other geochemical attributes of some Archaean granitoids from southwestern Australia. Geological Society of Australia Special Publication 7, 393-405.
43. WILSON A. F., GREEN D. C. & DAVIDSON L. R. 1970. The use of oxygen isotope geothermometry of the granulites and related intrusives, Musgrave Ranges, central Australia. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 27, 166-178.
44. WOPFNER H. 1981. Development of Permian intracratonic basins in Australia. In: Cresswell M. M. & Vella P. eds. Gondwana Five, pp. 185-190. Balkema, Rotterdam.