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geoz 58 November 2012
NEWSBREAKERS
L'Aquila earthquake guilty verdict sends shock waves
Six scientists and a former government official have been found guilty and sentenced to six years gaol after facing manslaughter charges for giving wrong advice just prior to an earthquake that badly damaged the Italian city of L'Aquila in 2009. Scientists around the world are concerned this precedent will limit their ability to provide advice to their communities on natural hazards. Appeals are pending.
http://bit.ly/UtaS8xz
Lorca earthquake a groundwater issue?
Groundwater draw down under the Spanish city of Lorca may be a factor in the 2011 magnitude 5.1 earthquake that caused wide spread destruction and nine deaths. Analysis of the seismic data and groundwater mapping suggests alteration of the water table may have changed the timing of the earthquake which would probably have happened eventually.
News report: http://bbc.in/XIZjsW
Research abstract: http://bit.ly/TKpcEn
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
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
Thursday 15th November 2012
Honours Talk Night
Talks from the best 2012 Earth Science honours projects in NSW
Biomed Theatre B (E27), Biological Sciences Building (D26), UNSW, 6 pm for 6.30pm
• Lydia Belford - University of Newcastle
CO2 fluctuations in two Wombeyan caves and implications for speleothem growth
• Ryan Manton - University of Wollongong
The History and Evolution of Payún Matrú Caldera, Mendoza Province, Argentina
• Emma Flannery - Macquarie University
The organic geochemistry of the Mesoproterozoic Velkerri Formation and investigations into
syngeneity and indigeneity of hydrocarbons using slice experiments
• Timothy Chapman - University of Sydney
Petrogenesis of Omphacite-Orthopyroxene Granulite, Breaksea Orthogneiss, Fiordland,
New Zealand
• Amanda Hanani - University of New South Wales
Interpretation of the structural style of the Juha Gasfield, PNG
Queensland
Wednesday 7th of November 2012
GSA Student Awards Night
Presented by Ian Withnall and Laurie Hutton
Guest Speaker: Dr Scott Hocknull, Queensland Museum
Tropical Megafauna: new discoveries in the north
Steele Building, University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus, Brisbane. 5:15 pm for 6 pm
South Australia
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
Friday 7th December 2012
9th South Australian Exploration and Mining Conference
Adelaide Convention Centre North Terrace, Adelaide
http://bit.ly/pZh2hF
Tasmania
6-7 December 2012
Tasmanian Geoscience Forum (jointly with Aus.IMM)
Strahan Village. For more information contact andrew.mcneill@utas.edu.au
Victoria
Tuesday 13th November 2012
Professor John Clemens, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Granite: Some Things We Think We Know, or All that glisters is not granite
Basement, 50 View St, Bendigo, 6.30pm start for 7.15pm
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
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
GSA membership
Members renewals have been mailed, if you haven't received yours contact the office. Members can update their details or renew their membership online. Need help? Don't know your membership number, not sure if you have renewed? If in doubt, please contact the GSA office: info@gsa.org.au.
Mega Memoir Sale
Memoirs 1 - 34 at heavily discounted rates for all of our Members. Limited time only, Sale ends 28 February 2013. Click here for Order Form
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 Brad Pillans
IN THE NEWS
Canadian Halloween scare for Hawaii
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake centred about 139 kilometres south of Masset on British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands triggered tsunami warnings for the Canadian and Alaskan west coasts as well as Hawaii. This added an extra dimension to the annual Hallowbaloo festival and other Halloween parties in Honolulu. Fortunately only minor waves were reported.
News report: http://bit.ly/WSfoOV
USGS report: http://on.doi.gov/SiZn1W
It's gold but not as we usually see it
UK scientists have developed a technique of embossing raised or indented patterns on the surface of gold which alters the way it absorbs or reflects light. Altering the surface at the nano-scale changes the wavelengths that gold absorbs and reflects resulting in gold that can be made red or green or many other colours. Is this the start of a new jewellery fashion revolution?
http://bbc.in/UBTsqo
ON THE WEB
Fossil Rock Anthem - enjoy
You just have to see and hear this YouTube video. Not only is it a great parody of a popular piece of music but the geoscience is good too!
Radon by postcode
The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) has released a radon map of Australia based on data collected in 1990. It shows the average indoor radon levels for each postcode district. The average concentration of radon in Australian homes is about 25% of the global average indoor value and is not much larger than radon levels in outside air.
http://bit.ly/VoHtgn
Mawson seen on Heard
Recent images of Mawson Peak, the name of the summit on Big Ben, reveal hotspots on the Heard Island volcano commencing in September. Satellite images also suggest a dark ice-free summit and possibly a lava flow.
Image courtesy of NASA's Earth Observatory
NASA report: http://1.usa.gov/S8JWcp
Volcano report: http://bit.ly/UuurZn
IN THE MEDIA
Travel & Educational Tours for Teachers (K-12)
The Geological Society of America has launched a new range of GeoVentures; their field trips for teachers to sites of great geological interest. Here is an excellent opportunity for educators to visit places like Hawaii and Iceland with guides who not only know the geology but also know what the professional development needs of teachers are.
http://bit.ly/SkljX1.
GeoLogi and Top GeoShot winners announced
Geoscience Australia announced the winners of the 2012 Top GeoShot photo and GeoLogi short film competitions as part of Earth Science Week celebrations recently.
The winners of the GeoLogi short film competition, open to primary and secondary schools across Australia, are:
Primary Category (Year K-6)
Winner: Free hot showers: Geyser by Asmita Deonath, Kaleen Primary School, ACT
Runner-up: Earthquake Explorers by Maribyrnong Primary School, ACT
Highly commended: Earthquakes and Tsunami by Fraser Primary School, ACT
Highly commended: What influences the speed of erosion? by Taryn Abbott, Blackwood Primary School, SA
Junior Category (Year 7-10)
Winner: 3112 AD by Wauchope High School, NSW
Runner-up: Tectonic plates and continental drift by Amaroo School, ACT
Highly commended: Finding Fossils with Dr T-Rex by Macarthur Anglican School, NSW
This year's Top GeoShot photo competition overall winner was Hayley Anderson with her aerial photo of flood waters in central Queensland taken in 2009. The People's Choice award went to Andy Marshall with his photo Nature's Window.
Follow these links to view the winning GeoLogi and Top GeoShot entries.
Mars: the field trip (continued)
Martian XRD reveals it's soil, something like we know it
http://bbc.in/T5lBlz
Now this is a hand lens!.
http://1.usa.gov/QLW6ss
Robot vanity or clever engineering? Curiosity self portrait:
http://1.usa.gov/VgbHSM
Calibration target for the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI)
http://1.usa.gov/Qz3HKT
Image of soil near the sample site courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
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 will be here sooner than you think! If you missed the deadline make sure you get your submission in for the first issue of 2013!
Make TAG contributions via the web at:
http://gsa.junctionworld.com/publications/tag.html or email tag@gsa.org.au
WHAT'S ON
DEADLINES:
Call for Papers - Abstract deadline 1 March 2013
and Earlybird registration opens January 2013, closes 1 April 2013
FUTORES
Townsville 2-3 June 2013
Future understanding of tectonics, ores, resources, environment and sustainability
http://bit.ly/TpDgoj
EVENTS:
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
9th SA Exploration and Mining Conference, Adelaide, 7 December 2012
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
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Geology of Gold course, Melbourne, 18 – 22 March 2013
10% Discount for GSA members
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