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geoz 119 November 2015
NEWSBREAKERS
New microplate dates the Himalayas
The first ancient Indian Ocean microplate to be discovered has been named the Mammerickx Microplate, after Dr Jacqueline Mammerickx, a pioneer in seafloor mapping. The team of Australian and US scientists that made the discovery postulate the microplate's formation provides a precise means of dating the onset of the India-Eurasia collision to 47 million years ago.
News report: http://tinyurl.com/pf9kqag
Research abstract: http://tinyurl.com/onutrlv
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
Regular meetings 2015-16: Third Tuesday of each month (Except January)
Jaeger Lecture Theatre, Jaeger Building (Building 61), Australian National University. 5.00pm for 5.30pm start.
For more information: patrick.carr@anu.edu.au
New South Wales
2015-16 meeting dates to be advised
For more information: meetings@nsw.gsa.org.au
Queensland
2015-16 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, Wintergarden in the Queen Street Mall, Brisbane. 5.30 pm
South Australia
Thursday 19th November 2015
Dr Mohammad Ishaq Kakar, University of Adelaide and University of Balochistan
Geology, petrochemistry and tectonic setting of the Muslim Bagh Ophiolite, Northwestern Pakistan
plus another short presentation from:
Brandon Alessio, 2015 GSA/Playford Trust Scholarship awardee
Metamorphic and Structural Evolution of the Jebel Ja'alan Basement in Oman
Mawson Theatre, University of Adelaide. 5.30 pm for 6.15 pm
Friday 11th December 2015
12th SA Exploration and Mining Conference
Adelaide Convention Centre
For further details: http://tinyurl.com/q58ykqj
Tasmania
2015-16 meeting dates to be advised
For more information: taryn.noble@utas.edu.au
Wednesday 2 December 2015
National Virtual Core Library HyLogging Workshop
Contact Taryn Noble for more details
3 - 4 December 2015
Tasmanian Geoscience Forum, Minerals, Maps and Mountains
Contact Taryn Noble for more details
Victoria
Thursday 26th November 2015
Helen Green
Dating Aboriginal Rock Art
Fritz Loewe Theatre, Earth Sciences Building, University of Melbourne. 5.30 pm for 6.15 pm
Geological Society of Australia, Victoria Division, Student Research Scholarships
The scholarship is valued at up to $500 for travel within Australia and $700 for travel outside
of Australia. The number of and value of the scholarships awarded each year is made at the
discretion of the GSA (Vic) committee. Funding will not be granted retrospectively and applicants are asked to submit forms no later
than 6 weeks prior to their trip to give the committee time to consider the application.
Follow this link for more information and the application form.
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
2016 Gibb Maitland Medal: Call for Nominations Now Open
The Gibb Maitland Medal is awarded by the Western Australia Division of the Geological Society of Australia in order to recognize individuals who have made substantial contributions to geoscience in Western Australia. It is named for Andrew Gibb Maitland, Government Geologist from 1896 to 1926, who established the Geological Survey of Western Australia. The Medal is usually awarded each year and nominations are now sought for the 2016 Gibb Maitland medallist.
2016 Gibb Maitland guidelines & nomination form download: MS Word doc.
Nominations close Monday 30 November 2015 and the winner will be announced prior to the 2016 GSA-WA Annual Dinner
GSA EVENTS
GSA membership renewals for 2016
Want to know more about GSA membership? Contact us!
Membership is based on a calendar year: 1st January - 31st December 2016.
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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 2016 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.
AESC 2016: Abstract submission and registration open!
The AESC 2016 Call for Abstracts and Registration brochure are now live. AESC 2016: Uncover Earth's Past to Discover Our Future with six themes and four symposia has many opportunities for you to contribute.
• Earth's Environment - Past to Present
• Tectonics of the Planet
• Deep Earth Geodynamics
• Mineral Endowment
• Geoscience and Society
• Earth Science for Energy
AESC Call for Papers 2016
The Geological Society of Australia welcomes presenters to submit abstracts for AESC 2016 sessions and symposia. The AESC 2016 program will provide a platform to share knowledge critical to geoscientists working in a number of fields. This is a great opportunity to assist your fellow association colleagues to reach their full potential and advance their organisation.
Abstracts can be submitted online (click here).
Registration
The AESC 2016 registration is now open. Click here for more information.
We look forward to seeing you in Adelaide in 2016.
aesc2016.gsa.org.au
26-30 June 2016, Adelaide Convention Centre
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
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
Download the third circular here.
Visit the SGTSG web site here.
