Program | 2021 AESC

Registration to the virtual AESC will give you the opportunity to hear from invited plenary speakers, keynote speakers; participate in live Q & A sessions with presenters, interact with posters and virtual field trips as well as network with fellow delegates and industry.

The program below is Provisional, changes will be made as final confirmations are received. All program times are listed in AEDT. To check the different timezones view the PROGRAM AT A GLANCE or to convert the program times to your timezone, CLICK HERE. To view the presentations in each session click Session Details. To view the abstract, click on the presentation title.

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Tuesday 9 February

Welcome to Day 1 of the First Virtual AESC

10:30am AEDT – Official Opening

Chair: Sebastien Meffre | Moderator: Andrew McNeiil

Welcome To Country
Welcome to AESC 2021 | Joanna Parr, GSA President
Official Opening | Sebastien Meffre & Andrew McNeiil, Convention Co-Chairs
Welcome from Hon Minister Guy Barnett MP

CONCURRENT SESSION 1
11:00am – 12:00pm AEDT

SESSION 1.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
Geophysics informing regional tectonic studies and mineral systems analysis
Chair: Helen McFarlane | Moderator: Teagan Blaikie

Session Details

11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

The tectonostratigraphic evolution of the South Nicholson region, Northern Territory and Queensland: key discoveries from the Exploring for the Future and implications for resource exploration
Dr Chris Carson

11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Review of Australian Mesoproterozoic basins: Geology and resource potential
Dr Jade Anderson

2. Reconstructing the Soldiers Cap Group – Kuridala Group basin: Implications for BHT and IOCG mineralisation
Dr Karen Connors

3. Mapping the near surface architecture of the Amadeus Basin using magnetic data: Petrophysical properties and geophysics pitfalls
Dr James Austin

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SESSION 1.2 | EARTH STRUCTURE
Tectonic and Paleogeographic evolution of Mesozoic Eastern Australia
Chair: Eric Roberts | Moderator: Carl Spandler

Session Details

11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Paleozoic and Triassic crustal evolution of the proto-Andes from detrital heavy minerals
Heinrich Bahlburg

11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Cretaceous Evolution of Zealandia dictated by congested subduction
Professor Peter Betts

2. Tectonic evolution and crustal growth processes revealed by detrital zircon petrochronology: Insights from dispersed Paleozoic-Mesozoic sedimentary basins of Zealandia
Dr Matthew Campbell

3. Jurassic Arc? Reconstructing the Lost World of eastern Gondwana
Elliot Foley

4. Jurassic physiography of southeastern Australia: Evidence from detrital zircon from the Nambour Basin
Professor Robert Henderson

5. Recognition of an Early Cretaceous Continental Arc in Eastern Australia
Carl Spandler

6. Raiders of the lost continental arc: Deciphering the tectonic regime of eastern Australia during the Jurassic from analysis of tuff beds in the Surat Basin
Dr Carmine Wainman

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SESSION 1.3 | CRUST, SURFACE & COSMOS
Carbonates as archives of the past
Chair: Ashleigh Hood | Moderator: Malcolm Wallace

Session Details

11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Trace element distributions in carbonate rocks: A sedimentologist’s perspective on sample targeting versus technique
Professor Gregory Webb

11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Neoarchean carbonates as archives of paleo-redox conditions on early Earth: Insights from metal isotope analyses of the Tumbiana Formation, Pilbara, WA
Dr Juraj Farkas

2. Descending into the “snowball”: Improving interpretations of Tonian palaeoenvironments with multi-proxy elemental and isotopic geochemistry
Georgina Virgo

3. Deep water cuspate stromatolites in the Cryogenian Trezona Formation, South Australia
Brennan O’Connell

4. Characteristics and diagenesis of the Upper Permian Beekeeper Formation from the Perth Basin, Western Australia
Muhammad Ridha Adhari

5. Quantifying the Dolomite problem and its impacts on Mg/Ca change through time
Dr Bradley Opdyke

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SESSION 1.4 | GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA

Chair: Verity Normington
From Core to Cosmos in a Post-COVID Earth: Our Opportunities and Roles as Geoscientists
Dr Steve Hill, Chief Scientist of Geoscience Australia

12:00pm – 12:45pm AEDT REFRESHMENT BREAK
Explore the many opportunities the AESC Online Portal can offer, including:
– meeting one-on-one with industry
– connecting with fellow delegates
– view ePosters
– view Virtual Field Trips

PLENARY SESSION #1
12:45pm – 1:45pm AEDT
Chair: Hannah Moore

Planetary Geology, Australia’s involvement in Moon to Mars
Megan Clark AC

AWARDS & MEDALS #1
1:45pm – 2:15pm AEDT

Beryl Nashar Award
S.W. Carey Medal
E.S. Hills Medal

2:15pm – 2:30pm AEDT REFRESHMENT BREAK
Explore the many opportunities the AESC Online Portal can offer, including:
– meeting one-on-one with industry
– connecting with fellow delegates
– view ePosters
– view Virtual Field Trips

CONCURRENT SESSION 2
2:30pm – 3:30pm AEDT

SESSION 2.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
Geophysics informing regional tectonic studies and mineral systems analysis
Chair: Robin Armit | Moderator: Helen McFarlane

Session Details

2:30 – 2:40 AEDT

PRESENTATION – Broadcast in Session

Lithospheric-scale magnetotellurics over the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane, Yilgarn Craton
Dr Kate Selway

2:40 – 2:50 AEDT

PRESENTATION – Broadcast in Session

Interpreting and validating trans-lithospheric faults in the Central Andes to investigate their control on the localisation of giant porphyry copper deposits
Alexander Farrar

2:50 – 3.30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Mineral Systems of the Capricorn Orogen through time
Dr Sandra Occhipinti

2. Unravelling the “late” evolution of the Gawler Craton: High T/P metamorphism, tectonism and magmatism of the Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
Mitchell Bockmann

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SESSION 2.2 | CORE TO CRUST
Advances in Volcanic and magmatic processes
Chair: Heather Handley | Moderator: Jodi Fox

Session Details

2:30 – 2:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Shallow Conduit and Vent Processes during the 1886 Basaltic Plinian Eruption at Tarawera, New Zealand
Hannah Moore

2:50 – 3:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Trace element sector zoning in clinopyroxene as a function of undercooling: An experimental evaluation in trachybasaltic magmas
Alice MacDonald

2. Timescales of magma ascent recorded by olivine zoning patterns from Mount Leura and Mount Noorat, Newer Volcanics Province, Australia
Dr Rosa Didonna

3. Geophysical and geochemical constraints on the formation of Holocene intraplate volcanism in East Asia
Jack Ward

4. Volcanic stratigraphy and eruption mechanisms from the last remaining outcrops at Wiri Mountain, Auckland Volcanic Field, New Zealand
April Foote

