35TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS

35TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS

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

35TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS

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



The Hadean and Archaean Earth

The notifications to presenting authors confirming their specific date and time of presentation will be communicated the 20 August 2016.

Second Draft Preliminary programme is being updated per theme as the SPC signs them off.

The detailed draft day by day programme for each theme is being announced as it is being collated. These are still preliminary and will be finalised by the 20 August.

As this is the Second draft, please note that where there are abstract presenters not yet registered, these have now been removed from the programme.
Once removed, you will not be included in the abstracts or the programme. If your co-author is presenting, please contact the secretariat urgently to confirm and advise so that your paper can be moved to the correct presenter. Email 35igc@allevents.co.za if you have any queries or if you have in the interim managed to secure finances and registered.

To view the detailed programme, click here.

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The Hadean and Archaean Earth

Theme Champions


Axel Hofmann
Axel Hofmann
University of Johannesburg
E-mail Axel
Christoph Heubeck
University of Jena
E-mail Christoph
Alfred Kröner
Alfred Kröner
University of Mainz
E-mail Alfred
Martin Van Kranendonk
Martin Van Kranendonk
University of New South Wales
E-mail Martin
The appointment of theme champions may not be complete and names will continue to be added as invitees are confirmed.


Keynote Speakers

  1. Nic Beukes  - University of Johannesburg

    Oxygen-based redox systems in dynamic Archean oceans

  2. Hartwig Frimmel  - University of Würzburg

    Early life and ancient gold

  3. Timothy Lyons  - University of California Riverside

    A decade of progress in studies of Archean oxygenation

  4. Mark Harrison  - University of California Los Angeles

    The Earth at 4.1 billion years

  5. Eugene Grosch  - Rhodes University

    Geology, petrology and geodynamic evolution of the Paleoarchean Onverwacht Group, Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa

 

31ST MAY 2015 Additional symposium proposals must now be submitted directly to the theme champions (Please be sure to include the name of the proposer, seconder and short motivation).
1ST JULY 2015 -
31ST JANUARY 2016
Call for abstracts
31ST MARCH 2016 Notifications of acceptance

The Hadean and Archaean Earth

For the first half of its existence the Earth was a very different planet - the Hadean and Archaean Eons were typified by geological and atmospheric processes quite different to those prevailing today. This theme will cover all aspects of the Earth's geological evolution up to 2.5 Ga

For a list of the Abstracts that have been ACCEPTED UNDER THIS THEME CLICK HERE ➤

Please note that this is preliminary and final allocations in the programme will be announced in the 5th Announcement and updated on the Website in July.


PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL PRESENTING AUTHORS (FOR ORALS) OR AT LEAST ONE AUTHOR (FOR POSTERS) MUST BE REGISTERED FOR THE MEETING BY 31 MAY 2016 IN ORDER TO HAVE THE ABSTRACT INCLUDED IN THE PROGRAMME.

 

The following symposium proposals have already been submitted:
  1. Alfred Kröner, Duni Liu, Mike Brown, and Walter Mooney
    » Crust formation and recycling from the Hadean to the late Archaean: The transition to plate tectonics
  2. Andrey Bekker, Kurt Konhauser and Benjamin Eickmann
    » Redox texture of the Archean atmosphere and ocean
  3. Axel Hofmann, Marco Fiorentini, Jochen Kolb and Andrea Agangi
    » Early Earth Mineral Systems
  4. Zhai Mingguo, Geoffrey Clarke, Chris Yakymchuck, Chunjing Wei and Shoujie Liu
    » Crustal metamorphic regimes in the ancient Earth
  5. Allan Wilson and Axel Hofmann
    » Evolution of Archaean cratonic cover successions
  6. Paul Mason and Nick Arndt
    » Archaean greenstone successions, the Barberton greenstone belt and drilling into the cradle of life
  7. Open Session
    For all submissions that do not fall into currently identified symposia