Heathcote Fault Zone Field Trip

Heyas rock lickers, Here's the last Geosource Fieldtrip for the semester! Woop woop!

It will be a DAY trip on 4/5/16.

We will meet at Hirds Road at roughly 10am and aim to be back at Monash by 4-5pm.

What to expect to get out of this trip:

- Mapping practice

- Identifying metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary rocks in the field

- Complex structural relationships between faults, folds and foliations

- An appreciation for the Heathcote Fault Zone and its tectonic significance We'll be looking at a key domain boundary within the Lachlan Fold Belt - the Heathcote Fault Zone which lies between the Bendigo-Ballarat zone and the Melbourne zone. We'll be producing a geological map of a small but key contact between the heathcote fault and turbidites with some good surprises along the way. If time permits, we'll head down to Seymour to look at the difference in deformation compared to Heathcote. What to bring: - Drink bottle - Sunscreen - Rain coat - Field notebook - Writing utensils... - Lunch/snacks/bodily upkeep items - Compass - Rock hammer - Your dirtiest, darkest senses of humour and smiles. Lots of smiles. There are lots of samples you can bring home such as serpentinites, turbidites, quartz/chert nodules etc but please use your hammer sparingly (I'm looking at you, Zac). This is a really unique site in Victorian geology and it should be best preserved as possible.

I hope to see some of you there :)

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