35th International Geological

Congress 2016

Abstracts

Cape Town, South 27 August - 4 September 2016

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VOLUME 1

IS AFRICA DOING ENOUGH TO PROMOTE ITS MINERAL ENDOWMENT...... 1 Sipho Nkosi

GRAND CHALLENGES IN THE MINERAL LIFE CYCLE ...... 2 Thomas Graedel

BREACHING THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN SCIENCE AND PROFESSION – AN IMPERATIVE FOR GEOSCIENCE IN THE SERVICE OF SOCIETY...... 3 Ruth Allington

AFRICA, HUMANS AND THE GLOBAL CLIMATE...... 4 Robert Scholes

GEOLOGICAL CYCLES AND THE GENERATION OF THE CONTINENTAL CRUST ...... 6 Chris Hawkesworth

PALAEOBIOLOGICAL INSIGHTS FROM FOSSIL BONES ...... 8 Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan

DRILLING BENEATH THE HYPE: TECHNICAL CHALLENGES FOR THE EXPLORATION FOR GAS’...... 9 Joe Cartwright

AFRICA ALIVE CORRIDORS—A 3,5 BILLION YEAR GEOLOGICAL, BIOLOGICAL & CULTURAL BIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA ...... 10 John Malcolm Anderson

MINING INDUSTRY AND SOCIETY: OUR NEW AND CHALLENGING FRONTIER...... 11 Michel Jébrak

DAMAGING EARTHQUAKES IN AFRICA: THEIR SEISMOTECTONIC BACKGROUND AND SEISMIC HAZARD IMPLICATIONS ...... 12 Mustapha Meghraoui

ASSESSING GEOHERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE IN STUDIES OF PALAEOECOLOGY – THE NEED TO ADDRESS BIOCOENOSES, THANATOCOENOSES, BIODIVERSITY, PALAEO-BIODIVERSITY, AND QUANTIFICATION ...... 14 Vic Semeniuk

GEODIVERSITY, GEOHERITAGE AND GEOCONSERVATION FOR SOCIETY...... 16 Murray Gray

GEODIVERSITY, HERITAGE, CONSERVATION AND SOCIETY: THE ROLE OF THE JOURNAL GEOHERITAGE IN RAISING AWARENESS AND DISSEMINATING GOOD PRACTICE...... 17 Kevin Page

GEOLOGY, LANDSCAPE AND EARTH-LIFE LINK IN THE KRUGER NATIONAL PARK...... 19 Morris Viljoen

STATE AND PROSPECTS OF GEOTOURISM POTENTIAL OF UZBEKISTAN...... 21 Rustam Mirkamalov

16TH CENTURY MINING IN EUROPE AND A SHIPWRECK ON THE NAMIBIAN COAST...... 23 Gabriele Schneider

COASTAL GEOMORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSES SHAPED ISIMANGALISO WORLD HERITAGE SITE...... 24 Greg Botha

GEOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL LANDSCAPES OF THE ANCIENT MAPUNGUBWE AND THULAMELA CITADELS...... 26 Richard Viljoen

GEOLOGY AND GEOHERITAGE IN THE SAHARA AND SAHEL ...... 28 Sharad Master

GEOPARK AND GEOTOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN THE SIKKIM HIMALAYA, INDIA...... 30 Vinod Tewari

STRATOTYPES FOR THE PUBLIC ...... 32 Patrick De Wever

THE ROLE OF TOURIST ATTRACTIONS ON THE SOUTHERN ISLANDS OF IRAN TO DEVELOPMENT OF SEA-BASED ...... 34 Bita Mirzapour

AN OVERVIEW OF THE GEOHERITAGE OF AFRICA ...... 36 Richard Viljoen

GEOHERITAGE OF THE CAPE FOLD MOUNTAINS ...... 38 Richard Viljoen

GEOHERITAGE OF THE GREAT ESCARPMENT OF ...... 40 Morris Viljoen

GEOTOURISM IN NATIONAL PARKS OF SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN TANZANIA: SPECTACULAR LANDFORMS ASSOCIATED WITH BASEMENT PLATFORMS, THE GREGORY RIFT AND -RECENT VOLCANOES...... 41 Roger Scoon

THE ARUSHA NATIONAL PARK, NORTHERN TANZANIA: GEOTOURISM AND VOLCANOLOGY OF MOUNT MERU...... 43 Roger Scoon

THE DANAKIL DEPRESSION: AN EXCEPTIONAL PLACE WHERE DIFFERENT TYPES OF EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS COEXIST...... 45 Asfawossen Asrat Kassaye

THE RICHTERSVELD: AN ANCIENT DESERT MOUNTAINLAND ...... 46 David Reid

GEOHERITAGE AND GEOTOURISM POTENTIAL OF THE BAGINDA HILL, BELITUNG ISLAND, INDONESIA...... 48 Putra Herianto

GEOTOURISM-AN AREA THAT NEED SPECIAL ATTENTION IN TANZANIA...... 49 Emma Msaky

JAISALMER BASIN IN THAR DESERT - POTENTIAL FOR DEVELOPING GEOPARK IN RAJASTHAN, WEST INDIA...... 51 Sudesh Wadhawan

RAO JODHA DESERT ROCK PARK, MEHRANGARH FORT, JODHPUR, INDIA: A POSSIBLE POTENTIAL GEOHARITAGE SITE FOR GEOPARK...... 53 Suresh Mathur

US GEOHERITAGE AND GEOLITERACY : SUSTAINABLE FOSSIL PARKS AND PUBLIC GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION...... N/A Renee Clary

YOGYAKARTA AND ITS SURROUNDING AS GEOTOURISM DESTINATION : ALTERNATIVE MEDIA TO TRANSFER SCIENCES AND GEOLOGICAL INFORMATION TO THE SOCIETY ...... 54 Conradus Danisworo

1ST-PERSON SHORT STORIES FROM MITOCHONDRIAL EVE TO MANDELA—ALONG THE HOMO SAPIENS CORRIDOR...... 55 John Malcolm Anderson

DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE PALAEOTOURISM IN SOUTH AFRICA. THE KITCHING FOSSIL EXPLORATION CENTRE, IN THE EASTERN CAPE AS A CASE STUDY...... 56 Ian McKay

GEOLOGY AS A COMPONENT OF VINEYARD TERROIR IN THE WESTERN CAPE PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA...... 57 Christopher Bargmann

HOMO SAPIENS CORRIDOR—CRADLE OF OUR SPECIES & EMERGENCE OF OUR CULTURE...... 59 John Malcolm Anderson

GEOBOTANY OF THE KOEDOESFONTEIN COMPLEX IN THE VREDEFORT DOME, SOUTH AFRICA...... 60 Ricart Boneschans

GEODIVERSITY UNDERPINS BIODIVERSITY – EXAMPLES FROM ...... 61 Vic Semeniuk

GEODIVERSITY VS BIODIVERSITY IN PROTECTED AREAS OF LITHUANIA: EXAMPLES, PROTECTION MEASURES AND PROBLEMS ...... 63 Grazina Skridlaite

GEOLOGICAL RELICS AND GEOPARK IN ANHUI PROVINCE, CHINA ...... 65 Weiping Wu

GLOBAL GEOSITES: AN ACTIVE, PARTIALLY-ACHIEVED GEOHERITAGE INVENTORY INITIATIVE WAITING TO REGAIN OFFICIAL RECOGNITION ...... N/A Enrique Díaz-Martínez

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: 20 YEARS OF PROMOTION OF EARTH SCIENCES THROUGH GEOPARKS AND WORLD HERITAGE SITES...... N/A Wolfgang Eder

FROM NATURAL TO CULTURAL HERITAGE – CONSERVING MOVEABLE GEOLOGICAL HERITAGE...... N/A Kevin Page

GEOLOGICAL FEATURES OF GLOBAL GEOPARKS IN CHINA ...... 66 Yuanyuan Zheng

GEOLOGY IN CITIES ...... 68 Patrick De Wever

GEOPARKS IN THE NEPAL HIMALAYA ...... 70 Ranjan Kumar Dahal

GLOBAL GEOPARKS NETWORK: A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP ON GEO-CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ...... 72 Nikolaos Zouros

LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENT FOR PENGHU GEOPARK, TAIWAN...... 73 J. C. Lin

THE WORLD’S FIRST PLATINUM UNDERGROUND MINE IN THE LIMPOPO PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA...... N/A Marian Tredoux

UNECSO GLOBAL GEOPARKS...... 74 Patrick Mc Keever

CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES FOR GEOCONSERVATION OF GEOSITES IN MADAGASCAR ...... 75 Lala Andrianaivo

GEOCONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT THROUGH GEOTOURISM FOR THE KANCHANABURI REGION, THAILAND ...... 76 Dhiti Tulyatid

MANAGING GEODIVERSITY FOR BIODIVERSITY – AND VICE VERSA - STRATEGIC APPROACHES FROM THE UK ...... 78 Kevin Page

STATE OF KNOWLEDGE OF YOUNG MALAGASY PEOPLE ON THE MADAGASCAR GEOHERITAGE...... 80 Hasina Nirina Randrianaly

THE CHALLENGE OF PROTECTING SOUTH AFRICA’S GEOHERITAGE – THE BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT (BGB) ...... 81 A. Ferrar

THE JOHANNESBURG GEOLOGICAL MUSEUM: AN UNDERAPPRECIATED NATIONAL GEOHERITAGE ASSET...... N/A Proffessor Bruce Cairncross

AN ACADEMIC HERITAGE FOR GEOSCIENTISTS: EXAMPLE OF KACHCHH RIFT BASIN: WESTERN INDIA...... 82 Gaurav Chauhan

UNESCO CULTURAL HERITAGE VS. NATURAL HAZARDS AT EUROPEAN SCALE. THE PROTHEGO PROJECT...... N/A Daniele Spizzichino

GEOLOGICAL HERITAGE IN THE IRON GATES PARK: STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY, PETROLOGY AND MINERALOGY ASPECTS...... 83 Maria Angela Anason

MANAGEMENT PROCEDURE FOR PALAEONTOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS OF THE MUSEUM OF GEOCIENCES, BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL: POLICIES, HOUSING PREPARATION AND KEEPING...... 85 Matheus Denezine

MICROCLIMATIC AND BIOLOGICAL MONITORING OF CAVES AS GEOHERITAGE SITES ...... 87 Silviu Constantin

SOMOTO GRAND CANYON (NICARAGUA) A VOLCANIC GEOHERITAGE ONE DECADE AFTER THE DISCOVERY ...... 88 Vladimir Zacek

THE GEOHERITAGE OF CORSICA: A FIRST STEP TOWARDS A REGIONAL PRESERVATION PROGRAM ...... N/A Frederic Huneau

THE GEOLOGICAL HERITAGE IN TIANZHUSHAN GLOBAL GEOPARK, ANHUI, CHINA...... 90 Weiping Wu

UNESCO CHAIR “GEOPARKS, REGIONAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND HEALTHY LIFESTYLES”: AN INNOVATIVE TOOL FOR CAPACITY BUILDING IN GEOPARKS...... 92 Artur Sá

AN EMPIRE OF WATER, ISLANDS OF FIRE: PERSPECTIVES ON 18TH-CENTURY GEOLOGY...... 94 Kenneth Taylor

CAMBRIAN SYSTEM IN SIBERIA – DISCOVERY "AT A DESK"...... 95 Leonid Kolbantsev

CONTRIBUTION OF IGNACY DOMEYKO (1802 – 1889) FOR GEOLOGY OF POLAND, LITHUANIA AND CHILE ...... 97 Marek Graniczny

DEVELOPMENT OF GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL CARTOGRAPHY IN POLAND (XVIII – XXI CENT.)...... 99 Piotr Krzywiec

DR WOODWARD'S CABINET OF DANGEROUS DREAMS: GEOLOGY IN THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT...... 101 Kenneth McNamara

CLAIMS ON THE PAST: CAVE EXCAVATIONS BY THE SS RESEARCH AND TEACHING COMMUNITY “AHNENERBE” (1935–1945)...... 102 Johannes Mattes

DISCUSSIONS AND THEIR ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES...... 104 Gennadiy Trifonov

THE NAUMANN ELEPHANT ...... 105 Michiko Yajima

VIKTOR MORITZ GOLDSCHMIDT (1888–1947) AND VLADIMIR IVANOVICH VERNADSKY (1863–1945): THE FATHER AND GRANDFATHER OF GEOCHEMISTRY? ...... 106 Axel Muller

WHEN I WAS HUNTING DINOSAURS IN AFRICA (1965-2015) ...... 108 Philippe Taquet

DISCOVERY OF KOMATIITE ...... 109 Richard Pieter Viljoen

HISTORY OF THE GEOLOGY OF MALAWI ...... 110 Tamara Kamanga

HOW CLOSING THE SPERRGEBIET AFFECTED GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH: A BRIEF HISTORY...... 111 Martin Pickford

JOHN HERSCHEL'S LANDSCAPES AND GEOLOGY: THE CAPE COLONY IN THE 1830S...... 112 Gregory Good

RESOURCES OF GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION IN AFRICA (ORAL PRESENTATION)...... 113 Debbie Lievaart

THE HISTORY OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ...... 114 Gabriele Schneider

THREE PIONEERING GEOLOGISTS OF THE BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA: HALL, MERENSKY, AND WAGNER...... 116 Roger Scoon

A HISTORY OF HYDROGEOLOGY IN AUSTRALIA FROM PRE-EUROPEAN TO THE 21ST CENTURY ...... 118 Charles Lawrence

EARLY THEORIES AND PRACTICALITIES ON GOLD OCCURRENCE IN AUSTRALIA ...... 120 Kenneth McQueen

OUTLINE OF THE MINING HISTORY IN THE POLISH LANDS...... 122 Stanislaw Wolkowicz

THE HISTORY OF DIAMOND MINING IN NAMIBIA...... 124 Gabriele Schneider

THE OKIEP COPPER MINES – THE MOST HISTORIC MINING DISTRICT IN SOUTH AFRICA ...... 126 Bruce Cairncross

INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE OF EXPLORATION GEOLOGY: A MALAWIAN PERSPECTIVE ...... 128 Tamara Kamanga

INDIGENOUS UNDERSTANDING OF GEOLOGY: THE AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE ...... 129 Barry J. Cooper

SEARCHING FOR OUR ANCESTORS: A TIME RIPE FOR FORGERIES...... 131 Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta

THE ROLE OF SOUTHERN AFRICA IN UNDERSTANDING HUMAN ORIGINS...... 133 Brigitte Senut

UTILISATION OF GEOLOGY AND GEOMORPHOLOGY BY EARLY HOMINIDS AND THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF SOUTHERN AFRICA ...... 135 Richard Viljoen

AN UNEXPECTED TREASURE – THE PERSONAL AND HANDWRITTEN NOTES OF THE AUSTRIAN MINERALOGIST AND PETROGRAPH FRIEDRICH (JOHANN KARL) BECKE (1855-1931)...... 136 Margret Hamilton

MEASURING THE SPECIFIC WEIGHT OF MINERALS IN ARAB-ISLAMIC SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE...... 138 Khallaf El Ghalbi

GOETHE, GEOLOGY AND POLEMICS ON A NEW SCIENCE ...... 140 Ernie Hamm

ARAB-ISLAMIC SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, AN EARLY EPISODE IN THE HISTORY OF VOLCANOLOGY...... 141 Khallaf El Ghalbi

PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE STATUS OF THE NATIONAL GEOLOGICAL ARCHIVES IN POLAND ...... 143 Katarzyna Jarmolowicz-Szulc

A HISTORY OF EARLY ANTARCTIC FOSSIL DISCOVERIES IN SUPPORT OF THE ...... 145 Renee Clary

ANCIENT TERMS AND NEW CONCEPTS: "THE FACE OF THE EARTH" AND "GONDWANA-LAND" ...... 147 Marianne Klemun

BEFORE PLATE TECTONICS: THE LONG EXCHANGE BETWEEN PHYSICS AND GEOLOGY FROM 1600 TO THE 20TH CENTURY ...... 149 Gregory Good

EARLY CORRELATIONS BETWEEN THE CAPE BELT AND VENTANIA SYSTEMS: KEIDEL’S PIONEER WORK AND HIS INFLUENCE ON WEGENER’S CONTINENTAL DRIFT AND DU TOIT’S IDEAS...... 150 Victor A. Ramos

PIONEERING GEOLOGIC MAPPING IN NORTHWESTERN SOUTH AMERICA ...... 151 Ken Aalto

THE RECEPTION OF “OUR WANDERING CONTINENTS” (1937), FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE OF ITS AUTHOR, SOUTH AFRICA GEOLOGIST A.L. DU TOIT ...... 152 Sharad Master

MATERIALS ON SOUTH AFRICA GEOLOGY IN THE ACADEMICIAN TH.N. TSCHERNYSCHEW CENTRAL RESEARCH GEOLOGICAL PROSPECTING MUSEUM, ST.PETERSBURG, RUSSIA ...... 154 Leonid Kolbantsev

THE ITALIAN GEOLOGICAL EXPEDITIONS TO TRIPOLITANIA AND CYRENAIC REGIONS ( N- AFRICA) BETWEEN 1911 AND 1914...... 156 Fabio Massimo Petti

VERIFYING THE SILURIAN: MURCHISON'S 1845 FIELD CAMPAIGN IN SWEDEN...... 158 John Diemer

HEALTH IMPACTS OF THE PILANESBERG COMPLEX AND THE RUSTENBURG LAYERED SUITE ON COMMUNITIES IN THE MABESKRAAL-MABAALSTAD AREAS IN THE NORTH WEST PROVINCE ...... 160 Refilwe Shelembe

TOXIC ELEMENTS IN VEGETABLES FROM GOLD MINING SITES IN ZIMBABWE: IMPLICATIONS FOR HUMAN HEALTH...... 162 Daina Mudimbu

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION WITH ORGANOARSENIC COMPOUNDS (DPAA) AND SUSTAINABLE NON-POLLUTED GROUNDWATER UTILIZATION FOR THE IRRIGATION IN THE PADDY FIELDS ...... 163 Hisashi Nirei

MAPPING THE GEOCHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT OF URBAN AREAS ...... 165 Alecos Demetriades

MEDICAL GEOLOGY ON A DYNAMIC PLANET: PROSPERITY, POISONS AND PROVIDENCE...... N/A Kim Dowling

METAL ACCUMULATION IN AUSTRALIAN FUNGI: UPTAKE, TOXICITY AND RISK...... 167 Kim Dowling

AFRICA: A NATURAL LABORATORY FOR MEDICAL GEOLOGY INVESTIGATIONS ...... 168 Hassina Mouri

ELONGATED MINERAL PARTICLES IN IRON AND GOLD MINES? AN EXPLORATORY STUDY FROM QUEBEC, CANADA...... 169 Felix Gervais

IDENTIFICATION OF THE GEOGENIC SOURCE OF FLUORIDE IN THE GROUNDWATER OF CHITTUR- KOLLANGOD AREA, PALAKKAD DISTRICT, KERALA, INDIA...... 170 R Sajeev

METAL TRANSFER RATIOS FROM SOIL TO PLANTS AND THE RISK THEY POSE TO HUMAN AND LIVESTOCK: AN EXAMPLE OF THE BERG AUKAS AND TSUMEB MINING DISTRICTS, NAMIBIA...... 172 Benjamin Mapani

RISK ANALYSIS OF SOUTH AFRICAN MINE TAILINGS: INVESTIGATING THE TRANSFER FACTOR FROM SOURCE TO RECEPTOR...... 173 Jandre De Wet

CLAY MINERALS AND CLAYEY SOILS AS POSSIBLE MICROORGANISMS REPOSITORY ...... 174 Uchenna Okereafor

CLAYEY SOIL GEOPHAGIA AND POSSIBLE MITIGATION PROCESSING FOR SAFE CONSUMPTION ...... 175 Adeline Megne

INVESTIGATING GEOGENIC LEAD CONTAMINATION AND ITS EFFECTS ON HEALTH IN KILIFI AREA, KENYA ...... 177 Christa Koki

RADIOLOGICAL IMPLICATION DUE TO HEAVY MINERALS IN SURFACE SOIL FROM DITRAU MASSIF –EASTERN CARPATHIANS, ROMANIA ...... 178 Delia Dumitras

STRATEGIES FOR A SUSTAINABLE HEALTHIER WORKFORCE IN COAL ABRASIVENESS INDEX DETERMINATION UNIT OPERATION ...... 179 Antoine F Mulaba-Bafubiandi

AN OVERVIEW ON GEOTHICAL PERSPECTIVES IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO...... 180 Jean-Robert Mweze

ETHICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR APPLIED EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ...... 182 Martin Bohle

GEOETHICS: A NEW WAY OF THINKING AND MANAGING THE EARTH...... 184 Silvia Peppoloni

TOWARDS INCREASED ENGAGEMENT OF GEOSCIENTISTS IN GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORKS ...... 186 Joel Gill

UNCONVENTIONAL PROPOSALS FOR PREVENTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL/SOCIAL RISKS ...... 188 Francesca Lugeri

A REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL DISCIPLINARY MEASURES IN PROFESSIONAL GEOSCIENCE - BOTH PROCEDURES AND ACTIONS...... 190 Oliver Bonham

GEOETHICS EXPERIENCES OF A MINERALS EXPLORATIONIST AT HOME AND ABROAD...... 192 Robert Stewart

IDENTIFYING ETHICAL PRINCIPLES THAT APPLY TO ALL GEOSCIENTISTS: AGI GUIDELINES FOR ETHICAL PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT...... 193 Maeve Boland

THE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF GEOSCIENTISTS PROVIDING EXPERTISE IN CIVIL AND CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS – A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE REQUIREMENTS AND AVOIDING PITFALLS...... 195 Ruth Allington

TRENDS IN GEOSCIENCE PROFESSIONAL ETHICS INDICATED BY NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE BOARDS OF GEOLOGY (ASBOG®) SURVEYS OF THE PRACTICING PROFESSION ...... 197 John Williams

DISCUSSION TOPIC 1: DIVERSITY ADDS VALUE - BEYOND JUST GENDER DIVERSITY (PANEL DISCUSSION) ...... N/A Lindsay Steele

DISCUSSION TOPIC 2: HARASSMENT, BULLYING AND EXCLUSION (ALL TYPES - ALL UNACCEPABLE) (PANEL DISCUSSION) ...... N/A Christine McEntee

DISCUSSION TOPIC 3: GETTING THE BALANCE RIGHT - FIELD ASSIGNMENT LEAVES OF ABSENCE, WORK-LIFE BALANCE, CAREER RETENTION (PANEL DISCUSSION) ...... N/A Marie Fleming

DISCUSSION TOPIC 4: ROLE MODELS, LEADERS AND MENTORS - THEY ALL COUNT (PANEL DISCUSSION) ...... N/A Marie Fleming

DISCUSSION TOPIC 5: DISABILITIES AND CHALLENGES - OUR DUTY TO ACCOMMODATE (PANEL DISCUSSION) ...... N/A Edmund Nickless

DISCUSSION TOPIC 1: TBC (DRAWN FROM EARLIER GEOETHICS AND PROFESSIONALISM SESSIONS OF THE CONFERENCE) (PANEL DISCUSSION) ...... N/A Ruth Allington

