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Geoscience Weekly Seminar Series
2011
| December |
| 8th |
Forestlands of the Aurora Australis: South Polar (75-80S) Mid Cretaceous greenhouse environment & floral ecosystems of the Tupuangi formation, Chatham Islands |
Chris Mays |
| 1st |
Using 3D modelling to explore geological uncertainty and possibility |
Mark Lindsay |
| November |
| 23rd |
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Ms Gemma Prata |
| 18th |
The emplacement mechanics of dykes and sills: constraints from field |
Dr. Janine Kavanagh; |
| October |
| 28th |
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Mr Chris Medlin & Ms Simone Jordan
(PhD candidates) |
| September |
| 16th |
40 years exploration of the Mananda Antcline, PNG; two oilfields, four dry holes and deep potential; |
Dr. Kevin Hill |
| August |
| 19th |
Isotope palaeothermometry and high latitude Cretaceous climates |
Dr. Gregory D. Price; |
| July |
| 29th |
Airborne Electromagnetics for hydrogeological applications: potential, limitations, case studies and trends |
Dr. Andrea Viezzoli |
| May |
| 20th |
Building on 3D Geological knowledge through gravity and magnetic modelling workflows at regional to local scales |
Richard Lane |
| March |
| 14th |
In deep water: New insights into geologic fluids in the deep crust and upper mantle |
Prof Craig Manning |
| 15th |
Closing Tethys |
Dr Gordan Lister |
| January |
| 21st |
Exposure dating, a relatively new dating technique and its applications |
Dr Tim Borrows |
2010
| December |
| 2nd |
Orogenic plateaux through time, the flat earth hypothesis and the meaning of life |
Assoc Prof Patrice Rey |
| 9th |
Minerals, magmas and fluids: synchrotron light and experimental petrology |
Dr Andrew Berry |
| 10th |
Mapping active major faults using 3D ground penetrating radar and 2D and 3D high resolution reflection seismology: examples from New Zealand |
Prof Alan Green |
| November |
| 26th |
The Tolmie Igneous Complex: muliple rhyolitic magmas with deep crustal origins and shallow crustal evolution |
Prof John Clemens |
| October |
| 8th |
Deformation of calcite-muscovite: reactions and role of stress at grain boundaries |
Prof Chris Wilson |
| 22nd |
The September 4th CanterburyEarthquake: What happened and what next? |
Dr Mark Quigley |
| 29th |
Shedding light on the first teeth: synchrotron imaging and quantitative functional analysis of conodont elements |
Dr David Jones |
| September |
| 10th |
Structural evolution of the Asanti Belt, Ghana: Implications for gold mineralization |
Mr Stephane Perrouty |
| 17th |
Intergrated interpretation of geology and geophysics using inversions to predict geology undercover |
Dr Nick Williams |
| 24th |
Transport and aviation hazard from the Eyjafjallajokull volcanic ash determined from the satellites and dispersion modelling |
Dr Fred Prata |
| August |
| 6th |
Untangling an Orogeny: Calibration of the Neogene Timor Collision |
Dr David Haig |
| 13th |
A new theory of subduction dynamics and plate motion with applications to Nth American tectonics and Mediterranean volcanism |
Dr Wouter Schellart |
| 20th |
Geochemical investigation of groundwater in the Yuncheng Basin, China: Implications for quality and sustainability |
Mr Matthew Currell |
| 27th |
Archean greenstone evolution in the light of new research on BIF's |
Dr Phil Thurston |
| JULY |
| 16th |
The sinking of Zealandia: a significant geological constraint on the antiquity and origin of the native terestrial biota of New Zealand |
Dr Hamish Campbell |
| JUNE |
| 11th |
Reconciling surface plate motions with rapid three-dimensional mantle flow |
Dr Margarete Jadamec |
| MAY |
| 7th |
Advanced microanalysis techniques for Mineral and Materials |
Dr Colin MacRae |
| March |
| 29th |
Supervolcanoes - understanding large-scale processes from small-scale observations |
Mr Chris Folkes |
| 12th |
CO2 and global warming - are the Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, and Pleistocene experiences a prophecy for the future of the Holocene? |
Prof. Michael Asten |
| February |
| 2nd |
Magnetotellurics and structural models for Central Victoria |
Drs Toshi Uchida, Yoonho Song, Tae Jong Lee and Seong Kon Lee |
2009
| November |
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13th
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Palaeotectonic and geoclimatic controls on the rise of human and human civilization
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Dr Rick Squire
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| 6th |
Komatiites, nickel sulfide deposits, platinum and the early history of the mantle |
