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Petroleum, the Leigh Creek Sports and Social Club, the International Subcommission on Cambrian Stratigraphy and the owners of the Merna Mora, Mt Little and Beltana stations. An excursion guide is available from the GSA Business Office for $30. Some of the conference papers will be published in a memoir of the Australasian Association of Palaeontologists. The 11th International Conference of the Cambrian Stage Subdivision Working Group at PIRSA. SA medals The SA Division held its annual dinner on 20 July 2006 during which the Bruce Webb medal was awarded to Maud McBriar and the Walter Howchin medal was awarded to Chris Clark. Derek Carter, Managing Director, Minotaur Exploration Ltd, was the after dinner speaker. Derek gave a provocative address ‘Geology as an Art’ with particular reference to the discovery of the Prominent Hill orebody. Medal winners (from left to right): Ian Clark (accepted the Howchin Medal on behalf of Chris Clark who is overseas), Derek Carter (guest speaker), Maud McBriar (winner of the Webb Medal) and Graham Taylor (Chair of the SA Division.) TAG December 2006 | 15
Specialist Group News Tectonics and Structural Geology Specialist Group SGTSG Web Site A new SGTSG web site is now live, with information about the Specialist Group, forthcoming meetings and SGTSG awards and bursaries – check it out at www.sgtsg.gsa.org.au Royal Park railway cuttings, dating from 1882, are important in the history of local geology. During the 19th century many school and university students, as well as field naturalists and others, made collecting visits to the area with geologists such as T S Hall and G B Pritchard. The cuttings are now listed geological heritage sites. Details of the area and the cuttings, and reproductions of several original papers and old photographs, were included in a manual which also featured colour geological maps which includes eight libraries and institutes. The committee met in Melbourne on 7 May 2003, on 20 April 2006, and again on 1 September 2006, its fifth meeting since moving to Melbourne. An official business meeting of the ESHG was held during AESC 2006 in Melbourne, on 3 July, immediately after the paper presentations, to discuss activities since the previous convention in Hobart in February 2004 and to plan for the future. Earth Science History Group The Earth Sciences History Group has been located in Melbourne since late in 2002, a period of four years. Five newsletters have been published – No 32 in December 2002, No 33 in September 2003, No 34 in September 2004, No 35 in April 2005 and No 36 in June 2006 (see the ESHG website for further details). At the Australian Earth Sciences Convention 2006 held in Melbourne, in the History and Heritage section on Monday 3 July, papers with historical content were: ■ David Branagan on Alfred Selwyn: The Post-Victoria Years in Canada 1870–1903 ■ Guy Holdgate on Stirling and the coaly coast: the discovery of black coal in Victoria ■ John Long on Swimming in Stone: the history and significance of the world famous Gogo fish fossil sites, north Western Australia’ ■ Doug McCann on John Walter Gregory and his 1906 publication The Dead Heart of Australia ■ Roger Pierson on The Bacchus Marsh Council Trench, its geological significance and recent conservation ■ Dermot Henry on Museum Victoria's geological collections: a community resource On Sunday 2 July, the day before the conference and in cold and rainy conditions, Bernie Joyce and Doug McCann ran a field trip on ‘History, heritage and urban geology of the inner city of Melbourne and its northern suburb’s (AESC 2006 Field Trip F6). Royal Park, just north of the city of Melbourne, is an ideal area to demonstrate the geology of inner Melbourne. The famous Roger Pierson discussing the Bacchus Marsh Council Trench (‘Triassic Park’), its geological significance and recent conservation. Late in the 19th century, the Council Trench quarry reserve on the slopes of Bald Hill near Bacchus Marsh was found to contain Triassic (aged)-delete plant fossils. Subsequently it gained fame in geological circles as the only known outcropping of Triassic aged sedimentary rock in Victoria (see TAG No 130, March 31, 2004, pp 26–27; http://vic.gsa.org.au/Heritage/Case_Studies/Council_Trench.html). of the area back to the 1860s (see the ESHG website for details). The GSA Council also met on Sunday 2 July 2006 in Melbourne, and ESHG Secretary Guy Holdgate attended to represent the ESHG and speak to the Group's detailed report to the GSA Council, covering the period from February 2004 at Hobart to July 2006 in Melbourne (see the ESHG website for the text of the report and a financial statement by ESHG Treasurer Roger Pierson). The ESHG is in a healthy state financially, and has a current membership of sixty three, The Earth Sciences History Group Committee, as elected at the business meeting in July at AESC 2006, is: Chair: Bernie Joyce Secretary: Guy Holdgate Treasurer: Roger Pierson Editor: Doug McCann The ESHG now also has its own web address: http://vic.gsa.org.au/eshg.htm. We plan to put details of the Group's activities on the ESHG website, including copies of past newsletters, an index to newsletters, links to related history sites on 16 | TAG December 2006
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