5. Transitions in Eruptive Style During the 2012 Deep Submarine Silicic Eruption of Havre Volcano, Kermadec Arc, New Zealand
Acacia Clark

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SESSION 2.3 | CRUST, SURFACE & COSMOS
Carbonates as archives of the past
Chair: Ashleigh Hood | Moderator: Malcolm Wallace

Session Details

2:30 – 2:40 AEDT

PRESENTATION – Broadcast in Session

On the foundering of carbonate platforms and coral reefs
Dr Moyra Wilson

2:40 – 2:50 AEDT

PRESENTATION – Broadcast in Session

Rafted benthic microfossils as proxies of Neogene ocean current history in the Bass Strait seaway, south-eastern Australia
Dr Mark Warne

2:50 – 3:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Holocene microbialite records of terrigenous influence on water quality for the offshore southern Great Barrier Reef
Dr Marco Salas-Saavedra

2. Insights into palaeo-hydrology of the Coorong Lagoon, South Australia, based on Strontium Isotope Tracers (87Sr/86Sr and _88/86Sr) in fossil carbonates
Yuexiao Shao

3. Variations in mid- to late Holocene nitrogen supply to northern Great Barrier Reef Halimeda macroalgal bioherms
Mardi McNeil

4. Solution Pipes and Focussed Vertical Water Flow in Carbonates with High Matrix Porosity
Dr Susan White

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SESSION 2.4 | GEOSCIENCE IN SOCIETY, EDUCATION & ENVIRONMENT
Natural Hazards and Engineering Geology
Chair: Claire Kain | Moderator: Mark Duffet

Session Details

2:30 – 2:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Tasmanian landslide fatalities and some implications for landslide risk
Dr Nicholas Roberts

2:50 – 3:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Real-time tracking of the 2019 pumice raft in the southwest Pacific
Dr Martin Jutzeler

2. Displacement of mega boulders across coastal rock platforms south of Sydney, Australia, by big storm waves generated by East Coast Lows
Dr Glen Bann

3. Structural analysis of wavecut platform structures, Shellharbour, New South Wales
Dr Paul Lennox

4. Rock Stress in Tasmania
Peter Hills

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3:30pm – 4:00pm AEDT REFRESHMENT BREAK
Explore the many opportunities the AESC Online Portal can offer, including:
– meeting one-on-one with industry
– connecting with fellow delegates
– view ePosters
– view Virtual Field Trips

CONCURRENT SESSION 3
4:00pm – 5:00pm AEDT

SESSION 3.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
Au systems: Archean to the modern Earth
Chair: Adam Bath | Moderator: Yuan Mei

Session Details

4:00 – 4:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Controls on gold endowments of porphyry deposits
Chiaradia Massimo

4:20 – 5:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Evolution of magmatic fertility for porphyry Au & Cu deposits through the prism of zircon chrono-chemistry, Balkan Peninsula, SE Europe
Tim Ireland

2. Stability of gold nanoparticles in sulfur-bearing hydrothermal fluids: An experimental study
Dr Weihua Liu

3. Lifting the cloak of invisibility: Gold in pyrite from the Olympic Dam deposit, South Australia
Dr Kathy Ehrig

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SESSION 3.2 | CORE TO CRUST
Advances in Volcanic and magmatic processes
Chair: Jodi Fox | Moderator: Martin Jutzeler

Session Details

4:00 – 4:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Zircon trace element geochemistry as an indicator of magma fertility in iron oxide-copper-gold provinces
Claire Wade

4:20 – 5:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Newly identified mafic and felsic tuffs of the Shoalhaven and Talaterang Groups, southern Sydney Basin: their volcanic significance and palaeoecological impacts
Dr Glen Bann

2. U-Pb ages and aluminium concentrations of colourful sapphire-related zircon megacrysts from Far North Queensland: Merlot, Rosé and Champagne
Dr Charlotte M. Allen

3. Corundum Conundrum
Nick Raffan

4. QEMSCAN and PGE geochemistry to track sulfide saturation, magmatic evolution and fertility of porphyry suites (on the example of Mount Hagen, Papua-New Guinea)
Monika Misztela

5. Mineralisation around Mount Adrah, New South Wales: new observations by the Geological Survey of NSW
Dr Yamei Wang

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SESSION 3.3 | CRUST, SURFACE & COSMOS
Sedimentary deposits: Earth and planetary processes
Chair: Elizabeth Mahon | Moderator: Brennan O’Connell

Session Details

4:00 – 4:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Preservation of ancient eolian landscapes beneath flood basalt: an example from the Officer Basin, Western Australia
Dr Peter Haines

4:20 – 5:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Correlation of stratigraphic sequences to evaluate downstream transitions within the Wonoka canyon at Umberatana syncline, South Australia
Sarah Giles

2. Quantifying lateral and distal variability within hybrid beds, case studies from Central and Northern Italy
Dr Hannah Brooks

3. Reviewing stratigraphic units defined in the ACT
Christo Marais-van Vuuren

4. A Pb Isotope Regolith Map of Australia
Candan Desem

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SESSION 3.4 | Australian Aboriginal History and its Influence on Science (AAHIS)
Chair: Heather Handley

Session Details

4:00 – 5:00 AEDT

PANELLISTS

Dr Heather Handley
Rebe Taylor
Dr Duane Hamacher
Professor Greg Lehman
Professor Patrick Nunn
Dr Jarrod Hore
Djarra Delaney
Dr Georgia Ward-Fear

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5:00pm – 5:30pm AEDT REFRESHMENT BREAK
Stand up, stretch, connect with fellow attendees in the Meeting Hub, browse the Exhibition and Poster and Virtual Field Trip Gallery… and prepare for the final session of day 1!

CONCURRENT SESSION 4
5:30pm – 6:30pm AEDT

SESSION 4.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
Au systems: Archean to the modern Earth
Chair: Yuan Mei | Moderator: Siyu Hu

Session Details

5:30 – 5:40 AEDT

PRESENTATION – Broadcast in Session

Do rocks deposited during time periods with high gold in sedimentary pyrite host more gold mineralization?
Associate Professor Daniel Gregory

5:40 – 5:50 AEDT

PRESENTATION – Broadcast in Session

Source of gold in Neoarchean orogenic-type deposits in the North Atlantic Craton, Greenland: Insights for a proto-source of gold in sub-seafloor hydrothermal arsenopyrite in the Mesoarchean
Dr Nicolas Saintilan

5:50 – 6:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Apatite chemistry indicates that oxidized auriferous fluids along the world-class Boulder Lefroy – Golden Mile fault system were significantly different to fluids from global porphyry systems
Dr Adam Bath

