New Guinea

This dissertation presents a new subgrouping of South Halmahera-West New Guinea (SHWNG) languages. The 38 SHWNG languages form a small, poorly known branch of Austronesian. The Austronesian family originated in Taiwan and later spread into Indonesia, across New Guinea, and to th…

The Gunung Bijih Timur (GBT--"Ertsberg East") skarn complex, Gunung Bijih (Ertsberg) mining district, was formed within the Tertiary New Guinea Limestone Group and is adjacent to the 2.9-Ma Ertsberg intrusion. The complex consists of three vertically stacked orebodies (in descen…

Even though eastern Indonesia has been the locus of many geological and geophysical studies, many geological aspects of this region remain poorly understood and have been the subjects of controversy. The Banda arc, which has a total curvature to nearly 180 degrees, is the most c…

Four major topics of crucial importance in cross-cultural communication of the Gospel are the source, media, receptor and contextual framework in which the communication occurs. A people's movement toward Christ among the Una people of Irian Jaya, Indonesia in the 1970's forms t…