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geoz 106 March 2015
NEWSBREAKERS
Global volcanic hazards quantified
For the first time a thorough analysis of global volcanic hazards has quantified the risks of living near a volcano. World wide 800 million people live within 100 kilometres of a volcano that could erupt. However, there are 62 high risk volcanoes that warrant special attention and 90% of the risk is found in just 5 nations: Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, Mexico and Ethiopia.
http://tinyurl.com/l5rp2cq
Melbourne houses rattled
The south-east Melbourne suburb of Pakenham was shaken by a 2.7 earthquake recently. Residents in the area reported a loud bang and houses shaking violently.
http://tinyurl.com/qek2hkj
FROM THE DIVISIONS
Divisional information is regularly updated at http://gsa.junctionworld.com/events/divisionmeetings.html
Check this site for more recent information on the following events:
Australian Capital Territory
GSA Annual Student Night, Tuesday 17th March 2015
Three career talks to be presented:
• Julia Jasonsmith: Working as a consulting Earth Scientist
• Natalie Balfour: Geoscience education, outreach and seismology research
• Patrick Carr: Too much geochemistry is never enough: insights into my career as a geoscientist
Jaeger Lecture Theatre, Jaeger Building (Building 61), Australian National University. 5.00pm for 5.30pm start.
For more information: emma.mathews@ga.gov.au
New South Wales
2015 meeting dates to be advised
For more information: meetings@nsw.gsa.org.au
Queensland
Queensland Division launches a new App: a self-guided walking tour through the heart of Brisbane featuring the use of building stones from the early days of European settlement to the modern expansion of Australia's third largest City. Download it here.
Also check it out on the dedicated FaceBook Page: http://tinyurl.com/l7gd8mv
2015 meeting dates to be advised
For more information: info@qld.gsa.org.au
Every Wednesday evening: GeoPub
Weekly Informal get-together for Explorers, Miners & other Geoscientists
O'Malleys Irish Pub - Basement Level of the Wintergarden in the Queen Street Mall, Brisbane. 5.30 pm
South Australia
Regular meetings: Third Thursday of each month (except January)
The Mawson Theatre, Mawson Laboratories, Adelaide University, 5.15 pm for 6.15 pm
For more information: jim.jago@unisa.edu.au
Annual General Meeting, Thursday 16th April 2015
GSA President Graham Carr
35 years of Mineral Exploration Research in Australia - my personal perspective on the 5 most influential outcomes
Mawson Theatre, University of Adelaide. 5.30 pm for 6.15 pm
Tasmania
2015 meeting dates to be advised
For more information: taryn.noble@utas.edu.au
Victoria
Thursday 26th March 2015
Speaker and talk to be advised
Fritz Loewe Theatre, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne 5.30pm for 6.15pm
Thursday 30th April 2015
Julie Boyce
The Newer Volcanics of Victoria
Fritz Loewe Theatre, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne 5.30pm for 6.15pm
Western Australia
Regular meetings: First Wednesday of each month (except December and
January)
Irish Club of WA, 61 Townshend Road, Subiaco, 5.30pm
For more information: info@wa.gsa.org.au
GSA EVENTS
Invitation to attend the Geological Society of America Penrose Conference
The Geological Society of America has formally invited GSA members to apply to attend the upcoming Penrose Conference, June 22 - 27. The conference title is: Extensional Reactivation of Thrust Faults, Coseismic Surface Rupture, and Crustal Evolution in the Eastern Basin and Range Transition Zone Evanston, Wyoming.
The conference will address active (Pleistocene to late Holocene) extensional tectonics over-printed on preexisting Sevier and Laramide structures, tectonic geomorphology, earthquake hazard/risk, neotectonic effects on hydrocarbon occurrence, and crustal evolution in the eastern Basin and Range transition zone, however, it is limited to a maximum of 80 attendees.
An application form is available on the Penrose Conference website. The application form or, alternatively, an email containing the requested information should be received by the Conference Chairman not later than March 13, 2015.
