35TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS

35TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS

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


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35TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS

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

Basin Formation and Continental Margins

Paper Title Presenting Author Names
Magmatic underplating in continental lithosphere "Prof. Hans Thybo Prof. Irina ARTEMIEVA"
Tectono-magmatism in basement gneissic complex and its impact on evolution of Singrimari basin, Assam, India Mr. DV Whuorie
Influence of the basement on salt tectonics along the onshore strip of Benguela Basin (Angola) "Mr. Gabriel Castro Dr. Julio Almeida"
Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the northeastern Pyrenean Foreland Basin Dr. Frédéric Christophoul
Exploring the contrasts between fast and slow rifting A De Montserrat
Mantle density inhomogeneities beneath Bay of Bengal "Dr. Chandra Prakash Dubey Dr. Virendra Mani Tiwari"
Deepening events and sediment routing systems in migrating rifts. Insights from the Corinth rift Professor Mary Ford
Pan-African collission, slab break-off and Rheic Ocean opening imprinted in Pre-Variscan complexes of the Western Tatra Mountains, Western Carpathians (Poland/Slovakia) Dr. hab. Aleksandra Gawęda
Initiation of Tarim basin in the northwest of China "Dr. Bizhu He Dr Cunli Jiao Prof. Taizhu Huang Prof. Zhiqin Xu"
Rift architecture and evolution of the Eastern Continental Margin of India – role of the intra-continental shear zones on style of rifting of the Indian subcontinent Dr. KS Krishna
Numerical modeling of continental rifting from break-up to seafloor spreading: the effect of initial conditions on the degree of volcanism at continental margins Dr. Luc Lavier
Coastal large earthquakes and evidence for paleotsunami deposits along the Mediterranean coast of Egypt Prof. Mustapha Meghraoui
Crust-mantle coupling in foreland basin systems  Prof. Frederic Mouthereau
Petrophysical properties of Eocene carbonates in the northern Arabian platform: Insights into depositional environment and diagenetic processes Dr. Mimonitu Opuwari
Geochemical provenance of sediments in the Proterozoic Vindhyan Basin, Rajasthan, India Dr. A. D. Shukla
The Lake Albert Rift (Uganda, East African Rift System): Deformation, basin and relief evolution since 17 Ma Brendan Simon
An integrated geological and geophysical study of the Parnaíba cratonic basin, North-East Brazil Prof. Anthony Brian Watts
Integrated approach to salt basin exploration Mr. Bjørn Albert Rasmussen
On the Linkage of the Western Boundary Faults of the South China Sea Dr. Yongjian Yao
Uplift of sedimentary basins in an extensional setting as a result of the migration of a thermal anomaly – a new concept MSc Anouk Beniest
Tectonic and sedimentary evolution of the Babouri-Figuil and Mayo Oulo Cretaceous rift basins (Northern Cameroon) Mr. Elie FOSSO MENKEM
Transfer Faults Characterization of the Campos Basin, Brazil Ms. Gabriella Rocha Gouveia
Tectonic evolution of sedimentary basins of northern Somalia Dr. Mohammed Ali
Correlations between the basement geology of Florianópolis to Vitoria coastline (Brazil) and Swakopmund (Namibia) to Luanda (Angola) coastline Dr. Julio Almeida
Najd Wrench Fault System and Dead Sea Shear Zone in the Arabian Plate: Like Father Like Son Dr. Ali T. Al-Mishwat
Rheological implications of sediment transport for continental rifting and its impact in margin geometry and major unconformities Mr. Miguel Andres-Martinez
Passive margin asymmetry and its polarity in the presence of a craton Mr. Miguel Andres-Martinez
Cenozoic deformation assessed through sedimentological benchmarks: constraints on dynamic topography and neotectonics in Western Australia Dr. Milo Barham
Marginal marine depositional environment of Mahadek Formation: Cretaceous palaeogeography of the southern part of the Meghalaya plateau Mr. Apoorve Bhardwaj
Seismites as chronostratigraphically horizons in Graben Arroio Moirão, Santa Maria Formation from Paraná Basin’s Upper Triassic, Brazil. Mr. Guilherme Borsa
