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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Marine Geosciences and Oceanography

Paper Title	Presenting Author Names
Sediment input and bottom water trophic level in the East China Sea, in response to glacial/interglacial sea level change and monsoon rainfall intensity. Insights from benthic microcrustaceans (ostracods) and foraminifera at Site U1429 (IODP Expedition 346)	Dr. Maria Angela Bassetti
European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD) in the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) : new opportunities in scientific drilling	Dr. Gilbert CAMOIN
Bedform distribution and sediment pathways on a high-energy, mixed wave- and tide-influenced shelf, north Coast, Northern Ireland.	Professor Andrew Cooper
Mapping tectonics: a key element in submarine geological events and probabilities assessment	Dr. Filomena Loreto
Map of submerged volcanic structures in Italy	Dr. Alessandra Pensa
Lord Howe Rise deep stratigraphic drilling: tectonics, climate and ancient life	Prof. Richard Arculus
A Late Cretaceous mixed-drift system on the Uruguayan Margin: sedimentary and paleoceanographic significance	Adam Creaser
Sequence Stratigraphy of the Durban Basin, South Africa.	Mr. Nigel Hicks
Seabed substrate and sedimentation rate data from Europe’s Seas, EMODnet Geology	Anu M. Kaskela
ECORD Mission-Specific Platform Expeditions in the International Ocean Discovery Program	Miss Carol Cotterill
Sedimentary Record and Environmental Implications since the Late Pliocene from the Core CSDP-1 in South Yellow Sea	Prof. Xunhua Zhang
Early history of Mediterranean-Atlantic exchange – new insights from IODP Expedition 339	Prof. Werner E. Piller
Placer Mineral Resources off Palur – Malud, Odisha in relation to Holocene Marine Transgression	Mr. SUBHASIS ROYCHAUDHURI
Persistent and energetic bottom-trapped topographic Rossby waves observed in the southern South China Sea	"Dr. Yeqiang Shu Dr Dongxiao Wang"
Morphology, depositional patterns and sedimentary processes along the northwestern Great Bahama Bank slope	Dr. Mélanie PRINCIPAUD
A quarter-century of geophysical results from ODP/IODP CORK observatories	Dr. Keir Becker
Agglutinated Foraminifer Community within Central Andaman Trough of Andaman Sea: An approach to understand the effect of spreading axis channel way on fauna	Mr. Danish Anwar
Discrepancies under Water: Marine Geological Information and Semantic Harmonisation for the EMODnet II Project	Dr. Kristine Asch
International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP): The Latest Incarnation of Almost Five Decades of Scientific Ocean Drilling Excellence	Dr. James Austin
Shelf-edge sand bodies in the western Mediterranean: relict deltas reworked by modern processes	Prof. Serge Berné
Visiting the Shaka Ridge - a part of the Bouvet hotspot trail	Mr. Harald Brekke
Terrestrial Quaternary sediments preserved on the South African shelf shed light on the glacial palaeoenvironment	Dr. Hayley Cawthra
Quaternary Planktonic Foraminifer Biostratigraphy and Biochronology of a Deep Sea Core from South Andaman Sea	Mr. Mritunjay Chaturvedi
Decoupled Southern and Northern Hemisphere processes controlled by the Maritime continent: insights from a continuous Pliocene NW Australian shelf borehole (and decades of previous Ocean Drilling)	Dr. Beth Christensen
Drilling to the Crust-Mantle Boundary: SloMo Project, Phase 1	Dr. Henry Dick
Seismic, geochemical and sedimentological characteristics of storm deposits from the Durban continental shelf, South Africa	Ms. Shannon Dixon
The Tsitsikamma coastal shelf, Agulhas Bank, South Africa: example of an isolated Holocene sediment trap	Dr. Burghard Flemming
Between-hole correlation of sandy and silty contourite beds, Expedition 339, Gulf of Cadiz	Dr. Roger Flood
Genesis and early diagenesis of aragonite and siderite concretions at Paola Ridge (southern Tyrrhenian Sea): stable isotopes and REE characterization	Dr. Fulvio Franchi
Miocene to Recent Oceanographic and Climatic Histories from the Australian Northwest Shelf: Results from IODP Expedition 356	Dr. Craig Fulthorpe
Origin of morphological depressions in the Guadalquivir Bank area (Gulf of Cadiz middle slope)	Dr. Marga Garcia
Technological innovation in IODP: a review of downhole measurements and a look towards the future	Prof. David Goldberg
The role of shelf morphology and antecedent setting in the preservation of submerged shoreline sequences	Prof. Andrew Green
Reconstructing Mid- to Late Holocene sea-level changes from coral microatolls, French Polynesia	Dr. Nadine Hallmann
