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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Environmental Geosciences

Paper Title	Presenting Author Names
The geo-ecological rehabilitation capabilities of dolomite on a pollution plume derived form a gold tailings storage facility - a myth or reality?	Ms. Angelique Daniell
Scottish Government Strategic Research Programme Delivering Integrated Solutions to the Soil Crop Nutrition Continuum	Prof. Lorna Dawson
Re-Liquefaction-Fluidization in Man-Made Strata in the Former Tone River Bed, Japan, following the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake	Mr. Kunio FURUNO
Groundwater basin management based on monitoring system -Groundwater level and land subsidence, Kanto Groundwater Basin in Japan -	Mr. Kunio FURUNO
Application of QUAL2Kw as a Modelling Tool for Water Quality Modelling in Swarna River, South-western India	Dr. UDAYA SHANKARA HARIKRIPA NARAYANA
Spatial Assessment of Trace Metals in Groundwater around Udupi Thermal Plant, India	Dr. HN UDAYA SHANKARA
Modeling of Basic Water Quality and Fate of Organic Contaminants in Swarna River Basin, Southwestern India.	Dr HN UDAYA SHANKARA
Liquefaction-Fluidization induced land subsidence: Impact of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake on man-made strata around Tokyo bay area, Japan	Atsushi Kagawa
Integrated Geophysical Research in Environmental Pollution Caused by Molybdenum Contamination	Dr. ALİ İSMET KANLI
Armoring effect of limestone in acid mine drainage: Static immersion experiments	Prof. Liangqi Lei
Wavelet Analysis of the Dynamic Characteristics of Saltwater Intrusion in the Beibu Gulf, Southern China	Dr. QINGHUA LI
Determination of Soil Gas Radon Level and Evaluation of Radon Risk in Shenzhen City, South China	"Dr. Hongtao Liu Dr. Nanping Wang"
Investigation of the Influence of Heavy Metals on Soil, Groundwater, Crops and Human Health in Shijiazhuang Sewage Irrigation Area of China	Prof. Wenlou Luan
Fluoride Incidence in Groundwater: An Insight from Rural Parts of Central India	Prof. Deepak Malpe
The impact of mine dump pollution on vegetation in the Tsumeb area, central Namibia	Prof. Benjamin Mapani
Risks Associated with Consumption of Vegetables Grown in and around Abandoned Gold Mines in Kadoma, Zimbabwe	Dr. Maideyi Meck
Mitigation strategy of the impacts on the community wells associated with mining operation in Hire town - Côte d’Ivoire	Mr. Mohamed MEITE
Ground movement as a result of dewatering in the Far West Rand area of Johannesburg resulting in the formation of Sinkholes and Dolines	Mr Kedibone Phogole
Governance, tourism and water: the complexity of maintaining water quality in the Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal.	Prof. Kirsten Nicholson
Terms- Man-made strata, Jinji Strata, Jinji Unconfoimity and Jinjin Unconformity- on Anthropogenic deposits and Geopollution and Geological Hazards by Human Activity for the Future Earth	Prof. Hisashi Nirei
CAUSES AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTOF LANDSLIDE EVENT ON THE EL RODEO VALLEY – CATAMARCA -ARGENTINA	Dra. Adriana Niz
Limestone Applications in the Sorption of Metals from Water and Wastewater	Prof Solomon Isiorho
Integrated freeze core – ITRAX micro-XRF scanning: a non-destructive and cost effective method of baseline geochemical determination in the low-sedimentation environment of a legacy mining camp in Subarctic Canada	Prof. R. Timothy Patterson
Bull Island: characterization and development of a modern barrier island triggered by human activity in Dublin Bay, Ireland	Dr. Xavier Monteys
Preliminary screening of gold mine tailings in the context of acid mine drainage and geopolymerization	Ms. Leahn Pieterse
Sediments from the abandoned river valley record low sea level in Pärnu region, eastern Baltic Sea, before the Litorina transgression	Triine Post
Dillemmas and problems of raw materials strategy in Poland	Professor Barbara Radwanek-Bak
The reuse of waste in the mining industry	Mr Clive Saunders
Integrated water resource and risk management via localized participatory vulnerability assessment	Dr. Philipp Schmidt-Thomé
Sustainability of Landforms in Western Sunderban, West Bengal, India	Mr. DEBASIS SENGUPTA
The distribution of some potentially harmful elements (PHEs) in the Krugersdorp Game Reserve, Gauteng, South Africa: Implications for wildlife health	Dr Michael Shapi