Thermal evolution of early passive margins formation and consequences on their geophysical signature Prof. Romain Bousquet
Recent activity in the Eyvanekey foreland basin , Southern Alborz, Iran Dr. Soheila Bouzari
Holocene relative sea level changes and paleoenvironmental evolution in the Pearl River Delta, southern China Dr. Shuangxi Chen
Gravity tectonics in western African passive continental margin in drift stage and its implication in petroleum exploration Prof. Shuping Chen
Mechanisms of crustal extension in the Basin and Range Province Prof. Nicholas Christie-Blick
Parnaíba Basin: one of the great interior syneclises of Western Gondwana Prof. Francisco Jose Correa-Martins
Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic intraplate deformation in Congo basin: effect of the South-Atlantic opening? Dr. Damien Delvaux
Basin architecture and evolution at NE Atlantic conjugate margins Prof. Jan Inge Faleide
Geochemical characteristics of basalts from the Daimao seamount of the South China Sea and its neighboring lands, and their tectonic implications Prof. Nianqiao Fang
The extent of regression during the Last Glacial Maximum in the shelf off north Andhra Pradesh coast, India Dr. B.M. Faruque
Inversion of a salt-rich hyper-extended rift: geometry and evolution of the retrowedge foreland system of the French Pyrenees. Results of the PYRAMID project. Dr. Mary Ford
Post-rift uplift of passive margins: the case example of the Namibian Margin and the growth of the Southern African Plateau: a coupled stratigraphic and geomorphologic study Prof. françois Guillocheau
Permian to Late Triassic lithospheric extension and flexure of the Longmen Shan Foreland Basin: numerical modeling Prof. Lijuan He
The critical role of extension-orthogonal shears in oblique rift development Prof. Ritske S. Huismans
Long-term coupling and feedbacks between surface processes and tectonics during rifting Prof. Ritske S. Huismans
Linking lithosphere deformation and sedimentary basin formation over multiple scales Prof. Ritske S. Huismans
The role of extensional inheritance and surface processes on mountain belt evolution Prof. Ritske S. Huismans
Orogenic structural inheritance and rifted passive margin formation Prof. Ritske S. Huismans
Rifted Continental Margins: The Case for Depth-Dependent Extension Prof. Ritske S. Huismans
Soft sedimentary deformation structures from the Kaladgi Basin, Dharwar craton, India: Reflections on tectonic evolution of a Proterozoic cratonic basin. Dr. Vivek Kale
New look at the boundary of Precambrian and Palaeozoic Europe – recent deep seismic data from the SW margin of the East European Craton in Poland Prof. Piotr Krzywiec
Revised model of the break-up and early sea-floor spreading between India and Antarctica Dr. German Leitchenkov
Role of Sea-level Change in Deep Water Deposition along Carbonate Shelf Margin, Early and Middle Permian, Delaware Basin: Implications for Reservoir Characterization Dr. Shunli Li
Early Paleozoic source-sink systems and tectonic-paleogeographic evolution of Tarim block, Northwest China Mr. Zhong Li
Detrital zircon provenances and geodynamic evolution of the Congo Basin Dr. Bastien Linol
An Integrated analysis of a Ployphase IntraCONtinental Sag (ICONS) Basin: the Mekelle Sedimentary Basin in Ethiopia. Dr. Bastien Linol
The subsurface structure of the Congo basin: Gravity signatures, isostatic anomaly and seismic constraints Mr. Chengdong Liu
Tracking Basin Inversion in the RetroArc Foreland Basin: Integrated Provenance Studies in the Cacheuta Basin, South-Central Andes Dr. J. Brian Mahoney
Active coastal thrusting and folding, and uplift rate of the Sahel Anticline and Zemmouri earthquake area (Tell Atlas, Algeria) Dr. Said Maouche
The southern Brazilian and West African margins: drilling results and exploratory perspectives Dr. Webster Mohriak
Petroleum Systems of West Africa Salt Basins: A Review Mr. Philippe Montagnier
Plate flexure and the development of depositional cycles in sedimentary basins Dr. James Moore
