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
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FRIDAY PROGRAMME
| T7.15a - OneGeology Africa Part II | |
| Time: | 08:00 ‐ 10:00 |
| Location: | MR 1.63 |
UPDATED PROGRAMME FOR SESSION - FOR SESSION CHAIR
| START | END | PRESENTER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00:00 | 10:00 | Prof. Marko Komac | OneGeology Africa Part II |
| T7.16a - OneGeology Africa Part II | |
| Time: | 10:30 ‐ 12:00 |
| Location: | MR 1.63 |
UPDATED PROGRAMME FOR SESSION - FOR SESSION CHAIR
| START | END | PRESENTER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:30:00 | 12:00:00 | Prof. Marko Komac | OneGeology Africa Part II |
| T8.15 - Managing Geohazards and Risks from space / Himalayan Mountain Building and Fragile Ecosystem vis-a-vis Natural Disaster Management / Challenges in Identifying and Characterising Seismogenic Faults in Non-Plate Boundary Settings | |
| Time: | 08:00 ‐ 10:00 |
| Location: | Hall 4B2 |
UPDATED PROGRAMME FOR SESSION - FOR SESSION CHAIR
| START | END | PRESENTER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00:00 | 8:15:00 | Ms. Li Lingjing | Surface Recovery of Landslides Triggered by 2008 Ms8.0 Wenchuan Earthquake (China): a Case Study in a Typical Mountainous Watershed |
| 8:15:00 | 8:30:00 | Dr. Michaela Frei | InSAR Based Ground Motion Service for Germany – Natural and Anthropogenic Implications |
| 8:30:00 | 8:45:00 | Dr. Pavel Liscak | Air- and space-born inventory and monitoring of emergency slope deformations in Slovakia |
| 8:45:00 | 9:00:00 | Dr. Olivier Dewitte | Landslide characterization from space in the tropical environments of the Rift flanks west of Lake Kivu (DRC) |
| 9:00:00 | 9:15:00 | Prof. Arun Kumar | Field evidences of Gorkha Earthquakes of 25 April (7.8M) |
| and Kodari 12 May 2015 (7.2M) in Nepal | |||
| 9:15:00 | 9:30:00 | Mr. N.S. NAYYAR | Neo-Tectonic Evidences of Rejuvenation in Spiti Valley Fault, Lahaul and Spiti District, Northwestern Himalayas, India |
| 9:30:00 | 9:45:00 | Dr. Ranjan Kumar Dahal | Engineering Geological Understanding After the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake |
| 9:45:00 | 10:00:00 | Mr. Ryan Coppersmith | Yakima Fold Belt Structures, Eastern WA: Style and Rate of Faulting Based on Structural Analyses and Quaternary Studies |
| 9:45:00 | 10:00:00 | Dr. Kevin Coppersmith (WITHDRAWN) | The Influence of Tectonic Setting on the Characterization of Seismic Sources for Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis |
| T8.17 - Challenges in Identifying and Characterising Seismogenic Faults in Non-Plate Boundary Settings | |
| Time: | 14:00 ‐ 15:30 |
| Location: | Hall 4B2 |
UPDATED PROGRAMME FOR SESSION - FOR SESSION CHAIR
| START | END | PRESENTER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14:00:00 | 14:15:00 | Dr. Khaista Rehman | Seismicity Analysis for Pamir-Hindukush Considering Shallow and Intermediate Depth Earthquakes |
| 14:15:00 | 14:30:00 | Dr. Artur Cichowicz | Complimentary sources of earthquake data – a unique situation |
| 14:30:00 | 14:45:00 | Dr. Ganesh W. Rathod | Shallow and Upper Crustal Amplification of Seismic Waves |
| 14:45:00 | 15:00:00 | Dr. Mustafa Toker | The Preliminary Results from High Resolution Seismic Survey of Lake Erçek (LESS-2015 project), Eastern Anatolia |