Successful applicants will be notified by return email not later than April 24, 2015. Registration materials will be forwarded to Conference attendees by April 1, and should be completed and returned to GSA, by May 1, 2015.
GSA membership renewals for 2015
2015 Member renewals have been posted to all members. If you didn't receive your membership renewal please contact the GSA office.
Want to join the GSA but don't know how to do this?
Haven't renewed your membership and not sure how to proceed?
Want to know more about GSA membership?
Working reduced hours or retrenched during the downturn? If you are a GSA member of five years of more and have been retrenched in the downturn please contact the GSA as you will be eligible for membership assistance Membership fees for unemployed members receiving AJES (online or hardcopy) are reduced to $25.00 for 2015 and will be waived for these unemployed members not receiving AJES.
You can contact us and we can assist you with your GSA membership, by email info@gsa.org.au or phone (02) 9290 2194.
GSA Membership is from the 1st January to the 31st December. Membership fees are due by the 1st January.
Geotourism app
The Geotourism Brisbane app for Android and iPhones - a self-guided walking tour through Brisbane CBD featuring the use of building stones. See http://www.qld.gsa.org.au/BBS_App.htm or the Geotourism Brisbane FaceBook page
AESC 2016: time to start planning
The AESC 2014 seems like it happened just yesterday but now is the best time to start planning for the 2016 AESC. Keep an eye on the web site and look out for updates on-line and in TAG. For more information contact Caroline Forbes: caroline.forbes@adelaide.edu.au or Sue Fletcher: sue@gsa.org.au
http://aesc2016.gsa.org.au/
Specialist Group in Tectonics and Structural Geology.
Riding the Wave: A conference to showcase current research and ideas in Structural Geology and Tectonics 22-27 November 2015
Pre-conference field trip: 14-21 November 2015
New Caledonia: ophiolite obduction, accretion and high-pressure metamorphism
Field trip convener: Geoffrey Clark
Post-conference field trip: 28-29 November 2015
Gympie Block/D'Aguilar Ranges: Oscillating deformation and the birth and death of the
final orogeny on onshore Australia - core complex, ophiolitic blueschist, rift systems and
terrane accretion.
Field trip convener: Rod Holcombe
Key dates:
Early Bird registration and submission of approximate titles for oral presentation
selection: 30 June 2015
Abstract deadline: 15 September 2015
Download the second circular here.
For queries and expressions of interest contact:
Gideon Rosenbaum,
Email: g.rosenbaum@uq.edu.au
Phone: 07 3346 9798
GSA Annual General Meeting
Thursday, 19th May
5.30pm for 6.00pm start
Rugby Club, 31 Pitt Street, Sydney
Speaker details to be announced and for more information contact: info@gsa.org.au
New AAP Memoir #46
Ordovician (Darriwilian-early Katian) trilobite faunas of northwestern Tarim, Xinjiang, China
Editors: Zhou Zhiyi, Yin Gongzheng & Zhou Zhiqiang
$70.00 including postage in Australia
Contact: info@gsa.org.au
IN THE NEWS
Lightning can make volcanic glass
Lightning can induce the formation of glass spherules from volcanic ash due to the heat generated during the electrical discharge. Recent studies of deposits from both the 23 March 2009 eruption of Mount Redoubt, Alaska, USA, and the April-May 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland, identified large numbers of these glass beads.
News report: http://tinyurl.com/kkku4g8
Research abstract: http://tinyurl.com/k5s5geu
Getting hot in Chile
The 2,847 metre high Villarrica volcano in Chile's central valley erupted recently with a red alert issued and local evacuations ordered.
http://tinyurl.com/pdqqtm9
ON THE WEB
How to weigh a stegosaur.
