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Alder, J.D., Hawley, S., Maung, T., Scott, J., Shaw, R.D., Sinelinikov, A. and Kouzmina, G., 1998. Prospectivity of the offshore Sydney Basin: A new prospective. The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal, 38(1), 68-91.

Bembrick, C.S., Herbert, C., Scheibner, E., & Stuntz, J., 1973. Structural subdivisions of the New South Wales portion of the Sydney-Bowen Basin. Geological Survey of New South Wales, 116, 105-117.

Bowman, H.N., 1981. Brief notes on the offshore coal potential of New South Wales. Geological Survey of New South Wales, Report GS 1981/372.

Bradley, G.M., Yoo, E.K., Moloney, J., Beckett, J. and Richardson, S.J., 1985. Petroleum data package, Sydney Basin NSW. NSW Geological Survey Report GS 1985/004, 229.

Brakel, A.T., 1986. Global sea level change as a method of correlating the Late Permian coal measures in the Sydney, Gunnedah and Bowen Basins, eastern Australia. BMR Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics, 10, 79-116.

Branagan, D., Herbert, C. & Langford-Smith, T., 1976. An outline of the geology and geomorphology of the Sydney Basin, Science Press, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Sydney.

Cadman, S. J., Pain, L. and Vuckovic, V., 1998. Bowen and Surat Basins, Clarence Morton Basin, Sydney Basin, Gunnedah Basin and other minor onshore basins, Queensland, NSW and NT. Australian Petroleum Accumulations Report 11, Bureau of Resource Sciences, Canberra.

Carey, S.W., 1969. Tectonic framework of the Sydney Basin. Abstracts for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Symposia on Advances in the Study of the Sydney Basin. University of Newcastle, NSW, 53-59.

Doyle, H.A., Underwood, R., & Polack, E.J., 1966. Seismic velocities from explosions off the central coast of New South Wales. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 13, 355-372.

Eadington, P.J., Hamilton, P.J. & Bai, G.P., 1991. Fluid History Analysis - A New Concept for Prospect Evaluation. APEA Journal/Sydney Basin, 282-294.

Evans P.R. & Migliucci, A., 1991. Evolution of the Sydney Basin during the Permian as a foreland basin to the Currarong and New England Orogen. Newcastle Symposium on the Advances in the Study of the Sydney Basin, University of Newcastle, Department of Geology, v.25, 22-29.

Finlayson, D.M., & McCracken, H.M., 1981. Crustal structure under the Sydney Basin and Lachlan Fold Belt, determined from explosion seismic studies. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 28, 177-190.

Gostin, V.A., & Herbert, C., 1973. Stratigraphy of the Upper Carboniferous and Lower Permian sequence, southern Sydney Basin. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 20, 49-70.

Grybowski, D.A., 1992. Exploration in Permit NSW/P10 in the offshore Sydney Basin. APPEA Journal, 32, 251-263.

Harrington, H.J., 1982. Keynote Address: Tectonics and the Sydney Basin. Abstracts for the 16 th Symposium on Advances in the Study of the Sydney Basin, 15-19. University of Newcastle, NSW.

Harrington, H.J., Brakel, A.T., & Hunt, J., 1983. Tectonic settings of central and eastern Australian Permian coal basins.6th Australian Geological Convention, Geological Society of Australia, Abstracts 9, 278.

Harrington. H.J., Brakel, A.T., Hunt, J.W., Wells, A.T., Middleton, M.F., O'Brien, P.E., Hamilton, D.S., Beckett, J., Weber, C.R., Radke, S., Totterdell, J.M., Swaine, D.J., & Schmidt, P.W., 1989. Permian coals of eastern Australia. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Australia, Bulletin 231.

Hawley, S.P., Glen, R.A. & Baker, C.Y., 1995. 1:100,000 scale Newcastle Coal Field Regional Geology Map. NSW Department of Mineral Resources, Geological Survey of NSW.

Herbert, C., 1987. Petroleum Prospectivity in the Sydney Basin. Newcastle Symposium on the Advances in the Study of the Sydney Basin, University of Newcastle, Department of Geology, v.21, 107-113.

Maung, T.U., Alder, D., Shaw, R. and Hawley, S., 1997. Offshore Sydney Basin petroleum prospectivity bulletin. Petroleum Resources Branch, Bureau of Resource Sciences.

Mayne, S.J., Nicholas, E., Bigg-Wither, A.L., Rasidi, J.S. & Raine, M.J., 1974. Geology of the Sydney Basin - A Review. Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources, v.149, 229.

Middleton, M.F., 1989. Coal-Rank Trends of Eastern Australia in Permian Coal Basins. IN: Harrington, H.J. (Editor) 'Permian Coals of Eastern Australia', Bureau of Mineral Resources Bulletin 231, 333-352.

Packham, G.H., 1969(Editor). The Geology of New South Wales. Geological Society of New South Wales Incorporated. Journal. Geol. Soc. Aust. 16(1). 654.

Robertson Research (Aust.) Pty Ltd., 1981. Exploration Report, PEL 242,243,244. NSW Department of Mineral Resources Report PGR 1982/02.

Shepherd, J., & Huntington, J.F., 1981. Geological fracture mapping in coalfields and the stress fields of the Sydney Basin. Journal of the geological Society of Australia, 28, 299-309.

Smyth, M., 1983. Hydrocarbon Source Rock in the Sydney and Gunnedah Basins. Advances in the Study of the Sydney Basin. Proceedings of the 17thSymposium, University of Newcastle.

Tye, S.C, Fielding, C.R. & Jones, B.J., 1996. Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Permian Talaterang and Shoalhaven Groups in the southernmost Sydney Basin, NSW. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences (1996), v.43, 57-69.

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