Study on the Concentration and Influence Factor of Organo-Chlorine Pesticides in Breast Milk from Three Cities in China	Ms. Song Shuling
Geochemistry, mobility and bioavailability of contaminants in mine tailings of Namibia	Mr. Ondrej Sracek
Coastal Zone Carbon Sequestration and Sustainability	Mengsha Su
Fly Ash as a backfill material-A geotechnical investigation	Dr Viswanth Ravi Kumar Vadapalli
Assessment of heavy metal contamination in the surface sediments of Vembanad lagoon and Ashtamudi estuary, Kerala, southwest Indian Coast	Dr. VELAYUDHAN AMBILI
Policyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Soils, Water Sediments and Post-Flotation Wastes in Kitwe Region (Copperbelt, Zambia)	Prof. Stanislaw Wolkowicz
Assessment of the radiological impact from rare earth mining sites in China	Mr. Qifan WU
Geo-environment changes corresponding to global climate and anthropogenic injection in small river estuaries on China coast	Dr. Ping YIN
Sea Level Rise and Lost of Mangrove Forest in the Sundarban using Geospatial Technology, West Bengal, India	"Mr. Ismail Mondal Dr. Jatisankar Bandyopadhyay"
Foraminiferal Evidence for Paleocoastal environmental changes influenced by Holocene Transgression and varying storminess in Choctawhatchee Bay Florida USA	Ms. Nadee Uthpala Nanayakkara
GIS-Techniques and AHP Method to Support Decision Making in the Selection of Landfill Sites for Solid Waste	Dr. Marcella Perricone
Accumulation of Potentially Harmful Elements in Vegetables from Two Geological Settings in Zimbabwe	Dr. Maideyi Meck
ASSESSMENT OF METALS IN CHILDREN IN MIGORI GOLD MINING REGION, KENYA: HEALTH IMPLICATIONS	Dr.. Veronica Ngure
Application of Lead Isotopic Ratios and Multivariate Statistical Analysis in Source Apportionment with a Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in the Street Dust Of Kolkata, India	Mr. AVIJIT DAS
Effects of anthropic development in a urban beach of south Sardinia (Italy, western Mediterranean) evaluated using hydrodynamic models, run-up and DSAS indices	Prof. Sandro De Muro
Germany`s new approach for siting a nuclear waste repository	Dr. Volkmar Braeuer
The uranium toxicity in groundwater in Southern Punjab (Malwa Region), India	Dr. Rajesh Chaturvedi
Environmental Monitoring Programme – Northern Mozambique and South Malawi	Mr. Simplicio Chivambo
Environmental impact of Agriculture activities in a Chambal project command area of MadhyaPradesh, India	Prof. Laxmi Prasad Chourasia
Sustainable Options to Manage Acid Mine Drainage in the Witwatersrand Gold Fields	Dr. Henk Coetzee
Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining and related mercury usage in India	Dr. Mihir Deb
A geo-statistical approach to estimate sediment budget and reconstruct large-scale paleo-coastal morphology	Dr. Junjie Deng
Heavy Metals Pollution of Streams and River Sediments in parts of Akpabuyo Local Government Area, Nigeria and its Implication for Agricultural Practices and Environmental Protection	Prof. Barth Ekwueme
Innovative Burning and Reuse of Asbestos Fibers by Self-Propagating High Temperature Synthesis: the Development of an Innovative Technique for the Treatment of Asbestos Containing Waste from the Laboratory Scale to the Implementation of Prototype Plants	Prof. Maurizio Ferretti
Environmental Impact of Historical Heavy Metal Contamination near Spelter, West Virginia, USA	Prof. George C Flowers
Oxygen diffusion and geochemical speciation in abandoned gold mine tailings dams of the Witwatersrand	Mr. Johan Fourie
Archaeological and geological markers reveal the time span and formation rates of the central coastal cliffs of Israel	Dr. Ehud Galili
The study of groundwater contamination hazard in megacities by mathematical methods (the cases of Moscow, Russia and Hyderabad, India)	Dr. Irina Galitskaya
Adsorption of pharmaceuticals onto clay minerals and their organoclay derivaties	Dr. Regis Guegan
Coastal change as a function of geological settings, natural forcings and anthropogenic drivers – comparative modeling approaches for management strategies	Prof. Jan Harff
Environmental sustainability through waste minimization: case study of a successful program at a U.S. university	Dr. Syed Hasan
Evolution of the Paleo beach ridges of Digha coastal tract- West Bengal: implications for sea regression in 500 yrs B.P.	Mrs. Antara Hazra
The Jinami by 2011 Tohoku earthquake occurred Remobilization of Diphenylarsinic acid pollution at a site in Kamisu City, Japan	Mrs. Tomoyo Hiyama
