1 Chair (SA Division) Prof Alan Collins Email: alan.collins@adelaide.edu.au SOUTH AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGIST Newsletter of the Geological Society of Australia (South Australia Division) June 2021 http://bit.ly/GSA_SA_Division Fieldtrip to Magpie Creek – Sturt Gorge Friday, 18 th June 2021, 2 ‒ 4 pm 32 Gorge Road, Bellevue Heights, SA 5050 Please register here via Eventbrite Ralph Tate Memorial Lecture: Heather Handley Into the Volcano: From Source to Surface and Beyond Thursday, 1 st July 2021, 5:30 ‒ 8 pm Braggs Lecture Theatre, University of Adelaide Please register here via Eventbrite
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Please join the Geological Society of Australia (SA Division), the Field Geology Club of South
Australia and the Royal Society of South Australia for our annual Ralph Tate Memorial Lecture.
This year we have distinguished Associate Professor Heather Handley delivering a talk “Into the
volcano: from source to surface and beyond”.
Please join us for drinks at 5:30 pm for a 6:30 pm start in the Braggs Lecture Theatre. We look
forward to seeing you.
Date and time: Thursday, 1st July 2021, 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM ACST
Location: Braggs Lecture Theatre, University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus
Cost: Free event
Please register here via Eventbrite
Abstract: There are over 800 million people in the world that live close to active volcanoes and so understanding how volcanoes work and what triggers volcanic eruptions is crucial in order to reduce risk to humans from volcanic hazards. In the lecture we'll take a journey deep into the volcano to explore why and where we get volcanoes on Earth and what makes some explosive and others not. We'll look at how science can help us to understand how fast molten rock moves to the surface beneath volcanoes. We'll also delve deep into Australia's rich and fascinating volcanic history to determine how likely a future eruption is in Australia, what the warning signals might look like and how much time we may have to prepare should we detect signs of activity.
Bio: Heather Handley’s research unravels the secrets
held in the chemistry of volcanic rocks and their
minerals to answer questions such as what triggers
volcanic eruptions? and how fast does magma travel
from its source to the Earth’s surface? Heather holds
a PhD in Volcano Geochemistry from Durham
University, UK and 1st Class Bachelor of Science
(Honours) in Geology from The University of
Edinburgh, UK. In 2012, Heather was awarded an
Australian Research Council Future Fellowship to
advance our understanding of the timescales of
Earth-system process. She is Co-Founder and
President of the Women in Earth and Environmental
Sciences Australasia Network (WOMEESA) and was
recently appointed as a Co Editor-in-Chief for Earth
and Planetary Science Letters. Heather received a
NSW Young Tall Poppy Award in 2014 in recognition
of her research excellence and passion for science
communication and has led more than 40 outreach
events and workshops. She frequently writes for The
Last month we have held our Annual General Meeting in the Mawson Lecture Theatre at the University of Adelaide. Our GSA SA Division chair Alan Collins led us through the evening, welcoming new and thanking outgoing committee and subcommittee members, giving a retrospective of the last year’s activities, and handing over award medals and prizes to Barry Cooper, Caroline Tiddy, Alice Clement, Tom Burke, and Isabella Clarke. Alan received his S.W. Carey Medal from John Foden. Chris Mays, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Swedish Museum of Natural History Stockholm, then gave a fantastic talk about the end-Permian mass extinction. The evening continued with a sumptuous dinner at Amalfi (followed by some tasty cocktails, THANX Morgan!!!).
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GSA GOLD
The GSA GOLD speaker for Tuesday, 1st June 2021 is Professor John Foden, Associate
Head of the School of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Adelaide. He will
present a talk entitled: Lessons from Fe isotopes in the understanding of magmas and
hydrothermal ores.
Please register here. Following registration, you will be sent a link to attend GSA GOLD on
Zoom. Registration for GSA GOLD is free for all GSA members. Non-members can also register
for just $10.00.
Watch past GSA GOLD lectures on GSA’s YouTube channel here!
John Foden is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Earth
Sciences at the University of Adelaide. After an undergraduate degree
at ANU, where he was inspired by the teaching and research of Alan
White and Bruce Chappell, John briefly entered the minerals industry
with a spell working with ESSO Minerals prospecting for copper in
Queensland’s Bowen Basin. John then went to Tasmania and
completed an honours degree under the supervision of Mike Solomon
and Rick Varne. After another year or so as a research assistant both
in Tasmania and for a while at Macquarie University, he headed back
to Tasmania and did a PhD under the supervision of Rick Varne on the
geochemistry and petrology of modern arc volcanics from the eastern
Sunda Arc, Indonesia. Since completing his PhD, John has been at the
University of Adelaide, first as a post-doc and then as a member of the
academic faculty where he was promoted to Professor in 2006. John
has twice been Head of the Department Geology and Geophysics
(1995-1998 and 2003) and is currently Associate Head of the School
of Earth and Environmental Science and head the School’s Post-
graduate school (Research Education Committee). Throughout his
career, John has maintained an active research interest in the issues
of the geochemistry and the source of arc magmatism and on the
application of geochemical and isotopic methods to the understanding
of magma genesis both in ancient and modern subduction settings as
well as to intra-crustal magma genesis (granites).
