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Mendis, Premalal J. "The origin of the geological structures, diapirs, grabens, and barite veins in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia." Title page, abstract and contents only, 2002. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phm5389.pdf.

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Bibliography: leaves [156-167] Map 1. Parachilna, sheet SH 54-13 / compiled by P. Reid and W.V. Preiss. 2nd ed. [Adelaide] : Primary Industries & Resources SA, 1999. 1 map : col ; 69 x 100 cm. (South Australia. Geological Survey. Geological atlas 1:250 000 series ; sheet SH 54-13) -- map 2. Geology of the Flinders Ranges National Park. Parkside, S. Aust. : Mines and Energy South Australia, 1994. 1 map : col. ; 84 x 60 cm. Scale: 1:75 000.

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Higgins, Jonathan. "The Pamatta Pass Canyon Complex : Neoproterozoic Wonoka Formation, Flinders Ranges, South Australia /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1997. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SB/09sbh636.pdf.

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Thesis (B. Sc.(Hons.))--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, 1998.
National Grid Reference:-Orroroo Sheet SI 54-1 (1:250,000 Geological Series). One col. folded map in pocket on back cover. Includes bibliographical references (8 leaves ).

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Fuller, Margaret. "Early Cambrian corals from the Moorowie Formation, Eastern Flinders Ranges, South Australia /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SM/09smf967.pdf.

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Chow, Angie N. C. "Geomorphic evolution of the Mt. Arden Creek Valley, southern Flinders Ranges, South Australia /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SB/09sbc552.pdf.

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Thesis (B. Sc. (Hons.))--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geology, 1993.
On title page: National grid reference Orroroo SI 54-1 6533-4 (1:250 000). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 8-11).

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Meredith, Kirsten. "Geological history of the Waukarie Creek Canyon complex, southern Flinders Ranges, South Australia /." Title page and contents only, 1997. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SB/09sbm559.pdf.

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Thesis (B. Sc.(Hons.))--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, 1998.
National Grid reference Port Augusta SI 53-4 Orroroo SI 54-1. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 41-43).

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Nitschke, Nicholas Leigh. "Identification of aeolian dust mantles in the semi-arid Flinders Ranges, South Australia /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2002. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENVSH/09envshn732.pdf.

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Chor, Carly Choi-Choo. "Palaeohydrology of a late Pleistocene wetland in the central Flinders Ranges, South Australia /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2002. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SB/09sbc5511.pdf.

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Dorjgurhem, Batbold. "Regional biodiversity management strategy : case study on the Flinders Ranges." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AS/09asd699.pdf.

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Bibliography: leaves 107-117. This thesis examines the rationale for managing biological diversity on a regional basis and develops recommendations for the use of two computational methods in biodiversity management planning by conducting a case study in the Flinders Ranges, centred on the Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby (abstract)

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Greene, Susan J. "A geomorphological and sedimentological study of a climbing dune, Northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arg8118.pdf.

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Tunbridge, Dorothy, and n/a. "Mammals of the dreaming : an historical ethnomammalogy of the Flinders Ranges." University of Canberra. Resource, Environmental & Heritage Sciences, 1996. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061113.161511.

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This work is a linguistically based historical ethnography of the mammal species of the Flinders Ranges, South Australia, from pre-European times to the present day. The research was motivated by linguistic evidence in the Adnyamathanha people's language, Yura Ngawarla, for the recent existence of a number of mammals in the Flinders Ranges region. The work aims firstly to identify each species represented by those language terms and to discover the identity of other species also present in the past 200 years. Secondly, it aims to present an exhaustive ethnography of mammals for that region. This work is essentially cross-disciplinary, with research extending into the often overlapping fields of linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, applied science, historical zoology and history. Comparative linguistics, oral tradition, historical records, scientific data and sub-fossil material are used to identify the species present at European occupation and their role in traditional Aboriginal life, and in passing, to establish the former existence and distribution of those species throughout the region of the two South Australian gulfs. An inventory of extant and extinct Flinders Ranges species is established. Linguistic, ethnographic, zoological and historical data are used to estimate when species extinction occurred, and what may (or may not) have been the main factors involved. A significant outcome of this work is the documentation of a part of Aboriginal knowledge which itself was on the verge of extinction, and the affirmation of well attested Aboriginal oral tradition as an authentic 'authoritative source'. Conclusion: Prior to European occupation the Flinders Ranges had a rich mammalian fauna comprising around 60 native species. These played a significant part in Aboriginal people's diet, manufacturing industry and cultural and spiritual life. By the end of the first half century of European occupation or soon after around two thirds of the terrestrial species had vanished. The effect of these events on Aboriginal people's ability to survive in their own territory was devastating and irreversible.

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St, John Barbara J. "Ecology and management of the Little Corella (cacatua sanguinea) in the southern Flinders Ranges, South Australia /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SM/09sms143.pdf.

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Grgurich, Mark. "Denudation chronology and drainage patterns of the Arden-Yarrah Vale region, southern Flinders Ranges, South Australia /." Title page, abstract and contents only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SB/09sbg8452.pdf.

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Thesis (B. Sc. (Hons.))--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, not conferred 1992.
On title page: National Grid reference; Orroroo S1 54-1 6533-4 (1:250,000). Three coloured, folded maps in pocket on back cover. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 31-34).

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Bourne, Jennifer A. "Landform development and stream behaviour in the western piedmont zone of the Flinders Ranges of South Australia." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1996. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phb7753.pdf.

