CWEDG – Central West Exploration Discussion Group


NOTICE OF MEETING

DATE –  Friday 10th November, 2000

TIME –  1:00pm to 8:00pm

SPEAKER –  Prof. John Veevers

VENUE –  Orange Regional Conservatorium Music Centre
73A Hill St, Orange. — Just north of Summer St intersection

Sponsored by: Newcrest Mining Limited

TOPIC –  
Billion-year Earth History of Australia and Neighbours in Gondwanaland

 

PROGRAM

1:00 Introduction, timescales,neotectonics
1:20 Seafloor spreading around Australia
1:40 Australia saturated with 600-500Ma zircons
2:25 Australia between the Mozambique Ocean and Antarctic subduction
2:45 Neoproterozoic Centralian Superbasin and Adelaide Rift Complex

3:15 to 3:45 Tea/coffee

3:45 Tasman Fold Belt System
4:45 Impact of Variscan collision on Australia

5:30 to 6:30 Dinner

6:30 Permian-Triassic Pangean basins and foldbelts along the Panthalassan margin of Gondawanaland

7:00 Impacts of the swerving pacific

7:20 Tectonics of Pangea(s), Gondwanaland and Laurussia

8:00 Close