2. The unusual Imou porphyry Au-Cu deposit, Western Highlands PNG
Tim Ireland

3. The Late Archean Au epoch: By-product of Earth degassing
Dr John Walshe

4. A view of orogenic gold deposits as nonlinear systems: Nonlinear analysis of data
Dr Alison Ord

5. River(ina) of gold – historical activity and structural controls
Dr Cait Stuart

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SESSION 4.2 | EARTH STRUCTURE
From cratonic assembly to supercontinent cycles
Chair: Prof. Zheng-Xiang Li | Moderator: Weronicka Gorczyk

Session Details

5:30 – 5:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Self-consistent geodynamic models through the supercontinent cycle — testing the introversion and extroversion supercontinent assembly and the stability of LLSVPs
Dr Chuan Huang

5:50 – 6:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. New interpretations of high-resolution aeromagnetic data and implications for stratigraphic correlations in the Tanami Region and northwest Aileron Province
Dr Teagan Blaikie

2. Unravelling the Palaeoproterozoic tectonic evolution of the Tanami Region and northwest Aileron Province
Dr Helen McFarlane

3. Assembly of proto-Australia prior to the formation of the Nuna supercontinent in the Paleoproterozoic
Dr Uwe Kirscher

4. Proterozoic crustal evolution of NE Australia during Nuna assembly: Insights from geophysical and radiogenic isotope data
Jiangyu Li

5. Palaeomagnetism argue against a stable supercontinent during the Archaean-Proterozoic transition
Yebo Liu

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SESSION 4.3 | CRUST, SURFACE & COSMOS
Sedimentary deposits: Earth and planetary processes
Chair: Brennan O’Connell | Moderator: Hannah Brooks

Session Details

5:30 – 5:40 AEDT

PRESENTATION – Broadcast in Session

Ediacaran stratigraphy in the western part of the Northern Territory Amadeus Basin, central Australia
Charles Verdel

5:40 – 5:50 AEDT

PRESENTATION – Broadcast in Session

Investigating the origin of organic matter in hydrothermal systems of the Archean
Vanessa Zepeda

5:50 – 6:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Allocyclic controls on shoreface sedimentation from the Late Cretaceous to Miocene, Gippsland Basin, SE Australia
Elizabeth Mahon

2. Paleoflora and environment of the Surat Basin at the time of the JK transition
Jennifer Cooling

3. High-resolution rapid thermal neutron tomographic imaging of fossiliferous cave breccias from Southeast Asia
Holly Smith

4. How the zebra rock got its stripes: Origin of hematite banding in East Kimberley siltstones
Andrew Coward

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Wednesday 10 February

Welcome to Day 2

CONCURRENT SESSION 5
11:00am – 12:00pm AEDT

SESSION 5.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
Reframing mine wastes as new resources to meet green economy metal
Chair: Anita Parbhakar-Fox | Moderator: Gavin Mudd

Session Details

11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Mine Waste as secondary raw material in the framework of mining circular economy: Legislation and applicability perspectives
Mostafa Benzaazoua

11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. The suitability of Re-mining as remediation method of Be-W skarn tailings in Yxsjöberg, Sweden
Lina Hȁllström

2. Geochemical and mineralogical characterization of tailings: Evaluating the potential for reprocessing the Bobadil tailings, Rosebery
Le Xi K ng

3. Critical metal exploration in Queensland’s mine waste: identifying potential secondary resources
Dr Anita Parbhakar-Fox

4. Critical Metals and Mine Waste Across Australia: Partners in Solutions?
Associate Professor Gavin Mudd

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SESSION 5.2 | EARTH STRUCTURE
From cratonic assembly to supercontinent cycles
Chair: Luc Doucet | Moderator: Zheng-Xiang Li

Session Details

11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

The emergence of eclogites linked to global arc chemistry change at 2 Ga
Renee Tamblyn

11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. When did Australia’s Cratons come together?
Dr Weronika Gorczyk

2. Detrital zircon record of Proterozoic strata in the Priest River region of western Laurentia: Evaluating “SWEAT” relationships for supercontinents Nuna and Rodinia
Daniel Brennan

3. Review of SHRIMP zircon ages for the Eastern Succession of the Mount Isa Province and its provenances and comparison with the Etheridge Province
Ian Withnall

4. Partial melting, granulites, retrogression and their control on late orogenic exhumation processes
Bénédicte Cenki-Tok & Dr Patrice Rey

5. Mantle refertilization from 3.2 billion years ago points to an early start of plate tectonics
Hamad Gamal EL Dien

6. The Role of Isostasy in the Evolution and Structural Styles of Fold and Thrust Belts
Youseph Ibrahim

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SESSION 5.3 | GEOSCIENCE IN SOCIETY, EDUCATION & ENVIRONMENT
Geoscience education
Chair: Sandra Villacorta | Moderator: Karin Orth

Session Details

11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Coping with COVID – Using Virtual Geological Objects for On-Line Earth Science Education
Dr Michael Roach

11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. The real work of virtual teaching: Learnings from EESO Summer School 2021 development
Greg McNamara

2. Earth Science Education after 2020
Dr Rachel Przeslawski, Shona Blewett

3. 100 iconic rocks for a proof-of-concept display at the National Rock Garden
Professor Brad Pillans

4. Geology comes alive for high school students with fieldwork near Yass, NSW
Colin Price

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SESSION 5.4 | Ian McDougall Symposium
Chair: Marnie Forster

Session Details

11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Timescale of events around the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary: Links between the Chicxulub impact, Deccan volcanism, and the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction
Courtney Sprain

11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Bitterroot and Anaconda Core Complexes: Cretaceous Ductile Flow and Eocene Detachment Faulting in the Northern U.S. Rocky Mountains Defined by Ar/Ar Thermochronology
David Foster

2. 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of syn-kinematic phengite reveals the tectonic history of underthrusted European crust (W Alps): a synthesis
Yann Rolland

3. High resolution 40Ar/39Ar geochronology in continental margin settings – the Aegean plate margin as a natural laboratory for subduction processes.
Jan Wijbrans, Bertrum Uunk, Manuel de Paz Alvarez, Rosanne Huybens, Fraukje Brouwer

4. Sub-solidus replacement of rapakivi textures during high-temperature potassium metasomatism of the Mannum Granite
Naina Goswami

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PLENARY SESSION #2
12:45pm – 1:45pm AEDT
Chair: Indrani Mukherjee

Searching for life on Mars in our own backyard; the quest for a second genesis
Martin Van Kranendonk

AWARDS & MEDALS #2
1:45pm – 2:15pm AEDT

A.E. Ringwood Medal
Tom Vallance Medal (Earth Science History Group)

CONCURRENT SESSION 6
2:30pm – 3:30pm

SESSION 6.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
MinEx CRC: National Drilling Initiative frontier precompetitive drilling to support greenfields discovery
Chair: Anthony Budd | Moderator: Wei Hong

Session Details

2:30 – 2:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Mineral and petroleum potential in the South Nicholson region, and the NDI Carrara 1 stratigraphic drill hole
Dr Amber Jarrett

2:50 – 3:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION – Broadcast in Session