Quaternary coastal changes in Oman (Arabian Sea)	Dr. Gosta Hoffmann
Characterization and utilization of industrial wastes with different mineralogical compositions for water purification	Dr. Mirabbos Hojamberdiev
The Saga of Indian mines: Environmental and Social Relevance	Dr. Gurmeet Kaur
High potential part of liquefaction-fluidization in man-made strata of reclaimed land around Tokyo bay, central Japan: based on the geological survey on damaged part on the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake	Dr. Osamu Kazaoka
Radioactive measurement at the fallow field that was polluted by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Disaster.	Mr. KAZUYA KIMURA
Relation Between Landform and Radioactive Geopollution	Mr. KAZUYA KIMURA
Communicating real-time water availability, allocation and use to the public through the web	Mr. James King
Postglacial-Holocene relative sea level record from the White Sea Coast, N-W Russia	Dr. Vasili Kolka
A signal matching algorithm based on Dynamic Time Warping	Dr. Sergey Kotov
The Role of Structural Frequency, Style and Weathering on the Fate and Transport of Chlorinated Solvents in Fractured Bedrock	Dr. Kevin Leahy
Phytomining: Investigation on the gold hyperaccumulation capacity of wheat using pot trials and tailings dump material as a substrate	Ms. Tshiamo Legoale
Lighting up the Subsurface	Dr. John Ludden
REGULATION OF DUST FROM MINERAL OPERATIONS IN ENGLAND	Dr. Brian Marker
The Cape Flats Aquifer: helping Cape Town become a Water Sensitive City	Mr. Benjamin Mauck
3D Morphometry vis-à-vis ofshore Placer resources off Chikka – Puri, Odisha, East coast of India	Dr. Sumit Mitra
Physical and mineralogical characterisation of asbestos mine sites in preparation for rehabilitation	Ms. Ndamulelo Negota
Terminology for better description of man-made strata in relation to geopollution and geological hazards in Japan	Professor Hisashi Nirei
Characterisation of precipitates formed in anaerobic and aerobic units designed to treat acid mine drainage from an abandoned coal mine in Carolina, Mpumalanga (South Africa)	Mr. Obed Novhe
Assessment of factors contributing to the growth and loss of wetlands in Louisiana, USA	Dr. Ricardo Olea
Groundwater Baseline Monitoring at Underground Coal Gasification Sites in South Africa	Dr. Jennifer Pretorius
An Unconventional Re-vegetation Plan for Remediation of an Orphan Base Metal Mine in Ontario	Mr. Mark Priddle
Geoenvironmental Evaluation of Land Degradation Due to Large-Scale Open Cast Mining of Iron Ores, Goa State, India	Dr. Ramesh Ramaswamaiah
‘Low-acid’ sulfide oxidation using nitrate for potential acid drainage prevention	Dr. Nathan Reid
Integrated Protocols for Monitoring the Impacts of Landfill-Derived Leachates in Intertidal Environments	Dr. Helen Roe
Scientific Advancements that Improve the Conceptual Site Model in Urban Hydogeologic Investigations	Mr. Daniel Rogers
Development of an Environmental Risk Management and Sustainability Model Using Chemistry, Geology, Human Activity, and Response Inputs	Mr. Daniel Rogers
State-of-the-Art in the Management of Geopolluted (contaminated) Sites in Lithuania	Dr. Jonas Satkunas
Evaluation of Fresh Groundwater Resources for Public Water Supply in Emergencies (Case Studies from Lithuania and Russia)	Dr. Jonas Satkunas
Environmental Behavior, a Solution for Rescuing the Planet (a Case Study of the Springs and Lakes of Kermanshah Province)	Ms. Sedigheh Seifilaleh
Environmental Implications of Fluvial Cycling of Imported Mercury in Gomati River Basin, Ganga Alluvial Plain, Northern India	Dr. Anjali Singh
The effect of Kimberlite weathering on the behaviour of waste material at Cullinan diamond mine, South Africa	Ms. Jessica Strydom
Geothermal Energy Use and Environmental Problems	Dr. Valentina Svalova
Building Partnerships to Address Community Geoscience Priorities: The Thriving Earth Exchange (TEX) Model	Dr. Natasha Udu-gama
The occurrence of ammoniosulphate minerals in abandoned gold mines of the Vredefort Dome World Heritage site, South Africa	Ms. Danél Van Tonder
Relative contributions of local wind and topography to the coastal upwelling intensity in the northern South China Sea	Dr. Dongxiao Wang
The bioremediation of thiocyanate from gold mine tailings.	Dr. Mathew Watts
