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About the Bibliography - (Edition 7.1, June, 2020)

The purpose of this bibliography is to facilitate access to the vast heritage of geological studies in Indonesia, as well as that of surrounding areas whose geological characteristics extend into parts of Indonesia (mainland SE Asia, SW Pacific, NW Australia). Awareness of the vast body of existing literature on the geology of Indonesia should improve the quality of future work, limit redundant research and maintain credit where credit is due.

This is a ‘traditional’ bibliography, with public-domain publications listed alphabetically by region or by subject. It resumes a tradition of annotated bibliography work that started with 13 issues by Verbeek between 1912 and 1925, listing 4000 titles on the geology of 'Netherlands Indies' and surrounding regions. This work was continued by Wing Easton (1926-1937), De Neve (1950, 1951), Steenhuis (1951), Klompe (1954-1957) and Tjia (1977). The Geological Survey of Indonesia maintains lists of their publications since 1979.

The first edition of this bibliography was published as a 700-page pdf addendum to: J.T. van Gorsel (2009) A bibliography and brief history of Indonesia geology literature. Proc. 33rd Ann. Conv. Indonesian Petroleum Association, Jakarta 2009, vol. 1, p. 429-460 (on CD-ROM edition). The 3rd edition (1099p.) went online in May 2011; followed by editions 4 (1253p.; November 2011), 5 (1655p.; October 2013) and 6 (2202p., ~19,400 titles; October 2016).

The 2020 edition of the ‘Bibliography of the geology of Indonesia and surrounding areas’ is now available online. This edition (7.1,June 2020) contains >23,720 titles (>800 new entries since Ed. 7.0), on 2826 pages, and with >5900 links to open-access papers.

This bibliography is believed to be more comprehensive than what has been available from academic reference data bases like Georef, which tend to capture few of the older papers or papers published in Indonesia. Besides, they tend to be dominated by not-always-informative conference abstracts and generally require subscription fees that are prohibitive to most academic and independent geoscientists in Indonesia.

This compilation may be quoted as: J.T. van Gorsel (2018) - Bibliography of the Geology of Indonesia and surrounding areas, Edition 7.0, 2723 p. (online publication at www.vangorselslist.com)

What is Included

This bibliography aims to be a comprehensive listing of papers on regional geology, tectonics, structure, stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, paleontology, paleobiogeography, sedimentology, petrography, geochemistry and hydrocarbon occurrences, regardless of date, country or language of publication. Also included are selected papers from specialized fields like coal and mineral occurrences, modern volcanoes, Quaternary geology, mammals and hominid evolution, geothermal, petroleum production and engineering, geological modeling and economic analyses, but these are not complete listings.

What is not included

Generally not included in this listing are:

1. Conference abstracts and 'student literature reviews', unless they contain new data or concepts not published elsewhere;
2. Papers describing tools, methods, workflows, economic evaluations, project management, etc. without significant geological information;
3. Papers in which locations of fields and wells were renamed and disguised beyond recognition;
4. ’Vendor brochures‘ (papers promoting data sets, studies, organizations, farmouts, etc., unless they contain new, unbiased geological information or ideas). Relatively few papers were deliberately omitted for perceived poor quality or redundancy.

Organization

Titles are sorted primarily by area. For instance, a paper entitled ’Coal from SW Java‘ will be under ’Java‘, not under ’Coal, Petroleum Source Rocks ‘. Papers on a specific theme, covering multiple areas, like hydrocarbon occurrences, volcanism, source rocks, etc., will be under that topic. General geological and regional tectonic papers will be under ’Regional‘.

Annotation

Most papers are annotated with a summary of key points. Absence of annotation does not necessarily mean that these papers are less significant (usually because paper or abstract were not available).

The >5300 links to online digital versions of papers included in this bibliography are only for publications in open-access repositories. These links were valid at the time of entry, but unfortunately, internet sites tend to change frequently, so several of these links may no longer work. Numerous other copyrighted papers can be found online through author's postings on www.academia.com, www.researchgate.com and other sites, or may be obtained by direct requests from authors. Access to other copyrighted digital papers may require society memberships, institutional subscriptions or payments.

Geographic Names

Many of the geographic names used in this listing are names used at the time of publication or are names of popular usage or convenience, and may or may be not be the currently politically correct or preferred names.

Updates

It is our intention to continue to update this bibliography. Users noticing missing titles are requested to bring this to my attention at e-mail: jtvangorsel@gmail.com.

Copyright

Ownership rights of this bibliography remain with the author. Downloads from www.vangorselslist.com are free, but are intended for personal use only, and should not be re-distributed for commercial purposes.

Acknowledgements

The author wishes to acknowledge and thank the many individuals who have shared copies of papers or titles, including (in alphabetical order):

• - Tim Charlton (Guildford)
• - Herman Darman (Jakarta)
• - Tom Fraser (Jakarta)
• - Jack Grant-Mackie (Aukland)
• - David Haig University of Western Australia, Perth)
• - Bhakti Harahap (Geological Survey Indonesia, Bandung)
• - Ron Harris (Brigham Young University, Provo)
• - Frank Huffman (University of Texas, Austin)
• - Darwin Kadar (Bandung)
• - Munasri (Bandung)
• - Mike Murray (Brisbane)
• - Peter Pieters  (Jakarta)
• - Carolus Prasetyadi  (UPN University, Yogyakarta)
• - Awang Satyana  (BP MIGAS, Jakarta)
• - Bernard Seubert  (PetroPEP, Jakarta)
• - John Taylor  (Perth)
• - Theo van Leeuwen  (Jakarta)
• - Ivan Yulianto  (Jakarta)
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• - Debbie Gilbert for moral support and building and maintaining the website and digital data base.

J. T. (Han) van Gorsel
Houston, Texas, USA

Common abbreviations

The meaning of abbreviations used in the bibliography should generally be clear from its context. In case it is not, here is a listing of the most frequently used abbreviations: