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Exploration Tectonics Group
(previously: Applied Regional Exploration Geology and Tectonics Group)
The umbrella group for exploration-based research by Rod Holcombe at the University of Queensland
| New England Fold Belt projects: | Rod Holcombe; Chris Fielding; Terry Harbort; Michael Bruce; Lorraine Campbell; Yaoling Niu; (Chris Stephens (now with WMC); Renate Sliwa; Timothy Little now at VUW, NZ); Paulo Vasconcelos |
| South America (Andes/Brazil): | Rod Holcombe; Tim Coughlin; Anthony Harris; Marcio Sales; Arne Scherrenberg |
["Get File" links are to downloadable files containing the manuscript in RTF format (these do not contain the figures). "Read" links are html files readable within a browser.]
Campbell, L.M. Awarded March 2005. Basin Analysis and Tectonic evolution of the Esk Trough in Southeast Queensland. PhD Thesis, University of Queensland. [read Abstract]
Bryan , S.E., Allen, C.M., Holcombe, R.J.; & Fielding, C.R. (2004). U–Pb zircon geochronology of Late Devonian to Early Carboniferoous extension-related silicic volcanism in the northern New England Fold Belt. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences , 51 , 645-664
Bryan SE, Fielding CR. Cook A, Holcombe RJ (2004) Reply to: "Stratigraphy, facies architecture and tectonic implications of the Upper Devonian to Lower Carboniferous Campwyn Volcanics of the northern New England Fold Belt". Discussion by Henderson RA, Fergusson C. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 51, 451-458
Bryan , S.E., Fielding, C.R., Holcombe, R.J.; Cook, A. & Moffitt. 2003. Stratigraphy, facies architecture and tectonic implications of the Upper Devonian to Lower Carboniferous Campwyn Volcanics of the northern New England Fold Belt. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences , 50 , 377-401
Bryan , S.E., Holcombe, R.J.; & Fielding, C.R. 2003. The Yarrol terrane of the northern New England Fold Belt: Fore-arc or Back-arc?: Discussion and Reply. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 50, 271-293
Fielding, C.R., Sliwa, R., Holcombe, R.J. & Jones, A.T. 2001. A new palaeogeographic synthesis for the Bowen, Gunnedah and Sydney Basins of Eastern Australia. In: Hill, K.C. & Bernecker, T., Eds. Eastern Australasian Basins Symposium, A Refocussed Energy Perspective for the Future, Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, Special Publication, 269-277.
Bryan, S.E., Holcombe, R.J.; & Fielding, C.R. 2001. The Yarrol terrane of the northern New England Fold Belt: Fore-arc or Back-arc? In Press: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 48, 293-316 .
Bruce, M.C., Niu, Y., Harbort, T.A., & Holcombe, R.J. 2000. Petrological, geochemical and geochronological evidence for a Neoproterozoic ocean basin recorded in the Marlborough terrane of the northern New England Fold Belt. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 47, 1053-1064.
Fielding, C.R., Sliwa, R., Holcombe, R.J. & Kassan, J. 2000. A new palaeogeographic synthesis of the Bowen Basin of Central Queensland. In: Beeston, J.W., Ed. Bowen Basin Symposium 2000, Proceedings, Geological Society of Australia, Rockhampton, 287-302.[Read Text]
Campbell, L.M., Holcombe, R.J.; & Fielding, C.R. 1999. The Esk Basin – a Triassic foreland basin within the northern New England Orogen. In: Flood, P.G., ed. Regional Geology, Tectonics and metallogenesis, New England Orogen, NEO ’99, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of New England, Armidale, 275-284.
Holcombe, R.J.; Stephens, C. J. ; Fielding, C. R. ; Gust, D.; Little, T.A. ; Sliwa, R.; McPhie, J.; Ewart, A. 1997. Tectonic Evolution of the Northern New England Fold Belt: Carboniferous to Early Permian transition from active accretion to extension. In: Ashley P.M. & Flood P.G. (eds) Tectonics and Metallogenesis of the New England Orogen: Alan H. Voisey Memorial Volume. Geological Society of Australia, Special Publication 19,.66-79. [Read] ; [Get file ~120kb] .
Holcombe, R.J.; Stephens, C. J. ; Fielding, C. R. ; Gust, D.; Little, T.A. ; Sliwa, R.; Kassan, J.; McPhie, J.; Ewart, A. 1997. Tectonic Evolution of the Northern New England Fold Belt: The Permian-Triassic Hunter-Bowen event. In: Ashley P.M. & Flood P.G. (eds) Tectonics and Metallogenesis of the New England Orogen: Alan H. Voisey Memorial Volume. Geological Society of Australia, Special Publication 19,.52-65. [Read] ; [Get file ~90kb] .
Fielding,C.J., Stephens,C.J., and Holcombe,R.J. 1997. Permian Stratigraphy and Palaeogeography of the northern New England Fold Belt in Coastal Central Queensland. In: Ashley P.M. & Flood P.G. (eds) Tectonics and Metallogenesis of the New England Orogen: Alan H. Voisey Memorial Volume. Geological Society of Australia, Special Publication 19,.80-95. [Read] ; [Get file ~70kb].
Fielding,C.J., Stephens,C.J., and Holcombe,R.J. 1997. Submarine mass-wasting deposits as an indicator of the onset of foreland thrust loading - Late Permian Bowen Basin, Queensland, Australia. Terra Nova, 9, 14-18. [Read]
Golding, S.D., Stephens,C.J., Vasconcelos, P.V., Holcombe,R.J., and Fielding, C.R. 1994. Metallogeny of the northern New England Fold Belt. In: Holcombe et al., eds, 1994 Field Conference Guidebook: Capricorn Region, central coastal Queensland, Geological Society of Australia, Queensland Division, 137-145.
