Series 8 - Subject Files 1865 - 1986


Date Range1865 - 1986
ProvenanceEdwin Sherbon Hills
Description

Notes, references, reprints, photographs, and some correspondence. Organized under subject headings including: Basins; Building stones; Cliffy coasts; Coastal features; Deformation; Earthquakes; Faults; Folds; Geology teaching; Glaciation; Igneous rocks; Jointing; Landforms; Lineaments; Lunettes; Morphotectonics; Neotectonics; Otway Ranges; Quaternary climates; Sedimentation; Shore platforms; Studley Park; Tectonics; Volcanism; Weathering.


Inventory Listing

8-1 Basins - notes, references and data

Some hand-written notes on types of basins, together with notes from references and typed data from bores. Also includes: correspondence and reprint from Simon Pels; correspondence from Wayne Harris.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1964 - 1972, mostly undated    Quantity 0.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-1 Box Number 16 Series 8
8-2 Basins and Coal-basins - notes and references

Hand-written notes on loose sheets of paper concerning the structure and cycles of basins, particularly coal-basins, in south-eastern Australia. Includes notes on the Gippsland Basin, the Otway Basin, the Moorlands coalfields and the Murray Basin. Also includes notes from relevant references.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date    Quantity 0.6 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-2 Box Number 16 Series 8
8-3 Building stones - notes, clippings etc.

Mainly notes, newspaper clippings and advertising material, with some correspondence, relating to stones used for building. Includes: Geology Part I printed notes; brochures and postcards from Bath and Portland Stone Firms Ltd picturing examples of their work; typed notes for Engineering Geology on 'Building and Ornamental Stones'; advertising material for the 'Fluate' process and from Hawksbury Sandstone; reprints from The Building Age on travertine; circular advertising Ben Cruchan granite; handwritten notes on concrete. Also includes letters to E.W. Skeats from stone firms.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1930s, mostly undated    Quantity 2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-3 Box Number 16 Series 8
8-4 Cliffy coasts - postcards, references and correspondence

Material relating to cliffy or rocky coasts including: colour postcards showing the coasts of Cornwall and Portugal, with references to literature on the coast of Portugal; inward correspondence from David Lawson and R.F. McLean seeking reprints of ESH's 'Cliffy coasts' article; outward correspondence with V. Semeniuk. Also includes: typescript copies of articles by M.S. Krishnan and K. Jacob, and J. Tricart; clipping from the Weekend Australian, 25-26 August 1984, 'The crisis of the vanishing beaches'.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1959 - 1985    Quantity 0.7 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-4 Box Number 16 Series 8
8-5 Cliffy coasts, Victoria - photographs

A large number of black and white photographs of different sizes showing cliffy coastal features, particularly in Victoria. Photographs are mostly unlabelled, but include a series of 'Wilson's Promontory and Islands' (with negatives) and 'Point Castries'. Also includes; large aerial photograph of the St. Kilda coastline; some colour snapshots of coastal features; copy of Sites of Special Scientific Interest on the Victorian Coast by E.C.F. Bird.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1973 - 1982, mostly undated    Quantity 3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-5 Box Number 17 Series 8
8-6 Coastal features - notes and reprints

Assorted material including: some handwritten notes and references; a pocket- sized notebook with field notes relating to the Phillip Island and West Gippsland coasts; two black and white photographs of the Egyptian coastline; a large, annotated map of the Sorrento (Victoria) area; copies of reprints on related topics. Reprint authors include: A.B. Edwards; John T. Hollin; Alan Easton and Rainer Radok.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1931 - 1976    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-6 Box Number 17 Series 8
8-7 Coastal features - reprints and publications

Reprints relating to coastal features. Also includes inward correspondence from G.F. Mitchell; a reference card; a short note on Cornwall coasts; booklet entitled The Coasts of Cornwall. Reprint authors include: E.C.F. Bird; Dov Nir.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1970 - 1977    Quantity 1.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-7 Box Number 17 Series 8
8-8 Coastal Features - Sorrento (Victoria)

