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geoz 55 September 2012

NEWSBREAKERS

Deep coalbed biosphere drilling expedition sets new record

The record may have been broken by less than one metre but it is a new record just the same. Drilling off Shimokita Peninsula of Japan, the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology research vessel Chikyu, broke the record by retrieving samples from over 2111 metres below the seafloor. The expedition aims to drill to at least 2,200 metres below the seafloor to sample a deeply buried coal formation.
IODP report: http://bit.ly/OZf6zS
News report: http://nbcnews.to/RfszSB

FROM THE DIVISIONStop

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

Tuesday 18th September 2012
Richard Blewett, Geoscience Australia
Shaping the nation: a geology of Australia
Jaeger Seminar Room, Jaeger Building (Building 61), ANU. 5.00 pm for 5.30 pm
Dinner to follow at La Posada, Melbourne Building, 60 Alinga St, City

Thursday 27 September 2012
Geo-Societies Quiz Night
RSVP to megan.lech@ga.gov.au by Thursday 20th September.
The Harmonie German Club, Narrabundah, 5.30 pm. Admission is $10 for members and their guest or $12 for non-members.

New South Wales

Wednesday 10th October 2012
Peter A. Arditto, Director, SEDSTRAT Pty Ltd
A sequence stratigraphic model for the Middle Triassic Bald Hill Claystone and Newport Formation, Sydney Basin, New South Wales
Biomedical Theatre B, upper campus UNSW, 6 pm

November 2012
Honours Student Night
Biomedical Theatres, upper campus UNSW, 6 pm

Queensland

Wednesday 26th September 2012
Dr Lloyd Hamilton
Graphite Deposits
The Theodore Club, Level 1, 333 Adelaide St, Brisbane. 5.15 pm for 6.00 pm

South Australia

Thursday 20th September 2012
Kathryn Amos
Rivers of the Lake Eyre Basin- why these rivers are such an interesting analogue for ancient continental successions around the world
Mawson Theatre, University of Adelaide. 5.30 pm for 6.15 pm

Thursday 20th September 2012 AusIMM technical meeting
Joe Seppelt, Hillgrove
Commissioning of the Kanmantoo Copper Concentrator
Historian Hotel, Coromandel St - between Grenfell St and Pirie St, Commencing 12pm.

Thursday 4th October 2012
2nd Geonight at the pub
Griffins Head, Grenfell Street. From 5.30 pm.

Thursday 4th October 2012 Field Geology Club of South Australia
Dr Barry Cooper
Snowball Earth: the early history from South Australia
Mawson Theatre, University of Adelaide. 7.45 pm

Sunday 14th October 2012
SA Division Field Trip
Please see Newsletter for more details and preliminary itinerary

Thursday 18th October 2012
Myles Davies, DMITRE
The PACE drilling scheme with particular reference to holes with research potential
Mawson Theatre, University of Adelaide. 5.30 pm for 6.15 pm

Tasmania

2012 meeting dates to be advised
For more information: mduffett@mrt.tas.gov.au

Thursday 20th September 2012
Prof. Paulo de Souza, Office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) University of Tasmania
Field Geologists on Mars
School of Earth Sciences, Lecture Theatre, University of Tasmania, 6pm

6-7 December 2012
Tasmanian Geoscience Forum (jointly with Aus.IMM)
Strahan Village. For more information contact andrew.mcneill@utas.edu.au

Victoria

27 September 2012
Selwyn Symposium: GAGA 2012
The Great East-Australian Geology Armwave of 2012: Tectonics, modern analogues/events, mineralisation
Fritz Loewe Theatre, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne. Download brochure here.

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 EVENTStop

The National Rock Garden - make it happen!

Rock garden example


The National Rock Garden (NRG) now qualifies for Deductible Gift Recipient status (DGR). In other words, donations to the NRG are now tax deductible so now donating to the NRG can be a win-win!






The National Rock Garden will have up to 100 large specimens of the country's most iconic rocks. Each specimen will weigh approximately 10–15 tonnes. To find out how you can contribute follow this link to the NRG web site: http://www.nationalrockgarden.org.au/

If you would like to join the Friends of the National Rock Garden and receive newsletters and information directly by email please send a request to rockgarden@gsa.org.au


Image courtesy of Brad Pillans


Association of Australasian Palaeontologists (AAP) Memoir 43 now available

Cover of AAP Memoir 43

The new AAP Memoir: Revision of New Zealand Cenozoic fossil Mollusca described by Zittel (1865) based on Hochstetter's collections from the Novara Expedition Editors: Beu, A.G., Nolden, S., Darragh, T.A., 2012 is now available. Domestic price $50.00, Overseas price $61.50. Click here to order.

