The 1973 Robe Field Conference of the Specialist Group in Sedimentology comprised informal lectures on carbonate deposition and the role of algae in carbonate precipitation in volcanic lakes of western Victoria, supratidal dolomites of Queensland, sedimentology of the Naracoorte Cave deposits, tectonic structures in Quaternary aeolianites of Victoria and sea level changes during the Pleistocene. Field excursions were held to Lake Fellmongery at Robe, Quarternary shell beds south of Robe, the aeolianites and younger soil with midden exposed at Nora Creina, stranded beach ridges north of Robe, the section through Quarternary sediments (aeolianite with marine ingressions flanked by onlapping lacustrine marls) exposed in Drain L, and the Coorong. The Coorong lakes variously contain dolomite, aragonite, calcite and magnesite muds: algal mats are common in some. One contains dolomite pellets. The section exposed in Salt Creek reveals a marine transgressive shelly conglomerate truncating aeolianite.