Loose-leaf sheets with field notes taken along the ocean coast of the Mornington Peninsula, particularly around Sorrento. Also includes: a pocket- sized notebook with field notes from Phillip Island, Point Lonsdale and Sorrento; two postcards of Sorrento; a reprint of an article by Edmund D. Gill; a typescript table of 'Tidal range' for Victoria.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1971, notes undated    Quantity 1.4 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-8 Box Number 17 Series 8
8-9 Cone-in-cone - notes, references, photographs

Notes, references and other assorted material relating to cone-in-cone and other cone-shaped geological features. Includes: loose-leaf notebook labelled 'Land Cons. Council Corangamite, Soil Conservation Authority, Otway Ras' but containing notes and references on many topics including cone-in-cone, building stones and aerial photography; four colour and black and white field trip photographs showing cone-in-cone structures; letter to Hoechst, UK; photocopied extracts from various sources showing conical structures, some annotated; eight black and white photographs showing conical hills, termite mounds, the 'Ruined city' in Arnhem Land, and a drawing of 'Vishnu's Temple'.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1977 - 1986, mostly undated    Quantity 1.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-9 Box Number 17 Series 8
8-10 Deformation detail - photographs

Black and white photographs and photographically-reproduced diagrams relating to deformation in rocks. Photographs are mostly unlabelled, one has article reference pencilled on back.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date    Quantity 0.4 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-10 Box Number 17 Series 8
8-11 Deserts - photographs

Black and white photographs relating to deserts and arid areas. Most are unlabelled, but they include a large number of enlargements from ESH's northern Australia photographs (see 18/30-18/35). Other photographs include: aerial photograph of Georgina River in flood; RAAF aerial photograph of sand ridges near Underbool; dust storm at Mildura. Also includes copies of meteorological maps of Australia.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1939 - 1949, aerial photos, otherwise undated    Quantity 0.8 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-11 Box Number 17 Series 8
8-12 Earthquakes - notes, clippings, photographs

Mainly information concerning the Western Australian earthquake in October, 1968, including: copies of five 8"x10" photographs from the Daily News and the West Australian showing earthquake damage; newspaper clippings from the Sun and the Age dated 15-17 October 1968; as well as clippings relating to earthquake in June 1979. Also includes: letter from Keith E. Bullen; copies of paper by ESH entitled 'Note on seismic activity and tectonics in Australia' including photographic copies of maps showing earthquake epicentres.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1957 - 1959    Quantity 0.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-12 Box Number 17 Series 8
8-13 Faults - photographs

Black and white photographs and photographically-reproduced diagrams relating to faults and faulting. Some are labelled, includes: series of photographs from Studley Park; aerial photographs of Koonenberry Fault and Warratta Fault; annotated aerial photograph taken near Tibooburra, NSW; photograph of rock sample used in shearing experiment, with notes on back. Also includes: unlabelled geological map with Grants Reef Fault drawn in; cross section diagrams of the Dead Sea Basin for Palestine Potash Ltd.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1952, cross-section diagrams, otherwise undated    Quantity 0.8 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-13 Box Number 18 Series 8
8-14 Folds - photographs

Black and white photographs and photographically-reproduced diagrams relating to folds and folding. Most are unlabelled, some have figure numbers, negative numbers, or references to articles pencilled on backs. Includes 3 large photographs of the Zagros Mountains, Western Iran, from Hunting Surveys Ltd. Also includes some original drawings and sketches.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date    Quantity 1.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-14 Box Number 18 Series 8
8-15 Geology teaching - articles on teaching

Copies of articles on the teaching of geology. Authors include: Leslie E. Kent; Andreas Pilger; T. Neville George.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1964 - 1971    Quantity 1.6 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-15 Box Number 18 Series 8
8-16 Geology teaching - reports on teaching in regions

