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geoz 120 December 2015
NEWSBREAKERS
Nazca Plate deformed during subduction
New research indicates some subducting slabs don't remain rigid but deform to the point where the slab moves almost horizontally underneath the upper plate. The Earth's largest example of this so-called flat slab phenomenon located beneath Peru, where the oceanic Nazca Plate is being subducted under the continental South American Plate, shows through seismic anisotropy that the interior of the Nazca Plate had been deformed during subduction.
News report: http://tinyurl.com/nu7wjz4
Research abstract: http://tinyurl.com/qzhm2ks
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
Joint GSA - ASEG - AIG course: 16 and 17 February 2016
Professor Mike Dentith
Geophysics for the Mineral Exploration Geoscientist
The course targets geologists who have had limited training in exploration geophysics.
The Barbarian Room, Rugby Place, Sydney CBD
For registration and more details follow this link: http://tinyurl.com/o5ypbnc
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
Friday 11th December 2015
12th SA Exploration and Mining Conference
Adelaide Convention Centre
For further details: http://tinyurl.com/q58ykqj
Sunday 13th December 2015
Special December Event: Opals at the SA Museum
South Australia Museum
Meet at the foyer at 3.00pm. Price of entry: $17 adults, $12 student, child under 16 $5, family $35, members of the museum free.
Anticipated time for event 2 hours, plus beverages at the Hotel Richmond afterwards.
http://tinyurl.com/pn38ucx
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
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
GSA EVENTS
GSA membership renewals for 2016
2016 Member renewals have been mailed. If you didn't receive your renewal please contact the GSA office.
Membership is based on a calendar year: 1st January - 31st December 2016.
Want to know more about GSA membership? Contact us!
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If you contact us, 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: Open for Abstract submissions!
The AESC 2016 Call for Abstracts is open for submissions. 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.
Abstracts can be submitted online (click here).
aesc2016.gsa.org.au
26-30 June 2016, Adelaide Convention Centre
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Palaeo Down Under 2
Australasian Palaeontologists (AAP) cordially invites all palaeontologists from Australia, New Zealand and around the world to participate in Palaeo Down Under 2 (PDU2) in Adelaide on 11 - 15 July, 2016.
Provisional list of Symposia:
• Ediacaran (ISES) and Cambrian (ISCS) Meeting
• Palaeontology from New Zealand
• Dinosaurs in Australia
• Cave Palaeontology
• Latest technologies applied to Palaeontology
• Palaeontological Illustration
• Palaeontological Heritage: Protection & Promotion
• Palaeontological Collection Managing & Curation
Visit http://www.pdu2.org/ to find out more about the conference and the pre- and post-conference field trips and to register your expression of interest in attending.
IN THE NEWS
New Time Walk opening
The recently complete Brodie Park Time Walk at Ulladulla, on the NSW coast, is a very significant addition to the tourism scene in Ulladulla and will be launched by Shoalhaven City mayor, Joanna Gash at 10.00am on Tuesday 8th December 2015. Brodie Park extends along the cliff tops of Ulladulla Harbour's north head and the 255 metre path takes visitors to boulders of significant local rocks placed in chronological order and to scale along the path. Each boulder represents a major geological event that affected the local region and, as a result, has contributed to the current landscape. For more information about the opening contact Phil Smart, president of the Gondwana Coast Fossil Walk Inc.
http://tinyurl.com/p5cjd3o
Going down but not flipping?
By studying lava flows on the Galapagos Islands with a new technique researchers have concluded that the time-averaged geomagnetic field intensity over the past 5 million years is about 60 percent of the field's intensity today. While it has been known for some time that Earth's magnetic field has been getting weaker, leading some to speculate the field may be readying for a polarity flip, this new data suggests the field may simply be coming down from an abnormally high intensity rather than approaching a reversal.
News report: http://tinyurl.com/qy6mho5
Research abstract: http://tinyurl.com/qyxnj9n
ON THE WEB
25 years of glacial movement in 1 second animation
Using satellite imagery from 1990 and 2015 by three different Landsat satellites researchers have compressed 25 years of data into a one second animation so glacier movement can be viewed. The animations reveal changes over a much greater timeframe and at a much larger scale than ever captured before enabling researchers to see glaciers really flow and follow how they change through time.
