GEMOC ARC National Key Centre

GLOSSARY

AGSO Australian Geological Survey Organisation

AINSE Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering

AMIRA Australian Mineral Industry Research Association

ANSTO Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation

ANU Australian National University

APA (I) Australian Postgraduate Award (Industry)

ARC Australian Research Council

ARF Australian Research Fellow (ARC Fellowship)

BSE Back-Scattered Electrons

CRA Exploration and Mining Company

CRC Cooperative Research Centre

CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation

DEET Department of Education, Employment and Training

DIST Department of Industry, Science and Technology

DSDP Deep Sea Drilling Program

ERDC Energy Resources Development Commission

GAU Geochemical Analysis Unit (School of Earth Sciences, Macquarie University)

GIS Geographic Information System

GPS Global Positioning System

HIAF Heavy Ion Analytical Facility

ICPMS Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer

IRF International Research Fellow (IRF Fellowship)

LA-ICPMS Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer

LAM Laser Ablation Microprobe

MUPRA Macquarie University Postgraduate Research Award

MURG Macquarie University Research Grant

MURF Macquarie University Research Fellowship

NMP Nuclear Microprobe

NSF National Science Foundation (USA)

ODP Ocean Drilling Program (International Consortium)

OPRA Overseas Postgraduate Research Award

P Pressure

PDF Postdoctoral Fellow (ARC Fellowship)

PIGE Proton Induced Gamma-ray Emission

PIXE Proton Induced X-ray Emission

PMP Proton Microprobe

QUT Queensland University of Technology

RSES Research School of Earth Sciences at ANU

RTZ Exploration and Mining Company

SNMP Scanning Nuclear Microprobe

SUCOGG Sydney Universities Consortium of Geology and Geophysics

T Temperature

UNE University of New England

UNSW University of New South Wales

XRF X-Ray Fluorescence