The MinEx CRC National Drilling Initiative
Dr Anthony Budd

3:00 – 3:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Multicommodity mineral systems analysis for the National Drilling Initiative: The TISA and Delamerian case study
Dr Vasek Metelka

2. Characterising fluid composition and source in a greenfields terrane: west Arunta Orogen, Western Australia
Dr Emily Finch

3. Optimization of sequential drilling locations to reduce geological uncertainty
Dr Guillaume Pirot

4. Zircon Chemistry as an Exploration Tool for Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold Deposits
Adrienne Brotodewo

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SESSION 6.2 | EARTH STRUCTURE
From cratonic assembly to supercontinent cycles
Chair: Weronika Gorczyk | Moderator: Erin Martin

Session Details

2:30 – 2:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Structural evolution of a 1.6 Ga orogeny related to the final assembly of the supercontinent Nuna: coupling of episodic and progressive deformation
Dr Silvia Volante

2:50 – 3:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Development of William’s Ridge, Kerguelen Plateau and Broken Ridge: tectonics, hotspot magmatism, microcontinents, and Australia’s Extended Continental Shelf
Professor Millard Coffin

2. Linking supercontinents to a convective mantle framework
Dr Erin Martin

3. Distinct formation history for deep mantle domains reflected in geochemical differences
Dr Luc Doucet

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SESSION 6.3 | GEOSCIENCE IN SOCIETY, EDUCATION & ENVIRONMENT
Geoscience education
Chair: Rachel Przeslawski | Moderator: Sandra Villacorta

Session Details

2:30 – 2:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

How do we attract the next generation of Earth Scientists
Kate Selway

2:50 – 3:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Geoscience Education Challenges and Opportunities – An Industry Perspective
Jillian Terry

2. Supporting the 3 Rs of earth science education – rocks, relevance and rapture!
Simone Meakin

3. Squiggly lines, mountains, organised chaos or Forrest Gump. What is the image of a geoscience career?
Dr Caroline Tiddy

4. Gamification – A pathway into Earth Science and Resources Career Awareness
Suzy Urbaniak

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SESSION 6.4 | Ian McDougall Symposium
Chair: Jan Wijbrans

Session Details

2:30 – 2:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

The implications of muscovite sub-spectra in phengitic white mica on the theory and practice of argon geochronology
Marnie Forster

2:50 – 3:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Hydrous polymetamorphic crustal rocks in an eclogite-bearing terrane record post-peak recrystallisation during arc-continent collision
Dillon Brown

2. Evaluation of the 40Ar/39Ar technique for kimberlite geochronology: Three case studies from Finland
Hayden Dalton

3. The KBS Tuff Controversy fifty years on: New ultra-precise ages for the KBS tuff and correlates, Omo-Turkana Basin, Kenya
David Phillips

4. Dating the timing of motion in major ductile shear zones
Marnie Forster, Gordon Lister

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CONCURRENT SESSION 7
4:00pm – 5:00pm AEDT

SESSION 7.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
MinEx CRC: National Drilling Initiative frontier precompetitive drilling to support greenfields discovery
Chair: Anthony Budd | Moderator: Emily Finch

Session Details

4:00 – 4:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Uncovering the Cobar Basin – new results from the NSW MinEx NDI areas
Dr Chris Folkes

4:20 – 5:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Between the Stavely and Koonenberry: a structure with no arc, or an arc hidden in structure?
Tom Wise

2. Greening up brownfields: Adding new timelines to mineral systems models for the Mesoproterozoic Gawler Craton
Dr Laura Morrissey

3. Constraining alteration in the buried Benagerie ridge, Curnamona province South Australia
Alex Simpson

4. Hydrothermal alteration and mineralisation characteristics at Anabama Hill: a porphyry Cu-Mo prospect in the Delamerian Orogen, South Australia
Dr Wei Hong

5. 40Ar/39Ar step-heating geochronology on drill core samples reveals multiple alteration events in the Anabama Hill Cu-Mo prospect, South Australia
Naina Goswami, Marnie Foster, Anthony Reid

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SESSION 7.2 | CORE TO CRUST
The Australian lithosphere in 2021: What do we know and future challenges
Chair: Graham Heinson | Moderator: Mark Duffet

Session Details

4:00 – 4:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Geoelectric Structure of Tasmania from Multi-Scale Magnetotelluric Data
Thomas Ostersen

4:20 – 5:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. New insight into the Carpentaria Conductivity Anomaly from high-resolution MT data in the Cloncurry region
Dr Janelle Simpson

2. Next-generation model of the Australian crust from synchronous and asynchronous ambient noise imaging
Dr Yunfeng Chen

3. Recent progress in laboratory studies of seismic wave attenuation relevant to the Earth’s upper mantle
Tongzhang Qu

4. Provenance of Late Cambrian-Ordovician sedimentary rocks in western, north-eastern Tasmania and southern Victoria: Constraints from U/Pb dating, zircon geochemistry and εHf isotope
Umer Habib

5. Lapstone Structural Complex and uplift of the Blue Mountains, tectonic backdrop to western Sydney, Australia
Dr Peter Hatherly

6. Disorientation control on trace element segregation in fluid-affected low-angle boundaries in olivine
Tommaso Tacchetto

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SESSION 7.3 | GEOSCIENCE IN SOCIETY, EDUCATION & ENVIRONMENT
Geotourism: Enriching the visitor experience
Chair: Michael Vicary | Moderator: Angus M Robinson

Session Details

4:00 – 4:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Immersive virtual reality in geotourism
Associate Professor Tom Raimondo

4:20 – 5:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Augmenting the Geotourism Experience through New Digital Technologies
Professor Pat James

2. Geotales and geotrails – collaborative geotourism initiatives and implications for new visitor experiences in regional NSW
Guy Fleming

3. Building the Darwin City Geotrail. Reflections, experiences and lessons
Mark Asendorf

4. Larapinta Trail, Tjoritja / West MacDonnell National Park, central Australia – a potential geotrail
Dr Anett Weishelt

5. Geological Logging of a Proposed 305-km Recreational Geotrail in SE Queensland
Bill D’Arcy, George Winter

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SESSION 7.4
Rapid Fire Presentations
Chair: Verity Normington

Session Details

4:00 – 5:00 AEDT

EARLY CAREER EARTH SCIENTISTS PRESENTATIONS

1. When the dust settles
Dr Cynthia Faye Isley

2. The Earth magnetic field is a dating tool
Dr Agathe Lise-Pronovost

3. The impact of rotational rifting on the East African Rift System
Frank Zwaan

4. Petrophysics database production 101
Andreas Bjork

STUDENT PRESENTATIONS

1. How to form a world-class bentonite deposit in a volcanic island arc setting: An example from Milos island, Greece
Jo Miles