DISCUSSION TOPIC 2: TBC (DRAWN FROM EARLIER GEOETHICS AND PROFESSIONALISM SESSIONS OF THE CONFERENCE) (PANEL DISCUSSION) ...... N/A Ruth Allington

DISCUSSION TOPIC 3: TBC (DRAWN FROM EARLIER GEOETHICS AND PROFESSIONALISM SESSIONS OF THE CONFERENCE) (PANEL DISCUSSION) ...... N/A Ruth Allington

DISCUSSION TOPIC 4: TBC (DRAWN FROM EARLIER GEOETHICS AND PROFESSIONALISM SESSIONS OF THE CONFERENCE) (PANEL DISCUSSION) ...... N/A Ruth Allington

DISCUSSION TOPIC 5: TBC (DRAWN FROM EARLIER GEOETHICS AND PROFESSIONALISM SESSIONS OF THE CONFERENCE) (PANEL DISCUSSION) ...... N/A Ruth Allington

DILEMMAS IN PROMOTING GROWTH IN THE GEOSCIENCE DISCIPLINE...... 199 Christopher Keane

GEOETHICS AND THE GLOBAL GEOPARKS OF UNESCO: THE NECESSARY LINK FOR THE ASSERTION OF GEOPARKS WORLDWIDE...... 200 Artur Sá

MOVING AFRICA FORWARD : THE AFRICAN WOMEN GEOSCIENTISTS...... 201 Ezzoura Errami

SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AT AGU – THE ROLE FOR A LARGE SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY IN ADDRESSING HARASSMENT AND WORK CLIMATE ISSUES...... 203 Christine McEntee

SOCRATES' ROCKS: HOW PROFESSIONAL ACCREDITATION MAY HELP PROMOTING GEO-ETHICS, AND WHY THE PIONEERING STAGE IS CHALLENGING...... 204 Michiel Van Der Meulen

A FRAMEWORK FOR SOCIETY-EARTH-CENTRIC NARRATIVE...... 205 Martin Bohle

ETHICAL DIMENSIONS OF TRANSDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES IN SEISMIC RISK COMMUNICATION ...... 207 I. S. Stewart

GEOETHICS: GOOD TEACHING, GOOD SCIENCE ...... 209 David Mogk

GEOLOGY FOR SOCIETY – ENGAGING GEOSCIENTISTS, POLICY-MAKERS AND THE PUBLIC IN MEETING OUR FUTURE RESOURCE NEEDS SUSTAINABLY...... 211 Nic Bilham

INCORPORATION OF GEOETHICS IN UNDERGRADUATE SCIENCE AND GEOSCIENCE CURRICULA: SOME EXAMPLES ...... 213 John Geissman

WHO SPEAKS FOR GEOSCIENCE? THE IRISH EXAMPLE OF NATIONAL & CROSS-BORDER ENGAGEMENT...... 215 Marie Fleming

GEO-ETHICS: WHAT TO DO WHEN APPROVAL AUTHORITY DECISIONS CONTRADICT SOUND SCIENCE? ...... 216 Mark Priddle

GEOETHIC ISSUES IN NORTH AFRICAN AND SOUTH AMERICAN PALEONTOLOGY ...... 218 Artur Sá

GEOETHICS IN HOLLYWOOD: IS THE HOLLYWOOD FAULT ACTIVE, OR IS THAT JUST ANOTHER ILLUSION WE HAVE CREATED? ...... 220 Eldon Gath

IMPACTS OF PORTS ALONG THE PILBARA COAST, WESTERN AUSTRALIA –A COASTLINE OF GLOBAL GEOHERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE THAT SERVICES A MINERAL-RICH HINTERLAND ...... 222 Margaret Brocx

SOIL: AN INDISPENSABLE COMPONENT OF NEPALESE CULTURE...... 224 Shree Prasad Vista

DISCUSSION TOPIC 1: LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF GEOETHICS (PANEL DISCUSSION)...... N/A Silvia Peppoloni

DISCUSSION TOPIC 2: TEACHING GEOETHICS: A GREAT CHALLANGE (PANEL DISCUSSION) ...... N/A David Mogk

DISCUSSION TOPIC 3: PROFESSIONALISM: HOW TO PRACTICE GEOSCIENCES IN AN ETHICAL WAY (PANEL DISCUSSION) ...... N/A Ruth Allington

DISCUSSION TOPIC 4: (GEO)ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN GEOSCIENCES: WHAT TO DO (PANEL DISCUSSION) ...... N/A Christopher Keane

DISCUSSION TOPIC 5: GEOETHICS FOR SOCIETY: IS IT POSSIBLE? (PANEL DISCUSSION) ...... N/A Nic Bilham

CANADIAN NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE EXAMINATION FOR GEOSCIENTISTS: ITS EVOLUTION AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS INCLUDING INTERNATIONAL APPLICABILITY ...... 225 Robert Stewart

CRITICAL COMPETENCIES FOR SUCCESSFUL NEW GEOSCIENTISTS AND APPROACHES FOR EQUIPPING THE NEXT GENERATION ...... 226 Christopher Keane

EURGEOL AS COMPETENT PERSON...... 227 Isabel Fernandez

IMPROVING COMPETENCY AND PROFESSIONALISM IN THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENTISTS...... 229 Wayne Spilsbury

PREPARING FUTURE GEOSCIENTISTS FOR PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION...... 230 Lindsay Steele

PROFESSIONALISM IN THE GEOSCIENCES AS PRACTICED IN SOUTH AFRICA...... 231 Edward Swindell

THE DEVELOPMENT OF CANADA’S COMPETENCY PROFILE FOR PROFESSIONAL GEOSCIENTISTS AT ENTRY TO PRACTICE...... 233 Oliver Bonham

GEOLOGY, THE REGULATED DISCIPLINE IN EUROPE - A HISTORICAL REVIEW AND A VISION ...... 235 Tamas Hamor

INNOVATION IN ESTABLISHING THE STANDARD OF CARE IN A SELF-REGULATED PROFESSION ...... 237 Lindsay Steele

PROFESSIONAL GEOSCIENTIST SELF-REGULATION IN SMALL JURISDICTIONS: LESSONS LEARNED BY GEOSCIENTISTS NOVA SCOTIA AND APPLICABILITY FOR INTERNATIONAL START- UPS...... 239 Robert Stewart

PROFESSIONALISM AND ETHICS IN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT IN CANADA: COOPERATION AMONG REGULATORS AND ACADEMIA—MISSED OPPORTUNITIES AND NEEDED CHANGES ...... 240 George Eynon

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMMITTEE FOR MINERAL RESERVES INTERNATIONAL REPORTING STANDARDS (CRIRSCO) AND THE INTERNATIONAL REPORTING TEMPLATE...... 242 Roger Dixon

THE FUTURE OF PROFESSIONAL REGULATION: BUSINESS AS USUAL OR A GROWING PROACTIVE ROLE? EXAMPLES FROM THE ORDRE DES GÉOLOGUES DU QUÉBEC...... 244 Alain Liard

THE INTERNATIONAL MINERAL REPORTING CODES – THE IMPORTANCE OF THE COMPETENT PERSON ...... 246 Ken Lomberg

DELIVERING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS: THE NEED FOR A NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT FOR MINING...... 247 Edmund Nickless

EXTERNALITIES OF FOSSIL FUEL COMBUSTION: AN ETHICAL REASSESSMENT OF LIABILITY ...... 248 George Stone

FINLAND’S GREEN MINING CONCEPT AIMS TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE AND ACCEPTABLE MINING ...... 249 Pekka Nurmi

NEED FOR A EUROPEAN GEOLOGICAL SERVICE RESPONDING TO SOCIETAL CHALLENGES ON ENERGY, MINERAL AND GROUNDWATER RESOURCES...... 251 Serge Van Gessel

DEEP SEABED MINING, GEO-ETHICS AND PACIFIC SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES...... 253 Jane Verbitsky

GEO-MAPPING FOR ENERGY AND MINERALS: A “FOR NORTHERNERS, BY NORTHERNERS” APPROACH TO INDIGENOUS ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES ...... 254 Daniel Lebel

MANAGING GEO-ENVIRONMENT INFORMATION IN THE EXTRACTIVE SECTOR AND PERFORMANCE IN : SOME EMPIRICAL RESULTS FROM THE FIELD...... 256 Abbas Abdulrafiu

THE MISSING ETHICS OF MINING: THE CASE STUDY OF ODISHA, INDIA...... 258 Madhumita Das

THE NATURE AND ARTICULATION OF ETHICAL CODES ON TAILINGS MANAGEMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA...... 260 Tobius Poswa

CULTURE IMPACT ON THE TERM "GEOETHICS" IN EGYPT ...... 261 Abdel Kholoud

DEVELOPING AN ETHICAL FRAMEWORK FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES: THE EXPERIENCE IN THE ENVRIPLUS PROJECT...... 262 Silvia Peppoloni

GEOETHICAL PROBLEMS OF DEVELOPING MINERAL RESOURCES OF NATURAL CELESTIAL BODIES ...... 264 Nataliya Nikitina

GEOSCIENCES AND MULTIPLE FACETS OF GEOETHICS ...... 266 Devesh Walia

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTING GEOETHICS (IAPG): FROM BRISBANE TO BEYOND CAPE TOWN ...... 267 Giuseppe Di Capua

LEGAL, SOCIAL, SCIENTIFIC AND ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY OF GEOSCIENTISTS...... 269 Niichi Nishiwaki

PROMOTING GEOETHICS IN PERU: THE ACTIVITIES OF THE IAPG PERUVIAN SECTION ...... 271 Giuseppe Di Capua

THE IUGS TASK GROUP ON GLOBAL GEOSCIENCE PROFESSIONALISM – THE FORUM OF EXCHANGE ON PROFESSIONALISM AND ETHICS FOR ALL OF THE WORLD’S GEOSCIENCE COMMUNITIES...... 273 Oliver Bonham

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE COMMITTEE FOR MINERAL RESERVES INTERNATIONAL REPORTING STANDARDS (CRIRSCO) AND THE UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CLASSIFICATION (UNFC 2009) ...... 275 Roger Dixon

THE WOMAN IN THE ARTISANAL MINE: FROM CRUSHER CRAFT TO MOTORIZED GRINDER. THE CASE OF MATILI-SHABUNDA MINING SITE, SOUTH KIVU, DR CONGO...... 277 Thierry Munga

THE YOUNG SCIENTIST CLUB OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTING GEOETHICS – PROMOTING GEOETHICS AMONG THE YOUNG GEOSCIENTISTS COMMUNITY...... 279 Ndivhuwo Cecilia Mukosi

DERIVATION OF INFLUENCING NATURAL AND ANTHROPOGENIC FACTORS ON GROUNDWATER LEVEL FLUCTUATION USING REGRESSION AND PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS...... 280 Bhagyashri Maggirwar

SUSTAINABLE GROUNDWATER DEVELOPMENT THROUGH INTEGRATED WATERSHED MANAGEMENT FOR FOOD SECURITY: A CASE STUDY FROM INDIA...... 281 Madhumita Das

WATERSHED PRIORITIZATION OF UPPER MULA-MUTHA CATCHMENT, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA USING RS-GIS TECHNIQUES ...... 282 Bhavana Umrikar

COMPOSITIONAL FEATURES, AND RELATIVE PROSPECTIVITY ASSESSMENT OF RARE METAL (TA- NB-SN) OF SOUTHWESTERN NIGERIA...... 283 Olugbenga Okunlola

MARKET DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT OF MINERAL BASED SMME’S IN THE NORTHERN CAPE PROVINCE...... 284 Agnes Modiga

MINING AND BENEFICIATION POTENTIAL OF THE SEMI-PRECIOUS GEMSTONE RESOURCES IN THE NORTHERN CAPE PROVINCE OF SOUTH AFRICA ...... 285 Sonwabile Rasmeni

BOON OR BANE? MINING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A CASE HISTORY OF ODISHA, INDIA ...... 287 Madhumita Das

FROM GEOHERITAGE TO GEOPARKS: A TOOL TO IMPROVE HUMAN AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA ...... 288 Ezzoura Errami

LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY MODELLING PROCESS – A GENERIC METHODOLOGY APPLIABLE AT THE MUNICIPAL SCALE...... 290 Marko Komac

EXPLODING POPULATION – A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON NATURAL ENVIRONMENT...... 291 Afia Akhtar

FLUID INCLUSION STUDY OF JINCHANG GOLD DEPOSIT AND ITS CONSTRAINT ON GENESIS, WESTERN HAINAN ISLAND, SOUTH CHINA...... 293 Yuheng Liu

GEOSCIENCES CONSCIOUSNESS IN MAKING GEO-HERITAGE AND GEO-PARK: A GEO-TOURISM MORE ATTRACTIVE...... 295 Afia Akhtar

GOLD DEPOSITS IN GOLD-BEARING CONGLOMERATES OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL TAJIKISTAN...... 297 Shakhloi Mukhammadzoda

LACK OF FUNDING AND EXPERTISE: TWO MAJOR OBSTACLES FOR MINING IN LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES ...... 299 Afia Akhtar

WATERSHED DEVELOPMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE FOOD PRODUCTION AND IMPROVED RURAL HEALTH IN INDIA - THE ROLE OF “GROWNET” - UNESCO-IUGS-IGCP PROJECT NO. 523)...... 301 Shrikant Daji Limaye

A STRATIFORM (CU-ZN±PB) MASSIVE SULPHIDE AND GOLD DEPOSIT IN THE KWADEMEN BIRIMIAN SYSTEM (BURKINA FASO, WEST AFRICA)...... 303 Hermann Ilboudo

REAL OPTIONS TO VALUE A MINING PROJECT UNDER 2 UNCERTAINTIES A QUANTITATIVE MODEL FOR REVENUE SHARE AND MINING FISCALITY...... 304 Abdoul Aziz Ndiaye

THE SILVER-TIN REFORMATION TYPES FIELD CENTRAL OF TAJIKISTAN...... 305 A. Fayziev

THREE-DIMENSIONAL SPATIAL RELATIONS BETWEEN INTRUSIONS AND GOLD BEARING ORE DEPOSIT WITHIN THE INATA MINE PIT, NORTHERN BURKINA FASO (WEST AFRICA) ...... 307 Hermann Ilboudo

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING PROGRAMME – NORTHERN AND SOUTH MALAWI ...... 308 Simplicio Chivambo

GROUNDWATER BASIN MANAGEMENT BASED ON MONITORING SYSTEM -GROUNDWATER LEVEL AND LAND SUBSIDENCE, KANTO GROUNDWATER BASIN IN JAPAN ...... 309 Kunio Furuno

MODELING OF BASIC WATER QUALITY AND FATE OF ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS IN SWARNA RIVER BASIN, SOUTHWESTERN INDIA...... 310 H. N. Udaya Shankara

SUSTAINABLE OPTIONS TO MANAGE ACID MINE DRAINAGE IN THE GOLD FIELDS...... 311 Henk Coetzee

DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL RISK MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY MODEL USING CHEMISTRY, GEOLOGY, HUMAN ACTIVITY, AND RESPONSE INPUTS...... 313 Daniel Rogers

GERMANY`S NEW APPROACH FOR SITING A NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORY ...... 315 Volkmar Braeuer

GROUNDWATER BASELINE MONITORING AT UNDERGROUND COAL GASIFICATION SITES IN SOUTH AFRICA...... 317 Jennifer Pretorius

INNOVATIVE BURNING AND REUSE OF ASBESTOS FIBERS BY SELF-PROPAGATING HIGH TEMPERATURE SYNTHESIS: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUE FOR THE TREATMENT OF ASBESTOS CONTAINING WASTE FROM THE LABORATORY SCALE TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PROTOTYPE PLANTS ...... 318 Maurizio Ferretti

LIGHTING UP THE SUBSURFACE...... 320 John Ludden

RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH CONSUMPTION OF VEGETABLES GROWN IN AND AROUND ABANDONED GOLD MINES IN KADOMA, ZIMBABWE...... 322 Maideyi Meck

THE SAGA OF INDIAN MINES: ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL RELEVANCE ...... 323 Gurmeet Kaur

CAUSES AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTOF LANDSLIDE EVENT ON THE EL RODEO VALLEY – CATAMARCA -ARGENTINA ...... 324 Adriana Niz

DILLEMMAS AND PROBLEMS OF RAW MATERIALS STRATEGY IN POLAND...... 326 Barbara Radwanek-Bak

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF AGRICULTURE ACTIVITIES IN A CHAMBAL PROJECT COMMAND AREA OF MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA ...... 328 Laxmi Prasad Chourasia

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH WASTE MINIMIZATION: CASE STUDY OF A SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM AT A U.S. UNIVERSITY...... 329 Syed Hasan

EVALUATION OF FRESH GROUNDWATER RESOURCES FOR PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY IN EMERGENCIES (CASE STUDIES FROM LITHUANIA AND RUSSIA) ...... 330 Jonas Satkunas

INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT VIA LOCALIZED PARTICIPATORY VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT...... 332 Philipp Schmidt-Thomé

RELATION BETWEEN LANDFORM AND RADIOACTIVE GEOPOLLUTION ...... 334 Kazuya Kimura

GOVERNANCE, TOURISM AND WATER: THE COMPLEXITY OF MAINTAINING WATER QUALITY IN THE SAGARMATHA NATIONAL PARK, NEPAL...... 335 Kirsten Nicholson

LIQUEFACTION-FLUIDIZATION INDUCED LAND SUBSIDENCE: IMPACT OF THE 2011 TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE ON MAN-MADE STRATA AROUND TOKYO BAY AREA, JAPAN ...... 336 Atsushi Kagawa

RE-LIQUEFACTION-FLUIDIZATION IN MAN-MADE STRATA IN THE FORMER TONE RIVER BED, JAPAN, FOLLOWING THE 2011 TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE ...... 337 Kunio Furuno

STATE-OF-THE-ART IN THE MANAGEMENT OF GEOPOLLUTED (CONTAMINATED) SITES IN LITHUANIA ...... 338 Jonas Satkunas

TERMINOLOGY FOR BETTER DESCRIPTION OF MAN-MADE STRATA IN RELATION TO GEOPOLLUTION AND GEOLOGICAL HAZARDS IN JAPAN...... 340 Hisashi Nirei

TERMS- MAN-MADE STRATA, JINJI STRATA, JINJI UNCONFOIMITY AND JINJIN - ON ANTHROPOGENIC DEPOSITS AND GEOPOLLUTION AND GEOLOGICAL HAZARDS BY HUMAN ACTIVITY FOR THE FUTURE EARTH ...... 342 Hisashi Nirei

APPLICATION OF LEAD ISOTOPIC RATIOS AND MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS IN SOURCE APPORTIONMENT WITH A HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT OF HEAVY METALS IN THE STREET DUST OF KOLKATA, INDIA ...... 344 Avijit Das

HIGH POTENTIAL PART OF LIQUEFACTION-FLUIDIZATION IN MAN-MADE STRATA OF RECLAIMED LAND AROUND TOKYO BAY, CENTRAL JAPAN: BASED ON THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ON DAMAGED PART ON THE 2011 OFF THE PACIFIC COAST OF TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE...... 346 Osamu Kazaoka

THE JINAMI BY 2011 TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED REMOBILIZATION OF DIPHENYLARSINIC ACID POLLUTION AT A SITE IN KAMISU CITY, JAPAN ...... 348 Tomoyo Hiyama

A STUDY OF THE VULNERABILITY OF A SOUTH AFRICAN COASTAL PLAIN AQUIFER TO SEAWATER INTRUSION USING THE GALDIT INDEX METHOD...... 349 Molla Demlie

GROUND MOVEMENT AS A RESULT OF DEWATERING IN THE FAR WEST RAND AREA OF JOHANNESBURG RESULTING IN THE FORMATION OF SINKHOLES AND DOLINES...... 350 Kedibone Phogole

HEAVY METALS POLLUTION OF STREAMS AND RIVER SEDIMENTS IN PARTS OF AKPABUYO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, NIGERIA AND ITS IMPLICATION FOR AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION...... 351 Barth Ekwueme

OXYGEN DIFFUSION AND GEOCHEMICAL SPECIATION IN ABANDONED GOLD MINE TAILINGS DAMS OF THE WITWATERSRAND...... 352 Johan Fourie

THE BIOREMEDIATION OF THIOCYANATE FROM GOLD MINE TAILINGS...... 354 Mathew Watts

THE DISTRIBUTION OF SOME POTENTIALLY HARMFUL ELEMENTS (PHES) IN THE KRUGERSDORP GAME RESERVE, GAUTENG, SOUTH AFRICA: IMPLICATIONS FOR WILDLIFE HEALTH ...... 355 Michael Shapi

AN UNCONVENTIONAL RE-VEGETATION PLAN FOR REMEDIATION OF AN ORPHAN BASE METAL MINE IN ONTARIO...... 357 Mark Priddle

FLY ASH AS A BACKFILL MATERIAL-A GEOTECHNICAL INVESTIGATION...... 359 Viswanth Ravi Kumar Vadapalli

GEOCHEMISTRY, MOBILITY AND BIOAVAILABILITY OF CONTAMINANTS IN MINE TAILINGS OF NAMIBIA...... 360 Ondrej Sracek

POLICYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS (PAHS) IN SOILS, WATER SEDIMENTS AND POST- FLOTATION WASTES IN KITWE REGION (, )...... 362 Stanislaw Wolkowicz

THE IMPACT OF MINE DUMP POLLUTION ON VEGETATION IN THE TSUMEB AREA, CENTRAL NAMIBIA...... 364 Benjamin Mapani

THE OCCURRENCE OF AMMONIOSULPHATE MINERALS IN ABANDONED GOLD MINES OF THE VREDEFORT DOME WORLD HERITAGE SITE, SOUTH AFRICA...... 365 Danél Van Tonder

‘LOW-ACID’ SULFIDE OXIDATION USING NITRATE FOR POTENTIAL ACID DRAINAGE PREVENTION ...... 366 Nathan Reid

ARTISANAL AND SMALL-SCALE GOLD MINING AND RELATED MERCURY USAGE IN INDIA ...... 368 Mihir Deb

INTEGRATED FREEZE CORE – ITRAX MICRO-XRF SCANNING: A NON-DESTRUCTIVE AND COST EFFECTIVE METHOD OF BASELINE GEOCHEMICAL DETERMINATION IN THE LOW- SEDIMENTATION ENVIRONMENT OF A LEGACY MINING CAMP IN SUBARCTIC CANADA...... 370 R. Timothy Patterson

PHYTOMINING: INVESTIGATION ON THE GOLD HYPERACCUMULATION CAPACITY OF WHEAT USING POT TRIALS AND TAILINGS DUMP MATERIAL AS A SUBSTRATE ...... 372 Tshiamo Legoale

THE GEO-ECOLOGICAL REHABILITATION CAPABILITIES OF DOLOMITE ON A POLLUTION PLUME DERIVED FORM A GOLD TAILINGS STORAGE FACILITY - A MYTH OR REALITY?...... 374 Angelique Daniell

THE REUSE OF WASTE IN THE MINING INDUSTRY ...... 375 Clive Saunders

TRANSFORMATION OF NATURAL SEDIMENTATION AND GEOCHEMICAL CONDITIONS IN THE AREA OF UNDERWATER EXTRACTION OF FERROMANGANESE CONCRETIONS IN THE GULF OF FINLAND (BALTIC SEA)...... 377 Vladimir Zhamoida

