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| Date | Activity | Topic/Theme | Speaker/Leader | |
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Thu 1 Feb |
Meeting | The Flinders Ranges World Heritage nomination and its bearing on early animal evolution | Assoc. Prof. Diego Garcia-Bellido | |
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Sun 25 Feb |
Half Day Excursion 10 am to 12 noon | Museum of Economic Botany | Bob Major and Glen Woodward | |
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Thu 7 Mar |
Meeting (program change) | We shouldn't be here: a cosmological and geological look at how lucky we are | Rob Kirk | |
| Sun 24 Mar | Excursion | Old Noarlunga and the elusive Ochre Cove fault | Frances Williams | |
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Thu 4 Apr |
Meeting (program change) | Walking with archaeocyaths | Dr Pierre Kruse | |
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Sun 28 Apr |
Excursion | Sturt Gorge, from Flagstaff Hill to Flinders Uni. |
Dr Wolfgang Preiss | |
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Thu 2 May |
Meeting |
Student seminar: Garnet sands, mound springs and meteorite impacts |
PhD candidates: Sharmaine Verhaert, Fletcher Nixon, Jake Jolly | |
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Sun 5 to Sun 12 May |
Long Excursion | Extrusive volcanism and landforms of western Victoria's Kanawinka Geotrail | Peter Briggs and Bob Major | |
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Thu 6 Jun |
Brian Daily Memorial Lecture |
No outcrop? no problem! how to view geology when there's no geology to view! | Dr Phil Plummer |
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| Fri 21 to Sun 23 June | Long weekend excursion | Copper and diprotodons of Burra | Phil Woodard and Kym Dixon | |
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Thu 4 Jul |
Meeting (change to original programme) | Top shelf sedimentary structures | Dr Nick Lemon | |
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Sun 28 Jul |
Excursion: (Half-day) | Rocks from space - in the Tate Museum! | Jayden Squire | |
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Thu 1 Aug |
Meeting (change to original programme) | Surface logging: adventures in the oil patch | Mike Burrell | |
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Sun 25 Aug |
Excursion | Sellicks geology: from hilltop to beach | Kym Dixon, Peter Briggs, Cynthia Pyle | |
| Thu 5 Sep |
Ralph Tate Memorial Lecture |
Human impact or natural variability? The conundrum of climatic change |
Emeritus Prof. Martin Williams | |
| Mon 23 to Mon 30 Sep | Long excursion |
Flinders Ranges: Evidence for the rise of complex life |
Dr Nick Langsford and Assoc. Prof. Colin Conor with Marge Beal and Mandy Bluett | |
| Thu 3 Oct | Meeting | Everything You Always Wanted to Know About GeoRegions* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) | Prof. Pat James | |
| Sat 26 to Sun 27 Oct | Weekend excursion | Geotourism Potential of the Wild South Coast Way: Cape Jervis to Waitpinga Beach | Prof. Pat James | |
| Thu 7 Nov | Meeting | Annual General Meeting and Members' Night | Mike Burrell and Members | |
| Fri 15 Nov | Dinner | Maylands Hotel | ||
| Sat 30 Nov | Picnic | Hazelwood Park | ||
| Meetings are held in the Mawson Lecture Theatre, University of Adelaide North Terrace Campus, and commence at 7.00 pm unless otherwise announced in the monthly Bulletin. | ||||