Dr Steve Barnes |
| October |
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30th
23rd
9th
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The Fossil Record: Not Just For Palaeontologists
Moho Geometry Gravity Inversion Experiment (MoGGIE): A refined model of the Australian Moho, and its tectonic and isostatic implications
Modeling of convergent margins: from slab hydration to collisional orogeny
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Dr David Jones
Dr Alan Aitken
Dr Manuele Faccenda
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| 6th |
Microfossil-like structures have been discovered in the >2.9Ga old Farrel Quartzite of the east Pilbara, but how do we establish that they are evidence for ancient life? |
Dr Kath Grey |
| September |
| 25th |
Gold & Copper Deposits: Geodynamic and Lithosphere-scale Controls |
Dr Graham Begg |
| 4th |
Using ambient seismic vibrations for earthquake hazard zonation in a valley environment: The Tamar Valley, Launceston. |
Mr Maxime Claprood |
| August |
| 14th |
In-Situ 3D Mapping: The Laser Survey Device for Augmented Geological Reality |
Miss Antoinette Stryk |
| 14th |
Combined Geological and Potential Field Inversions: Using Geological Uncertainty in Implicit Modelling Applications |
Mr Mark Lindsay |
| 14th |
The Regional Scale 3D Structural Evolution of the Proterozoic Wernecke Inlier, Yukon Territory, Canada: The Unseen Fort Simpson Terrane |
Mr Brenton Crawford |
| 7th |
The Holy Grail in kimberlite volcanology: Understanding the nature of kimberlite volcanoes and their eruption styles from their vent fill deposits |
Prof. Ray Cas |
| July |
| 24th |
Geochemical evolution of groundwater in the Yuncheng Basin, north China |
Mr Matt Currell |
| 3rd |
What magmatic rocks in the Eastern Fold Belt, Mt. Isa Inlier, can tell us about Proterozoic Australia |
Dr Massimo Raveggi |
| June |
| 26th |
The hydrochemistry of the Australian Victorian Alps Drainage System: Constraints on chemical weathering and the riverine carbon cycle in temperate to semi-arid, silicate dominated river catchments |
Mr Benny Hagedoorn |
| 19th |
Petrographic and mineralogical variations of primitive volcanic rocksfrom the Hunter Ridge and Hunter Ridge Rift Zone: Implications for theorigin and crystallisation histories of primary magmas |
Dr Patti Durance-Sie |
| 5th |
Rock Fabric Quantification from Macro- to Micro-Scale: application in magmatic rocks and apatite fission-track analysis |
Dr Mark Peternell |
| May |
| 29th |
Can pervasive granite melt flow occur in the crust? |
Dr Pavlina Hasalova |
| 22nd |
Oxygen, life, action: what caused the lateNeoproterozoic rise of O2? |
Dr Rick Squire |
| 21st |
Multi-azimuth and Wide-azimuth Seismic:
Foundations, Challenges, and Opportunities |
Dr Andrew Long |
| 15th |
Did Port Phillip Bay dry up around 4000 years BP? -seabed evidence, and core dating |
Dr Guy Holdgate |
| 15th |
Precambrian Stromatolite Reefs: Template forthe Phanerozoic Reef Ecosystem |
Dr Guy Narbonne |
| 8th |
Reconstructingkimberlite eruptions: insights from a volcanological investigation ofthe Jericho and Muskox kimberlites (Northern Slave Province, Nunavut,Canada) |
Mr Pat Hayman |
| 1st |
Sources of metals and fluids and the regionaldistribution of orogenic gold deposits |
Dr Iain Pitcairn |
| April |
| 24th |
Crustal (brittle) and mantle (viscous) deformation. Numerical techniques and applications. |
Sergio Zlotnik |
| 22nd |
Orogenic Gold in Space and Time |
Dr Rich Goldfarb |
| 9th |
Dimensional data and power law scaling of felsic and mafic tabular intrusions: implications for viscosity and depth control on styles and mechanisms of magma emplacement |
Prof Alexander "Sandy" Cruden |
| 1st |
The redox state of the cratonic mantle - implications for magmatism, metasomatism and diamond stability |
Dr Greg Yaxley |
| March |
| 31st |
Which Source(s) for Intraplate Basalts? |
Dr Sebastien Pilet |
| 31st |
Rhyolite magma storage and ascent at Chaitén volcano, Chile |
Dr Jonathan Castro |
| 27th |
Surface water-groundwater interactions in the Murray Basin |
Prof. Ian Cartwright |
| 19th |
Microtomographical, microstructural, geochemical and mineralogical analysis of platinum-group element deposit: Examples from the Bushveld and Stillwater Complexes |
Dr. Belinda Godel |
| 13th |
Upper P-T Limits of the Crustal Continuum Model for Formation of Gold Deposits |
Dr Andy Tomkins |
| 6th |
The role of geophysical lineaments in the tectonic evolution of the Curnamona Province |
Helen Williams |
| 5th |
Advances in Neutron and Synchrotron X-Ray Imaging |
Professor Dr. John Banhart |
| Febuary |
| 27th |