ARMORING EFFECT OF IN ACID MINE DRAINAGE: STATIC IMMERSION EXPERIMENTS...... 379 Liangqi Lei

CHARACTERISATION OF PRECIPITATES FORMED IN ANAEROBIC AND AEROBIC UNITS DESIGNED TO TREAT ACID MINE DRAINAGE FROM AN ABANDONED COAL MINE IN CAROLINA, MPUMALANGA (SOUTH AFRICA) ...... 381 Obed Novhe

PRELIMINARY SCREENING OF GOLD MINE TAILINGS IN THE CONTEXT OF ACID MINE DRAINAGE AND GEOPOLYMERIZATION...... 383 Leahn Pieterse

THE ROLE OF STRUCTURAL FREQUENCY, STYLE AND WEATHERING ON THE FATE AND TRANSPORT OF CHLORINATED SOLVENTS IN FRACTURED BEDROCK ...... 385 Kevin Leahy

A GEO-STATISTICAL APPROACH TO ESTIMATE SEDIMENT BUDGET AND RECONSTRUCT LARGE- SCALE PALEO-COASTAL MORPHOLOGY...... 387 Junjie Deng

ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND GEOLOGICAL MARKERS REVEAL THE TIME SPAN AND FORMATION RATES OF THE CENTRAL COASTAL CLIFFS OF ISRAEL ...... 388 Ehud Galili

ASSESSMENT OF FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE GROWTH AND LOSS OF WETLANDS IN LOUISIANA, USA ...... 390 Ricardo Olea

COASTAL CHANGE AS A FUNCTION OF GEOLOGICAL SETTINGS, NATURAL FORCINGS AND ANTHROPOGENIC DRIVERS – COMPARATIVE MODELING APPROACHES FOR MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES...... 392 Jan Harff

SEDIMENTS FROM THE ABANDONED RIVER VALLEY RECORD LOW SEA LEVEL IN PÄRNU REGION, EASTERN BALTIC SEA, BEFORE THE LITORINA TRANSGRESSION...... 394 Triine Post

THE COST OF ADAPTING TO SEA LEVEL RISE: PORTS, HARBOURS AND MARINAS IN THE SOUTHEASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA...... 395 Dov Zviely

3D MORPHOMETRY VIS-À-VIS OFSHORE PLACER RESOURCES OFF CHIKKA – PURI, ODISHA, EAST COAST OF INDIA...... 397 Sumit Mitra

A SIGNAL MATCHING ALGORITHM BASED ON DYNAMIC TIME WARPING...... 399 Sergey Kotov

ADSORPTION OF PHARMACEUTICALS ONTO CLAY MINERALS AND THEIR ORGANOCLAY DERIVATIES ...... 400 Regis Guegan

GEO-ENVIRONMENT CHANGES CORRESPONDING TO GLOBAL CLIMATE AND ANTHROPOGENIC INJECTION IN SMALL RIVER ESTUARIES ON CHINA COAST...... 401 Ping Yin

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INTEGRATED PROTOCOLS FOR MONITORING THE IMPACTS OF LANDFILL-DERIVED LEACHATES IN INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENTS...... 403 Helen Roe

ACCUMULATION OF POTENTIALLY HARMFUL ELEMENTS IN VEGETABLES FROM TWO GEOLOGICAL SETTINGS IN ZIMBABWE...... 405 Maideyi Meck

PHYSICAL AND MINERALOGICAL CHARACTERISATION OF ASBESTOS MINE SITES IN PREPARATION FOR REHABILITATION ...... 406 Ndamulelo Negota

RADIOACTIVE MEASUREMENT AT THE FALLOW FIELD THAT WAS POLLUTED BY THE FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI NUCLEAR POWER STATION DISASTER...... 408 Kazuya Kimura

SCIENTIFIC ADVANCEMENTS THAT IMPROVE THE CONCEPTUAL SITE MODEL IN URBAN HYDOGEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS...... 409 Daniel Rogers

SPATIAL ASSESSMENT OF TRACE METALS IN GROUNDWATER AROUND UDUPI THERMAL PLANT, INDIA...... 410 H. N. Udaya Shankara

STUDY ON THE CONCENTRATION AND INFLUENCE FACTOR OF ORGANO-CHLORINE PESTICIDES IN BREAST MILK FROM THREE CITIES IN CHINA ...... 412 Shuling Song

FLUORIDE INCIDENCE IN GROUNDWATER: AN INSIGHT FROM RURAL PARTS OF CENTRAL INDIA ...... 414 Deepak Malpe

GIS-TECHNIQUES AND AHP METHOD TO SUPPORT DECISION MAKING IN THE SELECTION OF LANDFILL SITES FOR SOLID WASTE ...... 416 Marcella Perricone

INVESTIGATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF HEAVY METALS ON SOIL, GROUNDWATER, CROPS AND HUMAN HEALTH IN SHIJIAZHUANG SEWAGE IRRIGATION AREA OF CHINA ...... 418 Wenlou Luan

THE STUDY OF GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION HAZARD IN MEGACITIES BY MATHEMATICAL METHODS (THE CASES OF MOSCOW, RUSSIA AND HYDERABAD, INDIA) ...... 420 Irina Galitskaya

THE TOXICITY IN GROUNDWATER IN SOUTHERN PUNJAB (MALWA REGION), INDIA ...... 421 Rajesh Chaturvedi

A MULTI-FACETED APPROACH TO MINE WATER SOURCE DETERMINATION IN SOUTH AFRICA. A REVIEW...... 423 Yazeed Van Wyk

CHARACTERIZATION OF SURFACE AND TRAPPED DUST SAMPLES AROUND SOME OWNERLESS AND ABANDONED ASBESTOS MINE DUMPS IN LIMPOPO PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 424 Maphuti Georgina Kwata

CLASSIFICATION AND ASSESSMENT OF ABANDONED MINING WASTE FACILITIES OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC...... 425 Vít Štrupl

COPPER AND LEAD ISOTOPIC AND METALLIC POLLUTION RECORD IN SOILS FROM THE KOMBAT MINING AREA, NAMIBIA...... 426 Martin Mihaljevic

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING OF MINES IN NAMIBIA BY THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NAMIBIA, DIVISION OF ENGINEERING AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY...... 427 Moses Alfeus

ENVIRONMENTAL STABILITY OF THE PROCESSING WASTE FROM SULFIDE MINING DISTRICTS OF NAMIBIA...... 429 Ales Vanek

GEOCHEMICAL ASSESSMENT OF SOIL, SEDIMENTS AND WATER WITHIN AND AROUND ARTISANAL MINE SITES IN SOUTHWESTERN NIGERIA...... 430 Mary Odukoya

HYDROGEOCHEMICAL ASSESSMENT OF GROUNDWATER QUALITY IN THE SOUTPANSBERG BASIN AROUND TSHIKONDENI, LIMPOPO PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA...... 431 Ntokozo Malaza

INVESTIGATION OF URANIUM MIGRATION ON GOLD TAILINGS DAMS USING NATURAL GAMMA SPECTROMETRY ...... 432 Jaco Koch

LABORATORY SCALE TESTING OF THE PASSIVE SYSTEMS TO TREAT AMD FROM ABANDONED COAL MINES, WITBANK, MPUMALANGA PROVINCE ...... 433 Mpule Gloria Dube

MINERALOGY AND WEATHERING OF PARTICULATES FROM MINES AND SMELTERS IN SOILS FROM HUMID SUBTROPICAL AND SEMIARID AREAS ...... 434 Vojtech Ettler

THE FACTORS CONTROLLING FORMATION AND INTENSITY OF ACID MINE DRAINAGE IN THE AREA OF POLISH PART OF MUSKAU ARCH...... 436 Krzysztof Labus

THE HEAVY MINERALS IN THE KAFUE RIVER SEDIMENTS, THE COPPERBELT MINING DISTRICT, ZAMBIA: INDICATORS OF INDUSTRIAL CONTAMINATION ...... 437 Bohdan Kribek

THE MONITORING OF LAND SUBSIDENCE AND GROUNDWATER LEVEL IN THE SOUTHEAST KANTO GROUNDWATER BASIN, JAPAN...... 439 Atsushi Kagawa

THE USE OF SOFTWARE FOR VALUATION OF THE GLACIAL AND PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE CHASCHUIL VALLEY, FIAMBALÁ, ARGENTINA, USING SATELLITES IMAGES ...... 440 Marcelo Ernesto Savio

U AND TH SOURCE TERM CHARACTERISATION IN SELECTED GOLD TAILINGS OF THE WITWATERSRAND (SOUTH AFRICA): A GEOCHEMICAL MODELLING AND REACTION NETWORK APPROACH...... 441 Robert Hansen

BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODELLING OF ARSENIC IN SOIL-WATER-PLANT SYSTEMS IN THAILAND...... 442 Thanan Watcharamai

DIATOMS AS A PROXY IN RECONSTRUCTING LATE ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES IN SE BALTIC SEA - A CASE STUDY OF THE GULF OF GDANSK SEDIMENTS ...... 443 Malgorzata Witak

EFFECTS OF ANTHROPIC DEVELOPMENT IN A URBAN BEACH OF SOUTH SARDINIA (ITALY, WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN) EVALUATED USING HYDRODYNAMIC MODELS, RUN-UP AND DSAS INDICES...... 445 Sandro De Muro

ENGINEERING GEOLOGICAL ZONING OF THE CENTRAL FEDERAL REGION, RUSSIAN FEDERATION, BY THE SUITABILITY FOR ALLOCATION OF DISPOSAL SITES AND UTILIZATION FACILITIES FOR SOLID MUNICIPAL WASTE...... 447 Irina Kozlyakova

EROSION AND DEPOSITION IN THE ALLUVIAL PLAIN OF THE MOGI GUAÇU RIVER, BRAZIL ...... 448 Sueli Pereira

GEOCHEMICAL BASELINES AND METAL DEPORTMENT IN THE UPPER OLIFANTS PRIMARY CATCHMENT BY USING STREAM SEDIMENT GEOCHEMISTRY, WITBANK COALFIELD, SOUTH AFRICA...... 450 Robert Netshitungulwana

MICROBIOLOGICAL PROXIES AND GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT: A STUDY FROM GOMATI RIVER, LUCKNOW, UTTAR PRADESH, CENTRAL GANGA PLAIN (CGP), INDIA...... 452 Ajay Kumar Arya

OXIDATION-REDUCTION CONDITION OF AQUIFER AT GEO-POLLUTION SITE AND CHANGE OF VOCS CONCENTRATION ON SHIMOUSA UPLAND, NORTHERN BOSO PENINSULA, CENTRAL JAPAN...... 453 Osamu Kazaoka

PELOIDS OF PRESENT-DAY SALT LAKES: GEOLOGICAL AND MAN-CAUSED CONTROLS ON THEIR COMPOSITION...... 454 Sergey Kotov

POLLUTION CHARACTERISTICS OF NITROGEN AND ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS OF SHALLOW GROUNDWATER IN THE SEWAGE IRRIGATION AREAS OF KUIHE RIVER, CHINA...... 455 Jinguo Wang

POSSIBLE ENVIRONMENTAL CAUSES AND IMPLICATIONS OF CORROSION ON HOUSING STRUCTURES (BONTLENG): A CASE STUDY...... 457 Portia Tshepiso Letlole

SEASONAL VARIABILITY OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS ON SURFICIAL SOILS IN SOUTH-WEST INDIA ...... 458 Minal Gune

SPECIATION OF METALS BY IONIZING RADIATION IN GROUNDWATER SAMPLES FROM TAIAÇUPEBA RESERVOIR, METROPOLITAN REGION OF SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL...... 460 Rosely Imbernon

STUDY ON ECO-GEOCHEMICAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS AND HEAVY METAL POLLUTION ASSESSMENT IN HIGH INCIDENCE AREA OF NASOPHARYNGEAL CARCINOMA IN SIHUI, GUANGDONG (CHINA)...... 462 Yongzhang Zhou

ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE USAGE OF GEOTHERMAL WELLS ...... 463 A. Zurian

EVOLUTION KNOWLEDGE OF TECHNOLOGICAL SOILS (MAN-MADE-STRATA) IN URUGUAY, SOUTH AMERICA...... 465 Adriana Mezzano

INTEGRATING GEOHERITAGE INTO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT IN SPAIN...... 467 Enrique Díaz-Martínez

LIQUEFACTION-FLUIDIZATION MECHANISM IN MAN-MADE STRATA ON YODAURA ALONG TONE RIVER AT THE 2011 OFF THE PACIFIC COAST OF TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE...... 469 Osamu Kazaoka

METHODS AND RESULTS OF THE URBAN GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN BUDAPEST CITY AND IN HUNGARY...... 471 Peter Scharek

IMPACTS OF ANISOTROPY OF THE FOSSIL CONTENT ON THE ELECTRIC BEHAVIOUR AND ANISOTROPY OF THE HIGHLY FOSSILIFEROUS LIMESTONE OF SAMALUT FORMATION, EGYPT: A CASE STUDY...... 472 Bassem Nabawy

NATURAL STONES OF MALAWI: KEY TO ECONOMIC AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT...... 473 Tamara Faith Kamanga

THE DETERIORATION OF BUILDING STONES BY SALT CRYSTALLIZATION ...... 474 Maria Heloisa Barros De Oliveira Frascá

GIALLO SIENA” MARBLE (ITALY): A NOMINATION FOR “GLOBAL HERITAGE STONE RESOURCE...... 476 Piero Primavori

CATION EXCHANGE IN THE MONTMORILLONITIC SOIL AS A LOW COST MEASURE TO IMPROVE ITS SHEAR STRENGTH...... 477 Sudipta Sarkar

CENTRIFUGAL MODELLING OF AN EMBANKMENT ON SOFT SOIL WITH SOIL-CEMENT COLUMNS AND PREFABRICATED VERTICAL DRAINS ...... 479 Qingwen Zhang

DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGY FOR DIRECTIONAL DRILLING - RESULTS OF DRILLING AND SURVEY IN THE BOREHOLE - ...... 480 Kenzo Kiho

FIELD VS.LABORATORY ANALYSIS OF SOUND VELOCITY OF SEDIMENTS FROM HUANGHAI AND BOHAI...... 482 Jiewen Zheng

GEOMORPHOLOGY AND ROCK SLOPE INSTABILITIES IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF PETRA (JORDAN)...... 484 Daniele Spizzichino

USE OF MULTIFERROIC ALLOY TO CONVERT WASTE HEAT FROM NON-COMMERCIAL GEOTHERMAL WELLS TO ELECTRICITY ...... 486 Kulundu Levi

CHARACTERISTICS, MECHANISM AND STABILITY FOR THE EXPANSIVE SOFT ROCK LANDSLIDE LOCATED IN XINYAN SECTION OF WANG-YAN HIGHWAY IN JILIN PROVINCE, NORTHEASTERN CHINA...... 488 Xudong Han

DELINEATION OF ORIENTATION DATA RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED IN ROCK MASS AND ITS FRACTAL DIMENSION ...... 489 Jianping Chen

ESTIMATION OF THE REV SIZE OF FRACTURED ROCK MASSES BASED ON BLOCKINESS ...... 490 Lu Xia

INFLUENCE OF CONFINING PRESSURE ON THE MECHANICAL MECHANISM OF SOIL-ROCK MIXTURE...... 491 Jiaguo Xia

PREDICTION OF THE SHEAR STRENGTH OF DISCONTINUITIES BY A SINGLE SHEAR TEST...... 492 Kamil Kayabali

ROCKFALL HAZARD ANALYSIS IN DECCAN PLATEAU: A CASE STUDY FROM MALSHEJ GHAT, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA...... 494 Ravi Kumar Umrao

USE OF HOT FRACTURED ROCK TECHNOLOGY TO ENHANCE THE PRODUCTIVITYOF NON- COMMERCIAL GEOTHERMAL WELLS...... 496 Levi Kulundu

ENGINEERING PROPERTIES OF CHINESE LOESS DISCHARGED FROM THE YELLOW RIVER INTO THE SEA ...... 497 Xiaolei Liu

GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTIES OF PEDOLOGICAL SOIL GROUPS...... 498 Ernestine Schmidhuber

PREDICTION OF CONSISTENCY LIMITS AND UNDRAINED SHEAR STRENGTH BY A SINGLE AND SIMPLE TOOL ...... 499 Kamil Kayabali

PREDICTION OF FROST HEAVING BEHAVIOR OF SALINE SOIL IN WESTERN JILIN PROVINCE BY ANN METHODS AND SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS FOR THE AFFECTING FACTORS...... 501 Xudong Zhang

ENGINEERING GEOLOGICAL MAPPING, AN APPLICATION TO OUTAPI, NORTH-CENTRAL NAMIBIA...... 502 Giesberta Shaanika

FREEZE THAW RESISTANCE OF DIYARBAKIR CITY WALLS...... 503 Tamer Topal

GEOLOGICAL AND GEOTECHNICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF AXUM DAM SITE, TIGRAY, NORTHERN ETHIOPIA ...... 504 Leulalem Shano

THE INFLUENCE OF APERTURE ON FLOW REGIMES IN A SINGLE SMOOTH FRACTURE ...... 505 Katlego Segole

APPROPRIATE INVESTIGATION OF DOLOMITIC AREAS ...... 507 Tony A'Bear

KARST COLLAPSE OCCURRENCES AND INVESTIGATION IN CHINA...... 509 Mingtang Lei

WEATHERING RATE OF ANCIENT LIMESTONE INSCRIPTION IN BEIXIANGTANG TEMPLE GROTTOES, CHINA ...... 511 Lihui Li

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGICAL MODELS: AN ESSENTIAL INFORMATION FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING WORKS. - TAPOVAN HEPP, HIMALAYA, INDIA...... 513 Waltraud Genser

STUDY ON THE PARAMETERS SELECTION OF PECK FORMULA FOR THE TWIN-TRACK TUNNEL IN THE SANDY-PEBBLE STRATUM ...... 515 Xiyong Wu

EFFECTS OF PORE STRUCTURE ON THE RESERVOIR GAS CAPACITY OF CARBONIFEROUS SHALE FROM QAIDAM BASIN, CHINA...... 516 Qingchun Yu

EFFECTS OF WAVES AND CURRENTS ON SEDIMENT EROSION: A CASE STUDY IN CHINA BY IN-SITU OBSERVATION...... 517 Chaoqi Zhu

GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS FOR THE FUTURE EXPANSION OF THE SADC GATEWAY PORT OF WALVIS BAY, NAMIBIA, INFLUENCE OF TERRESTRIAL AND MARINE SEDIMENTOLOGY ON PORT DEVELOPMENT...... 518 Robert Leyland

GEOMORPHOLOGY AND ROCK SLOPE INSTABILITIES IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF PETRA (JORDAN)...... 519 Claudio Margottini

BOTTICINO MARBLE (ITALY): A NOMINATION FOR “GLOBAL HERITAGE STONE RESOURCE” ...... 521 Piero Primavori

ESTREMOZ MARBLE: A NOMINATION FOR ‘GLOBAL HERITAGE STONE RESOURCE’ FROM PORTUGAL...... 523 Luís Lopes

HERITAGE STONE IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA ...... 525 Barry J. Cooper

HERITAGE STONES AS PART OF THE GLOBAL GEOHERITAGE ...... N/A Björn Schouenborg

LOWER BUILDING SANDSTONES IN NW-GERMANY AND THEIR WORLDWIDE USE...... 527 Angela Ehling

MARTINAMOR , REVISITED...... 529 D. Pereira

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MACAEL REGION (SE OF SPAIN) IN THE USE OF THE NATURAL STONE IN SPAIN ...... 530 Dolores Pereira

AN INVESTIGATION OF THE GEOTECHNICAL CONDITIONS AND STABILITY OF THE TOWN BUSH VALLEY, PIETERMARITZBURG, SOUTH AFRICA...... 531 Keval Singh

ASSESSING MULTI-SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES AND METHODS IN MONITORING LANDSLIDE MOVEMENT IN CANADA...... N/A Peter Bobrowsky

KINEMATIC BEHAVIOUR OF A LARGE LANDSLIDE IN THE THREE GORGES RESERVOIR – CONSTRAINTS FROM FIELD MONITORING...... 533 Bao-Ping Wen

ROCK MASS CHARACTERIZATION FOR STABILITY ANALYSIS OF CUT SLOPES IN THE OPHIOLITES OF HAJAR MOUNTAINS OF UAE & SULTANATE OF OMAN...... 534 Mohammed J Ahmed

GEO-ENGINEERED SLOPE FAILURE AT THE POWER HOUSE PIT OF A POWER PROJECT IN THE HIMALAYAS, HIMACHAL PRADESH, INDIA – CAUSES AND REMEDIES...... 538 Ashok Kumar

LANDSLIDE HAZARD ASSESSMENT THROUGH FORCING ACTIVIZATION OF A LANDSLIDE AND CONDUCTING OF MONITORING...... 539 Andrey Kazeev

3D IMPLICIT MODELLING AND GEOMETRICAL ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURAL FABRICS: IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE PIT DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION ...... 541 Ian Basson

FORMATION MECHANISM AND STABILITY OF A GENTLE DIP BEDDING ROCK SLOPE: A CASE STUDY AT SHIMEN SILICA MINE, LIAOYANG, CHINA ...... 542 Jiewei Zhan

PREVAILING GEOTECHNICAL HAZARDS AT LETŠENG DIAMOND MINE AND THEIR MITIGATION...... 543 Nthabiseng Lephatsoe

ROCK MASS CHARACTERISATION OF THE COUNTRY ROCK ON THE EASTERN SLOPE OF MAIN PIT AT LETŠENG DIAMOND MINE, LESOTHO...... 544 Nkopane Lefu

SLOPE OPTIMIZATION OF AN OPERATING OPEN PIT MINE ...... 545 Clarice Romer

DISTRIBUTION REGULARITIES OF CO-SEISMIC LANDSLIDE TRIGGERED BY LUDIAN EARTHQUAKE ...... 546 Yu Zou

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR STUDIES AND INFLUENCE OF ANTHROPOGENIC FACTORS ON SOME LANDSLIDES OF NORTHEAST INDIA...... 547 Soibam Ibotombi

NUMERICAL MODELLING OF TOE BUCKLING DEFORMATION IN HAAST , CENTRAL OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND...... 548 Romy Ridl

SEISMICITY, NEO-TECTONICS AND LANDSLIDE INITIATION IN THE TRANS-HIMALAYAS OF NORTH EAST INDIA - STUDIES FROM TEZU- HAYULIANG- CHAGLOGAM CORRIDOR OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH. ARUNACHAL PRADESH...... 549 P. K. Theophilus

CRUSHED AGGREGATE POTENTIAL IN NEWCASTLE, KZN PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 551 Souleymane Diop

LOCAL RAW MATERIAL BUILDING: HISTORY AND CHALLENGES IN URUGUAY ...... 553 Marcos Musso

QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF SPHERICITY AND ROUNDNESS OF PEBBLES AND SAND GRAINS...... 555 Tamas Jasko

