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

Surficial Processes and Landscape Evolution

Paper Title Presenting Author Names
Impact of a megacity on the connectivity of a large river system Mrs. NUPUR BAWA CHAKRABORTY
Regolith in the sediment routing system: a view from tropical shields Prof. Dominique CHARDON
Decoding fluvial archives along River Tista at the frontal Himalayan foreland, India "Dr. Sreemati Gupta Dr. Snigdha Ghatak"
Basalt weathering processes and landforms in the Lesotho Highlands, southern Africa Prof. Stefan Grab
Global sediment systems in the Anthropocene Prof. Jasper Knight
The use of lateritic profiles to interpretation of geomorphological evolution in cuestas areas: the case of Itaqueri Hill – Brazil Dr. Francisco Sergio Ladeira
High Barium Flux from Gomati River Basin (Ganga Alluvial Plain) and its implications to Ganga Fluvial System Shahina Siddiqui
New records of southern hemisphere Quaternary dune system development derived from Accumulation Intensity analysis Prof. David S.G. Thomas
Geology, Physiography and Geomorphometric Analysis: A Case study on Udayavara River Basin Southwest coast of India Mr. B S Maddodi
Deep crustal CO2 fluxes in Jordan and their various geological manifestations Prof. Nizar Abu-Jaber
Tempo of lateritic weathering and erosion of Peninsular India over the Cenozoic: Morphoclimatic implications Dr. Anicet Beauvais
Regolith and landscape evolution in Peninsular India and West Africa: Morphoclimatic evolution of the two continents over the Cenozoic Dr. Anicet Beauvais
Sand seas and dune fields of Egypt Prof. Olaf Bubenzer
Chemical weathering and CO2 consumption rate in the Liaohe river basin, Northeast of China Dr. Yang Chen
Impact of fog and dew induced sand moisture on barchan dune asymmetry, the example from Western Sahara Dr. Maciej Dluzewski
Extensional tectonics control on Quaternary drainage migration and sedimentation in the das Cinzas River Basin, Paraná state, Brazil Dr. Marcilene Dos Santos
Widespread and Multiple Cryoturbation Episodes during Marine Isotopic Stage-3 (MIS-3) Terminus: Evidence from Upper Part of Palaeolake Sediments, along Indus River, in Leh and Nyoma Area, Ladakh, India Mr. Sharat Dutta
Aeolian-accumulative complex Sarykum as a unique geomorphic object of Russia: the structure, genesis and sources of its sands Prof. Artem Gusarov
Redefining the surface | Petra –Jordan A Case Study Ms. Catreena Hamarneh
Landscape evolution and regolith characteristics of east central Namibia Dr. Kenneth McQueen
Functional diversity of microbial communities associated with deep-sea hydrothermal deposits Dr. Anna-Louise Reysenbach
Genesis of the largest Amazonian wetland in northern Brazil indicated by morphology and gravity anomalies Dr. Dilce Rossetti
Comparison of cross-bedding in eolian dunes in the Namib Desert and the eolian Stimson sandstone in Gale crater, Mars Dr. David Rubin
Stratification of endosporeforming bacteria in the sediments of the Black Sea Mr. Mykola Shtenikov
Contrasting styles of supergene phosphorus and rare earth element mineralisation in weathered carbonatites – examples from southern Africa including Glenover, Zandkopsdrift and Karingarab. Mr. Pete Siegfried
GEOMORPHIC INDICATORS OF NEOTECTONISM ALONG THE KACHCHH MAINLAND FAULT, KACHCHH BASIN OF WESTERN INDIA Dr. Pramod Singh
Assessing the aeolian assumption Mr. Johan Smit
African Cenozoic Sedimentary Flux from Modelling of Drainage Networks Mr. Simon Stephenson
Landform surface analysis of Schirmacher Oasis, East Antarctica as an indicator of geomorphological evolution Dr. Ashit Kumar Swain
GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF PARABOLIC BEDFORMS IN GREAT INDIAN THAR DESERT Dr. Sudesh Wadhawan
Sedimentology, geochronology and provenance of the “Yangtze Gravels”: Link Yangtze River to Late Cenozoic tectonic and climate in Eastern China Dr. Ping Wang
Numerical modelling activation of vegetated parabolic dunes driven by climatic change and anthropogenic disturbance Dr. Na Yan
Tracing aeolian sand source: A geochemical provenance study from the Thar Desert, India Mr. Anirban Chatterjee
Geomorphic Thresholds and Risk Assessment of Active Gully Erosion in the Badlands of Laterites: A Case Study of Rajmahal Basalt Traps and Rarh Bengal, eastern India Mr. Sandipan Ghosh
Influence of geological conditions on the development and distribution of thermokarst processes Ms. Elizaveta Makarycheva
Origin of in situ Quartz Silt from quartzite weathering, Shillong Plateau (India) Ms. Shimyaphy R V S
Late Quaternary aeolian activity in the Mu Us dune field (north China) and responses to paleoclimatic change Dr. Zhiwei Xu
Historical Change of River Courses and their Confluences in the North-Eastern Part of Bangladesh Dr. Bazlar Rashid
Geochemical evolution of polygenic ferricrete-capped landscapes: Example from the Poura region, Burkina Faso Prof. Ousmane Bamba
Application of Newton Laws and Bernoulli's Principle in Sediments Transport Mr. Damian Pascal Ginting
Exceptional alteration of cassiterite, rutile, zircon, xenotime and monazite during weathering of VHMS mineralisation Dr. Ravi Anand
Mineralogical and d18o-dD isotopic study of kaolinized micaschists at Penestin, Armorican Massif, France: New constraint in the kaolinization process Mrs. Veronique Ansan
The changing landscape of the Brazilian Pantanal: from Pleistocene distributary channels to fluvial incision and Holocene aggradation in the Aquidauana megafan Dr. Mario Luis Assine
Chromium isotope fractionation during extreme basalt weathering Dr. Michael Babechuk
Erg Chebbi, SE Morocco: Morphometry, granulometry, and groundwater recharge Prof. Olaf Bubenzer
Mobility and fractionation of Zr-Hf, Nd-Ta and Y-Ho due to extreme and overprinting weathering events Dr. Ignacio Gonzalez-Alvarez
Monazite characterization in a carbonatite weathering profile – a new tool for landscape geochronology Mr. Loic Le Bras
Petrology and lithogeochemical characteristics of Basement rocks of Southwestern Nigeria: implications for weathering induced metal release and redistributions in soils. Dr. Saheed Oke
10Be data on erosional surfaces in the Mayombe massif (SW Congo) Dr. Denis Thiéblemont
HYPSOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE TOPOGRAPHIC MATURITY OF THE THREE GORGES AREA OF THE YANGTZE RIVER Dr. Jietao Wang
Geomophogical Evolution of the Hengshixi Anticline of the three gorges area through isobasesS: A model of Yangtze river capture Dr. Jietao Wang
The real process of river capture in mountainous regions Prof. Jiagui Zhang
Geomorphological structure of the region of palmyra (Syria) Mr. Ahmed Al Haloum
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