Professor Geoffrey Playford

Emeritus Professor Geoff Playford
BSc(Hons) W.Aust., PhD Camb., DSc W.Aust.

Palynology, micropalaeontology, palaeobotany, stratigraphy

Room 235 Steele Building
Tel: +61 7 3365 2366
Fax: +61 7 3365 1277
Email: Geoff Playford

Principal research interests

• Palynology and its stratigraphic applications
• Evolution of land plants
• Palaeozoic microphytoplankton

Current projects

• Upper Palaeozoic palynostratigraphy of intracratonic basins (Amazonas, Parnaíba, Paraná, and Chaco-Paraná Basins) of Brazil and Argentina. [with José H. G. de Melo (Petrobras/Cenpes, Rio de Janeiro)].
• Biostratigraphic calibration of Devonian-Carboniferous marine and nonmarine strata of northern Australia. [with J.S. Jell and Geological Survey of Western Australia].
• Devonian-Carboniferous palynostratigraphy of the Iberian Pyrite Belt, Spain and Morocco. [with F. González and C. Moreno (Universidad de Huelva, Spain)].
• Palaeobotany and palynology of Upper Palaeozoic strata, Papua. [with J.F. Rigby (Queensland University of Technology)].
• Early-mid Palaeozoic microphytoplankton: biostratigraphy and palaeogeography. [with R. Wicander (Central chigan University)].
• Siluro-Devonian miospores and acritarch floras, Darling Basin, New South Wales. [with Geological Survey of New South Wales].

Recent publications

Playford, G. & Dino, R. (2002). Permian palynofloral assemblages of the Chaco-Paraná Basin, Argentina: systematics and stratigraphic significance. Revista Española de Micropaleontología, 34, pp. 235-288, 9 pls. Madrid.
Playford, G. (2003). Acritarchs and prasinophyte phycomata: a short course. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, Contributions Series, 41, pp. 1-39. Dallas.
Yin Leiming & Playford, G. (2003). Middle Ordovician acritarchs from the global stratotype section of Huangnitang in Changshan, Zhejiang, China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 42, pp. 89-103, 5 pls. Beijing.
Gorter, J.D., McKirdy, D.M., Jones, P.J. & Playford, G. (2004). Reappraisal of the Early Carboniferous Milligans Formation source rock system in the southern Bonaparte Basin, northwestern Australia. In: Ellis, G.K., Baillie, P.W., & Munson, T.J., eds., Timor Sea petroleum geoscience. Proceedings of the Timor Sea Petroleum Geoscience Symposium, Darwin, 19-20 June 2003; Northern Territory Geological Survey, Special Publication 1, pp. 231-255. Darwin.
Playford, G. & Dino, R. (2005). Carboniferous and Permian palynostratigraphy. In: Koutsoukos, E.A.M., ed., Applied stratigraphy, chapter 5, pp. 101-121. Springer, Dordrecht.
González, F., Playford, G. & Moreno, C. (2005). Upper Devonian biostratigraphy of the Iberian Pyrite Belt, southwest Spain. Part One: miospores. Palaeontographica, Abteilung B, 273, pp. 1-51, 8 pls. Stuttgart.
González, F., Moreno, C. & Playford, G. (2005). Upper Devonian biostratigraphy of the Iberian Pyrite Belt, southwest Spain. Part Two: organic-walled microphytoplankton. Palaeontographica, Abteilung B, 273, pp. 53-86, 7 pls. Stuttgart.
Hashemi, H. & Playford, G. (2005). Devonian miospore assemblages of the Adavale Basin, Queensland (Australia): descriptive systematics and stratigraphic significance. Revista Española de Micropaleontologia, 7, pp. 317-417, 14 pls. Madrid.
Playford, G. & Wicander, R. (2006). Organic-walled microphytoplankton of the Sylvan Shale (Richmondian: Upper Ordovician), Arbuckle Mountains, southern Oklahoma, U.S.A. Oklahoma Geological Survey, Bulletin 148, pp. 1-116, 28pls. The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.
Quintavalle, M. & Playford, G. (2006a). Palynostratigraphy of Ordovician strata, Canning Basin, Western Australia. Part One: acritarchs and prasinophytes. Palaeontographica, Abteilung B, 275, pp. 1-88, 12pls. Stuttgart.
Quintavalle, M. & Playford, G. (2006b). Palynostratigraphy of Ordovician strata, Canning Basin, Western Australia. Part Two: chitinozoans and biostratigraphy. Palaeontographica, Abteilung B, 275, pp. 89-131, 3pls. Stuttgart.
Garcia, A. & Playford, G. (2007). The fossil record of algae. In: McCarthy, P. M. & Orchard, A. E., eds., Algae of Australia: Introduction, pp. 104-128. ABRS, Canberra; CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.
Playford, G. & Vecoli, M. (2008). Professor Marco Tongiorgi. Revue de Micropaléontologie, 51 (1), pp. 3-8. Paris.
Quintavalle, M. & Playford, G. (2008). Stratigraphic distribution of selected acritarchs in the Ordovician subsurface, Canning Basin, Western Australia. Revue de Micropaléontologie, 51 (1), pp. 23-37. 2 pls. Paris.
Wicander, R. & Playford, G. (2008). Upper Ordovician microphytoplankton of the Bill's Creek Shale and Stonington Formation, Upper Peninsula of Michigan, U.S.A. : biostratigraphy and paleogeographic significance. Revue de Micropaléontologie, 51 (1), pp. 39-66, 4 pls. Paris.
Playford, G., González, F., Moreno, C. & Al Ansari, A. (2008). Palynostratigraphy of the Sarhlef Series (Mississippian), Kebilet Massif, Morocco. Micropaleontology, 54 (2), pp. 89-124, 8 pls. New York.
Playford, G. & Rigby, J.F., (2008). Permian palynoflora of the Ainim and Aiduna formations, West Papua. Revista Española de Micropaleontologia, 40 (1-2), pp. 1-57, 8 pls. Madrid.
Moreno, C., Sáez, R., González, F., Almodovar, G., Tosano, M., Playford, G., Alansari, A., Rziki, S. & Bajddi, A. (2008). Age and depositional environment of the Draa Sfar massive sulfide deposit, Morocco. Mineralium Deposita, 43, pp. 891-911. Dordrecht.
Playford, G. 2009. Review of Devonian palynology, Canning Basin. In Playford, P.E., Hocking, R.M. & Cockbain, A.E., Devonian reef complexes of the Canning Basin, Western Australia. Geological Survey of Western Australia, Bulletin 145, Appendix 3, pp. 441-444. Perth.
Playford, G. & Melo, J.H.G. 2009. The Mississippian miospore Neoraistrickia loganensis (Winslow, 1962) Coleman & Clayton, 1987: morphological variation and stratigraphic and palaeogeographic distribution. Revista Española de Micropaleontología, 41 (3), pp. 241-254. Madrid.
Playford, G. & Melo, J.H.G. 2010. Morphological variation and distribution of the Tournaisian (Lower Mississippian) miospore Waltzispora lanzonii Daemon, 1974. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen, 256, pp. 183-193. Stuttgart.
González, F., Moreno, C. & Playford, G. 2010. Palaeopalynological plagiarism: a case involving the Devonian–Carboniferous of the Iberian Pyrite Belt, South Portuguese Zone. Palaeontographica, Abteilung B, 283 (1-3), 1-4. Stuttgart.

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