SUITABILITY OF LATERITIC SOILS IN THE CONSTRUCTION/DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE HOUSING IN AFRICA: A GEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE...... 557 Charles A. Oyelami

THE POTENTIAL USE OF AEOLIAN SANDS IN ROADS IN LIMPOPO ...... 558 Philip Paige-Green

USING GEOPHYSICS TO FIND SUITABLE ROCK AGGREGATES AS REPLACEMENT FOR FLUVIAL SAND IN ...... 560 Onkgopotse Ntibinyane

APPLYING URBAN-SCALE 3D SUBSURFACE MODELING TO SUSTAINABLY MANAGE THE UNDERGROUND ASSETS OF ROTTERDAM (NL) ...... 561 Jeroen Schokker

ASSESSMENT OF ROCK SLOPE FAILURE ANALYSIS AND ROCK MASS CHARACTERIZATION ALONG A ROAD-CUT (NH-108) IN SUB-HIMALAYA REASON, INDIA ...... 563 Mrinal Kanti Mukherjee

FINITE DIFFERENCE MODELLING OF SEEPAGE IN A REGION OF THE FOUNDATION ROCK BELOW A CONCRETE GRAVITY DAM WALL...... 564 André Joubert

GEOLOGICAL HAZARDS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW METRO ROUTES IN MOSCOW ...... 565 Olga Eremina

HOW FRACTOGRAPHIC ANALYSES UNCOVER COMPLEX TRENDS OF MODERN AND PALAEO PRINCIPAL STRESSES...... 566 Martin Ziegler

TUNNELLING IN HIMALAYAS UNDER WATER CHARGED CONDITIONS: ESTIMATION AND REMEDIATION...... 568 K. Seshagiri Rao

ADVANCES TO THE MODELLING OF VARIABLY SATURATED FRACTURE FLOW USING THE GEOTECHNICAL CENTRIFUGE IN SOUTH AFRICA...... 570 Brendon Ronald Jones

CONTROLLING HYDRAULIC CONDITIONS OF THE EXCAVATION-DAMAGED ZONE AT THE ÄSPÖ HARD ROCK LABORATORY, SWEDEN...... 572 Lars O. Ericsson

GEOTECHNICAL CENTRIFUGE MODELLING OF TRANSVERSE HYDRODYNAMIC DISPERSION IN UNIFORM UNSATURATED MATERIAL...... 574 Luke Brouwers

INSITU ESTIMATION OF SWELLING PRESSURE USING INUNDATED PLATE LOAD TEST ON MARL/ CLAY OF DUQM AREA, SULTANATE OF OMAN - A CASE STUDY ...... 575 Khaleel M Musthafa

NUMERICAL SIMULATION ON COUPLING OF STRESS-FLOW WITHIN A SINGLE FRACTURE...... 577 Xuejie Cui

THE USE OF GEOPHYSICS IN GROUND INVESTIGATION ...... 579 Marie Fleming

A CASE STUDY DETERMINING THE STABILITY OF LAND AFFECTED BY SHALLOW UNDER MINING FOR URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN OLD CORONATION, WITBANK COALFIELD AREA...... 581 Sibonakaliso Chiliza

A STUDY ON GEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND LAND SUBSIDENCE LIFE PROCESS IN THE LOWER YANGTZE DELTA AREA OF CHINA...... 583 Hongtao Jiang

ANALYSIS OF PRESENT-DAY STRESS BASED ON STRESS MEASUREMENT AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION METHOD IN QINSHUI BASIN, SHANXI PROVINCE, CHINA ...... 584 Ke Xu

CLASSIFICATION OF SURROUNDING ROCK OF LARGE UNDERGROUND WATER-SEALED STORAGE CAVERNS BASED ON EVOLUTION BACK-PROPAGATING NEURAL NETWORK...... 585 Feifei Lv

FORMATION OF GEOLOGICAL RISK UPON TUNNEL CONSTRUCTION IN WATER-SATURATED FINE- GRAINED SOILS ...... 588 Irina Kozlyakova

INVESTIGATION OF CO2-ROCK-WELLBORE CEMENT INTERACTION – EXPERIMENTAL STUDY...... 589 Krzysztof Labus

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF ADOBE BLOCKS USED IN BUILDING CONSTRUCTION IN HUAMBO PROVINCE - ...... 590 Isabel Duarte

METHODS OF EARTH BUILDING IN THE HUILA PROVINCE, ANGOLA...... N/A Isabel Duarte

NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY IN SPANISH : OBSERVATIONS ON DIFFERENT SLAB FINISHES...... 592 Dolores Pereira

POZZOLANIC REACTIONS OF CALCINED CLAYS: STUDY TO AN IMPROVED UTILIZATION...... 593 Lidia Catarino

PROPOSAL OF CLASSIFICATION FOR ROOFING SLATES...... 595 Victor Cardenes

PROTECTION AND VALORISATION OF INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE RELATED TO GLOBAL HERITAGE STONE RESOURCES IN BELGIUM...... 597 Dolores Pereira

RESOURCING FUTURE GENERATIONS: ECONOMIC IMPACTS FROM CONSTRUCTION OF A RAW WATER PIPELINE ...... 599 Becky Johnson

SANDSTONE BUILDING MATERIALS, THEIR GEOPROCESSING AND THERMAL PROPERTIES ...... 601 Antoine F Mulaba-Bafubiandi

THE EFFECT OF PETROGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS ON THE STRENGTH OF SELECTED BASALTIC ROCKS FROM TURKEY ...... 603 Atiye Tugrul

3D RECONSTRUCTIONS OF QUARRIES THROUGH LONG-RANGE LASER SCANNING FOR A QUANTITATIVE VOLUME ESTIMATION OF DIMENSION STONES...... 604 Silvio Seno

5TH EUROPEAN RAILWAY CORRIDOR CROSSES CLASSICAL KARST, SLOVENIA...... 605 Martin Knez

AN ENGINEERING GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION FOR THE EXPANSION OF MAPUTO PORT, MOZAMBIQUE...... 607 Paul Aucamp

ANALYSES OF A ROCK FALL RELEASE AREA AND ASSOCIATED DEPOSITS IN THE SWISS ALPS USING PHOTOGRAMMETRIC DATA OBTAINED BY AN UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE...... 609 Martin Ziegler

ANISOTROPIC PARAMETER USING CORE PLUGS AND FULL-WAVE SONIC LOGS ...... 611 Seonghyung Jang

ART MUSEUMS. A PERFECT CONTEXT FOR OUTREACH ACTIVITIES ON STONES...... 612 D. Pereira

ASSESMENT OF NATURAL STONES AND THEIR DETERIORATION TYPES USED IN BLUE MOSQUE (ISTANBUL, TURKEY)...... 613 Murat Yilmaz

CORROSION ATTACK MECHANISMS OF ACID MINE DRAINAGE ON CONCRETE...... 614 Nomvelo Mkhize

ENGINEERING GEOLOGICAL AND GEOTECHNICAL MAPPING UNDERTAKEN BY COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE FOR REGIONAL LAND-USE PLANNING IN SOUTH AFRICA ...... 616 Njabulo Nxumalo

GEOTECHNICAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE CRACKS IN BUILDINGS: A CASE STUDY...... 620 Portia Tshepiso Letlole

MINERALOGICAL COMPOSITION, WEATHERING PRODUCTS AND SINKHOLE FORMATION OF TWO DIFFERENT KARST UNITS IN SOUTH AFRICA ...... 621 A. C. Oosthuizen

DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGY FOR DIRECTIONAL DRILLING – LONG-TERM MONITORING AND AUTOMATIC DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM -...... 623 Akira Shidai

GEO-ENVIRONMENT CHARACTERISTICS OF WEATHERING DETERIORATION OF TONGTIANYAN CARVED STONE RELICS, CHINA...... 625 Guangli Xu

GEOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATION FOR ENGINEERING SITE CHARACTERIZATIONS OF WACHAMO UNIVERSITY, NORTH-EAST OF HOSANNA, SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA...... 626 Yonatan Garkebo Doyoro

MECHANISM AND CONTROL MEASURES OF A LARGE DEFORMATION ACROSS THE GRANITE ALTERATION ZONE IN AN PING TUNNEL ...... 627 Guo Hua Zhang

STUDY ON THE ENGINEERING PROPERTIES OF THE MUCKY SOFT SOIL IN GUIZHOU, CHINA ...... 629 Xin Liao

THE ORIGIN OF THE ROCK OF STONEWALLS IN THE HITSUJISARU AND TATSUMI TOWER TRACES OF THE YAMAGATA CASTLE...... 630 Yukiko Ohtomo

IAMG AWARD CEREMONY ...... N/A Christien Thiart

MATHERON LECTURE: THE GEOSTATISTICAL INVASION OF THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; ONE PERSPECTIVE FROM AN APPLIED GEOSTATISTICIAN ...... N/A Jeffrey Yarus

ANALYSIS OF GEOCHEMICAL WELL LOGS IN CRYSTALLINE ROCKS USING STATISTICAL APPROACH: CASE STUDY OF CHINESE CONTINENTAL SCIENTIFIC DRILLING MAIN HOLE...... 632 Ahmed Amara Konate

CORRELATION ANALYSIS FOR COMPOSITIONAL DATA USING LOGRATIO COORDINATES ...... N/A Karel Hron

MODELLING THE VARIABILITY AT LONMIN’S MARIKANA OPERATIONS...... 634 Dennis Hoffmann

OPEN PIT MINE PLANNING USING MULTIVARIATE CONDITIONAL SIMULATION...... 636 Ngoc Luan Mai

PIXEL-BASED SIMULATION APPROACHES FOR PROFILING THE WEIPA LATERITIC BAUXITE DEPOSIT...... 637 Oktay Erten

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL REPORTING CODES IN THE MINING INDUSTRY...... 639 Ken Lomberg

VALUE BASED EXTRACTION DECISIONS UNDER CHALLENGING MARKET CONDITIONS AT MOGALAKWENA PLATINUM COMPLEX ...... 640 Kavita Mohanlal

A GENERAL ROBUST PROBABILITY CLASSIFIER BASED ON THE φ-DIVERGENCES AND ITS APPLICATION ON LITHOLOGY CLASSIFICATION ...... 641 Yongzhi Wang

APPLICATION OF BI-DIMENSIONAL EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION (BEMD) MODELING FOR EXTRACTING GRAVITY ANOMALY INDICATING THE ORE-CONTROLLING GEOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURES AND GRANITES IN THE GEJIU TIN-COPPER POLYMETALLIC ORE FIELD, SOUTHWESTERN CHINA...... 643 Yongqing Chen

COMPUTER ASSISTED DRILL HOLE DATA INTERPRETATION FOR IRON ORE EXPLORATION...... 645 David Nathan

DETERMINATION OF CU MINERALIZED ZONES UTILIZING NUMBER-SIZE (N-S) FRACTAL MODELING IN TAKHT-E-GONBAD PORPHYRY DEPOSIT (SE IRAN)...... 647 Mohammad Eskandarnejad Tehrani

DETERMINING ELEMENTAL ASSOCIATIONS BY MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF REGIONAL-SCALE GEOCHEMICAL DATA ...... 649 Jennifer McKinley

MODERN RESOURCE MODELLING WITH QUANTITATIVE GEOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS...... 651 J Antonio Vargas-Guzman

OUTPUT SELECTION FOR GAUSSIAN PROCESSES CLASSIFICATION IN IRON ORE DEPOSITS ...... 653 Katherine Silversides

APPLICATION OF GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGIES IN LINEAMENT ANALYSIS FOR MINERAL PROGNOSTICATION- A CASE STUDY-- RAMAGIRI SCHIST BELT AND SURROUNDING AREAS OF EASTERN DHARWAR CRATON ...... 656 Gauri Motghare

CRITICAL ASPECTS IN THE ESTIMATION OF MINERAL RESOURCES FOR NARROW TABULAR PGM DEPOSITS ...... 658 Ken Lomberg

REAL OPTIONS TO VALUE A MINING PROJECT UNDER 2 UNCERTAINTIES: A QUANTITATIVE MODEL FOR REVENUE SHARE AND MINING FISCALITY...... 660 Abdoul Aziz Ndiaye

RESOURCE AND RISK EVALUATION OF TWO COAL SEAMS AT KRIEL COLLIERY...... 662 Luan Nel

RUSSIAN MINERAL BASE OF GOLD: CURRENT SITUATION AND FUTURE VIEWS ...... 663 Anatoly Ivanov

SINGULARITY THEORIES AND METHODS FOR QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF CONCEALED MINERAL RESOURCES IN COVERED AREAS...... 665 Qiuming Cheng

GRIFFITS AWARD: FROM CONSTANT SUM CONSTRAINT TO ASSOCIATION OF COMPOSITIONAL VARIABLES...... 666 Juan Jose Egozcue

KRUMBEIN LECTURE: THE STOCHASTIC MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF FRACTURES IN ROCK MASSES ...... 667 Peter Dowd

A REVIEW OF CURRENT QUALITY ASSURANCE AND QUALITY CONTROL (QAQC) PRACTICES IN THE MINING INDUSTRY...... 669 Mark Burnett

CREAMING AND THE LIKELIHOOD OF DISCOVERING ADDITIONAL GIANT PETROLEUM FIELDS...... 671 Richard Sinding-Larsen

GRADE CONTROL EFFICIENCIES USING XRF AND SPECTRAL TECHNIQUES IN GOLD DEPOSITS...... 672 N. H. S Oliver

INTEGRATED CAUSE-EFFECT ANALYSIS OF GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL MAPS IN MINERAL RESOURCE ASSESSMENT ...... 674 Susanna Sirotinskaya

SEQUENTIAL GAUSSIAN SIMULATION IN THE GANGJIANG COPPER-POLYMETALLIC DEPOSIT OF NIMU, TIBET, CHINA ...... 676 Jianguo Chen

USING SIMULATION TO QUANTIFY UNCERTAINTY IN ULTIMATE PIT LIMITS AND INFORM INFRASTRUCTURE PLACEMENT...... 677 Mhlonipheki Brilliance Mabhena

WHAT ARE MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES? ARE MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENTISTS AT THE EARTH SCIENCE FRONTIERS? ...... 678 Qiuming Cheng

DEALING WITH OUTLIERS WITHIN THE KRIGING FRAMEWORK ...... 680 Leon Tolmay

DRILLING STRATEGIES WHEN EVALUATING THE MERENSKY AND UG2 REEFS ...... N/A Dave Young

HIGH DIMENSIONAL DATA VISUALIZATION HELPS DATA MINING FROM WELL LOG DATA ...... 681 Shaoqun Dong

IDENTIFICATION AND VISUALIZATION OF ANOMALOUS AREAS BY USING THE CAUSE-EFFECT ANALYSIS OF SPATIAL DATA ...... 683 Susanna Sirotinskaya

MODELLING LONG-TERM TRANSPORTATION OF ORE-SOURCED GEOCHEMICAL ELEMENTS IN THE VERTICAL PROFILE OF THE LOESS COVER...... 684 Deyi Xu

MULTIPLE REEF PACKAGES AND ITS IMPACT ON ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES APPLICATIONS ...... 686 Leon Tolmay

OPTIMAL SAMPLING FOR VARIOGRAM ESTIMATION IN ORDER TO DETERMINE SAMPLE LINE SPACING FOR A MARINE DIAMOND DEPOSIT ...... 687 Christien Thiart

PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF GY SAMPLING THEORY IN MINING: AN EXAMPLE FROM MOGALAKWENA OPEN PIT PT MINE...... 688 Trust Muzondo

A FAVOURABLE TOPOGRAPHICAL CHARACTERISTICS FOR LOCATING FE DEPOSITS IN FUJIAN PROVINCE OF CHINA...... 690 Renguang Zuo

CHARACTERIZATION OF PRIMARY GEOCHEMICAL HALOES ASSOCIATED WITH SN-ZN MINERALIZATION AT THE DULONG DEPOSIT, CHINA ...... 691 Jiangnan Zhao

CONSTRUCTING 3D GEOLOGICAL MODEL WITH MODIFIED MULTIPLE-POINT STATISTICS ALGORITHM ...... 692 Weisheng Hou

FINDING THE OPTIMAL DYNAMIC ANISOTROPY RESOLUTION FOR GRADE ESTIMATION IMPROVEMENT AT DRIEFONTEIN GOLD MINE, SOUTH AFRICA...... 694 Senzeni Mandava

RESOURCE IDENTIFICATION AND COMMERCIAL EVALUATION OF DIMENSION STONE GRANITE DEPOSITS OF PUDUKOTTAI DISTRICT, TAMIL NADU, INDIA...... 695 Kaliyaperumal Jayabalan

THE ORE BODY MODEL AND RESERVES ESTIMATION OF THE TIEGELONGNAN DEPOSIT ,NORTHERN TIBET...... 697 Yang Song

INTERPRETABLE PRINCIPAL BALANCES FOR COMPOSITIONAL DATA IN GEOCHEMISTRY...... 699 Josep-Antoni Martin-Fernandez

LATENT ENDMEMBER IDENTIFICATION BY MEANS OF GAUSSIAN ANAMORPHOSIS...... 701 Raimon Tolosana-Delgado

MAPPING GOLD PATHFINDER METAL RATIOS – A METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH BASED ON COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS OF SPATIALLY DISTRIBUTED MULTIVARIATE DATA ...... 703 Luis Braga

SPATIAL HAZARD ASSESSMENT USING SIMPLICIAL INDICATOR KRIGING ...... 704 J. J. Egozcue

SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND MICROMORPHOLOGY OF CARBONATES DISSOLVED IN THREE DIFFERENT ACIDS BY MULTIFRACTAL ANALYSIS ...... 705 Mohai Zhang

ASSESSMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES POTENTIAL BY COMBINING MONTE CARLO AND WEIGHTS OF EVIDENCE MODELS ...... 706 Luping Pu

GEOSTATISTICAL MODELLING OF LOG-DERIVED PETROPHYSICAL DATA FOR QUANTIFYING UNCERTAINTIES IN “AMESERE” FIELD, DELTA...... 708 Abayomi Osotuyi

PREDICTION THEORY AND TECHNIQUE OF CHINA NATIONAL MINERAL RESOURCE POTENTIALITY ...... 710 Shuwen Xing

THE STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION PATTERN OF ZINC CONCENTRATIONS AT BELOUSOVSKOYE DEPOSIT (RUDNY ALTAI)...... 711 Katerina Petrich

THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING OF FRACTURE-CAVITY RESERVOIRS ...... 713 Jiagen Hou

11BROWNFIELD EXPLORATION AS A STRATEGIC INITIATIVE TO REVIVING NON-OPERATIONAL MINES IN THE CENTRAL RAND...... 714 Manie Swart

CARBONATE ALTERATION AS IDENTIFIED BY STAINING AS A VECTOR TO OROGENIC GOLD MINERALIZATION ...... 716 Johannes Henckel

FLUID INCLUSION MICROTHERMOMETRY AND SULPHUR ISOTOPIC STUDIES OF THE BASE METAL MINERALIZATION IN MINJHARI AREA, WESTERN BASTAR CRATON, INDIA...... 718 Velayutham Kumaravel

IMPLICATIONS OF NEW GEOPHYSICAL AND LEAD ISOTOPIC DATA ON LOCALIZATION OF GIANT ZINC SULPHIDE BODY AT AGUCHA IN WESTERN INDIA...... 720 Prakash Ramchand Golani

THE IMPORTANCE OF GLACIATION WITH REGARDS TO ALLUVIAL DIAMOND TRANSPORTATION, CONCENTRATION AND ENTRAPMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA...... 722 Pieter Bosch

GEODYNAMIC MODEL OF THE EARTH CRUST STRUCTURE FROM THE CONTROL SOURCE ELECTROMAGNETIC SOUNDINGS CSEMS AND THE SUPER DEEP DRILLING DATA...... 724 Abdulkhai Zhamaletdinov

ON THE STRUCTURE OF FENNOSCANDIAN AR-PT HIGH CONDUCTIVE SUTURE ZONES ON THE EXAMPLE OF LADOGA-BOTHNIAN ANOMALY ...... 726 Abdulkhai Zhamaletdinov

SEISMIC BEAM-FORMING METHOD WITH COSINE AMPLITUDE DISTRIBUTION ...... 728 Tao Jiang

STRUCTURAL CONTROL ON SUPERGENE NICKEL DEPOSITS EXPLORED BY HELIBORNE ELECTROMAGNETIC SURVEYS IN NEW CALEDONIA ...... 729 Marion Iseppi

THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD CONDUCTIVE ZONES AS INDICATORS OF THE EARTH’S CRUST STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION...... 730 Abdulkhai Zhamaletdinov

USING GEOPHYSICAL DATA TO CREATE A 3D CONCEPTUAL GEOLOGICAL MODEL FOR THE MAREMANE DOME, NORTHERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA...... 732 Adam Wooldridge

APPLICATION OF THE PATTERN RECOGNITION TECHNIQUE TO LOCATE SUBSURFACE MAGNETIC ANOMALY ...... 734 John Stephen Kayode

MATHEMATICAL ASSUMPTIONS OF PROSPECTIVITY MODELLING WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON JOINT CONDITIONAL INDEPENDENCE ...... 735 Helmut Schaeben

MINERAL POTENTIAL MAPPING AND RESOURCE ESTIMATION WITH ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS: APPROACHES AND USE CASES...... 737 Andreas Knobloch

POTENTIAL MAPPING WITH INTERPOLATED COVARIABLES...... 739 Helmut Schaeben

QUANTIFYING STRUCTURAL CONTROL ON ORE DEPOSITION USING ANISOTROPY OF MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY (AMS): CASE STUDIES FROM THE CLONCURRY IOCG/ SEDEX PROVINCE...... 741 James Austin

QUANTITATIVE PREDICTION AND EVALUATION OF SEAFLOOR HYDROTHERMAL SULFIDE RESOURCES IN THE INDIAN OCEAN ...... 743 Jianping Chen

3D GRAVITY IMAGING BASED ON INVERSION OF PSEUDOMAGNETIC AMPLITUDE DATA ...... 745 Zelin Li

APPLICATION OF A SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION (SVD) FOR IDENTIFICATION OF AU ANOMALIES IN THE JIAODONG GOLD FIELD, EASTERN SHANDONG PENINSULA, EASTERN CHINA ...... 747 Luxue Qin

MINERAL RESOURCE ASSESSMENT OF PORPHYRY CU-MO DEPOSITS IN GOBI DESERT LANDSCAPE OF EASTERN TIANSHAN, CHINA...... 749 Jianguo Chen

RANK STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF SELECTED SOUTH AFRICAN GOLD ENDOWMENT ...... 751 John Paul Hunt

SCALE DEPENDENCE OF STRUCTURAL CONTROL ON GOLD DEPOSITS IN KUMASI BASIN, GHANA...... 753 Bijal Chudasama

WOMEN IN GEOSCIENCE PRESENTATION - SPONSORED BY SOUTH32...... N/A Noleen Pauls

ASSESSMENT OF GEOLOGICAL-GEOPHYSICAL METHODS FOR PROSPECTING OF CHROMITE DEPOSITS IN CAMAGÜEY PROVINCE, CUBA...... 755 Ruben Gonzalez

GEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF AEROMAGNETIC AND GRAVITY DATA FROM EASTERN TIANSHAN, CHINA: IMPLICATIONS FOR POTENTIAL PORPHYRY CU-MO POLYMETALLIC DEPOSITS EXPLORATION ...... 756 Fan Xiao

INTEGRATED EXPLORATION PLATFORM: SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR INTEGRATED MULTI-DATA INTERPRETATION...... 757 Eun-Jung Holden

MOLYBDENUM MINES PROSPECTING USING NEW DEVELOPED MTEM SYSTEM ...... 759 Qingyun Di

TOWARDS THE RESOLUTION OF DIPPING CONTACTS IN THE CAPRICORN OROGEN USING AEM...... 761 Sasha Banaszczyk

BROWNFIELD EXPLORATION AS A STRATEGIC INITIATIVE TO EXTENDING THE LIFE OF MINE ...... 763 Hendrik Pretorius

DEEP CU-AG DEPOSITS – A CHANCE FOR PROGRESS IN THE COPPER INDUSTRY...... 765 Stanislaw Speczik

GRANITE-RELATED RARE EARTH ELEMENTS PROSPECTIVITY MAPPING OF THE BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA...... 766 Alazar Yosef Billay

MAPPING MINERAL POTENTIAL AT CONTINENTAL TO REGIONAL SCALES USING A MINERAL SYSTEMS APPROACH: NI-CU-PGE AND IOCG SYSTEMS IN AUSTRALIA ...... 768 Roger Skirrow

SYSTEMATIZATION OF DEEP-SEA POLYMETALLIC SULFIDES OF THE MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE...... 770 Svetlana Babaeva

THE INTERNATIONAL DIAMOND BUSINESS: THE ROLE OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN PRODUCERS IN CHANGE AND CONSOLIDATION ...... 772 John Bristow

WHAT CONTROLS THE FORMATION OF LARGE SURFICIAL URANIUM SYSTEMS? A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LANGER HEINRICH, NAMIBIA AND YEELIRRIE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA ...... 774 Bijal Chudasama

BISIE - WORLD’S LARGEST AND RICHEST UNDEVELOPED TIN DEPOSIT...... 776 Helen Pein

CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY AND GEOCHEMICAL VECTORING AT THE RAPLA PROSPECT, RATHDOWNEY TREND, IRELAND ...... 778 Oakley Turner

PROSPECTIVITY MAPPING OF THE BUSHVELD GRANITE-RELATED MINERALISATION IN SELECTED AREAS, SOUTH AFRICA...... 779 Litshedzani Mutele

THE GROENFONTEIN AND ZAAIPLAATS TIN DEPOSITS – A MODEL FOR THE FUTURE OF TIN EXPLORATION? ...... 780 Luke Longridge

THE ORANGE AND RIET RIVER ALLUVIAL DIAMOND DEPOSITS IN THE VICINITY OF DOUGLAS, NORTHERN CAPE PROVINCE: GEOLOGY, EVALUATION, AND EXPLOITATION OF UNIQUE SOUTH AFRICAN LARGE DIAMOND PRODUCING DEPOSITS ...... 781 Lyndon De Meillon

THE “MONTAÑA DE MANGANESO” MN DEPOSIT, SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, MEXICO: MINERALIZING FLUIDS AND DEPOSIT TYPOLOGY...... 783 Joseph Madondo

VANADIUM, IRON, AND PHOSPHATE MINERALISATION IN THE UPPER ZONE OF THE NORTHERN LIMB OF THE BUSHVELD COMPLEX ...... 784 Troth Saindi

GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION THROUGH COVER IN DEEPLY WEATHERED TERRAINS ...... 786 Ravi Anand

IDENTIFICATION OF CONCEALED GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES IN A GRASSLAND AREA IN INNER MONGOLIA, CHINA: A PERSPECTIVE FROM TEMPERATURE VEGETATION DRYNESS INDEX...... 788 Chengbin Wang

MINERAL EXPLORATION IN REGOLITH-DOMINATED TERRAINS: CONSIDERATIONS, CHALLENGES AND NEW APPROACHES ...... 790 Ignacio Gonzalez-Alvarez

NANOGEOCHEMISTRY: METAL MIGRATION MECHANISM AND GREENFIELD EXPLORATION IN REGOLITH-COVERED TERRAINS...... 792 Xueqiu Wang

NEW C- AND O-ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS OF SMITHSONITE FROM SKORPION AND ROSH PINAH ZN-(PB) DEPOSITS (NAMIBIA): PRELIMINARY RESULTS AND IMPLICATIONS ...... 794 Giuseppe Arfè

PAST AND PRESENT CLIMATE CONTROLLING THE FORMATION OF ZN-(PB) SUPERGENE NONSULFIDE ...... 796 Maria Boni

THE ZN-NONSULPHIDES DISTRICT OF BONGARÀ (NORTHERN PERU) ...... 798 Maria Boni

TITANIFEROUS LATERITIC-BAUXITE (TLB) CAPPING OVER SUNG VALLEY PYROXENITE: A HOST FOR REE MINERALISATION (?) IN MEGHALAYA, INDIA...... 800 Mohd. Sadiq

CHARACTERIZING BEHAVIOR OF TRACE ELEMENTS IN SOURCE ROCKS USING MATHEMATICAL MODELING...... 802 Yongzhang Zhou

EFFECT OF THE GYPSUM-SALT LAYER OXIDATION BARRIER FOR ORE-FORMATION OF IRON- OXIDE-APATITE AND SKARN TYPE IRON DEPOSITS IN THE MIDDLE-LOWER YANGTZE RIVER POLYMETALLIC ORE BELT, CHINA ...... 804 Yan He Li

MINERAL EXPLORATION MODELS FROM SIMPLE FICTION TO COMPLEX REALITY ...... 806 Reimar Seltmann

MINERALOGY AND OSMIUM ISOTOPE COMPOSITION OF PLACER PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT AND GOLD GRAINS RECOVERED FROM OFFSHORE SOUTHERN NAMIBIA: POSSIBLE SOURCE ROCKS IN THE GARIEP BELT? ...... 807 Evelyn Mervine

THE CONTRIBUTION OF BISMUTH MELTS TO GOLD MINERALIZATION: A CASE STUDY FROM THE BAOLUN GOLD ORE DEPOSIT IN HAINAN PROVINCE OF SOUTH CHINA ...... 809 Deru Xu

CAN DRILLING FLUIDS BE A USEFUL SAMPLE MEDIA FOR MINERAL EXPLORATION? ...... 811 Nathan Reid

CRUSTAL EVOLUTION AND GOLD METALLOGENY IN PENINSULAR INDIA - STUDIES FOR EXPLORATION TARGET SELECTION...... 813 Dhawan Gopal

VOLUME 3

GEOLOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL PROSPECTING MODELS OF PORPHYRY MO DEPOSITS IN CHINA...... 815 Wei Wan

REGOLITH MAPPING AND GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION IN THE CHAPADA-MARA ROSA CU-AU DISTRICT, CENTRAL BRAZIL...... 816 Claudio Porto

TYPES AND GENESIS OF THE BIF-HOSTED HIGH-GRADE IRON ORES IN CHINA...... 818 Houmin Li

GEOCHRONOLOGY AND ND-SR-PB ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS OF EARLY CRETACEOUS INTRUSIONS AND ASSOCIATED PORPHYRY CU DEPOSITS IN EASTERN ALASKA ...... 819 Garth Graham

GERMANY`S MARINE EXPLORATION IN THE INDIAN OCEAN ...... 821 Ulrich Schwarz-Schampera

METALLOGENIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE GANGDESE AND THE BANGONGHU COPPER METALLOGENIC BELT, TIBET, CHINA...... 822 Jin-Hua Ye

PETROGENESIS OF CU-AG SKARN MINERALIZATION AT THE MCKENZIE GULCH AREA NORTHERN NEW BRUNSWICK: RELATING DIKE SWARMS EMPLACEMENT AND SKARN EVOLUTION USING LA- ICP-MS U-PB ZIRCON AND TITANITE DATING TECHNIQUES...... 824 Ronald Massawe

REMOTE ESTIMATION OF DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF PALAEOCHANNEL-FILL SEDIMENTS IN TUBAS AREA, NAMIBIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR SURFICIAL URANIUM EXPLORATION ...... 826 Sanchari Thakur

RIO TINTO EXPLORATION - OUR AFRICAN EVOLUTION...... 827 Nevan Pillay

ELECTRO-GEOCHEMICAL EXTRACTION IN EXPLORATION FOR SANDSTONE-HOSTED URANIUM DEPOSITS IN NORTHERN CHINA ...... 828 Dan Ke

GRANITE METALLOGENY THROUGH THE ZIRCON RECORD: A STUDY FROM MYANMAR ...... 830 Nicholas Gardiner

METALLOGENIC CHARACTERISTICS OF ALTERED GRANITE TYPE SN-CU POLYMETALLIC DEPOSIT, GEJIU, CHINA...... 832 Jiangnan Zhao

MONITORING OF MINERAL DEPOSITS IN ORDER TO OPTIMIZE THE USE OF SUBSOIL RESOURCES...... 833 Georgii Rudko

NEWLY ADOPTED AND COMBINED HELICOPTER-BORNE, GROUND-BASED AND LABORATORY METHODS FOR MINERAL EXPLORATION...... 835 Uwe Meyer

THERMOMAGNETIC COMPONENT MEASUREMENT (TCM) : A NEW METHOD FOR MINERAL EXPLORATION IN COVERAGE AREAS...... 836 Shixin Tang

USING MICROBIAL INDICATORS IN MINERAL EXPLORATION: LESSONS FROM AUSTRALIA...... 838 Frank Reith

ZN SPINEL COMPOSITION IN THE MAVALA-MPACA AREA, SOUTHERN XIXANO COMPLEX, NORTHERN MOZAMBIQUE...... 840 Judy Schlegel

A NEW METHOD FOR RESOURCE ASSESSMENT AND PROSPECT DELINEATION: BASED ON GEOLOGICAL PROCESS ANALYSIZING ...... 842 Zhigang Liu

APPLICATION OF HIGHLY-ACCURATE MAGNETIC SURVEY FOR SEARCHING MINERAL DEPOSITS IN SHELF AREA...... 844 Vasily Palamarchuk

DOWNHOLE XRF-LOGGING: A NEW TOOL TO EXPLORE BOREHOLE ROCK COMPOSITION ...... 845 Uli Harms

PETROGENETIC TOOLS AS TRACERS OF ORE-FORMING PROCESSES: AN APPRAISAL OF RECENT APPROACHES...... 847 Nicholas Gardiner

SWIR CHARACTERISTICS OF ALTERATION MINERALS IN TONGSHANKOU PORPHYRY-SKARN CU - MO DEPOSIT IN THE SOUTHEASTERN HUBEI FE-CU PROVINCE, EASTERN CHINA...... 849 Jinsheng Han

USING HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY TO TEST MINERAL POTENTIAL UNDER TRANSPORTED COVER IN THE KUNENE REGION OF NAMIBIA ...... 850 Amanda Stoltze

APPLICATION OF IN SITU SHRIMP U–PB GEOCHRONOLOGY TO OROGENIC GOLD EXPLORATION...... 852 Imogen Fielding

CHLORITE CHEMISTRY AS A NEW EXPLORATION TOOL IN THE PROPYLITIC HALO OF PORPHYRY-EPITHERMAL SYSTEMS...... 854 Jamie Wilkinson

PRE-LIMINARY GEOPHYSICAL INTERPRETATION AND MODELING OF THE MAGNETIC DATA IN THE EISEB AREA, OMAHEKE REGION, NAMIBIA ...... 855 Ivor Kahimise

SPATIAL MODELING OF METAL CONTENTS IN A KUROKO-TYPE DEPOSIT BY JOINT USE OF GEOSTATISTICS AND PHYSICAL LAW ...... 856 Lei Lu

TOWARDS BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF PORPHYRY COPPER AND IOCG SYSTEMS THROUGH MAGNETIC FORWARD MODELLING OF VARIABLE 3D GEOLOGY-PROPERTY SCENARIOS...... 857 Desmond Fitzgerald

FOLLOW-UP SOIL SURVEY TO EVALUATE REGIONAL PB AND ZN SOIL ANOMALIES IN NYLSTROOM, LIMPOPO PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA...... 859 Thato Ntikang

GOLD MINERALIZATION ALONG THE GURHARPAHAR RIDGE IN THE MAHAKOSHAL FOLD BELT, CENTRAL INDIA: MODE OF OCCURRENCE, DISTRIBUTION, STRUCTURAL CONTROLS AND EXPLORATION...... 860 M. K. Mukherjee

METALLOGENY OF TAROM – HASHTJIN MOUNTAINS AND VARIOUS MINERALIZATION TYPES...... 862 Mansour Ghorbani

METALLOGENY OF TOROUD_CHAHSHIRIN MOUNTAINS AND VARIOUS MINERALIZATION TYPES...... 864 Mansour Ghorbani

STREAM SEDIMENT GEOCHEMISTRY OF NALLAMALAI SUB-BASIN, DORNALA – CUMBUM AREAS, SOUTH INDIA - A TOOL FOR MINERAL EXPLORATION ...... 866 Natarajan Nandhagopal

THE ALTERATION INDEX AS A GUIDE TO BASE METAL SULPHIDE MINERALIZATION IN THE XIXANO COMPLEX, NORTHERN MOZAMBIQUE...... 868 Judy Schlegel

TIPS AND TRICKS TO KNOW ABOUT PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSITS IN KERMAN COPPER-BEARING BELT...... 870 Mansour Ghorbani

GENESIS OF THE STRATIFORM PB-ZN ORE BODIES IN QINGCHENGZI IN THE NORTH CHINA CRATON: RB-SR AND C-O-S-PB ISOTOPE CONSTRAINTS ...... 872 Yubo Ma

GRANITES IN THE KHENTEI BATHOLITH, NORTHERN MONGOLIA, AND RELATED MINERALIZATION ...... 873 O. Gerel

NEW PRECISE TIMING CONSTRAINTS FOR KEKETUOHAI PEGMATITE NO.3 VEIN, ALTAID OROGEN, NORTHWEST CHINA ...... 875 Feng Liu

ORIGIN OF TWO TYPES OF NELSONITE IN THE DAMIAO ANORTHOSITE COMPLEX, NORTH CHINA CRATON...... 877 Lixing Li

STRUCTURE AND EMPLACEMENT OF THE GRANITE PLUTON OF TIÉBÉLÉ, SOUTHERN BURKINA FASO (WEST AFRICA) AND ITS IMPLICATION IN BASE METALS (ZN-PB-CU) AND GOLD (AU) ANOMALIES DISTRIBUTION...... 878 Hermann Ilboudo

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HAND-HELD MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY INSTRUMENTS ...... 880 Deng Ngang Deng

APPLICATION OF ACOUSTIC STRATUM INVERSION FOR PREDICTING LITHOPHYSICAL ROCK PROPERTIES OF COMPLEX OIL AND GAS PROSPECTIVE OBJECTS...... 882 A. B. Krivitski

APPLICATION OF THE CRYSTALS HABITS CAVITIES FORMS OF CU-CO SULFIDES IN GREEN FIELD EXPLORATION ALONG THE : AN EXAMPLE OF TENKE FUNGURUME MINING DISTRICT (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO)...... 883 Pascal Matanda Mambwe

APPROACHING SUBSURFACE TO ASSESS LIGNITE DEPOSITS BY GRAVITY SURVEY IN BIKANER DISTRICT, RAJASTHAN, INDIA ...... 884 Kashi Nath Singh Yadav

BIO-EXPLORATION ON THE GHANZI RIDGE COPPER DEPOSIT...... 886 Natasha Auret

COMPUTATION OF THE GRAVITY FIELD AND ITS GRADIENT: SOME APPLICATIONS...... 887 Chandra Prakash Dubey

CONTRIBUTION OF REMOTE SENSING RADAR TO ANALYSE FRACTURING AND IDENTIFY NEW DRILLING TARGETS FROM OUMÉ LICENSE-CÔTE D'IVOIRE ...... 888 Anderson Mahizan

DEEP GEOELECTRIC STRUCTURE OF THE LITHOSPHERE OVER BARAK VALLEY REGION, INDO- MYANMAR OROGEN ...... 889 Devesh Walia

DEVELOPMENT OF SURFICIAL, ENVIRONMENTALLY LOW-IMPACT EXPLORATION METHODS FOR THE SUB-ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT...... 890 Vesa Nykänen

GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION IN REGOLITH-COVERED TERRAINS: A CASE STUDY FROM THE PERIPHERY OF THE ZIJINSHAN COPPER–GOLD MINE, SOUTHEASTERN CHINA ...... 892 Bimin Zhang

GEOCHEMICAL IDENTIFICATION MARKS OF HYDROTHERMAL METALLOGENIC SYSTEM BOUNDARY ...... 894 Shengming Ma

GEOLOGICAL MAPPING BY USING ASTER DATA IN TONOTA AREA, NORTH-EAST BOTSWANA...... 896 Kewame Gwandu

GEOPHYSICAL MAPPING OF THE RAMOKOKASTAD COMPLEX, NORTHWEST, SOUTH AFRICA...... 897 Lebogang Ledwaba

GOLD EXPLORATION USING INTEGRATED GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY METHODS: A CASE STUDY FOR NCEMA AREA OF ESIGODINI IN ZIMBABWE...... 899 Joseph Zulu

GOLD GRAINS AND X-RAY MICROSCOPES – A NEW EXPLORATION TOOL FOR IDENTIFYING PROXIMAL AND DISTAL GOLD DEPOSITS ...... 900 Shaun Graham

INTERACTION OF ELF-ULF CONTROLLED SOURCE ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES WITH THE EARTH CRUST AND IONOSPHERE FENICS-2014 EXPERIMENT ...... 902 Abdulkhai Zhamaletdinov

JOINT INVERSION OF GEOPHYSICAL DATA AROUND SUBMARINE HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSITS BASED ON CORE SAMPLES ...... 904 Tada-Nori Goto

MULTI-SCALE DETECTION OF BURIED MINERALIZATION AND LITHOLOGY THROUGH KALAHARI TRANSPORTED COVER IN NW BOTSWANA ...... 906 Ravi Anand

NEW METHOD OF FINDING THE ZONES OF HYDROTHERMAL SULFIDE MINERALIZATION IN THE OCEAN...... 908 Sergei Petukhov

OPTIMIZING THE EXPLORATION OF HYDROTHERMALLY ENRICHED CALCIUM CARBONATE BEARING FAULTS USING GEOPHYSICAL METHODS: IMPLICATIONS TO RESOURCE ESTIMATION...... 910 Emmanuel Chirenje

QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF GROUND WATER AS A MEDIA FOR MINERAL EXPLORATION IN ARID AND SEMIARID REGION ...... 912 Rajni Mathur

REE ENRICHMENT IN LATERITIC SOIL PROFILES AND ITS ECONOMIC POTENTIALITY - A CASE STUDY FROM NONGPOH GRANITOIDS, MEGHALAYA, INDIA ...... 914 Ravi Kumar Umrao

SELECTIVE LEACHING ANALYSIS OF CU PORPHYRY DEPOSIT, PLUTUS PROSPECT, BOTSWANA...... 916 Josephine Uushona

THE MANTLE DERIVED POTASSIC AND ULTRAPOTASSIC ROCKS RELATED ENRCIHMENTS OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (REE) ON PENEPLAINS OF GOLCUK DISTRICT (SOUTHERN TURKEY)...... 917 Ali Tugcan Unluer

TRANSPORTED COVER AS AN EFFICIENT MEDIUM TO IDENTIFY ORE GEOCHEMICAL FOOTPRINTS: THE DEGRUSSA LANDSCAPE GEOCHEMICAL EVOLUTION ...... 918 Ignacio Gonzalez-Alvarez

3D GEOPHYSICAL MODELLING OF THE BETHLEHEM SUB-BASIN, FREE STATE, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 920 Ansuya Naidoo

CLUSTER ANALYSIS OF CHROMITES, LENA WEST DIAMOND REGION, NWT, CANADA ...... 921 Raymond Davies

GEOCHEMICAL DATA INTERPRETATION TECHNIQUES AND MINERAL TARGET GENERATION, NORTHERN LIMB, BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA...... 924 Sibongiseni Hlatshwayo

GEOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC MONITORING OF HYDROCARBON RESOURCES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION USING GIS TECHNOLOGIES...... 926 Marina Iutina

GEOTEMPERATURE FILED CHARACTERISTICS OF LAIZHOU BAY, JIAODONG PENINSULA, CHINA ...... 927 Fengshan Ma

INFORMATION-ANALYTICAL BASIS FOR GEOLOGICAL MAPPING OF THE OCEAN FLOOR...... 929 Natalia Kolchina

OBJECTS, METHODS AND MAIN RESULTS OF QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION OF HYDROCARBON RESOURCE BASE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION...... 931 Maria Kravchenko

SMALL SCALE PROCESSING ECONOMIC POTENTIAL OF MALAWIAN CARBONATE RESOURCES FOR CEMENT PRODUCTION...... 932 Freeman Senzani

THE RARE EARTH ELEMENTS GEOCHEMISTRY FOR SURFACE SEDIMENTS FROM FOUR TRANSECTS IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA AND ITS GEOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE ...... 933 Li Miao

THE RECOVERY OF CHROME FROM SPIRAL TAILING DUMPS...... 934 Duduetsang Tlhabane

LINKS BETWEEN PORPHYRY AND IOCG DEPOSITS ...... 936 Jeremy P. Richards

PORPHYRY COPPER ENRICHMENT LINKED TO EXCESS ALUMINIUM IN PLAGIOCLASE ...... 938 Ben Williamson

PRIMARY FLUID CHEMISTRY: THE KEY DRIVER OF METAL BUDGETS AND DISPERSION GEOCHEMISTRY IN HYDROTHERMAL ORE SYSTEMS? ...... 939 Jamie Wilkinson

VAPOURS, VOLCANOES AND ORE FORMATION ...... 941 Anthony Williams-Jones

BIF-HOSTED MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF AFRICA...... 943 Nicolas Beukes

MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF AFRICA - BLACK SHALE ASSOCIATED DEPOSITS ...... 945 Edward Swindell

PALEOPROTEROZOIC BANDED IRON FORMATION-HOSTED HIGH-GRADE HEMATITE IRON ORE DEPOSITS OF THE , SOUTH AFRICA ...... 947 Albertus Smith

PHOSPHORUS ZONING IN OLIVINE FROM THE FE-TI OXIDE-BEARING BAIMA MAFIC INTRUSION, SW CHINA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ORIGIN OF FE-TI OXIDE ORES...... 949 Chang-Ming Xing

STRUCTURAL CONTROL OF FLUID FLOW AND FE DEPOSITION AT THABAZIMBI MINE: INSIGHTS FROM MAPPING AND 3D MODELLING OF OPERATIONAL PITS...... 951 Ian Basson

THE GREAT MINERAL FIELDS OF AFRICA ...... 952 Susan Frost-Killian

FORMATION MECHANISM OF AUTHIGENIC GRAIN-COATING CHLORITE AND SEQUENCE RESPONSE: EVIDENCES FROM THE UPPER TRIASSIC XUJIAHE FORMATION IN SOUTHERN SICHUAN BASIN, CHINA...... 954 Yu Yu