Geoscience Email Initiative: Video & Podcast Links
Over the last months you would have received many emails by our GSA CEO Sue Fletcher with links to a range of fantastic lectures, presentations, podcasts, interviews, and documentaries by GSA members or with their involvement. Below you will find a list of these links, so if you have missed them you can easily catch up and know how to access them.
Gilbert Price: What happened to Australia's Ice Age Megafauna?
Dorothy (Dot) Close: Northern Territory: Over The Fence
Paul Duuring: Mapping Ore Deposits - The Basic Geological Methods
Caroline Tiddy: Mineral systems in eastern Proterozoic Australia
Clive Willman and Davide Michielin: Geoscience: Beneath the Australian Alps
Marissa Betts: Small Shelly Fossils
Teresa Ubide: Volcano alert! Towards predicting volcanic eruptions
Clive Willman and Davide Michielin: Islands of Gold in an Ocean of Land
Jacqueline Halpin: Geologists explain why Tasmania is different
Ian Withnall: On the trail of the Ice-age Floods: Geotouring in the Channelled Scablands of Eastern Washington State, USA
Stephen Cox: Gold-bearing fluids Part 1; Stephen Cox: Gold-bearing fluids Part 2
Adele Pentland: Ferrodraco - the most complete pterosaur known from Australia
Vitor Barrote: 4D evolution of replacement-type VHMS ore systems in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia
Andy Gleadow: Murchison, the Moon & Me
Rick Valenta: Complex Orebodies Program Update Yulia Uvarova: New technologies for exploration and ore discovery Franco Pirajno: Civilisation exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice’: the story of Pompeii Alan Collins: Probing into the Proterozoic—using full-tectonic models of the world to illuminate the Earth in deep time Rebecca Carey: Eruption of the Havre Seamount
Steve Salisbury: Australia’s Jurassic Park
Dietmar Müller: Understanding the contribution of mantle convection to surface topography
Teagan Romyn & Dillon Brown: Felsic metastability during continental subduction: The Norwegian Western Gneiss Complex as a case study &
Evidence for Mesoproterozoic- & Cambrian-aged metamorphism from the high-grade rocks of central Tasmania: insights into the metamorphic
history of western Laurentia and East Gondwana
Nathan Daczko: Crust-mantle interaction: reactive melt ascent through the lower arc crust
Nathan Daczko: Detrimental effects of coupled dissolution-precipitation on geochronology
Ashleigh Hood: Ancient reefs reveal early history of life on Earth
Michael Anenburg: REE in Nolan's Bore style mineralisation
John Paterson: In situ Science – Cambrian Explosion
Karin Orth: Volcanic remnants located near Long Beach, Blinking Billy Point, Hobart
Clive Willman and Davide Michielin: The Stavely Arc – uncovering the geological evolution of western Victoria
Tim Chapman: Meteorites, volcanoes and Armageddon
Ellen Moon: Environmental engineering in the 21st century – why we ‘should’ sweat the small stuff
Chris Elders: WASMA Mining & Resources podcast
Diego Garcia-Bellido: Animal Dawn
Sarah Jones: Unravelling the D1 event: evidence for early granite-up, greenstone-down tectonics in the Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia
Gary Gibson: The volcanoes beneath your feet
Milo Barham: How south coast beach sand tells the story of Australia's link to Antarctic rocks
Indrani Mukherjee: The Evolution of Life on Earth: Rethinking the 'Boring Billion'
Derek Hoy: Structural interpretation of the North Cloncurry geophysical survey.
Martin van Kranendonk: The search for life on Mars
Shimona Kealy: The earliest sea voyages to Australia: Maps, models, and anecdotes from the field.
David Giles: How innovative partnerships will grow Minerals and Mining in South Australia
Mike Rickard: My career as a field and tectonic geologist
Sandra McLaren: Victorian Regional Geology
Victor Gostin: Acraman asteroid impact at the dawn of animal life
Steve Barnes: Scale in mineral systems and the Nova deposit, WA
Rob Rutherford: Innovation and Sweat – Red Metal’s Grass Roots Exploration Activities in NW Queensland
Aaron Camens: The extinct marsupial lion Thylacoleo carnifex
Teagan Blaikie: Interpreting the subsurface architecture of maar volcanoes using geologically constrained 3D gravity inversions. Examples from the
Newer Volcanics Province, Western Victoria
Paul Gow: Undercover Western Warramunga Province: The Rover Field revealed
Stephen Gallagher: From Monsoons to Desert: 50 Million Years of Australian Climate History
Kathryn Waltenberg: An Isotopic Atlas of Australia: a window into the geological evolution of the Australian continent
Peter Schaubs, Heather Sheldon & Thomas Poulet: Numerical Simulation of Critical Mineral System Geological Processes
Paul Duuring: Genesis of Magnetite and Hematite Ores in BIF.
