Lindsay Collins (geologist)

Lindsay Boyd Collins

Lindsay Boyd Collins (19 February 1944 – 2 September 2015) was an Australian marine geologist and sedimentologist, and a faculty member in the Department of Applied Geology at Curtin University in Western Australia. He was interested in studying the continental shelf of Western Australia and coral reefs. Collins was a prominent scholar, and completed projects on continental shelf mapping of Australian shelves,[1] microbialites[2] and seagrass banks at Shark Bay,[3] and coral reef studies at the Abrolhos,[4] Ningaloo,[5] Scott Reef,[6] the Rowley Shoals and the Kimberley.[7]

  1. ^ Hocking, R.M., Voon, J.W.K. , Collins, L.B, 1988. Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the basal Winning Group, northern Carnarvon Basin. IN Purcell P.G. & Purcell R.R. eds - The North West Shelf, Australia. Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia 1v p203-224
  2. ^ Jahnert, R.J. and Collins, L.B., 2011. Significance of subtidal microbial deposits in Shark Bay, Australia, Marine Geology 286:106-111
  3. ^ Bufarale, G., Collins, L.B., 2015. Stratigraphic architecture and evolution of a barrier seagrass bank in the mid-late Holocene, Shark Bay, Australia. Marine Geology, 359: 1 – 21.
  4. ^ Collins, L.B., Zhu, Z.Z., and Wyrwoll, K-H., Hatcher, B.G., Playford, P.E., Eisenhauer, A., Chen, G.J., Wasserburg, G., and Bonani, G., 1993. Holocene growth history of a reef complex on a cool-water carbonate margin: Easter Group of the Houtman Abrolhos, Eastern Indian Ocean. Marine Geology, 115:29-46.
  5. ^ Collins, L.B., Zhu, Z.R., McNamara, K.J. Wood, D. 1999. Tertiary Quaternary Carbonates of the Cape Range Region and Ningaloo Reef, Northwest Australia. Consortium for Ocean Geosciences of Australian Universities: 1-68. Curtin University.
  6. ^ Testa, V., Collins, L.B., Zhao, J., Qu, D., 2009. Holocene Development and Palaeo-oceanography of Scott reef, Western Australia. 27th Ias Meeting of Sedimentologists, Pages: 163-167.
  7. ^ Collins, L. B., O'Leary, M., Stevens, A., Bufarale, G., Kordi, M., & Solihuddin, T., 2015. Geomorphic patterns, internal architecture and reef growth in a macrotidal, high-turbidity setting of coral reefs from the Kimberley bioregion. Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean Affairs, 7(1), 12-22.