GEOCHEMISTRY OF TRACE ELEMENT OF SANDSTONE-TYPE URANIUM DEPOSIT IN XIXI AREA, BAYINTALA SAG...... 955 Chengdong Liu

HIGH RESOLUTION U-PB CA-ID-TIMS DATING DOCUMENTS OUT OF SEQUENCE EMPLACEMENT OF LAYERING IN THE UPPER CRITICAL ZONE OF THE RUSTENBURG LAYERED SUITE, BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA...... 956 James Mungall

INFLUENCE OF REWORKING AND TRANSPORT PROCESSES OF PHOSPHATIC GRAINS ON RARE EARTH ELEMENT (REE) SIGNATURES...... 958 Werner Piller

MAIN TYPES OF PLATINUM-GROUP ELEMENT MINERALIZATION IN THE FEDOROVATUNDRA LAYERED INTRUSION, KOLA PENINSULA, RUSSIA...... 959 Nikolay Groshev

RUANGWA GRAPHITE DEPOSITS AND ITS CHARACTERS DISTRICT RUANGWA, LINDI REGION, TANZANIA...... 961 Shyam Ameta

TEXTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SULPHIDES ASSOCIATED WITH GOLD MINERALIZATION AT THE BARBERTON MINES, BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT, SOUTH AFRICA...... 962 Mohammed Alnaghasi Hassan Altigani

ANALYSIS OF PILLAR SCALING IN THE MAGDALENA COLLIERY, DUNDEE, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 964 Sihle Mtshali

KIMBERLITES FROM THE KUNDELUNGU PLATEAU (SOUTH EAST D.R. CONGO): AGE DETERMINATION, IMPLICATIONS FOR REGIONAL TECTONISM AND MINERALIZATION...... 965 Jacques Mwandulo Batumike

MULTIPLE TIN MINERALIZATION EVENTS IN AFRICA: CONSTRAINTS BY IN-SITU LA–ICPMS CASSITERITE U–PB AGES ...... 967 Rongqing Zhang

RARE EARTH ELEMENT DEPOSITS OF AFRICA ...... 969 Robin Harmer

THE HOSPITAL SN-NB-TA DEPOSIT IN MANONO MINING DISTRICT (KATANGA-DR CONGO): GEOLOGICAL AND STRUCTURAL SETTINGS, MINERAL POTENTIAL...... 971 Francois Toto Lubala

THE MESOPROTEROZOIC EAST AFRICAN NICKEL BELT...... 972 John Paul Hunt

TIN IN AFRICA ...... 974 Judith Kinnaird

URANIUM IN AFRICA ...... 976 Judith Kinnaird

CHARACTERIZATION OF THE PRE-SALT, LOWER CARBONIFEROUS CARBONATES RESERVOIRS IN F BLOCK, NORTHERN PRE-CASPIAN BASIN OF KAZAKHSTAN: PRELIMINARY RESULTS...... 978 Siyang Zhang

HYDROTHERMAL FLUID EVOLUTION IN PORPHYRY-TYPE ORE DEPOSITS: EVIDENCE FROM FLUID INCLUSIONS, CATHODOLUMINESCENCE, AND TRACE ELEMENTS IN QUARTZ...... 979 Brian Rusk

LA-ICP-MS AND EMP RELATIONSHIPS ON PYRITE GRAINS FROM THE SHEBA, FAIRVIEW, AND NEW CONSORT GOLD MINES, BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT, SOUTH AFRICA: AN ATTEMPT FOR QUANTIFICATION...... 980 Mohammed Alnagashi Hassan Altigani

NEW CONTRIBUTION TO MINERALOGY OF THE MUSSOORIE PHOSPHORITE...... 982 Dhiraj Banerjee

NEW TRACE PRECIOUS METAL DATA ON CARRIER MINERALS FROM THE KEVITSA MINE, FINLAND ...... 983 Louis Cabri

QUEBRADA DE LA MINA, A NEW PORPHYRY AU DEPOSIT (31°29' S, 70° 32' W) IN THE ANDEAN MAIN CORDILLERA OF SAN JUAN, ARGENTINA: A PETROGENETIC ANALYSIS...... 985 David Lentz

RADON, PB-ISOTOPES AND GOLD MINERALISATION IN THE WITWATERSRAND BASIN...... 987 Roger Dixon

TEXTURAL, MINERALOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF MARINE SAND RESOURCES OFF WEST COAST, INDIA ...... 989 Gopalan Vannathan

A REVIEW OF THE BIRIMIAN SUPERGROUP- AND TARKWAIAN GROUP-HOSTED GOLD DEPOSITS OF GHANA...... 991 George Henry

ARCHAEAN GOLD ON THE OF SOUTH AFRICA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT ...... 993 Trevor Pearton

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF PT, CR AND V MINING IN THE S.W LIMB OF THE BUSHVELD COMPLEX...... 995 Fred N. Mphephu

THE GAMSBERG ZINC DEPOSIT SOUTH AFRICA: AWAKENING OF A MESOPROTEROZOIC SUPERGIANT...... 997 Abraham Rozendaal

THE WEST COAST OF SOUTH AFRICA: GIANT DEPOSITORY OF PLACER TITANIUM AND ZIRCON ...... 999 Carlo Philander

ZEERUST FLUORSPAR FIELD...... 1001 Allan Saad

DIVERSITY OF TRACE ELEMENTS OF KYANITES AND ITS PETROGENETIC AND ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS...... 1002 Axel Muller

FLUORAPATITE DEPOSIT IN A CARBONATITIC ENVIRONMENT: PROCESSES AND PROSPECTS...... 1004 Sophie Decrée

GEOLOGY, GEOCHEMISTRY AND ORE GENESIS OF THE -EARLY PHOSPHORITES IN SOUTH CHINA ...... 1006 Shao Yong Jiang

IRON OXIDES: A VERSATILE TOOL FOR GEOCHEMICAL FINGERPRINTING AND GEOCHRONOLOGY ...... 1008 Cristiana Ciobanu

PHOSPHORITE DEPOSITS ON THE NAMIBIAN SHELF...... 1010 John Compton

‘TRACE-ELEMENT-IN-MINERAL’ SIGNATURES: ACQUISITION, INTERPRETATION AND APPLICATION ...... 1011 Nigel Cook

DISCORDANT BODIES WITHIN THE CRITICAL ZONE OF THE BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA: OVERVIEW AND EFFECT ON MINING AND EXPLORATION...... 1013 Roger Scoon

PLATINUM GROUP METALS WATERBERG PGE DEPOSIT DISCOVERY...... 1015 Gordon Chunnett

PLATINUM MINING IN WESTERN BUSHVELD - A RELATION BETWEEN PRIMARY MINERAL ALTERATION AND LOSS OF RECOVERY IN PGES ...... 1016 Bennard Van Heerden

RECENT ADVANCES IN UNDERSTANDING THE 3D GEOMETRY OF THE BUSHVELD COMPLEX USING GEOPHYSICAL DATA ...... 1018 Janine Cole

THE IVANPLATS PLATREEF PROJECT, NORTHERN LIMB, BUSHVELD COMPLEX ...... 1020 Danie Grobler

MESSINA COPPER-SULPHIDE DEPOSITS REVISITED: CATHODOLUMINESCENCE AND FLUID INCLUSION STUDIES, LIMPOPO PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 1022 Humbulani Rejune Mundalamo

PHOSPHATE MINERALIZATION IN THE VERGENOEG FLUORITE DEPOSIT (RSA) AND ITS IMPLICATION FOR THE ORIGIN OF REE-BEARING FLUID ALTERATION...... 1024 Tobias Walter Höfig

PHOSPHATE NODULES FROM EARLY CAMBRIAN BLACK SHALE SEQUENCE ON YANGTZE PLATFORM, SOUTH CHINA: A GEOCHEMICAL AND ISOTOPIC INVESTIGATION AND IMPLICATION FOR DIAGENETIC FLUID EVOLUTION...... 1026 Jing-Hong Yang

PREDICTING BASE METAL CONCENTRATIONS IN CRUSTAL FLUIDS...... 1028 James Davey

ZONALITY AND OTHERNESS OF MINERALIZATION FOR MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSIT IN THE CHENGMENSHAN OREFIELD, JIANGXI PROVINCE, CHINA...... 1030 Xuhui Li

A SIGNIFICANT VANADIFEROUS, TITANO-MAGNETITE DEPOSIT IN THE TETE SUITE, MOZAMBIQUE ...... 1032 Hendrik F J Theart

CHEMISTRY OF CASSITERITE, FERBERITE AND COLUMBITE-TANTALITE SAMPLES FROM RWINKWAVU, BUGARURA-KULUTI AND MUSHA-NTUNGA MINERAL DISTRICTS OF THE SOUTH- EASTERN RWANDA...... 1034 Jean-Claude Ngaruye

DEVELOPING THROUGH THE HEX RIVER FAULT AT 16 SHAFT, IMPALA PLATINUM, RUSTENBURG, SOUTH AFRICA...... 1035 Jacolene De Klerk

GEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE IRON OXIDE-COPPER-GOLD (IOCG) DEPOSITS IN THE KANGDIAN REGION, SW CHINA...... 1037 Guangshu Yang

THE GEOLOGICAL SETTING OF THE MERENSKY REEF AND ITS RELEVANCE TO MINING OPERATIONS – ROYAL BAFOKENG PLATINUM, STYLDRIFT...... 1039 Jaco Vermeulen

2.7 GA PLUME ASSOCIATED VMS MINERALIZATION IN THE EASTERN GOLDFIELDS SUPERTERRANE: INSIGHTS FROM THE AG-ZN-(AU) NIMBUS DEPOSIT...... 1041 Steve Hollis

CHARACTERISTIC OF THE OREFIELD STRUCTURES IN THE WUXU POLYMETALLIC DEPOSIT, DANCHI METAL DISTRICT, GUANGXI, CHINA...... 1043 Xiao Changhao

CHARACTERIZATION OF HOST ROCK AND ASSOCIATED MINERALIZATION OF VMS TYPE ZN-PB- CU PROSPECT AT MUARIYA, BETUL BELT, INDIA...... 1044 R. P. Nagar

EVOLUTION OF GREISEN-TYPE SN-W-LI-MINERALIZATIONS (ZINNWALD/CÍNOVEC, ERZGEBIRGE) - A MICROSTRUCTURAL AND MICROTHERMOMETRIC APPROACH...... 1045 Hendrik Haneklaus

GENESIS OF THE SANDSTONE-HOSTED BAXINGTU URANIUM DEPOSIT IN THE SONGLIAO BASIN, NE CHINA ...... 1046 Christophe Bonnetti

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION, CHEMICAL COMPOSITION, AND GENESIS OF BRECCIAS IN THE ZN-PB LISHEEN MINING DISTRICT...... 1048 Thomas Riegler

TRACKING SOURCES OF MINERALISING FLUIDS USING TOURMALINE COMPOSITIONS: A CASE STUDY FROM THE ARDLETHAN TIN DEPOSITS, EASTERN AUSTRALIA...... 1049 Patrick Carr

A FACIES MODEL FOR THE E9EC REEF AS DEVELOPED ON COOKE 4 SHAFT, RANDFONTEIN ESTATES ...... 1051 Mark Burnett

ANATOMY OF A WITWATERSRAND CONGLOMERATE REEF...... 1053 Rodney Tucker

HOW APPLIED SEDIMENTOLOGY WAS USED TO OPTIMISE THE ECONOMIC LIFE OF MARGINAL WITWATERSRAND GOLD MINES...... 1055 Willo Stear

THE ELSBURG AND MONDEOR CONGLOMERATES -FROM BARREN TO CONTAINING A 100 MILLION OUNCE GOLD RESOURCE ...... 1056 Rodney Tucker

THE WITWATERSRAND GOLDFIELD - FROM GEOLOGICAL ORIGINS TO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF MINING ...... 1058 Morris Viljoen

"THE ORE BODY DICTATES" EXTENDING THE ECONOMIC LIFE OF WITWATERSRAND ORE BODIES ...... 1060 Jaco Boshoff

3D MODEL OF THE MAJOR CRUSTAL BOUNDARIES OF AUSTRALIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR METALLOGENESIS ...... 1061 Michael P Doublier

CHROMITE CHEMISTRY AND PLATINUM GROUP MINERALS AS PETROGENETIC AND TECTONIC INDICATORS FOR ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS WITH ALASKAN-TYPE AFFINITIES FROM THE ATTAPADI VALLEY OF BHAVANI SHEAR ZONE, SOUTHERN INDIA...... 1063 M. N. Praveen

GEOLOGICAL CONTROLS, ENVIRONMENT OF FORMATION AND STYLE OF COPPER AND GOLD MINERALIZATION IN THE MUNDIYAWAS-KHERA AREA OF ALWAR DISTRICT, RAJASTHAN, WESTERN INDIA ...... 1065 Akella Venkatesh

METALLOGENIC AND GEODYNAMIC EVOLUTION OF THE LESSER CAUCASUS ...... 1066 Robert Moritz

METALLOGENY OF THE SARYJAZ ORE DISTRICT, EASTERN KYRGYZSTAN: RELATIONSHIP WITH CONTINENTAL SUBDUCTION AND THE TARIM MANTLE PLUME...... 1068 Boris Trifonov

TECTONIC PROCESSES AND METALLOGENY ALONG THE TETHYAN MOUNTAIN RANGES OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND SOUTH ASIA...... 1070 Mike Searle

IN-SITU LA-ICP-MS TRACE ELEMENTS ANALYSIS OF MAGNETITE FROM THE GIANT BEIYA GOLD- POLYMETALLIC DEPOSIT, WESTERN YUNNAN PROVINCE, SOUTHWEST CHINA...... 1071 Yu Fu

MAGMATIC ORIGIN OF ‘KIRUNA-TYPE’ APATITE-IRON-OXIDE ORES REVEALED BY FE-O ISOTOPE CORRELATIONS...... 1073 Valentin Troll

MITIGATION OF THE ROCKBURST RISK IN DEEP SOUTH AFRICAN GOLD MINES ...... 1074 Raymond Durrheim

PETROPHYSICAL AND GEOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE SEISMICALLY NON-REFLECTIVE CARBON LEADER REEF: WITWATERSRAND BASIN...... 1076 Nomqhele Nkosi

RELATIVE TIMING OF ALTERATIONS IN THE WITWATERSRAND BASIN...... 1077 Katharina Wulff

UNDERSTANDING THE ORIGIN OF GROUNDWATER IN THE EVANDER BASIN GOLDFIELDS TO ASSIST MINE WATER MANAGEMENT DURING CLOSURE, SOUTH AFRICA...... 1079 H. Saeze

ALTERATION-MINERALIZATION AND ELEMENT MIGRATION FEATURES OF BAIYINCHANG VMS DEPOSIT IN GANSU PROVINCE, CHINA ...... 1080 Kai Dong

DIAMONDIFEROUS TREND OF THE IN THE LUNDA REGION (ANGOLA)...... 1081 Joao Tunga Felix

EVIDENCE FOR POST-MAGMATIC RARE-EARTH ELEMENT MOBILISATION FROM A MICROGEOCHEMICAL IN SITU ID-TIMS SM–ND ISOCHRON FROM A SINGLE MAGMATIC EUDIALYTE CRYSTAL FROM THE NORRA KÄRR ALKALINE COMPLEX ...... 1082 Axel Sjöqvist

FIELD AND PETROGRAPHIC ASPECTS OF KOLOMELA IRON ORE DEPOSIT, POSTMASBURG, SOUTH AFRICA AND THEIR GENETIC SIGNIFICANCE ...... 1084 Vusani Victoria Mathada

GOLD IN WEST AFRICA – WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?...... 1087 L Peters

RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CONCENTRATION OF PHOSPHORUS AND EVOLUTIONARY OF SMALL SHELLY FAUNAS FROM THE CAMBRIAN MAIDIPING FORMATION, CHINA ...... 1088 Wentian Mi

A REVIEW OF THE HISTORY AND GEOLOGY OF THE KNYSNA (MILLWOOD) GOLDFIELDS, WESTERN CAPE PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA. AN OPPORTUNITY MISSED?...... 1090 Christopher Bargmann

ANTIMONY / GOLD MINERALIZATION OF THE MURCHISON GREENSTONE BELT...... 1092 Trevor Pearton

GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF MINING IMPACTS ON THE CENTRAL RAND ...... 1093 Fred N. Mphephu

IN-LOOP TEM FOR FAST INVESTIGATION OF COAL-MINE OUT WATER-FILLED ZONES ...... 1095 Guo-Qiang Xue

THE MINING HISTORY OF CAPE TOWN...... 1097 Doug Cole

INTRUSIONS RELATED ORE GENESIS PROCESSES ALONG THE SUBDUCTION LINE OF BURSA ULUDAG...... 1098 Huseyin Kocaturk

NEW DISCOVERY OF A WOLFRAMITE-BEARING GRANITIC PORPHYRY DIKE IN PINGMIAO ORE BLOCK OF THE GIANT DAHUTANG TUNGSTEN DEPOSIT (JIANGXI PROVINCE, SOUTH CHINA): A GEOCHRONOLOGIC, GEOCHEMICAL AND PETROGENETIC STUDY ...... 1099 Y. F. Meng

UNDERSTANDING MINERAL DEPOSITS AND ORE FORMING PROCESSES - THE SELF- ORGANISATION CONCEPT AND ITS IMPORTANCE TO THE SEARCH FOR NEW MINERAL RESOURCES...... 1101 Sabine Dietrich

UNIQUENESS OF THE JIAODONG TERRANE CONSTRAINED BY THE PENGLAI GROUP, EASTERN CHINA...... 1103 Hongyan Li

IOCG DEPOSITS ON THE PALAEOZOIC- CONTINENTAL MARGINS: A DEPOSIT CLAN FORMED DURING BASIN INVERSION...... 1105 Huayong Chen

LITHOSPHERIC AND TECTONIC SETTINGS OF IOCG SYSTEMS IN AUSTRALIA ...... 1107 Roger Skirrow

MINERALOGY AND CHEMISTRY OF ALTERATION ZONE ASSOCIATED WITH MASSIVE SULPHIDE ORES OF THE ARIAB DISTRICT, RED SEA HILLS, SUDAN...... 1109 Ibrahim Samia

THE 2650 MA TO 2600 MA MAGMATIC EVENT AND ITS ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE FOR THE LCT PEGMATITE BUDGET...... 1110 Thomas Dittrich

THE SOURCES OF ORE-FORMING MATERIALS FROM THE ANQING SKARN TYPE CU-FE DEPOSIT, ANHUI PROVINCE, CHINA...... 1112 Guangshu Yang

VOLCANIC-HOSTED MASSIVE SULPHIDE DEPOSITS IN MAINLAND SE ASIA: THEIR POTENTIAL AND PROSPECTIVITY ...... 1114 Khin Zaw

A CRETACEOUS GRANITE-RELATED STRATIFORM CU ORE HOSTED IN TRIASSIC BASALT, SW CHINA...... 1116 Jiawei Zhang

DICTIONEMA AND OBOLUS SANDSTONE (PHOSPHORITE) OF THE BALTIC SEDIMENTARY BASIN: NEW TYPE OF COMPLEX ORE FOR RENIUM AND URANIUM, PLATINOIDS AND RARE-EARTH METALS ...... 1118 Vladimir Vyalov

GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND METALLOGENIC SIGNIFICANCE OF IGNEOUS ROCKS FROM ZHUNUO PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSIT, TIBET...... 1119 Ying-Chun Pang

GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE GIANT BEIYA GOLD–POLYMETALLIC DEPOSIT IN YUNNAN PROVINCE, SOUTHWEST CHINA AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PETROGENESIS OF ALKALINE PORPHYRY ...... 1120 Xiaoming Sun

IRON-OXIDE APATITE DEPOSITS IN EASTERN CHINA FORMED BY ACCUMULATION OF MAGMATIC HYDROSALINE CHLORIDE LIQUIDS ...... 1122 Xin-Fu Zhao

MOLYBDENITE RE–OS, ZIRCON U–PB DATING AND LU-HF ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS OF THE XIAERCHULU AU DEPOSIT, INNER MONGOLIA PROVINCE, CHINA...... 1124 Jiaxin Wang

NANO- TO MICRON-PARTICULATE GOLD HOSTED BY MAGNETITE FROM THE BEIYA GOLD DEPOSIT, SW CHINA...... 1126 Haoyang Zhou

NUCLEUS DEPOSIT: A SUPERPOSED (?) AU-BI-AS-CU MINERALIZED SYSTEM AT MOUNTAIN FREEGOLD, YUKON, CANADA, WITH CONSTRAINTS FROM MOLYBDENITE RE/OS AND TITANITE U/PB GEOCHRONOLOGY ...... 1128 Thierry Bineli Betsi

A STEP FORWARD IN UNDERSTANDING 3D MAGMATIC STRUCTURES AND ORE DEPOSITS ...... 1129 Emma J. Hunt

BUSHVELD’S BASE HAS FOUNDERED ...... 1130 Nicholas Arndt

FIELD OBSERVATIONS BEARING ON THE ORIGIN OF UG1/UG2 CHROMITITES IN THE BUSHVELD COMPLEX...... 1131 Rais Latypov

THE BUSHVELD COMPLEX: AN OVERVIEW OF ITS STRUCTURE, CONCEPTS ON ITS ORIGIN, AGE AND OUTSTANDING CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES...... 1132 Allan Wilson

IN SITU SR ISOTOPE EVIDENCE FOR PLAGIOCLASE MINGLING IN THE UG2 LAYER OF THE BUSHVELD COMPLEX (SOUTH AFRICA) ...... 1134 Ilka Kleinhanns

MAGMATIC REACTION AND REPLACEMENT PHENOMENA ASSOCIATED WITH IRON-RICH MELTS MIGRATING THROUGH THE UPPER CRITICAL ZONE, RUSTENBURG LAYERED SUITE, BUSHVELD COMPLEX...... 1136 David Reid

RESULTS OF A HIGH RESOLUTION MINERALOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL STUDY WITHIN THE MERENSKY REEF, WESTERN LIMB, BUSHVELD COMPLEX ...... 1138 Justine Magson

SM-ND ISOTOPIC EVIDENCE FOR SAMPLING OF MULTIPLE SOURCES DURING THE EMPLACEMENT OF THE UPPER CRITICAL ZONE, BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 1140 Roger Scoon

THE EMPLACEMENT MECHANISM OF THE UG-1 CHROMITITE IN THE BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA...... 1142 Ria Mukherjee

TRACE ELEMENT PROFILES THROUGH THE BUSHVELD UG2 CHROMITITE: ALKALI MOBILITY AND POST-CUMULUS REWORKING IN A REDOX POTENTIAL GRADIENT ...... 1144 Robert Trumbull

ANATOMY OF A LIP-FORMING CONDUIT SYSTEM IN THE DEEP CRUST: THE SEILAND IGNEOUS PROVINCE, NORTHERN NORWAY...... 1146 Rune Larsen

DISTINGUISHING MULTIPLE SULPHIDE ZONES IN THE PLATREEF WITHIN A SINGLE CORE FROM THE TURFSPRUIT FARM PROSPECT, NORTHERN LIMB OF THE BUSHVELD COMPLEX...... 1148 Eva Marquis

