About the Authors

Scott E. Bryan

scott.bryan@qut.edu.au

Affiliations School of Geography, Geology and Environment, Kingston University, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, Earth, Environmental and Biological Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Alex G. Cook

Affiliation Queensland Museum, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Jason P. Evans

Affiliations Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Kerry Hebden

Affiliation School of Geography, Geology and Environment, Kingston University, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom

Lucy Hurrey

Affiliation School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Peter Colls

Affiliations School of Earth Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia, Petrographic International, Clontarf, Queensland, Australia

John S. Jell

Affiliation School of Earth Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Dion Weatherley

Affiliation WH Bryan Mining and Geology Research Centre, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Jennifer Firn

Affiliation Earth, Environmental and Biological Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

PC is an emploee of Petrographic International. Petrographic International is a commercial company that principally supplies thin sections of rock and other materials to industry and academic clients. As with the funding body for this project, Petrographic International had no role in the design, implementation, study, results and decision to publish in PLoS ONE. The involvement of PC in this research was based on his experience in the field study sites, and expertise gained through previous collaboration on this topic (Bryan et al., 2004, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 227∶135-154. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB AC JE. Performed the experiments: SB AC JE KH LH PC JJ JF. Analyzed the data: SB AC JE LH JJ DW JF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JE LH DW JF. Wrote the paper: SB AC JE DW JF.