First catch your dinosaur find your fossil. 2: Digitise every bone and use neat software algorithms to calculate the volume of the surrounding body. 3: Calculate the body mass using references to volume to mass ratios of extant quadrupeds. Here is one we calculated earlier, it weighed about 1.6 tonnes:
News report: http://tinyurl.com/lkanj6j
Research abstract: http://tinyurl.com/n3fabj5
Operating mines 2014
Geoscience Australia have just published their latest Operating Mines of Australia map. It shows the locations of operating mines, developing mines and mineral deposits in Australia. Closed mines or mines not operating at the end of 2013 are not shown. The map is available for free download from Geoscience Australia.
http://tinyurl.com/mpdxalr
IN THE MEDIA
Vog ahoy
In this oblique view of Hawaii from the International Space Station the haze, known as vog, is a visible haze resulting from interactions of volcanic gases, the atmosphere and sunlight. The vog haze is transported hundreds of kilometers downwind and forms a series distinct alternating swirls known as von Kármán vortices.
Image courtesy of NASA's Earth Observatory.
http://tinyurl.com/k5e9hot
Oldest human found in Ethiopia
A 2.8 million year old lower jawbone, complete with five teeth including tell-tale back molars, found recently in Ethiopia is now thought to be the oldest fossil attributed to the genus Homo.
News report: http://tinyurl.com/pkntfx6
Research links: http://tinyurl.com/ma3vvyk
Mars: The field trip continued ...
Telegraph Peak powder transfer interrupted
As the rover began the transfer of rock powder collected by the drill at Telegraph Peak a transient short circuit triggered a shut down. Until engineers determine the cause of the fault and the best action to take the procedure will remain on hold.
http://tinyurl.com/o6qalvw
Mastcam image of the Curiosity's drill. Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Women working on Mars
http://tinyurl.com/nq4a2yk
Wind blown dust Martian style
http://tinyurl.com/qgbhkbh
More news from the solar system ...
Dawn in orbit around Ceres
http://tinyurl.com/o5ojo9d
Rosetta pictures its own shadow
http://tinyurl.com/q76df3g
... and elsewhere ...
A planet in a quadruple star system!
http://tinyurl.com/krvhhdp
What's in AJES
The Australian Journal of Earth Sciences online is available through the Taylor & Francis website. It is very easy to navigate and use.
AJES is available to financial members of the GSA. Don't miss the next issue because your membership has lapsed!
Volume 62 No.1
D. H. Moore, P. G. Betts and M. Hall
Fragmented Tasmania: the transition from Rodinia to Gondwana.
N. Stokes, C. L. Fergusson and R. Offler
Backarc basin and ocean island basalts in the Narooma Accretionary Complex, Australia: setting, geochemistry and tectonics.
K. Lane, E. Jagodzinski, A. Reid, M. Hand and R. Dutch
Age constraints on the timing of iron ore mineralisation in the southeastern Gawler Craton.
E. Swierczek, G. Backe, S. P. Holford, E. Thentorey and A. Mitchell
3D seismic analysis of complex faulting patterns above the Snapper Field, Gippsland Basin: implications for CO2 storage.
G. R. Holdgate and R. H. Grapes
Wairau Basin and fault connections across Cook Strait, New Zealand: Seismic and geological evidence.
D. I. Cendón, C. E. Hughes, J. J. Harrison, S. I. Hankin, M. P. Johansen, T. E. Payne, H. Wong, B. Rowling, M. Vine, K. Wilsher, A. Guinea and S. Thiruvoth
Identification of sources and processes in a low-level radioactive waste site adjacent to landfills: groundwater hydrogeochemistry and isotopes.
Volume 62 No.2
S. Schmidt and P. De Deckker
Present-day sedimentation rates on the southern and southeastern Australian continental margins.
A. G. Blakemore, C. V. Murray-Wallace, K. E. Westaway and T. J. Lachlan
Aminostratigraphy and sea-level history of the Pleistocene Bridgewater Formation, Mount Gambier region, southern Australia.
T. C. W. Landgrebe and R. D. Müller
Uncovering the relationship between subducting bathymetric ridges and volcanic chains with significant earthquakes using geophysical data mining.
T. Rushmer, N. A. Dixon and S. M. Clark
High pressure, down under: the first Australian high-pressure synchrotron facility for geoscience research.