Fielding, C.R., Stephens,C.J., and Holcombe,R.J. 1994. A critical evaluation of the Grantleigh Trough, east-central Queensland. In: Holcombe et al., eds, 1994 Field Conference Guidebook: Capricorn Region, central coastal Queensland, Geological Society of Australia, Queensland Division, 17-30.
Holcombe,R.J., Stephens,C.J., and Fielding, C.R. 1994. Editors: 1994 Field Conference Guidebook: Capricorn Region, central coastal Queensland, Geological Society of Australia, Queensland Division, 149p.
Bruce, M.C., Niu, Y., Harbort, T.A., & Holcombe, R.J. 1998. Geochemistry and geochronology of the Marlborough Ophiolite: implications for the tectonic history of the northern New England Fold Belt. [Read]
Campbell, L.M.; Holcombe, R.J.; & Fielding, C.R. 1999. The Esk Basin – a Triassic foreland basin within the northern New England Orogen. In: Flood, P.G., ed. Regional Geology, Tectonics and Metallogenesis, New England Orogen, NEO ’99, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of New England, Armidale, 275-284.
Bruce, M.C., Niu, Y., & Holcombe, R.J. 1999. Remnants of a Neoproterozoic oceanic basin in the Northern New England Orogen: Evidence for break-up of Rodinia? In: Flood, P.G., ed. Regional Geology, Tectonics and metallogenesis, New England Orogen, NEO ’99, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of New England, Armidale, 221.
Campbell, L.M.; Holcombe, R.J.; & Fielding, C.R. 1998. The internal structure and sedimentology of the Esk Trough, Southeast Queensland. Abstract submitted to AGC Conference, Townsville, July, 1998. [Read]
Harbort, T.A., Holcombe, R.J., Bruce, M.C., & Niu, Y. 1997. Orogen-oblique structure and oroclinal bending in the Northern New England Orogen, Eastern Australia. 1997 Fall Meeting of American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, 8-12 December 1997, 78(46): F639. [Read]
Bruce, M.C., Harbort, T.A., Holcombe, R.J. & Niu, Y., 1997. Geochemistry, petrology and tectonic significance of the Marlborough Ophiolite, Northern New England Fold Belt, Eastern Australia. 1997 Fall Meeting of American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, 8-12 December 1997, 78(46): F719.
Stephens, C.J., Holcombe, R.J.., Fielding, C.R., and Gust, D.A. 1996. Tectonic evolution of the eastern Gondwanaland margin during the Late Palaeozoic and Early Mesozoic. Mesozoic Geology of the Eastern Australia Plate Conference; Geol Soc Aust Abstr, 43, 517-518.
Stephens, C.J., O'Connell, Holcombe, R.J., Fielding, C.R., Ewart, A., and Messenger, P. 1996. MORB in continental settings: the significance of the Permian Rookwood Volcanics to studies of the evolution of Eastern Australia. Abs to AGC Canberra, Feb, 1996
Stephens, C.J., Holcombe, R.J. and Fielding, C.R. 1995 Ancient analogy for Andean upper crust - the Permo-Triassic northern New England Fold Belt, eastern Australia. IUGG 1995 General Assembly, Boulder, Colorado.
Holcombe, R.J.., Fielding, C.R., & Stephens,C.J. 1995. Tear fault termination of the fold-thrust belt in the Northern New England Orogen. Geol Soc Aust Abstr, 40, 72.
Fielding, C.R., Stephens, C.J., Kassan, J. & Holcombe, R.J., 1995. Revised palaeogeographic maps for the Bowen Basin, Central Queensland. In: Bowen Basin Symposium 1995, Proceedings (Ed. by I.L. Follington, J.W. Beeston & L.H. Hamilton), Geological Society of Australia, Brisbane, 7-15 (ISBN 0 909869 98 7).
Holcombe, R.J.., Stephens,C.J., Fielding, C.R. 1994. Tectonic evolution of the Central and Northern New England Fold Belt, Queensland. Geol Soc Aust Abstr, 37, 185-186.
Holcombe,R.J. 1994. Extensional tectonics in the Development of the North D'Aguilar Block. Queensland Exploration Potential 1994, Symposium Abstracts, 38.
Harris, A.C., Allen, C.M., Bryan, S.E., Campbell, I.H., Holcombe, R.J. & Palin, J.M. 2004. ELA-ICP-MS U-Pb zircon geochronology of regional volcanism hosting the Bajo de la Alumbrera Cu-Au deposit: implications for porphyry-related mineralization. Mineralium Deposita , 39 , 46-67
Coughlin, T.J. & Holcombe, R.J. 2002. Linked faults and porphyry-skarn mineralisation in the Central Andes. In: Vearncombe, S, (ed): Applied Structural Geology for Mineral Exploration and Mining, Australian Institute of Geoscientists, Bulletin 36, 36-38
Coughlin, T.J., Holcombe, R.J. 1966. Linked Orogen-Oblique Conjugate Fault Zones in the Argentine Andes and Implications for Evolving "Collisional" Models. American Geophysical Union, Abstracts, Fall Meeting, San Francisco.[Read]
Coughlin, T.J., O'Sullivan, P.B., Kohn, B.P., and Holcombe, R.J.
1998. Apatite fission track thermochronology of the Sierras Pampeanas central
western Argentina; implications for the mechanism of plateau-uplift in
the Andes. Geology 26, 999-1002.[Read
Abstract]
Dr R.J.Holcombe
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