PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS
(most recent at the top)
       

          YAN, H, WEI, W., SOON, W., AN, Z., ZHOE, W., LIU, Z., WANG, Y. & CARTER, R.M. 2015. Dynamics of the intertropical convergence
          zone over the western Pacific during the Little Ice Age. Nature Geoscience, doi: 10.1038/ngeo2375.

          CARTER, R.M. 2014. Global warming: the scientific context of the policy debate. In: Moran, A. (ed.), Climate change: the facts,
          Institute of Public Arrairs, Melbourne, Chapter 5, 67-82.

          CARTER, R.M., DE LANGE, W., HANSEN, J.M., HUMLUM, O., IDSO, C., KEAR, D., LEGATES, D., MORNER, N.A., OLLIER, C.,
          SINGER, F. & SOON, W. 2014. Commentary and analysis on the Whitehead & Associates 2014 NSW sea-level report.
          NIPCC Policy Brief, 44 pp.

          IDSO, C.D., IDSO, S.D., CARTER, R.M. & SINGER, S.F. 2014. Climate Change Reconsidered II: Biological Impacts, 1000+ pp.
          Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), The Heartland Institute, Chicago, IL.

           IDSO, C.D., IDSO, S.D., CARTER, R.M. & SINGER, S.F. 2014. Climate Change Reconsidered II: Biological Impacts, Summary
          for Policymakers, 16 pp. Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), The Heartland Institute,
          Chicago, IL.

          SOON, W., VELASCO HERRERA, V.M., SELVERAJ, K., TRAVERSI, R., USOSKIN, I., CHEN, C-T.A., LOU, J-Y., KAO, S-J.,
          CARTER, R.M., PIPIN, V., SEVERI, M. & BECAGLI, S. 2014. A review of Holocene-linked climatic variation on centennial to
          millenial time scales: Physical processes, interpretative frameworks and a new multiple cross-wavelet transform algorithm.
          Earth Science Reviews 134, 1-15. doi 10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.03.003.

          IDSO, C.D., SINGER, S.F. & CARTER, R.M. & SOON, W. 2013. Scientific Critique of IPCC�s 2013 �Summary for Policymakers�.
          Policy Brief (October, 2013), The Heartland Institute, Chicago, IL. [Discussion at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/10/19/
          scientific-critique-of-ipccs-2013-summary-for-policymakers/].

          IDSO, C.D., CARTER, R.M. & SINGER, S.F. 2013. Climate Change Reconsidered II: Physical Science, 1000+ pp. Report of the
          Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), The Heartland Institute, Chicago, IL.

          IDSO, C.D., CARTER, R.M. & SINGER, S.F. 2013. Climate Change Reconsidered II: Physical Science, Summary for Policymakers,
          20 pp. Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), The Heartland Institute, Chicago, IL.

          CARTER, R.M., SPOONER, J., KINIMONTH, W.R., FIELD, M., FRANKS, S. & LEYLAND, B. 2013. Taxing Air. Facts & Fallacies
          about Climate Change. Kelpie Press, Melbourne, 267 pp.

          IDSO, C.D., SINGER, S.F. & CARTER, R.M. 2011. Climate Change Reconsidered: 2011 Interim Report of the Nongovernmental
          International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC). The Heartland Institute, Chicago IL.

          BRIGGS, W.M., SOON, W., LEGATES, D. & CARTER, R.M. 2011. A vaccine against arrogance. Water, Air and Soil Pollution,
          2205-2206.

          CARTER, R.M. 2011. Ways to combat green totalitarianism over global warming. In: Brodsky, Jiri (Ed.), Today�s World and
          Vaclav Klaus. Nakladatelestvi FRAGMENT, Prague, pp. 27-35.

LAND, M, WUST, R.A.J. & CARTER, R.M. 2010. Plio-Pleistocene paleoclimate in the Southwest Pacific as reflected in clay
mineralogy and particle size at ODP Site 1119, SE New Zealand. Marine Geology 274(1-4), 165-176.

