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VAUGHAN, A. P. M., LEAT, P. T. & PANKHURST, R. J. 2005. Terrane Processes at the Margins of Gondwana.

Geological Society Special Publication no. 246. vii + 446 pp. London, Bath: Geological Society of London. Price £95.00, US $171.00; GSL members’ price £47.50, US $86.00; AAPG/SEPM/GSA/RAS/EFG/PESGB members’ price £57.00, US $103.00 (hard covers). ISBN 1 86239 179 3.

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This is a big volume. The title is a little misleading as most of papers are concerned with the Australides, defined by the editors as an orogenic belt, extending from western South America via Antarctica to eastern Australia, that formed the southern margin of Pangaea in the Palaeozoic. The volume is thus concerned primarily with orogenic activity at the southern edge of Gondwana during the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic. It is divided into two sections preceded by an introduction: a first section concerned with Regional Syntheses and a second section entitled Topics and Methodologies.

The volume begins with an introduction by the editors to terrane principles and terminology, an excellent review with references to many of the original terrane concept papers, and an overview of the subsequent contributions. The introduction is followed by nine papers dealing mainly with specific regions which take up the first two-thirds of the book. There is a very long review of the Tasmanides of eastern Australia which will be a good resource for those starting out or working in that region, but is quite hard work for the reader . . . [Full Text of this Article]