NSW-5 Bega - Murrumbidgee Batholiths Pluton Construction Revealed: Looking Within and Below Batholiths

 

Post Trip Saturday 11 August to Thursday 16 August 2012 (6 days and 4 nights)
Start/Finish Starts in Canberra and finishes in Sydney (Numbers limited to 20)
Cost Land:$1795 per person share twin/double Single Supplement:$400 Air:$230
Description This field trip will focus on two contrasting, classic batholiths in the Lachlan Orogen, the I-type Bega and S-type Murrumbidgee batholith of southeast Australia. Examine incremental growth and differentiation processes in plutons, including depositional features such as load casts, cross-beds, graded beds, collapsed rafts of roof and wall-rocks, magma mixing zones, syn-plutonic composite dykes, mafic enclave swarms in the making, and complex but spectacular migmatites plus a classic metamorphic complex.
Highlights Exquisite and rugged coastal and mountainous scenery of the southern New South Wales coast and highlands, passing through Canberra
Leader Professor Bill Collins, University of Newcastle and Dr Simon Richards, James Cook University
 
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 Canberra Saturday 11th August
  Delegates to fly to Canberra and make own way to your hotel. Meet in the hotel foyer for dinner with your fellow participants.
  Meals: D Overnight: Hotel in Canberra
 
Day 2 Canberra to Cooma Sunday 12th August
  After breakfast depart Canberra by coach and travel to Cooma to spend the day visiting the Cooma Complex. Check into your motel for dinner and overnight.
  Meals: B/L /D Overnight: Motel in Cooma
 
Day 3 Cooma to Pericoe Monday 13th August
  This morning after breakfast travel to the Lower Wog Wog River before arriving at Fulligan's Farmstay for dinner and overnight.
  Meals: B/L/ D Overnight: Fulligan's Farmstay, Pericoe
 
Day 4 Pericoe to Eden Tuesday 14th August
  After breakfast visit the Upper Wog Wog River then travel on to Eden for dinner and overnight.
  Meals: B/L/ D Overnight: Motel in Eden
 
Day 5 Eden to Narooma Wednesday 15th August
  Today after breakfast, spend the day visiting the Bega River, Illawambra Dam and subduction complex before travelling on to Narooma for dinner and overnight.
  Meals: B/L/ D Overnight: Motel in Narooma
 
Day 6 Narooma to Sydney Thursday 16th August
  After breakfast head north to Bingie Point for a stop before making your way back to Sydney and the conclusion of the field trip. Tour ends. Own arrangements upon arrival into Sydney.
  Meals: B/L  
     
Important Notes:  
  This field trip is not suitable for children.
Equipment:  
  Cool (10-20C maximum). As this is mid-winter the weather may be cold and possibly wet. Warm wind-proof jacket and hat, sunscreen, walking boots and field gear required. We will be walking each day, occasionally in creek beds where rocks could be wet and slippery
 
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