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Ancient glacial deposits are extensively exposed on the Bedford Park Campus of Flinders University and adjacent Sturt Gorge. This gorge, 12 km south of the Adelaide CBD, is historically significant as the site where Prof. Walter Howchin first recognised evidence of ancient glaciation at the end of the 19th century. Howchin considered this glaciation to be of Cambrian age, but later work demonstrated that most of these rocks, including those of glacial origin, underlie fossiliferous Cambrian strata and are Neoproterozoic.
Archaeocyaths are an extinct group of sponges, confined to shallow marine waters through the early part of the Cambrian period. They are known from every present continent, and in combination with calcified microbes, were the first metazoans to construct widespread reefs. Although lacking spicules, they secreted rigid calcareous skeletons in a wide variety of forms, so rendering them useful as biostratigraphic tools. Pierre’s pursuit of archaeocyaths and Cambrian reefs has taken him to outback Australia, W Europe, Siberia, Mongolia, China, Iran and Antarctica. He will recount some of his experiences in his talk.