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NEWSBREAKERSNational Rock Garden vandalised, significant rock stolenOn February 13th thieves stole a heavy quartz rock of national significance from the National Rock Garden in Canberra. The rock, part of the Federation Rocks display, is a large piece of reef quartz donated by Unity Mining from their Kangaroo Flat gold mine near Bendigo, and chosen to represent Victoria and to symbolise the state's gold rush history. The highly organised thieves stole the rock using a truck and crane and damaged other rocks on display in the process. Anybody with any information on the whereabouts of the rock is urged to contact the police. Plenty of Indonesian volcano actionMount Kelud on the Indonesian island of Java erupted recently with a violent explosion that destroyed the lava dome. This sent ash clouds 15 kilometres into the air and blanketed the landscape with ash and coarser debris up to 200 kilometres away. There was only 2 hours between the appearance of shallow earthquakes and the onset of the eruption giving locals and officials little time to evacuate and make other preparations. Meanwhile the Mount Sinabung eruption on Sumatra continues but appears to be ameliorating. A slow extrusion and gradual enlargement of the lava dome-lobe has been observed. FROM THE DIVISIONS
Divisional information is regularly updated at http://gsa.junctionworld.com/events/divisionmeetings.html Australian Capital TerritoryRegular meetings 2014: Third Tuesday of each month (Except January) New South WalesFriday 14th March 2014 QueenslandTuesday 18th February 2014 Monday 24th March 2014 Tuesday 25th March 2014 Tuesday 25th March 2014 South AustraliaRegular meetings: Third Thursday of each month (except January) GeoNight at the Pub: First Thursday of each month (starting 6th February) Thursday 20th February 2014 Thursday 20th March 2014 Monday 31st March 2014 Monday 31st March 2014 Thursday 17th April 2014 - GSA SA Division AGM TasmaniaThursday 20th March 2014 VictoriaThursday 27th March 2014 Friday 28th March 2014 Western AustraliaWednesday 5th March 2014 Wednesday 2nd April 2014 Wednesday 2nd April 2014 Thursday 3rd April 2014 GSA EVENTS
The Australian Earth Sciences Convention 2014
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Early Bird on or before 4 April 2014 |
Standard on or before 30 June 2014 |
Late after 30 June 2014 |
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Member | $780 | $880 | $990 |
Non Member | $990 | $1,100 | $1,220 |
Student/Retired/Unemployed | $295 | $365 | $445 |
One Day Member | $395 | $445 | $505 |
One Day Non Member | $495 | $550 | $615 |
Two Day Member | $595 | $655 | $725 |
Two Day Non Member | $795 | $865 | $945 |
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Group 20 registrations | $14,000 | Must pay |
Group 10 registrations | $7,300 | in full |
Group 5 registrations | $3,750 | extended to 28 February. |
Public Forum |
Early bird on or before 4 April 2014 |
Standard on or before 30 June 2014 |
Late after 30 June 2014 |
Single ticket | $10 | $10 | $10 |
Family ticket (2a+3c) | $20 | $20 | $20 |
Full registration details are available online:
http://www.aesc2014.gsa.org.au/registration/
The convention themes are:
Energy
Resources
Environment
Infrastructure, Service and Community
Dynamic Planet
Living Planet.
Dedicated symposia include:
• 39th Symposium on the Advances in the Study of the Sydney Basin
• Comparisons & Contrasts in Circum-Pacific Orogens
Please distribute information about the AESC 2014 to your colleagues within the geoscience community.
Australian Earth Sciences Convention
AESC 2014: Sustainable Australia
7-10 July 2014
Newcastle NSW
The organising committee looks forward to welcoming you in Newcastle and if you want any information about the AESC do not hesitate to contact the GSA office: info@gsa.org.au.
