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AAPRILPRIL 22021021 • IISSUESSUE 221111 ABN 71 000 876 040 ISSN 1443-2471 NEWS AND COMMENTARY FEATURES Farewell Richard Lane Universal horizontal slab and The Wild, Wild West spherical cap Bouguer corrections Tracking geological features The fi rst gravity measurements Regularising and mixing points in Australia with grids ASEG federal executive 2020–21 David Annetts: President (Conference Advisory Committee Chair, Mark Duffett (Technical Standards Committee Representative) Near Surface Geophysics Specialist Group President) Tel: +61 3 6165 4720 Tel: +61 411 756 129 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Marina Pervukhina (Professional Development Committee Chair) Kate Robertson: President Elect Tel: +61 8 6436 8746 Tel: +61 8 8429 2564 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Ian James (Web Committee Chair) Leslie Atkinson: Secretary Tel: +61 488 497 117 Tel: +61 414 804 028 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Millicent Crowe (Communications Committee Chair) Danny Burns: Treasurer (Finance Committee Chair, Publications Committee Tel: +61 448 476 384 Co-Chair) Email: [email protected] Tel: +61 407 856 196 Suzanne Haydon (Membership Committee Chair) Email: [email protected] Tel: +61 417 882 788 Ted Tyne: Past President (Publications Committee Co-Chair) Email: [email protected] Tel: +61 434 074 123 Email: [email protected] The ASEG Secretariat Yvette Poudjom Djomani (Branch Liaison) The Association Specialists Pty Ltd (TAS) Tel: +61 2 6249 9224 PO Box 576, Crows Nest, NSW 1585 Email: [email protected] Tel: +61 2 9431 8622 Fax: +61 2 9431 8677 Email: [email protected] Standing committee chairs Finance Committee Chair: Danny Burns Publications Committee Chair: Ted Tyne Professional Development Committee Chair: Tel: +61 407 856 196 +61 434 074 123 Marina Pervukhina Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Tel: +61 8 6436 8746 Membership Committee Chair: Suzanne Haydon Technical Standards Committee Chair: Email: [email protected] Tel: +61 417 882 788 Tim Keeping Education Committee Chair: Vacant - enquires Email: [email protected] Tel: +61 8 8226 2376 to [email protected] Branch Liaison: Yvette Poudjom Djomani Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Tel: +61 2 6249 9224 ASEG History Committee Chair: Roger Henderson Web Committee Chair: Ian James Email: [email protected] Tel: +61 406 204 809 Tel: +61 488 497 117 Conference Advisory Committee Chair: Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] David Annetts International Affairs Committee Chair: Vacant - Research Foundation Chair: Philip Harman Tel: +61 411 756 129 enquires to [email protected] Tel: +61 409 709 125 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Honours and Awards Committee Chair: Communications Committee Chair: Millicent Crowe Andrew Mutton Tel: +61 448 476 384 Tel: +61 408 015 712 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Specialist groups Near Surface Geophysics Specialist Group Chair: David Annetts Young Professionals Network Chair: Jarrod Dunne Tel: +61 411 756 129 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] ASEG branches Australian Capital Territory South Australia & Northern Territory Victoria President: Marina Costelloe Tel: President: Ben Kay President: Thong Huynh +61 2 6249 9347 Email: [email protected] Tel: +61 438 863 093 Email: [email protected] Secretary: Carmine Wainman Email: [email protected] Secretary: Mike Barlow Tel: +61 411 876 173 Secretary: Nathan Gardiner Tel: +61 439 692 830 Email: [email protected] Tel: +61 431 680 488 Email: [email protected] NT Representative: Email: [email protected] New South Wales Tania Dhu Western Australia Tel: +61 422 091 025 President: James Austin Email: [email protected] President: Todd Mojesky Tel: +61 2 9413 7876 Tel: +61 450 898 751 Email: [email protected] Tasmania Email: [email protected] Secretary: Steph Kovach President: Mark Duffett Secretary: Partha Pratim Mandal Tel: +61 2 8960 8443 Tel: +61 3 6165 4720 Tel: +61 415 998 380 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Queensland Secretary: Matt Cracknell Tel: +61 409 438 924 President: Ron Palmer Email: [email protected] Tel: +61 413 579 099 Email: [email protected] Secretary: James Alderman Email: [email protected] ASEG honorary editors Exploration Geophysics: Editor in Chief Preview: Editor Mark Lackie Lisa Worrall Email: [email protected] Tel: +61 409 128 666 Email: [email protected] ADVERTISERS INDEX Bartington. .3 Daishat . 22 AEGC . 