B G Thom
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1687425 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | B G Thom |
| NOMBRES | B G |
| APELLIDO | Thom |
| FIRMA | THOM B G |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0360-5614 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 146 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1968 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
John Chappell, FAA (1940-2018)
Sentinels of geography
Many geographers, past and present, have addressed public policy issues facing nations and peoples and in the process offered solutions to highly complex problems. Three ‘sentinels’ of the discipline, Halford Mackinder, Carl Sauer and Thomas Griffith Taylor, served as protectors of geography speaking up for the science in a way often confronting public officials, politicians and others. They contributed significantly to the development of geograp…
Formation of beach-ridge plains
A robust debate among coastal geomorphologists as to the processes by which beach-ridge plains around Australia have formed was initiated by a former President of the Institute of Australian Geographers. This review gives special consideration to the work of Jack L. Davies, whose academic contributions to coastal geomorphology in Australia have not always been appropriately acknowledged when explaining how similar plains have evolved elsewhere in…
Professor Trevor Langford-Smith, 1916–2011
Trevor Langford-Smith was born at Wahroonga on 17 February 1916, the youngest of four brothers. On his mother's side he can trace his ancestry back to Admiral Sir John Hawkins (1532–96). His father
The Population Policy Debate from a Natural Resource Perspective
Generations of Australians, especially those who live in rural or remote areas, have struggled to better understand, manage, and adapt to Australia's unique environmental conditions. Increased awareness of pressures and impacts of population growth has renewed the long-standing debate on the nation's capacity to sustainably manage natural resources. Since 2002, the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists has been active in debates linking science…
Geography, planning and the law
This paper examines how legal structures interact with land‐use decisions in the coastal zone. The emphasis is on NSW where there has been a steady evolution of legislative and other measures to regulate how the coast is to be planned and managed. These measures arise from a long history of individual, corporate, local government and State agency actions directed more at private benefit than at protecting and conserving environmental values for t…
Triggers for Late Twentieth Century Reform of Australian Coastal Management
This paper identifies four triggers that underpinned the late 20th century reform of coastal management in Australia. These have operated across federal, state and local levels of government. The triggers are global environmental change, sustainable development, integrated resource management, and community awareness of management issues and participation in decision making. This reform has been driven by international and national forces. A numb…
Coastal Physical Geography and Global Science
The Integrative Power of Interdisciplinary Geography
Geography is here considered in its widest scientific and philosophical aspects, having the capacity to integrate the dual approaches of reductionism and holism. A brief history of geography is outlined and the modern transition from a regional to a systems science described. Other aspects of modern geography such as the 'numeric revolution', pluralism, and behavioural relevance are discussed. The interdisciplinary integrative power of geography …
Shell middens in the context of estuarine development, South Alligator River, Northern Territory
The man/land theme in geography
Geography as practised at Sydney University over the years has been multi‐faceted. One branch of the discipline is the man/land (or people/environment) theme which was nurtured by the founding fathers of the department, Griffith Taylor and Macdonald Holmes. Numerous staff members have taught and researched aspects of this theme. This paper reviews some of the contributions from the time of Griffith Taylor to the present
Coastal morphodynamics in North Australia
Coastal Geomorphology in Australia
Coastal geomorphology in Australia
People and policies in Antarctica
Late Quaternary Evolution of Coastal Sand Barriers, Port Stephens-Myall Lakes Area, Central New South Wales, Australia
The geomorphic and stratigraphic history of six coastal embayments has been studied in the vicinity of Newcastle, New South Wales (N.S.W.), Australia, in order to determine modes of deposition, and the degree to which marine and estuarine deposits can be correlated and dated. Each embayment possesses its own distinctive suite of landforms ranging from those dominated by coastal dunes to those in which beach ridges occur. In four of the bays dual …
ANU Radiocarbon Date List VIII
The aims of the 1973 Great Barrier Reef Expedition's radiocarbon dating programs were: 1) to collect live specimens from various reef environments to serve as modern reference standards, 2) to evaluate suitability of materials from drilling, geomorphic, and sediment programs for dating purposes, and 3) to date appropriate samples related to those programs. Radiometric ages provide a time scale for evolution of reefs and reef islands, and the hist…
Natural Hazards in Australia
Natural Hazards in Australia
Age Structure of Holocene Coastal Sediments
Shells in beach-ridge and chenier Holocene deposits from the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, have been dated by radiocarbon. Possible contamination of carbonate by post-depositional diagenetic processes, isotopic fractionation, ocean reservoir environmental effect, and association of biological age of sample material with depositional event have been examined in order to validate dating of samples from this environment. A numerical methodology u…