Transformation of natural sedimentation and geochemical conditions in the area of underwater extraction of ferromanganese concretions in the Gulf of Finland (Baltic Sea).	Dr. Vladimir Zhamoida
The cost of adapting to sea level rise: Ports, harbours and marinas in the Southeastern Mediterranean Sea	Dr. Dov Zviely
Geological evolution and relative sea level changes of the beach ridges between Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon and Atlantic Ocean, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, supported by radiocarbon dating	Mr. Felipe Saliba De Souza Almeida
Lake Urmia (Iran), Past and Present Conditions	Dr. Razyeh Lak
The reduction of heavy metal content of mine water by the application of porous stones	Ms. Lilla Mlinarik
Study on the Quality of Water Wells in the City of Hashtgerd using Hydro-geochemical Charts	Mrs. Zahra Sharifi
Water logging and its impact in the Rampal area Bagherhat, Bangladesh	Mr. Kamrul Ahsan
Chemical and Bacteriological Evaluation of Ado-Awaye Suspended Lake in Iseyin Area, Oyo State, Southwestern Nigeria	Dr. Adewole Gbadebo
Engineering geological zoning of the Central Federal region, Russian Federation, by the suitability for allocation of disposal sites and utilization facilities for solid municipal waste	Dr. Nadezda Anisimova
Passive sampling as a tool to identify persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in groundwater	Dr. Nina Mali
Biogeochemical Modelling of Arsenic in Soil-water-plant Systems in Thailand	Mr. Thanan Watcharamai
A Study of the Vulnerability of a South African Coastal Plain Aquifer to Seawater Intrusion Using the GALDIT Index Method	Dr. Molla Demlie
Laboratory scale testing of the passive systems to treat AMD from abandoned coal mines, Witbank, Mpumalanga province	Ms. Mpule Gloria Dube
Ecological Aspects of the Usage of Geothermal Wells	Mr. Oleksii Zurian
Evaluation of Sediment Dynamics in Mountainous Streams with GIS, XRF, and One-Dimensional Numerical Simulation	Mr Ryunosuke Nakanishi
Speciation of Metals by Ionizing Radiation in Groundwater Samples from Taiaçupeba reservoir, Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, Brazil	Dr Rosely Imbernon
The Use of Software for Valuation of the Glacial and Periglacial Environment of the Chaschuil Valley, Fiambalá, Argentina, Using Satellites Images	Ing. Agrimensor Marcelo Ernesto Savio
A multi-faceted approach to mine water source determination in South Africa. A review	Mr. Yazeed Van Wyk
Environmental stability of the processing waste from sulfide mining districts of Namibia	Prof. Ales Vanek
Resources and Environmental carrying capacity evaluation of the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River	"Pro. Lide Chen Mr. Changsheng Shao Ms. Cen Wang"
Heavy Metal Sources, Deposition and Enrichment in Sediment Cores of Three Mariculture Bases in South China	"Prof. Shaohui Yao Porf. Hongbin Yu Cuitian Li"
Concentration-dependent characteristic of concentrations and chiral signatures of PCBs in lotus root from contaminative sediment	"Prof. Hongbin Yu Prof. Shaohui Yao Cuitian Li"
Study on Eco-geochemical Environmental Characteristics and Heavy Metal Pollution Assessment in High Incidence Area of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma in Sihui,Guangdong (China)	Professor Yongzhang Zhou
Mineralogy and weathering of particulates from mines and smelters in soils from humid subtropical and semiarid areas	Dr. Vojtech Ettler
Investigation of Uranium Migration on Gold Tailings Dams Using Natural Gamma Spectrometry	Mr. Jaco Koch
Characterization of surface and trapped dust samples around some ownerless and abandoned asbestos mine dumps in Limpopo province, South Africa	Ms. Maphuti Georgina Kwata
Microbiological Proxies and Geo-environmental Assessment: A Study from Gomati River, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, Central Ganga Plain (CGP), India	Dr. Ajay Kumar Arya
Study on Ecological Environment Quality Evaluation of Mine Based on Catastrophe Theory	Dr. jinhui Chen
Integrating Geoheritage into Environmental Impact Assessment in Spain	Dr. Enrique Díaz-Martínez
U and Th source term characterisation in selected gold tailings of the Witwatersrand (South Africa): A geochemical modelling and reaction network approach	Dr. Robert Hansen
The examination of Dehalococcoides sp. on VOCs groundwater pollution site in NODA City	Dr. Takashima Hiroshi
