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Dr John Webb: List of Publications

Groundwater
Yihdego, Y. and Webb, J. A., in press. Modeling of bore hydrographs to determine the impact of climate and land use change  in western Victoria, Australia. Hydrogeology Journal.

Edwards, M.D. and Webb, J.A., 2009. The importance of unsaturated zone biogeochemical processes in determining groundwater composition, southeastern Australia. Hydrogeology Journal, 17, 1359-1374.

Raiber, M., Webb, J.A. and Bennetts, D., 2009. Strontium isotopes as tracers to delineate aquifer interactions and groundwater salinisation in the basalt plains of southeastern Australia. Journal of Hydrology, 367, 188-199.

Yihdego, Y. and Webb, J. A., 2008. Modelling of Seasonal and Longterm Trends in Lake Salinity in Southwestern Victoria, Australia. Proceedings of Water Down Under April 2008, 994-1000.

Hagerty, S. and Webb, J.A., 2008. Aquifer Interactions and Groundwater Discharge into Streams Identified Using 87Sr/86Sr Isotope Ratios in the Upper Loddon Catchment, Central Victoria. Proceedings of Water Down Under April 2008, 1272-1278. Hydrogeology Journal.

Raiber, M., Webb, J.A., Jacobsen, G.E., Chisari R. and Williams, A.A., 2008. Geological controls on the spatial variability of groundwater recharge and salinity in a regional-scale basalt aquifer in western Victoria. Proceedings of Water Down Under April 2008, 1279-1283.

Webb, J.A., Williams, B.G., Bailue, K., Walker, J. and Anderson, J.W., 2008. Short-term groundwater dynamics at a paddock scale. Proceedings of Water Down Under April 2008, 1493-1500.

Bennetts, D.A., Webb, J.A., McCaskill, M. and Zollinger, R., 2007. Dryland salinity processes within the discharge zone of a local groundwater system, Southeastern Australia. Hydrogeology Journal, 15, 1197-1210.

Tweed, S.O., Leblanc, M., Webb, J.A. and Lubczynski, M.W., 2006. Remote sensing and GIS for mapping groundwater recharge and discharge areas in salinity prone catchments, southeast Australia. Hydrogeology Journal 15, 75-96.

Raiber, M., Webb, J.A., Jacobsen, G., Chisari, R. and Neklapilova, B., 2007. Aquifer interactions and their impact on groundwater resources in the basalt plains of Western Victoria. Twelfth International Symposium on Water-Rock Interaction, Kunming, China, August 2007; Conference Proceedings, 985-988.

Bennetts, D.A., Webb, J.A., Stone, D.J.M. and Hill, D.M., 2006. Understanding the salinisation process for groundwater in an area of south-eastern Australia, using hydrochemical and isotopic evidence. Journal of Hydrology, 323, 178-192.

Bennetts, D.A. and Webb, J.A., 2004. Processes affecting groundwater quality in a basalt aquifer system in southern Australia. In: R.B. Wanty and R.R. Seal (Editors), Proceedings InternationalSymposium on Water-Rock Interaction 11, Saratoga Springs, USA, 347-351. Balkema, Rotterdam.

Webb, J.A. and Lithco, S., 2001. Use of water chemistry to identify flow conduits in the porous Gambier Limestone, southeast Australia. In Mudry, J. and Zwahlen, F. (eds), Proceedings of 7th Conference on Limestone Hydrology, Besancon, September 2001, 333-336.

Acid mine drainage
McDonald, D. and Webb, J.A., 2008. Release of heavy metals from AMD treatment sludges - implications for managing sludge in perpetuity. Proceedings 6th Australian Workshop on Acid Drainage, Burnie, April 2008.

Santomartino, S.L. and Webb, J.A., 2007. Estimating the longevity of limestone drains in treating acid mine drainage containing high concentrations of iron. Applied Geochemistry, 22, 2344-2361.

McDonald, D. M., Webb, J. A. and Taylor, J. 2006. Chemical stability of acid rock drainage treatment sludge and implications for sludge management. Environmental Science and Technology, 40(6), 1984-1990.

