GOSSE'S MONUMENTAL BLUFF
The Geological Monuments Subcommittee of the Commonwealth Territories Division has made a start in documenting geological monuments in the N.T. Five monuments have already been documented in the Katherine-Darwin region and another four will be documented this year. Next year it is proposed to start documentation of monuments in the Alice Springs 1:250 000 sheet area.
It is an enormous task and one that will take many years to complete. The following list of proposed N.T. monuments is far from complete; particularly noticeable by their absence are possible monuments from the Tennant Creek region. Readers who may have worked in the N T. are asked to check for any monuments which the y consider are missing from this list. Sites which may possibly be regarded as of international or national significance are particularly required. Any sites which should be regarded as fragile should be so noted and information on these will be available only to restricted people.
Mike Freeman, P.O. Box 1037, Alice Springs, would particularly like to hear from anyone who would like to comment on or enlarge the monuments list for Central Australia For the remainder of the N.T., Ian Crick, 26 Glynn Place, Hughes, A.C.T. 2605, is the man to contact
Central Australia
Alcoota 1 : 250 000 sheet area
Alcoota bone beds
Delmore Downs metamorphosed unconformity
Queenie Flat intrusive contact
Alice Springs 1:250 000 sheet area
Mud-tank carbonatite
Redbank deformed zone
Rungutjirba Ridge thrust fault
Blatheskite Nappe section through Mt Gillen
Heavitree Gap unconformit y
Bitter Springs Gorge
Ruby Gap, Arltunga Nappe Complex thrust sheets
Arltunga, deformed pebble conglomerate
Trephina Gorge
Tommy's Gap
Ross Ri v er t y pe sections
Ross Ri v er stromatolites
Ross River, microfossil type lo~ality
Ringwood Dorne bedded evaporite outcrop
Todd River, Tertiar y vertebrate fossils
Allua Well thrust fault
N'Dahl a Gorge, Palaeozoic sequence
Williams Bore Palaeozoic sediments in thrust sheets
Pulya Pulya Dam Proterozoic rock phosphate
White Range, Arltunga Nappe Complex thrust sheets
Ay ers Rock 1 :2 50 000 sheet area
Ay ers Rock
Olgas
Mt Connor
Curtin Springs unconformit y
Bloods Range 1: 250 000 sheet area
Learmouth Park
Bonney Well 1:250 000 sheet area
Devils Marbles
Gilbert Creek anticline
Finke 1:250 000 sheet area
Crown Point unconformity
One Tree Point unconformity
Golsen's Pinnacle double unconformity
Polly Spring unconformity and type section of Finke Group
Mount Watt Ordovician fossil fauna
Rurnbalara Ochre Mines
Hale River 1:250 000 sheet area
Waldo River 1:250 000 sheet area
Henbury 1:250 000 sheet area
Henbury meteorite craters
Palm Valley, best exposure of Herrnannsburg Sandstone
Areyonga sedimentary sequence
Illamurta structure
Levi Range
West Petermann Creek breached anticline
Herrnannsburg 1:250 000 sheet area
Gosses Bluff astrobleme
Glen Helen Gorge breccia
Glen Helen Gorge sedimentary sequence
Ellery Creek type sections - Adelaidean to Carboniferous
Jay Creek stromatolites
Ormiston Gorge and Pound, thrust sheet and unconformity
Mount Sonder thrusts
Redbank Gorge thrust
Serpentine Gorge
Ormiston Tertiary flora
Standley Chasm
Stokes Pass, Mereenie Range, fossil fish
Mount Razorback
Tyler Pass conglomerates
Goyder Pass
Huckitta 1:250 000 sheet area
Mt Cornish, type section, unconformity
North Jervois Range unconformity
Oorabra mineralized quartz reefs
Oorabra rockholes, type section
Boxhole meteorite crater
Illogwa Creek 1:250 000 sheet area
Dead Horse Waterhole unconformity
Illogwa schist zone
Bullhole Bore tillite
Kulgera 1:250 000 sheet area
Colson Pinnacle
Basedow Range unconformity
Erldunda Range unconformity
Mount Sunday Range phosphatic conglomerate, fossils
Lake Amadeus 1:250 000 sheet area
Kings Canyon
Reedy Rockhole
Inindia Bore sinkholes
Inindia Bore unconformity
Mount Murray gypsum diapir
Lake Amadeus
Parana Hill anticline
Pulca Currinya Rockhole Proterozoic rock fall
McDills 1:250 000 sheet area
Mount Etingambra unconformity
Mount Doreen 1:250 000 sheet area
Central Mount Wedge unconformity
Djuburala Peak unconformity and sedimentary structures
Nabarula Hills glacial erratic and tillite
Walbiri Hills Carboniferous flora
Pulcu Currinya Rockhole Proterozoic rock fall
Mount Liebig 1:250 000 sheet area
Muranji Rockhole cross-bedded sandstone
Haast Bluff
Mount Peake 1:250 000 sheet area
Central Mount Stuart
Mount Theo 1:250 000 sheet area
Mount Theo, tightly folded Proterozoic sandstone
Mount Rennie 1:250 000 sheet area
Johnston Hill, gypsum diapir
Mount Leisler unconformity
Napperby 1:250 000 sheet area
South 20 Mile Waterhole (Mylonite zones in granite)
Mount Thomas area, type area Reynolds Range Group
Ingallan Spring, pegmatite dykes and granite
Crown Hill tillites
Petermann Ranges 1:250 000 sheet area
Foster Cliff, spectacular recumbent folding
Ruined Ramparts, basal unconformity
Rodinga 1:250 000 sheet area
Chambers Pillar
Katherine - Darwin region
Celia Stromatolite site
Pul Pul Bioherm
Rum Jungle Complex Beestons Fm. unconformity
Archaean BIF, Rum Jungle Complex
Coomalie Stromatolite site
Waterhouse Complex/Beestons Fm. unconformity
Daly River glacial pavements and sediments
Nanambu Complex/Kombolgie Fm. unconformity near Jabiluka
Cahill Formation cutting, Arnhem Highway
Victoria River region
Late Proterozoic glacial sediment, Skinner Point
Glacial pavement, Moonlight Valley Tillite
Limbunya Group stromatolites, Black Springs
Davenport and Murchison Ranges region
Volcanic agglomerate, Kurundi anticline
Thrust fault breccia, Kurundi anticline
Frew River Formation stromatolites
Treasurer Volcanics Megaripples
Fining-up depositional sequences, Kurinelli Sandstone
Sandstone fissure-fillings in lava top, Hatches Ck Group
Fold in Warramunga Group
Gardiner Sandstone/Pargee Sandstone unconformity
Mount Winnecke interlayering of felsic lavas and sandstone
McArthur River Basin
Discovery gossan, HYC prospect
Barney Creek Fm. section near HYC prospect
Type or reference sections for Wollogorang Fm.
Masterton Sandstone, Gold Creek Volcanics and Mallapunya Fm. in the Archie Creek-Kolgour River area
McArthur Group reference area, Top Crossing
Sandstone karst development, Abner Range
Large sink-hole in Yalco Fm., Nhumby Nhumby
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM AND T"70RKSHOP ON . BOREHOLE GEOPHYSICS FOR MINING AND GEOTF.CHNICAL APPLICATIONS
Experts from around the world will gather in Toronto, Ontario on August 29, 30, 31, 1983 to participate in the International Symposium, Workshops and Exhibition on Borehole Geophysics for mining and geotechnical applications.