| 15:00:00 | 15:15:00 | Prof. Hiroshi Ogasawara | Drilling into seismogenic zones of M2.0 – M5.5 earthquakes in deep South African gold mines (DSeis) |
| 15:15 | 15:30 | Prof. Bin Shi | Land Subsidence Monitoring and its Countermeasures in the Lower Yangtze Delta Area of China |
| 15:15:00 | 15:30:00 | Mr. Ryan Coppersmith (MOVED TO T8.15) | Yakima Fold Belt Structures, Eastern WA: Style and Rate of Faulting Based on Structural Analyses and Quaternary Studies |
| T9.16 - Proximal and Remote Sensing Technologies | |
| Time: | 10:30 ‐ 12:00 |
| Location: | MR 2.44 - 2.46 |
UPDATED PROGRAMME FOR SESSION - FOR SESSION CHAIR
| START | END | PRESENTER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:30:00 | 10:45:00 | Dr. Arash Barjasteh (WITHDRAWN) | Fracture – drainage system relationship in evaporitic Gachsaran Formation, southwest of Iran |
| 10:45:00 | 11:00:00 | Mr. Michael Abrams | Towards a global mineral mapping or Earth’s surface |
| 11:00:00 | 11:15:00 | Dr. Le Quoc Hung | Application of remote sensing and GIS to near-surface aquifer mapping for landslide susceptibility assessment: a case study in in Hoa Binh Province, Vietnam |
| 11:15:00 | 11:30:00 | Dr. Brigitte Leblon | Mapping Surface Lineaments in the Umiujalik Lake Area, Nunavut Using Multi-Beam Radarsat-2 Polarimetric SAR Images |
| 11:30:00 | 11:45:00 | Dr. Prof. Brigitte Leblon | Use of RADARSAT-2 SAR and LANDSAT-5 TM Images for permafrost feature distribution mapping |
| T15.15 - Engineering Geology for large structures | |
| Time: | 08:00 ‐ 10:00 |
| Location: | Hall 4B1 |
UPDATED PROGRAMME FOR SESSION - FOR SESSION CHAIR
| START | END | PRESENTER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00:00 | 8:15:00 | Mrs. Waltraud Genser | Structural geological models: An essential information for civil engineering works. - Tapovan HEPP, Himalaya, India |
| 8:15:00 | 8:30:00 | Professor Xiyong Wu | Study on the parameters selection of Peck formula for the twin-track tunnel in the sandy-pebble stratum |
| T15.17 - Slope stability - analysis, investigation and remediation / Engineering Geology and Geomechanics | |
| Time: | 14:00 ‐ 15:30 |
| Location: | Hall 4B1 |
UPDATED PROGRAMME FOR SESSION - FOR SESSION CHAIR
| START | END | PRESENTER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14:15:00 | 14:30:00 | Dr. Daniele Spizzichino | Geomorphology and rock slope instabilities in the archaeological site of Petra (Jordan) |
| T18.16a - Mineral Deposits and Ore Forming Processes | |
| Time: | 10:30 ‐ 12:00 |
| Location: | Ballroom West |
UPDATED PROGRAMME FOR SESSION - FOR SESSION CHAIR
| START | END | PRESENTER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:30:00 | 10:45:00 | Mr. Axel Sjöqvist | Evidence for post-magmatic rare-earth element mobilisation from a microgeochemical in situ ID-TIMS Sm–Nd isochron from a single magmatic eudialyte crystal from the Norra Kärr alkaline complex |
| 10:45:00 | 11:00:00 | Dr. Kai Dong | Alteration-Mineralization and Element Migration Features of Baiyinchang VMS Deposit in Gansu Province, China |
| Pro. Shouyu Chen | |||
| 11:00:00 | 11:15:00 | L Peters | Gold in West Africa – what does the future hold? |
