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Know your Geologist . . .
Did you know them
(From page 41)
This photo was taken at the then operating Luina Tin
Mine, near Waratah, Tasmania in December 1965.
From left to right: Dave Falvey (sitting on wheel on
bonnet), Dave Ransom (standing behind man with
dog), Ed Eshuys (standing against door) and Chris
Herbert (squatting, second from right). All of those in
the photograph were aged about 21 or 22 at the time.
Harry Parker (not in photo) was the mine manager.
Ed Eshuys was the assistant mine geologist, Roy Cox
(not in photo) was the mine geologist, Ransom and
Herbert (just finished Honors at Sydney Uni) were
employed as exploration geologists and Falvey and
Moeskops (just finished third year at Sydney Uni)
were employed as geophysicists. Ken Glasson – much
loved – arranged it all. Photographer was GSA member
Pieter Moeskops (now 64).
Photo courtesy of Pieter Moeskops
Please send your ‘Know your Geologist’ to
tag@gsa.org.au for the June issue.
GEOQuiz ANSWERS (From page 43)
1. South Africa, India and USA.
2. The superbly preserved soft-bodied animals, many of which
have proved difficult to assign to extant phyla. It is of Middle
Cambrian age and occurs in the Yoho National Park, British
Columbia, Canada.
3. Charles Lyell, who based the subdivisions on the percentage of
modern mollusc species in the rocks in the Paris Basin, Eocene
~3%, Miocene 18% and Pliocene >50%.
4. Mt Monadnock in New Hampshire, USA.
5. Sand seas formed by the accumulation of dunes in a desert.
6. Australian height datum, Last Glacial Maximum, mid-ocean
ridge basalt, large-ion lithophile elements.
7. Gunz, Mindel, Riss and Wurm, were named by Penck and
Bruckner in 1909 after tributaries of the Danube in Germany.
8. Triassic, Devonian, Silurian and Eocene.
9. All are names given to the molluscan class now known as
Bivalvia.
10. Southern Australian, Rocky Mountains, Sahara Desert across
the Gulf of Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands, northern
Mediterranean, southern Mediterranean.
TAG
apologises...
TAG 149, page 30: The ‘Intelligent design policy: science education
and creationism’ omitted Professor John Lovering, AO to the ID policy.
John was President of the Geological Society of Australia for the
period 1978–1980. TAG apologises for the omission.
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