35^TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS

27 AUGUST - 4 SEPTEMBER 2016 | CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

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27 AUGUST - 4 SEPTEMBER 2016 | CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

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Climate Change Studies Themes

Paper Title	Presenting Author Names
Upper Pleistocene Palaeoclimate and Palaeoenvironmental evolution of Kivu	Dr. Chantal K. Nzabandora
Chemical weathering in the tropical river catchments of Western Ghats and its implications on climate change- a case study from a tropical river in southwest coast of India	Dr K. Balakrishna
Tropical Pacific climate during the Medieval Climate Anomaly	Dr. Tianran CHEN
Planktonic foraminifer record of a stronger Indian winter monsoon during the Last Glacial period in a deep sea core from the equatorial Indian Ocean	Mr. SUBHRADEEP DAS Mr. SANJEEV RAGHAV
Ground observations on changes in debris covered Indian Himalayan glaciers in the last four decades by Geological Survey of India	Mr Rakesh Mishra
Holocene climate change in SW India - a multi proxy study using coastal sediments as an archive	Dr. Damodharan Padmalal
Anthropogenic carbonate deposits: a new tool for environmental studies and archaeology	Dr. Gül Sürmelihindi
Chronology of relict lake deposits in the upper Alakananda basin: Implication to paleoclimate and variability of chemical weathering intensity	Dr. JITENDRA KUMAR PATTANAIK
Rainfall pattern of Western and Eastern Ghats of Southern India: Causes and effects	Dr. NEELRATAN SINGH
Variability in Tropical Eastern Indian Ocean circulation and climate during Pliocene: Connection to tectonism in Indonesian region	Professor Devesh Sinha
Paleoclimate Record from Speleothem : Carbon and Oxygen isotope variation in a stalagmite from the Sahastradhara cave, Uttarakhand Lesser Himalaya, India	Professor Vinod Tewari
Role of changing land use Land cover pattern towards global Warming	Prof. Ashwani Wanganeo
Assessment of climate impacts on the karst-related carbon sink in SW China using MPD and GIS	Mr. Sibo Zeng Prof. Yongjun Jiang Prof. Zaihua Liu
Holocene climate change of East Asia, evidence from riverine and marine sediments	Dr. Yan ZHENG
Organic carbon isotope and molecular fossil records of vegetation evolution in central Loess Plateau since the late Quaternary	Dr. Bin Zhou
Palynology and ecology in the surface sediments from the mouth of Krishna River, India	Ms. Ranjana Kumari
Regional Climatic Impact of El-Chichon and Pinatubo Eruption over Middle East and Africa	Mr. Muhammad Mubashar Ahmad Dogar
Statistical parameter study of conductive anomalies and concept of a flow pattern in the shelf environment: instance of the regions, IFOU GBEKE (Centre region of Côte d'Ivoire) and BAGOUE (North Region of Côte d'Ivoire).	Mr. KOUAO LAURENT KOUADIO
Characterising Groundwater Hydrology of Krishna-Godavari Basins	Ms. Harika Munagapati Mr Radheshyam Yadav
Reconstructing the surface water condition of southeast Atlantic ocean for last 1.8Ma using Planktic foraminifera census and stable carbon and oxygen isotope record	Mr. Ankush Shrivastava
Spatio-Temporal Variability of Landslides in the Sikkim Himalaya, India	Ms. AMRITA SINGH
From the Caspian to Mediterranean: Environmental change and human response during the Quaternary (an overview of IGCP 610)	Prof. Valentina Yanko
Geomorphological and Paleopedological Development on Cretaceous Parent Source Rock around Nsukka Southeastern Nigeria.	Dr. Izuchukwu Mike Akaegbobi
Late Quaternary climate variation as recorded from the surface hydrography of Equatorial Indian Ocean from paired measurements of foraminiferal 18O and Mg/Ca ratios	Dr. Mahesh Badanal
Carbon dioxide sequestration due to chemical weathering from the Indian river catchments – a review	Dr. Keshava Balakrishna
High Resolution multi-proxy Mid-late Holoce palaeoclimate record from the Lahaul Himalaya	Dr. Rameshwar Bali
