Legacy Geological Samples List Heard Island, 1929-2016

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List of legacy geological samples used to inform the creation of the Geological Map of Heard Island.

Cat_No - Catalogue Number
Field_No – Sample number assigned in the field
Latitude – Decimal Degrees
Longitude – Decimal Degrees
Position Confidence -H (High - Differential GPS), M (Medium - Handheld GPS), L (Low - Approximation based on description of site)
Geologist – Sampling geologist
Comment – Field Notes

Unpublished Resources utilised to identify legacy samples
1.    H.O. Fletcher, 1929 Rock Collection Australian Museum, Sydney.
2.    A.J. Lambeth, 1948-1949 Rock collection, hand drawn outcrop sketches and maps, field notebooks, Australian Museum, Sydney
3.    R. Vining, 1983 A report of activities by the Heard Island Expedition 1983, Australian Antarctic Division Library, Kingston Tasmania
4.    J. Barling, 1986-1987 Thesis, geological sample list, personal field notes and records, Oxford University, United Kingdom
5.    G. Wheller, 1986-1987 Geochemistry, rock collection, thin sections, hand drawn maps, field notes, University of Tasmania, Hobart
6.    D. Thost, 2003, Rock collection, field photographs, field notes, University of Tasmania, Hobart
7.    F. Belton, G. Marshall and R. Schmieder, Cordell Expedition, 2016, Rock collection, field photographs. University of Tasmania.

Published Resources Utilised to identify legacy samples
1.    Barling J (1990) The petrogenesis of the Newer Lavas on Heard Island unpublished thesis. Department of Earth Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne
2.    Barling J (1994) Origin and evolution of a high-Ti ocean island basalt suite; the Laurens Peninsula Series. Heard Island, Indian Ocean Mineralogical Magazine 58A:49–50
3.    Barling J, Goldstein SJ,Wheller GE, Nicholls IA (1988) Heard Island; an example of large isotopic variations on a small oceanic island. Chemical Geology 70:46–46
4.    Barling J, Goldstein SL, Nicholls IA (1994) Geochemistry of Heard Island (southern Indian Ocean); characterization of an enriched mantle component and implications for enrichment of the sub-Indian Ocean mantle, Journal of Petrology. 35:1017–1053
5.    Clarke I (1979) Petrogenesis of basic and ultrabasic lavas on Heard Island. J Geol Soc Aust 26:272–272
6.    Clarke I, McDougall I, Whitford DJ (1983) Volcanic evolution of Heard and McDonald islands, southern Indian Ocean. In: Oliver RL, James PR, Jago JB (eds) Antarctic earth science. Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom (GBR), pp 631–635
7.    Duncan RA, Falloon TJ, Quilty PG, Coffin MF (2016a) Widespread Neogene volcanism on Central Kerguelen Plateau, Southern Indian Ocean. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 63:379–392. https://doi.org/10.1080/08120099.2016.1221857
8.    Duncan RA, Quilty PG, Barling J, Fox JM (2016b) Geological development of Heard Island. Central Kerguelen Plateau. Aust J Earth Sci 63:81–89
9.    Lambeth AJ (1952) A geological account of Heard Island. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 86 Part 1:14–19
10.    Mawson, D, 1933, Geology and Glaciation of some Islands of the Southern Ocean and the newly-discovered Antarctic Mainland, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Society of London, Vol89, Pages cxiii-cxv.
11.    Quilty PG, Wheller G (2000) Heard Island and the McDonald Islands; a window into the Kerguelen Plateau. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 133 Part 2:1–12
12.    Quilty PG, Shafik S, McMinn A, Brady H, Clarke I (1983) Microfossil evidence for the age and environment of deposition of sediments of Heard and McDonald Islands. In: Oliver RL, James PR, Jago JB (eds) Antarctic Earth Science. Cambridge University, Cambridge, pp 636–639
13.    Quilty PG, Murray-Wallace CV, Whitehead JM (2004) Austrochlamys heardensis (Fleming, 1957) (bivalvia, pectinidae) from Central Kerguelen plateau, Indian Ocean; palaeontology and possible tectonic significance. Antarctic Science 16:329–338. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102004002160
14.    Stephenson PJ (1964) Some geological observations on Heard Island. In: Adie RJ (ed) Antarctic Geology - Proceedings of the first international symposium on Antarctic geology. North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, pp 14–24
15.    Stephenson PJ (1972) Geochemistry of some Heard Island igneous rocks. In: Adie RJ (ed) Antarctic Geology and Geophysics. Scandinavian University Books, Oslo, pp 793–801
16.    Stephenson PJ, Barling J, Wheller G, Clarke I (2006) The geology and volcanic geomorphology of Heard Island. In: Green K, Woehler EJ (eds) Heard Island; Southern Ocean Sentinel. Surrey Beatty, Chipping Norton, Australia, pp 10–27
17.    Truswell EM, Quilty PG, McMinn A, MacPhail MK, Wheller GE (2005) Late Miocene vegetation and palaeoenvironments of the Drygalski Formation, Heard Island, Indian Ocean; evidence from palynology. Antarctic Science 17:427–442. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102005002865.

Lineage

Progress Code: completed

Statement: Legacy samples collected pre-2000 are not GPS located

Notes

Purpose
Ground truth information used in combination with satellite imagery to create the Geological Map of Heard Island