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Six folded maps in pocket inside back cover. Includes bibliographies. Pediments and alluvial fans coexist in the piedment of the Flinders Ranges in the arid to semi-arid interior of South Australia, which thus affords the opportunity to study them in identical geological, climatic and topographic contexts.

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Hart, John. "Lower Cambrian corals from archaeocyathan - Epiphyton clasts within the Moorowie Formation megabreccia northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1989. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SB/09sbh325.pdf.

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Cooper, Andrew McGregor. "Late Proterozoic hydrocarbon potential and its association with diapirism in Blinman #2, Central Flinders Ranges, South Australia /." Title page, abstract and contents only, 1991. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SB/09sbc776.pdf.

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Thesis (B. Sc.(Hons))--National Centre for Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, University of Adelaide, 1991.
"National grid reference 1:250 000 - Parachilna SH54-13." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 45-47).

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Chalklen, Andrew John. "Managing public access to arid lands in South Australia : a case study of the north Flinders Ranges /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1990. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envc436.pdf.

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McFarlane, Kylie. "Mississippi Valley-type lead-zinc mineralisation at Donkey Bore and Old Wirrealpa Springs, central Flinders Ranges, South Australia /." Title page, abstract and table of contents only, 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09S.B/09s.bm143.pdf.

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Thesis (B. Sc.(Hons.))--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, 1994?
Two coloured maps and overlay in pocket inside back cover. National grid reference SH54-13. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 34-38).

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Rule, Beau Brenton. "Ediacaran biodiversity : palaeoecological assessment of successive latest Proterozoic (Neoproterozoic) faunal assemblages in the Western Flinders Ranges, South Australia /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2000. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SB/09sbr9352.pdf.

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Gregory, Christopher T. "The geology and origin of sedimentary manganese from the Boolcunda, Etna and Muttabee Deposits, central Flinders Ranges, South Australia /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SB/09sbg822.pdf.

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Singh, Updesh. "Late Precambrian and Cambrian carbonates of the Adelaidean in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia : a petrographic, electron microprobe and stable isotope study /." Title page, abstract and contents only, 1986. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phs1792.pdf.

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Jansyn, Joanne. "Strato-tectonic evolution of a large subsidence structure associated with the late Proterozoic Wonoka Formation at Wilpena Pound, central Flinders Ranges, South Australia /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1990. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SB/09sbj35.pdf.

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Thesis (B. Sc. (Hons))--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, 1991.
One col. map + one col. chart in pocket. National grid reference : Parachilna sheet H54-13 (1:250 000). Includes bibliographical references.

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Hearon, IV Thomas E. "Analysis of salt-sediment interaction associated with steep diapirs and allochthonous salt| Flinders and willouran ranges, south australia, and the deepwater northern gulf of Mexico." Thesis, Colorado School of Mines, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3602617.

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The eastern Willouran Ranges and northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia contain Neoproterozoic and Cambrian outcrop exposures of diapiric breccia contained in salt diapirs, salt sheets and associated growth strata that provide a natural laboratory for testing and refining models of salt-sediment interaction, specifically allochthonous salt initiation and emplacement and halokinetic deformation. Allochthonous salt, which is defined as a sheet-like diapir of mobile evaporite emplaced at younger stratigraphic levels above the autochthonous source, is emplaced due to the interplay between the rate of salt supply to the front of the sheet and the sediment-accumulation rate, and may be flanked by low- to high-angle stratal truncations to halokinetic folds. Halokinetic sequences (HS) are localized (<1000 m) unconformity-bound successions of growth strata adjacent to salt diapirs that form as drape folds due to the interplay between salt rise rate (R) and sediment accumulation rate (A). HS stack to form tabular and tapered composite halokinetic sequences (CHS), which have narrow and broad zones of thinning, respectively. The concepts of CHS formation are derived from outcrops in shallow water to subaerial depositional environments in La Popa Basin, Mexico and the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Current models for allochthonous salt emplacement, including surficial glacial flow, advance above subsalt shear zones and emplacement along tip thrusts, do not address how salt transitions from steep feeders to low-angle sheets and the model for the formation of halokinetic sequences has yet to be fully applied or tested in a deepwater setting. Thus, this study integrates field data from South Australia with subsurface data from the northern Gulf of Mexico to test the following: (1) current models of allochthonous salt advance and subsalt deformation using structural analysis of stratal truncations adjacent to outcropping salt bodies, with a focus on the transition from steep diapirs to shallow salt sheets in South Australia; and (2) the outcrop-based halokinetic sequence model using seismic and well data from the Auger diapir, located in the deepwater northern Gulf of Mexico. Structural analysis of strata flanking steep diapirs and allochthonous salt in South Australia reveals the transition from steep diapirs to shallowly-dipping salt sheets to be abrupt and involves piston-like breakthrough of roof strata, freeing up salt to flow laterally. Two models explain this transition: 1) salt-top breakout, where salt rise occurs inboard of the salt flank, thereby preserving part of the roof beneath the sheet; and 2) salt-edge breakout, where rise occurs at the edge of the diapir with no roof preservation. Shear zones, fractured or mixed `rubble zones' and thrust imbricates are absent in strata beneath allochthonous salt and adjacent to steep diapirs. Rather, halokinetic drape folds, truncated roof strata and low- and high-angle bedding intersections are among the variety of stratal truncations adjacent to salt bodies in South Australia. Interpretation and analysis of subsurface data around the Auger diapir reveals similar CHS geometries, stacking patterns and ratios of salt rise and sediment accumulation rates, all of which generally corroborate the halokinetic sequence model. The results of this study have important implications for salt-sediment interaction, but are also critical to understanding and predicting combined structural-stratigraphic trap geometry, reservoir prediction and hydrocarbon containment in diapir-flank settings.

