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Geoscience Weekly Seminar Series

2009

November

 

 

 
6th Komatiites, nickel sulfide deposits, platinum and the early history of the mantle Dr Steve Barnes
October

30th 

23rd  

9th

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

Dr David Jones

Dr Alan Aitken

Dr Manuele Faccenda
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

Dr John Long
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

 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

 Alan Aitken
February
29th

The role of magmatic and exhalative rocks in the formation of the Broken Hill-type deposits.

 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
24thHot Rocks in the Karakoram Fault (aka Pretty Pictures from Northern India) Henning Reichardt
17thMelt Inclusion Analysis as a Tool for Investigating Arc Magma GenesisPattie Sie
3rdThe Precambrian Sedimentary Record from an Os and PGE Perspective…Mineralisation, Snowballs and GeochronologyDr Bruce Schaefer
October
20thLithic fragments in ignimbrites as indicators of explosive volcanic processes; reconstructing the climactic Abrigo eruption (Tenerife)Dr Adrian Pittari
13thPhysical signatures of degassing in volcanic systemsDr Heather Wright
September
8thAlien Sea Monsters From Deep Time: In Quest for the Origins of WhalesMr. Erich Fitzgerald
August
25thGeoViSIO's excursion to the bloody old red rocks of the PilbaraMichiel van Dongen
15thSnowball Earth: Chaos and late Neoproterozoic glaciationsDr Kath Grey
7thIssues and Approaches for Integrated Hydrocarbon Systems Analysis in Tertiary Deltas - What we have Learned: Examples from Deep Water NigeriaLori Summa
July
28thChatham Islands: Dinosaurs of Greater New Zealand at the K-T Boundary.Chris Consoli
21stAn unusual trachyandesite suite in the Gisborne area, southern Victoria Professor Ray Cas
June
30thGeology of the Ok Tedi Cu-Au deposits in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Michiel Van Dongen
23rdAre all explosive calderas supervolcanoes? The record and behaviour of small calderas, Tenerife, Canary Islands Professor Ray Cas