The meeting is sp o nsored by the Canadian Exploration Geophysical Society (KEGS) and the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC).
The meeting will have a three-pronged approach - The symposium will include topics such as borehole measurements, instrumentation, logging and other geotechnical applications. ~orkshops will cover both technological development and interpretation procedures. The exhibition will feature the latest state of the art instrumentation for mining and geotechnical borehole geophysics.
Participants are expected from many parts of the world and the organizers are very pleased with the interest shown so far.
Persons wishing to attend this symposium and workshops, present technical papers or reserve exhibit space are urged to write to KEGS/GSC Symposium, Suite 109, 7305 Woodbine Avenue, Markham (Toronto), Ontario, L3R 3V7, Canada or telephone Dr. Patrick Killeen in Ottawa (613) 996 2312 or Mr. Roger Caven in Toronto (416) 445 4541.
BUNGONIA IS GORGEOUS
The N.S.W. Division's enthusiastic Education sub-committee is holding its second excursion of 1983 to the Bungonia area Saturday- Sunday, October 15-16, with overnight accommodation for 50 at the Field Centre Leaders are Paul Carr and Brian Jones, assisted by Ruth Mawson and Armstrong Osborne. Contact Robyn Stutchbury, Geology and Mining Museum, 36 George Street, Sydney (02) 241 3662 or (02) 241 3774 for bookings.
Paul Carr outlines some of the delights in store in the following.
The oldest rocks in the Marulan - Windellama region are the Late Ordovician Tallong Beds. These consist of tightly to isoclinically folded, micaceous fine-grained quartz-rich sandstone with shale, slate, siltstone, phyllite and chert interbeds. The dark, carbonaceous slate contains numerous graptolites of Late Ordovician age and sandy units exhibit Bouma sequences and a variety of sedimentary structures characteristic of deposition from turbidity currents.
The Tallong Beds are unconformably overlain by, or are in fault contact with, the shallow marine Late Silurian to Early Devonian Bungonia Limestone which has been subdivided into five informal units (lower limestone, lower shale, middle limestone, upper shale and upper limestone) in the Bungonia area. Late Silurian (Ludlovian) fossils occur in the lower three units whereas an Early Devonian (Lochkovian) fauna has been recorded from the upper shale. The Bungonia Limestone only extends from Marulan South to Inverary, although a laterally equivalent Late Silurian limestone is conformably overlain by a thick sequence of tuffaceous sandstone, tuff and dacite named the Tangerang Formation.
The Early Devonian Tangerang Formation forms the basal unit of the Bindook Volcanic Complex in the Marulan - Windellama area. It consists of an interbedded sequence of shallow marine limestone, shale, conglomerate, terrigenous and volcaniclastic arenite, tuff and dacitic lava flows. Age diagnostic (Lochkovian) faunas within the lower part of the Tangerang Formation suggest a lateral interdigitation with the upper part of the Bungonia Limestone. Three distinctive members have been recognized within the Tangerang Formation, namely the Carne Dacite Member, the Windellama Limestone Member and the Aloes Tuff. Ashflow, ashfall, lenticular pumiceous and accretionary lapilli tuff, as well as volcanic breccia and agglomerate, are all represented within the formation.
The Marulan Batholith is a composite body which has intrusive contacts with the Ordovician to Early Devonian sedimentary and volcanic rocks and is non-conformably overlain in part by Late Devonian strata and rocks of the Sydney Basin. Skarns have been produced at some contacts between plutons of the batholith and limestones of the Bungonia Limestone whereas tourmaline-quartz rocks are developed along some contacts with the Tangerang Formation.
Plutons have I-type characteristics and range from basic to acidic types. Detailed field, petrographic and chemical studies indicate that the rocks on the batholith are closely associated in time, space, petrography and geochemistry with the volcanic rocks of the Tangerang Formation.
Points of interest include: Spectacular scenery - Tallong Beds - Bungonia Limestone - Tangerang Formation - Marulan Batholithgeopetal structures - various fossils - angular unconformityBouma sequences - various sedimentary structures - accretionary lapilli - tourmaline-quartz rocks - skarns - if we have acc e ss to the Limestone Quarry.
CRACK HARDY THEY MUST GO
Sir:
The role of the Stratigraphic Nomenclature Committee of the Geological Society of Australia is to encourage the orderly use of stratigraphic names in Australia and its Territories. The Stratigraphic Index area of the Bureau of Mineral Resources provides the necessary support for this task by maintaining a Register of Stratigraphic Names.
One of the duties of the Registry staff is to keep geoscientists informed of the new names that are being recorded in the Register as reserved, published or deleted. This task is carried out by the circulation of a Variation List every two months and a Deletions List every year to 8 State sub-committee conveners, 13 State Surveys, 32 tertiary institutions and 23 companies.
Although the Lists appear to have a wide circulation, we have found that many individuals do not see them, more importantly the Deletions List.
The Deletions List notifies stratigraphic names which have been reserved for more than five years. Unless we are advised that reservation for a further period is sought, these names are deleted from the Register and thus become available for use by other workers.
To ensure that many more authors see a copy of this list we would like to use the pages of "The Australian Geologist" to supplement our normal distribution method.
A copy of the 1982 list is shown on pages The following table shows the number of deletions in the past nine lists.
The next Deletions List is due in July 1983 and we expect it to contain around 110 names.
H. R. E. Staines Convener
Stratigraphic Nomenclature Committee
No it Won't
In our last issue we gave you dates for the BMR's Petroleum and Minerals Review Conference and BMR Symposium in 1984. Remember the first 21-22 March, forget the second. The symposium is now scheduled for 7-8 November, 1984.
LIST NO. 9
DELETIONS FROM RESERVED NAMES INDEX OF NAMES RECORDED FOR MORE THAN FIVE YEARS
At the meeting of the Stratigraphic Nomenclature Committee held in August, 1973, it was decided that reserved names held for 5 years and not yet published should be removed from the index of reserved names, thereby freeing them for other enquirers, unless the original reserver indicates that he still intends to use the name.
A list of names held for 5 years or more is attached. The list is being sent to those organisations which receive the Bi-monthly Variation List and not to authors. It would therefore be appreciated if you would draw the list to the attention of any author you are in contact with whose name appears herein.
Authors who would like these names to remain in the reserved names index should write before 31 August 1982 to J. N. Casey, Assistant Director (Geology), Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, P.O. Box 378, Canberra City, A.C.T. 2601.
It is possible that some of the names have been published but not indexed in the Central Register of Stratigraphic Names. The Assistant Director (Geology) would appreciate advice on where any such published names can be found.