CARTER, R.M., LARCOMBE, P., DYE, J.E., GAGAN, M.K. & JOHNSON, D.P. 2009 Long-shelf sediment transport and storm-bed
formation by Cyclone Winifred, central Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Marine Geology, doi:10:1016/jmargeo.2009.08.009.

          McLEAN, J.D., DE FREITAS, C.R. & CARTER, R.M. 2010. Censorship at AGU: scientists denied the right of reply. SPPI Original
          Paper (March 30, 2010). http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/censorship_at_agu.html.

McCLEAN, J., DE FREITAS, C.R. & CARTER, R.M. 20009b. Correction to "Influence of the Southern Oscillation on tropospheric temperature".
Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 114, D20101, doi: 10.1029/2009JD013006. ISSN 0148-0227.

McLEAN, J., DE FREITAS, C. & CARTER, R.M. 2009a Influence of Southern Oscillation on tropospheric temperature. Journal of
Geophysical Research 114, D14104, doi:10.1029/2008JD011637.

CARTER, R.M. 2008 Knock, knock: where is the evidence for dangerous human-caused global warming? Economic Analysis &
Policy (Journal of the Economic Society of Australia - Queensland), 32(2), 107-202.  

CARTER, R.M. 2007 Stratigraphy into the 21st Century. Stratigraphy 4, 187-193.

CARTER, R.M., DE FREITAS, C.R., GOKLANY, I.M., HOLLAND, D. & LINDZEN, R.S. 2007 Climate change. Climate science and the Stern Review. World Economics 8, 161-182.

HOLLAND, D., CARTER, R.M., DE FREITAS, C.R., GOKLANY, I.M. & LINDZEN, R.S. 2007 Climate change. Response to Simmonds and Steffen. World Economics 8, 143-151.

CARTER, R.M. 2007 The myth of dangerous human-caused climate change. Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy, New Leaders Conference, Brisbane, May 2-3 2007, Conference Proceedings p. 61-74.

CARTER, R.M. 2007 The role of intermediate-depth currents in continental shelf-slope accretion: Canterbury Drifts, Southwest Pacific Ocean. In: VIANA, A. R. & REBESCO, M. (eds) Economic and Palaeoceanographic Significance of Contourite Deposits. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 276, 129�154.

CARTER, R.M., de FREITAS, C.R., GOKLANY, I.M., HOLLAND, D. & LINDZEN, R.S. 2006 The Stern Review: A Dual Critique. Part I: The Science. World Economics 7, 165-198.

CARTER, R.M. 2006 Great news for the Great Barrier Reef: Tully River water quality. Energy & Environment 17(4), 527-548.

JAMES, N.P., BONE, Y., CARTER, R.M. & MURRAY-WALLACE, C.V. 2006 Origin of the Late Neogene Roe Plains and their calcarenite veneer: implications for sedimentology & tectonics in the Great Australian Bight. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 53, 407-419.

HOLLAND, M.E., SCHULTHEISS, P.J., CARTER, R.M., ROBERTS, J.A. & FRANCIS, T.J.G. 2005 IODP's untapped wealth:multi-parameter logging of legacy core. Scientific Drilling 1, 50-51.

CARTER, R.M. 2005 The status of local "stages" in the New Zealand Plio-Pleistocene. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics 48, 623-639.

CARTER, R.M. 2005 A New Zealand climatic template back to c. 3.9 Ma: ODP Site 1119, Canterbury Bight, south-west Pacific Ocean, and its relationship to onland successions. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 35: 9-42.

ABBOTT, S.T., NAISH, T.R., CARTER, R.M. & PILLANS, B.J. 2005 Sequence Stratigraphy of the Nukumaruan stratotype (Pliocene-Pleistocene, c. 2.08-1.63 Ma), Wanganui Basin, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 35, 123-150.

NAISH, T.R., FIELD, B.D., ZHU, H., MELHUISH, A., CARTER, R.M., ABBOTT, S.T., EDWARDS, S., ALLOWAY, B.V., WILSON, G.S., NIESSEN, F., BARKER, A., BROWNE, G.H. & MASLEN, G. 2005 Integrated outcrop, drill core, borehole and seismic stratigraphic architecture of a cyclothemic, shallow-marine depositional system, Wanganui Basin, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 35, 91-122.