33, 47 CONTENTS New Book ...........................................39 Groundwater ........................................49 Editor’s desk 1 CoRMaGeo ..........................................51 Letter to the Editor 1 Geophysical Software ................................51 ASEG news Tensor Research. .51 President’s piece 2 EMIT. .BC Executive brief 4 New Members 4 Table of officeholders ASEG CORPORATE PLUS MEMBERS Committees ASEG Young Professionals Network: Update 5 ASEG Honours and Awards: Call for nominations Velseis Pty Ltd for 2021 5 Tel: +61 7 3376 5544 Branch news 6 Email: [email protected] ASEG national calendar 9 Web: https://www.velseis.com/ News HiSeis Pty Ltd People Vale: Richard Lane 10 Tel: +61 8 9470 9866 Email: [email protected] Geophysics in the Surveys Web: http://www.hiseis.com.au/ GA: Tasmanian Tiers survey and updated AusAEM-1 interpretation 13 TOTAL SEISMIC Update on geophysical survey progress 15 Tel: +61 (0)409 891 391 GSSA: Full sets of merged GCAS grids now available 18 Email: [email protected] MRT: Tiers airborne magnetic and radiometric Web: https://www.totalseismic.com/ survey update 20 GSQ: New Economy Resources Initiative geophysics programmes and Cloncurry extension MT results released 21 ASEG CORPORATE MEMBERS GSWA: AusAEM20-WA update 23 Commentary Santos Ltd Tel: +61 8 8116 5000 Canberra observed: What is the future of our universities? 24 Web: https://www.santos.com Areas selected for 2021 offshore exploration acreage release 25 Education matters: Presentations available on the ASEG’s YouTube Southern Geoscience Consultants Pty Ltd channel in 2021 and a virtual SEG DISC coming Tel: +61 8 6254 5000 soon 26 Email: [email protected] Environmental geophysics: Geophysical interpretation 29 Web: http://sgc.com.au/ Minerals geophysics: The Wild, Wild West 31 Seismic window: Tracking geological features 32 Transparent Earth Geophysics Data trends: Regularising and mixing points with grids 34 Tel: +61 (0) 409 887 459 Wayne Hewison Webwaves: Who is using the ASEG website? 38 or +61 (0) 412 844 216 Andy Gabell Email: [email protected] Features Web: http://www.transparentearth.com.au Universal horizontal slab and spherical cap Bouguer corrections 41 The first gravity measurements in Australia 48 Down Under Geophysics Tel: +61 8 9287 4100 Crossword 50 Email: [email protected] [email protected] Business directory 51 Web: https://dug.com/ ASEG membership application forms 52 International calendar of events 56 FRONT COVER Editor Book reviews: Ron Hackney Richard Lane in 1992 - deep Lisa Worrall Email: [email protected] in discussion about TEM Email: [email protected] ASEG Head Office & Secretariat with a team of Russians Assistant Editor Alison Forton from SNIIGGIMS. For more Theo Aravanis The Association Specialists Pty Ltd (TAS) information see Richard’s Email: [email protected] Tel: (02) 9431 8622 obituary in this issue. Email: [email protected] Associate Editors Website: www.aseg.org.au Education: Marina Pervukhina Email: [email protected] Publisher T&F Publishing Government: David Denham Tel: +61 3 8842 2413 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Environmental geophysics: Mike Hatch Website: www.tandfonline.com Email: [email protected] Production Editor Minerals geophysics: Terry Harvey Alexandra Yates Email: [email protected] Tel: Petroleum geophysics: Michael Micenko Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Preview is available online at Advertising https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/texp20/current Geophysical data management and analysis: Chris Freeman ISSN: 1443-2471 eISSN: 1836-084X Tim Keeping Tel: (03) 8842 2413 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Editor’s desk Editor’s desk As this issue of Preview went into Fitzgerald for the opportunity to publish and Ian James (Webwaves) takes another production, southeast Australia was this draft paper; “Universal horizontal slab look at who is using the ASEG website being deluged by rain, resulting in and spherical cap Bouguer corrections” Des major flooding The last time Australia has written a preamble to the paper, which Enjoy! saw flooding on this scale was during is also a tribute to Richard - a man who was Lisa Worrall the last La Niña event in 2010/11 greatly respected and much loved Preview Editor Rainfall associated with that event [email protected] broke the millennial drought and, from Also in this issue of Preview, Roger a geophysical perspective, resulted Henderson takes an incidentally topical References in a measurable increase in the mass look at “The first gravity measurements of Australia, South-east Asia and in Australia” David Denham (Canberra