Recent Publications - Doctor Nick Direen

Submitted or Accepted

Colwell J. B., Direen N. G., Stagg H. M. J., Symonds P. A. 2004 (submitted). 'Symmetry versus asymmetry in a conjugate, rifted non-volcanic margin pair: southern Australia and East Antarctica'. Geology.

Direen N. G. & Lyons P. 2006. 'Crustal setting of iron oxide Cu-Au mineral systems of the Olympic Dam region, South Australia: insights from potential field data'. Economic Geology.

Thomas, J.L., Direen, N.G. & Hand, M. 2006 (submitted March 2006) 'Blind orogen: integrated appraisal of multiple episodes of Mesoproterozoic deformation and reworking in the Fowler Domain, western Gawler Craton, Australia'. Precambrian Research.

Direen, N.G., Pfeiffer, K., Schmidt, P.W. and Sexton, M., (Nov 2006 submitted). Strong remanent magnetisation in pyrrhotite: a structurally-controlled example from the Paleoproterozoic Tanami Orogenic gold province, northern Australia. Journal of Geophysical Research.

Direen N. G., Stagg H M J, Colwell J B, & Symonds P A, (submitted Dec 2006). Architecture of a classic volcanic rifted margin: a new model for the Exmouth - Gascoyne margin, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences.

2007

Direen NG, Borissova I, Stagg HMJ, Colwell JB, Symonds PA. 2007. Nature of the continent - ocean transition zone along southern Australian continental margin: a comparison of the Naturaliste Plateau, SW Australia, and the central Great Australian Bight. pp 239-263 in KarnerGD, Manatschal G & Pinheiro LM (eds) Imaging, Mapping and Modelling Continental Lithosphere Extension and Breakup. Geological Society London Special Publication 282.

2006

Heinson G S, Direen N. G., & Gill R. M. 2006. Magnetotelluric evidence for a deep-crustal mineralising system beneath the giant Olympic Dam Iron-Oxide Copper Gold deposit, southern Australia. Geology. 34: 573-576.

2005

Colwell JB, Stagg HMJ, Direen N, Bernadel G, Borissova I. 2005 Chapter 6.6 'The Structure of the Continental Margin off Wilkes Land and Terre Adelie Coast, East Antarctica'. in Futterer DK, Damaske D, Kleinschmidt G, Miller H, Tessensohn F (eds). Antarctica: Contributions to global earth sciences. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 325-338.

Direen, N.G., Cadd A., Lyons, P. & Teasdale, J. 2005 Architecture of Proterozoic shear zones in the Christie Domain, western Gawler Craton, Australia: Geophysical appraisal of a poorly exposed orogenic terrane. Precambrain Research. 142: 28-44.

Direen N.G., Brock D. & Hand M. 2005 Geophysical testing of balanced cross sections of fold-thrust belts with potential field data: an example from the Fleurieu Arc of the Delamerian Orogen, South Australia. Journal of Structural Geology. 27: 964-984.

Lyons, P., Goleby, B. R., Drummond, B. J., Schwarz, M., Korsch, R. J., Jones, L. E. A., Fairclough, M., Preiss, W., Heinson, G., Direen, N., and Skirrow, R. 2005. 'The 2003 Gawler Craton Seismic survey, Workshop Notes'. Geoscience Australia Record, 2005/19: 68-69.

Stagg, H.M.J., Colwell, J.B., Direen, N.G., O'Brien, P.E., Brown, B.J., Bernardel, G., Borissova, I., Carson, L. & Close, D.B. 2005 'Geological framework of the continental margin in the region of the Australian Antarctic Territory'. Geoscience Australia Record. 2004/25.

Stagg H.M.J., Colwell J.B., Direen N.G. , O’Brien P.E. , Bernardel G., Borissova I. & Ishihara T. 2005 Geology of the continental margin of Enderby and Mac. Robertson lands, East Antarctica: Insights from a regional dataset. Marine Geophysical Research. 25: 183-219

2004

Direen, N.G., Borissova I., Stagg H.M.J., Colwell J.B., & Symonds P. A. 2004 Nature of the continent-ocean transition zone along the southern Australian continental margin: a comparison of the Naturaliste Plateau, south-western Australia, and the central Great Australian Bight sectors. In: G Karner, G. Manatschal & L. Pinheiro (eds). Columbia University Press Monograph.

Direen N, Stagg, H M J, Colwell, J B & Symonds, P.A. 2004 New constraints on Non-Volcanic rifting and Continential Breakup; integrated analysis of the East Antarctic Rifted Margins. Geophysical Research Abstracts. 6: 05342, 2004.

Meffre S., Direen N. G., Crawford A. J., & Kamenetsky V. 2004 Mafic volcanics on King Island, Tasmania: evidence for break-up in east Gondwanaland. Precambrian Research 135: 177–191.

2003

Crawford A. J., Cayley R. A. , Taylor D. H., Morand V. J., Gray C. M., Kemp A. I. S., Wohlt K. E., Vandenberg A. H. M., Moore D. H., Maher S., Direen N. G., Edwards J, Donaghy A. G., Anderson J. A. & Black L. P. 2003, 'Neoproterozoic and Cambrian continental rifting, continent-arc collision and post-collisional magmatism'. In: Birch W D, (ed.) Geology of Victoria. Geological Society of Australia Special Publication. 23: 73-93.

Direen N. G. & Crawford A. J. 2003 Fossil seaward dipping reflector sequences preserved in southeastern Australia –a 600 Ma volcanic passive margin in eastern Gondwanaland. Journal of the Geological Society, 160: 85-990.

(The above article was short listed for Young Authors Award of the Geological Society (London)).

Direen N. G. & Crawford A. J. 2003 The Tasman Line: what is it, where is it, and is it Australia’s Rodinian break-up boundary? Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 50: 491-502.

(Doctor Nick Direen and Doctor Tony Crawford were awarded the Stillwell Award for best paper published in the Australian Journal of Earth Sciences by the Geological Society of Australia, at the 2006 Australian Earth Sciences Convention for the above article.)

2002

Glen R. A., Korsch R. J., Direen N. G., Jones L. E. A., Johnstone D. W., Lawrie K. C., Finlayson D. M. & Shaw R. D. 2002 Crustal structure of the Ordovician Macquarie Arc, Eastern Lachlan Orogen, based on seismic reflection profiling. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 49: 323-348.