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geoz 57 October 2012
NEWSBREAKERS
Mount Fuji causes concern
In 2011 a magnitude-6.2 earthquake occurred directly under Mount Fuji shortly after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake off Japan's north-east that caused the tsunami disaster. Since then intense monitoring has revealed increasing magma chamber pressure raising concerns that an eruption may by imminent. Mount Fuji has not erupted for 300 years but historically it erupts roughly every 30 years, adding to the concerns since it last erupted less than two months after a large earthquake.
http://bit.ly/SR3OAF
Earth Science Week puts careers in focus
Australia's Earth Science Week celebrations from 14 - 20 October 2012 focus on the theme of Discovering careers in Earth Sciences. Visit the Geoscience Australia Careers Expo on 18 October to hear scientists talk about the work they do and find out more about Geoscience Australia's Graduate Program and work experience opportunities.
http://bit.ly/P25F6G
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
Tuesday 16th October 2012
Regular meeting
Dinner to follow at Shalimar Indian Restaurant, Marcus Clark St, City
Jaeger Lecture Theatre, Jaeger Building (Building 61), ANU. 5.00 pm for 5.30 pm
Thursday 18th October 2012
Careers Expo, Scrivener Room at Geoscience Australia
Bookings are essential
Contact GA's Education Team on 02 6249 9673 or education@ga.gov.au
24 - 27 November 2012
Geology Field Trip to the NSW South Coast
Contact Mike Rickard on mikejanrickard@bigpond.com or 6238 3117
New South Wales
November 2012
Honours Student Night
Biomedical Theatres, upper campus UNSW, 6 pm
Queensland
2012-13 meeting dates to be advised
For more information: info@qld.gsa.org.au
South Australia
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
Thursday 25th October 2012
Tim Goldsmith, PwC
Mine-the growing disconnect
AUSIMM Adelaide Branch Lunch Meeting:
See website for details.
Thursday 25th October 2012
Simon Holford, ASP
Three dimensional seismic evidence for non-magmatic reactivation of buried volcanic complexes in sedimentary basins
University of Adelaide - Centre for Tectonics, Resources and Exploration (TRaX):
See website for details.
Thursday 1st November 2012
GeoNight at the pub
Refreshments provided
Griffiths Head, Grenfall Street. 5.00 pm
Thursday 15th November 2012
Professor Santosh
Details of his Gondwana research
Mawson Theatre, University of Adelaide. 5.30 pm for 6.15 pm
Monday 19th November 2012
Open Day - DET CRC Annual Conference
Uncovering the Future II
Hahndorf, South Autralia
Tasmania
2012-13 meeting dates to be advised
For more information: mduffett@mrt.tas.gov.au
6-7 December 2012
Tasmanian Geoscience Forum (jointly with Aus.IMM)
Strahan Village. For more information contact andrew.mcneill@utas.edu.au
Victoria
2012-13 meeting dates to be advised
For more information: secretary@vic.gsa.org.au
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
Wednesday 7th November 2012
Dr Domenik Wolff-Boenisch, Research Fellow Department of Applied Geology Curtin University
Mineral sequestration of carbon dioxide in basalt: a pre-injection overview of the CarbFix project
Irish Club of WA, 61 Townshend Road, Subiaco, 5.30pm
Friday 7th December 2012
AIG-GSA Christmas Cruise
On board the M.V. Captain Cook
Click here for booking form
GSA EVENTS
The National Rock Garden - a rock solid idea
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 Doug Finlayson
Association of Australasian Palaeontologists (AAP) Memoir 43 now available
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. The deadline is October 31.
IN THE NEWS
Vegetarian 'vampire' dinosaur a prickly problem
Despite impressive stabbing canines that earned it the title of 'vampire' tooth wear and other evidence suggests that the South African heterodontosaurid dinosaur, Pegomastax africanus, was a herbivore. Adding to the oddness of this cat-sized reptile is the covering of stiff bristles it also sported.
