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Queensland Day Trips

• QLD-D1 Geology of Brisbane
• QLD-D2 The Glasshouse Mountains
• QLD-D3B Stradbroke Island and Moreton Bay
• QLD-D4B The Tweed Shield
• QLD-D5 The Scenic Rim of Queensland
• QLD-D6 Engineering Geology in SE QLD
• QLD-D7A Toowoomba Industrial Minerals
• QLD-D7B Toowoomba Industrial Minerals
• QLD-D8A Sunshine Coast Construction Materials
• QLD-D8B Sunshine Coast Construction Materials

Queensland Field Trips

• Q-1A Geology of Heron Island
• Q-1B Geology of Heron Island
• Q-2 Mineralisation of the Mount Isa Region
• Q-3 Mount Isa Crustal Evolution
• Q-4 The Queensland Energy Province
• Q-5 Whitsunday Volcanics & Tectonism
• Q-6 Cretaceous Northern Great Artesian Basin
• Q-7 (No Longer Available)
• Q-8A Fraser Island Natural and Geological Beauty
• Q-8B Fraser Island Natural and Geological Beauty
• Q-9A (No Longer Available)
• Q-9B (No Longer Available)
• Q-10 Cracow-Gympie Gold
• Q-11 Nth Qld: 1700 million years of Earth History

New South Wales Field Trips

• NSW-1 (No Longer Available)
• NSW-5 Bega - Murrumbidgee Batholiths
• NSW-6 (No Longer Available)
• NSW-7 Oroclinal Bending in the Sthn New England

Victoria Field Trips

• V-2 (No Longer Available)
• V-3 Otway Basin Carbon Capture and Storage

Tasmania Field Trips

• T-1 (No Longer Available)
• T-2 Ore Deposits of Tasmania

South Australia Field Trips

• S-2 (No Longer Available)
• S-4 Ediacaran-Cambrian of South Australia

Northern Territory Field Trips

• NT-1 Geology of Uluru - Alice Springs Region
• NT-2 (No Longer Available)

Western Australia Field Trips

• WA-1 Yilgarn Craton
• WA-2 A billion years of Earth history
• WA-3 (No Longer Available)
• WA-4 Shark Bay: Stromatolites and World Heritage

New Zealand Field Trips

• NZ-1 North Island: Active Volcanism
• NZ-2 North Island - Auckland Volcanic Field
• NZ-3 Pliocene to Miocene Wanganui & Taranaki
• NZ-4 South Island: Plate Boundary Structure

New Caledonia Field Trip

• NCAL-1 New Caledonia Subduction/Obduction

Malaysia Field Trip

• MY-1 Langkawi Geopark

Papua New Guinea Field Trips

• PNG-1 (No Longer Available)
• PNG-2 Port Moresby-Popondetta-Kokoda-Madang

NZ-3 Pliocene to Miocene shelf to basin floor sequences of Wanganui and Taranaki basins, New Zealand

 