Copies of reports on geology teaching in some countries in the Asia-Pacific region, including: 'Australia and New Zealand', by ESH; 'Research and teaching in Geophysics at the University of Malaysia, Penang', by Surendra Singh; 'Department of Geology, University of Malaya, Notes on the Department and courses offered', by N.S. Haile; 'Developing a geoscience program in Thailand', by Prinya Nutalaya.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1976?, no date    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-16 Box Number 18 Series 8
8-17 Geology teaching - University Instruction in Geology

Copy of the provisional text of the Unesco publication University Instruction in Geology, by T. Neville George.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1965    Quantity 1.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-17 Box Number 18 Series 8
8-18 Glaciation - photographs

Small number of black and white photographs relating to the effects of glaciation. Includes: a series of three photographs by Fritz Loewe, presumably taken in Greenland, showing eskimos in a hunting party, and the calving of a glacier to form icebergs; 'The Pyrete Twins' near Bacchus Marsh.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-18 Box Number 18 Series 8
8-19 Granites - notes and photographs

Photographs, many with negatives, varying in size but mostly 169 x 254mm, taken of granites, particularly those used in the construction of various Melbourne buildings. Includes notes on the type and origin of granites used in Melbourne buildings. Also includes: copy of Victorian Building Stones by the Victorian Mines Department; Geology Part 1 printed notes on 'Building Stones - Granites', annotated; inward and outward correspondence with C.G. Smith; unlabelled book extract on Scottish granites; copy of the Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, vol. 96, pt 2, 1985; copies of articles from the Bulletin de la Société géologique de France.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1949 - 1986, (mostly 1985 - 1986)    Quantity 4 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-19 Box Number 18 Series 8
8-20 Hill-top dunes - reprints and photographs

Reprints relating to the formation of hill-top dunes, including ESH's own 'A study of cliffy coastal profiles based on examples in Victoria, Australia'. Other reprint authors include: George Baker; J.N. Jennings; R.I. Sykes; F.M. Burrows; F.L. Sutherland; K.D. Corbett. Also includes references and three colour photographs of coastal cliffs.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1957 - 1982    Quantity 1.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-20 Box Number 18 Series 8
8-21 Igneous rocks - notes and references

Pages from a loose-leaf notebook with handwritten notes and references relating to volcanism and the formation and distribution of igneous rocks in Australia and elsewhere. Specific locations mentioned include: Buffalo Plateau; Brittany; Greenland.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date    Quantity 0.8 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-21 Box Number 19 Series 8
8-22 Igneous rocks - photographs

Black and white photographs and photographically-reproduced diagrams of, or relating to, igneous rocks. Most are unlabelled, some have negative numbers or references to articles pencilled on backs. Includes: photograph of Mt Egmont (New Zealand) together with a note forwarding it from Kerry M. Swanson; sepia-tinted photograph mounted on torn cardboard labelled 'Clamshell Cave, Staffa', pencilled annotation by ESH on back reads 'Found in brown paper in FAS room, 1934'.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date    Quantity 0.8 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-22 Box Number 19 Series 8
8-23 Jointing - photographs

Black and white photographs illustrating jointing. Most are unlabelled, but includes: aerial photograph of Prince Regent River, from Geological Society of London; columnar sandstone, Bondi; salt deposits and coke in Morwell Open Cut. Also includes section of old map of Baw Baw Plateau.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1965, mostly undated    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-23 Box Number 19 Series 8
8-24 Landforms - photographs

Black and white photographs illustrating a variety of landforms. Some are labelled, often with negative or figure numbers. Includes: two views of Eildon Weir by State Rivers and Water Supply Commission; RAAF aerial photographs of Wilpena Pound, Pyramid Hill, Rowsley Scarp; summit of Mt Easton; Mason Falls; infra-red photograph of view from Nicholl's Lookout, Marysville. Also includes some diagrams.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1939 - 1945, aerial photos, otherwise dated    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-24 Box Number 19 Series 8
8-25 Lineaments - references and reprints

Handwritten references and copies of papers by J.B. Firman and E. Shneibner relating to lineaments.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1970 - 1974    Quantity 0.4 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-25 Box Number 19 Series 8
8-26 Lineaments and fracture analysis - techniques

