Series 12 - Tectonic Map of Australia and New Guinea 1964-1971


Date Range1964 - 1971
ProvenanceEdwin Sherbon Hills
Description

Minutes, reports, notes and correspondence relating to the preparation of the Tectonic Map of Australia and New Guinea by the Tectonic Map Committee of the Geological Society of Victoria. Includes crorrespondence with various State Divisions.


Inventory Listing

12-1 Tectonic Map Committee - meetings and minutes

Copies of agenda and minutes of meetings together with related circulars and memoranda of the Tectonic Map Committee of the Geological Society of Australia. Also includes: some associated correspondence; reports on the Tectonic Map Committee for 1964-5, 1965-6, 1969; report to the Sub-Commission on the Tectonic Map of the World on the preparation of the Oceania sector, 1966; Correspondents include: D.K. Tompkins; E. Williams; M.J. Rickard; F. Canavan; Fred Doutch.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1964 - 1971    Quantity 1.4 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-1 Box Number 28 Series 12
12-2 Tectonic Map Committee - current activities

Correspondence and circulars concerning the activities of the Tectonic Map Committee. Includes: minutes for meetings in April 1967; notice and agenda for plenary meeting; copy of 'Notes on the Tectonic Map of Australia'. Correspondents include: J.B. Alexander; F. Canavan; M.J. Rickard; N.H. Fisher.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1967    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-2 Box Number 29 Series 12
12-3 Tectonic Map Committee - list of members

List of members of the state branches of the Tectonic Map Committee of the Geological Society of Australia for 1966 and 1968-69. Also includes: list of office bearers of the Geological Society of Australia, 1966-67; handwritten notes of names and addresses; correspondence relating to meetings and membership. Correspondents include: E.B. Joyce; Emyr Williams; M.J. Rickard; R.T. Prider; R.C. Sprigg; B. Thompson; D.F. Branagan; D. Hill; Ken Plumb and Gladys Warren.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1966 - 1969    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-3 Box Number 29 Series 12
12-4 Tectonic Map Committee - reports

Reports on the work of the Tectonic Map Committee in relation to the Tectonic Map of Australia and the Sub-Commission for the Tectonic Map of the World. Includes: 'Notes on Tectonic Map of Australia (Prague Draft, 1968)'; 'Report on Tectonic Map - Oceania Sector', 1970; 'Interim Report of the Tectonic Map Committee', 1971.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1968 - 1971    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-4 Box Number 29 Series 12
12-5 Principles

Correspondence, notes and papers relating to the formulation of guiding principles for the terminology, classification and legend of the Tectonic Map of Australia. Includes: programme and abstracts for the 'Tectonic Map Symposium' held as a Geological Society of Australia Specialists' Meeting, in May 1968; copies of papers by M.J. Rickard, 'The polygonal tessellations of the Earth's crust and their bearing on continental reconstructions', and 'Time classification for stratigraphy and tectonics in the Precambrian - Criticism'; draft paper by H.F. Doutch, 'Progress with classification and terminology for the Tectonic Map of Australia 1969'; memorandum by ESH, 'Tectonic Map Committee - Comments on legend'; 'Notes on legend drafts'; copy of resolutions concerning the legend for the Tectonic Map of Europe; memorandum by R.W.R. Rutland, 'The representation of platforms on tectonic maps'; handwritten list of 'Province and platform cover names'; table of 'Principles of classification and terminology'; notes on 'Australian platforms and associated cratons'. Correspondents include: M.J. Rickard; A. Bogdanoff; K.A. Plumb; Fred Doutch.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1968 - 1971    Quantity 1.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-5 Box Number 29 Series 12
12-6 Principles - comments on draft notes

Notes and correspondence regarding principles for the terminology, classification and legend of the Tectonic Map of Australia, in particular comments from the state committees on a draft of the map prepared in 1966-67. Also includes: summary of the activities of the Sub-Commission for the Tectonic Map of the World, 1964-1966; notes prepared by the Capital Territories Sub-Committee on 'Problems arising from compilation of state drafts for Tectonic Map of Australia'; programme and list of participants of the Sub-Commission for the Tectonic Map of the World's 'Meeting for the promotion of the Tectonic Map of South America', October 1967; notes by B.P. Thompson on 'Discussion of platform and platform cover: Tectonic Map of Australia'; notes by H.F. Doutch on 'Some aspects of compilation of the new Tectonic Map of Australia'; copy of ESH's 'Interim Report on the Tectonic Map of Australia'; annotated draft list and corrected list of 'Committee members involved in the compilation of the Tectonic Map of Australia'; draft copies of ESH's 'Note on the compilation of the Tectonic Map of Australia and New Guinea'. Correspondents include: M.J. Rickard; Reg Sprigg; Rex T. Prider; Brendan Thompson.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1966 - 1971    Quantity 0.9 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-6 Box Number 29 Series 12
12-7 Draft map and legend

Circular to members of Tectonic Map Committee concerning the preparation of a draft map and legend; reverse side has a handwritten timetable listing stages in the production of the map from 1964 to 1971. Also includes: some notes on classification; explanatory note by ESH on the presentation of the draft map to the Sub-Commission for the Tectonic Map of the World in July 1968.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1967 - 1968    Quantity 0.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-7 Box Number 29 Series 12
12-8 Explanatory notes