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Nedin, Christopher. "The nature of the Precambrian-Cambrian transition in the northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia ; The dietary niche of the extinct Australian marsupial lion Thylacoleo carnifex Owen /." Title page, abstract and contents only, 1990. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SB/09sbn371.pdf.

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Thesis (B. Sc.(Hons.))--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, 1991?
Two col. maps in pocket. National grid reference: Coply SH54-9 1:250 000. Includes bibliographical references.

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Ayliffe, Damien. "Geological setting of the late Proterozoic Wonoka Formation carbonate ramp and canyon sequence at Pichi Ric hi Pass Southern Flinders Ranges, South Australia : geoch emical, stable isotope, and diagenetic analysis /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09S.B/09s.ba978.pdf.

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Thesis (B. Sc.(Hons.))--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, 1992?
On title page: "National Grid reference: Port Augusta sheet SI 53-4 (1:250000) Onnoroo sheet SI 54-1 (1:250 00 0)." One map in pocket inside back cover. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-60).

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Haberlah, David. "Loess and floods: late Pleistocene fine-grained valley-fill deposits in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/62571.

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Terrace remnants of late Pleistocene fine-grained valley-fills, at present eroded by ephemeral traction-load streams, are reported from many semi-arid and arid parts of the world. While they present promising palaeo-environmental archives for recent geological times such as the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) for which few other terrestrial depositional records exist, their poorly understood nature has limited their significance. This study examines the fine-grained valley-fill deposits from the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, here called Flinders Silts. It establishes the timing, mode and environmental controls of deposition as opposed to their advancing erosion under the current climate. A regional chronostratigraphy based on 124 numerical dates is discussed, of which 43 radiocarbon and 22 luminescence ages were obtained from 12 sections across three major catchments within the scope of this thesis. Regionally significant intervals of rapid aggradation, relative surface stability and erosion are established. Regional climatic controls are differentiated from intrinsic catchment- and site-specific effects on the system. Further, individual age proxies and age models are critically assessed in how far they reflect depositional events. The final aggradational interval bracketing the extended LGM is discussed in detail on a continuous layered to laminated stratigraphic sequence. The provenance question of the fine-grained sediments and the depositional environment of the Flinders Silts are further addressed by high-resolution particle-size analysis. In order to study the subtle variations within the fine-grained partially-aggregated material, an original parametric sediment-sizing approach is employed. Finally, a range of traditional and emerging analytical techniques are applied to improve our understanding of palaeo-environments promoting aggradation. In conclusion, arid intervals throughout the last glacial cycle resulted in significant quantities of proximal dust being deposited as loess mantles within the catchments of the Flinders Ranges, acting as a near-longitudinal dust trap in the centre of the late Pleistocene “dust bowl”. The fine-grained aeolian accessions were repeatedly eroded by low-frequency high-magnitude precipitation events and redistributed as loess-derived alluvium, congesting narrow gorges and raising the base level for tributaries. Locally, backflooding resulted in the aggradation of layered to laminated slackwater deposits, the most continuous recording at least 12 large and numerous smaller flood events between 24 ka and 18 ka. The synchronous termination of the Flinders Silts coincides with early Deglacial climatic amelioration. The re-establishment of a perennial plant cover stabilising both dune fields and slope mantes is discussed as a potential scenario that would have discontinued dust supply to the fluvial system, in turn promoting incision and erosion. The studied aeolian-fluvial interplay of loess and floods has large implications for our understanding of landscape evolution in semi-arid Australia.
Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2009

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Mendis, Premalal J., Primary Industries and Resources SA Parachilna [cartographic material], and Mines and Energy South Australia Geology of the Flinders Ranges National Park [cartographic material]. "The origin of the geological structures, diapirs, grabens, and barite veins in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia / by Premalal J. Mendis." 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/21925.

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Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, 2003

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Wulser, Pierre-Alain. "Uranium metallogeny in the North Flinders Ranges region of South Australia." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/57970.