| 11:15:00 | 11:30:00 | Dr. Joao Tunga Felix | Diamondiferous trend of the kimberlites in the Lunda region (Аngola) |
| 11:30:00 | 11:45:00 | Mrs Vusani Mathada | Field & petrographic aspects of Kolomela Iorn Ore Deposit, Postmasburg, South Africa and their genetic significance |
| 11:30:00 | 11:45:00 | Vladimir Tsoi (MOVED) | Regional geological and mineralogical zonality of formation of Uzbekistan’s gold deposits |
| 11:45:00 | 12:00:00 | Mr. Wentian Mi | Relationships between concentration of phosphorus and evolutionary of small shelly faunas from the Cambrian Maidiping Formation, China |
| T18.17 - Mineral Deposits and Ore Forming Processes | |
| Time: | 14:00 ‐ 15:30 |
| Location: | Ballroom East |
UPDATED PROGRAMME FOR SESSION - FOR SESSION CHAIR
| START | END | PRESENTER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14:00:00 | 14:15:00 | Dr. Doug Cole | The mining history of Cape Town |
| 14:15:00 | 14:30:00 | Dr. Fred, N. Mphephu | Geo-environmental Assessment of Mining Impacts on the Central Rand |
| 14:30:00 | 14:45:00 | Mr. Trevor Pearton | Antimony / Gold Mineralization of the Murchison Greenstone Belt |
| 14:45:00 | 15:00:00 | Mr. Christopher Bargmann | A review of the history and geology of the Knysna (Millwood) goldfields, Western Cape Province, South Africa. An opportunity missed? |
| 15:00:00 | 15:15:00 | Prof. Guo-qiang Xue | In-loop TEM for fast investigation of coal-mine out water-filled zones |
| 15:15:00 | 15:30:00 | Dr. Gabriele Schneider (MOVED) | 16th Century mining in Europe and a Shipwreck on the Namibian Coast |
| T21.16 - Shale gas basins and their resource assessment: global perspectives and challenges / Tight oil and gas reservoirs: recent developments and future challenges / Unconventional Hydrocarbons and Emerging Fuels | |
| Time: | 10:30 ‐ 12:00 |
| Location: | MR 1.61 |
UPDATED PROGRAMME FOR SESSION - FOR SESSION CHAIR
| START | END | PRESENTER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:30:00 | 10:45:00 | Prof. Zhi Jun Jin | Enrichment Mechanism of Source and Seal Coupling Shale Gas of Upper Ordovician Wufeng Formation - Lower Silurian Longmaxi Formation in Sichuan Basin |
| 10:45:00 | 11:00:00 | Ms. Qin Zhang | Qualitative and quantitative characterization of transitional shale reservoir: A case study from the Upper Carboniferous Taiyuan shale in eastern uplift of Liaohe Depression, China |
| 11:00:00 | 11:15:00 | Dr. Songtao WU | In-situ Fracturing Characterization of Tight Sand: Insight for Reservoir Stimulation |
| 11:15:00 | 11:30:00 | Mr. Wenzhong Han | Evaluation on Favorable Lithofacies and sweet spot of Ek2 Tight Oil in Cangdong Sag, Bohai Bay Basin, North China |
| 11:30:00 | 11:45:00 | Dr. Zhi Yang | Unlocking Key Factors of Liquid-Rich-Shales: "Massive Resource Area" & "Sweet Area" Evaluation |
| 11:45:00 | 12:00:00 | Dr. Jian Wang | Characterization of Pore-Throat Structure and Prediction of Sweet Spot of the Eocene Low Permeability-Tight Beach-Bar Sandstone Reservoirs in the Dongying Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, China |
| T27.15 - Geology of Gold Deposits (sponsored by SGA and SEG) / Geochemistry of Lode Gold Deposits (sponsored by SGA and SEG) | |
| Time: | 08:00 ‐ 10:00 |
| Location: | MR 1.41 - 1.42 |
UPDATED PROGRAMME FOR SESSION - FOR SESSION CHAIR
