35^TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS

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

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35^TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS

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

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Theme Sessions at a glance

Theme No.		Theme	Sessions Allocated
		GEOSCIENCE FOR SOCIETY
T	1	Geoheritage and Conservation	S1 - S8
T	2	Geoscience Education and Public Communication (incl. EAGE YP session)	S3 - S6 & S8 - S17
T	3	Public Sector Geoscience and Geological Surveys (Incl. PanAfGeo Launch & GMIS Special Symposium)	S1 - S11 & S14
T	4	Climate Change Studies	S1 - S10 & S12 - S17
T	5	Groundwater and Hydrogeology	S1 - S6
T	6	Soil Science	S1 - S4
T	7	Geoscience Data and Information Systems (incl. Africa One Geology)	S1 - S9 & S11 - S14
T	8	Geohazards	S1 - S17, S1 - S2, S6
T	9	Proximal and Remote Sensing Technologies	S10 - S16
T	10	History of the Geosciences	S1 - S7
T	11	Medical Geology	S8 - S10
T	12	Global Geoscience Professionalism and Geoethics	S1 - S10 & S12 - S13
T	13	Geosciences for Benefitting Low-income Countries	S12 - S15
T	14	Environmental Geosciences	S1 - S13
T	15	Engineering Geology and Geomechanics	S1 - S17

		GEOSCIENCE IN THE ECONOMY
T	16	Mineral Resources Evaluation, Geostatistics and Mathematical Geoscience	S1 - S2 & S6 - S12
T	17	Mineral Exploration	S1 - S14
T	18	Mineral Deposits and Ore Forming Processes (incl. Mining Geology and Earth Resource Engineering)	S1 - S17 & S7 - S17
T	19	Coal	S1 - S6
T	20	Petroleum Systems and Exploration	S1 - S9
T	21	Unconventional Hydrocarbons and Emerging Fuels	S13 - S17
T	22	Energy in a Carbon Constrained World	S7 - S9
T	23	Applied Mineralogy and Geometallurgy	S11 - S14
T	24	Mining Geology and Earth Resource Engineering (JOINED WITH T18 MINERAL DEPOSITS)
T	25	Critical metals - a global perspective	S5 - S7
T	26	Resourcing Future Generations	S1 - S5
T	27	Gold Mineralizing Systems (jointly sponsored by SEG and SGA)	S10 - S17

		FUNDAMENTAL GEOSCIENCE
T	28	Sedimentary Processes - ancient to modern	S6 - S9 & S11 - S16
T	29	Basin Formation and Continental Margins	S1 - S9 & S15 - S17
T	30	A Dynamic Earth	S1 - 17, S1 - S4, S7 - S10, S15 - S17
T	31	The Deep Earth	S10 - S17
T	32	The Hadean and Archaean Earth	S11 - S17
T	33	The Proterozoic Earth	S9 - S17
T	34	Geochronology	S1 - S4
T	35	Isotope Geoscience	S5 - S6
T	36	Magmatism - Settings, Compositions and Processes	S1 - S5 & S7 - S10
T	37	Mineralogy	S1 - S6
T	38	Metamorphic Processes	S1 - S6 & S11 - S17
T	39	Evolution of the Biosphere and Biogeoscience	S7
T	40	Marine Geosciences and Oceanography	S1 - S6 & S7 - S13
T	41	Arctic and Antarctic Geoscience	S9 - S17
T	42	Surficial Processes and Landscape Evolution	S11 - S15
T	43	Rock Deformation and Structural Geology	S11 - S16
T	44	Palaeontology and Palaeo-anthropology	S1 - S11
T	45	Instrumental, experimental and laboratory-based developments in the Geosciences	S5 - S10
T	46	Volcanology	S14 - S17
T	47	Phanerozoic Earth History, Stratigraphy and the Geologic Time Scale	S1 - S16
T	48	Planetary Sciences and Meteorite Impacts	S1 - S4