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Field Trips (as at 30 September 2015)
The provisional selection of field trips offered on the web site and outlined in the 2nd Announcement has been reviewed after consideration of the logistical and cost implications. Support from mining companies has facilitated excursions that will provide exclusive access to mines and exploration sites in Ghana, Mali and Zambia.
Logistical considerations have influenced the allocation of field trips to the week either preceding or following the 35th IGC event.
Innovative “Flagship” excursions
Trips within South Africa
Trips elsewhere in Africa
One-day excursions
*All tours will operate subject to the required minimum number of registrants and on designated dates only.
*It will assist the congress organizing committee and field trip leaders if we can get an accurate, early indication of which field trips you are likely to support. Please take the Expression of Interest survey and let us know where your interests lie; https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/?sm=6ronTaxtR45YLrKKezqfMw%3d%3d
• Field trip costings are currently being undertaken. Prices will be influenced by accommodation availability, the number and type of vehicles required for varying registrant numbers, single supplements and entry fees.
• Full pre-payment in advance is required.
• As the availability and schedule of the suppliers cannot be guaranteed, the organisers reserve the right to change the proposed field trip list and costs without prior notice.
Flagship Field Trips
Post 1 The Great Southern African Train Geo-Safari
Pre 1 Africa’s Geological Summits: Deepest and Highest points of the African continent
Pre-congress field trips
Pre 2 Cape granites
Pre 3 The Permo-Triassic Boundary in the Karoo
Pre 4 Karoo transect
Pre 5 Vredefort impact structure
Pre 6 Diamonds
Pre 7 Eastern Limb of the Bushveld Complex
Pre 8 Craton traverse: A transect through ~2.7Ga of South African history
Pre 9 Early Cretaceous Basins along the southern Cape coast.
Pre 10 Namaqualand Metamorphic Province
Pre 11 Cape Fold Belt
Pre 12 Seismotectonics and hydrology of faults systems in the western and southern Cape
Pre 13 Western Kaapvaal craton
Pre 14 Orange River geology by canoe
Pre 15 1 Ga of crustal reworking, northern margin Kaapvaal craton: Murchison belt to Limpopo Central zone
Pre 16 Geology of the Barberton Greenstone Belt: Processes of the early Earth
Pre 17 Africa Rising on the African Superplume
Pre 18 Karoo magmatism & Continental breakup
Pre 19 Natal Metamorphic Province
Post-congress field trips
Post 2 Eastern Bushveld, Mpumalanga Drakensberg Escarpment and Kruger National Park
Post 3 Big 5 & Big 5: mineral commodities and animals
Post 4 Eastern Bushveld and Nkomati
Post 5 Mountain Geomorphology of the Drakensberg
Post 6 Archean Stromatolites and their Depositional Environments
Post 7 Barberton
Post 8 The Pongola Supergroup: Earth's earliest stable continental margin.
Post 9 Western Cape Wine Tour
One day field trips – Johannesburg, Gauteng
ODPre2 Witwatersrand; geology, historical mining and environment
ODPre3 Magaliesberg cable car
ODPre4 Cradle of Humankind hominin sites
One day field trips – Cape Town
ODPre1 Cape West Coast: Langebaan and Fossil Park
ODPre5 Geological Walking Tour of Robben Island
ODPre6 Cape peninsula
ODPre7 Cape Town geology
ODPre8/ODPost1 Building Stones of Cape Town
ODPre9 / ODPre10 / ODPost2 Table Mountain hike; Maclears Beacon-Platteklip Gorge cable car
ODPost3 Tulbagh-Ceres and SW Cape seismicity
ODPost4 Zevenwacht Wine Farm and Tin Mine
Field trips to other African countries
ExSA_Pre2 Namibia_Nama Group geology and Ediacaran fossils
ExSA_Pre3 Namibia_Otavi Mountainland
ExSA_Pre4 Namibia_Mineral Deposits
ExSA_Pre5 Namibia_Namib Desert
ExSA_Pre6 Zambia Copper Belt
ExSA_Pre7 Zambia_Irumide Belt regional traverse.
ExSA_Pre8 Botswana_Okavango Delta
ExSA_Post2 Tanzania_Rift Valley in Northern Tanzania
ExSA_Post3 Namibia_Damara Orogen traverse and ‘Snowball Earth’
ExSA_Post4 Namibia_Diamonds
ExSA_Post5 Namibia_Granites and Uranium Deposits
ExSA_Post6 Southern Angola - From the Humpata Plateau to the Namib Desert
ExSA_Post7 Tectonic and metamorphic evolution of the Paleoproterozoic Eburnean orogeny, West African Craton in North-West Ghana.
ExSA_Post8 Gold in southwestern Ghana
ExSA_Gold deposits of Loulo-Gounkoto, Mali