This paper observes and compares patterns of above average rates of lung cancer occurrences in the Sydney metropolitan area with typical patterns of air pollution circulation within the Sydney basin, as well as with the locations of primary source and ‘sink’ areas of toxic air emissions. It establishes that there is a strong coincidence, which is unlikely be entirely due to the demographics of ...

fracture mapping of late permian-early triassic flat-lying sedimentary rocks in the sydney basin,new south wales, australia, shows that joints developed originally in extension were faulted in subsequentevents. joints with a regional distribution fall into two (early and late) formed groups. group i joints propagatedhorizontally and never interfered with each other. these joints were subsequent...

The Sydney basin region experiences some high ozone episodes in summer, especially in the north west and south west of Sydney. Observation-based methods can be used to provide a means to access the potential extent of photochemical smog problem at various regions in the Sydney area. In this study, the observation-based Integrated Empirical Rates (IER) model is used to determine and understand t...

Anatomically preserved vegetative Glossopteris leaves in silicified peat deposits of Late Permian age are described from the Bowen Basin of Queensland and the Sydney Basin of New South Wales, Australia. Glossopteris homevalensis Pigg et McLoughlin, sp. nov., a distinctive new species from the Fort Cooper Coal Measures, Bowen Basin, is characterized by mesarch vascular bundles with parenchymatou...

In the western Sydney Basin, the Lapstone Structural Complex is a major north-trending association of monoclines and faults that forms the frontal ridge of the Blue Mountains Plateau. At Kurrajong Heights, the Lapstone Structural Complex is dominated by an eastfacing monocline with a gently dipping central limb containing several different homoclinal segments. At the Hawkesbury Lookout section,...

It is widely believed that Australian Aborigines utilized fire to manage many landscapes; however, to what extent this use of fire impacted on Australia’s ecosystems remains uncertain. The late Pleistocene/ Holocene fire history from three sites within the Sydney Basin (Gooches Swamp, Lake Baraba and Kings Waterhole) were compared with archaeological and palaeoclimatic data. The Gooches Swamp r...

This paper explores the utility of an ensemble decision-tree method called random forest, in comparison with the classic classification and regression trees (CART) algorithm, for forecasting ground-level ozone pollution in the Sydney metropolitan region. Statistical forecasting models are developed to provide daily ozone forecasts in November-March for three subregions, i.e., Sydney east, Sydne...