Environmental and Climate Variation during the Last Glacial Cycle and its sequence stratigraphic reflection at the South China Sea's Northern Margin	Prof. Jan Harff
Submerged beach ridges in Mecklenburg Bay (SW Baltic Sea) indicate Late Pleistocene and Holocene shore lines	Mr. Christoph Heinrich
Evolution of the Gulf of Cadiz Margin and southwest Portugal from IODP Expedition 339 results	Dr. F. Javier Hernández-Molina
Large bedforms on contourite terraces: conceptual consequences	Dr. F. Javier Hernández-Molina
Evidence for Late Miocene Mediterranean overflow from bottom current deposits within the Rifian Corridor (Morocco)	Dr. F. Javier Hernández-Molina
Morphology and Stratigraphy of the Central California Shelf - Results from the California Seafloor and Coastal Mapping Program	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"Variations in the abundance of Micro-fauna during the late Pleistocene and Holocene: Andaman Sea"	Mr. Rajesh Kumar Joshi
Mapping marine minerals in Europe	Ms. Maria Judge
Fluid origins, cycling, fluxes, and thermal regimes in subduction zone forearcs	Dr. Miriam Kastner
Oceanographic and climate changes during the Mid Pleistocene uncovered from Bering Sea and Pacific Ocean sediment cores	Dr. Sev Kender
Seismic Stratigraphy of the Saldanha Bay and Langebaan Lagoon areas	Mr Vamumusa Khumalo
Holocene sedimentation in the Ångermanälven River estuary, the Baltic Sea – IODP Site M0062	Prof. Aarno Kotilainen
D/V Chikyu IODP scientific ocean drilling achievements and the beyond	Dr. Shin'ichi Kuramoto
Inferred short-period internal-wave deposits in geological records from cross laminations in deep-water environment	Prof. Xiangdong Li
Depositional and erosional processes during the early postglacial phases in the Gulf of Cádiz shelf	Dr. Francisco José Lobo
Evolution of the Yellow Sea Warm Current and the Yellow Sea Cold Water Mass since the Middle Pleistocene	Dr. Xi Mei
Drowned barriers as archives of coastal response to sea-level rise	Dr. Claire Mellett
Outer shelf dynamics in a sediment-undersupplied margin: The Malta Plateau, central Mediterranean Sea	Dr. Aaron Micallef
Provenance and paleoenvironmental events inferred from the geochemical records of Quaternary marine sediments from South Andaman Sea	Dr. Mohan Nagasundaram
Seabed mapping in Sweden, in general, and results from projects with different objectives as well as interactions with stakeholders, in particular.	Dr. Johan Nyberg
Introducing INFOMAR, Irelands national seabed mapping programme	Mr. Ronan O'Toole
Offshore geological mapping from high resolution datasets – a “new” way to investigate the evolution of the anglo-parisian basin.	Dr. Fabien Paquet
Seabed environments of the remote southeastern Indian Ocean in the search area for Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 – remnants of Gondwana, mass wasting, spreading ridges and volcanoes	Ms. Kim Picard
Present-day breakdown of a submerged shoreline and implications for the development of wave ravinement surfaces	Ms. Lauren Pretorius
Nannofossil biostratigraphy and its palaeoecological significance from the Jumara Dome, Kachchh,Western India	Dr. Jyotsana Rai
Element mobility during seawater alteration of basalts from Shatsky Rise oceanic plateau, NW Pacific	Dr. Irina Romanova
Coastal systems in Japan	Dr. Yoshiki Saito
Global compilation of marine varve records	Dr. Arndt Schimmelmann
Holocene development and sedimentological characteristics of the Andaman Sea inner shelf offshore Phang Nga province (Thailand)	Dr. Klaus Schwarzer
The importance of Marine Spatial Planning and high resolution mapping for deep-water areas: A case study from the southwest of Ireland’s Exclusive Economic Zone	Dr. Gill Scott
Mapping the seafloor of the UK, Europe and the North Atlantic Ocean: Sharing Information to Deliver New Marine Geological Products.	Mr. Alan Stevenson
Cold seep benthic foraminiferal assemblages as indicator to methane venting events in the northern South China Sea	Dr. Xin Su
Transition from the Cretaceous ocean to Cenozoic circulation in the western South Atlantic - a twofold reconstruction	Dr. Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben
The Mozambique Ridge: a product of long lasting magmatic activity	Dr. Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben
Drilling the Agulhas Plateau and Transkei Basin to reconstruct the Cretaceous - Paleocene Tectonic and Climatic evolution of the Southern Ocean Basin	Dr. Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben
Contourite drifts as indicators of Cenozoic bottom water intensity in the eastern Agulhas Ridge area, South Atlantic	Dr. Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben
Evolution of the northern Argentine margin during the Cenozoic controlled by bottom current dynamics and gravitational processes	Dr. Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben
Cold-water coral mounds and contourite drifts: two chapters of the palaeoceanographic log-book?	Prof. David Van Rooij
Stratigraphic basis for interpreting contouritic sequences in the Argentina Continental Margin	Dr. Roberto Violante
Geomorphology of a tropical shelf: Rio Grande do Norte East Sector, NE Brazil	Prof. Helenice Vital
Control of Quaternary sea‐level changes on fluid flow and shallow gas reservoirs in the Levant margin	Dr. Nicolas Waldmann
Flume Experiment of Bottom Boundary Layer Dynamic Evolution and Sediment Stratification	Mr. Mingzheng Wen
Inshore gas limit and shallow stratigraphy of the Orange River mud belt	Dr. Errol Wiles
Zambezi continental margin: allocyclic and antecedent controls on sediment transport in the Mozambique Channel	Dr. Errol Wiles
Antarctica's Cenozoic Ice and Climate History: New Science and New Challenges of Drilling in Antarctic Waters	Dr. Trevor Williams
Geological built-up and sediment distribution of Amrum Bank (North Sea)	Ms. Kerstin Wittbrodt
The organic geochemical records from sediments in the base of slope of the north-eastern South China Sea (SCS) over the last 30 ka: Implications for paleo-vegetation and paleo-environment	Dr. Chupeng Yang
Seismic stratigraphy and sea level changes on the NE Brazilian continental shelf	Dr. Andre Giskard Aquino Da Silva
Seismic-stratigraphic approach to Late Pleistocene/Holocene evolution of Lagoa dos Patos, Southern Brazil	Mr. Eduardo Bortolin
Development of the northeastern shelf margin of the South China Sea since the Late Miocene: sequence architecture, depositional evolution and sea-level changes	Ms. Jing Jiang
Sandy contourite deposits from the Gulf of Cadiz at Site U1388 (Exp IODP 339): Sedimentological aspects and its evolutionary implication	Ms. Claudia Jones
A Multi-Proxy Examination of Sea Ice Extent and Primary Productivity at IODP Site U1339 (Umnak Plateau, Bering Sea) During Marine Isotope Stage 11	Ms. Natalie Thompson
Small-scale contourite deposits in the El Arraiche area, southern Gulf of Cadiz	Mr. Thomas Vandorpe
Shallow seismic study within continental shelf outside the mouth of the Gulf of Kachchh	"Mr. PURNA DAS Mr. A. Sivasamy Dr. J. M. Neelakantarama"
Seasonal occurrence of mud banks off Alleppey (SW coast of India) as seen from benthic foraminiferal testimony	Ms. Rupal Dubey
Variations of surface and bottom currents in eastern part of the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone during the Late Quaternary	Evgenia Dorokhova
Study of a Rebuilt Deep Water Reservoir in Qiongdongnan Basin, South China Sea	"Mr. Lulu Cai Mr. Chuncheng Liu"
Paleoenvironmental change during the late Holocene in the southeastern Yellow Sea, Korea	Prof. Hyen Goo Cho
The South-Eastern Baltic Sea floor mapping	Mr. Dmitriy Dorokhov
Seabed mapping of a deep-water basin; towards completing a broad-scale seabed substrate map of Ireland’s offshore	Mr. Xavier Monteys
Marine geological data as a basis for sustainable growth, an example from the Gulf of Bothnia, Finland	Anu M. Kaskela
Morphology and seismic facies of a sedimentary wedge off São Sebastião Island, São Paulo Bight, southwest Atlantic Ocean	Dr Francisco José Lobo
Morphology and recent sub-surface stratigraphy of Dove Basin, Scotia Sea: Physiographic constrains on bottom current deposition	Dr Francisco José Lobo
Characterization of Holocene NE Atlantic climatic variations using the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa	Mr xavier Monteys
Subaqueous landscapes – discovering the invisible using a multibeam echosounder (examples from the Southern Baltic)	Dr. Kazimierz Szefler
Gas hydrate occurrences from seismic analysis Offshore Chiloe	"Dr. Iván De La Cruz Vargas Cordero Dra. Umberta Tinivella PhD(c) Lucia Villar Muñoz Bsc Pas Toledo Rubilar"
Temporal variation of the deep circulation of the South China Sea since the Last Glacial Maximum	Prof. CHEN Zhong
Morphology of small-scale contouritic depositional systems associated to topographic heights at the Galician margin (NW-Spain)	Mrs. Julia Haberkern
Analysis of direct seismic indicators of gas seepage in time-amplitude and time-frequency domain: a case study from Netherland offshore region	Mr. Kiran Khonde
Influence of Near Shore Structures on the Coastal Processes of West Coast of India	Mrs. Mamatha P.K.