Nomen Nudum needs your news

The AAP is calling for content for Nomen Nudum number 32. Contributors are asked to send a summary of their contact details, research activities, and any publications. Note: you do not have to be an AAP member to contribute! Please send submissions to ian.percival@industry.nsw.gov.au.

IN THE NEWStop

Costa Rica rocked

A magnitude 7.5 earthquake rocked eastern Costa Rica recently. Seismic activity in the region is common due to the Caribbean plate interacting with the North American, South American, Nazca, and Cocos plates. This event was the result of thrust faulting on or near the subduction zone interface between the Cocos and Caribbean plates.
News report: http://bbc.in/REwbBr
USGS report: http://on.doi.gov/TmJ6bx

Opportunity knocks on rocks

While the new robot on the Martian block, Curiosity, is grabbing all the attention the ever reliable Opportunity rover continues to find surprises on Mars. Near the western rim of Endeavour Crater Opportunity has found an outcrop full of tiny spheres that do not appear to have the high iron content of the previously analysed Martian blueberries. After 8.5 years of exploring Mars Opportunity is still finding new materials for scientists to ponder.
http://1.usa.gov/OoFroA

ON THE WEBtop

New website for armchair submarine explorers

Lau mission logo





The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has a new website that allows you to explore the North East Lau Basin and all the submarine volcanoes and ecosystems the expedition uncovers. The website features and impressive video and photo archive and live video feed. This is the latest in a series of expeditions to explore the submarine volcanoes of the Western Pacific. A team of 27 scientists and technical experts from the United States, New Zealand and Australia are working with a team from the University of Bremen to remotely operate the submarine vehicle Quest 4000 to explore and collect samples at volcanic vents and hot springs.
http://1.usa.gov/QnUKE6





When the cold Earth moves for you!

Approximately 20,000 small local earthquakes on the Antarctic's David Glacier, about one every 25 minutes for a whole year, have lead researchers to conclude that the glacier is passing over a hill, creating a stick slip fault-like situation.
http://bit.ly/ObG2O9

IN THE MEDIAtop

The end of the road clearly marked

The final wanderings of a horseshoe crab have been found preserved in a 9.7 metre fossil track way. The horseshoe crab that created the record of its ill fated journey is beautifully preserved at tracks end leaving no doubt as to the tracks origins.
http://bbc.in/QjCLOW

Maybe not as warm and wet as once thought

New research into clays formed in-situ in rocks on Mururoa Atoll have led some scientists to speculate that Mars may not have been as warm and wet in its early history as previously thought.
http://bbc.in/Nk8mhE

Mars: the field trip (continued)

Landscape of Mars ahead




32 metres of new road added, 142 metres in all
http://1.usa.gov/ONlitN

Arm waving and gadget testing all done
http://1.usa.gov/RW2ygq

The Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) all calibrated and ready to zap
http://1.usa.gov/P8JGXI

Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech






What's in AJEStop

The Australian Journal of Earth Sciences online is available through the Taylor & Francis' website: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/taje20. It is very easy to navigate and use.

Volume 59 Issue No.6
Thematic issue: The evolution and geodynamics of the Indo-Australian Plate

Guest editors: Myra Keep and Wouter Schellart

M. Keep and W. Schellart
Introduction to the thematic issue on the evolution and dynamics of the Indo-Australian plate.

S. Fishwick, and N. Rawlinson
3-D structure of the Australian lithosphere from evolving seismic datasets.

R. Hall and I. Sevastjanova
Australian crust in Indonesia.

A. Replumaz, V. Vignon, V. Regard, J. Martinod and N. Guerrero
East-West shortening in a North-South convergence, example of the NW Himalayan syntaxis.

A. Benincasa, M. Keep and D. Haig
A restraining bend in a young collisional margin: Mount Mundo Perdido, East Timor.

J. Bourget, R. B. Ainsworth, G. Backé and M. Keep
Tectonic evolution of the northern Bonaparte Basin: impact on continental shelf architecture and sediment distribution during the Pleistocene.

G. Lister, L. White, S. Hart and M. Forster
Ripping and tearing the rolling-back New Hebrides slab.

R P. Durance, M. A. Jandamec, T.J. Falloon and I. A. Nicholls
Magmagenesis within the Hunter Ridge Rift Zone resolved from olivine-hosted melt inclusion and geochemical modelling with insights from geodynamic models.

W.P. Schellart and W. Spakman
Mantle constraints on the plate tectonic evolution of the Tonga-Kermadec-Hikurangi subduction zone and the South Fiji Basin region.

N. Mortimer, P. Gans, F. Hauff and D.H.N. Barker
Paleocene MORB and OIB from the Resolution Ridge, Tasman Sea.

P. Li, G. Rosenbaum, and D. Rubatto
Triassic asymmetric subduction rollback in the southern New England Orogen (eastern Australia): the end of the Hunter-Bowen orogeny.