Name Reserved
New South Wales
Alnwick
Ashtonfields
Bullock Dray Spur Adamellite
Cemetery Creek Granodiorite
Crack Hardy Spur Monzonite
Cup and Saucer Granite
Darts Creek Mudstone
Dicky Cooper Granite
Duckenfield
Geordies Spur Gabbro
Rannels Spur Adamellite
Ina Volcanics
Lady Northcotes Canyon Granodiorite
Leather Barrel Pyroxenite
McPhees Ridge Granodiorite
Metford
Mount Youngal Granodiorite
Noyeau Hollow Andesite
Outstation Creek Adamellite
Pugilistic Creek Granodiorite
Raworth
Rawsons Pass Granite
Rocky Knob
Rothery Tuff
Short land Siberian Granodiorite
Surveyor Creek
c. E. Crapp c. E. Crapp
Wyborn
Wyborn
Wyborn L. Wyborn )D. T. Crane )J W. Hunt
L. Wyborn
c. E. Crapp
L. Wyborn
L. Wyborn
K. J. Kemezys
L. Wyborn
L. Wyborn
L. Wyborn
c. E. Crapp
L. Wyborn
s. Richardson
L. Wyborn
L. Wyborn
c. E. Crapp L. Wyborn
c. E. Crapp s. Richardson
c. E. Crapp L. Wyborn c. E. Crapp
3.12.76 23.6.76 3.12.76 3.12.76 15.1.76 3.12.76 3.12.76 3.12.76 23.6.76 3.12.76 18.10.76 3.12.76 3.12.76 23.6.76 3.12.76 23.6.76 18.10.76
New South Wales (contd)
Tarro Tenambit
The Dodger Diorite
The Ghost Granodiorite
Three Rocks Granodiorite
Tooma Granodiorite
Weakleys Flat Woodberry
Woods Gully
Yorkers Adamellite
Northern Territory
Brumbreu Waterhole
Churchills Head
Queensland
Coonardoo Beds
Saint Michael Member
South Australia
Boorloo Siltstone
Breaden Megabreccia
Cadnawitana Formation
Camel Flat Shale
Chintapanna Formation
Dalhousie Beds
Dome Formation
Echidna
Gool Siltstone
Hogan Dolomite
Ilbunga Beds
Mirra Formation
Rischbieth Dolomite
Rook Tuff
Tilterana Sandstone
Victoria
Bellbridge Gneiss
Bethgarno Gneiss
Carapooee Granite
Coonooer Granite
Killingworth Formation
Korong Granite
Mount Hooghly Granodiorite
Mullum Mullum Sandstone Member
Rubyview Gneiss
Talgarno Schist
Tarrangatta Schist
Yea Formation
Western Australia
Finlayson Sandstone
Herschell Limestone
Kukabubba Gabbro or
Basic Complex
C. E. Crapp
C. E. Crapp
L. Wyborn
L. Wyborn
L. Wyborn
L. Wyborn
C. E. Crapp
C. E. Crapp
C. E. Crapp
L. Wyborn
P. Tonkin
P. Tonkin
R. J. Paten
D. H. Wyatt
B. Murrell
B. Murrell
B. Murrell
B. Murrell
B. Murrell
)L. Barnes
)G. Pitt
B. Murrell
)A. T. Von Sanden
)H.J. Barten
B. Murrell B. Murrell )L. Barnes )G. Pitt B. Murrell B. Murrell B. Murrell
B. Murrell
P. O'Shea
P. O'Shea
R. King
R. King
M. Garratt
R. King
Proposed Geoscience History Specialist Group
The response to the proposal in the March 1983 'Australian Geologist' suggests that there are sufficient members interested in forming this group.
23 members have indicated an interest up till the end of June, but my impression is that we, have only touched 'the tip of the iceberg'. Many members probably fear to commit themselves in case they are burdened with new obligations and responsibilities. Such fears are certainly unfounded.
Respondents so far have indicated an interest in the following topics:-
The history and philosophy of the mining and petroleum industries, government geoscience services together with geoscience teaching institutions.
Biographical studies of prominent geoscientists.
The hi$torical change and progressive development of specific disciplines within the geosciences
e.g. geophysics, geomorphology, palaeontology, tectonics.
How geological thinking evolved distinctively in Australia when placed in a world context.
The history and progress of geologic understanding of specific regions in Australia.
The appreciation of old and rare books and illustrations dealing with the geosciences.
Oral history ~nd reminiscences of senior and retired geologists.
Preservation of the cultural heritage associated with the geosciences.
i.e. old mining areas, gravestones, classic geological sites, written records.
Historical development and use of building stones in Australia.
Production of bibliographies dealing with the above topics.
With interests embracing such a wide variety of topics a Geoscience History Group may be interdisciplinary with almost any other branch of geology and certain can make an important contribution to each specialisation. Obviously, the way we study and have studied geology is critical to our present approach to a problem.
If you are interested in belonging to the Geoscience History Group please contact Dr. B.J. Cooper, S.A. Department of Mines and Energy, P.O. Box 151, Eastwood, S.A., 5063.
BOOK REVIEW
Geolog y of N S W South Coast by C McA. Po well S G T S G Field Guide No 1 , $10 00 Geo l. Soc Aust Inc Syd n e y.
If you are planning to get away from it a ll on a far south coast holiday don ' t take this book , for it will p l unge you i n to a web of Mystery (Bay) and end y ou up at the distal end of the nearest Ordovician outer - arc slope or some other exotic terrain
You will be beset with pol y modal palaeocurrent patterns , arkosic-volcolithic conglomerate-sandstone-mudstone facies , helicitic crenulation cleavage , egg-carto n interference folds , conjugate box - folds , en - echelon vein arra y s, vergence of S½ with respect to So, and Bo\lffia C(D)E . I hope I make myself abysally plain .
This is not a book for him (or her , ) who yearns for a simple sandstone or syncline, he or she must be content with quartzose litharenites, parasitic F2 folds on major F2 antiforrns , and other detailed evidence which Chris Powell and his six contributors has amassed in attempting to elucidate the Palaeo z oic history of this portion of the Lachlan Fold Belt .
This closely packed document of 120 pages is intended to be a book for the specialist interested in e x amining the field evidence . This is presented in a series of detailed plans and sections along the coast from Mallacoota to Batemans Bay accompanied b y discussion , arranged in the form of a self-guiding 5 day e x cursion
The e x cursion details are preceded by a discussion of the structural and geological history of the area accompanied by regional maps and block diagrams , all of which are clear , apart from some overprinting (e.g . Figure 34) , and erosion of the stippling on parts of Figures 1 and 5
The book is packed with information and even if you aren ' t a fanatical structural fiend you will gain much benefit by taking it when you ne x t visit the Potato Point profile ~r your favourite fishing spot, when it is likely to fill you with humility at all the evidence that has been looking you in the eye but which you never did see nor understand .
There is a great amount of information in this book , much of it formerl y unpublished . The authors and the sponsoring Specialist Group in Tectonics and Structural Geology are to be congratulated on the production of what promises to be the first of an e x cellent series . Is the T antawangalo Faul t a fantas y ? Will Williams succumb to Powell? Is t here now , has there eve r been o r will there be a subduction zone on the far South Coast? Spend y our $10.00 now and be well-prepared for the Bermagui Field Conference Don't let y our plans be overturned !
