CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -As the congress draws ever closer, we are pleased to release more information to assist you in making arrangements for your participation at the 34th IGC in Brisbane. This Fourth Circular includes a full guide to the Field Trips and full itineraries for each of these trips are provided.

Detailed explanation-2: -36th International Geological Congress to be held in New Delhi.

Detailed explanation-3: -Australia’s geology can be divided into several main sections: the Archaean cratonic shields, Proterozoic fold belts and sedimentary basins, Phanerozoic sedimentary basins, and Phanerozoic metamorphic and igneous rocks.

Detailed explanation-4: -The geology of Western Australia spans 4.4 billion years of Earth’s history-from the oldest dated zircon mineral grains at Jack Hills and ancient 3730 million-year-old Archean gneiss in the Narryer Terrane, to recent sediments forming right now on the Swan Coastal Plain around Perth.

Detailed explanation-5: -Australia began its journey across the surface of the Earth as an isolated continent between about 55 and 10 million years ago, and continues to move north by about seven centimetres each year.