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The geological province of the Mount Painter in the North Flinders Ranges (South Australia) is well-known for its uranium mineralisation, and uraniferous granites. The presence in the nearby Cenozoic sediments of the Lake Frome basin of uranium mineralisations (Beverley deposit) and the recent discovery of the Four Mile deposit has triggered the interest of explorers. Based on extensive laser-ablation inductively-coupled-plasma-mass-spectrometry (LA-ICPMS) U-Pb geochronological data and mineralogy of U-Th-bearing minerals, rock geochemistry and petrography, we present a global study on the mobility of U, Th and REE in the Mount Painter Domain, including a detailed reconstitution of the Beverley deposit genesis. Seven significant stages of U-Th-REE mobility are recognised: 1. The possible presence U-enriched ~1600 Ma lower crust under the MPD 2. Intrusion of two A-type Mesoproterozoic granites suites (~1575, and ~1560 Ma respectively) with high HFSE contents and crustal origin; the porphyritic biotite K-rich highly-enriched Yerila granite belongs to the youngest suite and hosts magmatic allanite-(Ce), potassic-hastingsite, ilmenite, fergusonite-(Y), chevkinite, molybdenite, zircon, uranothorite, uraninite and titanite and fluorite 3. Late-magmatic or post-magmatic metasomatism in the same granites; evidenced by F-rich annite, zircon, Y-bearing Al-F-titanite (< 6 kbar, >400°C), Y-rich fluorapatite, synchysite-(Ce) and fluorite. Early ilmenite, molybdenite, allanite-(Ce) and oligoclase reacted with an alkaline oxidising F-rich melt or fluid. The latemagmatic to post-magmatic metasomatism is also recorded at the intrusion contact in regional rocks, forming allanite-, magnetite-, uranothorite-, zircon- (1501 ± 6 Ma), and uraninite-bearing calcsilicate skarns. The spreading of zircon ages in the Yerila granite (~1565 to ~1521) relates to the mixing of magmatic and metasomatic crystals. 4. the MPD was subject to the Delamerian orogeny and related metamorphism (amphibolite facies); most Mesoproterozoic granitic assemblages present signs of recrystallisation or stress; recrystallisation of monazite-(Ce) and xenotime-(Y) during Paleozoic (Cambrian) (490-495 Ma). U-Th-rich minerals also bear Delamerian ages (polycrase-(Y), euxenite-(Y), davidite-(La) and uraninite). 5. Anatexis of local basement during Ordovician and generation of peraluminous granite (British Empire granite) with low Th/U. The granite is enriched in U and Y. We provide the first robust ages on it: 456 ± 9 and 459 ± 9 Ma on zircon, 453.3 ± 4.6 on xenotime-(Y). 6. Very active hydrothermal/pegmatitic uranium remobilisation along active faults; brannerite-quartz veins formation (367 ± 13 Ma), further signs of remobilisation or hydrothermal event during Permian (284 ± 25 Ma in thorite) and around the Mt Gee (~290 Ma radiogenic gain in davidite) which agrees with the previous data (paleomagnetic ages of 250-300 Ma). 7. Cenozoic supergene uranium remobilisation in MPD and migration of U-rich oxidised groundwaters into the Lake Frome. The uranium is precipitated in the sandy formation of the lake and in the top layer of the underlying organic-matter-rich clays and silts. The micro-environment of reduction efficiently trap U but also REE, fingerprinting the REE-rich MPD granite source. Coffinite and carnotite give concordant Pliocene ages (6.7 to 3.4 Ma). Provenance studies on the sands hosting the Beverley mineralisations suggest a reworking of Early Cretaceous glacial or glacio-lacustrine sediments originally sourced in Eastern Australia (Lachlan Fold Belt). The youngest recorded zircon (130 Ma) doesn’t constrain the sediment age but refines the provenance region (New England Orogen).
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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2009

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St, John Barbara. "Ecology and management of the Little Corella (Cacatua sanguinea) in the southern Flinders Ranges, South Australia." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/111594.

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Moskwa, Emily Claire. "Ecotourism as a means of encouraging ecological recovery in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/50481.

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Some of Australia’s most pressing conservation problems are found in the arid and semi-arid rangelands where the traditional major land-use is extensive pastoralism. Yet with the emergence of a change in resource values, the rangelands of Australia have started to move away from a strict production land-use towards a multifunctional land-use where pastoralism, tourism and the environment have an influence on one another. With the present mixture of consumption and protection values in the rangelands, ecotourism represents a model for achieving a symbiotic relationship between tourism activity and conservation in a pastoral setting. This study develops a theoretical framework for understanding the relationships between ecotourism, pastoralism and ecological recovery efforts in the Flinders Ranges through employing mixed qualitative and quantitative research techniques to examine the perceptions and practices of tourism operators, local landholders and visitors to the study site. The study finds that while pastoralism and its level of success often remain variable, the strength and stability of tourism is increasing. Because economics is a central component of the concept of sustainability, and because we must manage the environment while accommodating tourists, ecotourism is one way to help reach rangeland sustainability goals, provided that there are adequate levels of agreement amongst the local community and other land users. The results indicate that the vast majority of stakeholders are currently in a state of co-existence with each other rather than one of conflict, suggesting ecotourism has the potential to assist ecological recovery. However, many landholders are constrained in their ability to integrate ecotourism operations and conservation due to economic difficulties and market barriers. There are also conflicting results among visitors who claim to be interested in ecotourism but do not necessarily act accordingly, highlighting the need for a greater focus on environmental education. Ecotourism should be incorporated into a regional sustainability plan where the public are able to assist decision makers through collaborative planning. The thesis concludes that when well-managed, ecotourism can be a business supporting conservation in the Flinders Ranges. It contributes to knowledge of the role that ecotourism can play in encouraging ecological recovery in the rangelands and explores the complex interrelationships involved through consultation with the primary stakeholders of landholders, tourism operators and visitors.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Adelaide, School of Social Sciences, 2008

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Meredith, K. "Geological history of the Waukarie Creek canyon complex, southern Flinders Ranges, South Australia." Thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/131148.

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Many regional disconformities or 'sequence boundaries' have now been identified throughout the late Proterozoic Wilpena sediments of the Adelaide Geosyncline, South Australia. The most prominent of these appears near the base of the Wonoka Formation and has been related to the formation of incised valleys or 'canyons'. Early interpretations of these canyons suggested they were of submarine origin, cut and filled in a deepwater environment. However, more recent work has focused on a subaerial model whereby the incisions were cut fluvially. Work was carried out on the Waukarie Creek Canyon Complex in the Southern Flinders Ranges. Observations gained from field mapping tend to favour a subaerial origin for canyon development. Some localities were found that provide evidence that there was some tectonic activity, expressed by deformation of sediments, prior to the formation of the Wonoka canyons. Palaeocurrents from flute casts and current ripples show that numerous reversals were found throughout the canyon, substantiating a tectonic influence on the formation of the canyons. This activity may be approximately coeval with the Beardmore Orogeny of Antarctica. The compressional Cambro-Ordovician Delamerian Orogeny subsequently deformed the sedimentary prism in a complex array of north-south trending tight folds and reverse faults.
Thesis (B.Sc.(Hons)) -- University of Adelaide, School of Physical Sciences, 1997

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Nedin, C. "The nature of the Precambrian-Cambrian transition in the northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia." Thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/119917.