D F Branag a n
~ ,c 3rd Austral i an Landsat Co nference wi l l b e h eld at Surfers Parad i se , QLD , ,1 - ,s May 1984. Contact Secre t ary , PO Box 234 , Br isbane , North Quay , ~ Do,
Sir:
Reading of the field-guide series that the SGTSG of GSA has begun to publish prompted me to notify you of what is available in Fiji Intending visitors commonly write in advance, and some just turn up at the office No doubt, though, there are others who stay on the other side of the island, and perhaps some have only a brief stay there, and therefore do not bother to ge t in touch with MRD. We have a series of geological road logs which might be of use to such v isitors - and also to those who turn up at the office une xp ectedly after having driven from Nadi Airport
These road logs are not true guides in that they do not make any suggestions. They do, however, show all exposures of interest (or representative ones if roadcuts are abundant), with details of lithology, age and stratigraphic correlation, and structural details as well, if relevant. In many instances they are the most up-todate and/or accurate road maps available to the public. Scale is 1:100 000. They are similar to the maps provided by many automobile associations, but are true maps rather than diagrammatic; Not all roads have been done yet, and several sections of the circuminsular highway are available in only one direction, but they are sufficient to give visitors details of what they can find on the roads. Occasional non-geological notes of general interest are also given.
There is also a half-day geological excursion detailed in the Nadi area . The trip is a scenic one in any case; having details of what rocks are encountered will add to the enjoyment of any geologist doing the trip (up the Nausori Highlands). Rocks seen include Quaternary gravels and sands, Eocene limestone (and on a slight detour, basaltic pillow lavas of the same age), Oligocene tonalite, Late Miocene turbidites and volcaniclastics of shoshonitic composition, and Pliocene tuffs and shoshonitic pillow lavas.
Telegraphic address: 'Geology'
Telephone: 381 611
Tele x: 2330 SOPACPRO FJ
7'rH A.G.C.:
Peter Rodda
for Director of Mineral Development Dept of Mineral Resources Private Mail Bag, Suva, Fiji.
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT
The Seventh Australian Geolo g ical Convention will be held at Macquarie University, Sydn ey, from August 26 to 31, 1984 with the theme "Geoscience in the Development of Natural Resources". Technical sessions and Specialist Group symposia will emphasize fundamental and applied research relating to th e definition and exploitation of the present and future min eral , energy and water resources of the nation. Suggestions and en quiries should be addressed to the Secretary, 7AGC, PO Box 383, North Ryde, 2113, or p hone 8878737.
12th World Mining Congress, 19 - 23 November, 1984 will be at Delhi, India Co ntact )rganizing Secretary, Institution of Engineers (India), 8 Gokhale Road, Ca l c ut t a , 700 020 , India.
STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS IN THE BROKEN HILL DISTRICT - FIELD COURSE, MAY 1-7, 1983
The GSA-sponsored field course in structural analysis techniques at Broken Hill has come and gone, and the twenty-three participants have returned to their far-flung corners of the continent, there to amaze and mystify their colleagues with talk of Mohr circles, reciprocal strain and Fry diagrams. The course was ably led by Bruce Hobbs and Chris Wilson, with the help of graduate students from Monash and Melbourne, and was based at the Silverton Youth Camp, some 20 km from Broken Hill (an ideal location for a field-oriented course). The participants represented~ broad spectrum of geology in Australia, in terms of geography (all states and the ACT were represented), affiliation (about 50% industry, 25% government organisations and 25% students and Academia), and experience (ranging from undergraduates to 20 years plus).
The course consisted of roughly equal portions of field work and' lectures/practical exercises. The lectures and practicals covered general structural principles, some revision of standard methods, and some of the latest theory and techniques. Topics covered included stereographic projection, foliation and lineation, vergence and facing, deformational sequences, contouring and pattern analysis of stereographic plots, construction of block diagrams, stress, strain, and superposed folding. All this was related to the geology of the Broken Hill area. Additional talks were given by Mike Sandiford (Melbourne) on high-grade metamorphism and deformation in Enderby Land, and Christian Teyssier (Monash) on deformation in the Arunta ·complex.
Field work was undertaken throughout the course, but dominated the last few days. It was geared towards an understanding of the multiple deformation in the Broken Hill area, and the relationship between deformation and various other aspects of the geology (stratigraphy, mineralization etc.). Application of theory to the field situation was largely by means of discussion and observation on the outcrop, with a couple of short and informal exercises thrown in - perhaps a more formal mapping exercise could be included in any future courses.
The course was well run and, I believe, well received by all of us who were on it. There was a good balance between field and lecture work, practice and theory. Few would deny that an understanding of the structural evolution of an area is essential in any geological interpretation, and field courses such as this are a vital part in upgrading our structural capabilities. I would like to compliment Bruce Hobbs and Chris Wilson on the success of the course and I hope that they can find the time and inclination to run more of them.
What were some of the non-geological highlights? Certainly the unbelievable cooking by our two french chefs, Sophie and Bernadette; the speed with which Bruce Hobbs can cover ground in the field; and the look on Chris Wilson's face when the Silverton publican managed to produce a bottle of Bowmore's Islay Malt!
John Bunting, BHP Exploration,
Melbourne.
BOOK REVIEW
Elena GRAINGER : The Remarkable Reverend Clarke The life and times of the father of Australian geology Melbourne Ox ford University Press 1982 , $24 . 99 .
By any reckoning, the Rev W.B. Clarke earned an honoured place among Australia's geological pioneers. His elucidation of stratigraphic order in the Sydne y Basin alone would have guaranteed remembrance but, in addition , there was the wide-ranging goldfields reconnaissance, work as collector and compiler of information on the sedimentar y formations of New South Wales, and much else . For many y ears Clarke was practicall y a one-man, honorary geological surve y in the colony . And while doing all this, he was parsons to unneglected parishioners Clarke indeed was a remarkable manclergyman, schoolmaster, geologist, museum curator, poet, sketcher, and the list is unfinished - and remarkable it is that his career has only now received book-length treatment.
Mrs Grainger argues, reasonabl y , that to do justice to all of Clarke's manifold activities would require a tome of unpublishable length . She has chosen to concentrate on her subject's 'personality ' and his career in science; it seems she gained an enthusiasm for geology from her late brother H . G Raggatt . Sadl y , she shows in this book that enthusiasm and understanding do not always run together In matters relating to Clarke's origins, boyhood and education, to his clerical career in England and Australia and to his family life , Mrs Grainger is a confident and generally reliable guide. She paints a fair picture of the man's sensitivit y to criticism and inclination to self-defence. She does well also to emphasize the continuing financial problems against which Clarke had to struggle It makes his achievement the more impressive.
Turning to science Mrs Grainger loses her touch. There the solecism of the title points Mrs Grainger shows few signs of knowing what geological discover y entails Errors either of judgement or fact lie through her te x t, traps to the unwar y . Presumably intended to introduce Clarke's science, a chapter on The Birth of Geology pays no attention to William Smith and stratigraph y, and treats Hutton and Werner misleadingl y. Yet Clarke's main interests were stratigraphical . He even claimed to be a disciple of William Smith , a fact noted b y Mrs Grainger who quite overlooks the pre-Smithian lithological nature of the argument used by Clarke for the Sydney Basin until he was taken to task by W S . Maclea y. It ma y be added that Macleay's intellectual influence on Clarke is not seriously pursued; Mrs Grainger seems content to accept Macleay at his own casual estimation, a 'dabbler ' in geology. Outlining Clark ' s work in the Hunter Valle y , the author fails even to notice the section at Stony Creek that convinced Daintree (not sent b y McCoy asp . 226 would have it) in 1863 the order wasas Clarke claimed. Nor is the frustrating dispute between Clarke and McCo y adequately e x plained. One sees there little evidence of the questing 'free spirit' Mrs Grainger finds in Clarke. To claim boldl y that Clarke believed his coal - bearing succession was of Permian age is to ignore the hedging so apparent in Sedimentar y Formations , as re v ised just before h i s death. Others, later,
establish the age, and the occurrence of late Palaeozoic glaciation . Yet to argue, as Mrs Grainger does, that such glaciation was unknown in Clark's time sets aside Daintree at Bacchus Marsh in 1866, the evidence from Nagpur in 1872 and much earlier discoveries in the boulder beds of Talchir.
