Centre for Tectonics, Resources
and Exploration (TRaX)
TRaX Research Symposium: Mapping Australia and Beyond
Friday 25 July 2014 9am-5:30pm
Mawson Lecture Theatre, Mawson Building, The University of Adelaide
The 2014 Centre for Tectonics, Resources and Exploration (TRaX) Research Symposium will present a package
of talks from each of the five research groups addressing the theme of Mapping Australia and beyond.
Program
8.30-8.50am
Arrival and Coffee
8.50-9:00am
Professor Alan Collins
9.00-11.00am
Professor Graham Heinson
Dr Stephan Thiel
Welcome
4D Electrical Earth Imagining
External Chair: Malcolm Altman, Beach Energy
4D Electrical mapping of Australia: Graham Heinson: Crustal MT Imaging for
Mineral Exploration
MT Imaging of the Australian Lithosphere
Dr Derrick Hasterok
The Thermal Regime of Australia
Alison Kirkby
Fractures and Electrical Anisotropy in Sedimentary Systems
Jake Macfarlane
Lithospheric-Scale Electrical Anisotropy
Nigel Rees
MT Monitoring of Unconventional Energy Resources
11:00am-11:30am
11:30am-12:15pm
Peter McCabe
Morning Tea and Coffee Break
Reservoir Analogues Research Group
Geometry of Coal beds
External Chair: Dr Steve Hill, GSSA
Frank Rarity
Application of the WAVE classification scheme
Sarah Moon
River avulsions
12.15-1.00pm
Stress, Structure, Seismic Group
Dr Bronwyn Carmac, SANTOS
Mr Mojtaba Rajabi
Contemporary Stress and Tectonics of Australia
Mr Alex Robson
Normal fault growth and interaction in the Ceduna Delta
Mr Lachlan Richards
Macrostructures vs Microstructures in Evaporite Detachments: an Example from
the Salt Range, Pakistan
Centre for Tectonics, Resources
and Exploration (TRaX)
1.00-2.00pm
Lunch
2.00-3.00pm
Minerals, Microbes and Solutions
Dr Caroline Forbes
Prof David Giles
Dispersion of Ore components in Glacial Cover, a potential vector to
mineralisation
Mesozoic Carpentaria Basin: stratigraphic constraints, provenance signatures
and detrital zircon ages.
Measuring mineral systems: How long is a piece of string?
3.00-4.00pm
Continental Evolution Research Group
Professor Alan Collins
Ben Cooke
Tectonic Geography at the beginning of the Cambrian- what did the world look
like then?
Structure of the Sibumasu-Indochina Collision, Central Thailand: A section
through the Khao Khwang Fold and Thrust Belt.
An insight into the Sangeang Api magmatic system, Indonesia
4.00-4.30pm
Symposium Closing and Summary
Stephanie Fleurance
Francesco Arbroit
Sprigg Room
External Chair: TBA
External Chair: TBA
***4:30-Informal Drinks in the Sprigg Room
Morning tea, afternoon tea and lunch will be provided. Please stay for informal drinks at the end of the day.
See link to map here