2. Unravelling the Himalaya: One intraoceanic arc at a time
Jessica Walsh

3. Plants and Microbes Unite to Clean Up Oil Spills
Michael Eze

4. Flying high – how geophysics can help with finding water in Cobar area
Millicent Crowe

5. Geophysical investigation of mine waste in Endurance legacy mine site, northeast Tasmania
Wei Xuen Heng

6. Cellular microstructures in Mid-Phanerozoic stromatolites, Western Australia
Liam Olden

7. 2000 years of rainfall in the South Pacific: a first annual record from caves in the Cook Islands
Mohammadali Faraji

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CONCURRENT SESSION 8
5:30pm – 6:30pm AEDT

SESSION 8.1 | GEOSCIENCE IN SOCIETY, EDUCATION & ENVIRONMENT
Geotourism: Enriching the visitor experience
Chair: Mark Asendorf | Moderator: Angus M Robinson

Session Details

5:30 – 5:40 AEDT

PRESENTATION – Broadcast in Session

Telling the Earth’s Stories
Russell Boswell

5:40 – 5:50 AEDT

PRESENTATION – Broadcast in Session

Geotourism in Tasmania
Michael Vicary

5:50 – 6:30 AEDT

1. Driving Australia’s National Geotourism Strategy through the AGC
Angus M Robinson

2. Myths and Perceptions about Geoparks in Australia Challenged
Dr Alan Briggs

3. The Murchison GeoRegion & Aspiring Geopark, Western Australia
Professor Ross Dowling

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SESSION 8.2
Rapid Fire Presentations
Chair: Amber Jarrett

Session Details

5:30 – 6:30 AEDT

STUDENT PRESENTATIONS

1. Indicators of and vectors to porphyry mineralisation in the Northparkes district.
Tristan Wells

2.Comparing Devonian volcanics of Tasmania and Victoria
Till Gallagher

3. A time machine for reconstructing sedimentary basins
Patrick Makuluni

4. Diagnosing the Earth’s most complex compound fracture
Megan Withers

5. Provenance of Late Cambrian-Early Ordovician sedimentary units in west, east and south Tasmania.
Umer Habib

6. A closer look at “King Kong’s” demise
Juliën Lubeek

7. Semi-automating and assisting geological logging using an unsupervised clustering approach
Fouad Faraj

8. How an ultra-low velocity zone in the top asthenosphere deflects mantle flow around the subduction zone: Insights into the evolution of congested plate margins
Roberta Carluccio

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Thursday 11 February

Welcome to Day 3

CONCURRENT SESSION 9
11:00am – 12:00pm AEDT

SESSION 9.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
Hydrothermal-magmatic ore-forming processes
Chair: Yuan Mei | Moderator: Coralie Siegel

Session Details

11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Thermodynamic modelling of ore transport and deposition: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Professor Joël Brugger

11:20 – 11:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION – Broadcast in Session

Yttrium speciation in sulfate-rich hydrothermal ore-forming fluids
Qiushi Guan

11:30 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Effects of halogen in chemical exchange and porosity evolution during feldspar-fluid reaction interface
Gan Duan

2. Mineral redox buffer in ore forming processes – insights from scapolite
Jonathan Hamisi

3. New insights into gold enrichment process during the growth of chalcopyrite-lined conduits within a modern hydrothermal chimney from PACMANUS Basin
Dr Siyu Hu

4. Petrographically constrained in situ sulfur isotopes: why the “SEDEX” can’t be used as model for sediment-hosted sulfide deposits in the 1.6 Ga Edmund Basin, Australia
Heta Lampinen

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SESSION 9.2 | EARTH STRUCTURE
Understanding continental processes with low temperature thermochronology
Chair: Andrew Gleadow | Moderator: Renjie Zhou

Session Details

11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Thermochronology Frontiers in Australia
Brent McInnes

11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. AusGeochem and the Future of Big Data in Low-Temperature Thermochronology
Dr Samuel Boone

2. Development of a digital apatite fission-track analysis training module
Dr Ling Chuang

3. Thermal Annealing of Implanted 252Cf Fission-Tracks in Monazite
Sean Jones

4. Integrating thermochronology with numerical plate-tectonic models: A case study for Central Asia
Stijn Glorie

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SESSION 9.3 | CRUST, SURFACE & COSMOS
Understanding basin formation and evolution from a plate-tectonic perspective
Chair: Sara Moron | Moderator: Rebecca Farrington

Session Details

11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Mapping and modelling a future passive margin in Afar, East Africa
Dr Frank Zwaan

11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Dynamics of arc-continent collision: The role of crustal-mantle dynamics on controlling the formation of basins in continental margins
Andres Felipe Rodriguez Corcho

2. A late Tonian plate reorganization event revealed by a full-plate Proterozoic reconstruction
Professor Alan Collins

3. Reconstructing the Mesoproterozoic palaeogeography of northern Australia through coupled detrital thermo- and geo-chronometers
Dr Bo Yang

4. Reconstruction of the North China Craton within the Meso-Neoproterozoic supercontinents: evidence from large igneous provinces and rift sediments
Dr Shuan-hong Zhang

5. Reconstruction of a Paleoproterozoic greenstone belt and tectonic implications (Toumodi Greenstone Belt, West Africa)
Dr Patrick Hayman

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SESSION 9.4 | GEOSCIENCE IN SOCIETY, EDUCATION & ENVIRONMENT
Geoheritage and Geoconservation
Chair: Margaret Brocx | Ian Cresswell

Session Details

11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Three decades of geoconservation in retrospection
Enrique Diaz-Martinez

11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Geoheritage significance of the deltas of the Pilbara Coast, north-western Australia
Trudi Semeniuk

2. Geoheritage significance of the Holocene Yanrey Delta, Pilbara Coast, Western Australia
Margaret Brocx

3. Geoconservation of ancient Pilbara stromatolite fossils as a multifunctional landscape
Clare Fletcher

4. Geoheritage values of Beenyup Swamp, in the Yellagonga Regional Park, Western Australia
Joy Unno

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GSA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

TO REGISTER – CLICK HERE

12.00– 12.45pm (AEDT)
9.00 – 9.45am (AWST)
11.00 – 11.45am (AEST)
11.30 – 12.15pm (ACDT)

PLENARY SESSION #3
12:45pm – 1:45pm AEDT
Chair: Jacqueline Halpin

The Energy Transition: Implications for Geoscience – a View from the North
Murray Hitzman

AWARDS & MEDALS #3
1:45pm – 2:15pm AEDT

W.R. Browne Medal
Garry Davidson Medal

CONCURRENT SESSION 10
2:30pm – 3:30pm

SESSION 10.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
Hydrothermal-magmatic ore-forming processes
Chair: Michael Baker | Moderator: Siyu Hu

Session Details

2:30 – 2:40 AEDT

PRESENTATION – Broadcast in Session

Using epidote U-Pb geochronology and multivariate statistics to unravel overprinting propylitic alteration around the Resolution porphyry-Cu-Mo deposit: Fingerprinting the fertile porphyry signal
Dr Joshua Phillips