Distribution and sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in sediments from Zhanjiang Bay and Leizhou Bay, South China	Dr. weixia Huang
The monitoring of land subsidence and groundwater level in the southeast Kanto groundwater basin, Japan	Mr. Atsushi Kagawa
Liquefaction-fluidization mechanism in man-made strata on Yodaura along Tone River at the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake	Dr. Osamu Kazaoka
Oxidation-reduction condition of aquifer at geo-pollution site and change of VOCs concentration on Shimousa upland, northern Boso peninsula, central Japan	Dr. Osamu Kazaoka
Peloids of present-day salt lakes: geological and man-caused controls on their composition	Dr. Sergey Kotov
The heavy minerals in the Kafue River sediments, the Copperbelt Mining District, Zambia: Indicators of industrial contamination	Dr. Bohdan Kribek
The factors controlling formation and intensity of Acid Mine Drainage in the area of Polish part of Muskau Arch	Dr. Krzysztof Labus
Possible environmental causes and implications of corrosion on housing structures (Bontleng): A case study	Ms. Portia Tshepiso Letlole
Recovery of alumina nanoparticles from mine tailings	Dr. Godfrey Madzivire
Hydrogeochemical assessment of groundwater quality in the Soutpansberg Basin around Tshikondeni, Limpopo Province, South Africa	Dr. Ntokozo Malaza
Evolution knowledge of Technological Soils (Man-Made-Strata) in Uruguay, South America	Prof. Adriana Mezzano
Copper and lead isotopic and metallic pollution record in soils from the Kombat mining area, Namibia	Dr. Martin Mihaljevic
Geochemical baselines and metal deportment in the upper Olifants Primary Catchment by using stream sediment geochemistry, Witbank Coalfield, South Africa	Mr. Robert Netshitungulwana
Geochemical Assessment of soil, sediments and water within and around Artisanal mine sites in Southwestern Nigeria.	Dr. Mary Odukoya
Comparative values of caving heights and bulking factors in very weathered, weathered and strong coal mine overburden	Dr. Vyacheslav Palchik
Erosion and Deposition in the Alluvial Plain of the Mogi Guaçu River, Brazil	Dr. Sueli Pereira
Methods and Results of the Urban Geological Research in Budapest City and in Hungary	Dr. Peter Scharek
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Phytoremediation of Lead Contaminated Soils: Mycorrhizoremediation and their Role in the Environment	Dr. Jerusa Schneider
Process of Formation and Distribution of Mineral Phases of Lead Around the Chimney of a Battery Recycling Factory, Paraiba, Brazil	Dr. Dailto Silva
Classification and assessment of abandoned mining waste facilities of the Czech Republic	Mr. Vít Štrupl
Pollution Characteristics of Nitrogen and Isotopic Analysis of Shallow Groundwater in the Sewage Irrigation Areas of Kuihe River, China	Prof. Jinguo Wang
Diatoms as a proxy in reconstructing Late Holocene environmental changes in SE Baltic Sea - a case study of the Gulf of Gdańsk sediments	Dr. Małgorzata Witak
Time series of groundwater-level change of Man-made strata and Alluvium at Tokyo Bay area, Japan	Dr. Takeshi Yoshida
Colloid transport and remobilization with transients in solution concentration and ionic strength	Dr. Qiulan Zhang
Sediment transport and morphological changes in an open tidal flat environment, South Yellow Sea	Dr. Zhenke Zhang
Spatial and temporal analysis of environmental impacts of artisanal and small scale gold mining (ASGM) in the Chua river valley, Manica-Mozambique	Mr. Inácio Humberto Guambe
Seasonal Variability of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons on Surficial Soils in South-West India	Ms. Minal Gune
Impact of artisanal mining in Idjwi sud (D.R.Congo) according to environment protection and sustainable development	Mr. Shungu Guy
Environmental Monitoring of Mines in Namibia by the Geological Survey of Namibia, Division of Engineering and Environmental Geology.	Ms. Michelle Hijamutiti
Characterization of the hydrogeological environment in the central valley of Tinogasta, Catamarca - Argentina - With the application of geomorphological and geophysical Methodology	St. Sergio Daniel Iramain
Arsenic contamination in the food chain: Threat to food security	Dr. Chandrashekhar Azad Kashyap
Holocene lagoon systems of the easternmost Gulf of Finland and their links with Neolithic–Bronze and Iron Age settlements	Mrs. Olga Kovaleva
Problematic of the Artisanal mining exploitation and their impacts on the environment in Walikale	Mr. Bindu Lumoo