Copy of an article by Donald U. Wise on 'Regional and sub-continental sized fracture systems detectable by topographic shadow techniques', with some underlining. Also includes: diagram on card, prepared for slide; photographic copies of a map of Australia showing lineaments.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1968    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-26 Box Number 19 Series 8
8-27 Liquid crystals - annotated print

Copy of a reprint by G.W. Gray on 'Liquid crystals: an arena for research and collaboration among chemists, physicists and engineers'. Early section of the article is annotated by ESH with editorial corrections.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1985    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-27 Box Number 19 Series 8
8-28 Lunettes - drafts, reprints and correspondence

Some inward and outward correspondence, but mainly handwritten drafts, references and reprints relating to lunettes and clay dunes. Also includes a slide of an aerial photograph showing lunettes. Reprint authors include R.C. Sprigg; J.M. Bowler; P.G. Macumber; E.M. Campbell; Fritz Jaeger; C.G. Stephens and R.L. Crocker; G.G. Huffman and W. Armstrong Price. Correspondents include: C.G. Stephens; W. Armstrong Price.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1943 - 1970, (mainly 1940s)    Quantity 2.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-28 Box Number 19 Series 8
8-29 Morphotectonics - articles and correspondence

Copies and extracts of articles, and inward and outward correspondence relating to morphotectonics. Includes copies of articles by F.W. Whitehouse; R.W. Fairbridge; M. Panizza. Correspondents include M. Panizza; P. Bellair.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1963 - 1982    Quantity 0.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-29 Box Number 19 Series 8
8-30 Morphotectonics - notes, photographs etc.

Handwritten notes and references relating to morphotectonics. Includes a copy of an abstract entitled 'Australian morphotectonics and epeiric deformation' prepared for the 26th International Geological Congress, 1980. Also includes photographic copies of tectonic and contour maps of Australia, and a map showing lineaments of Australia; along with strip and large format negatives.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1980?, no date    Quantity 0.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-30 Box Number 19 Series 8
8-31 Morphotectonics - notes and references

Handwritten notes and references relating to morphotectonics, in particular epeiric movements. Also includes correspondence with the South Australian Director of Mines.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1977?, notes undated    Quantity 0.8 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-31 Box Number 19 Series 8
8-32 Murray Basin - maps, diagrams, reprints

Geological, geomorphic and topographic maps, together with sectional and other diagrams relating to basins, particularly the Murray Basin. Also includes map tracings, reprints, photographs and the Victorian Water Commission Project Sheet The River Murray - A View from Space. Also inward and outward correspondence with Ann [?]. Reprint authors include: P.G. Macumber; N. Boutakoff and R.C. Sprigg; C.R. Lawrence.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1953 - 1974    Quantity 1.6 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-32 Box Number 19 Series 8
8-33 Neotectonics - notes

Handwritten notes on neotectonics and ancient land surfaces in Australia. Also includes annotated advertising material for the journal Earth: Surface Processes and Landforms.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1980?, notes undated    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-33 Box Number 19 Series 8
8-34 Notes and references

Handwritten notes and references on a number of topics including: basins; plate tectonics; lineaments; archaean crustal features. Also includes copy of an abstract by H.G. Reading on 'Sedimentary basins and global tectonics'.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1970s - 1981    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-34 Box Number 19 Series 8
8-35 Notes and references

Handwritten notes and references, some on index cards, on a number of topics including: tectonics; basins and swells; 'Silly Q. on Collisions'.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1960s - , onwards    Quantity 0.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-35 Box Number 19 Series 8
8-36 Otway Ranges - notes and references

Loose-leaf notebook containing bibliographical details and notes from articles relating to the geology of the Otway Ranges. Also includes notes and references on glaciofluvial sedimentation.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-36 Box Number 19 Series 8
8-37 Otway Ranges - reprints and extracts

Reprints and photocopies of material relating to the geology of the Otways Ranges. Also includes: copy of The State of the Rivers, a review by the Standing Consultative Committee on River Improvement, 1983; copies of lithological logs; three small photographs of gravels. Reprint authors include: A.B. Edwards; J.P.L. Kenny; H.G. Raggatt and Irene Crespin; George Baker; James Stirling; C.S. Wilkinson.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1865 - 1984    Quantity 3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-37 Box Number 20 Series 8
8-38 Otway Ranges - tree lines - photographs etc.

