35TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS

35TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS

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


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Keystone Sponsor Exxaro
Diamond Sponsor Vale
Gold Sponsor Vale
Silver Sponsor Bushveld Minerals Randgold VM Investment Company Bauer
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Publication Sponsor Acacia mining VM Investment Company
Social Function
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35TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS

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

Scientific Programmes

First Draft Preliminary programme

The detailed draft day by day programme for each theme is being announced as it is being coallated. As this is the first draft, please note that where there are abstract presenters not yet registered, this will be indicated in this detailed programme. If you are a speaker and not yet registered on the schedule, this will be your last opportunity to register before the programme chairs start eliminating and reshuffling 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

To view the detailed programme, please click on the Theme link of your choice.

Programme at a glance Theme sessions at a glance
Core Topics # Themes Sessions
Geoscience for society T1 Geoheritage and Conservation S1-S8
T2 Geoscience Education and Public Communication S8-S17, S15-S17
T3 Public Sector Geoscience and Geological Surveys S1-S11
T4 Climate Change Studies S1-S10, S12 - S17
T5 Groundwater and Hydrogeology S1-S8
T6 Soil Science S1-S4
T7 Geoscience Data and Information Systems S1-S9, S11-S14
T8 Geohazards S1-S17, S1-S6, S15-S17
T9 Proximal and Remote Sensing Technologies S10-S17
T10 History of the Geosciences S1-S7
T11 Medical Geology S8-S11
T12 Global Geoscience Professionalism and Geoethics S1-S10, S12-S13
T13 Geosciences for Benefitting Low-income Countries S12-S17
T14 Environmental Geosciences S1-S17
T15 Engineering Geology and Geomechanics S1-S17
Geoscience in the economy T16 Mineral Resources Evaluation, Geostatistics and Mathematical Geoscience S6-S12
T17 Mineral Exploration S1-S14
T18 Mineral Deposits and Ore Forming Processes S1-S17, S11-S17
T19 Coal S1-S6
T20 Petroleum Systems and Exploration S1-S10
T21 Unconventional Hydrocarbons and Emerging Fuels S13-S17
T22 Energy in a Carbon Constrained World S7-S9
T23 Applied Mineralogy and Geometallurgy S11-S14
T24 Mining Geology and Earth Resource Engineering S7-S10
T25 Critical Metals - a Global Perspective S5-S7
T26 Resourcing Future Generations S1-S5
T27 Gold Mineralizing Systems (jointly sponsored by SEG and SGA) S10-S17
Fundamental geoscience T28 Sedimentary Processes - Ancient to Modern S6-S9, S11-S17
T29 Basin Formation and Continental Margins S1-S9, S15-S17
T30 A Dynamic Earth S1-S17, S1-S2, S7-S10, S15-S17
T31 The Deep Earth S10-S17
T32 The Hadean and Archaean Earth S11-S17
T33 The Proterozoic Earth S1-S8
T34 Geochronology S1-S4
T35 Isotope Geoscience S5-S6
T36 Magmatism - Settings, Compositions and Processes S1-S5, S7-S10
T37 Mineralogy S1-S6
T38 Metamorphic Processes S1-S6, S11-S17
T39 Evolution of the Biosphere and Biogeoscience S7-S8
T40 Marine Geosciences and Oceanography S1-S6, S7-S19, PROV S11-S14
T41 Arctic and Antarctic Geoscience S9-S17
T42 Surficial Processes and Landscape Evolution S11-S16
T43 Rock Deformation and Structural Geology S11-S17
T44 Palaeontology and Palaeo-anthropology S1-S11
T45 Instrumental, Experimental and Laboratory-based Developments in the Geosciences S5-S10
T46 Volcanology S14-S17
T47 Phanerozoic Earth History, Stratigraphy and the Geologic Time Scale S1-S17
T48 Planetary Sciences and Meteorite Impacts S1-S4
resourcing future generations