HYPOTHESIS OF NON-SEQUENTIAL INJECTION OF PGE-RICH ULTRAMAFIC SILLS IN EARLIER- FORMED NORITIC CUMULATES AT AKANANI (PLATREEF), NORTHERN SECTION OF THE BUSHVELD COMPLEX: EVIDENCE FROM NEW SM-ND ISOTOPIC DATA ...... 1150 Roger Scoon

OFFSET PGE REEFS REVISITED: EQUILIBRIUM AND DIFFUSIVE PARTITIONING IN ACTION ...... 1152 David Holwell

PLATINUM-GROUP ELEMENT CONTENTS OF SOME KARELIAN AND KAAPVAAL KIMBERLITES: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PGE BUDGET OF THE SUB-CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE...... 1154 Wolfgang Maier

THE METALLOGENESIS OF THE LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE AND ITS BEARING ON THE BUSHVELD MAGMATIC EVENT: EVIDENCE FROM LAMPROPHYRIC DYKES AND CRITICAL METALS IN MANTLE XENOLITH SULPHIDES...... 1156 Hannah Hughes

TOP DOWN FORMATION OF THE SONJU LAKE INTRUSION (DULUTH COMPLEX USA) WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR FORMATION OF PGE REEF DEPOSITS ...... 1158 Craig Lundstrom

CONTROLS OF PHOSPHOGENESIS ON THE WESTERN CONTINENTAL MARGIN OF INDIA ...... 1160 Adukadukkam Anil Kumar

DEEP “PLUGS” CAUGHT IN CONTINENT-TO-CONTINENT COLLISIONS, GEMSTONES, DEPOSITS OF METALS, OIL & GAS ...... 1162 John Saul

EASTERN LIMB OF THE BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA: GEOLOGY AND GEOMORPHOLOGY OF A UNIQUELY LAYERED ULTRAMAFIC-MAFIC INTRUSION ...... 1164 Roger Scoon

GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE GUAYANA SHIELD, VENEZUELA, AND ITS MINERALOGICAL RESOURCES: A TALE OF AND MANTLE PLUMES...... 1166 Vicente Mendoza

PARAGENETIC SEQUENCE OF SULFOSALT MINERALIZATION AT EPITHERMAL DEPOSITS OF SOUTHWESTERN HOKKAIDO, JAPAN...... 1168 Euis Tintin Yuningsih

PARTIAL ASSIMILATION OF CALC-SILICATE XENOLITHS IN THE UITKOMST COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA...... 1170 Nicolaas Steenkamp

SMECTITE FORMATION IN THE ÚRKÚT MN-ORE DEPOSIT, HUNGARY ...... 1172 Mate Zsigmond Lesko

THIN STRINGERS OF “REACTION” CHROMITITE IN THE UPPER CRITICAL ZONE, EASTERN LIMB OF THE BUSHVELD COMPLEX ...... 1174 Roger Scoon

BASIN INVERSION AS A DRIVER OF FLUID FLOW AND PB-ZN MINERALIZATION IN THE PALEOPROTEROZOIC-EARLIEST MESOPROTEROZOIC MOUNT ISA MINERAL PROVINCE: EVIDENCE FROM DEEP SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILING AND GRAVITY MODELLING...... 1176 George M. Gibson

ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNIFICANCE OF BULK GEOCHEMISTRY AND METAL ANOMALIES WITHIN ROCKS OF THE VALONGO ANTICLINE, NORTHERN PORTUGAL ...... 1178 Jasper Knight

GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL STUDY OF THE KOMBAT SOUTH AREA, OTAVI MOUNTAIN LAND, NORTHERN NAMIBIA ...... 1179 Josia Shilunga

GEOLOGY OF THE KINSEVERE CU DEPOSIT, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO ...... 1181 Ahmad Saleem

METALLOGENIC SUBTYPES OF SANDSTONE TYPE URANIUM DEPOSITS AND PROSPECTING DIRECTION IN JUNGGAR BASIN, CHINA...... 1183 M. K Qin

MINERALOGY AND MINERAL CHEMISTRY OF MANGANESE ORES OF THE SAUSAR FOLD BELT (SFB), CENTRAL INDIA...... 1185 Ramanath Barik

STRUCTURAL FRAMEWORK OF THE MAREMANE DOME: SELECTIVE IRON ORE PRESERVATION ...... 1187 Ian Basson

THE KAMOA COPPER PROJECT ON THE CONGOLESE COPPERBELT...... 1189 George Gilchrist

CHEMICAL ZONATION IN STRATIFORM CHROMITITES OF THE IMANDRA LAYERED INTRUSION, KOLA PENINSULA, RUSSIA ...... 1191 Sofia Chistyakova

CRYSTALLIZATION OF CHROMITE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE FRACTIONATION OF OS, IR, RU AND RH...... 1192 Philippe Pagé

FRACTIONATION, EXSOLUTION AND MAGNETISM: PETROPHYSICAL INSIGHTS INTO PGE PROSPECTIVITY IN THE GILES MAFIC-ULTRAMAFIC INSTRUSIVE COMPLEX, CENTRAL AUSTRALIA...... 1193 James Austin

GENESIS OF CHROMITE BY DYNAMIC UPGRADING OF XENOCRYSTIC FE ± TI OXIDE ...... 1195 C Michael Lesher

SIGNIFICANCE OF METAL TENOR VARIATIONS IN CU-PGE DEPOSITS OF THE COLDWELL ALKALINE COMPLEX, CANADA: AN EXPLORATION TOOL...... 1197 David Good

A FLUID INCLUSION AND IN-SITU LA-MC-ICP-MS SULFUR ISOTOPE STUDY OF THE WUSIHE LEAD- ZINC DEPOSIT IN SICHUAN PROVINCE OF SOUTHWEST CHINA: IMPLICATIONS FOR ORE GENESIS ...... 1199 Suo-Fei Xiong

DICTIONEMA SHALES AND OBOLUS SANDSTONE (PHOSPHORITE) OF THE BALTIC SEDIMENTARY BASIN: NEW TYPE OF COMPLEX ORE FOR RENIUM AND URANIUM, PLATINOIDS AND RARE-EARTH METALS ...... 1201 Vladimir Vyalov

GENESIS OF THE EUGUI SPARRY MAGNESITE DEPOSIT, WESTERN PYRENEES, SPAIN...... 1202 Hamdy El Desouky

PHYSICO-CHEMICAL CONTROLS ON ORE DEPOSITION IN THE THE LA’ERMA AND QIONGMO AU– SE DEPOSITS IN THE WESTERN QINLING MOUNTAINS, CHINA...... 1204 Jiajun Liu

SOURCE AND EVOLUTION OF ORE FLUIDS OF THE DAQIAO SEDIMENT-HOSTED GOLD DEPOSIT, WESTERN QINLING OROGEN, CHINA: REVEALED FROM IN SITU SULFUR ISOTOPE ANALYSIS OF SULFIDES...... 1206 Ya-Fei Wu

STRUCTURAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE CSA CU-AG (PB-ZN) DEPOSI – A NEW PROSPECTIVE ON THE FORMATION OF THE COBAR MINING FIELD, NSW, AUSTRALIA...... 1207 Roisin Kyne

ASSESSMENT OF THE NI-CU-PGE SULFIDE POTENTIAL OF MAGMATIC INTRUSIONS SURROUNDING THE MUNALI NI-SULFIDE DEPOSIT, ZAMBIA ...... N/A Grace Howe

COMPARISON OF THE STYLE AND NATURE OF BRECCIA-HOSTED NI-SULPHIDE MINERALISATION WITHIN THE MUNALI INTRUSION, ZAMBIA...... 1209 Chloe Louise Mitchell

OCCURRENCE OF PGE AND THEIR CHARACTERISATION IN 3.35 GA SARGUR GREENSTONES OF WESTERN DHARWAR CRATON, KARNATAKA, INDIA ...... 1211 Manoranjan Mohanty

ORE GENETIC MODEL OF HETI NI-CU-PGE PROSPECT, CENTRAL INDIA: FROM MAGMATIC CRYSTALLIZATION TO HIGH GRADE METAMORPHISM AND HYDROTHERMALISM...... 1213 Muduru Lachhana Dora

PGE-NI-CU DEPOSIT FORMATION IN A DEEP-CRUSTAL ULTRAMAFIC CONDUIT SYSTEM. THE SEILAND IGNEOUS PROVINCE, NORTH NORWAY...... 1215 Rune Larsen

TWO MELTS IN THE SUDBURY IGNEOUS COMPLEX ...... 1217 C. M. Lesher

A PETROGRAPHIC AND GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF THE KALAHARI MANGANESE DEPOSIT, NORTHERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 1219 Lauren Blignaut

APPLICATION OF PYRITE TRACE ELEMENT CHEMISTRY USING LA-ICP-MS IN EXPLORATION FOR STRATIFORM ZN-PB DEPOSITS: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE MCARTHUR BASIN, AUSTRALIA ...... 1221 Indrani Mukherjee

GOLD PROVENANCE FINGERPRINTING AND PROSPECTIVITY IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA...... 1223 Elena Hancock

METALLOGENIC MODEL OF THE URANIUM DEPOSITS IN GUYUAN AREA, CHINA...... 1225 Z. X. Huang

PHOSPHORITES' SEDIMENTARY EVENT IN SINIAN DOUSHANTUO PERIOD: THE CASES STUDY OF WENG'AN PHOSPHORITE AND YICHANG PHOSPHORITE ...... 1227 Wentian Mi

TRACE ELEMENT SIGNATURES OF IRON OXIDES IN BIF-STYLE IRON DEPOSITS OF THE MIDDLEBACK RANGES, SOUTH AUSTRALIA ...... 1229 William Keyser

BASE METAL MINERAL-BEARING SHEAR ZONE AT TANDILIA SYSTEM, PRECAMBRIAN BASEMENT OF EASTERN ARGENTINA...... 1231 Raúl Ernesto De Barrio

EPITHERMAL GOLD AND PORPHYRY COPPER MINERALIZATION IN THE ZAMBOANGA MINERAL DISTRICT, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES...... 1233 Jillian Aira Gabo-Ratio

FLUID INCLUSIONS AND SULFUR ISOTOPE CONSTRAINTS ON THE GENESIS OF THE STRATIFORM ORES OF JIGUANZUI AU-CU SKARN DEPOSIT, MIDDLE-LOWER YANGTZE RIVER METALLOGENIC BELT, EASTERN CHINA ...... 1235 Hongqiang Wang

VOLUME 4

METALLOGENIC TYPES AND SPATIAL-TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS OF URANIUM DEPOSITS IN SOUTH CHINA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE SUBDUCTION OF PACIFIC PLATE TO EURASIAN PLATE ...... 1237 Yuqi Cai

METALLOGENY AND ECONOMIC POTENTIAL OF MO MINERALIZATION IN THE ERZGEBIRGE- KRUŠNÉ HORY (SAXONY/BOHEMIA), CENTRAL EUROPE...... 1239 Thomas Seifert

METALLOGENY OF THE SN-POLYMETALLIC / AG ORE FIELDS POBERSHAU AND RITTERSBERG (MARIENBERG DISTRICT), CENTRAL ERZGEBIRGE, GERMANY...... 1241 Thomas Seifert

MINERALIZATION STYLES RELATED TO A HIDDEN LATE-VARISCAN GRANITE INTRUSION: THE DISTRICT OF OELSNITZ (VOGTLAND SYNCLINORIUM, GERMANY)...... 1243 Thomas Seifert

NEW INSIGHTS ON A HISTORICAL MINE SITE: THE SN-W-LI ZINNWALD/CÍNOVEC DEPOSIT, EASTERN ERZGEBIRGE, CENTRAL EUROPE...... 1245 Thomas Seifert

NEW MINERALOGICAL AND FLUID INCLUSION DATA FROM SB-MINERALIZATION IN THE SB-AG MINING DISTRICT SCHLEIZ, EASTERN THURINGIA, GERMANY...... N/A Thomas Seifert

PRELIMINARY STUDY OF THE COPPER MINERALIZATION IN THE SABE TAUNG AREA, CENTRAL MYANMAR...... 1247 Akihiro Goda

A NEW OCCURRENCE OF CASSITERITE AS “WOOD TIN” IN SAXONY, GERMANY ...... N/A Tobias Petermann

CHARACTERISING POTENTIAL GEM QUALITY GARNET AND TOURMALINE PEGMATITE VEINS, GIYANI GREENSTONE BELT, SOUTH AFRICA...... 1249 Nicolaas Steenkamp

CHARACTERIZATION OF PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT DISTRIBUTION IN SULPHIDE ORES WITHIN THE MERENSKY REEF AT MODIKWA AND TWO RIVERS PLATINUM MINES, EASTERN BUSHVELD COMPLEX SOUTH AFRICA...... 1250 Nosibulelo Zilibokwe

CU MINERALISATION IN THE NEOPROTEROZOIC GLACIAL MWALE FORMATION (TENKE FUNGURUME MINING DISTRICT; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO) ...... 1252 Pascal Matanda Mambwe

GENERAL PATTERNS IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF GOLD AND DIAMONDS DEPOSITS, OIL AND GAS FIELDS, AND ACCUMULATIONS OF OTHER MINERALS ...... 1254 Alexander Likhachev

GEOLOGY AND ALTERATION CONTROLS OF CU-AU PORPHYRY STYLE MINERALIZATION OF THE RYABINOVOE ORE FIELD (CENTRAL ALDAN, SOUTH YAKUTIA) ...... 1256 Nadezhda Shatova

MINERALIZATION FEATURES OF THE KENCANA AU-AG-TE EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT, GOSOWONG GOLDFIELD, HALMAHERA, INDONESIA ...... 1258 Thomas Tindell

MINERALOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF NI-CU-PGE-BEARING MAFIC DIKES OF THE LUSATIAN BLOCK (GERMANY/CZECH REPUBLIC) ...... 1259 Thomas Seifert

MINERALOGY OF THE PEGMATOIDAL PSEUDO REEF IN THE WESTERN BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA...... 1261 Emil Burger

NANO-ENTITY FORMATION PRIOR TO THE CRYSTALLISATION OF PLATINUM-GROUP MINERALS: FUNDAMENTAL CONTROL BY ELECTRON CLOUD INTERACTION? ...... 1262 Marian Tredoux

NEW UNCONVENTIONAL TYPE OF ZIRCON MINERALIZATION...... 1264 Elena N. Levchenko

PETROGENESIS AND GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF NANGARHAR TALC DEPOSITS, AFGHANISTAN...... 1266 Muhammad Tahir

PETROLOGICAL AND MINERALOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS DISCUSSION OF DIAMOND-BEARING MOTHER ROCK IN ZHENYUAN AREA, GUIZHOU ...... 1267 Yuan Cheng Huang

PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENTS IN SOUTH LONGZHOU MOUNTAINS, SICHUAN, SW CHINA ...... 1268 Marian Munteanu

POST COLLISION MAGMATISM AND METALLOGENY AT THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE BALKAN PENINSULA, SE-EUROPE...... 1270 Todor Serafimovski

RECOGNITION OF SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE CRITICAL ZONE AND DEEP PLATREEF (BUSHVELD COMPLEX)...... 1272 Marina Yudovskaya

RHENIUM BEARING SANDS OF MOSCOW LIGNITE BASIN...... 1274 Alexander Kremenetskiy

STRUCTURAL AND GEOMORPHOLOGICAL CRITERIA FOR LOCALIZING HIDDEN DEPOSITS OF RARE-METAL WEATHERING CRUSTS OF DIAMOND AND PIPES...... 1276 Alexander Kremenetskiy

THE DISCOVERY A PALEO-OIL RESERVOIR AND STUDY ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORE FORMING AND HYDROCARBON ACCUMULATION IN QINGLONG ANTIMONY DEPOSIT, GUIZHOU CHINA...... 1278 Yuzhao Hu

THE PARASITIC ZIRCON OF MAFIC DIKES IN THE XIDAMING MOUNTAIN OF GUANGXI PROVINCE OF CHINA AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE ...... 1280 Changhao Xiao

TO THE PROBLEM OF RHENIUM EXTRACTION IN THE AREAS OF MODERN VOLCANISM...... 1282 Igor Spiridonov

3D MODEL OF THE SILVERMINES ZN-PB-BA DEPOSITS, COUNTY TIPPERARY, IRELAND...... 1284 Roisin Kyne

AN OVERVIEW ON THE GEOCHEMISTRY AND PALAEO-ENVIRONMENT OF MANGANESE NODULES FROM THE GENERAL NICE MANGANESE MINE (GNMM) IN THE NORTH WEST PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA...... 1286 Kakaba Madi

DISCOVERY OF PGE IN THE NEOPROTEROZOIC SEDIMENT-HOSTED STRATABOUND CU-AG DEPOSIT IN THE KALAHARI COPPERBELT, NW BOTSWANA ...... 1287 Adam Piestrzynski

GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISATION OF PB-ZN-CU AND BA MINERALISATION IN THE LOWER CRETACEOUS SEDIMENTS OF THE COASTAL BASIN, , CENTRAL AFRICA ...... 1289 Mathieu Lacorde

GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF TRACE ELEMENTS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS OF THE XINGYUANCHONG CU POLYMETALLIC DEPOSIT NORTHWEST OF JIANGXI PROVINCE FOR QINGZHOU-HANGZHOU METALLOGENIC BELT (QHMB), CHINA...... 1291 Xingyuan Li

GEOLOGICAL CONTROL OF AU-CU MINERALIZATION IN THE NEOPROTEROZOIC ITOMBWE FORMATIONS OF KAZIBA, SOUTH KIVU (D.R. CONGO)...... 1292 Espoir Mugisho Birhenjira

MINERALOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF NON-SULFIDE ZN–PB MINERALIZATION AT MEHDIABAD DEPOSIT, IRAN...... 1294 Flavien Choulet

NATURAL GAS SEEPAGE SEDIMENTARY ORE-FORMING MODEL IN MANGANESE RIFT BASIN...... 1296 Qi Zhou

NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE GENESIS OF BAVARIA´S LARGEST CU-ZN DEPOSIT IN KUPFERBERG (NE BAVARIA, GERMANY)...... 1298 Stefan Höhn

OPPORTUNITY FOR MIOCENE AGED TITANIUM PLACER DEPOSITS AROUND ULTRAMAFIC SLEZA MASSIF (SUDETS, SW POLAND) ...... N/A Janina Wiszniewska

ORE MINERAL DEPOSITION IN BLACK SHALES, SOUTHERN SLOPE OF THE GREATER CAUCASUS...... 1300 Nona Gagnidze

RE-EVALUATING MODELS FOR MANGANESE ORE GENESIS IN THE POSTMASBURG MANGANESE FIELD, NORTHERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA...... 1301 Harilaos Tsikos

S-C-O ISOTOPES CONSTRAINS ON THE ORE BEARING FLUIDS OF TONGCHANG COPPER DEPOSIT AT YIMENG, CENTRAL YUNNAN ...... 1302 Rong Wang

STRUCTURAL SETTING AND GEOMETRY OF THE KLIPBANKFONTEIN DEPOSIT, KOLOMELA MINE, SOUTH AFRICA...... 1303 Ian Basson

THE KUPFERSCHIEFER...... 1305 Adam Piestrzynski

THE STRATIGRAPHIC, PETROGRAPHIC AND GEOCHEMICAL SUBDIVISION OF THE UPPER MANGANESE ORE BED OF THE HOTAZEL FORMATION AT KUDUMANE MINING RESOURCES, NORTHERN CAPE PROVINCE...... 1307 Nkhensani Hlongwani

THE URANIUM ENRICHMENT OF HYDROTHERMAL SEDIMENTARY ROCKS OF LOWER CRETACEOUS IN BAIYINCHAGAN SAG OF ERLIAN BASIN,INNER MONGOLIA...... 1309 Qiang Guo

THE URANIUM-BEARING STRATUM STRUCTURE AND SEDIMENTARY CHARACTERISTICS OF JURASSIC IN JUNGGAR BASIN, XINJIANG, CHINA ...... 1311 Qiang Guo

AGE AND DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT FOR THE EDIACARAN DOUSHANTUO PHOSPHORITES AT WENG’AN, SOUTH CHINA: CONSTRAINTS FROM RE-OS ISOTOPES ...... 1313 Shao-Yong Jiang

AN APPROACH TO THE GEOLOGY AND METALLOGENY OF THE PRECAMBRIAN OF WESTERN SAHARA ...... 1315 Saleh Lehbib Nayem

DIFFERENTIAL DEGASSING OF H2 CAUSES REDOX CHANGES AFFECTING MULTIVALENT ELEMENT PARTITIONING DURING VOLATILE PHASE SATURATION OF CRYSTALLIZING MAGMAS ...... 1317 David Lentz

EVIDENCE FOR MILANKOVIC CYCLES ON THE EARLY EARTH? A CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHIC STUDY OF PRECAMBRIAN IRON FORMATION...... 1319 Stefan V. Lalonde

FE (TI, CU) MINERALIZATIONS IN NE POLAND AND S-SE LITHUANIA: THEIR POSSIBLE LINKS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR REGIONAL EVOLUTION...... 1321 Grazina Skridlaite

NEW GEOCHRONOLOGICAL, ISOTOPIC AND FLUID INCLUSION STUDY CONSTRAINTS ON THE FORMATION OF THE WORLD-CLASS BIKITA LCT PEGMATITE DEPOSIT ...... 1323 Thomas Dittrich

ORIGIN OF THE EDIACARAN DOUSHANTUO PHOSPHORITES IN THE YANGTZE GORGES AREA, CHINA...... 1325 Xuelei Chu

PRECIOUS METALS IN SHEAR ZONES AFFECTING ULTRABASIC ROCKS: EXAMPLES FROM WESTERN SAHARA ...... 1327 Saleh Lehbib Nayem

REE COMPOSITIONS OF THE SCHEELITE AND ORE-FORMING MATERIAL SOURCE OF LODE TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS IN EASTERN YANBIAN, NE CHINA...... 1329 Yunsheng Ren

REE UPTAKE IN A HYPERMINERALIZED FOSSIL WHALE ROSTRUM: IMPACT OF BONE HISTOLOGY ON POSTMORTEM ALTERATION...... 1331 Sophie Decrée

REGIONAL GEOLOGICAL AND MINERALOGICAL ZONALITY OF FORMATION OF UZBEKISTAN’S GOLD DEPOSITS...... 1333 Vladimir Tsoi

STRUCTURAL SETTING AND GEOMETRY OF THE LEEUWFONTEIN DEPOSIT, KOLOMELA MINE, SOUTH AFRICA...... 1334 Ian Basson

STUDY OF SEDIMENTARY FEATURE OF CAMBRIAN PHOSPHORITE AND ORE-CONTROLLING FEATURE OF OLD KARST SURFACE OF THE DENGYING FORMATION, ZHIJIN, GUIZHOU, CHINA...... 1336 Tie Mao

THE AGE, TECTONIC SETTING AND MAGMATIC STRATIGRAPHY OF THE WATERBERG PROJECT, LIMPOPO PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA...... 1338 Florian M Huthmann

THE CARBON AND OXYGEN ISOTOPES OF THE LATE NEOPROTEROIC-EARLY CAMBRIAN TAOZICHONG FORMATION IN QINGZHEN CITY, GUIZHOU PROVINCE, SOUTHWEST CHINA: IMPLICATION FOR PHOSPHORUS FORMATION ...... 1340 Ruidong Yang