In discussion of gold discovery and the gold surveys, Mrs Grainger takes the protagonists at their own self-justificatory valuations. Governor Gipps's alarm at Strzelecki's find (p . 163) sits strangely against official publication of the news in London. Why, again, if Clarke found gold in 1841 did he wait some years before telling his mentor Adam Sedgwick, with whom he was in regular geological communication? Mrs Grainger's story about Strzelecki showing Murchison his Australian samples in Berlin is wildly wrong. Strzelecki was still here when Murchison returned from his second, and last, visit to Russia.
The list of lapses could go on, and on. A chapter on Clarke and Darwin's The Origin of Species is short on critical detail as to how Clarke responded to evolutionary argument. He seemed more concerned with Darwin as geologist. And the reference to Lamarck is a travesty of that scientist's view.
This is a book one wanted to recommend. Geologists ought to be informed how scientific knowledge accumulated and about those who contributed to that store. The present work, alas, will not help them much. Carelessly proof - read, uncritically written where it ventures into science, the book as a whole brings little credit to publisher, author or the Literature Board that subsidized the research.
T.G. Vallance
A SUPERB START TO A NEW SERIES OF MONOGRAPHS
Dorothy Hill jubilee memoir. Edited by J. Roberts and P.A. Jell. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, Memoir 1, 371pp. $20 ($12.50 to subscribers to Alcheringa and Members of the Geological Society of Australia).
To festschrifts and commemorative volumes there would seem to be no end, but now we have a jubilee volume in honour of Dorothy Hill, global authority on rugose and tabulate corals and sage on so many things to do with Australian geology. I will not dwell on biographical details as my fund of Hilliana is not great. A brief account is given in the introduction to this volume by her old students Bruce Runnegar and John Jell; they provide a useful bibliography of her publications, and a listing of salient events in her career That she is worthy of a full-scale biography was evident from the anecdotes - invariably benign, often bordering on the droll (selected for the occasion!) - from old colleagues and students at the meeting in her honour organised by the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists in Brisbane on 9-10 September 1982. The anecdotes brought out the well-known gracious, accommodating and altruistic aspects of her personality. Sadly, it is just this sort of material that seems always to be excluded from scientific festschrifts, tending to make them such a bore to the non-specialist of the uninitiated!
The title - Jubilee Memoir - took me by surprise. Was it a silver, golden or diamond jubilee or somehow all three? I must admit that the first jubilees that came to mind were ecclesiastical ones: those 25th year episodes in which remission from the penal consequences of sin is granted upon repentance (this didn't seem to figure in the case of Dorothy Hill!), or those ancient Judaic ones wherein every 50th year bondmen were set free, fields were left untilled (again inappropriate!) and there was much blowing of trumpets and general jubilation (highly appropriate!). It was in honour of her 75th birthday, but 1982 was also the golden jubilee of the award of her Ph.D.
Dorothy Hill's impact on Australian geology and palaeontology as teacher, editor, administrator, researcher and enabler of • research has been remarkable. She did not have the opportunity to enchant tens of thousands of first-year students the way the legendary Joel Hildebrand did for chemistry or to galvanize the teaching of first-year physics the way Richard Feynman did at Caltech and thus affect a whole scientific generation - or generations as Joel Hildebrand did. The potential to do so seems always to have been absent in our universities where geology has been the Cinderella of the sciences. Or is it because we have left this task to junior academics, too rarely dragooning our best teachers, our charismatics if you like (Feynman is a Nobel Laureate), into the first-year lecture theatre. Dorothy Hill too was inspiring as a teacher, encouraging the scientific qualities of imagination, originality, judgement and curiosity in her students, especially the large flock of postgraduate students who came under her influence; many of them are contributors to this jubilee volume. Her influence continues, she is still publishing, and we hope that like Joel Hildebrand she will still be publishing in her 100th year - several jubile e and centenary volumes later!
What are the contents? Old students and admirers have contributed 22 papers spanning many fields of palaeontology - vertebrate, invertebrate and palaeobotanic. Our newest earth sciences academician, Ken Campbell, with R. E. Barwick, takes a long and characteristically careful look at the early evolution of dipnoan fishes. They take issue with prior cladistic (parsimonious) interpretations, reemphasizing the importance of functional analysis and the need to arrive at 'internal consistency between the interpretations of a range of structures and the final inter-related pattern of structures'. Their paper is exemplary in having done just that. In the other vertebrate paper, John Long continues his monographing of the extraordinary Late Devonian (Frasnian) fish fauna from Mt. Howitt in Victoria with a meticulous description and functional interpretation of a new genus and species (placed in a new family) or deep-bodied acanthodians, Culmacanthus stewarti.
There are four palaeobotanic papers: a neat and elegantly illustrated paper (by Geoff Playford) on the miospore genus Geminospora specifically focussed on its widespread species~- lemurata, indicator of sediments close to the Middle Devonian-Late Devonian boundary; an evaluation by Clinton Foster of the functional morphology of the Late Palaeozoic pollen genus Jugasporites in which it is shown to have been operculate, restricted to Euramerica and that Australian records are incorrect; a judicious study by John Webb of a new genus and species of mid Triassic plant that may have been a marattialean fern; and a study by Murray Dudgeon of 17 form-species of presumed proteaceous pollen from the mid Eocene of the Yaamba Basin near Rockhampton. Predictably, more than half the Yaamba pollens are new; .this is an obvious reflection of the pronounced southern bias in the spectrum of information to date on Australian Late CretaceousCainozoic palynology. There is an especially tantalizing lack of information, particularly macro-floral, for the Late Cretaceous-Palaeogene that leaves us with mere speculation on the sequence of floral events that followed on the separation of Australia from its neighbours to the east (New Zealand, New Caledonia, etc.) and the early stages (until broadly Eocene times) of immigration from the north.
Two-thirds of the volume consists of contributions on invertebrate palaeontology ranging from sponges and archaeocyathans to trilobites and echinoderms. One of the editors (Peter Jell) is involved in papers on three of these groups: a paper on Cambrian Sphinctozoa (with John Pickett), one on Ordovician trilobites (with W. T. Chang) and the third describing five bizarre echinoderms - two species of an outlandish new genus of ophiocystoids, a new genus of blastoid and two new genera of carpoids, study of which has induced Peter to propose two new orders. One of these, appropriately for this volume, is the Hillocystida, based on Hillocystis gen. nov., a line-drawing of whose type species~- atracta sp. nov. is the elegant motif on the cover of the volume.