Aerial photograph, including negatives and enlargement, of a section of the coast along the Otway Ranges, showing tree lines. Also includes: a copy of The Otways Forest Map; a small photograph of sand-ridges; notes, references and a photocopied extract relating to the interpretation of aerial photographs.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1939 - 1984, photograph 1970    Quantity 0.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-38 Box Number 20 Series 8
8-39 Photocopies, reprints etc.

Photocopies of articles and book extracts, reprints and drafts on a variety of topics. Includes: copy of IAG Newsletter; extracts from The Scenery of Scotland by Archibald Geikie; extracts from Guide to Science Courses 1976/1977; notes on making pen and ink drawings from photographs. Authors include: V.V. Beloussov; B.E. Butler; G. Blackburn; J.M. Bowler; C.R. Lawrence; J.W. Newell; S. Pels.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1887 - 1985    Quantity 0.9 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-39 Box Number 20 Series 8
8-40 Physics - photographs

Black and white photographs and photographically-reproduced diagrams relating to the physics of rock deformation, folding and shearing. Most are unlabelled, but includes: labelled photographs of rock samples subjected to strain at differing atmospheric pressures; five photographs of deformed micas in zoscanite, from Marysville. Also includes: some original graphs and diagrams; copy of article by E. Orowan, 'A type of plastic deformation new in metals'.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1942, article, otherwise undated    Quantity 1.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-40 Box Number 20 Series 8
8-41 Pluton lineaments - draft paper

Copy of a draft of a paper by Bruce Cozens on the significance of pluton lineaments. Includes copies of figures to accompany text.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1980s, no date    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-41 Box Number 20 Series 8
8-42 Poatina Power Station - reports and correspondence

Photocopies of three interim reports on spalling in rock at the Poatina Power Station of the Great Lake Power Development in Tasmania. Reports include photographs and charts. Also includes inward and outwrd correspondence with Kevin Dalby, the author of the reports.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1960 - 1975    Quantity 1.4 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-42 Box Number 20 Series 8
8-43 Primary sedimentary - photographs

Black and white photographs and photographically-reproduced diagrams relating to primary sedimentary deposits and depositional structures. Most are unlabelled, but includes: copy from slide of depositional structures; lava flow on Dana Lake; postcard showing lava formation in Hawaii; fossilized tree in Morwell Open Cut.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-43 Box Number 20 Series 8
8-44 Quaternary climates - report and reprints

Copy of the Report to the Australian Academy of Science's Ad Hoc Committee on Climatic Change by the Subcommittee on Quaternary Climates, mainly consisting of typescript copies of papers, by various authors, on aspects of quaternary climates. Also includes a number of related reprints. Authors of reprints and papers include: H.H. Lamb; George E. Williams; J.M. Bowler, G.S. Hope, J.N. Jennings and D. Walker; R.J. Wasson (reprint encloses note from the author); G.I. Pearman; CLIMAP Project Members; T.J. Goreau; W.F. Budd; J.H. Calaby; J. Chappell; R.W. Galloway.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1970 - 1977, report undated    Quantity 2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-44 Box Number 20 Series 8
8-45 Ring structures - draft paper

Typescript of a draft paper by A.R. Crawford entitled 'Large ring structures in a South Australian Precambrian volcanic complex'.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1962    Quantity 0.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-45 Box Number 20 Series 8
8-46 Rocks - photographs

Four black and white photographs of rock outcrops and specimens. All are unlabelled.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date    Quantity 0.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-46 Box Number 20 Series 8
8-47 Sedimentation - notes and references

Pages from a loose-leaf notebook with handwritten notes and references relating to sedimentation. Specific topics include: deltas; load 'casts'; turbidites; dunes; glacial deposits; ripples.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date (up to late 1970s)    Quantity 0.7 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-47 Box Number 20 Series 8
8-48 Shore platforms - notes and references

