When: 1.30 pm Sunday 6 October 2024
Where: Meeting Room, QVMAG at Inveresk
Admission: Free for members of the Royal Society of Tasmania and the Geological Society of Australia
$6 general admission
$4 for students, QVMAG or TMAG Friends, and members of the Launceston Historical Society
Tasmanian landforms and sediments provide the only direct records of repeated glaciation from a tectonically stable landmass in the southern mid-latitudes. They afford key opportunities to understand Earth’s most recent ice ages, including interhemispheric disparities and Antarctica’s influences on Australia. New sites and evolving techniques are expanding our insights on Tasmania’s last few million years of cryosphere fluctuations.
Nick is a geologist and geomorphologist specialising in landslides and glacial records. His expertise in interpreting mountainous landscapes stems from work across western North America, South America, Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Since joining Mineral Resources Tasmania’s Geological Survey Branch in 2019, Nick has been helping to better understand Tasmania’s landscape evolution and consequent natural hazards.
Large faceted dolerite block in diamictite from Little Fisher River (photo: Bron Kimber)
Folded rhythmites exposed in Arm River (Photo: Grace Cumming)
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