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| Date | Activity | Topic/Theme | Speaker/Leader | |
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| 6 Feb | Meeting | Callabonna museum collecting 2024 | Tom and Sharon Hurley | |
| 23 Feb | ½ day excursion | Beginners’ and guests’ day at Henley Beach | Dr. Laurence Campbell | |
| 6 March | Meeting | The Anthropocene in the context of geological time | Assoc. Prof. Kathryn Amos | |
| *23 Mar | Excursion | Make a date with slate and linger longer in Willunga: the quarry, the museum and the town | Mark Dale | |
| 3 April | Meeting | How to become a geologist and what to do with those pesky journals | David Grybowski | |
| 27 Apr | Excursion | Thie intruder and the host: Port Elliott Granites and the Middleton Sandstone. | Peter Briggs and Kym Dixon | |
| 1 May | Meeting | Student presentations: Identifying an unusual meteorite mineral; Rehabilitating Brukunga Mine; Dating the Gosses Bluff meteorite impact. | Cooper Ferguson, Zara Woolston, Jayden Squire | |
| *Monday 26 May | Excursion | Dams and reservoirs of the Adelaide Hills | Kym Dixon with Seth Tiddy ((Dept. Mining and Energy) | |
| 5 June | Brian Daily Memorial Lecture | Evolution and extinction in a supercontinental world: Did the breakup of Rodinia provide metazoans with evolutionary salvation? | Dr. Phil Plummer | |
| 29 June | Excursion | Geology by train: the Belair railway line | Frances Williams, Steve Elsby and Friends of Belair Station | |
| 3 July | Meeting | From Iran to Adelaide: A research journey uncovering nature's solution for mine water contamination | Dr. Sanaz Orandi | |
| *20 July | ½ day excursion | The Tate Museum and the secret life of crystals and minerals | Frances Williams | |
| 7 Aug | Meeting | Mysteries down under: caves of the Flinders Ranges | Stan Flavel | |
| *18 Aug | Excursion | Dams and reservoirs of the Adelaide Hills | Kym Dixon with Seth Tiddy (Dept. Mining and Energy)) | |
| 31 Aug | Repeat Excursion | Geology by train: the Belair railway line | Frances Williams, Steve Elsby and Friends of Belair Station | |
| 4 Sept | Ralph Tate Memorial Lecture | Rings around the earth? | Professor Andy Tomkins Monash University |
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| *21 Sept | Excursion | Belair National Park: Geology, history and orchids | Frances Williams and Mike Burrell with Friends of Belair National Park | |
| 2 Oct | Meeting | Sunset Crater, volcano national monument | Paul Curnow | |
| Mon 20 -Sat 25 Oct | 6-day Excursion |
Harlequin Stone and the ancient rocks of northern Yorke peninsula: their geological setting, origin, and alteration | Dr. Colin Conor with Marg Beal and Mandy Bluett | |
| 6 Nov | AGM and Members’ Night | Guest speaker TBA | ||
| 14 Nov | Dinner | TBA | ||
| 29 Nov | Picnic | TBA | ||
| 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. *Note that these excursions are not on the traditional last Sunday of the month. In one case not even on a Sunday! This is on account of needing to liaise with other organisations or individuals. |
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