Field Geology Club of South Australia

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- Upcoming Excursion and Lecture -

Excursion

Kangaroo Creek Reservoir

10:00am – 3:00pm, Monday May 26th 2025

Most of the reservoirs in the Adelaide Hills were constructed over a 30-year period after WW2. The Kangaroo Creek Reservoir is in the valley of the River Torrens and was built in the 1960s. It originally was going to be a thin concrete arch dam but careful investigation by some consultants from the Geology Department at Adelaide University concluded that this type of dam would fail. The final construction was a rock-filled dam.

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Lecture

The 34th Brian Daily Memorial Lecture

Evolution and extinction in a supercontinental world: Did the breakup of Rodinia provide metazoans with evolutionary salvation? by Dr Phil Plummer

Thursday 5th of June 2025 at 7.00 pm

This talk will illustrate some of the recent fossil discoveries from the Fleurieu Peninsula south of Adelaide, the Flinders Ranges, the Amadeus Basin southwest of Alice Springs, and central India before exploring the timing and evolutionary significance of these discoveries in the light of the global continental arrangement.