CARTER, R.M. & NORRIS, R.J. 2005 The Geology of the Blackmount  district, Te Anau & Waiau Basins, western Southland. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences, Science Report 2004/23, 97 pp., Figs. 1-156, 1:50 000 map, CD-ROM.

Carter, R.M., Fulthorpe, C.S.; Lu, H. 2004 Canterbury Drifts at Ocean Drilling Program Site 1119, New Zealand: climatic modulation of southwest Pacific intermediate water flows since 3.9 Ma. Geology 32, 1005-1008.

CARTER, R.M.; GAMMON, P. 2004 New Zealand maritime glaciation: millennial-scale southern climate change since 3.9 Ma. Science, 304, 1659-1662 (supporting online material).

CARTER, R.M., GAMMON, P.R.; MILLWOOD, L. 2004 Glacial-interglacial (MIS 1-10) migrations of the Subtropical Front (STC) across ODP Site 1119, Canterbury Bight, Southwest Pacific Ocean. Marine Geology 205, 29-58.

CARTER, L., CARTER, R.M.; McCAVE, I. 2004 Evolution of the sedimentary system beneath the deep Pacific inflow off eastern New Zealand. Marine Geology 205, 9-27.

GRAHAM, I.J.; CARTER, R.M.; DITCHBURN, R.G.; ZONDERVAN, A. 2004 Chronostratigraphy of ODP 181, Site 1121 (foot of Campbell Plateau, Southwest Pacific Ocean) using ¹⁰Be/⁹Be dating of sediment and entrapped ferromanganese nodules. Marine Geology 205, 227-247.

Richter, C.; McCave, I.N.; Carter, R.M.; Carter L.; et al. 2004 Southwest Pacific Gateways, Sites 1119-1125. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Reports 181 plus CD-ROM.

CARTER, R.M., McCAVE, I.N.; CARTER, L. 2004 Fronts, flows, drifts, volcanoes, and the evolution of the southwestern gateway to the Pacific Ocean. In: Proceedings of Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Reports In: Richter, C., Carter, R.M., McCave, I.N., Carter, L. et al. 2004 Southwest Pacific Gateways, Sites 1119-1125. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Reports 181.

LARCOMBE, P.; CARTER, R.M. 2004 Cyclone pumping, sediment partitioning and the development of the Great Barrier Reef shelf system: a review. Quaternary Science Reviews 23, 107-135.

CARTER, R.M., ABBOTT, S.T., GRAHAM, I.J.; NAISH, T.R. 2002 The middle Pleistocene Merced-2 and -3 Sequences from Ocean Beach, San Francisco. Sedimentary Geology 153, 23-51.

DUNBAR, G.B., DICKENS, G.R.; CARTER, R.M. 2000 Sediment flux across the Great Barrier Reef shelf to the Queensland Trough over the last 300 ky. Sedimentary Geology 133, 49-92.

WARD, I.A.K., LARCOMBE, P., BRINKMAN, R.; CARTER, R.M. 1999 Sedimentary processes and the Pandora wreck, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Journal of Field Archaeology 26, 41-53.

CARTER, R.M., McCAVE, I.N., RICHTER, C., CARTER, L. et al. 1999 Southwest Pacific Gateways, Sites 1119-1125. Proceedings of Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports 181, pp.1-112 + CD-ROM.

SAUL, G., NAISH, T.R., ABBOTT, S.T.; CARTER, R.M. 1999 Sedimentary Cyclicity in the marine Plio-Pleistocene of Wanganui Basin (N.Z.): sequence stratigraphic motifs characteristic of the last 2.5 Ma. Geological Society of America, Bulletin 111, 524-537.

CARTER, R.M.; NAISH, T.R. (eds.) 1999 The high-resolution chronostratigraphic and sequence stratigraphic record of the Plio-Pleistocene Wanganui Basin. New Zealand Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences, Folio 2.

ABBOTT, S.T.; CARTER, R.M. 1999 Stratigraphy of the Castlecliffian type section: ten mid-Pleistocene sequences from the Wanganui coast, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics 42, 91-111.