Four contributors are from boreal regions. Bill Oliver discusses the presumably parasitic 'worm' tubes found in Devonian rugose corals. Guo Sheng Zhe describes an Early Ordovician receptaculitid from China, pointing out similarities to archaeocyathids; he inclines to the view that archaeocyathids and receptaculitids were closely related. Jim Sorauf discusses the exquisite preservation of skeletal structure in the Permian rugosan Timorophyllum from Timor. Colin Scrutton presents an exemplary study of protocorallite ontogeny, corallite increase and colony development based on serial grinding and peeling at 0.1 mm intervals or less of a species of the Devonian rugose coral Phillipsastrea.
The last decade has witnessed a blizzard of new information of varying relevance about the earliest mollusks, much perhaps bordering on the trivial for an outsider or bystander. In 'Molluscan phylogeny revisted', Bruce Runnegar attempts tidying up the resultant minor chaos of ideas and assertions about the many lineages of cambrian-Ordovician mollusks - he suggests 19 lineages in his latest count. The result is information-packed, urbane and affable; I look forward to his next visit!
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FIELD WORKSHOP ON GRANITOIDS, RELATED VOLCANICS AND MINERALISATION, Thredbo, New South Wales 13-16th February, 1984
Following informal discussions at the Sixth Australian Geological Convention a four-day workshop on granitoids etc. will be conducted by Bruce Chappell and Allan White in the heart of S- and I-type country. Emphasis will be on outlining recent advances in granitoid etc. studies, areas of current agreement and disagreement, and most profitable avenues of future research. Themes to be discussed include (i) the role of restite in granites and volcanics; (ii) mechanical properties of granitic liquids and crystal mushes; (iii) water in magmas and tlE link between granite solidification and metal concentration Two full day and one ½-day field trips are scheduled .
The Thredbo Alpine Hotel conference centre has been booked and all-up costs including possible mini-bus hire will be $200. As a deposit is required by the hotel prior to the workshop, firm expressions of interest must be received no later than the end of Augustcontact BRIAN OVERSBY, c/o BUREAU OF MINERAL RESOURCES, P.O . Box 378, CANBERRA CITY, A.C.T. 2601, phone (062)499286. Please also indicate if transport could be provided and for how many (total including driver) Any person willing to contribute structured material, either as a formal talk, to a less formal round table discussion, or in a poster-type format, should submit an outline.
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Mac Dickins examines ·the F ermo-Triassic life crisis concluding that climate and sea-level change were pivotal factors. The evidence he presents seems fair enough but, as with all life crises from Cambrian to Cainozoic with the possible exception of the terminal Cretaceous event and o f course the latest anthropogenic one now unfolding, the evidence is circumstantial and not tightl y constraining as to interpretation. Ordovician faunas are described from southern Tasmania (Clive Burrett et al.) and the Townsville hinterland (Bob Henderson). The usefulness of the SEM for new perspectives in bryozoology is demonstrated by a study of regeneration of calcification in the Adeonidae (Robin Wass). The t y pe species of the widel y distributed Permian brachiopod Taeniothaerus is redescribed (Susan Parfrey), and the structure and function of e x othecal tissue in Somphocyathus and allied archaeoc y athans is pondered (David Gravestoc k ).
A re v iewer is supposed to have a mean streak and fling a few mudpies, but I can find no cause for an y thing but praise for this volume - for the editing, the la y out and the speed with which it was produced Two more memoirs are alread y in the mill: a monograph on the Archaeoc y atha from the lower p a rts of the Lower Cambrian carbonates o f South Australia by David Gravestock, and a collection of papers on Mesozoic dinoflagellate biostratigraphy of Australia. Rumour has it that both will be ne a t little Mercedes vo lumes - like this one!
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The Mineralogical Society of Victoria has released its Special Publication No. 1 entitled "The Minerals of the Maldon Goldfield". These publications will be an irregular series and are primarily based on describing Victorian specimen localities that have been noted in the Dana publications. The publication is not a money making enterprise but one which aims to detail Victorian localities of importance, and, in this case, the rare gold-bismuth mineral maldonite is the focal point.
The book is available at $7.95 per cop y , including postage, from:
The Mineralogical Society of Victoria, P.O. Bo x 146, Collins Stre et, MELBOURNE, Vic. 3000.
Structural Control of Ore Deposits
23-26 September, 1983. Contact Bill Laing, Tim Bell or Jenny Wilshire (077) 81 4726, Geolog y Department, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld, 4811. Mt Isa, Broken Hill and other areas to be discussed b y Tim Hopwood, Tim Bell and other experts. $160 (or less) will bu y y ou a place.
In Search of Mineral Wealth
The South Australian Geological Survey and Department of Mines, 1883-1944. Bernard O'Neil. Special Publication No. 2. S.A. Department of Mines and Energy, $16,95.
The reader in search of information will be well-served by this book. O'Neil has dug deep into the archival sources of South Australia and brought up a spoil heap of considerable proportions. His plan of operation has been simple - a few exploratory costeams to examine the weathered zone and then a shaft, sinking deeper and deeper into the wealth with an occasional exploratory drive or cross-cut never venturing too far from the safety of the main haulage.
Unfortunately in as far as the information tells us O'Neil has not completely understood the geology of this rich lode. He has assumed it was a classical vein-type deposit, whereas he seems to have been working with a patchy porphyry copper. The result has been the production of a considerable amount of gangue along with the ore.
O'Neil has been given charge of the development of a mineral deposit of considerable dimensions, which exceeds his practical experience. Sound theoretical training is apparent in much of his approach but one feels he would have been all the better for a few years on some smaller mines where the structure was easier to understand.
It is only fair to Bernard O'Neil and the South Australian Survey that I translate the above metamorphi cal statements. This book is a meticulous account of the official story of the South Australian Survey and Department of Mines to 1944 based largely on a determined pursuit of ministerial and departmental documents. While it is no doubt true that political policies and ministerial attitudes greatly affect the direction and influence of a department the personality of the departmental officers is, I believe, what ultimately decides its character. O'Neil has certainly sensed this but he hasn't got it over as he might have. Ministers of Mines of no more than a few weeks duration are granted space while H.Y.L. Brown, a fascinating fLgure if ever there was one, still remains a shadow; and R.Lockhart, L. Jack, L. Keith Ward and the enigmatic Dr. Basedow could all do with more flesh. Clashes between personalities such as Ward and Mawson, Ward and Basedow are only touched upon and never explored in depth.
The strength of the book lies in the meticulous documentation of the official files, the mark of a dedicated and competent historian. However, there are clear signs that O'Neil has been overawed by the geology, and the uninformed reader would be in some doubt as to just what Brown and his associates did when they went into the field for so long.
The book is beautifully produced and well illustrated (although 4 nearly identical HYLB's is a bit much!) including fine colour reproductions of the series of state maps which have appeared since the inception of the survey.
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In telling his story O'Neil hasn't been a ble to decide whether to tell it from the view of the administration front office or as the underground manager saw the pr o blems. In too many cases we are given the above-ground point of view, and it is much less in t eresting than the way a mine really develops. He has left too many important men stuck in an adit.