For queries more information contact:
Gideon Rosenbaum,
Email: g.rosenbaum@uq.edu.au
Phone: 07 3346 9798
IN THE NEWS
Long buried but still visible
Radar images of Mauritanian Western Sahara taken from a Japanese Earth observation satellite have revealed an ancient 500km long river system buried beneath shallow cover. It is thought the river carried water to the sea during wetter periods in the region over the past 245,000 years and perhaps as recently as 5,000 years ago.
http://tinyurl.com/q66eaqy
Another glacier on the run
Greenland's Zachariae Isstrom glacier has entered a phase of accelerated retreat. The glacier represents about 5% percent of the Greenland Ice Sheet and once fully melted will raise global sea level by more than 46 centimetres. The glacier is now breaking up and calving high volumes of icebergs into the ocean which will result in rising sea levels for decades to come.
News report: http://tinyurl.com/o83mt7s
Oceans Melting Greenland website: http://tinyurl.com/q5dbpx9
Research abstract: http://tinyurl.com/q5uygbw
ON THE WEB
Australian images all mapped out
Geoscience Australia's interactive Storymap uses geolocation information and spectacular imagery to map some of Australia's most spectacular geological sites. The searchable map features superb imagery contributed by amateur and professional photographers nationwide during the 2015 Top GeoShot photographic competition.
http://tinyurl.com/ougva46
Understanding planets better with a 3D printer
3D models of impact craters on the Moon and Mars, as well as of Mars's Valles Marineris canyon have recently been showcased at the annual Geological Society of America conference. Researchers and teachers using the models say they reveal features not easily visualised any other way and are an excellent engagement tool for use with students.
http://tinyurl.com/oyu7p7r
IN THE MEDIA
Ice volcanoes on Pluto?
Images returning from the New Horizons fly-by of Pluto suggest two volcanoes may be present near Pluto's South Pole. One volcano-like peak, Wright Mons, is 3-5 kilometres high, whereas the other, Piccard Mons, is up to 6 kilometres high. They resemble icy cryovolcanoes seen elsewhere in the solar system.
Image courtesy of NASA/SWRI/JHUAPL
http://tinyurl.com/pj3zutt
Predicting volcanic eruptions on Earth
Near Naples, Italy, a caldera known as Campi Flegrei has seen major eruptions 39,000 and 15,000 years ago as well as a more recent resurgent dome. In the past 5000 years several minor eruptions occurred, most recently in 1538, and non-eruptive activity was been recorded from 1950 to 1952, 1969 to 1972, and 1982 to 1984. In such a densely populated area it is important to understand and possibly predict the likelihood of new eruptions. In 2009 a new fumarolic vent appeared and since 2005 increased hydrothermal activity has manifested as mud pools, fumarolic vents, and localised seismic activity adding to the urgency of work being carried out to understand the system better.
http://tinyurl.com/neqxlpc
Mars: The field trip continued ...
Garden City
A network of prominent mineral veins below a cap rock ridge on lower Mount Sharp has been named Garden City. The vein complex offers a three-dimensional exposure of mineralised fractures suggesting fluids moved through the fractured rocks, depositing minerals in the fractures and affecting chemistry of the surrounding rock. Several generations of veining can be observed and numerous geochemical analyses have been taken.
http://tinyurl.com/naykacd
Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Where the (solar) wind blows the (Mars) atmosphere goes
http://tinyurl.com/nc2d8r4
Phobos going, going, gone (in 50 million years)
http://tinyurl.com/qagomsr
Martian aurora happen everywhere
http://tinyurl.com/ncn2a4f
More news from the solar system ...
The pumpkin came, went and got photographed
http://tinyurl.com/pog2rl6
Sedna and moon Dysnomia - most distant solar objects but were they stolen from another star?
http://tinyurl.com/nc8s4th
The Giant Magellan Telescope construction started
http://tinyurl.com/nvtemfj
... and elsewhere ...
Not the Big Bang but pretty big
http://tinyurl.com/nndhsuj
GJ 1132b only 39 light years away and just like Venus
http://tinyurl.com/opwpnox
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.6
R. I. Acworth, W. A. Timms, B. F. J. Kelly, D. E. McGeeney, T. J. Ralph, Z. T. Larkin and G. C. Rau
Late Cenozoic paleovalley fill sequence from the Southern Liverpool Plains, New South Wales - implications for groundwater resource evaluation.
A. D. Albani, P. C. Rickwood, P. G. Quilty and J. W. Tayton
The morphology and late Quaternary paleogeomorphology of the continental shelf off Sydney, NSW.
