S-4 Ediacaran-Cambrian of South Australia

 

Post Trip Saturday 11 August to Saturday 18 August 2012 (8 days and 7 nights)
Start/Finish Starts in Adelaide and finishes in Adelaide (Numbers limited to 16)
Cost Land:$3715 per person share twin/double Single Supplement:$835 Air:$290
Description Examine the oldest preserved multicellular organisms in the Ediacaran of the Flinders Ranges, as well as some of the spectacular Cambrian biodiversity of South Australia. Visit the fossiliferous carbonate successions at Ajax Mine and Mt Scott Range, plus a visit to the lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale Lagerstätte on Kangaroo Island, which preserves a diverse marine biota including soft-bodied animals.
Highlights Spectacular scenery, wildlife and geology, Kangaroo Island
Leader Dr Jim Gehling, South Australian Museum, Adjunct Associate Professor Jim Jago, University of South Australia
Notes Specific joining instructions apply to this field trip and will be provided upon receipt and confirmation of trip booking.
   
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 Adelaide Saturday 11th August
  Upon arrival in Adelaide meet in your hotel foyer to be collected for your tour to the South Australian Museum to view the fossil collections. This evening meet for dinner and an introduction to the field trip. You may be joined by sponsors and dignitaries.
  Meals: L/D Overnight:Hotel inAdelaide
 
Day 2 Adelaide to Rawnsley Park Resort Sunday 12th August
  Depart Adelaide and travel north on Highway One to Port Wakefield. Continue onto Pichi Richi Pass, for a picnic lunch stop and inspection of Elatina Formation rhythmites. After lunch continue on via Quorn and Hawker to Rawnsley Park.
  Meals: B/L /D Overnight: Rawnsley Park Resort
 
Day 3 Rawnsely Park Resort to Parachilna Monday 13th August
  After breakfast travel up Blinman road east of Wilpena Pound for a photo and geological stop. Continue on to the Flinders Ranges National Park via Bunyeroo Gorge scenic road with a stop at a lookout at Razor Back for Ediacaran succession, a second Acraman stop at Bunyeroo Gorge, then drive on to the Brachina Geological Trail. From here you will travel east to the classic Trezona Fm stromatolite site, Trezona Bore track to Ediacaran GSSP site (Elatina Fm diamictite, GSSP, Nuccaleena Fm (cap carbonate) then drive west into Brachina Gorge and stop at the Wonoka Formation, Bonney Sandstone, Rawnsley Quartzite and classic Ediacara Member fossil site; Parachilna Fm burrow beds marking the base of the Cambrian; Wilkawillina Limestone archaeocyathid bioherms; final stop at end of Brachina Trail for the Wirrealpa LS with brachiopod and trilobite hash beds and interpretation signs. Pause to view the sun set on the western Flinders Ranges before arriving at your hotel for dinner and overnight.
  Meals: B /L/ D Overnight: Prairie Hotel, Parachilna
 
Day 4 Parachilna Tuesday 14th August
  After breakfast depart for the Ediacara Conservation Park. Inspect the historic discovery site for fossils of the Ediacara biota and inspect mine ruins, Walk through the fossil beds near Greenwood Cliff and inspect basal Cambrian rocks. National Heritage Listed Ediacara Fossil Site at Nilpena, on-site fossil repository, Rawnsley Quartzite succession, excavated fossil bearing seafloors (circa 300 sq m), shallow canyon shoulder and canyon fill fossiliferous faces. Enjoy lunch with views of Lake Torrens and Ediacara Conservation Park. Return to your hotel with time to freshen up before meeting for dinner and entertainment in the Woolshed at Nilpena Station.
  Meals: B /L/ D Overnight: Prairie Hotel, Parachilna
 
Day 5 Parachilna Wednesday 15th August
  After breakfast drive north towards the Ajax (Beltana) Mine within the Perilya Zinc mine complex where you will see pavements of classic silicified archaeocyathids and small shelly fossils in Ajax LS. Depart mid-morning for the Mt Scott Range Cambrian succession south of Aroona Dam for a walk (around 1km). En route back to Parachilna stop at Trebilcock Gorge: Bunyeroo Formation and diapirically-influenced sedimentation at Acraman level. Return to your hotel for dinner and overnight.
  Meals: B /L/ D Overnight:Prairie Hotel, Parachilna
 
Day 6 Parachilna to Adelaide Thursday 16th August
  After breakfast travel back to Adelaide via Mern Mena where you will see the Moralana Cambrian succession west of Wilpena Pound, or stop at winery in the renowned wine growing region of the Clare Valleyt. Check into your hotel for dinner and overnight.
  Meals: B/L/D Overnight:Hotel in Adelaide
 
Day 7 Adelaide Friday 17th August
  After breakfast depart for the airport to catch a flight to Kangaroo Island. You will be met on arrival and transferred to Buck Farm. Walk to Buck Quarry and search for fossils in the scree (with no collecting) then continue your walk to view the coastal exposure of White Point Conglomerate, Marsden SS, Emu Bay Shale and Boxing Bay Fm at the base of big gully. Return to Adelaide in time to freshen up for your final dinner and overnight.
  Meals: B/L/D Overnight:Hotel in Adelaide
 
Day 8 Adelaide Saturday 18th August
  Own onward flight arrangements from Adelaide.
  Meals: B  
 
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