Geochemistry of Himalayan Foreland Sediments using Soil Chemistry as proxy: Constrain on Provenance	Dr. Dhiraj Banerjee
Chemical-Climate Change in the Tropics	Dr. Gufran Beig
Paleoclimatic insights on Oxygen Minimum Zone fluctuations in the eastern Arabian Sea during the last 70 kyr: Evidence from benthic foraminiferal assemblage and geochemical proxies	Dr. Shivranjan Kr. Bharti
Comparative Study of Retreat of Gangotri Glacier through DGPS and Geomorphological Evidences	Mr. Harish Bisht
Climate variability of the Asian monsoon and Westerlies as seen through speleothem records	Dr. Hai Cheng
Climate Change Evidenced by Paleosol Records in the Kazakhstan Steppe Area	Dr. Jiri Chlachula
Onset and duration of transitions into Greenland Interstadials 15.2 and 14 in northern China constrained by an annually laminated stalagmite	Dr. Wuhui Duan
Tracing recent environmental changes using geochemistry and micromorphology of alluvial soils, Sabie-Sand River Basin, South Africa	Dr. Peter Eze
Climate Change: A reality or a myth? Koa Dunefield case study, Northern Cape, South Africa	Ms. Cindy Faul
OSL-based Chronology of Sand Mobilisation in Golestan Province of Northern Iran	Prof. Manfred Frechen
Developing CCA tools in a climate change hotspot: challenges in South Asia	Mr. Mriganka Ghatak
Caring water sources in changing urban climate of India – Delhi as a case study	Dr. Chirashree Ghosh
Capacity building for climate change adaptation in Tajikistan	Mr. Aziz Gulamadshoev
Overlooked geological and human-historical evidence that sea-level rise will approach or exceed IPCC worst-case scenario, regardless of human action	Dr. Roger Higgs
Multi-proxies study of the Hanon paleo-maar sediment, Jeju Island, Korea: implications for paleoclimate variability over the last 35 kyrs	Dr. Sangmin Hyun
Geochemical characteristics and in-situ Quartz oxygen isotope ratio in a Terra Rossa profile: an unconsolidated paleosol horizon	Dr. Hongbing Ji
Paleo beach-ridge complexes, indicator of sea-level changes and climatic fluctuations: A case study from part of the Andhra Pradesh coast, India.	Dr. Rimpal Kar
Geological relict as the climatic refugia of plants	Dr. Woo-Seok Kong
Role of climatic forcing in Holocene Landform development in a zone of active Gedi Fault, Eastern Kachchh rift basin, India	Dr. Girish Kothyari
Palaeoclimatic imprints revealed from the Deccan intrabasaltic palaeosols from the Lonand area (Satara district) of Maharashtra (India)	Dr. Uday Kulkarni
Geochemistry and 10Be analysis of sediments from Svalbard, Arctic Ocean: A proxy for climate change	Dr. Pankaj Kumar
Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO)	Dr. John Leckey
Collapse of the African Surface across the Congo Basin surges the strontium isotope budget of the Cenozoic Ocean	Dr. Bastien Linol
Stable Carbon Isotopic Composition of Black Carbon in Surface Soil as a Proxy for Reconstructing Vegetation in the Northern China	Dr. Lian Liu
“Old” carbon entering the South China Sea from the carbonate-rich Pearl River Basin	Prof. Zaihua Liu
Observed glacier changes of few selected glaciers in remote areas of Lahaul and Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, India.	Mr. Zahid Majeed
Temporal and spatial changes of effective precipitation and their key role in climate change impact on groundwater in Central Europe	Mr. Peter Malik
Carbon capture in man made strata	Prof. David Manning
Circulation effect of δ18O in precipitation and its implication for paleoclimate	Dr. Tan Ming
Geomorphological evolution of Satluj valley in the climatic sensitive tract between Rampur and Luhree, Himachal Himalaya, India during Late Quaternary	Mr. S. A. I. Mujtaba
Changing depositional environment with time as a signature of climate change, central west coast of India	Prof. Ganapati Nayak
Impact of climate change on livelihood of Central Himalayan communities	Dr. Mahabir Singh Negi