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Previous investigations into the Ediacara Member of the late Proterozoic Rawnsley Quartzite in the Flinders Ranges have produced differing interpretations of the depositional environment. Studies at Nilpena Hills indicate that deposition was influenced by back barrier lagoonal conditions with the intermittent influx of fluidised sands which mantled lagoonal muds. Re-interpretation of the Ediacara assemblage shows a hitherto unrecognised benthonic bias. This abundance of sessile, benthonic forms supports a sub-tidal depositional environment. However, the increase in the numbers of motile forms compared with sessile forms, preserved towards the top of the member, accords well with one of two inferred shallowing upward cycles within the sequence. A recent re-evaluation of the nature of the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary in the Flinders Ranges suggests a conformable relationship between the Pound Subgroup and the overlying Early Cambrian beds. This is at odds with previous interpretations, which proposed that a regional disconformity occurs at the boundary. Mapping at Mt. Scott Range, Puttapa Syncline and Red Range provided ample evidence that several periods of at least partial lithification occurred within the Pound Subgroup, before the onset of Cambrian deposition. Erosive downcutting marks the contact of the Pound Subgroup-Uratanna Formation at Mt. Scott Range, Red Range and Puttapa Syncline. Erosive downcutting of the Parachilna Formation into the Uratanna Formation was mapped at Mt. Scott Range. The Pound Subgroup-Parachilna Formation contact was mapped as a disconformity which becomes a high angle unconformity near the Beltana Diapir.
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Counts, John Waldon. "Sedimentology, provenance, and salt-sediment interaction in the Ediacaran Pound subgroup, Flinders Ranges, South Australia." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/105869.

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Much of our understanding of the sedimentary character and stratigraphic architecture of subsurface sedimentary deposits is derived from field-based studies of similar depositional systems exposed in outcrop. In South Australia, excellent surface exposures in the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Adelaide Rift Complex provide a unique opportunity to examine a series of clastic sediments deposited in an ancient fluvial-deltaic to deep marine setting. Through extensive field and laboratory work, this study documents the sedimentology, stratigraphy, provenance, facies distribution and salt-sediment interaction of the upper Bonney Sandstone and Billy Springs Formation. These sediments formed part of the margin of the Australian subcontinent during the Ediacaran, a key time in Earth history just prior to the development of multicellular life. Field investigations reveal that the Bonney Sandstone is primarily comprised of sands and shales, often in progradational parasequences that become progressively sand-dominated upward. The formation thickens significantly to the north through the preservation of additional sediments that contain abundant fluvial features, suggesting a northern depocentre in the basin. Zircon data indicate that sediments may be sourced from the distant Musgrave Province and enter the basin from a large deltaic system in the northwest. These results provide substantial new information as to the palaeogeography of South Australia during this time, and are the product of interpretation using multiple lines of evidence and the study of numerous localities. Throughout the Adelaide Rift Complex, salt diapirs penetrated the basin fill and formed adjacent rim synclines (minibasins) due to withdrawal of underlying salt. Salt-tectonized, passive-margin settings are significant components of hydrocarbon systems in some of the world’s most productive regions, yet these features are rarely exposed in outcrop as they are here. In the far northern Flinders Ranges, the Umberatana Syncline is interpreted as a salt-withdrawal minibasin that formed in a deeper-water setting. The map-view exposure of the structure allows the depositional processes and products in the minibasin interior to be studied in a way not possible elsewhere; deepwater minibasins are very rarely exposed at the surface. Field and petrographic work reveals a mud-dominated minibasin fill containing mass-flow deposits of varying stages of maturity, ranging from clastbearing convolute-laminated slumps to sandy turbidites. In a more proximal setting, numerous measured sections along the margin of the Mt Frome minibasin clearly show that sediment character is influenced by diapir activity and the shedding of diapir-derived clasts. Lateral facies variability is controlled by growth faulting and diapir topography, with increased abundance of diapiric material near faults and highs, as well as thinning, onlap, and rotation of sediment blocks. These results, as well as those from elsewhere in the basin, are highly applicable to the prediction of reservoir, source, and seal quality in similar geologic settings in the subsurface.
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Lemon, Nicholas M. "Diapir recognition and modelling with examples from the late proterozoic Adelaide Geosyncline, Central Flinders Ranges, South Australia." Thesis, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/18825.

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Dharmarajah, M. M. L. "Regolith landform mapping in the Paralana Creek catchment from remotely sensed data, Northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/128767.

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This study creates three regolith-landform maps of the Paralana Creek catchment on the north-eastern margin of the Flinders Ranges using three readily available remotely sensed data types: a 2D digital elevation model, an airborne gamma ray radiometric response image, and a QuickBird satellite image, each method providing data about different aspects of the landscape. The regolith-landform map based on the digital elevation model provided an overview of the major landforms, with a basic understanding of the regolith and landform types. The regolith-landform map based on the airborne radiometric image provided data about the concentration and distribution of radioelements within the landscape, as well as a basic understanding of regolith and landform types and processes within the study area. The regolith-landform map based on the QuickBird image provided the most data about the regolith-landform units of the area, as well as current and previous landscape processes and evolution. Using these remote sensing methods this study created three regolith-landform maps, as well as identifying regolith-landform units, how landforms affect regolith type, distribution and succession, along with radioelement composition, transport and distribution within the study area. Map interpretation used the understanding of the landscape gained from all three maps in combination.
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van, der Hoek B. G. "Biogeochemical expression of uranium mineralisation by Eremophila shrubs in the northern Flinders Ranges - western Lake Frome Plains, South Australia." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/102760.