| START | END | PRESENTER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:15:00 | 8:30:00 | Prof. Reimar Seltmann | The Muruntau gold deposit (Uzbekistan) - A unique ancient hydrothermal system in the southern Tien Shan |
| 8:30:00 | 8:45:00 | Prof. Terry M. Seward | Metal-containing thioanions: their stability and role in gold and other element transport in hydrothermal ore solutions |
| 8:45:00 | 9:00:00 | Dr. Sahendra Singh | Metallotectonic evolution of North Singhbhum Fold and Thrust Belt and its Province-Scale Implications on the Gold Prospects of Singhbhum Crustal Province, Eastern India. |
| 9:00:00 | 9:15:00 | Dr. Amin Beiranvand Pour | Structural analysis of the Bentong-Raub Suture Zone using PALSAR remote sensing data, Peninsular Malaysia: Implications for sediment-hosted/orogenic gold mineral systems exploration |
| 9:15:00 | 9:45:00 | Dr. Ryan Taylor (KEYNOTE) | Determining hydrothermal fluid source for gold deposits through geochemistry of monazite and xenotime crystals |
| 9:45:00 | 10:00:00 | Prof. Victor Starostin | Possible analogs of Witwatersrand in the North Asian Craton |
| T27.17 - Geochemistry of Lode Gold Deposits (sponsored by SGA and SEG) | |
| Time: | 14:00 ‐ 15:30 |
| Location: | MR 1.41 - 1.42 |
UPDATED PROGRAMME FOR SESSION - FOR SESSION CHAIR
| START | END | PRESENTER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14:00:00 | 14:15:00 | Mr. Leonardo Santacruz Reyes | Magmatism, mineralogical and hydrothermal fluids constraints in the Marmato Gold Deposit, Colombia. |
| 14:15:00 | 14:30:00 | Mr. Sebastian Ndile | Controls on high-grade gold mineralization at Nyabirama Gold Deposit as revealed from detailed mapping and 3-D modelling. North Mara Mine |
| (Acacia Mining plc) - Tanzania | |||
| 14:30:00 | 14:45:00 | Dr. Mohammed Alnaghasi Hassan Altigani | Nature of Gold Mineralization at Abu Khalag, Central Bayuda Desert, Sudan. |
| 14:45:00 | 15:00:00 | Mr. Myo Kyaw Hlaing | Preliminary study on the Zibyaung gold prospect, Kyaikhto area, Southern Myanmar |
| T29.17 - Unravelling the history of cratonic sedimentary basins | |
| Time: | 14:00 ‐ 15:30 |
| Location: | Auditorium 2 |
UPDATED PROGRAMME FOR SESSION - FOR SESSION CHAIR
| START | END | PRESENTER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14:00:00 | 14:15:00 | Prof. Anthony Brian Watts | An integrated geological and geophysical study of the Parnaíba cratonic basin, North-East Brazil |
| 14:15:00 | 14:30:00 | Dr. Laurent Beccaletto | Unravelling the geology beneath the Meso-Cenozoic sedimentary cover of the intracratonic Paris Basin - Part 1: new insights from seismic and potential field methods |
| 14:30:00 | 14:45:00 | Dr. Bastien Linol (WITHDRAWN) | An Integrated analysis of a Ployphase IntraCONtinental Sag (ICONS) Basin: the Mekelle Sedimentary Basin in Ethiopia. |
| 14:45:00 | 15:00:00 | Prof. Francisco Jose Correa-Martins (WITHDRAWN) | Parnaíba Basin: one of the great interior syneclises of Western Gondwana |
| 14:30:00 | 14:45:00 | Dr. Bizhu He Dr Cunli Jiao Prof. Taizhu Huang Prof. Zhiqin Xu |
Initiation of Tarim basin in the northwest of China |
| 14:45:00 | 15:00:00 | Prof. Piotr Krzywiec | 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 |
| T30.15c - Secular change in Earth evolution | |
| Time: | 08:00 ‐ 10:00 |