Three-dimensional mantle flow in the eastern Alaska subduction-transform system |
Margarete Jadamec |
| 20th |
CO2 evasion in relation to system metabolism and rock weathering on multi-annual time scales. A mass balance approach in rivers of the Australian Victorian Alps |
Benny Hagedorn |
| January |
| 23rd |
Magmatic and hydrothermal processes in the formation of the Ok Tedi giant porphyry Cu-Au deposit, Papua New Guinea |
Michiel van Dongen |
2008
| November |
| 19th |
Large (~1.5km) glacioeustatic changes during a Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth |
Prof. Paul Hoffman |
| 10th |
Live Birth in the Devonian
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Dr John Long
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| October |
| 30th |
Mantle processes beneath and adjacent to continental Transform Faults |
Prof. Tim Stern |
| 15th |
The First Animals |
Prof. Patricia Vickers-Rich |
| 15th |
The Kermadec arc, New Zealand: a 10 year odyssey of discovery along the world's most hydrothermally active intraoceanic arc |
Dr. Cornel de Ronde |
| 10th |
The Flow Dynamics of Extremely Large Volume Pyroclastic Flows Based in Interaction with Basement Topography: the Cerro Galan Ignimbrite, Argentina |
Prof Ray Cas |
| 10th |
Heterogeneous Pumice Textures in the 2.5Ma Cerro Galan Ignimbrite: Implications of Magma Ascent |
Dr Heather Wright |
| September |
| 19th |
Magma hybridization within an anatectic source region: an example from the Karakoram Shear Zone |
Henning Reichardt |
| 12th |
The Eruption dynamics of an Explosive Caldera-forming Event: the 151 ka Sutri eruption, Vico Volcano, central Italy |
Dr Adele Bear, Monash University |
| 5th |
Early Animals on Planet Earth: The Doushantou and Chenjiang Faunas of China, late Precambrian-Early Cambrian |
Professor Chia-Wei Li, Tsing Hua University, Taiwan |
| August |
| 4th |
Lawn Hill Impact Structure: Timing, structure and other fascinations |
Jess Salisbury |
| 1st |
Quantifying Quaternary Deformations using Morphochronology |
Dr. Anne-Sophie Mériaux (from Newcastle University's School of Geography, Politics and Sociology) |
| July |
| 18th |
Alteration textures and minerals in kimberlite: implications for original textural character |
Pat Hayman |
| 15th |
The Research-Teaching Nexus: some examples from ANU |
Richard Baker, Deputy Dean, ANU |
| 14th |
Supermountains & the genesis of supergiant sediment-hosted Cu deposits |
Dr Rick Squire |
| June |
| 20th |
Deep subduction dynamics and its expression in plate motions and deformations |
Dr Fabio Capitanio |
| 16th |
Invisible gold in bismuth-tellurides and –sulfosalts: correlationtrends and crystal-structural modularity |
Dr Cristiana L. Ciobanu; The University of Adelaide Mineralogy Group, South Australian Museum |
| May |
| 19th |
Quantitative kinematics of Precambrian supercontinents: Building an Australian and global renaissance. |
Associate Professor David Evans, Yale University, USA |
| 19th |
Supercontinental cycles, orogenic systems, and growth of the Australian continent. |
Professor Bill Collins, James Cook University |
| 19th |
Rethinking the Making of Plate Boundaries: Lessons from the San Andreas and New Zealand. |
Professor Kevin Furlong, Penn State University, USA, |
| 16th |
Geological and geophysical ambiguities - is there a future for 3D geological and geophysical modelling? |
Dr Laurent Ailleres |
| 9th |
Ok Tedi - Geological riches and environmental challenges in one of the wettest places on the Planet
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Dr Barie Bolton |
| 5th |
Graduate Employment with St Barbara |
St. Barbara Mining company |
| April |
| 18th |
The Dynamic Limits of Craton Thickness |
Dr Katie Cooper |
| 18th |
Four Years in the Belly of the Whale: Fathoming the Evolution of Marine Mammals |
Erich Fitzgerald |
| 10th |
Assessing earthquake hazard in Papua New Guinea |
Lawrence Anton |
| 7th |
Volcanology and sedimentology of the Ekati kimberlites, NWT, Canada |
Dr Lucy Porritt |
| 4th |
Fluid-Mechanical Problems in Very Viscous Convection |
Professor John Lister |
| March |
| 27th |
The Tertiary intraplate Eurekan Orogen of Arctic Canada and Europe-North Atlantic plate boundary processes. |
Dr Randell Stephenson |
| 11th |
When Life Got Big: the Mistaken Point fossils of Ediacaran Newfoundland. |
Prof. Guy Narbonne |
| 6th |
The lithospheric scale architecture of a compressional intraplate orogen, and its implications for continental lithosphere processes
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Alan Aitken |
| February |
| 29th |
The role of magmatic and exhalative rocks in the formation of the Broken Hill-type deposits.