P. C. Hayman, S. E. Hull, R. A. F. Cas, E. Summerhayes, Y. Amelin, T. Ivanic and D. Price
A new period of volcanogenic massive sulfide formation in the Yilgarn: a volcanological study of the ca 2.76 Ga Hollandaire VMS deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia.
G. Nabatian, E. Rastad, F. Neubauer, and M. Honarmand
Iron and Fe-Mn mineralisation in Iran: Implications for Tethyan metallogeny.
G. E. Williams and P. W. Schmidt
Low paleolatitude for the late Cryogenian interglacial succession, South Australia: paleomagnetism of the Angepena Formation, Adelaide Geosyncline.
I. Jones and C. Verdel
Basalt distribution and volume estimates of Cenozoic volcanism in the Bowen Basin region of eastern Australia: Implications for a waning mantle plume.
Follow this link to see the most recent papers published on-line.
Coming up in TAG
TAG for March 2015
The March TAG should be in your mailbox any day now. The copy deadline for the June 2015 issue is 20 April 2015. If you are submitting a Feature or Special Report please send your article in as soon as possible and if you need information about word lengths and submitting contact: tag@gsa.org.au
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WHAT'S ON
DEADLINES:
Call for Papers - Abstract deadline 1 April 2015
SEG2015: SEG-CODES joint conference:
World-Class Ore Deposits: Discovery to Recovery
Hobart 27-30 September, 2015
NT Geophysics and Drilling Collaborations - Applications deadline 13 April 2015
Co-funding assistance up to $100,000 is available
Early bird registration - Deadline April 30 2015
Soil and Groundwater Pollution: Characterisation, Remediation and Risk Management workshop
Perth 1-4 September 2015
This course comprehensively covers soil and groundwater pollution and remediation due to anthropogenic contamination.
http://tinyurl.com/ka89gj4
Call for Entries - Deadline 1 May 2015
Australian Museum Eureka prizes
Call for Papers - Abstract deadline June 29 2015
11th International Conference on Mine Closure
Perth March 2016
11 years of mine closure excellence
http://tinyurl.com/qbvs4c6
EVENTS:
Emerging Technologies in Waste Management Seminar Series, Perth, 9 – 13 March 2015
Petroleum Economics Risk & Fiscal Analysis, Perth, 9 – 11 March 2015
Follow this link for the flyer
Australasian Oil & Gas Exhibition & Conference, Perth, 11 – 13 March 2015
Locate 15, Brisbane, 10 – 12 March 2015
2015 Australian Groundwater School and Field Trip, Adelaide, 16 – 20 March 2015
AGES, Alice Springs, 17 – 18 March 2015
Conference updates
http://tinyurl.com/nq9uk55
Big Data, Inspiring Information and Strategic Knowledge, Perth, 23 March 2015
Magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE Deposits, Perth, 26 – 27 March 2015
Acid Sulfate Soils Course, Sunshine Coast, 27 March 2015
The Yilgarn, Perth, 30 – 31 March 2015
Introduction to Groundwater: Principles and Practices, Melbourne, 15 – 17 April 2015
Open Pit Slope Stability and Ground Support Seminar and associated courses, Brisbane, 14 – 17 April 2015
Advanced Techniques in Mining & Exploration Geology, Townsville, 20 – 28 April 2015
Erosion and Sediment Control Level 2 - Site Managers and Supervisors, Mackay, 28 April 2015
Acid Sulfate Soils Course, Gold Coast, 30 April 2015
GIS-based Modelling with Arc Hydro Groundwater, Perth, 19 – 21 May 2015
CRC Association annual conference, Canberra, 25 – 27 May 2015
Acid Sulfate Soils Course, Gladstone, 29 May 2015
Society of Economic Geologists (SEG/CODES) 2015 Conference, Hobart 27 – 30 September 2015
World-Class Ore Deposits: Discovery to Recovery
Abstracts due: 1 April 2015
For more information http://www.seg2015.org/
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