Field Geology Club of South Australia

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Our aim is to promote the understanding and enjoyment of geology through excursions, lectures and workshops. Click on the button to find out more.

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- Upcoming Excursion and Lecture -

Excursion

ROCKS THAT MADE SA: A stroll through Adelaide’s Cultural Centre

Sunday June 21st 2026 10 am - 3 pm

Older cities relied on what building materials were locally at hand; this made them unique and gave them character. Adelaide has a choice of sedimentary, Igneous and metamorphic rocks from across the State to build with. We will explore how these rocks are proudly used in our buildings, monuments, statues and paving stone, focussing on the cultural precincts of North Terrace and Festival Plaza.

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Lecture

From matching coastlines to moving plates: a scientific detective story

Thursday 2nd July 2026 at 7.00 pm

Forget Sherlock Holmes, Poirot and the rest! For a truly exciting detective story, that of the elucidation of Plate Tectonics takes a lot to beat. It is a story full of clues: clues that were ignored or misinterpreted, clues that led up wrong tracks or to dead ends and those, sometimes stumbled across by accident, that eventually led to the solution. This talk will take you through this story and introduce some of the “detectives” along the way.