| Location: | Westin - Marco Polo |
UPDATED PROGRAMME FOR SESSION - FOR SESSION CHAIR
| START | END | PRESENTER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00:00 | 8:15:00 | Dr Christopher Spencer | Melting sediment and subducting bacteria: exploring the connection between the Great Oxidation Event and the rise of δ18O in zircon |
| 8:15:00 | 8:30:00 | Prof. Mike Daly | Tectonic influences on the development of the continental crust |
| 8:30:00 | 9:00:00 | Prof. Lewis D. Ashwal (KEYNOTE) | Crustal evolution and the temporality of anorthosites |
| 9:00:00 | 9:30:00 | Prof. Martin Van Kranendonk (KEYNOTE) | Conditioned duality of the Earth system via the supercontinent cycle |
| 9:30:00 | 10:00:00 | Dr. Ryan McKenzie (KEYNOTE) | The detrital zircon record of Earth’s evolving surface environment. |
| T30.16 - Dynamic Africa: integrating constraints on the post-Gondwana topographic evolution of Africa and adjacent continents from the core mantle boundary | |
| Time: | 10:30 ‐ 12:00 |
| Location: | Auditorium 1 |
UPDATED PROGRAMME FOR SESSION - FOR SESSION CHAIR
| START | END | PRESENTER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:30:00 | 10:45:00 | Guillaume Baby | POST RIFT EVOLUTON OF THE INDIAN MARGIN OF SOUTHERN AFRICA |
| 10:45:00 | 11:00:00 | Prof. Claudio Faccenna | Long-term, deep-mantle support of the Ethiopia-Yemen Plateau: implication for mantle dynamics |
| 11:00:00 | 11:15:00 | Mr. Simon Stephenson | The Dynamic Topography of Madagascar: A Cenozoic History of Uplift and Erosion |
| 11:15:00 | 11:30:00 | Dr. Rhodri Davies | On the Relationship Between Volcanic Hotspot Locations, the Reconstructed Eruption Sites of Large Igneous Provinces and Deep Mantle Seismic Structure. |
| 11:30:00 | 11:45:00 | Dr. Erica Emry | Lithospheric and Sub-lithospheric Upper Mantle Structure of Africa from Full Wave Long-Period Ambient Noise Tomography |
| T31.16 - Deep Imaging of the Crust and Lithosphere beneath the Continent and its geodynamics | |
| Time: | 10:30 ‐ 12:00 |
| Location: | Hall 4B3 |
UPDATED PROGRAMME FOR SESSION - FOR SESSION CHAIR
| START | END | PRESENTER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:30:00 | 10:45:00 | Prof. David G Gee | Microdiamonds in the Scandinavian Caledonides related to Ordovician continent-arc and Siluro-Devonian continent-continent collision |
| 10:45:00 | 11:00:00 | Prof. Youhong Sun | Application of “CRUST-1” Continental Scientific Drilling Rig in CCSD-SK-2 Scientific Drilling Engineering |
| 11:00:00 | 11:15:00 | Prof. Wang-Ping Chen | Constraining residual topography by virtual deep seismic sounding (VDSS) |
| 11:15:00 | 11:30:00 | Dr. Mian Liu | Responding to the Indo-Asian collision: from the crust to the mantle |
| 11:30:00 | 11:45:00 | Mr. JAMMIVENKATA RAMARAO | Gravity anomalies over Indian Cratons and their Geological implications |
| T38.17 - HP-UHP metamorphism and tectonic evolution of orogenic belts | |
| Time: | 14:00 ‐ 15:30 |
| Location: | Westin - Diaz & Da Gama |
UPDATED PROGRAMME FOR SESSION - FOR SESSION CHAIR
| START | END | PRESENTER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14:00:00 | 14:15:00 | Profesor Jingbo Liu | Thermal structure of the Dabie eclogite-bearing terrane revealed from the results of the Ti-in-zircon thermometry |