News report: http://tinyurl.com/jc3ufj3
Research abstract: http://tinyurl.com/qb9k9vr
... and speaking of ice flows:
Here is a video of a recent rock and ice avalanche witnessed on New Zealand's Mt Cook.
http://tinyurl.com/gvfwcl6
Turning a problem into a resource
Australian research has identified a catalytic system that could enable the cost-effective conversion of carbon dioxide and water into carbon monoxide and hydrogen gas with the resultant gases to be used as feedstock in other chemical manufacturing and fuel. Not only could this utilise carbon dioxide extracted from the atmosphere and supply hydrogen for fuel but also provide a boost to suppliers of molybdenum and other materials utilised in the process.
News report: http://tinyurl.com/nrkvlbw
Research abstract: http://tinyurl.com/o6558lx
IN THE MEDIA
Adventurous types offered free membership to ExpeditionQuest
ExpeditionQuest is a social network for field researchers, adventurers, and explorers. It enables field researchers, adventurers, and explorers to connect, create groups, seek advice, search for additional team members, and share their stories and resumes via digital media. ExpeditionQuest is currently offering GSA members free Premium individual membership during the next four months. Annual membership is currently priced at $29/year. To register GSA members can use promo code A05322 or select Geological
Society of Australia.
http://tinyurl.com/nugfh5r
Scholarships awarded to four leading women
The Minerals Council of Australia, in conjunction with BHP Billiton and Downer Mining, has awarded four scholarships to women to help them progress towards company board positions. The scholarships, valued at $9500 each, have been awarded to women working in the mining industry to enable them to complete the world-class Australian Institute of Company Directors Company Directors' Course during 2016.
The scholarship winners are:
• Laura Tyler, BHP Billiton
• Meryl Jones, St Barbara Ltd
• Frances Burgess, Mt Isa Mines Limited, a Glencore company
• Janette Hewson, Peabody Energy
http://tinyurl.com/pz5q83g
Mars: The field trip continued ...
Time to visit the sands of Mars
This orbital view of Mars shows the dune field that Curiosity will visit on its route to the higher layers of Mount Sharp. The false colour view is of a scene about 380 meters across, showing a site called Dune 1 in the Bagnold Dunes dune field.
http://tinyurl.com/q4ceufx
Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
Loss of Martian atmosphere explained
http://tinyurl.com/np29cjb
Mars to rival Saturn for rings?
http://tinyurl.com/odc2xf3
More news from the solar system ...
On Titan winter has settled in
http://tinyurl.com/naqpa25
The origin of the lunar inclination solved?
http://tinyurl.com/pcl4p8q
... and elsewhere ...
Black hole observed consuming a star
http://tinyurl.com/pzbva7v
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 December issue is almost on its way.
Do you have an article or news item for the geological community? If so, make sure you meet the March issue deadline of 25 January. 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 20 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
Early bird 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
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:
Webinar: Improving Adelaide's Groundwater Management for Managers & Decision Makers, on-line, 2 December 2015
Building a renewable energy future for Australia, Canberra, 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.
Cancelled: 10th International Symposium on Environmental Geochemistry, Perth, 19 – 21 January 2016
5th Australasian University Geoscience Educators Network (AUGEN) conference, Canberra, 28 – 29 January 2016
Geophysics for the Mineral Exploration Geoscientist, Sydney, 16 – 17 February 2016
The course targets geologists who have had limited training in exploration geophysics
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, Adelaide, 8 – 10 March 2016
Introduction to Groundwater: Principles and Practices, Melbourne, 12 – 14 April 2016
Groundwater Modelling for Beginners, Sydney, 9 – 12 May 2016
Introduction to ArcGIS, Sydney, 10 – 12 May 2016
Introduction to Groundwater: Principles and Practices, Perth, 17 – 19 May 2016
35th International Geological Congress, Cape Town South Africa, 24 August – 4 September 2016
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