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Massimo Raveggi |
| 22nd |
Monash e-Research & AuScope Geodynamics Seminars: Mike Sandiford, The University of Melbourne, Dave Stegman, Monash University, Matt Knepley, Argonne National Laboratory, Roberto Weinberg, Monash University, Louis Moresi, Monash University, Dietmar Muller, University of Sydney |
various |
2007
| December |
| 7th |
Ancient crust in the world's youngest giant Au-rich porphyry copper deposit - Room G60, Building 28, Clayton Campus |
Michiel van Dongen |
| November |
| 9th |
Tectonic and climatic influences on landscape evolution in Iran, Mexico and Australia |
Mark Quigley |
| October |
| 19th |
5% in the Field - Insights from a career with Rio Tinto Exploration |
Craig Parry |
| 12th |
Imaging the Australian lithosphere using magnetotellurics |
Graham Heinson |
| August |
| 24th |
PhD Valedictory Talk: Geology and Palaeontology of the Takatika Grit, Chatham Islands New Zealand |
Chris Consoli |
| July |
| 25th |
Metal sources and sinks: Searching for the key ingredients that make hydrothermal ore deposits |
Jamie Wilkinson |
| May |
| 18th |
Meteorites from Eldee Station and Evolution of the Solar System |
Dr Andy Tomkins |
| 11th |
The Osteolepiforms: An in-depth description of several Australian sarcopterigian tetrapodomorph fish taxa and a major phylogenetic analysis of the group. |
Tim Holland |
| 4th |
Proterozoic Tectonics of Australia and Comparisons with Laurentia |
Dr Peter Betts |
2006
| December |
| 1st |
Tectonostratigraphy Evolution of the Woolsthorpe-Cobden region, western Victoria and Its Implications to Hydrocarbon Exploration in the central onshore Otway Basin |
Minarwan |
| November |
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| 24th | Hot Rocks in the Karakoram Fault (aka Pretty Pictures from Northern India) | Henning Reichardt | | 17th | Melt Inclusion Analysis as a Tool for Investigating Arc Magma Genesis | Pattie Sie | | 3rd | The Precambrian Sedimentary Record from an Os and PGE Perspective…Mineralisation, Snowballs and Geochronology | Dr Bruce Schaefer | | October |
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| 20th | Lithic fragments in ignimbrites as indicators of explosive volcanic processes; reconstructing the climactic Abrigo eruption (Tenerife) | Dr Adrian Pittari | | 13th | Physical signatures of degassing in volcanic systems | Dr Heather Wright | | September |
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| 8th | Alien Sea Monsters From Deep Time: In Quest for the Origins of Whales | Mr. Erich Fitzgerald | | August |
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| 25th | GeoViSIO's excursion to the bloody old red rocks of the Pilbara | Michiel van Dongen | | 15th | Snowball Earth: Chaos and late Neoproterozoic glaciations | Dr Kath Grey | | 7th | Issues and Approaches for Integrated Hydrocarbon Systems Analysis in Tertiary Deltas - What we have Learned: Examples from Deep Water Nigeria | Lori Summa | | July |
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| 28th | Chatham Islands: Dinosaurs of Greater New Zealand at the K-T Boundary. | Chris Consoli | | 21st | An unusual trachyandesite suite in the Gisborne area, southern Victoria | Professor Ray Cas | | June |
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| 30th | Geology of the Ok Tedi Cu-Au deposits in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. | Michiel Van Dongen | | 23rd | Are all explosive calderas supervolcanoes? The record and behaviour of small calderas, Tenerife, Canary Islands | Professor Ray Cas |
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