Perhaps in a few years O'Neil should return to the scene of his labours and review it once again bringing the story up to the 1970s. It may prove to be a Roxby Downs.
This is an important book for those interested in the history of geology and mining in Australia and it will be a valued reference on my book shelves. D.F. Branagan
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INTERNATIONAL
GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS - MOSCOW 4-14 August 1984
Section 12: Metallogenesis and Mineral Ore Deposits
The nominated closing date for the submission of abstracts is 1 Sept. 1983. Copies of the special forms for the presentation of abstracts and other information can be obtained from the Co-Convenor, Dr. Norman H. Fisher, 4/1 Jardine Street, Kingston, ACT, 2604.
Following are the titles of the subdivisions of Section 12:
C.12.1. Themes
C.12.1.1. Comparative Metallogenesis of the Archaean, Phanerozoic.
Distribution of mineral deposits through geological time. epochs and cycles. Evolution of ore-forming processes history.
Proterozoic and Metallogenic in geological
C.12.1.2. Sources of Ore-Forming Substances. Criteria for the identification of magmatic and ore-metals. Mobilization of metals. Sources of ore deposits. non-magmatic sources of the main genetic types of
C.12.1.3. Syngenetic and Epigenetic Stratiform Ore Deposits. Types and conditions of ore deposition. Diagenetic and epigenetic transformation. Mineralization and magmatic bodies. Comparison of depositional processes throughout geological time.
C.12.1.4. Regoliths and Mineral Resources.
The evolution of supergene processes in the Earth's history. Composition, structure and distribution of supergene deposits. Formation of alluvial deposits of bauxite, cobalt-nickel and manganese ores. Formation of phosphate deposits and placers of gold and diamonds.
S.12.2. Intersectional Symposia
S.12.2.1. Petrologic and Geochemical Aspects of Metallogenesis. Petrogenetic trends of magmatism, hydrothermal metasomatism and ore formation in geological history. The influence of host environments on the presence of ores in magmatic complexes. Mineralization in long-lived zones of high magmatic activity. Examples of the mutual relationships between mineralization and magmatism.
S.12.2.2. Geology and Geochemistry of Manganese and Associated Metals. The Symposium is dedicated to the geology and genesis of manganese and associated metal deposits on continents, on the bottom of recent basins, and to the problems of mineralogy and geochemistry of these metals.
S.S.12.3. Special Symposium
S.S.12.3.1. Geology and Conditions of Formation of Copper Deposits. The Symposium will consist of five sections devoted to the geology and conditions of for mation of a) copp er-nickel sulphide deposits; b) porphyry-copper; c) copper-iron sulphide deposits; d) cop p er -lead-zinc -iron sulphide deposits; and e) sandstone- and schist-hosted copper <leposiLs.
SEPTEMBER 14 - 16 1983
The WA Division of the GSA in conjunction with the Eastern Goldfields Geological Discussion Group i s sponsoring a field conference on September 14 - 16 1983 . The programme will include a one - day symposiu m in Kalgoorlie and a two-day field excursion . Fees are $120 for the symposium and field trips, and $50 for the symposium only. Participation is limited to 160 for the symposium and 80 for the field trips
Application forms are available f r om: Dr.J . Vaughan, Secretary Organising Co mm ittee, Eastern Goldfields Geological Field Conference, WA School of Mines, PO Bo x 597 , Kalgoorlie, WA 6430 [ph . (090) 211 800 ext . 208; telex 91078] .
PROGRAMME
SY MPOSIUM (Friday 16 September)
8.00 - 9 . 00 am Registration
9 00 am Regional Geology of the Eastern Goldfields
- R.D . GEE
Geology of the Leonora-Laverton District - J. HALLBERG
Morning Tea
Geology of the Kalgoorlie-Widgiemooltha District -T. GRIFFIN, M.HUNTER , W . KEATS
Met allogeny of t he Greenston e Belts in the Eastern Goldfields -
Lunch
Genesis of Archaean Lode Gold Deposits -N. PHILLIPS
Geology of the Kalgoo r lie Goldfield - G.HOP KINS
Afternoon Tea
Geology of the Teutonic Bore Cu-Zn-Ag Deposit - MINE STAFF
A Geomorpological History of the Eastern Goldfields and its Significance to Exploration - B SMITH
Concluding remarks - J. ROS S
Sundowner
FIELD TRIPS (Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 September)
Will be based on two key sections across the stratigraphy south of Kalgoorlie : M t . Hunt to Cu r rawang , and Spa r goville to Kambalda
Adelaide, 15-20th August, 1983
The Australasian Sedimentologists Specialist Group plans to hold a workshop on fluvial sedimentation in August 1983, led by Dr Brian Williams. Brian Williams (Bristol University, U.K.) is a co-worker with Professor J.R.L. Allen (Reading University), and is a fluvial sedimentologist of world renown. He has worked as a consultant to a large number of exploration companies, and will be in Australia to continue his work on Cooper Basin sedimentology for the S.A. Oil and Gas Corporation . The workshop will be held at the Australian Mineral Foundation and adjacent core library and will be followed by a field trip to the Whyalla-Port Augusta area. The proposed programme is:
August 15 - 17th inc . : Lectures and core workshop
The workshop will concentrate on inspection of Cooper Basin cores, but will include samples from other basins, including the Eromanga Basin.
August 28 - 20th inc. : Field excursion
Field excursion to inspect fluvial sediments, including Pandurra Fm. (Precambrian) , Bac~y Point Fm. (Precambrian), Iron Monarch mine, Corunna Conglomerate (Precambrian) and Depot Creek alluvial fan (Tertiary-Quaternary).
The field excursion will be led by Victor Gostin and Nick Lemon, of Adelaide University. As well as Brian Williams presenting talks to the workshop, several other sedimentologists will lecture on specific topics, in order to broaden the scope and relevance of the workshop. A limit of 40 delegates will aoply.
Correspondence to:
REGISTRATION FORM
Name: Dr. P. Moore Secretary ASSG Delhi Petroleum Affiliation:
Pty. Ltd. GPO Box 2364 ADELAIDE 5001
(Bus.)
I require assistance with travel and /or accommodation
I am a member of ASSG
Cheques payable to "Au stralasian Sedimentologists Group".
The centre for field research which publishes Earthwatch is interested in helping field research projects. Contact Professor Richard Wright, Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006 for further details.
REGOLITH IN AUSTRALIA: GENESIS AND ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE
A SYMPOSIUM SPONSORED BY BMR AND CSIRO
CANBERRA, November 15, 16, 17, 1983
Venue: Australian Academy of Science
The deep weathering of rocks is developed to an exceptional extent in Australia, and is of considerable significance to mining and mineral exploration. Some weathered material is itself of economic value; more often the weathered zone is a barrier between explorers and their target. The weathered zone and its cover, which together comprise the regolith, is the subject of a symposium sponsored by the BMR and CSIRO. The symposium will consist of papers directed towards providing a broad, Australia-wide understanding of the regolith including its origin, age and regional variation; geochemical and mineralogical concepts of weathering, element dispersion and ore formation; exploration techniques and economic aspects. The symposium will include a forum to consider future directions of regolith research.
The symposium is a successor to the 1981 symposium on the Cainozoic Evolution of Continental Southeast Australia and recent workshops on Geochemical Exploration in Deeply Weathered Terrain.
