Scientific Program > MAJOR GEOSCIENCE THEMES, SESSIONS AND SYMPOSIA

Mineral Resources:
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1. Mineral exploration case histories
2. Mining case histories and resource definition
3. Diamonds: discovery and genesis
4. Proterozoic base-metal deposits
5. Electrical and electromagnetic methods
6. Potential fields
7. Predictive mineral discovery
8. Gold - new advances from deposit- to t errane-scale, field and laboratory studies and exploration implications
9. Magmatic ore forming environments and processes

Energy Resources:
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1. Oil and Gas
2. Coal - a revitalised resource
3. Geothermal energy
4. Uranium geoscience
5. Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide
6. Mesozoic and Cainozoic tectonics, basins and hydrocarbon resources

Environmental and Engineering Geosciences:
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1. Assessing and mitigating the geological and environmental risks to Australia’s natural resources, environments and urban and rural communities
2. Environmental and engineering geophysics
3. Quaternary climate change
4. Oceanic and climatic change in the sedimentary record
5. Major advances on the Earth's dynamic biosphere through time

Geodynamics of Earth’s Evolution
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1. Advances in regional-scale mapping through integration of geoscience information: reality or illusion?
2. Accretionary orogens: their composition, structure and evolution
3. The young earth: evolution of the Earth system during the Precambrian
4. Antarctic geology
5. Granites as the products of crust-mantle interaction
6. Mesozoic-Recent basaltic magmatism in eastern Australia -
   relationships to Gondwana breakup, opening of the Tasman Sea, Southern Ocean
7. Size and duration of magmatic systems
8. Volcanic processes and products
9. Diagenesis to low grade metamorphism in different tectonic settings
10. The SGGMP Symposium
11. Basins, break-up and continental evolution
12. Advances in understanding of the tectonic and metallogenic evolution of the margins of the Australasian plate

Resourcing and Innovation
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1. The future starts with resourcing geoscience education
2. Heritage and conservation in earth sciences
3. Developments in airborne gravity
4. Spectral Sensing for Exploration Geoscience
5. Parallel computing for simulation, inversion and analysis of Earth Science data sets
6. Challenging paradigms – whereto for the geosciences?
7. New geophysical methods
8. Geophysical modelling, inversion and visualisation
9. Synchrotron science in the study of geological processes and the Australian Synchrotron

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