Climatic aberrations and their socio-ecological implications: a multi-dimensional investigation of June 2013 Hydro-meteorological disaster in northwestern Indian Himalaya	Dr. Pyar Negi
Counting land carbon storage in Guizhou Province, southwestern China	Prof. Jian Ni
Holocene mangrove ecosystem dynamics of the Chilka Lagoon, Mahanadi Delta, India	Dr. Shilpa Pandey
Spatial and Temporal Variability of Accumulation Area Ratio (AAR) of glaciers in Nubra,Chandra and Bhagirathi sub-basins in the Himalaya region (2008-2013)	Ms. Sandhya Rani Pattanaik
Late Quaternary abrupt cooling events in the eastern Bay of Bengal and its bearing on Indian summer monsoon evolution	Mr. Sanjeev Raghav
Holocene Climatic fluctuations in Gujarat Alluvial Plains based on multiproxy studies	Dr. Rachna Raj
Holocene Indian Summer and Winter Monsoon Variability- Evidence from Continental Shelf Sediment of Sri Lanka	Dr. Pradeep Ranasinghe
GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF AMBIENT AEROSOLS IN SIKKIM HIMALAYA, INDIA	Dr. Rakesh Ranjan
Recent glacier extent and mass balance survey in the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda/D.R. Congo	Dr. Denis Samyn
Re-visiting the Globigerinoides ruber δ18O salinity temperature relationship in the Indian Ocean	Dr. Rajeev Saraswat
Holocene glaciations in southern aspect of Central Himalaya: A case study of Dunagiri valley (Bangni glacier), Central Himalaya, India	Dr. Sarswati Prakash Sati
Evaluation of palaeoclimatic variability during Deccan Volcanic Episode: Perceptions from the intrabasaltic palaeosols (bole beds) occurring around Koynanagar area of Maharashtra (India).	Dr. Mohammed Rafi Sayyed
Palaeosol and Ferricreted Gravels from Quaternary Sediments of Godavari river illustrating palaeoclimate in Nanded area of Maharashtra, India	Dr. Mohammed Babar Shaikh
Relationship between δ13C of shell aragonite in terrestrial snails and local climate of the East-Asian summer monsoon region	Dr. Xuefen Sheng
Polar front migration towards North in the Indian Ocean during the Quaternary: Planktic foraminiferal and their isotopic records	Dr. Ashutosh Singh
Morphological Zones and Retreat of Gangotri Glacier, Garhwal Himalaya, India	Dr. Dhruvsen Singh
Effect of climate change on the pigments of phytoplanktons of Mandovi-Zuari estuaries at west coast of Goa	Dr. Jaswant Singh
Neogene Environments – Key to the Future?	Dr. Peter Smolka
Dating of moraines by lichenometry in Hamtah glacier valley, Lahual and Spiti district, Himachal Pradesh, India: Retreat of Himalayan glacier during Little Ice Age (LIA).	Mr. Abhinandan Srivastav
Subannual-to-biannual-resolved record of Indian Summer Monsoon intensity in the early Holocene recorded by a travertine at the eastern edge of Tibetan Plateau	Dr. Hailong Sun
Petrographic and Organic Geochemical Evidences of Wildfire from the Middle Permian Coal of North China Basin and its significance for Permian mass extinction	Dr. Yuzhuang Sun
Assessment of the cave environments appropriate for the reconstruction of the Quaternary settings in Croatia – speleothem-based approach	Dr. Maša Surić
Speleothems and Past Climate Record from Himalaya and Meghalaya,India	Prof. Vinod Tewari
Significance of Speleothems in Paleoclimate change , Intensity of Tropical Monsoon , Inter Tropical Convergence Zone and Geomicrobiological process : Evidences from the Himalayan and Asian caves	Prof. Vinod Tewari
Climate Change : Imact on Himalaya, Melting of Glaciers, Associated Natural Disasters and Mitigation	Prof. Vinod Tewari
Lower Gondwana Cryosphere of the Sikkim Lesser Himalaya,(Himalayan Gondwana), India	Prof. Vinod Tewari
"Krol Carbonates of the Mussoorie Syncline, Lesser Himalaya,India with reference to Paleoclimate and Geotechnical Study of the Surbhi Landslide"	Prof. Vinod Tewari
Paleozoic Paleoclimate of the Himalaya and the Global Climate Change.	Prof. Vinod Tewari
Evidence for significant shifts in productivity and sea-ice regimes during late Quaternary in the Indian sector of Southern Ocean	Dr. Meloth Thamban
