Queensland Consultative project undertaken by Professor Peter Flood Working on natural zeolite occurrences in the Devonian-Carboniferous Drummond Basin, Queensland. Three distinct zeolitised tuff horizons have been recognised within the Ducabrook Formation. As a consequence of this work the commercial exploitation of the zeolite is proceeding. Professor Peter Flood was invited to join the Technical Advisory Board of the International Zeolite Conference , Naples, September, 1997. The project is being funded by a University of New England research grant.
Palaeomagnetic studies indicate a near-equatorial site after their development.
However, the Late Carboniferous seamounts have been translocated through some 50 degrees of latitude, southwards, to collide with the eastern Gondwana margin. This aged seamounts provides a unique opportunity to study the rates of sea-floor spreading in the late Palaeozoic. The geochemical evolution of these terranes may help to constrain models for the tectonic evolution of this Proterozoic continental margin.