CARTER, R.M., ABBOTT, S.T.; NAISH, T.R. 1999 Plio-Pleistocene cyclothems from Wanganui Basin, New Zealand: type locality for an astrochronologic time-scale, or template for recognizing ancient glacio-eustasy? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A357, 1861-1872.

CARTER, R.M. 1998 Two models: global sea-level change and sequence stratigraphic architecture. In: Carter, R.M., Naish, T.R., Ito, M. & Pillans, B.J. (eds.) 1998 Sequence Stratigraphy in the Plio-Pleistocene: an Evaluation. Sedimentary Geology (Special Issue) 122, 23-36.

CARTER, R.M., FULTHORPE, C.S.; NAISH, T.R. 1998 Sequence concepts at seismic and outcrop scale: the distinction between physical and conceptual stratigaphic surfaces. In: Carter, R.M., Naish, T.R., Ito, M. & Pillans, B.J. (eds.), Sequence Stratigraphy in the Plio-Pleistocene: an Evaluation. Sedimentary Geology (Special Issue) 122, 165-179.

CARTER, R.M.; NAISH, T.R. 1998 A review of Wanganui Basin, New Zealand: global reference section for shallow marine, Plio-Pleistocene (2.5-0 Ma) cyclostratigraphy. In: Carter, R.M., Naish, T.R., Ito, M. & Pillans, B.J. (eds.) 1998 Sequence Stratigraphy in the Plio-Pleistocene: an Evaluation. Sedimentary Geology (Special Issue) 122, 37-52.

ORPIN, A.R., GAMMON, P.R., NAISH, T.R.; CARTER, R.M. 1998 Modern and ancient Zygochlamys delicatula shellbeds in New Zealand, and their sequence stratigraphic implications. In: Carter, R.M., Naish, T.R., Ito, M. & Pillans, B.J. (eds.), Sequence Stratigraphy in the Plio-Pleistocene: an Evaluation. Sedimentary Geology (Special Issue) 122, 267-284.

CARTER, R.M.; NAISH, T.R. 1998 Have local Ages/Stages outlived their usefulness for the New Zealand Plio-Pleistocene? New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics 41, 271-279.

LARCOMBE, P.; CARTER, R.M. 1998 Sequence architecture during the Holocene transgression: an example from the Great Barrier Reef shelf, Australia. Sedimentary Geology 117, 97-121.

NAISH, T., ABBOTT, S.T., ALLOWAY, B.V., BEU, A.G., CARTER, R.M., EDWARDS, A.R., JOURNEAUX, T.J. KAMP, P.J.J., PILLANS, B. J., SAUL, G.S.; WOOLFE, K.J. 1998 Astronomical calibration of a southern hemisphere Plio-Pleistocene reference section, Wanganui Basin, New Zealand. Quaternary Science Reviews 17, 695-710.

ABBOTT, S.T.; CARTER, R.M. 1997 Macrofossil associations from mid-Pleistocene cyclothems, Castlecliff section, New Zealand: implications for sequence stratigraphy. Palaios 12, 182-210.

CARTER, L., CARTER, R.M., McCAVE, I.N.; GAMBLE, J. 1996 Regional sediment recycling in the abyssal Southwest Pacific Ocean. Geology 24, 735-738.

CARTER, R.M.; CARTER, L. 1996 The abyssal Bounty Fan and lower Bounty Channel: evolution of a rifted-margin sedimentary system. Marine Geology 130, 182-202.

CARTER, R.M., CARTER, L.; McCAVE I.N. 1996 Current controlled sediment deposition from the shelf to the deep ocean: the Cenozoic evolution of circulation through the SW Pacific gateway. Geologisches Rundschau 85, 438-451.

FULTHORPE, C.S.; CARTER, R.M.; MILLER, K.G.; WILSON, J. 1996 Marshall Paraconformity: a mid-Oligocene record of inception of the Antarctic circumpolar current and coeval glacio-eustatic lowstand. Marine & Petroleum Geology 13, 61-77.