McDonald, D.M., Webb, J.A. and Musgrave, R.M. 2006. The effect of neutralisation method and reagent on the rate of Cu and Zn release from Acid Rock Drainage treatment sludges. 7th ICARD Conference, March 2006, St Louis, USA.

McDonald, D. and Webb, J.A., 2005. Comparison of the chemical stability of ARD treatment sludges precipitated using conventional lime neutralisation and the High Density Sludge process. Proceedings International Conference on Mining and the Environment, June 27 - July 1, 2005, Skelleftea, Sweden, 705-715.

Santomartino S. and Webb, J. 2003. An experimental study of the chemistry of iron precipitation within Anoxic Limestone Drains. 6th ICARD Conference, July 2003, Cairns, 1117-1121.

Webb, J.A., 1998. The chemistry of anoxic limestone drain treatment of acid mine drainage. In Weaver, T.R. and Lawrence, C.R. (eds), Groundwater: sustainable solutions, Proceedings International Groundwater Conference, Melbourne, February 1998, 581-585.

Sasowsky, I.D., White, W.B., and Webb, J.A., 1995. Acid mine drainage in karst terranes: geochemical considerations and field observations. In Beck, B.F. and Pearson, F.M. (eds), Karst Geohazards: Proceedings of fifth multidisciplinary conference on sinkholes and the engineering and environmental impacts of karst, April 1995, Tennessee, 241-247. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.

Webb, J.A. and Sasowsky, I.D. 1994. The interaction of acid mine drainage with a carbonate terrane: evidence from the Obey River, north-central Tennessee. Journal of Hydrology, 161, 327-346.

Geomorphology and landscape evolution (including karst)
Webb, J.A., Gardner, T.W., Kapostasy, D., Bremar, K.A. and Fabel, D., in press. Mountain building along a passive margin: Late Neogene tectonism in southeastern Victoria, Australia. Geomorphology

Webb, J.A.,  Grimes, K.G. and Lewis, I., 2010. Volcanogenic origin of cenotes near Mt Gambier, Southeastern Australia. Geomorphology 119, 23–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.02.015

Gardner, T., Webb, J.A., Pezzia, C., Amborn, T., Tunnell, R., Flanagan, S., Kapostasy, D., Merritts, D., Marshall, J., Fabel, D and Cupper, D., 2009. Episodic intraplate deformation of stable continental margins: evidence from Late Neogene and Quaternary marine terraces, Cape Liptrap, southeastern Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 28, 39-53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.10.004

Raiber, M. and Webb, J.A., 2008. Development of the Streatham Deep Lead System in Western Victoria: Implications for Tertiary tectonism and landscape evolution. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 55, 493-508.

Webb, J.A. and James, J.M., 2006. Karst evolution of the Nullarbor Plain, Australia. In Harmon, R.S. and Wicks, C.M. (eds), Karst geomorphology, hydrology and geochemistry - a tribute volume to Derek C. Ford and William B. White. Geological Society of America Special Paper 404, 65-78.

Gardner, T.W., Webb, J.A., Davis, A.G., Cassell, E.J., Pezzia, C., Merritts, D.J. and Smith, B., 2006. Late Pleistocene landscape response to climate change: eolian and alluvial fan deposition, southeastern Victoria, Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 25, 1552-1569.

Paine, M., Bennetts, D.A., Webb, J.A., and Morand, V., 2004. Nature and extent of Pliocene strandlines in southwestern Victoria and their application to late Neogene tectonics. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 51, 407-422.

Musgrave. R.J. and Webb, J.A., 2003. Palaeomagnetic analysis of sediments in the Buchan Caves, southeastern Australia, provides a pre-Late Pleistocene date for landscape evolution. In Sasowsky, I.D. and Mylroie, J.E. (eds), Studies of Cave sediments, 47-70. Kluwer.

Webb, J.A., Grimes, K.G. and Osborne, A., 2003. Caves in the Australian Landscape. In Finlayson, B.L. and Hamilton-Smith, E. (eds), Beneath the surface: a natural history of Australian caves, 1-52. University of New South Wales Press Ltd, Sydney.

Joyce, E.B., Webb, J.A., and others, 2003. Chapter 18 - Geomorphology. In Birch, W. (ed.), Geology of Victoria. Geological Society of Australia Special Publication 23, 533-561.