Inward and outward correspondence relating to the preparation of explanatory notes to accompany the Tectonic Map of Australia. Correspondents include: D.K. Jones; M.J. Rickard.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1970    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-8 Box Number 29 Series 12
12-9 Final Preparations and cost estimates

Material relating to the details and printing of the final draft of the map. Includes: agenda and minutes of Tectonic Map Committee meeting to consider the final draft in April 1971; copy of ESH's subsequent 'Interim Report of the Tectonic Map Committee', with copies of cost estimates from Mercury-Walch Pty Ltd attached; correspondence with A.F. Trendall; copy of 'Modified Interim Report' of Tectonic Map Committee, along with list of 'Specific Enquiries' directed to the Council of the Geological Society of Australia; large photographic negative showing completed map.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1970 - 1971    Quantity 0.4 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-9 Box Number 29 Series 12
12-10 Submission to the Tectonic Map of the World

Copies of ESH's covering notes explaining aspects of the Tectonic Map of Australia and New Guinea upon its submission to the Sub-Committee for the Tectonic Map of the World on 1 August 1972. Also includes related correspondence with V.E. Khain.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1972    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-10 Box Number 29 Series 12
12-11 Correspondence - Geological Society of Australia

Inward and outward correspondence with A.F. Trendall, President of the Geological Society of Australia, and J.E. Glover, editor of Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, mainly concerning an article submitted by Ken Plumb on areas related to the work of the Tectonic Map Committee.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1970 - 1971    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-11 Box Number 29 Series 12
12-12 Correspondence - Australia

Inward and outward correspondence relating to the Tectonic Map Committee and the preparation of the Tectonic Map of Australia. Also includes: copy of Ken Plumb's 'Suggestions for Modifications to Legend of Tectonic Map'; handwritten notes by Ken Plumb on 'Urgent topics for discussion'; notes on 'Some problems of the Tectonic Map of Australia'; Minutes of the Tectonic Map Committee Executive Committee meeting, 21-22 November 1967; handwritten draft of ESH's 'Interim Report of the Tectonic Map Committee', April 1971; memo to members of the Tectonic Map Committee on explanatory notes; ESH's report on the Victorian Division of the Tectonic Map Committee for 1971; draft paper by E. Schreibner on 'Theoretical principles of the Tectonic Map of New South Wales at scale 1:1,000,000'; draft paper by M.J. Rickard on 'Tectonic Development of Australia'. Correspondents include: Maxwell R. Banks; E. Rod; M.J. Rickard; N.H. Fisher; F. Delany; C.L. Adamson; E. Williams; Rex T. Prider; Fred Doutch; B. Thompson; Reg Sprigg; J. Knight; Dorothy Hill; F. Canavan; Department of National Development; G.F. Whitten; N.H. Ludbrook; D.K. Jones; David Brown.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1966 - 1972    Quantity 1.4 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-12 Box Number 29 Series 12
12-13 Correspondence - NSW

Inward and outward correspondence relating to the Tectonic Map of Australia. Correspondents include: A.H. Voisey; Erwin Scheibner.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1966 - 1971    Quantity 0.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-13 Box Number 29 Series 12
12-14 Correspondence - Queensland

Inward and outward correspondence relating to the Tectonic Map of Australia. Includes report of the Queensland Tectonic Map Sub-committee for 1966-67. Correspondents include: Dorothy Hill; Graham Tweedale.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1967    Quantity 0.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-14 Box Number 29 Series 12
12-15 Correspondence - South Australia

Inward and outward correspondence relating to the Tectonic Map of Australia. Includes draft legend for the Tectonic Map of South Australia. Correspondents include: Reg Sprigg; L.W. Parkin; Brendan Thompson; G.F. Whitten; R.W.R. Rutland.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1966 - 1971    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-15 Box Number 29 Series 12
12-16 Correspondence - Tasmania

Inward and outward correspondence relating to the Tectonic Map of Australia, in particular the preparation of the Tectonic Map of Tasmania. Correspondents include: Emyr Williams; Maxwell R. Banks.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1966 - 1969    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-16 Box Number 29 Series 12
12-17 Correspondence - Victoria

Inward correspondence relating to the Tectonic Map of Australia, as well as notice of meeting for Victorian members of the Tectonic Map Committee. Correspondents include: John L. Neilson; Spencer Jones.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1965 - 1967    Quantity 0.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-17 Box Number 29 Series 12
12-18 Correspondence - Commonwealth Territories

Inward and outward correspondence, arranged alphabetically, relating to the Tectonic Maps of Australia and the World. Correspondents include: Fred Doutch; N.H. Fisher; B.P. Lambert; L.C. Noakes; Ken Plumb; J.M. Rayner; M.J. Rickard.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1958 - 1971    Quantity 0.7 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-18 Box Number 29 Series 12
12-19 Correspondence - Western Australia

Inward and outward correspondence relating to the Tectonic Map of Australia. Correspondents include: Hector J. Ward; Rex T. Prider; D.K. Jones.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1965 - 1971    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-19 Box Number 29 Series 12

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