Early Cambrian sea-level changes: A Scandinavian perspective Dr. Arne Thorshøj Nielsen
Similarities and differences between tectonic development of Pangea continental margin salt basins Dr. Ian Norton
Timing of Deposition in Marwar Basin, Rajasthan, India, using Geochronology and Paleomagnetism Dr. Manoj Pandit
Low deformation rate in an « incipient rifting zone »: the Okavango Basin Mrs. Anne-Morwenn Pastier
How do SDRs form and what does it tell us about volcanic margin evolution? Dr. Douglas Paton
Superimposition and structural reactivation of foreland basins in the mountain-front region, United Arab Emirates Dr. Tim Pharaoh
Crustal structure and evolution of the Kenya-Tanzania shear margin Dr. Jean-Claude Ringenbach
The late Quaternary evolution of the Arno Coastal plain (northern Tuscany, Italy): unravelling the interplay of, glacio-eustatic tectonic and anthropic signals Dr. Giovanni Sarti
New active-source seismic imaging of the Malawi (Nyasa) Rift from the SEGMeNT project Dr. Donna Shillington
Relation between Late Paleozoic Rifting and Mineralization in Southwestern China Dr. Ping Tao
New geo-thermochronological constraints on the deformation history of the SW margin of Gondwana: linking the Terra Australis fold belts and foreland basins of South America and southern Africa Dr. Eric Tohver
Tectonic stress evolution and a new origin model of Bohai Bay basin, China Prof. Hengmao Tong
High Resolution Magnetic Survey of the Marmaris Bay, SW Turkey Mr. Denizhan Vardar
The Structure and Sequence Stratigraphic Architecture Evolution of Rifting Stage, Lishu Faulted-depression, Songliao Basin, China Prof. Hongyu Wang
Plate flexure and the evolution of foreland basins Dr. Anthony Watts
Quathlamba Seismic Axis: surface expression of extension within the Mozambique Channel, southwest Indian Ocean. Dr. Errol Wiles
Contrasting development of foreland basins in western Taiwan: Its implications of kinematics of orogenic evolution Dr. Kenn-Ming Yang
Characteristic Morphometry Established by Remote Sensing Data for the Scoria Cones and Drainage Pattern for the Cenozoic Volcanic Fields in the Large Igneous Province (LIP), Saudi Arabia and their comparison with other LIPs Dr. Faisal Kamal Zaidi
What’s melt got to do with it? Constraints on the thermomechanical state of the upper mantle beneath two end member localities in the East African Rift System using seismic observables Ms. Natalie Accardo
Studying the dynamics of vertical tectonic movements of the sea's coasts and shelves during the Holocene Dr. Nikolay I. Esin
Tectonostratigraphic evolution of an inverted rift basin inferred from multi-scale aeromagnetic and gravity datasets: a case study from the Ghanzi Ridge portion of the Kalahari Copperbelt, Botswana Mr. Wesley Hall
Coastal tectonics of west Luzon, Philippines: Clues from thorium-230 ages of variably uplifted coral terraces Ms. Kathrine Maxwell
Kinematics and Tectonic Significance of the Skeleton Coast Dyke Swarm, Kaoko Belt, North-west Namibia Mr. Michael McMaster
Tracking the Onset of Plume Volcanism in the Southern East African Rift Mr. Gary Mesko
Revisiting the Plio-Quaternary Nachukui Fm (Turkana depression, Kenya): an outcrop-based example of syn-rift sedimentation Dr. Alexis Nutz
Stratigraphic Framework of the Upper Cretaceous drift section in deep water Ceará basin, Brazilian Equatorial Margin: turbidities depositional setting and tectonic control on local subsidence Mrs. Isabella Rios
Early Cretaceous Qingshan stage ( Aptian - Albian ) volcanic-sedimentary and stratigraphic correlation in Lingshan island - Jimiya region,Eastern Shandong coastal area,China. Mr. Tengfei Zhou
Modeling along-axis variations in fault architecture in the Main Ethiopian Rift: implications for Nubia-Somalia kinematics. Mr. Asfaw Erbello
Effect of individual subsidence components on the evolution of the South Atlantic passive continental margins Prof. Dr. Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth
The lithospheric 3D density, temperature and strength configuration of an intracontinental basin – a case study from the Barents Sea and Kara Sea region "Mr. Peter Klitzke Prof. Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth"