Ihlenfeld, C., Norman, M.D., Gagan, M.K., Drysdale, R.N., Maas, R. and Webb, J.A., 2003. Climatic significance of seasonal trace element and stable isotope variations in a modern freshwater tufa. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, 67, 2341-2357.

Marshallsea, S.J., Green, P.F. and Webb, J.A., 2000. Thermal history of the Hodgkinson Province and Laura Basin, Queensland: multiple cooling episodes identified from apatite fission track analysis and vitrinite reflectance data. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 47, 779-797.

Boyd, W.E., Specht, J. and Webb, J.A., 1999. Holocene shoreline change and archaeology on the Kandrian coast of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. In J. Hall and McNiven, I.J. (eds), Australian Coastal Archaeology, 283-289. ANH Publications, Canberra.

Li, S., Webb, J.A. and Finlayson, B.L., 1996. Discussion: Landscape evolution and tectonics in southeastern Australia, by C.D. Ollier and C.F. Pain. AGSO Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics, 16, 323-324.

Fabel, D., Henricksen, D., Finlayson, B.L. and Webb, J.A. 1996. Nickpoint recession in karst terrains: an example from the Buchan Karst, South-East Australia. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 21, 453-466.

Fabel, D., Webb, J.A. and Finlayson, B.L. 1993. Discussion. Denudational isostatic rebound of intraplate highlands: the Lachlan River valley, Australia. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 18, 749-751.

Webb, J.A., Fabel, D., Finlayson, B.L., Li Shu and Ellaway, M., 1992. Denudation chronology from cave and river terrace levels: the case of the Buchan karst, southeastern Australia. Geological Magazine, 129, 307-317.

Webb, J.A., Finlayson, B.L., Fabel, F.G. and Ellaway M., 1991. The geomorphology of the Buchan karst: implications for landscape history of the Southeastern Highlands of Australia. In Williams, M.A.J., DeDekker, P. and Kershaw, A.P. (eds). The Cenozoic of the Australian region - a reappraisal of the evidence. Special Publication, Geological Society of Australia 18, 210-234.

Geoarchaeology
Liu, L., Field, J., Weisskopf, A., Webb, J., Jiang, L., Wang, H. and Chen, X., 2010. The exploitation of acorn and rice in Early Holocene Lower Yangzi river, China. Acta Anthropologica Sinica, 29, 12-32.

Liu, L., Chen, X. and Webb, J., 2009. Production of stone spades and emergence of the first state in the Yiluo Region, China. Internet Archaeology, 26.

Webb, J. and Domanski, D., 2009. Perspective – Fire and Stone. Science, 325, 820-821. View Summary | View Full Text.

Domański, M., Webb, J.A., Glaisher, R., Gurba, J., Libera, J. and Zakościelna, A., 2009. Heat treatment of Polish flints. Journal of Archaeological Science, 36, 1400-1408.

Webb, J.A. and Domanski, M., 2008. The relationship between lithology, flaking properties and artefact manufacture for Australian silcretes. Archaeometry, 50, 555-575.

Domanski, M. and Webb, J.A., 2007. A review of heat treatment research. Lithic Technology, 32, 153-194.

Webb, J.A., Ford, A. and Gorton, J., 2007. Influences on selection of lithic raw material sources at Huizui, a Neolithic/Early Bronze Age site in northern China. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, 27, 76-86.

Doelman, T., Webb, J.A. and Domanski, M., 2001. Source to Discard: Patterns of Lithic Raw Material Procurement and Use in Sturt National Park, Northwestern NSW. Archaeology in Oceania, 36, 15-33.

Domanski, M. and Webb, J.A., 2000. Flaking properties, petrology and use of Polish flint. Antiquity, 74, 822-832.

Torrence, R., Pavlides, C., Jackson, P. and Webb, J., 2000. Volcanic disasters and cultural discontinuities in Holocene time, in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. In McGuire, W.J., Griffiths, D.R., Hancock, P.L. and Stewart, I.S. (eds). The archaeology of geological catastrophes. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 225-244.

