35TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS
27 AUGUST - 4 SEPTEMBER 2016 | CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
35TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS
27 AUGUST - 4 SEPTEMBER 2016 | CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
Palaeontology and Palaeo-anthropology
The notifications to presenting authors confirming their specific date and time of presentation will be communicated the 20 August 2016.
Second Draft Preliminary programme is being updated per theme as the SPC signs them off.
The detailed draft day by day programme for each theme is being announced as it is being collated. These are still preliminary and will be finalised by the 20 August.
As this is the Second draft, please note that where there are abstract presenters not yet registered, these have now been removed from 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
if you have any queries or if you have in the interim managed to secure finances and registered.
To view the detailed programme, click here.
Theme Champions
Keynote Speakers
| 31ST MAY 2015 | Additional symposium proposals must now be submitted directly to the theme champions (Please be sure to include the name of the proposer, seconder and short motivation). |
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1ST JULY 2015 - 31ST JANUARY 2016 |
Call for abstracts |
| 31ST MARCH 2016 | Notifications of acceptance |
Palaeontology and Palaeo-anthropology
The record of life on Earth goes back to the earliest stages of the planet and documents a fascinating path of cellular evolution. Symposia and papers are invited that cover the entire range of subjects and periods of this vast and fascinating topic.
Please note that this is preliminary and final allocations in the programme will be announced in the 5th Announcement and updated on the Website in July.
PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL PRESENTING AUTHORS (FOR ORALS) OR AT LEAST ONE AUTHOR (FOR POSTERS) MUST BE REGISTERED FOR THE MEETING BY 31 MAY 2016 IN ORDER TO HAVE THE ABSTRACT INCLUDED IN THE PROGRAMME.
The following symposium proposals have already been submitted:
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Robyn Pickering and Andy Herries
» Palaeoanthro-geology : age and palaeoenvironment of our human ancestors in Africa -
Elena Volynets
» Palaeontology -
Jonah Choiniere, Michael Day, Bruce Rubidge, Natasha Barbolini and Pia Viglietti
» Palaeozoic-Mesozoic Ecosystems of Gondwana -
Douglas Erwin, Rachel Wood, Marc Laflamme and Shuhai Xiao
» The Dawn of Animals: Cryogenian to Cambrian -
Paul Strother and Rose Prevec
» Non-marine Environments as drivers of major evolutionary events -
Emmanuelle Javaux and Nick J. Butterfield
» Origin and diversification of Precambrian eukaryotes -
Vivi Vajda, Jingeng Sha and Emma Msaky
» IGCP 632 Continental Crises of the Jurassic: Major extinction events and environmental changes -
Open Session
For all submissions that do not fall into currently identified symposia