The Joe Harms medal is awarded to a person distinguished for excellence in mineral exploration and contribution to the discovery of ore deposits.
http://bit.ly/1brX31J
The E.S. Hills Medal is awarded biannually to an Australian citizen no older than 45 who has made a significant contribution to geoscience, normally through the publication of original research.
http://bit.ly/1eubvHZ
The Tom Vallance medal recognises those who have made significant contributions to documenting people, places or events
of importance to the history of the geological sciences in Australia or Australasia.
http://bit.ly/1fJ3aje
Have you renewed your GSA membership for 2014? 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.
Recent research on the Silurian Placoderm, Romundina, has allowed scientists to create a step-by-step story of the development of the face as jawless vertebrates evolved into creatures with jaws. Next time you look in the mirror say hello to your inner fish!
News report: http://ab.co/1caQHnZ
Research abstract: http://bit.ly/1bUBa8t
800,000 years old footprints, preserved in muddy sediments and exposed by erosion on the Norfolk Coast in the East of England, are direct evidence of the earliest known humans in northern Europe.
http://bbc.in/1aCIhab
Asteroid diversity suggests the early solar system may have been as chaotic as a snow dome.
http://bit.ly/1gG88ha
Dimetrodon had steak-knife-like teeth.
http://ab.co/NSp8r9
Sinkholes are renowned for unexpectedly swallowing roads, houses and people but a sinkhole not that far from Mammoth Cave Kentucky USA has done the unforgivable, at least as far as classic car enthusiasts are concerned: Early on the morning of February 12 a sinkhole developed under the Skydome exhibition space of the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green Kentucky and swallowed 8 one-of-a-kind Corvettes.
Statement from the museum: http://bit.ly/1gnwQDq
Video and images: http://bit.ly/MYanlx
Geoscience Australia has released the first isotopic maps of the Australian continent, perhaps the first for any continent. The maps are based on the samarium-neodymium (Sm-Nd) isotopic signature of felsic igneous rocks. The Neodymium-depleted mantle model age map of Australia: explanatory notes and user guide is available as a free download.
http://bit.ly/1b85pxx
Also just published by Geoscience Australia a new map showing the locations of mines operating at the end of 2013, developing mines and mineral deposits in Australia.
http://bit.ly/1b85Pny
FameLab is an international communication competition for scientists, including engineers and mathematicians. FameLab Australia will offer specialist science media training and, ultimately, the chance to pitch a research project at the FameLab International Grand Final in the UK at The Times Cheltenham Science Festival. The FameLab program helps young researchers develop expertise in presenting their ideas clearly to a general audience and to the media. FameLab contestants will be coached and mentored by some of the best science communicators in the world.
Find out more: http://bit.ly/1joEcXi
How to apply: http://bit.ly/1cKccsw
The Australian Museum Eureka Prizes reward excellence in the fields of research & innovation, leadership & commercialisation, school science and science journalism & communication. Entries are open until 7pm AEST Friday 2 May 2014.
http://bit.ly/1fMCYF3
80 minutes after sunset on the 529th Martian day Curiosity took this image of the twilight sky and Martian horizon. Clearly visible is the Earth as the brightest point of light in the night sky. The Moon is just below Earth. Anybody standing on Mars could easily see Earth and the Moon as two distinct, bright "evening stars".
http://1.usa.gov/1cKCR8E
Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/TAMU.
Dune buggy!
http://1.usa.gov/1cbgTyM
Looking back at Dingo Gap
http://1.usa.gov/MYtvzU
Tracks as seen from space
http://1.usa.gov/1bUNYeW
Opportunity keeps on keeping on too
http://bit.ly/1dyrlBf
... and a new impact crater on Mars found in images
http://bbc.in/1jpWd7A
Meanwhile elsewhere in near-Earth space...
Jade Rabbit communicates: not dead yet!
http://bbc.in/1galmDb
Apollo rocks reveal 4.2 billion year old event
http://bit.ly/1mkpy8H
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!
D. B. Stevenson, L. Bagas, A. R. A. Aitken & T. C. McCuaig
A geophysically constrained multi-scale litho-structural analysis of the Trans-Tanami Fault, Granites-Tanami Orogen, Western Australia.