Changing Past Sun-Monsoon Relationship: Results from eastern Arabian Sea	Dr. Manish Tiwari
A 30 kyr continuous record of tropical climate variability from a Mesoamerican speleothem	Prof. Amos Winter
The difference of the sediment under diverse climate in the north-south part of Bohai Bay Basin in the Eocene	Mr. LiangJun Wu
Relationship between vegetation canopy and selected ore bodies of Iran	Mrs. Shahindokht Abolmaali
The Climate and Hydrology of the Congo River Basin: Past, Present and Future	Dr. Noel Aloysius
Abrupt productivity shift recorded during early-middle Holocene, in the NE Arabian Sea	Mr. Syed Azharuddin
Alluvium caves of MasjedSoleiman, SW of Iran; Evidence of occurrence and development	Dr. Mohamad Joudaki
Correlation of Quaternary sediments of East European Plain and Caspian Sea region	Dr. Redzhep Kurbanov
Centennial scale teleconnection between the Indian Summer Monsoon and the North Atlantic Events during the Last two Millennia	Mr. Nisarg Makwana
Sedimentary and dendrochronological records of environmental change and rainfall variability, Southwest Madagascar	Mrs. Estelle Razanatsoa
Magnetic susceptibility as a proxy for paleorainfall: New data from Hirekolale lake sediments, Southern India	Ms. Shwetha Shetty
Temperature and precipitation reconstruction in correspondence to Dansgaard-Oeschger events and glacial terminations from the Eastern Mediterranean (Lake Van, Turkey)	Dr. Mona Stockhecke
Last interglacial sediment profiles of n-Alkanes from southern Hainan Island, tropical China	Dr. Mengyuan Wang
Late Quaternary Climatic Reconstruction and Provenancial Studies of Coastal Dunes along the SW Great Rann of Kachchh, Western India	Dr. Subhash Bhandari
A 24 ka BP record of geochemical variations in the Bharatpur palaeolake deposits from upper Lahaul Valley, NW Himalaya, India	Dr. Archna Bohra
Climate Change- Identification of Deep Saline Aquifer for CO2 Sequestrationin Bikaner-Nagaur Basin, Rajasthan, India	Dr. Devinder Kumar Chadha
New results for Quaternary stratigraphy and paleogeography of Caspian Sea based on Lower Volga sections	Dr. Redzhep Kurbanov
Changing climate and environment: Issues associated with groundwater resources management in India	Dr. Shadananan Nair
Traditional knowledge and natural resource management in changing climate: A case study of India	Prof. Gopal Shankar Singh
Landscape Evolution of Kachchh palaeo-rift basin, Western India: Quaternary Climate and Tectonic Odyssey	Dr. Mahesh Thakkar
New results on Late Quaternary geochronology of Caspian Sea based on OSL-dating	Mr. Nikolai Tkach
New data on the structure of Quaternary deposits of Manych depression	Mr. Nikolai Tkach
The Indricotheres and characteristics of Nanpoping faunal associations from Early Oligocene in Lanzhou Basin and their environmental significance	Dr. Zhichao Li Prof. Yongxiang Li
Study on limestone horizontal corrosive grooves in karst depressions	Prof. Yuhui LI
HOLOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE DECIPHERING FROM LAKE CORE SEDIMENTS USING DIATOM AND SAND PERCENTAGE: INITIAL TRENDS	Dr. Abhijit Mazumder Dr. Pawan Govil
Assemblages and pathways of mineral magnetic and geochemical transformations in Laterites, Paleosols and Red boles from tropical Indian conditions	Dr. Satish Sangode Dr V Kumaravel Dr Dhananjay Meshram
Quantitative analysis of clay mineral assemblages from the intrabasaltic palaeosols (bole beds) occurring in the parts of western Deccan Traps (India): Palaeoenvironmental inferences.	Dr. Mohammed Rafi Sayyed
Climate induced hydrographic changes in the eastern Arabian Sea.	Dr. Arun Deo Singh Dr. Komal Verma Mr. Govind Krishna Mourya Mr. Ravi Tripathi"
Physiological and Ecological Adaption of Typical Plant in Karst Rocky Desertification of Heqing,Yunnan,China	Prof. MA ZULU
Modern Facies Change: Replacement of Corals By Crustose Coralline Algae and Rhodoids in Reefs Near La Parguera and Isla de Mona, Puerto Rico	Ms. Karin Abrahamsson