Sandra McLaren: Presenting Online
Kelly Tucker: Geoheritage: conserving our geological heritage and promoting geotourism.
Steve Hill: Tour of the Geology of Parliament House
Phil Gilmore, Cait Stewart, Kevin Ruming & Ron Boyd: Newcastle Coastal Geotrail
Steve Hollis: Targeting VHMS mineralization in the Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia
Brian Kennett: Intraplate volcanism in North Queensland and eastern New Guinea – a cryptic mantle plume?
Corey Jago: Geology of the Dugald River Deposit
Ioan Sanislav: A re-evaluation of genetic models for copper mineralization in Mount Isa Inlier
South Australian Geoscience Student Group Sponsorship
South Australian University Earth and Environmental Science-focused student groups can apply
for GSA SA Division support for activities, excursions and events (up to $500). All that is required
is filling out an application form, provide a budget and commit to writing a short article for GSA’s
quarterly magazine, The Australian Geologist (TAG). Please contact or Morgan Blades for more
information and an application form.
Update: The GSA SA Division committee has passed a motion to fund the Adelaide
University Geological Society (AUGS) for $500.
AUGS established 1939 is a student society associated with the Adelaide University
union. With an aim to bridge the gap between university and external industries, we
provide extra-curricular opportunities for students to explore career opportunities and
network with professionals. Fostering a social community among students and staff who
are studying or otherwise interested in geology and affiliated topics including petroleum,
mining, engineering and palaeontology we encourage you to become involved.
Please renew your GSA Membership
Have you received your 2021 GSA membership renewal notice? There are several different ways
that you can pay including:
• Call the GSA Business Office on (02) 9290 2194 and pay via credit card
• Mailing a cheque or a renewal form to the GSA Business Office
(a self-addressed envelope and renewal form were enclosed with renewal notices)
• Paying via Electronic Funds Transfers (make sure to quote your name and member no.)
Account Name: Geological Society of Australia Inc.
(BSB: 082067 Account Number: 52-507-4491)
• Signing in and accessing your profile page on the GSA website
1: Click here to sign into the GSA website.
2: Click on your name at the top of the homepage.
3: Click on the orange Renew Now button. This will allow you to pay for your renewal.
Want to know more or need assistance in renewing your membership? Please contact the GSA
Business Office on (02) 9290 2194 or email [email protected]. Lapsed members can also
reactivate their membership for 2021.
Call for News Items
The next issue of The South Australian Geologist will be published in early July 2021. If you have any news items that you would like to contribute to the next newsletter, please send them to Mario Werner by Friday 25th June 2021.
18th June: Fieldtrip to Sturt Gorge (release of field brochure) led by Colin Conor
1st July: Ralph Tate Memorial Lecture: Talk by Heather Handley
22nd July: TBA
26th August: Annual Dinner at the Rob Roy Hotel
17th September: Delamerian Symposium
21st October: Student Event
Other Meetings & Events
Thursday 3rd June 2021: Lecture
Michael Vnuk: What is that monument made of?
Sunday 6th June 2021: Excursion
David Grybowski & Bob Major: Geology of the Adelaide Hills face. It’s been there for half a billion years! Why didn’t anyone tell me? For more details visit the webpage or contact Frances Williams.
University of Adelaide Department of Earth Sciences Seminar Series
The Earth Science seminar series 2021 will all be available on zoom - but feel free to join in
person in the Mawson Lecture Theatre Fridays 3-4 pm ACST.
To subscribe to the weekly seminar and obtain the zoom links see the UoA Earth Sciences
Seminars 2021 webpage.
For more info about and online access to the seminars please contact Alexander Franke.
Friday, 4 June: Dr Christopher Jackson (University of Manchester): Hot rocks beneath our feet;
3D seismic reflection imaging of the processes and products of crustal magmatism.
Jarred Lloyd (convenor), Rian Dutch, Justin Payne, Tania Wilson, Mario Werner
SA GEOLOGICAL HERITAGE SUBCOMMITTEE Carmen Krapf (convenor), Ian Lewis, Bob Major, Mario Werner
SA GEOLOGICAL EDUCATION SUBCOMMITTEE
Len Altman (convenor)
SA FIELD GUIDE SUBCOMMITTEE
Colin Conor, Bob Major, Nick Langsford, Ian Lewis, Pat James, Cynthia Pyle, Vic Gostin
SA GEOTOURISM SUBCOMMITTEE
Ian Lewis (convenor), Carmen Krapf, Pat James, Vic Gostin, Phil Plummer, Kevin Hamdorf, Mark Bishop, Mark Asendorf
For GSA Subscriptions or address and email changes please contact Ms Sue Fletcher at our central office in Sydney by phone (02) 9290 2194 or email [email protected].