L. J. Morrissey, M. Hand, B. P. Wade & M. Szpunar
Early Mesoproterozoic metamorphism in the Barossa Complex, South Australia: links with the eastern margin of Proterozoic Australia.
S. J. Holt, S. P. Holford & J. Foden
New insights into the magmatic plumbing system of the South Australian Quaternary Basalt province from 3D seismic and geochemical data.
T. J. Rawling, M. Sandiford, G. R. Beardsmore, S. Quenette, S. H. Goyen & B. Harrison
Thermal insulation and geothermal targeting, with specific reference to coal-bearing basins.
Discussion on "Opalisation of the Great Artesian Basin (central Australia): an Australian story with a Martian twist" by P. F. Rey (AJES, 60:3, 291-314). B. L. Dickson
Reply P. F. Rey
Follow this link to see the most recent papers published on-line.
A. S. A. A. Abu Sharib
Switching bulk horizontal shortening directions and regional-scale partitioning of deformation during the Isan Orogeny in the Eastern Fold Belt, Mount Isa Inlier, Australia
C. Nyakecho & S. G. Hagemann
An overview of gold systems in Uganda.
R.R. Loucks
Distinctive composition of copper-ore-forming arc magmas.
The March TAG is in production, copies will be delivered mid-March to GSA members and subscribers.
The March copy deadline has passed, the June copy deadline is 28 April. Have you got something to say in 2014? Get your Letter to the Editor or a news item published in TAG by sending it to: tag@gsa.org.au. If you are submitting a Feature or Special Report please send your article in as soon as possible. Need information about word lengths and submitting? Contact: tag@gsa.org.au
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Logo a maximum of 180 pixels wide x 90 pixels high.
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DEADLINES:
Nominations for the Joe Harms Medal extended until February 28 2014
The Joe Harms medal is awarded to a person distinguished for excellence in mineral exploration and contribution to the discovery of ore deposits.
http://bit.ly/1brX31J
Nominations for the E.S. Hills Medal close March 6 2014
The E.S. Hills Medal is awarded biannually to an Australian citizen no older than 45 who has made a significant contribution to geoscience, normally through the publication of original research.
http://bit.ly/1eubvHZ
Nominations for the Tom Vallance Medal close March 7 2014
The medal recognises those who have made significant contributions to documenting people, places or events
of importance to the history of the geological sciences in Australia or Australasia
http://bit.ly/1fJ3aje
Call for Papers - Abstract deadline March 14 2014
The Australian Earth Science Convention:
Newcastle 7-10 July, 2014
Sustainable Australia
http://bit.ly/17ZRWUi
The Australian Museum Eureka Prizes - applications close 7pm AEST Friday 2 May 2014
The prizes reward excellence in the fields of research & innovation, leadership & commercialisation, school science and science journalism & communication.
EVENTS:
Geological Survey of Western Australia Open Day, Fremantle, 21 February 2014
Geology of Gold, Melbourne, 17 - 21 March 2014
A 5-day course of lectures, practical sessions and a field trip.
Click here for more information.
AGES 2014, Alice Springs, 18 – 19 March 2014
An ACG Workshop hosted in conjunction with The AusIMM's 12th Underground Operators' Conference, Adelaide, 23 March 2014
Click here for more information.
Introduction to Environmental Geochemistry of Mine Site Pollution Short Course, Perth, 26 - 27 March 2014
Earlybird registration expires 24 February 2014.
Click here for more information.
Uncover Summit, Adelaide, 31 March – 2 April 2014
Depth-of-Cover technical workshop, Adelaide, 2 – 3 April 2014
Geoscience Australia is hosting a technical workshop as part of Uncover.
http://bit.ly/1kIJ7mO.
APPEA, Perth, 6 – 9 April 2014
Earlybird registration expires 21 February 2014.
http://bit.ly/LKctFl.
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