Mr Peter W Whitehead
Lecturer
BSc (Hons)La Trobe
Visit building A2, second floor, room 208, Cairns campus
Call: (+61) 07 - 4042 1200
Fax (+61) 07 - 4042 1284
Email: Peter.Whitehead
EA1110 - Evolution of the Earth
EV1005 - Environmental Processes and Global Change
EA2900 - Introductory Field Geology
EA1003 - Introductory Earth Science
EV2401 - Australian Landscape Processes and Evolution
SC1101 - Science: Nature, Knowledge and Understanding
Research Interests
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Temporal evolution and geochemistry of the Atherton Basalt Province.
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Cainozoic volcanism of eastern Australia.
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Lava inflation structures and long lava flows.
Selected Publications:
NELSON P. N., WHITEHEAD P. W. & LINK C. A. 2010. Buried lava flows crossing the Great Divide in north Queensland: discovery using magnetic methods, and implications for hydrology. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences: An International Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia 57, 279 - 289.
WHITEHEAD P. W., STEPHENSON P. J., MCDOUGALL I., HOPKINS M. S., GRAHAM A. W., COLLERSON K. D. & JOHNSON D. P. 2007. Temporal development of the Atherton Basalt Province, north Queensland. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences: An International Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia 54, 691 - 709.
MACKNESS B. S., WHITEHEAD P. W. & MCNAMARA G. C. 2000. New potassium-argon basalt date in relation to the Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna, northern Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences: An International Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia 47, 807 - 811.
Whitehead, P.W., 1991, The geology and geochemistry of Mt Rouse and Mt Napier, western Victoria, in Williams, M.A.J., De Deckker, P. & Kershaw, A.P. (eds.), The Cainozoic in Australia: a re-appraisal of the evidence, Geological Society of Australia Special Publication No. 18, Brisbane.
For a full list of Publications browse ResearchOnline@JCU
Adella Edwards of 6630staff last updated this page on 8 Apr 2013.