3-D magnetic modeling of the Ionian Sea deep-sea crust: Evidence for the oldest in-situ ocean fragment of the world	Dr. Fabio Speranza
Stable isotopes from Miocene to Pliocene planktonic and benthic foraminifera: preliminary results from IODP Expedition 354 (Bengal Fan)	Dr. Kara Bogus
Quaternary contourites of the Ceara Rise, Western Equatorial Atlantic	Dr. Dmitrii Borisov
An onshore-offshore record of sedimentation and shoreline shift through two glacial-interglacial cycles	Dr. Hayley Cawthra
Late Quaternary shell concentrations on the continental shelf of southern Korea: bioclastic fabrics and paleoenvironments	Dr. Tae Soo Chang
Sources, distribution, and accumulation of organic matter in the southern Challenger Deep, Mariana Trench: implication for the organic matter degradation and burial in hadal trenches	Prof. Duofu Chen
Ages of seep-related authigenic carbonate from the Gulf of Mexico continental slope	Dr. Dong Feng
The Scan Basin contourite fan, southern Scotia Sea (Antarctica). High-resolution seismic stratigraphy and oceanographic implications	Dr. Marga Garcia
Middle Miocene sedimentary shift in the Scotia Sea (Southern Ocean): global tectonic and oceanographic implications	Dr. F. Javier Hernández-Molina
High resolution mapping of offshore morphosedimentary features in the northwestern Iberian continental margin and abyssal plains	Dr. F. Javier Hernández-Molina
Contouritic drifts in the Mozambique Channel since the Cretaceous: Paleoceanographic Implications	Dr. F. Javier Hernández-Molina
Contourite depositional and erosional features along the Uruguayan continental margin	Dr. F. Javier Hernández-Molina
Deglacial dynamics of Scandinavian Ice Sheet (SIS) and changes in atmospheric ocean circulation in North Atlantic region	Dr. Outi Hyttinen
Source and transportations of organic matters around the Korean peninsula: isotope investigation and land-ocean linkages	Dr. Sangmin Hyun
Holocene paleoclimate change in the Nakdong River delta (southeastern Korea) and role of Tsushima Warm Current	Dr. Boo-Keun Khim
Bioavailable Fe Distribution in the Southern Atlantic Ocean on Glacial-Interglacial Timescales	Mrs. Bridget Lee
About geomagnetic field over the Ninetyeast Ridge, Indian Ocean	Dr. Oleg Levchenko
Trajectory variation and depositional architecture of the deltaic systems of the Late Oligocene to Quaternary and their response to the tectonic and sea level change, Pear River Mouth Basin, northern South China Sea	Dr. Changsong Lin
The marine geology of the 1 nautical mile exclusive zone around Robben Island, South Africa	Mr. Michael Machutchon
Elemental abundances and paleoclimate implications: preliminary results from XRF core scanning of IODP Expedition 356 Site U1463	Mr. Evan O'Brien
Cenozoic Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy and Paleoceanography of the Izu Bonin, western Pacific Ocean	Ms. Santi Dwi Pratiwi
Sea of Marmara as the Passage Way between the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea	Mr. Recai Sergin
Occurrence, characteristics and formation mechanisms of methane generated micro-pockmarks in Dunmanus Bay, SW Ireland	Dr. Michal Szpak
Grain morphology analysis in a deep-water coral reef setting	Mr. Mohit Tunwal
Unconformities aid the stratigraphic division of strata in a formerly glaciated semi-enclosed basin: the Baltic Sea prototype	Dr. Joonas Virtasalo
The Late Quaternary evolution of the southern Brazilian coast: insights from seismic stratigraphy and diatom records	Dr. Jair Weschenfelder
Sediment provenance on the northwestern shelf of South China Sea and the sedimentary model for heavy-mineral placers	Prof. Wen Yan
The effect of grain size and component on porosity and acoustic velocity of surface sediments, offshore Southeastern Hainan Island	Dr. Tian Yuhang
FORMATION MICROSCANNER (FMS) DATA AND ORBITAL CYCLE RECORDS: PRELIMINARY INTERPRETATION FROM THE ASIAN MONSOON IODP EXPEDITION 346	Ms. Grisel Jimenez
Buried cold-water coral mounds in the Atlantic Moroccan Coral Province	Mr. Thomas Vandorpe
Interaction between intermediate/deep-water masses and the sedimentation in a mid-slope canyon (off Argentina/Uruguay, 38°S) during the last 25 kyr	Ms. Grit Warratz
Study of sediment cores, south of the Caspian Sea, Iran	Mr. Javad Darvishi Khatooni
Artemia Urmiana fecal pellets in the bed sediments of the Urmia lake	Mr. Javad Darvishi Khatooni