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The widespread shrub species Eremophila freelingii, of inland Australia, has successfully expressed elevated U contents in both leaf and twig samples at workings of known mineralisation in the Mt. Painter region, South Australia. Leaf material produced reasonable contrast in U concentrations and good success rate at expressing buried mineralisation with approximately 75 of all samples returning a U concentration greater than or equal to analytical detection limit (DL). A comparison of leaf with twig material from E. freelingii makes this study unique. Elements generally occur in higher concentration in twig tissues than leaves, although twigs have a greater tendency to host detrital (dust) inputs. The highest U concentration came from the high-grade historic Hodgkinson U-prospect (0.25% U3O8). Overall leaves contained 0.05 – 0.24 ppm U and twigs contained 0.08 – 0.41 ppm U (1.04-5.86 times higher). Twigs also hosted Re up to 266 times the DL when leaves produced values below the DL. Re elevations in leaf tissue is characteristic of the intrusive granites; Pinnacles and Needles. Beryllium is also unique to Hodgkinson and the Pinnacles and Needles sites. A few traditional U pathfinder elements have an association with U in plant tissues including; Y, Ce, La on a regional scale, and more exclusively at Four Mile West. Other elements; Li and Be displayed associations with U in twigs limited to the Hodgkinson prospect. Mineralisation in the Four Mile West sequence occurs in the Eyre Formation (Four Mile U-prospect) and in the Namba Formation (Beverley U deposit). E. freelingii displays elevations in U situated over these units at concentrations above the regional biogeochemical average. Other popular commodities, Au and Ag, were present in low concentrations and returned values ≥ DL in 25.3% and 57.8% of all samples respectively. The Four Mile West sequence hosts the highest Au concentrations, while the hematite breccias host the elevated Ag results. Elevated Zn concentrations are also characteristic of the hematite breccias. Copper showed high variation (3.12 – 32.02 ppm) in all samples but these results do not appear to be closely associated with geological setting. The wide range of element accumulation E. freelingii is able to display would stimulate further research with this species in biogeochemical exploration.
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Gregory, C. T. "The geology and origin of sedimentary manganese from the Boolcunda, Etna and Muttabee deposits, central Flinders Ranges, South Australia." Thesis, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/105734.

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The origin of small manganese deposits from the central Southern Flinders Ranges, has not previously been adequately discussed. The region comprising these sedimentary manganese accumulations incorporates a sinuous folded sequence of thick variegated clastic and carbonate sediments deposited within the Adelaide Geosyncline, the stratotype basin for the Adelaidean sediments delineated. Extended exposure of the craton to the west provided a dominant source of both sedimentary detritus and manganese ore constituent. Paragenesis involved leaching of manganese from this source region, transport into the aqueous system and subsequent precipitation in favourable shallow-marine environments meridionally within the Adelaide Geosyncline. Cyclic eustatic fluctuations increased potential ionic manganese concentration, with remobilization and concentration during transgressive oxygen deficient phases and oxidation and precipitation during alternate regressive more oxygenated phases. The precipitation of particulate manganese-oxides, from pre-existing particulate and dissolved manganese from an enriched reservoir, was controlled by the interactive responses of a number of features: estuarine circulation, anoxic-oxic water stratification, and sediment-water interface relationships, at specific geomorphological sites on a stable shallow-marine continental platform. Retention of the precipitated manganese resulted from rapid burial by regressive sands and silts, with little post-genetic supergene alteration of the deposit observed.
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Lemon, Nicholas M. "Diapir recognition and modelling with examples from the late proterozoic Adelaide Geosyncline, Central Flinders Ranges, South Australia / Nicholas M. Lemon." 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/18825.

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Virgo, G. M. "Was Earth really a snowball? Detailed facies analysis and 3D modelling of the Elatina Formation, Pichi Richi Pass, Flinders Ranges, South Australia." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/128284.

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The Elatina Formation is exposed in outcrops throughout South Australia, most notably represented by distinct glaciogenic deposits in central and northern Flinders Ranges. As the formation reflects low latitude glaciation, it has previously been used as a benchmark study in the development of the Snowball Earth hypothesis. Pichi Richi Pass in the central Flinders Ranges is an excellent example of the Elatina Formation, however significant uncertainties exist regarding the local sequence stratigraphy and interpretation of the depositional environments. A detailed facies analysis and 3D model of the Elatina Formation at Pichi Richi Pass was established to demonstrate the variability and distribution of the depositional system. The Elatina Formation consists of four lithostratigraphic units, with eight facies identified within two of the units. The facies were established from lithological properties, and then associated based on descriptions and interpretation of their depositional processes. The results reflect thick non-glaciogenic layers interbedded with thin glaciogenic layers. The non-glaciogenic layers were deposited in coastal, deltaic and fluvial settings, while the glaciogenic units were deposited in a glaciofluvial environment. As most of the Elatina Formation in Pichi Richi Pass appears to be deposited under moving water, it suggests that the palaeoenvironment of the Elatina Formation is not consistent with prolonged glacial conditions like that of Snowball Earth. Rather, it denotes variable glacial periods characterised by glacial advance and retreat.
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Jansyn, J. "Strato-tectonic evolution of a large subsidence structure associated with the late Proterozoic Wonoka Formation at Wilpena Pound, central Flinders Ranges, South Australia." Thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/86719.