LARCOMBE, P., CARTER, R.M., DYE, J., GAGAN, M.K.; JOHNSON, D.P. 1995 The nature of the post-glacial sea-level rise, central Great Barrier Reef, Australia: new evidence for episodic rise. Marine Geology 127, 1-44.

ABBOTT, S.T.; CARTER, R.M. 1994 The sequence architecture of mid-Pleistocene (0.35-0.95 Ma) cyclothems from New Zealand: facies development during a period of known orbital control on sea-level cyclicity. In: de Boer, P.L. & Smith, D.G. (eds.), "Orbital Forcing and Cyclic Sequences". International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publication 19, 367-394.

BEAMAN, R., LARCOMBE, P.; CARTER, R.M. 1994 New evidence for the Holocene sea-level high from the inner shelf, central Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Journal of Sedimentary Research A64, 881-885.

CARTER, R.M., CARTER, L.; DAVY, B. 1994 Geologic and stratigraphic history of the Bounty Trough, southwestern Pacific Ocean. Marine & Petroleum Geology 11, 79-93.

HAYWICK, D.W., HENDERSON, R.A.; CARTER, R.M. 1992 Sedimentology of 40 000 year Milankovitch-controlled cyclothems from central Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. Sedimentology 39, 675-696.

CARTER, L.; CARTER, R.M. 1993 Sedimentary evolution of the Bounty Trough: a Cretaceous rift basin, southwestern Pacific Ocean. In: Ballance, P.F. (ed), South Pacific Sedimentary Basins. Sedimentary Basins of the World, 2 (Series Editor, K.J. Hsu), Elsevier, 51-67.

CARTER, R.M., JOHNSON, D.P.; HOOPER, K. 1993 Episodic post-glacial sea-level rise and the sedimentary evolution of a tropical continental embayment (Cleveland Bay, Great Barrier Reef shelf, Australia). Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 40, 229-255.

CARTER, R.M.; CARTER, L. 1992 Seismic imaging of Pleistocene deep-sea cyclothems: implications for sequence stratigraphy. Terra Nova 4, 682-692.

CARTER, R.M., ABBOTT, S.T., FULTHORPE, C.S., HAYWICK, D.J.; HENDERSON, R.A. 1991 Application of global sea-level and sequence stratigraphic models in southern hemisphere Neogene strata from New Zealand. In: MacDonald, D.I.M. (ed.), "Sedimentation, Tectonics and Eustasy", International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publication #12, 41-65.

FULTHORPE, C.S.; CARTER, R.M. 1991 Continental shelf progradation by sediment drift accretion. Geological Society of America, Bulletin 103, 300-309.

HAYWICK, D.W., LOWE, D.A., BEU, A.G., HENDERSON, R.A.; CARTER, R.M. 1991 Plio-Pleistocene (Nukumaruan) lithostratigraphy of The Tangoio block, and origin of sedimentary cyclicity, central Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics 34, 213-225

CARTER, L.; CARTER, R.M. 1990 Lacustrine sediment traps and their effect on continental shelf sedimentation - South Island, New Zealand. GeoMarine Letters 10: 93-100.

CARTER, L., CARTER, R.M., NELSON, C.S., FULTHORPE, C.S.; NEIL, H.L. 1990 Evolution of Pliocene to Recent abyssal sediment waves on Bounty Channel levees, New Zealand. Marine Geology 95:97-109.

FULTHORPE, C.S.; CARTER, R.M. 1989 Test of seismic sequence methodology on a southern hemisphere passive margin: the Canterbury Basin, New Zealand. Marine & Petroleum Geology 6:348-359.

ABBOTT, S.T., HAYWICK, D.W., CARTER, R.M.; HENDERSON, R.A. 1989 Facies signature of late Neogene eustatic sea-level fluctuations exemplified in Plio-Pleistocene cyclothems, North Island, New Zealand. 28th International Geological Congress, Washington (D.C.), Abstracts, pp.1-2.

GAGAN, M., JOHNSON, D.P.; CARTER, R.M. 1988 The Cyclone Winifred storm bed, central Great Barrier Reef shelf, Australia. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 58:845-856.

