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Proceedings of the Linnean Society of NSW

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The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of NSW serve as the Society’s scientific journal.

 

They are fully refereed and publish primarily original research papers dealing with any topic of natural science, particularly biological and earth sciences.

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VOLUME 132 : Issued May 2011

CONTENTS

Papers from a symposium on Geodiversity, Geological Heritage and Geotourism

Robinson, A.M. and Percival, I.G. Geotourism, geodiversity and geoheritage in Australia – current challenges and future opportunities.

Keith, D. Relationships between geodiversity and vegetation in south-eastern Australia.

Comfort, M. and Eberhard, R. The Tasmanian Geoconservation database: a tool for promoting the conservation and sustainable management of geodiversity.

Sutherland, F.L. Diversity within diversity, underpinning habitats in New South Wales volcanic areas.

Bruce, M.C. Geodiversity of the Southern Barrington Tops Lava Field, New South Wales: a study in petrology and geochemistry.

Meakin, S. Geodiversity of the Lightning Ridge area and implications for geotourism.

Young, G.C. Wee Jasper-Lake Burrinjuck fossil fish sites: scientific background to national heritage nomenation.

Och, D.J. and Graham, I.T. Preservation of the Rocky Beach blueschist-eclogite outcrop, Port Macquarie, NSW as a heritage reserve.

Brocx, M. and Semeniuk, V. Assessing geoheritage values: a case study using the Leschenault Peninsula and its leeward estuarine lagoon, south-western Australia

Washington, H.G. and Wry, R.A.L. The geoheritage and geomorphology of the sandstone pagodas of the north-western Blue Mountains region (NSW).

General Papers

Stewardson, C.L., Prvan, T., Meÿer, M.A., Swanson, S. and Ritchie, R.J. Suture index as an indicator of chronological age in the male South African fur seal, Arctocephalus pusillus (Pinnipedia: Otariidae).

Stewardson, C.L., Prvan, T., Meÿer, M.A., Swanson, S. and Ritchie, R.J. Suture index and growth in the male South African fur seal, Arctocephalus pusillus (Pinnipedia: Otariidae).

Scanes, P., Dela-Cruz, J., Coade, G., Haines, B., McSorley, A., van den Broek, J., Evans, L., Kobayashi, T. and O’Donnell, M. Aquatic inventory of Nadgee Lake, Lake Nadgee River and Merrica River estuaries.

Semeniuk, V. Microkarst, palaeosols and calcrete along subaerial disconformities in the Ordovician Daylesford limestone, Bowan Park, central western New South Wales.

Percival, I.G. and Quinn, C. Reassessment of Lower Palaeozoic geology west of the Catombal Range, Wellington region, central New South Wales.