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The coincidence between the timing of the subsidence of a trough-like structure adjacent to Wilpena Pound and the initiation of canyons associated with the late Proterozoic Wonoka Formation in other parts of the Flinders Ranges provides circumstantial but not necessarily compelling evidence for a tectonic control being involved with the formation of the canyons. The trough, here termed The Wilpena Trough, is characterised by the presence of a deep central sag and shoulder sags bounded by steep north-easterly trending faults. Other canyons may have marginal faults; and the numerous reversals of current indicators within them, rather than simple unidirectional current trends as expected with turbidite erosion, substantiate a tectonic influence in their generation. Small scale faulting in the Wearing Dolomite Member of the Wonoka Formation reflects the dominantly extensional regime in which the Wilpena Trough was formed. A phase of warping prior to deposition of the Wonoka Formation may have provided the necessary trigger to produce stress zones in strata, where growth faults controlling the sedimentation in the Wilpena Trough were initiated. After deposition of the Wearing Dolomite Member in a shallow water palaeoenvironment, Units 2 and 3 of the Wonoka Formation were deposited in deeper water settings on a shelfal slope. This idea supports a submarine environment prior to subsidence of the Trough. Measured stratigraphic thickness changes give a precise timing for the initiation of fault movement that caused thickened packages of sediments. Major fault movement and corresponding sediment subsidence became active near the Unit 2/Unit 3 transition and dominated the deposition of Unit 3 through to Unit 7. Units 4 to 9 represent a wedge of prograding shelf sediments. Unit 10 is a shallow transgressional sequence and a sequence boundary has been proposed of the base of this unit, due to the marked change in sedimentary style. Stable carbon and oxygen isotope data from the sediments of the Wonoka Formation in the central Flinders Ranges shows an initial low negative plot which is succeeded by an interval showing a strong negative excursion which then makes a shift back to low negative values. A possible correlation between the late Proterozoic units in the Adelaide Fold Belt and the eastern Officer Basin enables the data from the Wonoka Formation to be added to information which Pell (1989) obtained from the Rodda Beds to show a continuous trend from the negative excursion to a broad positive one. Comparison with the corresponding overseas data provides a potential tool for late Proterozoic inter-regional basin correlation.
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Ayliffe, D. "Geological setting of the Late Proterozoic Wonoka Formation at Pichi Richi Pass, southern Flinders Ranges, South Australia: geochemical, stable isotope and diagenetic analysis." Thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/131142.

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Carbon, oxygen and strontium isotope stratigraphy has increased the resolution of Proterozoic stratigraphic correlation. Isotopic analysis was performed on the late Proterozoic Wonoka Formation canyon and carbonate platform sequences. Highly depleted and homogenised carbon and oxygen isotopes characterise the canyon fill (13C = -8 to -7%o, (18O = - 17 to -15%o PDB ) whilst a major positive excursion was observed in the Wonoka Formation carbonate platform sequence ((13C = -8 to -0.5%o, (18O = -15.0 to -7.0%o PDB). These values correlate closely with other established isotopic trends throughout the Adelaide Geosyncline. However, similar aged late Vendian strata throughout the world show low positive values. Strontium isotopic analysis revealed relatively 87Sr enrichment in the carbonate platform deposits compared to the canyon sequence. This was attributed to the input of 87Sr enriched terrestrially derived strontium. The 87Sr/86Sr ratio of the Wonoka Formation correlates closely with established late Proterozoic seawater trends. Therefore, a primary strontium isotopic composition is implied for the Wonoka Formation. Major and trace element geochemical analysis (Ca, Mg, Sr, Fe, Mn, and Rb) was performed to assess the diagenetic alteration of the late Proterozoic strata. Samples with low Mn/Sr, high Ca/Sr, high strontium, and low rubidium have the highest probability of preserving a primary geochemical signal. Most samples from the Pichi Richi region analysed plotted under the altered Mn/Sr (<2) and Ca/Sr (<2000) values. The high remnant strontium-concentrations of the Wonoka Formation suggest neomorphism from an aragonitic precursor. Micritic carbonate of the Wonoka Formation was probably a primary marine precipitate of aragonite derived from late Proterozoic supersaturated seas. Therefore, the majority of sediment diagenesis probably occurred in the marine phreatic zone, resulting in the observed primary isotopic composition.
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Schmallegger, Doris. "Understanding the impact of the inherited institutional environment on tourism innovation systems in resource dependent peripheries: a case study of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia." Thesis, 2010. https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/19032/1/01front.pdf.

