Ross is a senior Geologist at the Geological Survey of Victoria, Resources Victoria, Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action. He is a field geologist, specialising in structural geology and structural geophysics. He has experience across geological interpretation of ancient terranes at a range of scales including sedimentology, paleo-geography, stratigraphy, volcanology, and tectonics, metamorphic and igneous petrology. Ross has extensive experience in geological and tectonic interpretations from a diverse mix of field, laboratory, remote-sensed and geophysical datasets. This includes potential field and seismic reflection data, with specialist experience in the interpretation of large-scale field- or drill-core based observations, mostly within a hard-rock context. Ross is highly familiar with most aspects of the geology of SE Australia, with particular knowledge of the Palaeozoic rocks and their former contexts within Gondwanaland. Ross's career is devoted to improving our understanding of how the Earth works, especially our (poorly-exposed) Australian corner of it. With understanding comes predictive capacity, and then (hopefully) opportunity. This gives Ross a unique insight to the rocks and the formation of the land in and around Williamstown where he will talk about local features including the lava bubble we will meet at and the nearby lava tubes.
Where: meet at the the lava bubble, off Battery Rd (See map above for details)
Registration: a free event limited to 30 participants — Must register online — link coming soon — (will take you to the GiveNow site)
