Review of Early Archean Microfossil Discoveries in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia
Speaker: Prof. Kenichiro Sugitani
Date: Monday 9th September, 2024
Time: 12:00-13:00
Location: QUT Garden’s Point, S-306
Zoom Meeting ID: 819 668 3317
*This event will include light refreshments
Agenda:
Please join us on Monday the 9th of September for this seminar presented by Professor Kenichiro Sugitani. Ken is particularly well-known for discovering enigmatic lathe-shaped microfossils in the Paleoarchean Strelley Pool Formation, which have since been identified in a number of other units worldwide. He will discuss recent discoveries and outstanding issues relating to these and other Archean microfossils.
Biography: Kenichiro Sugitani is a professor at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies at Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya. He has undertaken fieldwork in the Pilbara Craton and mapped the Goldsworthy greenstone belt and discovered microfossils from the 3.0 Ga Farrel Quartzite and the 3.4 Ga Strelley Pool Formation. Prof. Sugitani has been an associate member of Australian Centre for Astrobiology at the University of New South Wales and served as a regional editor of Astrobiology and a member of editorial advisory board of Geobiology.
Details:
| Location: | QUT GP, S306 |
| Start Date: | 09/09/2024 [add to calendar] |
| Start Time: | 12:00 |
| End Time: | 13:00 |
| Enquiries: | Jayden Fryer (Project Officer): fryerj@qut.edu.au |