Field Geology Club of South Australia

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Excursion

STURT GORGE PART 2: EVIDENCE FOR THE START OF THE STURTIAN GLACIATION WHEN THE WORLD BECAME ICED UP

Sunday March 29th

Sturt Gorge is flanked by rocks deposited during a worldwide glacial episode that occurred around 700 million years (Ma) ago. First recognised here in 1901 by Professor Walter Howchin, the glacial episode is known geologically as the Sturtian glaciation and the rock formation itself, the Sturt Tillite, is world famous. The aim of this excursion is to observe the start of the glaciation.

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Lecture

How do you move 6000 minerals?
Thursday 5th March 2026 at 7:00 pm

How do you move 6000 minerals across state lines, while keeping track of them all? This is the challenge that the South Australian Museum faced in 2024. After purchasing a large private collection from a collector in Melbourne, museum staff needed to rapidly pack, catalogue, and ship nearly 6000 high value specimens to Adelaide and register them into the collection. The next challenge: finding enough room to store them all! Come behind the scenes and see how this mammoth task was undertaken.