Webb, J.A., 1994. The physical setting of the Gog Range (with I. Thomas and K. Thiele), The excavation (with A.G. Sagona), Analysis of the finds (with M. D.A. McKay and A.G. Sagona), Toolumbunner in perspective (with A.G. Sagona). Chapters 3-6, pp. 39-51, 52-78, 79-132, 133-151 respectively in Sagona, A. G. (ed.), Bruising the red earth: ochre mining and ritual in aboriginal Tasmania. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne.

Gosden, C. and Webb, J.A., 1994. People and landscape change in the Arawe Islands, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Journal of Field Archaeology, 21, 29-51.

Gosden, C., Webb, J.A., Marshall, B. and Summerhayes, G. 1994. Lolmo cave: a mid to late Holocene site, the Arawe Islands, West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. Asian Perspectives, 33, 97-119.

Domanski, M., Webb, J.A. and Boland, J. 1994. Mechanical properties of stone artefact materials and the effect of heat treatment. Archaeometry. 36, 177-208.

Domanski, M. and Webb, J.A., 1992. Effect of heat treatment on siliceous rocks used in prehistoric lithic technology. Journal of Archaeological Science, 19, 601-614.

Sedimentology
Kakuwa Y. and Webb, J., 2010. Evolution of Cambrian to Ordovician trace fossils in pelagic deep-sea chert, southeastern Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 5, 615-625.

Parker, K.E. and Webb, J.A., 2008. Estuarine deposition of a mid Visean tetrapod-bearing unit, Ducabrook Formation, central Queensland. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 55, 509-530.

Webb, J.A. and Spence E., 2008. Glaciomarine Early Permian strata at Bacchus Marsh, Central Victoria – the final phase of Late Palaeozoic glaciation in Southern Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 120, 373-388.

Wakelin-King, G.A. and Webb, J.A., 2007. High-energy mud floodplains, low-energy sand channels: sediment transport and deposition in a drylands mud-aggregate river. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 77, 702-712.

Kakuwa, Y. and Webb, J., 2007. Trace fossils of a Middle-Late Ordovician pelagic deep ocean bedded chert in southeastern Australia. In Ichnology at the Crossroads: A Multidimensional Approach to the Science of Organism-Substrate Interactions, edited by Bromley, R.G., Buatois, L.A., Mangano, M.G., Genise, J.F. and Melchor, R.N. SEPM Special Publication 88, 267-276.

Wakelin-King, G.A. and Webb, J.A., 2007. Threshold-dominated fluvial styles in an arid- zone mud-aggregate river: the uplands of Fowlers Creek, Australia. Geomorphology 85, 114-127.

Gouramanis, C., Webb, J. A. and Warren, A. A., 2003. Fluvio-deltaic sedimentology and ichnology of part of the Silurian Grampians Group, western Victoria. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 50, 811-825.

Kelly, J.C., Webb, J.A. and Maas, R., 2001. Isotopic constraints on the genesis and age of autochthonous glaucony in the Oligo-Miocene Torquay Group, southeastern Australia. Sedimentology, 48, 325-328.

Webb, J.A. and Fielding, C.F., 1999. Debris flow and sheet flood fans of the northern Prince Charles Mountains, east Antarctica. In Miller, A.J. and Gupta, A. (eds), Varieties of fluvial form, 317-341. John Wiley, London.

Kelly, J.C. and Webb, J.A., 1999. The genesis of glaucony in the Oligo-Miocene Torquay Group. southeastern Australia: petrographic and geochemical evidence. Sedimentary Geology, 125, 99-114.

Bernecker, T., Partridge, A.D. and Webb, J.A., 1997. Mid-late Tertiary deep-water temperate carbonate deposition, offshore Gippsland Basin, southeastern Australia. In James, N.P. and Clarke, J.D.A. (eds), Cool Water Carbonates, SEPM Special Publication 56, 221-236.

Fielding, C.R. and Webb, J.A., 1996. Facies and cyclicity of the Late Permian Bainmedart Coal Measures in the northern Prince Charles Mountains, MacRobertson Land, Antarctica. Sedimentology, 43, 295-322.

Fielding, C.R. and Webb, J.A. 1995. Sedimentology of the Permian Radok conglomerate in the Beaver Lake Area of MacRobertson Land, east Antarctica. Geological Magazine, 132, 51-63.