Chronology of Fluctuating Base level and Basin-fill Simulation during Paleocene in Lishui Sag, East China Sea Shelf Basin "Dr Shasha Liu Dr. Jingzhe Li Professor Jinliang Zhang"
The application of magnetic amplitude inversion for structure interpretation in South China Sea Dr. SHULING LI
The Permo-Triassic sedimentological record in the Pai-Khoi area, Arctic Russia: a framework for a better understanding of the evolution and timing of deformation in the Pai-Khoi fold-and-thrust belt Gloria Heilbronn
Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility, Palaeomagnetism and Rock magnetic studies on mafic intrusives from Kaddam Fault: Implications to Godavari rift related magmatism Dr Dhananjay Meshram
Multi-proxy studies in two Precambrian siliciclastic basins viz. Singhora and Ampani in Bastar craton, central India: clues for basin age, sediment provenance and deformation history "Dr. Partha Chakraborty Mr. Subhojit Saha"
The Kenya Rift revisited: new insights into the strength of the lithosphere through data-driven 3D gravity and thermal modelling Dr. Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth
Formation and tectonic evolution of the Early Paleozoic in the Yangtze Cratonic Basin, South China Prof. Lianhong PENG
Microfabrics and geochemical characteristics of Paleozoic cherts and their geological implications from southern Qinling orogen, China Professor Yongzhang Zhou
Geological and geophysical integration in the identification of structural features and crustal limits on onshore and offshore portions of the south of Santos Basin, Brazil. Mr. Henrique Bruno
The Pre-Silurian Riachão basin, a key insight into the evolution of the Parnaiba cratonic basin, NE Brazil. Ms. AMANDA PORTO
Unravelling the geology beneath the Meso-Cenozoic sedimentary cover of the intracratonic Paris Basin - Part 2: geological mapping of the buried Variscan basement combining aeromagnetic, gravity and petrophysical data Dr. Laurent Beccaletto
Structural evolution of the Gamtoos Basin, based on 2D seismic data Mrs. Anthea Davids
U-Pb age in zircon (LA-ICP-MS) of alkaline rocks from Marapicu massif (RJ), Brazil. Dr. Mauro Geraldes
The structure and sedimentary sequence of intracratonic rift from Late Sinian to Early Cambrian in the Sichuan Basin, South China Dr. Zhidong Gu
The tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the Cádiz Basin (Gulf of Cádiz, Spain) in the Neogene and Quaternary: Its theoretical implications on hydrocarbon prospectivity Dr. F. Javier Hernández-Molina
Tectonic evolution of the Ulleung back-arc Basin, East Sea (Sea of Japan), Korea Dr. Jaehong Ko
Accommodation of Penetrative Strain during Deformation above a Ductile Decollement Ms. Bailey Lathrop
Characteristics of fault system in Enping sag Mr. Yiming Liu
Small-scale petroliferous basins in China: Characteristics of type and hydrocarbon occurrence Prof. Chiyang Liu
Stratigraphy, sequence analysis and paleogeographic evolution from Cenozoic formations exposed in the central part of Douala Basin, Cameroon Mr. Bachirou Mfayakouo Chavom
The Ordovician tectonic-thermal evolution of the Weibei uplift in Ordos Basin: constraints from apatite fission track and vitrinite reflectance data Prof. Zhanli Ren
A tectonostratigraphic comparison of the eastern and western parts of the Gamtoos Basin, South Africa Ms. Chantell Van Bloemenstein
Controls on margin development during the breakup of East Gondwana Mr. Joshua Davis
Magmatic segments abandoned during continental breakup – insights into the formation of seaward dipping reflectors Mr. James Norcliffe
3D Digital Mapping of Fluvial-Aeolian Sandstones of the Jurassic Sergi Formation, Recôncavo Basin, Northeastern Brazil Mr. Caio Nunes
Cenozoic tectonic jumping in the Western Pacific Continental Margin Dr. Yanhui Suo
Faults System Evolution in the Baiyun Sag of the Pearl River Mouth Basin, Northern South China Sea Mr. An Wei
The differential evolution of buried hills in Liaodong Bay and analysis on their reservoir forming conditions” Dr. Chen Zhang
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