Loose-leaf sheets containing extensive notes and bibliographical details on sources relating to shore platforms. Also includes other notes, sketches (some relating to specific localities) and photographically-reproduced illustrations of relevant information.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date    Quantity 0.9 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-48 Box Number 20 Series 8
8-49 Shore platforms, UK and Europe - notes

Exercise book containing sketches, notes and references relating to shore platforms particularly in the UK and Europe. Also includes: some loose-leaf notes about Brittany; a large map of Land's End.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date    Quantity 1.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-49 Box Number 20 Series 8
8-50 Studley Park - photographs and excursion notes

A series of eleven black and white photos of the Studley Park area in Melbourne, Victoria, showing features of geological interest. Also, a letter from Frank Canavan enclosing a manuscript entitled 'Studley Park and Royal Park Excursion'. Also includes: extracts giving information on Eucalyptus studleyensis; a plant-list for the area; extracts from geology texts demonstrating the widespread use of a site in Studley Park as an illustration of soil creep.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-50 Box Number 21 Series 8
8-51 Tectonics - notes and references

Pages from loose-leaf notebook with handwritten notes and references relating to the study of tectonics. Specific topics include: basins; morphotectonics; seismology; joints; fractures; lineaments; folding; faulting.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date (1970s)    Quantity 0.8 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-51 Box Number 21 Series 8
8-52 Tectonics and Australian geology - lecture notes

Loose-leaf pad containing handwritten notes for lecture program. Lectures numbered I to VI are titled: 'The Australian craton - the new tectonic synthesis'; 'Igneous action and continental growth'; 'Morphotectonics and sedimentary basins'; 'Tectonic fields and crustal deformation'; 'Rock cleavage and rock deformation'; 'Ore deposits in relation to tectonics, structure and palaeogeography'.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-52 Box Number 21 Series 8
8-53 Tectonics - illustrations

Photographically-reproduced maps and diagrams relating to tectonics. Most are labelled with details of the articles from which they were copied. Also includes small black and white photograph of a section of the relief model of Australia, with lines inked in.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-53 Box Number 21 Series 8
8-54 Volcanism, basalts - notes, reprints etc.

Some inward correspondence, but mainly notes, references and reprints relating to various aspects of volcanism, including Victorian basalts. Also includes copies of geological maps and illustrations; a copy of the abstracts for the Geological Society of Australia's 'Symposium on tertiary and quaternary volcanism in E. Australia, Melbourne, 1973', together with ESH's notes. Correspondents include: C.D. Branch; W.P. de Roever. Reprint authors include: P. Wellman; A. Cundari; Ian McDougall; A.W. Webb; Alan Coulson; D. Orr; C.D. Ollier and E.B. Joyce; T.J. Griffin; A.J. Irving and D.H. Green; W.P. de Roever.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1927, 1954 - 1976 (mostly 1970s)    Quantity 2.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-54 Box Number 21 Series 8
8-55 Weathering and erosion, landslides - photographs

Black and white photographs relating to weathering, erosion and landslides. Most are unlabelled, but includes: photograph of Pigeon-Hole Rock, Buffalo Plateau, from Victorian Mines Department, together with typed figure number and caption; photographs of sun-split rocks from Western Australia, together with accompanying letter from Rex T. Prider; photographs and negatives of Korranderrk landslide, with note from ESH to Richard Evans; aerial photograph of Nicholl River by RAAF, dated 12/8/32. Also includes: tear-sheet from Science, 9 April 1973, with an article on sinkholes; copy of Rural Research, March 1974, with an article on 'Gilgai smoothing and soil fertility'.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1932 - 1974, mostly undated    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-55 Box Number 21 Series 8
8-56 Wrench fault tectonics - notes and references

Annotated photocopy of the introduction by Arthur G. Sylvester to a collection of papers on wrench fault tectonics. Also includes several pages of the bibliography relating to scientific research.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1984?    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 8-56 Box Number 21 Series 8

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