G. R. Holdgate, M. W. Wallace and S. Forbes
New insights from petroleum exploration into the pre-Cenozoic geology of the Latrobe Valley Area - Gippsland Basin, S.E. Australia.
D. Briguglio, M. Hall and J. Keetley
Structural Evolution of the Early Cretaceous Depocentres, Otway Basin, Victoria.
N. Mortimer, R. Turnbull, M. Palin, A. Tulloch, N. Rollet and T. Hashimoto
Triassic-Jurassic granites on the Lord Howe Rise, northern Zealandia.
S. J. Tickell, P. D. Kruse and T. J. Munson
Daly Basin, Northern Territory: lithostratigraphic revision resolves context of incongruous Ordovician fossils.
F. L. Sutherland, P. C. Piilonen, Khin Zaw, S. Meffre and J. Thompson
Sapphire within zircon-rich gem deposits, Bo Loei, Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia: Trace elements, inclusions, U-Pb dating and genesis.
Follow this link to see the most recent papers published on-line.
Coming up in TAG
TAG for December 2015
The September issue has been posted. If you didn't receive your copy, please contact the GSA.
The December TAG is with the editor, if you missed sending your contribution for the December issue, please consider contributing early for the March issue. 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 December 22 2015
5th Australasian University Geoscience Educators Network (AUGEN) conference
Canberra, 28 – 29 January 2016
Call for Papers - Abstract deadline January 31 2016
35th International Geological Congress:
Cape Town South Africa 24 August-4 September 2016
Geoscience for Society, Fundamental Geoscience and Geoscience in the Economy
http://tinyurl.com/q2nwlh8
Earlybird registration - closes deadline January 31 2016
Palaeo Down Under 2:
Adelaide 11-15 July 2016
Call for Papers open November 3 2015 - Abstract deadline February 15 2016
Australian Earth Sciences Convention:
Adelaide 26-30 June 2016
Uncover Earth's past to discover our future
http://aesc2016.gsa.org.au/
Call for Papers - Abstract deadline March 31 2016
Palaeo Down Under 2:
Adelaide 11-15 July 2016
Early bird registration open November 3 2015 - closes April 15 2016
Australian Earth Sciences Convention:
Adelaide 26-30 June 2016
Uncover Earth's past to discover our future
http://aesc2016.gsa.org.au/
NSW New Frontiers Cooperative Drilling program, round 2 open November 16 2015 - closes April 29 2016
New Frontiers encourages private exploration drilling programs in the search of mineral deposits in areas of NSW not fully explored and uses the latest technology
EVENTS:
Introduction to ArcGIS, Sydney, 17 – 19 November 2015
International Seminar on Design Methods in Underground Mining, Perth, 17 – 19 November 2015
Thursday Lunch Bangkok Sidewalk, Kirribilli, 12.30, Sydney, 19 November 2015
Contact SMEDG for more information.
Field Methods School, Perth, 23 – 25 November 2015
Geological Survey of NSW and SMEDG showcase, Sydney, 26 November 2015
GSA Specialist Group in Tectonics & Structural Geology Conference, Caloundra Qld, 22 – 27 November 2015
Download circular here.
Visit the SGTSG web site here.
Webinar: Improving Adelaide's Groundwater Management for Managers & Decision Makers, on-line, 2 December 2015
Introduction to Coal Seam Gas, Mining and Groundwater, Melbourne, 2 – 4 December 2015
St Barbara's Day Lunch with SMEDG, Sydney, 4 December 2015
Australian Groundwater School, Perth, 7 – 10 December 2015
What lies beneath the western Gawler Craton?, Adelaide, 10 December 2015
A free workshop of the latest insights from deep seismic and magnetotelluric profiling
http://tinyurl.com/q9texwr
6th Annual Earth System Governance Conference, Canberra, 9 – 12 December 2015
SMEDG Christmas Harbour Cruise, Sydney, 18 December 2015
Contact SMEDG for more details.
10th International Symposium on Environmental Geochemistry, Perth, 19 – 21 January 2016
5th Australasian University Geoscience Educators Network (AUGEN) conference, Canberra, 28 – 29 January 2016
An introduction to porphyry Cu-Au exploration, Orange District NSW, 28 February – 5 March 2016
Exploration Management: Setting Priorities, Dalkeith WA, 29 February – 1 March 2016
Introduction to Groundwater: Principles and Practices, Melbourne, 12 – 14 April 2016
Groundwater Modelling for Beginners, Sydney, 9 – 12 May 2016
35th International Geological Congress, Cape Town South Africa, 24 August – 4 September 2016
CONTACTS
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