CARTER, R.M. 1988 The nature and evolution of deep-sea channels. Basin Research, v.1:41-54.

CARTER, R.M. 1988 Plate boundary tectonics, global sea-level changes and the development of the eastern South Island continental margin, New Zealand, southwest Pacific. Marine and Petroleum Geology, v.5:90-107.

CARTER, R.M. 1988 Post-breakup stratigraphy (Cretaceous-Cainozoic Kaikoura Synthem) of the east Otago continental shelf and slope, South Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, v.31(4), 405-429.

CARTER, L.; CARTER, R.M. 1988 Late Quaternary development of left-bank-dominant levees in the Bounty Trough, New Zealand. Marine Geology, v.78:185-197.

CARTER, R.M.; CARTER, L. 1987 The Bounty Channel System: a 55-million-year-old sediment conduit to the deep sea, southwest Pacific. Geo-Marine Letters, v.7:183-190.

JOHNSON, D.P.; CARTER, R.M. 1987 Sedimentary framework of mainland fringing reef development, Cape Tribulation area. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Technical Memorandum, TM-14, p.37.

CARTER, R.M.; JOHNSON, D.P. 1986 Sea-level controls on the post-glacial development of the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland. Marine Geology, v.71:137-164.

CARTER, R.M.; CARTER, L.; JOHNSON, D.P. 1986 Submergent shorelines in the SW Pacific: evidence for an episodic post-glacial transgression. Sedimentology, v.33:629-649.

CARTER, R.M.; CARTER, L. 1986 Holocene evolution of the nearshore sand wedge, south Otago continental shelf, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, v.29:413-424.

CARTER, R.M. 1985 The mid-Oligocene Marshall Paraconformity, New Zealand: coincidence with global eustatic sea-level fall or rise? Journal of Geology, v.93:359-371.

CARTER, R.M.; CARTER, L.; WILLIAMS, J.J.; LANDIS, C.A. 1985 Modern and relict sedimentation on the south Otago continental shelf, New Zealand. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir, v.93:43 pp.

GRIGGS, G.B.; CARTER, L.; KENNETT, J.P.; CARTER, R.M. 1983 Late Quaternary marine stratigraphy southeast of New Zealand. Geological Society of America, Bulletin 94:791-797.

NORRIS, R.J.; CARTER, R.M. 1982 Fault-bounded blocks and their role in localising sedimentation and deformation adjacent to the Alpine Fault, southern New Zealand. Tectonophysics, v.87:11-23.

CARTER, R.M., CARTER, L. 1982 The Motunau Fault and other structures at the southern edge of the Australian-Pacific plate boundary, offshore Marlborough. Tectonophysics, v.88:133-159.

CARTER, L.; CARTER, R.M.; GRIGGS, G.B. 1982 Sedimentation in the Conway Trough, a deep near-shore basin at the junction of the Alpine transform and Hikurangi subduction plate boundary, New Zealand. Sedimentology, v.29:475-497.

CARTER, R.M.; LINDQVIST, J.K.; NORRIS, R.J. 1982 Oligocene unconformities and nodular phosphate-hardground horizons in western Southland and northern West Coast. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, v.12:11-46.

NORRIS, R.J.; CARTER, R.M. 1980 Offshore sedimentary basins at the southern end of the Alpine Fault, New Zealand. International Association of Sedimentologists, Special Publication, v.4:237-265.

CARTER, R.M. 1979 Trench-slope channels from the New Zealand Jurassic: the Otekura Formation, Sandy Bay, south Otago. Sedimentology, v.26:475-496.

NORRIS, R.J.; CARTER, R.M.; TURNBULL, I.M. 1978 Cainozoic sedimentation in basins adjacent to a major continental transform boundary in southern New Zealand. Journal of the Geological Society of London, v.135:191-205.

CARTER, R.M.; HICKS, M.D.; NORRIS, R.J.; TURNBULL, I.M. 1978 Sedimentation patterns in an ancient arc-trench-ocean basin complex: Carboniferous to Jurassic Rangitata Orogen, New Zealand. In: Stanley, D.J.; Kelling, G. (eds.), Sedimentation in Submarine Canyons, Fans and Trenches, Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, chapter 23:340-361.

