Basement Tectonics 9, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992 Australia and Other Regions Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Basement Tectonics, held in Canberra, Australia, July 1990 Proceedings of the International Conferences on Basement Tectonics Series, Vol. 3

The Ninth International Conference on Basement Tectonics was held at the Australian National University in Canberra 2-6 July 1990. The opening keynote address was given by Prof. R.W.R. Rutland, Director of the Bureau of Mineral Resources. Other keynote speakers were E.S.T. O'Driscoll, an Australian consultant, and Prof P. Bankwitz, Central Institute for Physics of the Earth, Potsdam, GDR. Technical sessions were arranged by session conveners on the following five topic- i) The structure of the Australian craton and cover basins; ii) Basement structure of continental regions; iii) Structural patterns and mineral deposits; iv) Techniques for analysing basement structures; v) Structural patterns in oceanic crust. The arrangement of papers for this Proceedings Volume has been simplified. Part 1 deals with Australia, Part 2 with other areas and Part 3 lists the titles of all the papers read at the conference. Abstracts of these papers are available in Geological Society of Australia Abstracts No 26 and may be purchased for $AI0 from the Geological Society of Australia Office, ANA House, 301 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000. Field trips to view aspects of the Lachlan Fold Belt and the Sydney Basin were assisted by H.J. Harrington, D. Branagan, D. Wyborn, B. Drummond and M.J. Rick~d. A longer field trip, aborted through low enrolments, was organized by H.J. Harrington with assistance from W. Preiss, N. Cook, R. Glenn, A. Grady, and P. James; this assistance is gratefully acknowledged.

I Australian Continent.- Basement Tectonics in Australia: An introductory perspective. (Keynote address).- Fault patterns during normal and oblique rifting and the influence of basement discontinuities: application to models for the tectonic evolution of the Perth Basin, Western Australia.- The Pine Creek Shear Zone, north of Pine Creek (Northern Territory): structural evolution and experimental studies.- Basement and cover thrust tectonics in Central Australia based on the Arunta-Amadeus Seismic-Reflection Profile.- Geometry of Permian to Mesozoic sedimentary basins in eastern Australia and their relationship to the New England Orogen.- Factors affecting the acquisition of structural data from remotely-sensed images of eastern Australia.- Elusive trails in the basement labyrinth (Keynote address).- II Other Regions.- Analytical study of Geologic Structure in the cover sediments by Virtual Basement Displacement method.- Geochemical evolution and basement tectonism of the Arabian-Nubian Dome.- Basement tectonics of Saudi Arabia as related to oil field structures.- An E-W transect section through central Iraq.- Conjugate basement rift zones in Kansas, Midcontinent, USA.- The Sierra Alta de San Luis: A case of regmagenic control of gold mineralization.- Tar pavement rift - transform tectonic model and some examples in nature.- North-south lineaments in the British Isles: a 1500myr record of reactivation.- Basement-cover relationships in orogenic belts.- III Titles Of Papers Read At Conference.