ANU Radiocarbon Date List VII
Along SE coast of Australia a variety of Holocene barriers composed of siliceous sand and shell detritus occur within bedrock-confined embayments. On basis of morphostratigraphy 4 barrier types are recognized: prograded, stationary, receded and episodic transgressive dunes. Several subtypes are also distinguished. Composite bay barriers involving partial eolian reworking of a prograded barrier constitute most complex examples of Holocene depositi…
Future trends in coastal geomorphology
The Role of Spring Thaw in String Bog Genesis
it is necessary to establish a more thoroughly documented framework of current physical processes operating in string bogs throughout the year. It is to this end that the present note is directed. Two problems immediately present themselves in any discussion of string bog genesis. First, there is the need to explain the initial establishment and maintenance of the ridge-hollow pattern; and second, the related problem of the concentration of strin…
Coastal Erosion in Eastern Australia
The Coastal Atlas of Ireland
This beautiful, weighty, and comprehensive hardback volume will capture the spirit of a place so dear to the heart of many Australians. I say weighty in two senses, literally, it weighs 4.5 kg, and
Coastal geomorphology in Australia
Shell middens in the context of estuarine development, South Alligator River, Northern Territory
Natural Hazards in Australia
Coastal morphodynamics in North Australia
Age Structure of Holocene Coastal Sediments
Shells in beach-ridge and chenier Holocene deposits from the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, have been dated by radiocarbon. Possible contamination of carbonate by post-depositional diagenetic processes, isotopic fractionation, ocean reservoir environmental effect, and association of biological age of sample material with depositional event have been examined in order to validate dating of samples from this environment. A numerical methodology u…
Geography, planning and the law
This paper examines how legal structures interact with land‐use decisions in the coastal zone. The emphasis is on NSW where there has been a steady evolution of legislative and other measures to regulate how the coast is to be planned and managed. These measures arise from a long history of individual, corporate, local government and State agency actions directed more at private benefit than at protecting and conserving environmental values for t…
Triggers for Late Twentieth Century Reform of Australian Coastal Management
This paper identifies four triggers that underpinned the late 20th century reform of coastal management in Australia. These have operated across federal, state and local levels of government. The triggers are global environmental change, sustainable development, integrated resource management, and community awareness of management issues and participation in decision making. This reform has been driven by international and national forces. A numb…
The man/land theme in geography
Geography as practised at Sydney University over the years has been multi‐faceted. One branch of the discipline is the man/land (or people/environment) theme which was nurtured by the founding fathers of the department, Griffith Taylor and Macdonald Holmes. Numerous staff members have taught and researched aspects of this theme. This paper reviews some of the contributions from the time of Griffith Taylor to the present
The Population Policy Debate from a Natural Resource Perspective
Generations of Australians, especially those who live in rural or remote areas, have struggled to better understand, manage, and adapt to Australia's unique environmental conditions. Increased awareness of pressures and impacts of population growth has renewed the long-standing debate on the nation's capacity to sustainably manage natural resources. Since 2002, the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists has been active in debates linking science…
Natural Hazards in Australia
Coastal Erosion in Eastern Australia
Sentinels of geography
Many geographers, past and present, have addressed public policy issues facing nations and peoples and in the process offered solutions to highly complex problems. Three ‘sentinels’ of the discipline, Halford Mackinder, Carl Sauer and Thomas Griffith Taylor, served as protectors of geography speaking up for the science in a way often confronting public officials, politicians and others. They contributed significantly to the development of geograp…
Coastal Physical Geography and Global Science
The Integrative Power of Interdisciplinary Geography
Geography is here considered in its widest scientific and philosophical aspects, having the capacity to integrate the dual approaches of reductionism and holism. A brief history of geography is outlined and the modern transition from a regional to a systems science described. Other aspects of modern geography such as the 'numeric revolution', pluralism, and behavioural relevance are discussed. The interdisciplinary integrative power of geography …
Coastal Erosion in Eastern Australia
The Role of Spring Thaw in String Bog Genesis
it is necessary to establish a more thoroughly documented framework of current physical processes operating in string bogs throughout the year. It is to this end that the present note is directed. Two problems immediately present themselves in any discussion of string bog genesis. First, there is the need to explain the initial establishment and maintenance of the ridge-hollow pattern; and second, the related problem of the concentration of strin…
Future trends in coastal geomorphology
ANU Radiocarbon Date List VII
Along SE coast of Australia a variety of Holocene barriers composed of siliceous sand and shell detritus occur within bedrock-confined embayments. On basis of morphostratigraphy 4 barrier types are recognized: prograded, stationary, receded and episodic transgressive dunes. Several subtypes are also distinguished. Composite bay barriers involving partial eolian reworking of a prograded barrier constitute most complex examples of Holocene depositi…