Post Trip	Saturday 11 August to Wednesday 15 August 2012 (5 days and 4 nights)
Start/Finish	Starts in New Plymouth, New Zealand and finishes in New Plymouth, New Zealand (Numbers limited to 20)
Cost	Land: AU$1480 per person share twin/double Single Supplement: AU$405 Air: From AU$430 Brisbane to New Plymouth via Auckland
Description	This field trip will focus on Pliocene to Miocene shelf to basin floor fan successions of the Wanganui and Taranaki basins. The major source of hydrocarbons (oil and gas) is coal of Late Cretaceous to Eocene age. The Wanganui Basin demonstrates Plio-Pleistocene integrated stratigraphy, and a superb marine Pleistocene record. Emphasis on the trip is on the sequence stratigraphy of shelf, slope and basin floor sandstone, mudstone, and conglomerate outcrops ranging in age between Pliocene to Late Miocene. Many classic outcrop localities from the Wanganui and Taranaki basins will be examined with supporting sub-surface datasets (seismic, well logs etc).
Highlights	Waitomo Caves, New Plymouth, Mount Taranaki, Wanganui, Wellington, Te Papa (National Museum), GNS Science
Leaders	Dr Greg Browne, Dr Peter King, Dr Malcolm Arnot, and Dr Kyle Bland, Geological and Nuclear Sciences, NZ
Notes	Delegates are required to book own air travel to arrive in Wellington on evening of 11 August. Trip finishes late afternoon on 15 August.
Booking with Flight included Booking with no Flight This field trip can be booked with a flight from Brisbane to the start point of the field trip inclusive. If booked with the field trip then your flight will be confirmed as part of the IGC seats allocated on flights . If you book without the flight it will be the responsibility of the delegate to book the flight to return to the start point of the field trip from Brisbane. These seats cannot be booked as part of the IGC allocation and you will only have the publicly available seats on the flight. (Additional cost see above)   * Flight bookings DO NOT include arrangements for you from your home port to or from the field trips and congress. These bookings can be done as a separate arrangement
Itinerary
Day 1	Arrive New Plymouth	Saturday 11th August
	Fly from Brisbane to New Plymouth via Auckland. On arrival in Auckland you will be met and transferred to your hotel for check in. Evening at leisure.
	Meals: In-flight	Overnight: Autolodge, New Plymouth
Day 2	New Plymouth	Sunday 12th August
	After breakfast travel to Hawera to view fossiliferous Pliocene shelf sequences (Tangahoe and Matemateaonga formations) at several coastal outcrops taking in transgressive erosion surfaces and systems tracts (TSTs), highstand systems tracts (HSTs), and regressive sandstones (RSTs). Return to your hotel with the evening at leisure.
	Meals: B	Overnight: Autolodge, New Plymouth
Day 3	New Plymouth	Monday 13th August
	After breakfast travel to see the deep-water Late Miocene sandstones of the Mount Messenger Formation, exposed in coastal cliffs near Mokau. Aspects include basin floor fan sedimentology and development of MTDs (slumped intervals) in bathyal settings. Return to your hotel with evening at leisure.
	Meals: B	Overnight: Autolodge, New Plymouth
Day 4	New Plymouth	Tuesday 14th August
	After breakfast, travel to see the deep-water Late Miocene sandstones of the Mount Messenger Formation, exposed in coastal cliffs near Tongaporutu. Aspects include development of 4th-order base-level driven depositional cycles on basin floor fans to base-of slope turbidites. Return to your hotel with evening at leisure.
	Meals: B	Overnight: Autolodge, New Plymouth
Day 5	New Plymouth	Wednesday 15th August
	After breakfast, travel to see the deep-water Late Miocene sandstones of the Mount Messenger and Urenui formations exposed in coastal cliffs near Urenui. Aspects covered include geometries developed in slope fan depositional settings and clastic-filled channels developed in slope settings. Return to your hotel with evening at leisure.
	Meals: B	Overnight: Autolodge, New Plymouth
Day 6	Onward travel	Thursday 16th August
	After breakfast check out of your hotel and transfer to the airport for your onward travel – own arrangements.
	Meals: B
Important Notes:
	1. This field trip is not suitable for children.
	2. Airfares are not included in the tour price.
	3. A moderate level of fitness is required, with some stops involving 2-3 km long walks along sandy beaches, some walking and climbing up and downhill (15-30 minutes walking up hills), and traversing through muddy, swampy ground or streams. Participants should be able to easily walk 5-6 km per day. Each day we are away from the city of New Plymouth, shops and drug stores – therefore it's important that participants carry with them any items of medication. We will be driving in vehicles for up to 3 hours for any given day. Those that suffer motion sickness should take medications prior to the trip.
Equipment Required:
	Normal field gear including day pack, warm clothing, suitable footwear for sandy beach walks, muddy stream, and potentially quarry, gravel tracks and farm exposures. You should also bring a rain jacket, sun hat, sun glasses, sun cream, warm hat, camera, plus any personal items such as medications etc. Hiking boots or shoes are recommended, with the addition of light weight Teva or similar slip-on footwear for beach sections. Field trip leaders will provide hard hats and fluorovests as required for roadside and/or quarry stops. August is mid-winter in New Zealand and the weather is usually cool to cold and can be variable, with daytime high temperatures of 10-150 C. It may well be wet and windy!