Gray, C.M. and Webb, J. A. 1995. Provenance of Palaeozoic turbidites in the Lachlan Orogenic Belt: strontium isotopic evidence. Australian Journal of Earth Science, 42, 95-105.

Webb, J.A. and Fielding, C.R. 1993. Permo-Triassic sedimentation within the Lambert Graben, northern Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica. In Findlay, R.H., Unrug, R., Banks, M.R. and Veevers, J.J. (eds), Gondwana Eight: assembly, evolution and dispersal, 513-520. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.

Rehfisch, M.W. and Webb, J.A. 1993. The Early Devonian Coopers Creek Limestone: a deep water redeposited limestone within the Melbourne Trough, southeastern Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 40, 575-589.

Webb, J.A. and Fielding, C.R. 1993. Stratigraphical note - Revised stratigraphical nomenclature for the Permo-Triassic Flagstone Bench Formation, northern Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 5, 409-410.

Silcrete
Nash, D. J., McLaren, S. J. and Webb, J. A., 2004. Petrology, geochemistry and environmental significance of silcrete-calcrete intergrade duricrusts in the central Kalahari, Botswana. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 29, 1559-1586.

Webb, J.A. and Golding, S.D., 1998. Geochemical mass-balance and 0xygen isotope constraints on silcrete formation and its paleoclimatic implications in southern Australia. Journal of Sedimentary Research A, 68, 981-993.

Palaeobotany
Holmes, W.B.K., Anderson, H. and Webb, J.A., 2010. The Middle Triassic megafossil flora of the Basin Creek Formation, Nymboida Coal Measures, New South Wales, Australia. Part 8. The genera Nilssonia, Taeniopteris, Linguifolium, Gontriglossa and Scoresbya. Proceedings of the Linnaean Society of New South Wales, 131, 1-26.

Webb, J.A. and Mitchell, M.M., 2006. Stratigraphy and palaeoflora of the Triassic Council Trench Formation, Central Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 118, 113-127.

Webb, J.A., 2001. A new marattialean fern from the Middle Triassic of eastern Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 123, 215-224.

Cantrill, D.J. and Webb, J.A., 1998. Permineralized pleuromeid lycopod remains from the Early Triassic Arcadia Formation, Queensland, Australia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 102, 189-211.

Cantrill, D.J., Drinnan, A.N. and Webb, J.A. 1995. Late Triassic plant fossils from the Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 7, 51-62.

Balme, B.E., Kershaw, A.P. and Webb, J.A. 1995. Floras of Australian coal measures. In Ward, C.R., Harrington, H.J., Mallett, C.W. and Beeston, J.W. (eds), Geology of Australian Coal Basins. Geological Society of Australia Coal Geology Group Special Publication, 1, 41-62.

Mineralogy
Birch, W.D., Mills, S.J., Schwendtner, K., Pring, A., Webb, J.A., Segnit, E.R., Watts, J.A., 2007. Parwanite: a new hydrated Na-Mg-Al-phosphate from a lava cave at Parwan, Victoria, Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 13, 23-30.

Rimstidt, J. D., Balog, A. and Webb J., 1998. Distribution of trace elements between carbonate minerals and aqueous solutions. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, 62, 1851-1863.

Webb, J.A., 1997. Skipton Lava Cave, Victoria, Australia. In Hill, C. and Forti, P. (eds), Cave minerals of the world, Second Edition, 331-335. National Speleological Society, Huntsville, USA.

Palaeoclimates
Goede, A., McDermott, F., Hawkesworth, C., Webb, J.A. and Finlayson, B.L., 1996. Evidence of Younger Dryas and Neoglacial cooling in a Late Quaternary palaeotemperature record from a speleothem in eastern Victoria, Australia. Journal of Quaternary Science, 11 (1), 1-7.

Economic geology
Arne, D.C., Cromie, P.W., Webb, J.A. and Richards, J.R. 1994. The genesis of Pb-Zn sulphide occurrences in the Early Devonian Buchan Group, Victoria. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. 41, 75-90.

Remediation of contaminated sites
Santomartino, S.L. and Webb, J.A., 2007. Estimating the longevity of limestone drains in treating acid mine drainage containing high concentrations of iron. Applied Geochemistry, 22, 2344-2361