School of BEES - Emeritus Professor John Roberts

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Late palaeozoic stratigraphy, biostratigraphy and palaeontology (brachiopods).
Use of uranium-lead isotopic ages of zircons determined by the SHRIMP ion microprobe technique to calibrate the Late Palaeozoic timescale.
Geological history of the New England Orogen, eastern Australia.

PUBLICATIONS

Roberts J, Claoue-Long J, Jones PJ & Foster CB. 1995. SHRIMP zircon age control of Gondwanan sequences in Late Carboniferous & Early Permian Australia, In Dunay R E & Hailwood E A (eds), Dating & Correlating Biostratigraphically Barren Strata, Geological Society of London Special Publication 89, 145-174.

Roberts J, Claoue-Long J, Foster C & Briggs D. 1995. SHRIMP dating of the Permian system of eastern Australia, Abstracts 13th International Congress on Carboniferous-Permian , Krakow, Poland, 28 Aug-2 Sept 1995, 122.

Roberts J, Claoue-Long J & Jones PJ. 1995. Australian early carboniferous time, In Berggren WA, Kent, DV, Aubry MP & Hardenbol J (eds) , Geochronology, Time Scales & Stratigraphic Correlation, SEPM Special Publication 54, 23-40.

Qian WL & Roberts J. 1995. Early Carboniferous brachiopods of the Schellwienella burlingtonensis zone in eastern Australia, Alcheringa 19, 155-189.

Claoue-Long J, Compston W, Roberts J & Fanning CM. 1995. Two carboniferous ages: a comparison of SHRIMP zircon dating with conventional zircon ages & 40Ar/39Ar analysis, In Geochronology, Time Scales & Stratigraphic Correlation, Berggren W A, Kent DV, Aubry MP, Hardenbol J (eds), SEPM Special Publication 54, 1-22.

Schmidt PW, Aubourg C, Lennox PG & Roberts J. 1994. Palaeomagnetism & tectonic rotation of the Hastings Terrane, eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 41, 547-560.

Roberts J, Claoue-Long J, Maidment D, Jones PJ & Foster C. 1994. SHRIMP calibration of the eastern Australian Late Palaeozoic. Abstracts 12th Australian Geological Convention , Perth WA, September 26-30, Geological Society of Australia Abstracts 37, 378-379.

Roberts J, Briggs D, Claoue-Long J, Foster C & Maidment D. 1994. Permian SHRIMP ages & correlations within eastern Australia, Proceedings 28th Newcastle Symposium on Advances in the Study of the Sydney Basin , Newcastle, April 15-17, University of Newcastle, 24-30.

CONTACT DETAILS

Room 624
Phone : +61 (02) 9385-8701
Fax : +61 (02) 9385-1558
Email : j.robertsunsw.edu.au