CARTER, R.M.; NORRIS, R.J. 1977 Redeposited conglomerates in a Miocene flysch sequence at Blackmount, western Southland, New Zealand. Sedimentary Geology, v.18:289-319.

CARTER, R.M.; LINDQVIST, J.K. 1977 Balleny Group, Chalky Island, southern New Zealand: an inferred Oligocene submarine canyon and fan complex. Pacific Geology, v.12:1-46.

CROOKS, I.; CARTER, R.M. 1976 Stratigraphy of Maruia and Matiri Formations in their type section (Trent Stream, Matiri River, Murchison). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, v.6:459-487.

CARTER, R.M.; NORRIS, R.J. 1976 Cainozoic history of southern New Zealand: an accord between geological observations and plate tectonic predictions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v.31:85-94.

CARTER, R.M. 1975 Mass-emplaced sand-fingers at Mararoa construction site, southern New Zealand. Sedimentology, v.22:275-288.

CARTER, R.M.; LINDQVIST, J.K. 1975 Sealers Bay submarine fan complex, Oligocene, southern New Zealand. Sedimentology, v.22:465-483.

CARTER, R.M. 1975 A discussion and classification of subaqueous mass-transport with particular application to grain-flow, slurry-flow and fluxoturbidites. Earth Science Reviews, v.11:145-177.

TURNBULL, I.M.; BARRY, J.M.; CARTER, R.M.; NORRIS, R.J. 1975 The Bobs Cove Beds and their relationship to the Moonlight Fault Zone. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, v.5:355-394.

CARTER, R.M.; LANDIS, C.A.; NORRIS, R.J.; BISHOP, D.G. 1974 Suggestions towards a high-level nomenclature for New Zealand rocks. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, v.4:5-18.

         CARTER, R.M. 1974. Geographies of the past � Part I. New Zealand's Nature Heritage, v.1: 102-107.

         CARTER, R.M. 1974. Geographies of the past � Part II. New Zealand's Nature Heritage, v.1: 129-135.

         CARTER, R.M. 1974. The moulding of the landscape � Part I. New Zealand's Nature Heritage, v.1: 191-200.

CARTER, R.M. 1974 A New Zealand case-study of the need for local time-scales. Letheia, v.7:181-202.

DUNCAN, R.A.; MCDOUGALL, I.; CARTER, R.M.; COOMBS, D.S. 1974 Pitcairn Island - another Pacific hot spot? Nature, v.251:679-682.

CARTER, R.M. 1972 Wanganui strata of Komako District, Pohangina Valley, Ruahine Range, Manawatu. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, v.2:293-324.

CARTER, R.M. 1972 Adaptations of British Chalk Bivalvia. Journal of Paleontology, v.46:325-340.

CARTER, R.M.; LANDIS, C.A. 1972 Correlative Oligocene unconformities in southern Australasia. Nature (Physical Science), v.237:12-13.

CARTER, R.M. 1970 A proposal for the subdivision of Tertiary time in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, v.13:350-363.

CARTER, R.M. 1968 On the biology and palaeontology of some predators of bivalved mollusca. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology, v.4:29-65.

CARTER, R.M. 1968 Functional studies on the Cretaceous oyster Arctostrea. Palaeontology, v.11:458-485.

         CARTER, R.M. 1967. On the nature and definition of the lunule, escutcheon and corcelet in the Bivalvia. Proceedings of the Malacological Society
         of London (now Journal of Molluscan Studies) v. 37: 243-263.

CARTER, R.M. 1967 On Lison's model of bivalve shell form, and its biological interpretation. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London (now Journal of Molluscan Studies), v.37:265-278.

CARTER, R.M. 1967 The geology of Pitcairn Island, south Pacific Ocean. Bernice P.Bishop Museum, Bulletin, v.231:38 pp.

          WRIGHT, J.B. & CARTER, R.M. 1965. Observations on the geology of an area near lakes Thomson and Hankinson, Fiordland.
          New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, v.8: 85-103. DOI:10.1080/00288306.1965.10422133.