Late Quaternary climate fluctuations in Ladakh and its comparison with global climate record.	Mr. Ravish Lal Prof. Naresh Chandra Pant Prof. Hari Singh Saini Mr. S. A. I Mujtaba
Paleoclimatology study in Kanibarazan Wetland (south of Lake Urmia)	Ms. Bita Mirzapour
Middle Pleistocene climate changes in the Central Mediterranean as recorded by soil weathering profiles from the archaeological site of Valle Giumentina (Italy)	Dr. Jean-Philippe Degeai
An overview of the palaeo-environmental changes, from the Kalahari to the Limpopo valley, in South Africa.	Ms. Bea Hurter
Shilin Stone Forests, Yunnan, China	Dr. Martin Knez
Pedogenic evidence of high precipitation in red paleosols: Maastrichtian of Bauru Group/Brazil	Dr. Francisco Ladeira
Flood Vulnerability considering Climate Change Using Fuzzy Operators	Dr. Moung-Jin Lee
Palaeopedologic investigations from the intrabasaltic bole beds (palaeosols) occuring in the Bopdev ghat section of the Deccan Traps, south of Pune (India): Implications for palaeoclimates during Deccan volcanism.	Dr. Ravindrasing Pardeshi
Sr/Ca, O and C isotope records from Siderastrea stellata and Porites sp. corals from the Rocas Atoll, tropical South Atlantic	Dr. Natan Pereira
Miocene to Pleistocene distribution of Calcareous Nannofossils and their paleoceanographic significance in the Equatorial Pacific, western Pacific and Atlantic Oceans	Ms. Santi Dwi Pratiwi
Geochemical investigations of Iridium (Ir) and other platinum group elements from the intrabasaltic palaeosols (bole beds), associated basalts and soils from the Deccan Traps of Koynanagar region (India).	Dr. Mohammed Rafi Sayyed
Phytolith analysis on the intrabasaltic red boles (palaeosols) and modern soils from the Koynanagar region of Maharashtra (India): Implications for the palaeoclimatic reconstructions.	Dr. Mohammed Rafi Sayyed
Mineral magnetic studies of the intrabasaltic bole beds from the Deccan Volcanic Province (India): Implications to their palaeoenvironmental conditions.	Mr. Irfan Shaikh
Laser probe Ar-Ar geochronology applied in Mn oxides for reconstruction of paleoclimate and paleoenviroment study	Ms. Juanjuan Tan
Seasonal and inter-annual variability in drip water and environmental parameters of Kaite Cave, N Spain: implications for paleoclimate reconstructions	Dr. Maria J. Turrero
Long-term trophication evolutions responding to changes in climate and ecosystem in Poyang Lake, China	Prof. Ge Yu
"IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN ACTIVITIES, DURING THE ANTHROPOCENE, ON THE OASIS SPACES CASE STUDY: THE TOUAT REGION - ALGERIA"	Dr. Khemissi Zellouf
Climate and vegetation during the last ~11,500 yrs BP from Hamtah and Chhatru glaciers, western Himalaya, India	Ms. Ruchika Bajpai
Late Quaternary climatic fluctuations as documented in the fluvial archives in Mainland Kachchh, Western India	Ms. Madhavi Dabhi
Decoupling the roles of climate and tectonics in response to dryland fluvial system during the Late Quaternary period from the Southern Kachchh Mainland: An example from Western India	Mrs. Archana Das
Holocene climatic oscillations in the Kedarnath region, Higher Himalaya, India; as deduced from palynological studies	Ms. Kriti Mishra
Kivu Rift Region as natural laboratory for assessing environmental impact of CO2 geological sequestration in basaltic formation	Mr. Nacishali Nteranya
Reconstructing fluvial response to climatic fluctuations from Northern Hill Range, Western India: A Multiproxy approach	Dr. Siddharth Prizomwala
Climate and Tectonic Influences on evolution of epigenetic gorges in Central Mainland Kachchh, Western India: An Example of Khari Gorge	Mr. Kaustubh Sane
"Envirnmental Behaviorism, A solution for rescuing the planet (A case study of the springs and lakes of Kermanshah province)"	Ms. Sedigheh Seifilaleh
Comparative Impact of Solar Insolation and the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool Temperature on the East Asia Summer Monsoon During the MIS-13 Interglacial	Dr. Umesh Kumar Singh