2:40 – 2:50 AEDT

PRESENTATION – Broadcast in Session

Gold in oil, and its role in the formation of epithermal gold deposits
Associate Professor Katy Evans

2:50 – 3:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. A morphotectonic analysis of the East Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea
Nick Dyriw

2. Differentiated Archean dolerites and orogenic gold: Influences on fertility
Dr Patrick Hayman

3. Copper isotope fractionation in volatile-fluxed enclaves: Modern analogues for the genesis of ancient ore deposits
Dr Lucy McGee

4. Geochemical and mineralogical signatures of IOCG and affiliated copper deposits in the Mount Isa Province, Queensland, Australia
Dr Vladimir Lisitsin

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SESSION 10.2 | EARTH STRUCTURE
Understanding continental processes with low temperature thermochronology
Chair: Stijn Glorie | Moderator: Barry Kohn

Session Details

2:30 – 2:40 AEDT

PRESENTATION – Broadcast in Session

Revisiting the break-up evolution of the SE Australian rifted margin: New perspectives from larger data sets
Professor Andrew Gleadow

2:40 – 3:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Distal footprints of the Alice Springs Orogeny: An application of multi-kinetic thermochronology in the Pine Creek Orogen and Arnhem Province
Angus Nixon

2. The uplift history of the Nyika Plateau, Malawi: A long lived paleo-surface or a contemporary feature of the East African Rift?
Malcolm McMillan

3. Detachment fault and metamorphic core complex at the distal continental margin of the northern South China Sea
Dr Hongdan Deng

4. Exhumation of the Indus-Yarlung Tsangpo Suture Zone (NW India): New constraints from low-temperature thermochronology
Dr Renjie Zhou

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SESSION 10.3 | EARTH OBSERVATIONS & MODELS
Data-driven and computational methods to reveal hidden or changing surfaces
Chair: Anya Reading | Moderator: Tobias Staal

Session Details

2:30 – 2:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Bayesian inversion of 3D groundwater flow within the Sydney-Gunnedah-Bowen Basin
Dr Ben Mather

2:50 – 3:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Mapping subglacial sedimentary basin distribution in Antarctica using Random Forest method
Lu Li

2. The AuScope Geochemistry Network and AusGeochem
Hayden Dalton

3. Resolving multidisciplinary challenges of seamless integration of data on people, business, and the environment through applying a Discrete Global Grid System Framework
Shane Crossman

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SESSION 10.4 | ARGA SYMPOSIUM
Regolith and Landscape evolution
Chair: Ignacio Gonzalez-Alvarez and Carmen Krapf

Session Details

2:30 – 2:35 AEDT	WELCOME & INTRODUCTION Ignacio Gonzalez-Alvarez and Carmen Krapf
2:35 – 3:00 AEDT	KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session Australia and Brazil: Contrasting Weathering and Erosion Histories but Similar Cratonal Landscapes Paulo Vasconcelos
3:00 – 3:10 AEDT	FAST TALKS 1. A fresh Look at the Stratigraphy of the Lefroy Palaeodrainage System, Eastern Goldfields, WA. Leah Lynham 2. (U-Th)/He-dating of Iron oxides: Towards establishing a temporal framework for landscape evolution and regolith development in Southwest Western Australia Dr Martin Wells POSTER Mapping landscape domains in Western Australia: Developing a tool to link geology, geochemistry and landscape variability at large scales Dr Ignacio Gonzalez-Alvarez
3:10 – 3:30 AEDT	PANEL DISCUSSION

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CONCURRENT SESSION 11
4:00pm – 5:00pm AEDT

SESSION 11.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
Unconventional Gas & Resources
Chair: Julie Pearce and Suzanne Golding | Moderator: Alison Troup

Session Details

4:00 – 4:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Unconventional gas and resources
Professor Andrew Garnett

4:20 – 5:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. CO2 reduction and fermentation producing in situ CH4 in the majority of sampled GAB aquifers and alluvium overlying a coal seam gas field
Dr Julie Pearce

2. A very unconventional hydrocarbon play: The Mesoproterozoic Velkerri Formation of Northern Australia
Professor Alan. S. Collins

3. The Distribution and Origin of Hydrogen Sulphide Gas in the Triassic Montney; unconventional Play, British Columbia and Alberta, Canada
Dr Gareth Chalmers

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SESSION 11.2 | GEOSCIENCE IN SOCIETY, EDUCATION & ENVIRONMENT
Geological Surveys now and into the future
Chair: Andrew McNeill | Moderator: Mark Duffet

Session Details

4:00 – 4:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Mapping the geology that matters – the role of Australia’s geological surveys in supporting mineral discovery in the 21st century
Dr Christopher Yeats

4:20 – 5:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. How the GSNSW is helping to preserve data from the NSW infrastructure boom
David Adewuyi

2. Enhancing NSW statewide geophysics with high resolution company data
Dr Sam Matthews

3. Regional Geological mapping; the perspective from a small Survey
Andrew McNeill

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SESSION 11.3 | EARTH OBSERVATIONS & MODELS
Next Generation 3D Geological Modelling – development and applications
Chair: Robin Armit | Gerrit Olivier

Session Details

4:00 – 4:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

LoopStructural 1.0: Time aware geological modelling
Dr Lachlan Grose

4:20 – 4:40 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Constrained Gravity Geometry Inversion with Sparse Seismic Sections
Mahtab Rashidifard

4:40 – 5:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. LoopResources – Reducing the Mining Footprint
Dr Laurent Allieres

2. Reproducible 3D model construction using map2loop
Professor Mark Jessell

3. Propagation of data and algorithmic uncertainty based on borehole calibration and perturbation – a sensitivity analysis
Dr Guillame Pirot

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SESSION 11.4 | ARGA SYMPOSIUM
Planetary regolith and regolith in mineral exploration
Chair: Savannah McGuirk and Ian Roach

Session Details

4:00 – 4:05 AEDT	WELCOME & INTRODUCTION Savannah McGuirk and Ian Roach
4:05 – 4:30 AEDT	KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session Martian regolith: from cryolithosphere to atmosphere Dr Graziella Caprarelli
4:30 – 4:45 AEDT	FAST TALKS 1. Inverted Hunder dune swales, Ladakh, India Dr Jonathan Clarke 2. Regolith-Hosted Ferrihydrite: A Forgotten Sorbent in the Search for REE’s? Tobias Bamforth 3. Hydrogeochemistry to explore the Georgina Basin’s phosphate potential Ivan Schroder
4:45 – 5:00 AEDT	PANEL DISCUSSION

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CONCURRENT SESSION 12
5:30pm – 6:30pm

SESSION 12.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
New geology analytics and machine learning in data-rich and datapoor environments
Chair: Matt Cracknell | Moderator: Tobias Staal

