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"ATLAS of Billion-year earth history of Australia & neighbours in
Gondwanaland"
by J.J. Veevers, published by GEMOC Press, i-iv + 76 pages in colour,
flexicover, 2001.
http://www.es.mq.edu.au/GEMOC/BYEHA/page1.htm
Following very favourable reviews by Tony Crawford in EPISODES, Bill
Dickinson in GSA TODAY, Greg Mortimer in Geol. Soc. NZ Newsletter, Dick
Selley in THE GEOSCIENTIST, Heli Wopfner in Zeit. dt. geol. Ges., and (yet
to appear) John Crowell in GEOTIMES, the first print-run of "Billion-year
earth history of Australia & neighbours in Gondwanaland (BYEHA)" is now
sold out, and I am now selling the second printing.
The 400-page "Billion-year earth history of Australia &
neighbours in Gondwanaland (BYEHA)" is now graced by an 80-page colour
supplement "ATLAS of BYEHA", which sells for AUS$30, and overseas with
airmail by TNT MAILFAST and a very low Aussie dollar for S$20, UK£15, EURO
22, or for both BYEHA & ATLAS, AUS$80, US$50, UK£35, EURO 56.
The coverage is enormous: in time, from 1000-0 Ma, in space from
Australia and Gondwanaland neighbours (NZ, Antarctica, India, Cimmerian
terranes, Africa) to Pangea.
Tectonics is covered by maps of neotectonics, plate velocities from
GPS and NUVEL-1A, Neoproterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic blocks
and fold belts, and deformation-metamorphic events and the various kinds of
granites in the Tasman Fold Belt System.
Pan-African wallahs will enjoy linking the Mozambique orogenic belt
through the Prydz-Leeuwin belt with the 550 Ma Petermann Ranges orogeny in
Australia and the start of subduction beneath the Transantarctic Mountains.
Antarctic buffs will further enjoy the growing Permian-Jurassic
Panthalassan margin, and friends of Tethys will enjoy the
Permian-Cretaceous reverse migration along the Tethyan margin. Later events
feature in the double-page of seafloor spreading around Australia, and
morphoclimatic maps of the 18 ka Last Glacial Maximum, 9 ka Interglacial
Maximum, and now.
From Dick Evans' review of the ATLAS in the September issue of The
Australian Geologist: "You have read the book, now see the movie ...
Tertiary students and teachers of geology ... should find the Atlas an
excellent summary of Australia's position in geological history. For the
price of three packets of cigarettes or one and a half slabs of beer, it is
an absolute bargain ... The Atlas also is a worthy companion volume to
BYEHA: the addition of colour makes the so often congested illustrations of
BYEHA and their sometimes over-filled captions much more readable and
understandable; and John Veevers ... has rearranged the presentation into a
more cohesive order ... to those who already own a copy of BYEHA, I
thoroughly recommend the Atlas be acquired as a supplement. For those
wanting their knowledge of this truly remarkable story of the earth to be
up-dated, I recommend buying the Atlas, but be prepared to later acquire
the original."
TO BUY, please follow these instructions:
a) Pay with personal or company cheque made out to "GEMOC PRESS, Macquarie
University". Alas, we cannot accept payment by
credit card
b) supply the return address
c) address your letter to
J.J. Veevers, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences,
Macquarie University, SYDNEY NSW 2109
Australia
Further info at http://www.es.mq.edu.au/GEMOC/BYEHA/page1.htm
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