Baudin Rocks, off of Robe, South Australia - Image courtesy Sarah Hender

Talks & Events

Monthly Division Meetings 
Upcoming 

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Previous Division Meetings

18 May 2023 - GSA SA Division Annual General Meeting
Speaker: Kelly Sharrad (Geoscience Pathways Project)
Topic: Geoscience Pathways Project

11 May 2023 - GSA SA Division & AusIMM Meeting
Details: The evening is designed to enhance your knowledge of the geology of the Clare Valley, to discuss the factors contributing to the terroir and to taste (goût ) some Pikes Wines and explore the taste characteristics that reflect the terroir
Speaker: Mick Roche (Marturein Australia)
Topic: Clare Valley Rocks Project

31 March 2023 - GSA SA Division Field Trip: Excursion to the Waite Conservation Reserve
Details: The Waite Conservation Reserve is situated between the Morialta and Sturt gorges and displays stratigraphy mid-way in age between those sites, which is considered to herald the Sturtian Glaciation. Unconformably overlying the siltstones of the Saddleworth Formation the Mitcham Quartzite records the shift of the source of supply into the Adelaide Superbasin. The Belair Subgroup displays evidence of rapid high energy deposition of sediment below fair weather wave base, infrequent outcrops show such evidence as syndepositional erosion and mass flow. West verging folds, low angle faults, east dipping cleavage, and near vertical joints display one deformational event of the Delamerian Orogeny. The intent of this excursion is to view some of the exposed rock outcrops of the Waite Conservation Reserve and so obtain an understanding of the geology, that is an appreciation of what lies below the soil and vegetation cover. The excursion will commence with a consideration of the scenery, and how it has evolved in the near geological past. Then the plan is to start with the older sedimentary rocks and move westwards in the Reserve, that is upwards in time.
Fieldtrip leaders: Colin Conor (University of South Australia) and Alan Collins (The University of Adelaide)
Field guide: email Colin Conor at [email protected]

23 March 2023 - GSA SA Division Meeting (face-to-face and online)
Speakers: Patrick Hesp (Flinders University) and Roger Luebbers (Luebbers & Associates Heritage Consultants, Melbourne)
Presentation: Geomorphology and Archaeology of the Younghusband Peninsula, Coorong, South Australia

Location: Flinders University Victoria Square, Level 1, Room and online

17 February 2023 - GSA SA Division Adelaide Superbasin Symposium

Speakers:
Wolfgang Preiss (former Geological Survey of South Australia)
Jarred Lloyd (The University of Adelaide & Geological Survey of South Australia)
Georgie Virgo (The University of Adelaide)
Rachelle Kernen (The University of Adelaide)
Jim Gehling (South Australian Museum)
Ashleigh Hood (The University of Melbourne)
Time: 4.30pm ACDT
Location: Mawson Lecture Theatre, Mawson Building, University of Adelaide, Adelaide or online via Zoom
Cost: GSA members free, non-members $20.00


5 December 2022 – GESSS SA

Details: The Geological Society of Australia Earth Sciences Student Symposium South Australia (GESSS-SA) is a conference designed to allow Honours, Masters and PhD students from three South Australian universities (The University of Adelaide, Flinders University and University of South Australia) to come together and present their Earth sciences related research to the local scientific community
Location: University of South Australia

Website: Click here

2 December 2022 – South Australian Exploration & Mining Conference 2022
Details: SAEMC is an annual collaborative event that brings together both the exploration and mining industries in South Australia, and is jointly organised by GSA with AIG, ASEG and AusIMM
Location: Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide

25 November 2022 
– GSA SA Division Field Trip: Afternoon Excursion to Ochre Point
Details: Field trip leader Wolfgang Preiss guided participants through the following features of interest:
• Neoproterozoic stratigraphy: ABC Range Quartzite and Bunyeroo Formation
• Delamerian structures: open folding and a reverse fault
• Eocene stratigraphy and relationship to the Neoproterozoic
• Cenozoic tectonics and relationship to the Clarendon-Ochre Cove Fault
• Plio-Pleistocene stratigraphy and ferruginisation events
• Neotectonics and geomorphology
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6 October 2022 – GSA SA Division Meeting

Details: Informative session for undergrads, postgrads/early career geoscientists on non-traditional career opportunities for earth and environmental sciences, plus our popular speed-networking session with industry professionals

17 September 2022 – GSA SA Division Geofamily Picnic

Details: The GeoFamily Picnic hits the SA Museum for its September catchup! Lets explore the new ‘Mineral Lines’ exhibition, these works on paper by SA artists Jackie Saunders and Laura Wills. Taking the SA Museum’s mineral sciences collection as their inspiration, the artists have each created works that highlight their unique, colourful styles and pay homage to the wonder of minerals. This exhibition is the culmination of a 12-month collaboration between the Museum and Tutti Arts as part of the Reaching Out pilot project. Tutti Arts is SA’s only multi-arts organisation for learning disabled and neurodiverse arts. ‘Mineral Lines’ is open until 18 September 2022 and admission is FREE. Non members and friends welcome!
Location: SA Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide

19 August 2022 – SA Division Joint Meeting

Topic: With one arm tied behind your back – Doing geology by proxy in a faraway place (Mars)
Speaker: Juergen Schieber (Indiana University)
Location: Mawson Lecture Theatre, North Terrace Campus, University of Adelaide
Details: Hosted jointly by the GSA South Australia Division, PESA, AESG and SPE SA Division

25 August 2022 - SA Division Annual Dinner
Details: The GSA SA Division Annual Dinner will be accompanied by the presentation of the Bruce Webb and Walter Howchin Medals and a technical talk
Speaker: Elinor Alexande (Director Geoscience and Exploration at South Australian Department for Energy and Mining)
Topic: Natural hydrogen exploration in South Australia
Location: Mile End Hotel, 30 Henley Beach Rd, Mile End

7 July 2022 – The Ralph Tate Memorial Lecture

Topic:  Earth science phenomena, such as earthquakes, climate variability and volcanic eruptions are often unpredictable in space and time, but conform to underlying patterns that are sometimes curious and unexpected. In this talk we’ll explore some of the more unusual patterns and ask what they might tell us about the Earth as a whole
Speaker: Graham Heinson (University of Adelaide)

18 June 2022 - SA Division June Geofamily Picnic
Details:  Come and have a dino-riffic time at the Dinosaur Playground.  Please bring a plate to share, water, sunscreen and hats.  Everyone welcome.
Where:  Greenglade Plaground, Greenglade Drive, Paradise

4 & 5 June 2022 - GSA SA Division Field Trip Geology & Palaeontology of the Naracoorte Region
Details: This GSA SA Division fieldtrip to Naracoorte Caves will be led by Diego García-Bellido and Liz Reed (both The University of Adelaide and South Australian Museum), and Ian Lewis (Department for Environment and Water). Travel, accommodation and most meals will be up to the participants to organise, but we offer to arrange a group dinner on Saturday night (4th June 2022), either a fixed event meal or off the menu: please, chose your preferred option during registration. In order for the group to be manageable, especially in the caves, it is capped at 20 participants plus the trip leaders. The minimum number of participants to make the trip viable is 12

16 May 2022 - GSA SA Division Meeting
Speaker: Alan '"Jay" Kaufman (University of Maryland)
Topic: When Life Got Hard: An Environmental Driver for the Origin of Seashell

28 April 2022 - SA Division Annual General Meeting (in-person and online)
Speaker: Alan Collins (University of Adelaide)
Topic: Proterozoic Adventures in Australia and Beyond

24 March 2022 - SA Division Meeting (in-person and online)
Speaker: Graziella Caprarelli (Editor in Chief, Earth and Space Science)
Topic: Water and Ices in the Solar System

18 February 2022 - SA Division Field Trip: Old Noarlunga Geological Trail
Details: The GSA SA Division would like to invite GSA members and guests to participate in an excursion to Old Noarlunga Geological Trail, of which there is a South Australian Geology Field Brochure currently under development. Nestled in a meander loop of the Onkaparinga River, Old Noarlunga was the former historic rural village of Noarlunga before it became engulfed in suburbia. Having carved a steep and rugged gorge through resistant bedrock uplifted along the neotectonically reactivated Clarendon-Ochre Cove Fault, the Onkaparinga debouches beyond Old Noarlunga onto a down-thrown coastal plain. Old Noarlunga presents outcrops of Cryogenian interglacial coastal mudflat sediments, lithified and deformed to make up the local bedrock, and overlying less lithified to unlithified marine and terrestrial sediments of Cenozoic age. The excursion will examine these exposures and present opportunities for debate on ages and environments of deposition, stratigraphic and tectonic relationships, and geological history. Please come along and walk back in time with expert Wolfgang Preiss of the GSA SA Division, and learn about the geology in our backyard. We also invite participants to join us afterwards for refreshments at Old Noarlunga Hotel.


Student Group Sponsorship
Do you belong to an earth and environmental science-focused student group at one of South Australia’s universities? Are you looking for support for activities, excursions and events (up to $500)? The GSA SA Division would like to provide support for student activities and all 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). Want to know more? Please contact our Secretary, [email protected] for an application form. Past sponsorship has been provided to the Adelaide University GeologicalSociety (AUGS) and the Flinders University Palaeontology Society (FUPS).

SA Geological Heritage
Click here to read about the geological heritage sites of South Australia.

Committee

Chair: Alan Collins
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Vice Chair: Laura Morrissey
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Secretary: Adrienne Brotodewo
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Treasurer: Jarred Lloyd
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Programme Secretary: Georgina Virgo
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Newsletter Editor: Mario Werner
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General Committee:
Len Altman
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Morgan Blades
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John Foden
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Diego Garcia-Bellido
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Rachelle Kernan
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Wolfgang Preiss
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Anna Petts
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SAEMC Representatives
Anna Petts, Rachelle Kernen, Adrienne Brotodewo


Geological Heritage, Field Guide and Geotourism Subcommittee
Margaret Beal, Mario Werner, Jarred Lloyd, Colin Conor

SA Stratigraphy Subcommission
Jarred Lloyd (Convenor), Rachelle Kernen, Mario Werner 

Education Subcommittee
Len Altman (Convener)