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The purpose of this dissertation is to use the theoretical foundations of the 'staples thesis' to analyse and explain how the institutional environment inherited from resource dependence influences the capacity of peripheral regions to operate as regional tourism innovation systems (RTIS). The staples thesis is a theoretical approach to explaining processes of economic growth and development in peripheral economies that rely on the export of unprocessed natural resources – the 'staples'. It suggests that the institutional environment resulting from a long-term dependence on staples export can become locked-in to the extent that the economic system becomes unable to change. The implications of this 'staples trap' are that the system struggles to innovate and diversify for reasons such as the adoption of an export mentality and the continued preference for importing external (financial and human) capital over developing capital internally. The staples thesis, with its concept of the 'staples trap' as a form of institutional lockin, offers considerable potential to help explain why resource dependent regions in developed countries (such as Australia, Canada, the United States, and New Zealand) often struggle to develop tourism as a successful alternative industry. The research is based on the analysis of a case study in the Flinders Ranges – a traditional resource periphery in South Australia that has tried to diversify its regional economy over the past decades by developing tourism. The case study examined the characteristics and performance of the Flinders Ranges tourism destination from a RTIS perspective to identify how the tourism destination system has been affected by the inherited institutional environment. The research used Carson and Jacobsen's (2005) systems-of-innovation framework for regional tourism as an analytical framework. This framework outlines a number of systemic requirements that are critical for well-functioning RTIS, including: entrepreneurship, economic competence, networks and clusters, critical mass and diverse development blocks, the production and distribution of knowledge, productive public sector contributions, a favourable institutional infrastructure, and the quality of social, political and cultural capital. Case study methods included semi-structured in-depth interviews, document and website analyses, analysis of secondary data sources, and personal observations. The findings suggest that the institutional environment inherited from the region's traditional staples industries (agriculture, pastoralism and mining) has clearly reduced the capacity of the local tourism system to operate as a RTIS. Locals had only limited entrepreneurial capabilities and skills in tourism due to an entrenched culture of reliance on government and external wholesalers for investment, employment, knowledge transfer and control of production and distribution. Locals had a limited tradition of networking, collaboration and knowledge exchange because they had never learnt such practices in the past when they had to deliver homogenous bulk commodities to external wholesalers. In addition, government intervention in tourism was often characterised by an inherited 'staples export mentality'. Government strategies aimed to convert tourism into a new export industry and continued to target largescale development and external investors instead of building local capital. Despite these limitations, the case study found that the Flinders Ranges tourism system has undergone a number of slow but significant changes since the mid-2000s, which have increased the system's capacity to operate as a RTIS. The most prominent changes included: an increase in the number of skilled tourism entrepreneurs; the emergence of a new networking and learning culture among local tourism operators; a new focus on local training and capacity building; and the increasing public sector support for locally driven cross-regional tourism projects. These changes emerged as a result of the in-migration of externally trained entrepreneurs and public sector leaders who introduced new knowledge, practices and attitudes to the region. This thesis argues that peripheral regions with a long history of staples dependence, like the Flinders Ranges, require profound changes in their institutional environment to be able to operate as well-functioning RTIS. Tourism is not an 'easy' alternative to back up existing resource economies in times of economic crisis. Instead, it is a new industry that requires the whole system with its collective of stakeholders to fundamentally change previous ways of operating. Such institutional change is very unlikely to emerge from within the local economic system. In the case of the Flinders Ranges, institutional change was a slow and incremental process that was facilitated by 1) the import of external human capital, and 2) the willingness to gradually integrate external with local human capital so that locals could 'learn' new (and simultaneously 'un-learn' old) practices and attitudes. The research concludes that analysing tourism destinations as RTIS under the particular light of the staples thesis offers a new and better way of explaining system dynamics and innovation capacities of destinations in resource dependent peripheries. Applying a staples thesis lens to the analysis of peripheral RTIS can add a more evolutionary institutional perspective to generic systems-of-innovation analysis in tourism, which has so far been relatively static. Building on Carson and Jacobsen's (2005) systems-of-innovation framework for regional tourism, this dissertation provides an enhanced theoretical framework that recognises the role and impact of the inherited institutional environment in shaping tourism innovation dynamics. The framework is built around a familiar case study methodology that allows for ongoing comparative research and further theory building in the field of peripheral tourism studies.

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Pointon, V. J. "Structure and thermochronology of an E-W profile through the Mount Painter Province, Northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia: is this a southern example of deformation and exhumation driven by the Alice Springs Orogeny?" Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/88635.

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The Mount Painter Province in the Northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia is composed of Palaeoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic basement overlain by 7-12 kilometres of Neoproterozoic to Cambrian sedimentary rocks and is associated with high lateral geothermal gradients. During the Early Paleozoic, deformation and metamorphism reached greenschist to amphibolite facies during the ~500 Ma Delamerian Orogeny. This study focuses on the subsequent thermal history of the area by studying an E-W profile through the Mount Painter Province using the widely used techniques of structural mapping, micro-structural analysis and 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology to characterise and date deformation and cooling (as a proxy for exhumation). The E-W trending profile, known as the Hamilton Fault, is south dipping oblique slip with a normal and dextral component overprinted by younger brittle structures and brecciation which is seen in the structural and micro-structural analysis.. It is proposed to have a very active past and there is evidence of movement in the Adelaidean due to an apparent formation offset of ~600 m. The regional context of the Hamilton Fault having a dextral and normal component suggests an ε3 uplift, an ε2 extension SW to NE and ε1 NW-SE shortening. This is similar in character to the N-S shortening which is seen in the Alice Springs Orogeny (ASO). Results from the 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology show the basement metasedimentary rocks have cooling ages of around ~350 Ma between 300 to 400 °C and 312 Ma at 150 °C. Interestingly, the younger Adelaidean metasedimentary rocks have an older cooling age of 390 Ma between 300 to 400 °C. The thermochronology data suggests differential cooling has occurred. The observations suggest that exhumation is driven following the Delamerian folding event and forced the earlier cooling of shallower samples at a slower rate and later cooling of the deeper samples at a faster rate, a process caused by differential tilting. The cooling paths are well represented in this example as shown by converging cooling paths. Overall I attribute this subsequent thermal history and structural similarity to the ASO, a major widespread dramatic orogenic event which has not been widely recognized as a significant tectonic event in the Adelaide Fold Belt.
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