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