Session Details

5:30 – 5:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Random Forest Based Mineral Potential Mapping for Porphyry Cu-Au Mineralisation in the Eastern Lachlan Orogen
Dr Arianne Ford

5:50 – 6:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Are giant ore deposits rogue waves or dragon kings?
Dr Bruce Hobbs

2. Propagating sparse basement markers through inversion volumes using graph convolutional neural networks
Tasman Gilfeather-Clark

3. Extending FaultSeg to Minerals Seismic: Part 1 – A model to generate synthetic seismic volumes modelling faults via elastic dislocation theory while incorporating multifractal features
Robindra Chatterjee

4. Statewide mineral potential mapping of New South Wales using a combined mineral systems and spatial data approach
Dr Phillip Blevin

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SESSION 12.2 | CRUST, SURFACE & COSMOS
Building a boundary – Processes, products, and consequences of Neogene collisional geodynamics in Eastern Indonesia
Chair: Brendan Duffy | Moderator: Meghan Miller

Session Details

5:30 – 5:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Seismic Structural Evidence of Australian Continental Lithosphere Beneath Timor at the Banda Arc Collisional Zone
Ping Zhang

5:50 – 6:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Geology of the Mutis Complex, Miomaffo, West Timor
Dr Ron Berry

2. Cenozoic affinity of the Gondwanan rocks of eastern Timor: evidence from geo-thermochronometry
Dr Brendan Duffy

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SESSION 12.3 | ARGA SYMPOSIUM
Mineral exploration in and through the critical zone
Chair: Nadir De Souza Kovacs

Session Details

5:30 – 5:35 AEDT	WELCOME & INTRODUCTION Nadir DeSouza Kovacs
5:35 – 6:00 AEDT	KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session Application of indicator minerals in mineral exploration Dr Walid Salama
6:00 – 6:15 AEDT	FAST TALKS 1. Regional Cover Characterisation of the Central Gawler – Clipping regolith-plant associations to better constrain geology and prospectivity Anna Petts 2. Airborne electromagnetics for regional cover thickness mapping Dr Ian Roach 3. Soil geochemistry imaging gold prospectively in the South West Terrane of Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia Nadir DeSouza Kovacs POSTER Understanding the cover in the Gawler Craton, South Australia: combining landscape variability, linear structures, and regolith mapping to assist mineral exploration Dr Carmen Krapf
6:15 – 6:30 AEDT	Panel Discussion

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ARGA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

6.30 – 7.30pm (AEDT)
3.30 – 4.30pm (AWST)
6.30 – 7.30pm (AEST)
6.00 – 7.00pm (ACDT)

7:30pm AEDT An Evening Exploring a Selection of Fine Tasmanian Gins
Destination Cellars and the Geological Society of Australia – Tasmania Division invite you to an adventure in gin exploration with the producers
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Friday 12 February

Welcome to Day 4

CONCURRENT SESSION 13
11:00am – 12:00pm AEDT

SESSION 13.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
Advancing technologies in mineral exploration
Chair: Yulia Uvarova | Moderator: Caroline Tiddy

Session Details

11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy integrated with Multi-variate Wavelet Tesselation – a new and rapid methodology for lithogeochemical analysis and interpretation
Fernando Fagundes Fontana

2. Digitalizing the Mining Industry – Core scanner for geochemistry, images, RQD, structures, specific gravity and volume bulk density
Mikael Arthursson

3. Building a cloud-hosted exploration data platform and its application
Dr Fabian Kohlmann

4. Multi-Scale Characterisation of Australia’s Deepest Drill Hole
Renee Birchall

5. Better laser focusing on improved reproducibility of U-Pb isotope analysis by LA-ICP-MS
Dr Hui-Qing Huang

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SESSION 13.2 | EARTH STRUCTURE
Recent advances in the geology and mineral potential of the eastern Australian Tasmanides
Chair: John Greenfield | Moderator: Phil Gilmore

Session Details

11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

New constraints on the tectonic and metallogenic history of Lachlan Orogen
Sebastien Meffre

11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Devonian-Carboniferous regional deformation in the northeastern Lachlan Orogen, southeastern Australia
Dr Chris Fergusson

2. Substrate of the Macquarie Arc: geophysical evidence and implications for tectonic setting
Dr Robert Musgrave

3. Life Cycle of the Ordovician Macquarie Arc, Lachlan Orogen, Eastern Australia
Dr Qing Zhang

4. Unravelling the Tumut Trough: A Middle Ordovician age for the Brungle Creek Metabasalt, eastern Lachlan Orogen
Dr Michael Bruce

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SESSION 13.3 | CRUST, SURFACE & COSMOS
The Proterozoic Earth System and Plate Tectonics—correlations and causation?
Chair: Alan Collins | Moderator: Ashleigh Hood

Session Details

11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Extending Whole-Plate Tectonic Models into Deep Time: Linking the Neoproterozoic and the Phanerozoic
Andrew Meredith

11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. The Impact of Snowball Earth Glaciation on Ocean Water δ18O Values
Dr William Defliese

2. Redefining the Basement Architecture of the Southern Mount Isa Inlier
Dominic Brown

3. Detrital Zircon Age and Provenance of the Tonian-Cryogenian of the Adelaide Superbasin
Jarred Lloyd

4. In-situ Rb–Sr dating of Precambrian sediments
Darwinaji Subarkah

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SESSION 13.4 | GEOSCIENCE IN SOCIETY, EDUCATION & ENVIRONMENT
Geoheritage and Geoconservation
Chair: Margaret Brocx | Moderator: Ian Cresswell

Session Details

11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

The status of geoheritage and geoconservation in Australia
Ian Creswell

11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. A geoheritage treasure – a case study of the Hornsby Diatreme
Trudi Semeniuk

2. Recognising and preserving mineral diversity: An updated catalogue of type mineral specimens in Victoria’s State collections
Oskar Lindenmayer

3. Patina: A microscopic feature of palaeo-environmental and geoheritage significance
Vic Semeniuk

4. Geoheritage significance of three contiguous Holocene wetlands 161, 162, & 163 in the Becher Wetland Suite, south-western Australia
Vic Semeniuk

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12:00pm – 12:45pm REFRESHMENT BREAK
Explore the many opportunities the AESC Online Portal can offer, including:
– meeting one-on-one with industry
– connecting with fellow delegates
– view ePosters
– view Virtual Field Trips

PLENARY SESSION #4
12:45pm – 1:45pm AEDT
Chair: Matt Ferguson

Engagement, diversity and interdisciplinarity to tackle future challenges
Jess Melbourne-Thomas

AWARDS & MEDALS #4
1:45pm – 2:15pm AEDT

F.L. Stillwell Medal
David I. Groves Medal
A.B. Edwards Medal

CONCURRENT SESSION 14
2:30pm – 3:30pm AEDT

SESSION 14.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
Advancing technologies in mineral exploration
Chair: Caroline Tiddy | Moderator: Yulia Uvarova