Volume 59 Issue No.7

F. L. Sutherland, I. T. Graham, S. Meffre, H. Zwingmann and R.E. Pogson
Passive-margin prolonged volcanism, East Australian Plate: outbursts, progressions, plate controls and suggested causes.

R. M. Chmielowski and R. F. Berry
The Cambrian metamorphic history of Tasmania: the Metapelites

L. B. Reid, G. Bloomfield, L. Ricard, C. Botman and P. Wilkes
Shallow Geothermal regime in the Perth metropolitan area.

E. Prendergast, R. Offler and H. Zwingmann
Adaminaby Group west of Batemans Bay: Deformation and Metamorphism of the Narooma Accretionary Complex, NSW

A. Abduriyim, F. L. Sutherland and E. A. Belousova
U-Pb age and origin of gem zircon from the New England sapphire fields, New South Wales, Australia

E. J. Heidecker Discussion of Gorter and Glikson
Talundilly, Western Queensland, Australia: geophysical and petrological evidence for a 84 km-large structure and an Early Cretaceous impact cluster

J. Gorter and A. Glikson
Response to: E.J. Heidecker's discussion of Talundilly, Western Queensland, Australia: geophysical and petrologic evidence for an 84 km-large impact structure and an Early Cretaceous impact cluster by J. D. Gorter and A.Y. Glikson (2012)

Erratum to J. R. Hunt and G. C. Young
Depositional environment, stratigraphy, structure and paleobiology of the Hatchery Creek Group (Early-?Middle Devonian) near Wee Jasper, New South Wales

Coming up in TAGtop

September TAG

Not only is the September issue bursting with features and special reports it also showcases the GSA Awards. TAG #164, the September issue is coming soon. Keep an eye on your mailbox!

TAG publishes member contributions, it is never too early to send in your articles for the December issue:
http://gsa.junctionworld.com/publications/tag.html or email tag@gsa.org.au

WHAT'S ONtop


DEADLINES:

Top GeoShot 2012
Geoscience Australia's photo competition

Entries close 22 September 2012
http://bit.ly/L1Savk

The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Education Endowment Fund
Bicentennial Gold 88 Endowment 2013

Applications close Friday 28 September 2012
http://bit.ly/nxYtm2

Earth Science Week 2012

What are you doing for Earth Science Week? 14-20 October 2012
http://bit.ly/NN3qPn




EVENTS:

Australian National Conference on Resources and Energy 2012, Canberra, 18 – 19 September 2012

http://bit.ly/SuzEDX

Hydraulics and Hydrology for Non-Engineers, Melbourne, 20 – 21 September 2012

Download brochure here.

The seventh conference on Mine Closure, Brisbane, 25 – 27 September 2012

http://bit.ly/LucOYr

The RIU Melbourne Resources Round-up, Melbourne, 26 – 27 September 2012

An Australian Mining and Exploration Investment Conference
http://bit.ly/Tbsnrv

Water Essentials, Brisbane, 28 September 2012

http://bit.ly/p2VikV

Inaugural workshop by the produced water research centre, 8 - 9 October 2012

http://bit.ly/RWiH5n

Earth Science Week, 14 – 20 October 2012

http://bit.ly/NN3qPn

Mines and Money Australia, Sydney, 15 – 17 October 2012

http://bit.ly/nbKBHy

Pichi 50, Flinders Ranges, 20 October 2012

Download brochure here.

Coal Seam Gas and Water, Sydney, 31 October - Fri 2 November 2012

http://bit.ly/p2VikV

The Mining 2012 Resources Convention , Brisbane, 31 October - Fri 2 November 2012

http://bit.ly/Um1zEA

Australian Resources Conference & Trade Show, Perth, 12 – 14 November 2012

http://bit.ly/NBUk7E

Groundwater Essentials, Adelaide, 19 November 2012

http://bit.ly/p2VikV

Geosciences 2012 Conference, Hamilton New Zealand, 25 – 28 November 2012

http://bit.ly/OK93gz

Second Australian Earth System Outlook Conference, Canberra, 26 – 27 November 2012

http://bit.ly/PNoq8Y

Water in Coal Mines, Newcastle NSW, 28 – 30 November 2012

http://bit.ly/p2VikV

Joint SSA and NZSSS Soil Science Conference, Hobart, 2 – 7 December 2012

http://www.soilscience2012.com/

Mine site reconciliation 2012, Gold Coast, 4 – 6 December 2012

http://bit.ly/PxYPjN

9th SA Exploration and Mining Conference, Adelaide, 7 December 2012

Contact caroline.forbes@adelaide.edu.au for more information

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