Ken GRIMES Mr Ken Grimes is a self-employed consultant geologist and geomorphologist with over 35 years experience in geological mapping, Cainozoic geology, geomorphology, karst and speleology.

FIELDS OF EXPERTISE

• Geological mapping
• Cainozoic geology
• Regolith
• Deep weathering profiles and old land-surfaces.
• Air-photo interpretation and remote sensing in general.
• Queensland geology (Cainozoic and Mesozoic)
• Karst geomorphology
• Speleology

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PERSONAL DETAILS:

Kenneth George GRIMES

Born: 19-10-1944 at Maryborough, Queensland.

Tertiary Education: University of Queensland, 1964-68, 1973-79.

Awarded a B.Sc. degree with honours in geology in 1968.

In 1973 he enrolled in a part time external B.A. course and passed in a number of geographical and computer science subjects.

Professional affiliations:

The Geological Society of Australia,
The Australian Quaternary Association,
The Australian Speleological Federation
Australian Cave & Karst Management Association

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

1991 to present: Consulting work under the business name of Regolith Mapping.

Projects have been in karst geomorphology and hydrology, general geomorphology, Cainozoic photogeological mapping and the preparation of a manual of geological terms for the National Heritage Commission.

1969 - 1991: Regional Mapping Section, Geological Survey of Queensland (GSQ):

Main activity was in regional geological mapping in Queensland with specialisation in Cainozoic and Mesozoic deposits. This included joint projects with the Bureau of Mineral Resources (BMR).

1968 - 1969: Engineering Geology Section, GSQ:

Groundwater resources of the Lockyer Valley, southeast Queensland.

MAJOR AREAS OF WORK:

Geological mapping: Mesozoic Carpentaria Basin, and Cainozoic Karumba Basin.

This was a joint BMR/GSQ mapping project. Publications from this project include numerous maps, the final BMR Bulletin (Smart & others, 1980), and papers on the evolution of the Carpentaria Plains (Grimes & Doutch, 1978), and the old landsurfaces of north Queensland (Grimes, 1979).

Queensland Geology, 1:2 500 000 map and publication.

My contribution involved the Cainozoic and Mesozoic parts of the map, and the initial conceptual layout of the schematic reference. The map was printed in 1976 (GSQ., 1976). I wrote the Cainozoic chapter of the accompanying publication (Day & others, 1983).

Cainozoic and Regolith mapping and related studies.

During my preparation of the Queensland Geology map and publication I became familiar with the Cainozoic of the whole state. I was subsequently involved in Cainozoic mapping projects throughout most of Queensland with the exception of the Eromanga Basin area.

In 1978 I presented a "keynote paper" reviewing the Cainozoic Geology of North Queensland at a symposium on the Geology and Geophysics of Northeast Australia, and contributed to the subsequent book (Grimes 1980).

In 1984 I wrote a report on my Cainozoic studies in Queensland. This included an outline of some of the special techniques which are used in Cainozoic, and especially Quaternary, geological studies. I also proposed a set of standard Quaternary morphostratigraphic units and map symbols for geological mapping purposes.

I have attended a number of Australian conferences on Cainozoic geology and regolith, and presented papers at some of these. I also presented a paper on mineral deposits in the regolith of Queensland at an AMF symposium in Brisbane (Grimes, 1985) and contributed to a Royal Society of Queensland symposium on the Capricornia section of the Great Barrier Reef (Grimes & others, 1984)

Karst Geomorphology.

In Queensland I made several private studies of karst areas (e.g. Grimes, 1988) and also two karst studies for the Queensland Government (Grimes, 1978, 1990). I am convenor of the Surveying and Mapping Standards Commission of the Australian Speleological Federation, and was Queensland co-ordinator of the Australian Karst Index (a computer database of caves and karst features) for the period 1975-1991. I have published several papers on karst and speleological topics.

Since becoming a private consultant, I have contributed to the World Heritage submission on the Nullarbor, provided advice to the Commonwealth Government on the rehabilitation of the karst landforms at a Quarry in Tasmania, documented the karst of the south-east of South Australia for the South Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, chaired an independent review of the status of the Sellicks Hill Quarry Cave for the South Australian Government, and given advice on stability and pollution problems in tourist cave areas and for quarries in cavernous limestone. I was part of a team that studied the hazards and other aspects of the caves and karst of Christmas Island for Parks Australia. I contributed a paper on the South East Karst of South Australia to Environmental Geology (Grimes, 1994), and one on pseudokarst terminology to Cave and Karst Science (Grimes, 1997). At the 1999 conference of the Australian Cave and Karst Management Association at Mt. Gambier, I gave the opening paper on "The Gambier Karst", and also an introduction to "Karst hydrology and Australian Karsts" to the theme session on "The Water Below". I contributed a paper on "Syngenetic and Eogenetic Karst" to the book on Evolution of Karst (Grimes, 2002) and wrote the entry on "Syngenetic Karst" in the Encyclopedia of Caves and Karst Science published in 2004.

Lecturing.

For several years in the late 1970s and early 1980s I lectured on Karst Geomorphology, Deep Weathering Profiles and Old Land Surfaces to the annual vacation school for the Department of External Studies at Queensland University. This was at the invitation of Dr Denis Saunders. I also lectured on Deep Weathering and Morphostratigraphic Studies to students in the Department of Environmental Studies at Griffith University in 1981, at the invitation of Dr Errol Stocks.