Age Structure of Holocene Coastal Sediments
Shells in beach-ridge and chenier Holocene deposits from the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, have been dated by radiocarbon. Possible contamination of carbonate by post-depositional diagenetic processes, isotopic fractionation, ocean reservoir environmental effect, and association of biological age of sample material with depositional event have been examined in order to validate dating of samples from this environment. A numerical methodology u…
Late Quaternary Evolution of Coastal Sand Barriers, Port Stephens-Myall Lakes Area, Central New South Wales, Australia
The geomorphic and stratigraphic history of six coastal embayments has been studied in the vicinity of Newcastle, New South Wales (N.S.W.), Australia, in order to determine modes of deposition, and the degree to which marine and estuarine deposits can be correlated and dated. Each embayment possesses its own distinctive suite of landforms ranging from those dominated by coastal dunes to those in which beach ridges occur. In four of the bays dual …
ANU Radiocarbon Date List VIII
The aims of the 1973 Great Barrier Reef Expedition's radiocarbon dating programs were: 1) to collect live specimens from various reef environments to serve as modern reference standards, 2) to evaluate suitability of materials from drilling, geomorphic, and sediment programs for dating purposes, and 3) to date appropriate samples related to those programs. Radiometric ages provide a time scale for evolution of reefs and reef islands, and the hist…
Natural Hazards in Australia
Natural Hazards in Australia
Coastal geomorphology in Australia
People and policies in Antarctica
Coastal Geomorphology in Australia
Coastal morphodynamics in North Australia
The man/land theme in geography
Geography as practised at Sydney University over the years has been multi‐faceted. One branch of the discipline is the man/land (or people/environment) theme which was nurtured by the founding fathers of the department, Griffith Taylor and Macdonald Holmes. Numerous staff members have taught and researched aspects of this theme. This paper reviews some of the contributions from the time of Griffith Taylor to the present
The Integrative Power of Interdisciplinary Geography
Geography is here considered in its widest scientific and philosophical aspects, having the capacity to integrate the dual approaches of reductionism and holism. A brief history of geography is outlined and the modern transition from a regional to a systems science described. Other aspects of modern geography such as the 'numeric revolution', pluralism, and behavioural relevance are discussed. The interdisciplinary integrative power of geography …
Shell middens in the context of estuarine development, South Alligator River, Northern Territory
Coastal Physical Geography and Global Science
Triggers for Late Twentieth Century Reform of Australian Coastal Management
This paper identifies four triggers that underpinned the late 20th century reform of coastal management in Australia. These have operated across federal, state and local levels of government. The triggers are global environmental change, sustainable development, integrated resource management, and community awareness of management issues and participation in decision making. This reform has been driven by international and national forces. A numb…
Geography, planning and the law
This paper examines how legal structures interact with land‐use decisions in the coastal zone. The emphasis is on NSW where there has been a steady evolution of legislative and other measures to regulate how the coast is to be planned and managed. These measures arise from a long history of individual, corporate, local government and State agency actions directed more at private benefit than at protecting and conserving environmental values for t…
The Population Policy Debate from a Natural Resource Perspective
Generations of Australians, especially those who live in rural or remote areas, have struggled to better understand, manage, and adapt to Australia's unique environmental conditions. Increased awareness of pressures and impacts of population growth has renewed the long-standing debate on the nation's capacity to sustainably manage natural resources. Since 2002, the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists has been active in debates linking science…
Professor Trevor Langford-Smith, 1916–2011
Trevor Langford-Smith was born at Wahroonga on 17 February 1916, the youngest of four brothers. On his mother's side he can trace his ancestry back to Admiral Sir John Hawkins (1532–96). His father
Formation of beach-ridge plains
A robust debate among coastal geomorphologists as to the processes by which beach-ridge plains around Australia have formed was initiated by a former President of the Institute of Australian Geographers. This review gives special consideration to the work of Jack L. Davies, whose academic contributions to coastal geomorphology in Australia have not always been appropriately acknowledged when explaining how similar plains have evolved elsewhere in…
Sentinels of geography
Many geographers, past and present, have addressed public policy issues facing nations and peoples and in the process offered solutions to highly complex problems. Three ‘sentinels’ of the discipline, Halford Mackinder, Carl Sauer and Thomas Griffith Taylor, served as protectors of geography speaking up for the science in a way often confronting public officials, politicians and others. They contributed significantly to the development of geograp…
John Chappell, FAA (1940-2018)
The Coastal Atlas of Ireland
This beautiful, weighty, and comprehensive hardback volume will capture the spirit of a place so dear to the heart of many Australians. I say weighty in two senses, literally, it weighs 4.5 kg, and
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