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Geodynamics of the Australian Plate
Research Meeting

Geology, Geophysics, Hazards & Resources
PROGRAM
(current at 02/06/09)

Monday 8th June 2009     |   Tuesday 9th June 2009

Lecture Theatre 1.04
Building G (Art & Design)
Monash University, Caulfield Campus [Map, 144 KB]


MONDAY 8th June 2009
8:30-9am
 REGISTRATION
9-9:30am
 Introduction & Rationale: the plate and its features, opportunities & special issues
Louis Moresi
SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCES & OIL
9:30-10am
 Timor Collision: onshore and offshore deformation
Myra Keep, David Haig, Eujay McCartain
10-10:30am
 Timor Collision: Stratigraphic Constraints
David W. Haig, Myra Keep, Eujay McCartain
10:30-11am Ian Longley
11-11:30am MORNING TEA & POSTERS
MAJOR FAULT SYSTEMS
11:30-12pm The role of mantle and crustal detachments during lithospheric extension: implications for the evolution of the Australian plate
Gideon Rosenbaum, Klaus Regenauer-Lieb and Roberto F. Weinberg
12-12:30pm Fluid Involvement in Plate Boundary Deformation - Lessons from Japan, Cascadia, and New Zealand
Rick Sibson
12:30-1pm Deep Fault Drilling Project — Alpine Fault, New Zealand: Active Deformation, Seismogenesis, and Mineralization in a Transpressive Plate Boundary Fault
John Townend
1-2pm LUNCH
2-2:30pm The Geodynamics of Great Earthquakes
Gordon Lister and Marnie Forster 
IGNEOUS SYSTEMS
2:30-3 pm Using geochemistry to map mantle flow
Simon Turner
3-3:30pm Mineralisation at the Australian plate margin - ancient and modern examples
David R. Cooke and Jacqueline L. Blackwell
3:30-4pm Boninites Ancient and Modern: Tectonic Setting and Possible Roles as Source Rocks for Palaeozoic Turbidite-hosted Gold Deposits
Tony Crawford and Reid R Keays 
4-4:30pm AFTERNOON TEA & POSTERS
GEODYNAMICS
4:30-5pm Combining plate reconstructions, geodynamic models and seismic tomography to constrain the tectonic evolution of the Southwest Pacific
W. P. Schellart, B. L. N. Kennett, W. Spakman and M. Amaru
5-5:30pm
 Correlation of ore-forming magmatism with geometry of continental lithosphere underneath New Guinea from seismic tomography
Michiel van Dongen, Wim Spakman, Roberto Weinberg


TUESDAY 9th June 2009
8:30-9am
 REGISTRATION
9-9:30am
 Introduction & Review of Previous Day
Louis Moresi
GEODYNAMICS
9:30-10am
 Finite Time Thermodynamics for Geodynamics
Klaus Regenauer-Lieb
10-10:30am Dynamic rheology and strength of the lithosphere
Roberto Weinberg, Klaus Regenauer-Lieb & Gideon Rosenbaum
10:30-11am The Cretaceous/Tertiary geodynamic history of eastern Australia
R. Dietmar Müller, Lydia DiCaprio, Mike Gurnis, Kara Matthews and Alina Hale
11-11:30am MORNING TEA & POSTERS
GEODYNAMICS
11:30-12pm The motion and position of the Australian plate since the break-up of Pangea: implications for Australian plate margins
Maria Seton and R. Dietmar Müller
12-12:30pm Seismically Imaging the Australian Plate: ANU's Current Efforts and Future Directions
Sara Pozgay
12:30-1pm Epeirogenic uplift at the eastern margin of the Australian plate
T.A. Stern, W.R. Stratford and M.L. Salmon
1-2pm
 LUNCH
GEODYNAMICS
2-2:30pm Uplift of the Lord Howe Rise and formation of the New Caledonia Trough by detachment of lower crust during Eocene and Oligocene subduction initiation in the western Pacific
Rupert Sutherland, Julien Collot, Yves Lafoy et al.
2:30-3pm Geomorphic expressions of mantle flow in the Australian region
Mike Sandiford
3-3:30pm Subsidence and hydrocarbon maturation on Australian continental margins in the full lithosphere context
Alexey Goncharov, Ian Deighton, Sandra McLaren and Christian Heine
3:30-4pm
 AFTERNOON TEA & POSTERS
SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION
4-4:30pm
 Paul Tregonning
4:30-5pm
 Summary of Research Meeting
Wouter Schellart
5-5 :30pm
 Expressions of Plate Boundaries: A Juncture of Art and Science
Margarete Jadamec
5:30-6:30pm
 GAP Plenary Session







 
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