PROGRAM OUTLINE
Tuesday 15 Nov.
Wednesday 16 Nov.
Thursday 17 Nov.
Friday 18 Nov.
On the evening of On the evening of
ACCOMMODATION
Geomorphology, surficial deposits, age Weathering, mineralogy, geochemistry, geophysics Regolith and economic geology; forum Optional field trips to Lake George (Cainozoic record) or The Monaro (Tertiary basalt, deep weathering, lake deposits) 15th Drinks will be available 16th a Symposium Dinner will be held
Participants should arrange their own accommodation.
Contact: Regolith Symposium c/o Dr. R. W. Galloway, CSIRO, P.O. Box 1666, CANBERRA. A.C.T. 2601. Tel. (062)465101.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GROUNDWATER AND MAN
The International Conference on Groundwater and Man is to be held in Sydney from 5-9 December 1983. It is the first international groundwater conference to be held in Australia.
Contact The Secretary, Groundwater and Man Conference P.O. Box 1929, Canberra City, ACT 2601, Australia.
COAL PETROLOGIST WANTED
A two year research position is available for a coal petrologist preferably with several years' experience to work on Western Australian coals. Yes there are such things. Yearly salary about $17,000. Contact Dr Kris. Sappal, Department of Geology, W.A.I.T., Bentley, WA, 6162. Phone (49) 350 7314.
THE SPECIALIST GROUP IN TECTONICS AND STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY AND THE NSW DIVISION OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA
present
TWO STATE-OF-THE-ART SYMPOSIA
Two 'state-of-the-art' symposia will be held in Sydney on February 16th and 17th, 1984. Venue: Stephen Roberts Lecture Theatre, University of Sydney.
SYMPOSIUM 1: FRACTURES AND VEINS: THEIR FORMATION AND ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE
Convenor: Dr R. A. Glen, N.S.W. Geological Survey, Box 5288, G.P.O., SYDNEY 2001.
Keynote addresses by Dr Terry Engelder (Lamont-Doherty, U.S.A.) "Fracture initiation, crack propagation, rock/fluid interactions, quartz veins" and Dr Paul Hancock (Bristol, U.K.) "Interpretation of mesofracture systems. Mesofractures in forelands, fault zones, and fold belts".
Eastern Australian economic applications of the concepts discussed by the keynote speakers will include: Clarke, Patterson and Taylor (James Cook and Aberfoyle) on Ardlethan breccia pipes, Mike Etheridge (BMR) on structural control of mineralised vei~ Steve Cox (Monash) on gold/quartz veins, Cees Swager (James Cook) on Mt Isa copper, Jon Huntington et al. (CSIRO) on Sydney Basin fractures, Dick Glen et al. (NSW Geological Survey) on Cobar fractures, and Brian Marshall (NSW Institute of Technology) on Lineament - ore relations.
SYMPOSIUM 2: ACCRETIONARY PRISMS: CHARACTERISTICS AND PROCESSES.
Convenor: Dr E. C. Leitch, Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006 .
Keynote address by Professor J. Casey Moore (Santa Cruz, U.S.A.) "Modern accretionary margins - form, structure and processes"
Features of modern and ancient accretionary prisms will be discussed by workers including Paul Williams (New Brunswick, Canada), Accretion in the Appalachians; Keith Crook (ANU), Tectonic models; Othmar Tobisch (Santa Cruz, U.S.A.), Franciscan structures; Bryce~ (University of NSW), Accretion in Taiwan; Jock Keene (University of Sydney), Accretion at the New Britain Trench; Dick Flood (Macquarie), Silicic magmatism; and Chris Ferguson (New England), New England accretionary complex.
Following on from Symposium 2 will be a
FIELD TRIP: ACCRETION IN NEW ENGLAND
Leader: Dr E. C. Leitch, Dept of Geology & Geophysics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006.
A three day field trip (18th-20th February, 1984) to the western part of the New England Fold Belt will immediately follow symposium 2. This excursion will examine arc flank, fore-arc basin and subduction comtlex rocks in the most complete Palaeozoic accretionary prism yet recognised.
COSTS
(a) One symposium (including extended abstracts and refreshments): (b) (c)
Non-G.S.A. member/G.S.A. member/bona fide full-time student$40 I $35 / $15
Both symposia: Non-G.S.A. member/G.S.A. member/ bona fide full-time student - $60 I $50 I $20
Field trip: unknown at this time, depending partly on numbers. The intention is to keep the trip as inexpensive as possible, for example by camping and using on-site vans.
REGISTRATION FORM
NAME:
ADDRESS:
Phone: (business)
COMPANY /INSTITUTION ............................................
TICK APPROPRIATE BOX(ES) BELOW:
(a) I wish to register for Symposium 1 and enclose $40/$35/$15
(b) I wish to register for Symposium 2 and [J enclose $40/$35/$15
(c) I wish to register for both symposia and enclose $60/$50/$20
(d) I am interested in attending New England excursion
(e) I will require accommodation (Specify type and nights)
Return all Registration forms to: Dr. R. A. Glen
NSW Geological Survey GPO Box 5288, SYDNEY 2001.
the in Sydney !=7
Early registration will ensure a place.
Field trip indications required by 15.12.83.
THE BALLAD OF B.M.R. - THE OLD AND THE NEW
Down by the lake stood the old B.M.R. That sent out the surveys both near and far In deserts and in swamps, in mountains and in plains, In drought or dusty weather, floods or heavy rains.
Crack go the hammers, crack, crack, crack; As we knock off the rocks along the old bush track. The going might be rough, but we got the data in, And published it in map sheet, Report or Bulletin.
In Land Rovers and Inter Trucks, we combed the countryside; In 'choppers too, geologists and gravimeters ride. We took out magnetometers in aeroplanes and ships, And lived in tents and caravans on many field trips.
Crack go the shots, boys, crack, crack, crack; Start up the recorder as the waves come back. The going might be rough, but we got the data in, And published it in Record, Report or Bulletin.
ASTEC looked us over, and said 'You'll do Research; With mere gathering data you'll be left in the lurch. Publish or perish in the B.M.R.'s new · roleAcademic standards will apply upon the whole."
Churn out the papers, write, write, write, For the refereed journals, keep that aim in sight. No more the Record, Bulletin, Report; Now we do Research, don't you know they count for nought.
Down by the lake the new Bureau stands, Recruiting research scientists from near and foreign landsFour Research Divisions and the R.A.D., And plans for campus buildings, though we don't know where they'll be.
Churn out
Roye Rutland's our Director, of academic stance. He took the flag to China, America and France. He argued with the Minister, but couldn't get more staff, and insufficient funds to run the field seismograph.
There's Mike from A.N.U., and Dave who's all at sea Without a ship to sail in; and JohA,Pete and Lee, Who left for greener pastures, which wasn't such a perk, "Cos they're back to lead the ones who stayed, and teach them how to work.
In his office chair, the old Geo squats, Counting his papers, Records and Reports. Will he rate as P.R.S. - he needs another twenty moreAnd don't forget that Queensla~d job in nineteen sixty-four.
Churn out .
(Published without the permission . of the Director, Bureau of Miner~l Resources, Geology &Geophysics.)