News report: http://bbc.in/PzD7vy
Journal Article: http://bit.ly/SEOtiW
Giant's Causeway not a myth
In the myth, the Giant's Causeway in Ireland was built by the giant Fionn McCool. Today the impressive array of over 40,000 interlocking basalt columns is a UNESCO World Heritage Site complete with an interpretive centre. The centre recently revised its interpretive materials in response to criticism that it gave weight to creationist views that the site was less than 6,000 years old while failing to provide appropriate scientific information on the age of the 60 million year old site.
http://bbc.in/T0qgsj
ON THE WEB
34th IGC plenary sessions now on-line
The 34th IGC organising committee is pleased to announce that all of the Congress Plenary Session presentations are now available for viewing on-line. Simply go to http://www.34igc.org and click on the Plenary Sessions option. All of the presentations made by plenary speakers are available complete with their PowerPoint slides.
http://igc.conferenceshare.com.au/
Print yourself a fossil
First find your fossil, then scan it using X-ray micro-tomography and send the file to a 3D printer to create a physical representation.
http://bit.ly/We1PGC
Shiveluch caught in the act
Satellite images taken two hours apart show a new eruption from Shiveluch Volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.
http://1.usa.gov/VTAXN3
IN THE MEDIA
Iron man Buddha a spacefarer
A Buddhist sculpture, known as the iron man, has an elemental analysis that indicates it is carved from an ataxitic iron meteorite with high Nickel and Cobalt content. Researchers have concluded the geochemical data most likely matches fragments of the Chinga ataxite meteorite strewn field discovered in 1913.
Journal article: PDF document.
Publishing food for thought
A study of the manuscript submission and rejection process for biologically based papers submitted to journals for publication found that papers resubmitted and accepted by one journal after being rejected by another, receive more citations than other papers. No doubt authors in other disciplines, including the geosciences, are now wondering if it applies to their field as well.
http://bit.ly/Rmit6L
Mars: the field trip (continued)
It's a rock! It even looks just like the ones back home.
http://1.usa.gov/OzPWeI
Scooping is fun, Curiosity jiggles the samples! Watch the video:
http://bit.ly/OtFt3l
Real data pours in. Jake is fractionated.
Pictures: http://1.usa.gov/VVUA8T
Data: http://1.usa.gov/R0CpKi
Keeping an eye on Glenelg stratigraphy
http://1.usa.gov/QOLZPD
Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems
What's in AJES
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.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 TAG
December TAG
Christmas, and the December TAG is just around the corner. Make sure your contribution gets published, get it in now!
Make TAG contributions via the web at:
http://gsa.junctionworld.com/publications/tag.html or email tag@gsa.org.au
WHAT'S ON
DEADLINES:
Earth Science Week 2012
What are you doing for Earth Science Week? 14-20 October 2012
http://bit.ly/NN3qPn
Nomen Nudem issue 32 submissions due October 31 2012
Please send submissions to ian.percival@industry.nsw.gov.au.
EVENTS:
Earth Science Week, 14 – 20 October 2012
Mines and Money Australia, Sydney, 15 – 17 October 2012
Pichi 50, Flinders Ranges, 20 October 2012
Australian National Committee on Large Dams (ANCOLD) conference, Perth, 24 – 26 October 2012
2nd Coal Seam Gas and Water, Sydney, 31 October - 2 November 2012
5% Discount for GSA members on all ICE WaRM Professional Short Courses
Download PDF flyer here
The Mining 2012 Resources Convention , Brisbane, 31 October - 2 November 2012
Australian Resources Conference & Trade Show, Perth, 12 – 14 November 2012
3rd Groundwater Essentials, Adelaide, 19 November 2012
5% Discount for GSA members on all ICE WaRM Professional Short Courses
Download PDF flyer here
Mineral Exploration Seminar 2012, Perth, 22 November 2012
Geosciences 2012 Conference, Hamilton New Zealand, 25 – 28 November 2012
Climate Change Adaptation Course, Adelaide, 26 – 27 November 2012
5% Discount for GSA members on all ICE WaRM Professional Short Courses
Download PDF flyer here
Second Australian Earth System Outlook Conference, Canberra, 26 – 27 November 2012
2nd Water in Coal Mines, Newcastle NSW, 28 – 30 November 2012
5% Discount for GSA members on all ICE WaRM Professional Short Courses
Download PDF flyer here
AIG-GSA Christmas Cruise, Perth, 2 December 2012
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
Field Methods School (groundwater), Willunga SA, 4 – 6 December 2012
9th SA Exploration and Mining Conference, Adelaide, 7 December 2012
Contact caroline.forbes@adelaide.edu.au for more information
Water Essentials, Brisbane, 10 December 2012
5% Discount for GSA members on all ICE WaRM Professional Short Courses
Download PDF flyer here
Snowden Professional Development Courses, 2013 programme
10% Discount for GSA members
Download PDF flyer here
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