| 14:15:00 | 14:30:00 | Dr. Cong Zhang | The petrological and geochronological studies on the eclogite and its country rock schists in the Sumdo area, Tibet, China |
| 14:30:00 | 14:45:00 | Dr. Bin Xia | Oblique convergence along plate boundaries leaded to formation of the “paired metamorphic belts” in Chinese SW Tianshan |
| 14:45:00 | 15:00:00 | Dr Kasturi Chakraborty | Superimposed Tectonothermal Events from Bhavani Layered Complex: A Northern Extension to the Pan African Event from SGT |
| 15:00:00 | 15:15:00 | Abdulgafar Kayode Amuda | Multifractal Analysis for Threshold Determination in Hydrothermally Altered Images around Dutsen Danbakoshi, Northwestern Nigeria. |
| 15:15:00 | 15:30:00 | Abdulgafar Kayode Amuda | Pressure-Temperature Conditions and Inherent Metamorphic Signatures in the Nigerian Basement Complex: A Review. |
| T44.15 - Palaeontology and Palaeo-anthropology | |
| Time: | 08:00 ‐ 10:00 |
| Location: | Roof Terrace |
UPDATED PROGRAMME FOR SESSION - FOR SESSION CHAIR
| START | END | PRESENTER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00:00 | 8:15:00 | Dr. Louis Jacobs | Angolan fossil vertebrates and geotectonic influences inform Cretaceous and Cenozoic paleoenvironments of Africa |
| 8:15:00 | 8:30:00 | Dr. Alyssa Bell | Use of morphometric data in taxonomy and functional morphology: a case study of modern and Cretaceous diving birds |
| 8:30:00 | 8:45:00 | Mr. Krzysztof Broda | Thylacocephalan arthropods from the Upper Devonian of Poland. |
| 8:45:00 | 9:00:00 | Dr. Hayley Cawthra | The influence of coastal and marine geology on archaeological occupation in Pondoland: the South African Wild Coast |
| 9:00:00 | 9:15:00 | Dr. Louis Jacobs | Biogeographic mixing in the Maastrichtian of Angola |
| 9:15:00 | 9:30:00 | Dr. Cynthia M. Fadem | Geoarchaeology of the Douglas Korongo East and Bell's Korongo East sites, Olduvai Gorge: Preliminary results |
| 9:30:00 | 9:45:00 | Kalyan Halder | Why is sexual size dimorphism restricted to a single lineage of post-Triassic nautiloids? |
| 9:45:00 | 10:00:00 | Dr Feixiang Wu | A fossil biota indicates the presence of warm and wet lowlands in central Tibet during the late Oligocene |
| T46.15 - Volcanism in Africa | |
| Time: | 08:00 ‐ 10:00 |
| Location: | Westin - Seal/Robben |
UPDATED PROGRAMME FOR SESSION - FOR SESSION CHAIR
| START | END | PRESENTER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00:00 | 8:15:00 | Prof. Huazhopu YAO | The geochemical criteria of plume origin for Cenozoic volcano-rocks, Main Ethiopia Rift(MER)：A review |
| 8:15:00 | 8:30:00 | Ms. Keri McNamara | Using lake cores and terrestrial tephras as a record of Holocene volcanism in the Central Main Ethiopian Rift |
| 8:30:00 | 8:45:00 | Dr. Karen Fontijn | Contemporary volcanic hazards in the Main Ethiopian Rift |
| 8:45:00 | 9:00:00 | Ms. Anna Balashova | The role of fractional crystallization and magma mixing in the geochemical and mineralogical evolution of silicate rocks at the Oldoinyo Lengai volcano (northern Tanzania) |
| 9:00:00 | 9:15:00 | Mr. Gert-Jan Peeters | The Nsenga Tephra eruption of the Ngozi caldera, SW Tanzania |
| 9:15 | 9:45 | Dr. Audray Delcamp | Mechanisms of volcanic landslide in Northern Tanzania |
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