Applied Geology Seminar Series
Our research seminars are usually held in the Geology Seminar Room (312-222), off the main entrance foyer to the Geology Building (Building 312) on Curtin's Bentley Campus, although we occasionally schedule them elsewhere when this room is not available.
They are often, but not always, held on Wednesday lunchtimes, which is the only time during the week that Curtin does not schedule classes. The duration including discussion time is one hour.
For further information on the seminar series please contact Dr Nick Timms.
Upcoming Seminars
To be announced soon, once the start of teaching semester panic is over...
Recent Seminars
Wednesday 30 July 2008
Professor Simon Harley (School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, UK)
1 pm, Geology Seminar Room, 312-222
Zircon-Garnet REE partitioning and the histories of orogenic belts
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REE chemistry and Ti-in-Zircon Thermometry in UHT metamorphism
Wednesday 9 July 2008
Professor Krish Sappal (Applied Geology, Curtin)
1 pm, Geology Lecture Theatre, 312-207
Australian Coal and the Clean Coal Technologies
Wednesday 25 June 2008
Dr Florian Fusseis (School of Earth and Geographical Sciences, UWA)
1 pm, Geology Seminar Room, 312-222
Porosity and deformation in mid-crustal shear zones
Wednesday 28 May 2008
Prof Kate Wright (Nanochemistry Research Institute, Curtin)
12 noon, Geology Seminar Room, 312-222
Probing the nano-scale in the virtual minerals laboratory
Wednesday 21 May 2008
Dr Asrarur Talukder (CSIRO Petroleum, ARRC, Kensington, WA)
12 noon, Geology Seminar Room, 312-222
Tectonic framework of the dewatering mechanism and gas hydrates in the continental margins
Wednesday 14 May 2008
Dr Chris Clark (Applied Geology, Curtin)
12 noon, Geology Seminar Room, 312-222
On Antarctica
Wednesday 23 April 2008
Dr Chao Yuan (Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
12 noon, Geology Lecture Theatre, 312-207
Garnet-bearing dioritic porphyry from East Kunlun, Northeast Tibetan Plateau: Magma from the crust-mantle transition zone?
Wednesday 2 April 2008
Dr Ron Watkins (Applied Geology, Curtin)
12 noon, Geology Seminar Room, 312-222
The big easy and lady named Katrina: the nature of the destruction of New Orleans
Wednesday 9 April 2008
Dr Katy Evans (Applied Geology, Curtin)
12 noon, Geology Seminar Room, 312-222
Speciation of sulphur and chlorine in synthetic silicate melts: implications for natural systems
Wednesday 19 March 2008
Dr Thorsten Geisler-Wierwille (WWU Münster, Germany)
12 noon, Geology Seminar Room, 312-222
Re-equilibration textures in zircon: What are we actually dating?
Monday 17 March 2008
Dr Tony Kemp (James Cook University, Qld)
1 pm, Geology Seminar Room, 312-222
Linking zircon age and isotope tracer information to decipher ancient continental growth
Wednesday 12 March 2008
Dr Nick Timms (Applied Geology, Curtin)
12 noon, Geology Seminar Room, 312-222
Deformation-related Ti variations in a mantle zircon and geodynamic implications
Thursday 6 March 2008
Dr Rob Creaser (University of Alberta, Canada)
12 noon, Geology Seminar Room, 312-222
Methodologic and systematic advances 187Re-187Os crustal geochronology - what we can and can't reliably date, and why?
Wednesday 5 March 2008
Dr Rob Creaser (University of Alberta, Canada)
12 noon, Geology Seminar Room, 312-222
Recent successes in 187Re-187Os geochronology of shales, sulfides and oils
Wednesday 27 February 2008
Dr Marta Perez-Gussinye (CSIC (Spanish Research Council), Barcelona, Spain)
12 noon, Geology Lecture Theatre, 312-207
The effective elastic thickness variations of continents: implications for intra-continental deformation and subduction dynamics
Friday 22 February 2008
Professor Yigang Xu (Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, China)
4 pm, Geology Seminar Room, 312-222
Destruction of the cratonic root beneath North China: Evidence, timing, extent and mechanism
Wednesday 20 February 2008
Professor Alfred Kröner (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany)
12 noon, Geology Seminar Room, 312-222
Origin of metamorphic terrains in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Precambrian basement or deep crustal roots of Palaeozoic arc systems?