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It was created in 1958 to promote speleology, scientific investigation, and the fostering and preservation of caves in Western Australia. [2] As Western Australia's largest caving group, [3] WASG continually arranges caving expeditions to undertake cave surveys, implement rehabilitation measures, and work to enable better access to caves. [4]
Geological Society of Australia (GSA) – Australian non-profit [1] Geoscience Australia – Agency of the Australian Government; Geological Survey of Queensland; Geological Survey of South Australia; Geological Survey of Victoria; Geological Survey of Western Australia; GNS Science – New Zealand; Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia ...
Phillip Elliott Playford AM (27 November 1931 – 12 July 2017) [1] was an Australian geologist who made important contributions to sedimentary geology, oil exploration in Western Australia, maritime history, [2] and made contributions to the recording of Aboriginal art and culture from the north of Western Australia.
The Geological Survey of Western Australia is an authority within the Department of Mines and Petroleum of the Government of Western Australia that is responsible for surveying and exploration of Western Australia's geological resources. The department provides information to industry, technical support and professional guidance to government ...
Geological Society of Australia ESHG Newsletter 41: 43 p. Finlayson DM. 2008. A geological guide to Canberra Region and Namadgi National Park. Geological Society of Australia (ACT Division), 139 p. Geological Survey of Western Australia, 1990. Geology and Mineral Resources of Western Australia. Memoir 3. McKenzie et al. (ed) 2004.
Basic geological regions of Australia, by age. The large brown region in the lower left of the continent constitutes the Yilgarn Craton. The Yilgarn Craton is a large craton that constitutes a major part of the Western Australian land mass. It is bounded by a mixture of sedimentary basins and Proterozoic fold and thrust belts.
The geology of the Kimberley, a region of Western Australia, is a rock record of the early Proterozoic eon that includes tectonic plate collision, mountain-building and the joining of the Kimberley and Northern Australia cratons, followed by sedimentary basin formation.
Marjorie Mary Sweeting (28 February 1920 – 31 December 1994 in Oxford), was a British geomorphologist specializing in karst phenomena. Sweeting had gained extensive knowledge on various topographies and landscapes by travelling around the world to places such as Greece, Australia, Czechoslovakia, United States, Canada, South Africa, Belize, and most notably China.