Field Trip Bookings
For additional field trip information and to book, please go to:
www.quadrantaustralia.com/IGC/FieldTrips.shtml
Alternatively, please contact the official tour agent:
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Quadrant Australia (Travel Licence No: )
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N.B. Air costs are indicative only, and final price will depend on availability at time of booking confirmation
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Post Trip:
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6 days 5 nights - Saturday 11 August to Thursday 16 August 2012
Starts: Alice Springs
Finishes: Alice Springs
Numbers limited to 20
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Cost:
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Land: $2775 per person share twin/double
Single supplement: $640
Air: $360
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| Trip description: |
Traverse through the entire Amadeus Basin sequence, including Neoproterozoic carbonates and glacials and Devonian foreland basin deposits. See the complex structural interaction between basement and cover in Ormiston Gorge and producing gas fields at Mereenie or Palm Valley. Visit Gosses Bluff, which forms the exposed remnants of the central uplift of a Cretaceous comet impact, Kings Canyon, which will combine spectacular scenery and geomorphology with an opportunity to view well-exposed Ordovician fluvial and marine deposits. The trip will end at the iconic Uluru and Kata-Tjuta (Ayers Rock and the Olgas) which preserve arkoses and conglomerates that were deposited in a deep foreland basin during the late Neoproterozoic to Cambrian.
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Uluru/Ayers Rock, Kata Tjuta/the Olgas, Kings Canyon, indigenous culture, wildlife
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Ms Christine Edgoose, Northern Territory Geological Survey
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7 days 6 nights - Sunday 29 July to Saturday 4 August 2012
Starts: Darwin
Finishes: Darwin
Numbers limited to 20
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Cost:
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Land: $3960 per person share twin/double
Single supplement: $860
Air: $400
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Trip description:
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This trip combines the world heritage wetlands, scenery and Indigenous culture of Kakadu National Park with an opportunity to visit one of Australia’s premier Paleoproterozoic mineral fields. View the geology and mineral deposits of the Pine Creek Orogen, the Ranger unconformity-related uranium mine in Kakadu, the historical Rum Jungle uranium and polymetallic mineral field and the Pine Creek goldfield. See the Paleoproterozoic geology and tectonic evolution of the Pine Creek Orogen, including Archean basement.
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Highlights:
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Kakadu National Park, wetlands, indigenous culture, Aboriginal art
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Trip Leader/s:
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Dr Andrew Wygralak and Dr Julie Hollis, Northern Territory Geological Survey
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