Session Details

2:30 – 2:40 AEDT

PRESENTATION – Broadcast in Session

dh2loop 1.0: An open-source python library for automated processing and classification geological logs
Ranee Joshi

2:40 – 2:50 AEDT

PRESENTATION – Broadcast in Session

New strato-tectonic model and geochemical tool for revitalised IOCG targeting
John Anderson

2:50 – 3:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Cr-Zoning in pyroxene as a prospectivity indicator for magmatic Ni-Cu sulfide deposits
Dr Louise Schoneveld

2. Using gases for mineral exploration through cover: Importance of microbial activity
Dr Chloe Plet

3. Geophysical Data Optimisation for Modelling: Data collection in a value-of-information framework
Dr Mark Lindsay

4. Scale reduction magnetotelluric survey in the East Tennant region, Northern Australia
Dr Wenping Jiang

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SESSION 14.2 | EARTH STRUCTURE
Recent advances in the geology and mineral potential of the eastern Australian Tasmanides
Chair: John Greenfield | Moderator: Phil Gilmore

Session Details

2:30 – 2:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Orogenesis terminated by mafic underplate delamination at prior passive rift margins: The Delamerian-Ross example
John Foden

2:50 – 3:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Apatite as as indicator of porphyry fertility in the Northparkes district
Tristan Wells

2. Evolution of the Lachlan Orogen in the East Riverina region, NSW: Insights from 100 new SHRIMP dates
Dr Simon Bodorkos

3. Structure of the Silurian Quidong Basin: New observations on a microcosm of Eastern Lachlan Orogen tectonic and metallogenic problematica
David I. A. Hood

4. Approaches to structural history in areas of weak to moderate upright folding
Dr David Durney

5. Late Cambrian – Middle Ordovician extension of the northern Tasmanides: thinned crust that facilitated intense Silurian (Benambran) shortening deformation
Professor Robert Henderson

6. Regional scale folding in the Arthur Metamorphic Complex: structural constraints for the Keith River – Lyons River area, NW Tasmania
Grace Cumming

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SESSION 14.3 | CRUST, SURFACE & COSMOS
Sedimentology and Geomorphology of Dryland Continental Systems
Chair: Sandra Mann | Moderator: Kathryn Amos

Session Details

2:30 – 2:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Australian Drylands Depositional Environments: Local News, Globally Relevant
Dr Gresley A. Wakelin-King

2:50 – 3:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Circadian rhythm of dune-field activity
Andrew Gunn

2. Lacustrine littoral landforms in drylands: diversity and significance with examples from Quaternary megalakes of Africa and Australia
Dr Mathieu Schuster

3. Late Holocene landscape dynamics and sediment cycling around Lake Callabonna, Central Australia
Dr Jan-Henrik May

4. Dryland Coastal Deltas of Western Australia – Reservoir Analogues for Mixed-influenced Fluvial-deltaic Depositional Systems
Professor Simon Lang

5. Cenozoic Channel Deposits of the Bowen Basin, Queensland
Tianjiao Yu

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SESSION 14.4 | SHARE YOUR STORY
Chair: Indrani Mukherjee | Moderator: Hannah MooreClick here to see an overview of the video summaries

Speaker Details

1. Dr Asher Riaz
2. Dr Colin Winsor
3. Dr Brooke Johnson
4. Martin Griffin
5. Dr Anna Petts
6. Nicole Doucette
7. A/Prof Caroline Tiddy
8. Dr. Jessica Stromberg
9. Dr Sandra Villacorta
10. Susan LomasInterviews:
Interview 1. Emily Smyk and Nathaly Guerrero Ramirez (University of Tasmania)
Interview 2. Suzy Urbaniak (CoRE Learning Foundation)
Interview 3. Associate Prof. Sebastien Meffre (University of Tasmania)
Interview 4. Izzy von Lichtan (University of Tasmania)

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CONCURRENT SESSION 15
4:00pm – 5:00pm

SESSION 15.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
Applications of Spectral Geology
Chair: Georgina Gordon I Moderator: Alicia Caruso

Session Details

4:00 – 4:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Characterising the hyperspectral SWIR features of tourmaline from two western Tasmanian granites
Dr Cassady Harraden

4:20 – 5:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. HyLoggerTM mineralogy from chips: A RoXplorer pilot study
Jake Moltzen

2. Modelling of petrophysical from hyperspectral drill core data collected from the Osborne Cu-Au deposit, Mount Isa Inlier, Queensland
Dr Carsten Laukamp

3. Deriving Quantitative Alteration Mineralogy from TIR Hyperspectral Data in IOCG Systems
Dr Jessica Stromberg

4. Coal spectral features in the mid-infrared range
Dr Sandra Rodrigues

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SESSION 15.2 | CORE TO CRUST
Architecture, composition and geodynamic history of cratons and craton
Chair: Yongjun Lu | Moderator: Tim Ivanic

Session Details

4:00 – 4:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

Contrasting growth of the Pilbara and Yilgarn cratons from hafnium and neodymium isotopes
Dr Tony Kemp

4:20 – 5:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. Records of the Earth’s early crust from apatite inclusions in zircon – development and applications of in situ 87Sr/86Sr analysis by SIMS
Dr Jack Gillespie

2. Neodymium and oxygen isotope maps of Western Australia
Dr Yongjun Lu

3. Way out west – does the Arunta Orogen continue westward beneath the Canning Basin?
Dr David E. Kelsey

4. Multiple ages of rutile from a single sample of granulite
Durgalakshmi

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SESSION 15.3 | CRUST, SURFACE & COSMOS
Scientific results of the International Ocean Discovery Program: A decade of success
Chair: Agathe Lise-Provonost | Moderator: Martin Jutzeler

Session Details

4:00 – 4:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE – Broadcast in Session

The isotopic footprint of a submarine mineral system: Cr and Sr isotopes in the Iheya North hydrothermal field, Okinawa Trough (IODP expedition 331)
Dr Lucy McGee & Thomas Burke

4:20 – 5:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

1. East Antarctic meltwater influx from the Wilkes Subglacial Basin since the Last Glacial Maximum as determined by beryllium isotopes
Bethany Behrens

2. 85,000 years of polar front, warm current variability, and ice rafting in contourites off southwest Ireland
Adele Westgård

3. Hydrocarbons in a new early Paleocene sedimentary section recovered from the Campbell Plateau, south of New Zealand, by IODP Expedition 378
Professor Simon George

4. A microbial mayhem in the Chicxulub crater
Professor Kliti Grice

5. Late Cretaceous turmoil in the southern high latitudes: a story of environmental stress, basin restriction and deltaic sedimentation from IODP Site U1512, Bight Basin, Australia
Dr Carmine Wainman

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