THE LUTSHATSHA AND NKONKO MAFIC AND ULTRAMAFIC COMPLEXES IN THE ARCHEAN KASAI CRATON (D. R. CONGO) : GEOLOGICAL SETTING, PETROGRAPHY AND NI-CR POTENTIAL ...... 1342 Francois Toto Lubala

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF TRACE ELEMENT COMPOSITION OF FE-TI OXIDES ON DECIPHERING THE PGE FRACTIONATION IN LAYERED MAFIC INTRUSIONS: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE DUFEK INTRUSION, ANTARCTICA ...... 1344 Ricarda Hanemann

TIMING OF THE IOCG MINERALIZATION IN SIN QUYEN DEPOSIT IN NORTH VIETNAM ...... 1345 Adam Piestrzynski

TRACE ELEMENT CHEMISTRY AND GEOCHRONOLOGY OF MOLYBDENITES FROM DIFFERENT TYPES OF MINERALIZATION IN THE BOHEMIAN MASSIF: RESULTS FROM LA-ICPMS AND RE-OS STUDY...... 1348 Jan Pašava

AGES OF HYDROTHERMAL OVERPRINTS IN THE KIRUNA IRON OXIDE-APATITE ORES AS RECORDED IN SECONDARY MONAZITE AND XENOTIME...... 1350 Ulf B. Andersson

EVIDENCE FOR POST MAGMATIC HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS CIRCULATION THROUGH NANA ANOROGENIC COMPLEX GRANITES: TRANSFORMATION OF FELDSPAR INTO BIOTITE (ANNITE) AND RARE METALS (Y, ZR, LA, CE, ND) ENRICHMENT...... 1352 E Njonfang

GEOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE EVATE CARBONATITE...... 1354 Fabio Masotti

GEOLOGICAL FEATURES IN AND AROUND THE KIIRUNAVAARA ORE BODY, NORTHERNMOST SWEDEN, AND SOME IMPLICATIONS...... 1356 Ulf B. Andersson

INVESTIGATION, CHARACTERISATION, AND EVALUATION OF THORIUM DEPOSITS IN SOUTH AFRICA...... 1358 Matamba Tsanwani

MINERAL POTENTIAL OF THE FAR EASTERN SEAS OF RUSSIA AND THE PROSPECT OF ITS DEVELOPMENT...... 1359 Svetlana Babaeva

MINERALOGY AND FORMATION CONDITIONS OF THE AU-AG EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT NOVÁ BANA (SLOVAKIA) ...... 1360 Khulan Berkh

MULTIVARIATE CLASSIFICATION AND QUANTIFICATION OF SEDIMENTARY ROCKS ANALYSED USING STAND-OFF LASER-INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY SYSTEM ...... 1362 Pavel Porízka

POLYMETALLIC MINERALIZATIONS IN THE FUEGUIAN COLLISIONAL OROGEN, SOUTHERN PATAGONIA, ARGENTINA: SYNGENTIC OR EPIGENETIC DEPOSITS? NEW METALLOGENIC INSIGHTS...... 1363 Eduardo Zappettini

STRUCTURAL SETTING AND GEOMETRY OF THE KAPSTEVEL NORTH AND SOUTH DEPOSITS KOLOMELA MINE, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 1364 Ian Basson

SULPHIDE AND PGE DISTRIBUTION IN THE ‘FLATREEF’ AT TURFSPRUIT, NORTHERN LIMB OF THE BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA...... 1366 Jarlen Beukes

THE BA-SR ORE DEPOSITS OF THE NEUQUÉN BASIN, SW ARGENTINA ...... 1368 Raúl Ernesto De Barrio

ZINC ISOTOPES IN SPHALERITE FROM BIANJIA MINERAL SYSTEM IN DA HINGGAN MOUNTAINS, CHINA...... N/A Y Yang

GROOTEGELUK MINE GEOLOGY ...... 1369 Callie Van Heerden

MECHANICAL SYSTEM OF COAL & GAS OUTBURST ...... 1371 Xubiao Deng

THE COALFIELDS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL AFRICA: A CURRENT PERSPECTIVE ...... 1373 Philip John Hancox

THE MPUMALANGA COAL COALFIELDS: QUALITY, QUANTITY VARIATIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES THROUGH TIME AND SPACE...... 1374 M. P. Kekana

VARIATION OF COAL PETROGRAPHIC COMPOSITION ON EITHER SIDE OF THE TSHIPISE FAULT, SOUTPANSBERG COALFIELD, SOUTH AFRICA...... 1375 Nicola Wagner

DEEP SEATED OCCURRENCE OF COAL BELOW UPPER GONDWANA LITHO UNITS IN BAYYARAM AREA , GODAVARI VALLEY COALFIELD, KHAMMAM DISTRICT, TELANGANA STATE, INDIA...... 1376 S. Rajesh

PETROGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LOW SULPHUR COALS FROM THE CAMPANIAN- MAASTRICHTIAN MAMU FORMATION, ANAMBRA BASIN, SOUTH EAST NIGERIA...... 1377 Izuchukwu Mike Akaegbobi

THE COAL DEPOSITS OF MOZAMBIQUE ...... 1379 Andy Lloyd

THE COALS AT THE P/T BOUNDARY IN SOUTHERN CHINA: THEIR PETROLOGY, MINERALOGY AND ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY...... 1380 Longyi Shao

APPLICATION OF CLEAT ORIENTATION DATA FROM FIELD MAPPING AS CRITICAL INPUT FOR MODELLING IN-SITU STRESS ORIENTATION AROUND COAL BED METHANE TARGET AREA IN JHARIA COAL BASIN, INDIA...... 1382 Suman Paul

ASSESSMENT OF PHOSPHORUS ESTIMATION UNCERTAINTY IN THE SOUTH WALKER CREEK RANGAL COAL MEASURES, BOWEN BASIN, CENTRAL QUEENSLAND ...... 1384 Oktay Erten

QUANTITATIVE INORGANIC PROFILING OF COAL SEAMS USING CORE-SCANNING AND HAND- HELD X-RAY FLUORESCENCE TECHNIQUES...... 1385 Colin Ward

RARE AND OTHER VALUABLE METALS IN COAL DEPOSITS OF THE FAR EAST OF RUSSIA ...... 1387 Vladimir Vyalov

TECHNICAL EVALUATION OF COAL MINED BY SMALL MICRO AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES ...... 1389 Nthabiseng Portia Mahumapelo

TRACE CONSTITUENTS IN COAL: OCCURRENCE, EMISSIONS, AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT...... 1390 Allan Kolker

COAL GEOMETALLURGY: A PLACE GEOLOGISTS MAY ADD VALUE IN THE COAL INDUSTRY? ...... 1392 Herman Dorland

COAL QUALITY ESTIMATION FROM ROUTINELY ACQUIRED GEOPHYSICAL LOGS...... 1394 Binzhong Zhou

ESTIMATION OF COAL RESERVES: COMPARISON OF THE STOCHASTIC LOCAL INTERACTION MODEL AND ORDINARY KRIGING WITH AN APPLICATION TO A COAL DEPOSIT IN WYOMING, USA...... 1396 Ricardo Olea

GEOSTATISTICAL DRILL HOLE SPACING ANALYSIS FOR COAL RESOURCE ...... 1397 O. Bertoil

GEOSTATISTICAL MODELLING FOR COAL AND CBM RESOURCE ESTIMATION: CASE FROM A GONDWANA COALFIELD, INDIA...... 1398 Bhabesh Chandra Sarkar

MAPPING OF ULTIMATE PROPERTIES OF COAL USING ISOMETRIC LOG-RATIO TRANSFORMATION AND SEQUENTIAL GAUSSIAN SIMULATION...... 1400 Ricardo A. Olea

ALLEVIATION OF SLAGGING IN A PF BOILER THROUGH SELECTIVE MINING AND COAL BLENDING: A CASE STUDY FROM LEIGH CREEK, SOUTH AUSTRALIA ...... 1401 David French

COAL GEOLOGY - A SCIENTIFIC BUILDING BLOCK FOR UNDERGROUND COAL GASIFICATION (UCG)...... 1403 Johan Van Dyk

COMPARISON OF VITRINITE REFLECTANCE IN SAMPLES FROM 6 DIFFERENT COALFIELDS OF BOTSWANA...... 1405 Nicola Wagner

IDENTIFYING THE MINERAL DRIVERS OF ABRASIVENESS IN THE WATERBERG COAL RESERVE...... 1406 Nicolas Boonzaier

MINERALOGICAL REACTIONS IN LOW AND HIGH ASH SOUTH AFRICAN COALS DURING PULVERISED-FUEL COMBUSTION ...... 1408 Colin Ward

THE EVALUATION OF COAL QUALITIES FOR CIRCULATING FLUIDISED BED BOILER TECHNOLOGY FOR AN IPP PROJECT AT DELMAS, MPUMALANGA...... 1410 R. N. Rabe

SIMULATION OF CO2 PROCESS FOR ENHANCED COALBED METHANE (ECBM) RECOVERY AT EARLY STAGE OF PRODUCTION- A CASE STUDY FROM JHARIA COALFIELD, INDIA...... 1411 Bibhas Karmakar

VARIABILITY OF PB-ISOTOPES IN THE EAST INDIAN GONDWANA COAL DEPOSITS: ITS INFLUENCE ON KOLKATA STREET DUST...... 1412 Rajeev Kumar

COAL GEOLOGY AND QUALITY OF THE SPRINGBOK FLATS BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA...... 1414 Valerie Nxumalo

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT AND THEIR BEARING ON SOME COAL BED PARAMETERS ...... 1416 Bamidele Oresajo

EVALUATION OF AUTOMATED LITHOLOGY CLASSIFICATION ARCHITECTURES USING HIGHLY- SAMPLED WIRELINE LOGS FOR COAL EXPLORATION...... 1417 Tom Horrocks

MOBILIZATION OF METALS AND METALLOIDS DURING AND AFTER BURNING OF AN URANIFEROUS COAL HEAP (THE BECKOV COAL MINE, CZECH REPUBLIC) ...... 1419 Bohdan Kríbek

ORGANO-PETROGRAPHIC STUDIES FOR HYDROCARBON GENERATION, STORAGE AND DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT OF COAL AND SHALE IN BARJORA AREA, WEST BENGAL, INDIA ...... 1421 Sanki Biswas

PRELIMINARY STUDY ON THE ACID-REMOVE RATE FOR TRACE ELEMENT FROM THE DIFFERENT RANK OF COAL ...... 1423 Jianye Yang

SIGNIFICANT ENRICHMENT OF GA, RB, CS, REES AND Y IN THE JURASSIC NO. 6 COAL IN THE IQE COALFIELD, NORTHERN QAIDAM BASIN, CHINA...... 1424 Cunliang Zhao

THE COALBED METHANE RESOURCE POTENTIAL OF THE SOUTPANSBERG BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 1425 Tshifhiwa Thovhogi

THE EFFECTS OF WEATHERING ON COAL QUALITY IN THE LIMPOPO AND SOUTPANSBERG COLAFIELDS...... 1427 Mandy-Jane Tlou Sebola

THE MUCANHA VUZI COAL DEPOSIT, MOZAMBIQUE ...... 1429 Fabio Masotti

THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TRACE ELEMENTS AND ORGANIC MATTER IN COALS ...... 1431 Shenjun Qin

DESKTOP TOYS FOR EDUCATIONAL SEISMOLOGY -RANDOM OR PERIODIC? BEFORE OR AFTER?-...... 1433 Yoshio Okamoto

EARTHQUAKE MODELS USED IN CLASS: WHAT ABOUT THEIR WEAKNESSES? ...... 1435 Jose Selles-Martinez

KEEPING GEOSCIENCES CURRICULA AT THE TERTIARY LEVEL RELEVANT - A SOUTH AFRICAN EXAMPLE, SCHOOL OF GEOSCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND...... 1437 Gillian Drennan

LOCATION AND VISUALIZATION—THE KEYS TO GEOLOGICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH ...... 1439 Callan Bentley

TEN YEARS EXPERIENCE OF INTERNATIONAL EARTH SCIENCE OLYMPIAD: WHAT IS THE WORLDWIDE IMPACT ON EARTH SCIENCE EDUCATION?...... 1441 C. D. R. Carneiro

TRAINING FIELD MAPPING GEOLOGISTS; THE COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE (CGS) FIELD SCHOOL EXPERIENCE...... 1442 Nick Baglow

ON THE CUTTING EDGE: A GLOBAL RESOURCE TO SUPPORT EXCELLENCE IN GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION...... 1443 David Mogk

OUR ‘INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF EARTH SCIENCE EDUCATOR STORIES’ PROJECT ...... 1445 Chris King

THE CHANGING DYNAMICS OF THE U.S. GEOSCIENCE WORKFORCE COMPARED TO THE INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE WORKFORCE ...... 1447 Carolyn Wilson

THE STRATEGIC PLAN OF THE AUSTRALIAN GEOSCIENCE COUNCIL – DEVELOPMENT, IMPLEMENTATION AND EARLY RESULTS ...... 1448 Bill Shaw

UTILITY-SCALE WIND ENERGY PROJECTS: MANAGING PUBLIC PERCEPTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISK...... 1450 Michael Slattery

AN INTRODUCTION TO INNOVATION TERMINOLOGY FOR MINING/GEOLOGY PROFESSIONALS...... 1452 Gargi Mishra

ARE YOU RELATED TO A CABBAGE: A PRAGMATIC APPROACH TO TEACHING EVOLUTION IN THE CLASSROOM AND DEALING WITH FUNDAMENTALIST RELIGIOUS BELIEFS...... 1453 Ian McKay

AUSGEOL.ORG – A VIRTUAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA’S GEOLOGY ...... 1454 Michael Roach

GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION – MEETING SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS AT LONMIN MARIKANA OPERATIONS...... 1456 C. M. Knipe

PASSING THE TORCH: BROAD, BUT NOT SHALLOW, TEACHING BY SENIOR GEOLOGISTS WITH A HIGHLY DIVERSIFIED CAREER EXPERIENCE...... 1458 Roland Loewer

DELIVERING AUTHENTIC ONLINE PRACTICAL SCIENCE TEACHING – GEOSCIENCE PERSPECTIVES FROM THE OPENSCIENCE LABORATORY...... 1460 Tom Argles

DEVELOPING A LOW COST CRYSTALLOGRAPHY WORKSHOP FOR LEARNERS...... 1462 Tanja Reinhardt

DEVELOPMENT OF INTERACTIVE WEB APPLICATIONS FOR GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION ...... 1464 Takashi Sawaguchi

DRINKING TOUR THROUGH THE MUSEUM...... 1466 Jose Selles-Martinez

EDUCATION PROGRAMMES AND FACILITIES AT GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA ...... 1468 Shona Blewett

VISUALISING EARLY LIFE ON EARTH: BUILDING A 4-DIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP (VFT) OF THE 3.5 GA DRESSER FORMATION, NORTH POLE DOME, PILBARA CRATON, WESTERN AUSTRALIA...... 1470 Tara Djokic

AUDIOVISUAL RESOURCES AND COMMUNICATION: A LABORATORY DISCIPLINE FOR SCIENTIFIC POPULARIZATION OF GEOSCIENCES...... 1472 C. D. R. Carneiro

BRINGING DIVERSE TALENT TO THE GEOPHYSICS WORKFORCE, A REVIEW OF THE AFRICAARRAY INTERNATIONAL GEOPHYSICS FIELD SCHOOL ...... 1474 Susan Webb

CONNECTING INNOVATION AND GEOSCIENCE KNOWLEDGE FOR BRAZILIAN BASIC EDUCATION TEACHERS ...... 1476 C. D. R. Carneiro

COMMUNICATING GEOSCIENCE KNOWLEDGE AT THE TIME OF NATURAL DISASTER- EXPERIENCES FROM MANIPAL, SOUTHWEST COAST OF INDIA...... 1478 Keshava Balakrishna

GEOEDUCATION AND COOPERATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COAST ZONE IN EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA, A CASE DEMONSTRATION FOR GEOLOGY 20+...... 1479 Ping Yin

GEOLODÍA (GEOLODAY): YEARLY-RUNNING OF FIFTY SIMULTANEOUS GEOLOGICAL FIELDTRIPS ACROSS SPAIN OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC...... 1481 Marcos Aurell

LINKING GEOSCIENTISTS AND GEOSCIENCE INFORMATION WITH DECISION MAKERS AT THE U.S. FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL LEVELS...... 1483 Maeve Boland

TEN GEOLOGICAL SUPERLATIVES OF SOUTH AFRICA IN A SPECIAL ISSUE OF POSTAGE STAMPS TO CELEBRATE THE 35TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS AT CAPE TOWN, 2016...... 1485 Pieter Bosch

THE ROLE OF BELIEF, TRUST AND VALUES IN COMMUNICATING CONTROVERSIAL GEOSCIENCE TOPICS ...... 1487 Steven Anderson

FIELDSCAPESVR: VIRTUAL WORLD FIELD TRIPS TO EXTEND AND ENRICH FIELD TEACHING...... 1489 Tom Argles

GEOSCIENCE AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE: LIGHTNING AND THE LOWVELD LAVENDER ...... 1491 Ann Cameron

PLACE-BASED GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION: A NARRATIVE FROM THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES...... 1493 Steven Semken

PROMOTING YOUNG EARTH SCIENTISTS FOR FUTURE EARTH FROM G20+ TO THE WORLD...... 1494 Meng Wang

TRAVELINGGEOLOGIST: AN ONLINE PLATFORM FOR DISSEMINATING EARTH SCIENCE RESEARCH AND INSPIRING THE NEXT GENERATION OF FIELD GEOLOGISTS...... 1496 Christopher Spencer

A FIELD-BASED VOLCANOLOGY COURSE IN ECUADOR: FROM THE ANDES TO THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS...... 1498 Daniel Kelley

BUILDING GOOD FOUNDATIONS: SKILLS FOR EFFECTIVE ENGAGEMENT IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT...... 1500 Joel Gill

MATCHING MINING AND GEOSCIENCE FOCUSSED EDUCATION WITH INDUSTRY NEEDS AND DEMAND: LESSONS FROM INTRAW’S REFERENCE COUNTRIES...... 1501 Kip Jeffrey

LAUNCH OF THE ‘SAND ON A SILL’ INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT...... 1503 Chris King

PROMOTING EARTH SCIENCES TEACHING-LEARNING IN THE ITALIAN SCHOOLS: A RESEARCH OF LEARNING OBJECTS, EFFECTIVE EDUCATIONAL APPROACHES, TO IMPROVE SKILLS AND COMPETENCES ...... 1505 Susanna Occhipinti

SMALL GESTURE, BIG EFFECT! INVESTIGATION OF THE ROLE OF GESTURES IN TEACHING PLATE TECTONICS THROUGH AN EYE TRACKING EXPERIMENT! ...... 1507 Dominik Conrad

UNDERSTANDING THE PROCESS OF CO-CONSTRUCTIVE LEARNING WITH SCIENTIFIC MODELING IN GEOLOGICAL FIELD TRIP...... 1509 Yoon-Sung Choi

‘SAND ON A SILL’ – INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT: AN AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE ...... 1511 Bronte Nicholls

APPLICATION OF GEO-EDUCATION METHODS ON EGYPTIAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS...... 1512 Abdel Kholoud

CURRICULUM REFORM CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. THE CASE OF THE INTRODUCTION OF PALAEONTOLOGY AND EVOLUTION INTO THE SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOOL CURRICULUM ...... 1513 Ian McKay

EARTHLEARNINGIDEA: A GLOBAL WEB-BASED RESOURCE OF GEOSCIENCE TEACHING IDEAS - AN ANALYSIS ...... 1514 Chris King

GEO-EDUCATION MADE EASY THROUGH DEBATING...... 1516 Helke Mocke

HOW DID THE EARTHQUAKE-RELATED CONTENT OF RIKA TEXTBOOKS CHANGE AFTER THE 2011 TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKE?...... 1517 Hiroo Nemoto

ICT IN GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION FROM INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE SCHOOL SYLLABUS...... 1519 Rosely Imbernon

2D MULTI-TRANSIENT ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELLING OF PSEUDO SYNTHETIC EARTH MODEL FROM PART OF ANAMBRA BASIN, NIGERIA...... 1521 Olalekan Fayemi

A FIELD-BASED METHOD FOR TEACHING UNIFORMITARIAN PRINCIPLES USING TRACKWAY RECONSTRUCTIONS...... 1523 William Garcia

AN ETHNO-METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE FORMATION OF INDIGENOUS TEACHERS IN THE AMAZON REGION (ACRE, BRAZIL) - THE CONCEPT OF SOIL ...... 1525 Rosely Imbernon

APPLICATION OF A NEW WAVELET THRESHOLD METHOD IN UNCONVENTIONAL OIL AND GAS RESERVOIR SEISMIC DATA DENOISING...... N/A Guxi Wang

APPLICATION OF MICROTREMORS TO IDENTIFY HYDROCARBON RESERVOIRS ...... 1527 Bahram Habibnia

CLAY MINERALOGY IN PARTS OF THE SUBSURFACE OF TAPTI – DAMAN BLOCK, WESTERN OFFSHORE BASIN, INDIA: A LEAD TO RESERVOIR CHARACTERISATION ...... 1528 Ashish Sarkar

COMMUNICATING GEOSCIENCE WITH THE PUBLIC THROUGH PRINT PUBLICATIONS – THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING COGNITIVE DIFFERENCES IN AUDIENCES...... 1530 Christopher Keane

DEPOSITIONAL FILLING MODEL AND SUBTLE TRAPS DISTRIBUTION IN CONTINENTAL FAULTED BASIN TIGHTLY CONTROLLED BY FAULTING AND LAKE LEVEL...... 1531 Daotao Dong

DISTRIBUTION AND EVALUATION OF CARBONIFEROUS SOURCE ROCKS IN THE JUGGAR BASIN...... 1532 Yongfu Zhao

EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES IN OGA PENINSULA-OGATA GEOPARK, NORTHEAST JAPAN...... 1533 Norihito Kawamura

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM “GEA – MOTHER EARTH”: A STORY OF SUCCESS LINKING GEOSCIENCES TO SOCIETY IN THE PORTUGUESE SPEAKING COUNTRIES ...... 1534 Artur Sá

EFFECT OF FRACTURE PROPERTIES ON WAG AND SWAG PROCESS IN FRACTURED RESERVOIRS...... 1536 Bahram Habibnia

GAUGING HOW NOVICE GEOLOGISTS PROCESS AND LEARN IN FIRST FIELD EXPERIENCES ...... 1537 Megan D'Errico

GEO SCIENCE EDUCATION IN MALAWI: THE CASE OF GEOGRAPHY IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS...... 1539 C. Y. Mwalwenje

INFLUENCES OF LITHO-STATIC PRESSURE ON DEEP SANDSTONES: INSIGHT FROM SINGLE- FACTOR SIMULATION...... 1541 Jinggang Cui

LOW-COST AND EASY-MADE HORIZONTAL SEISMOMETER WITH ARDUINO FOR EDUCATIONAL USE -DEMONSTRATION AND OBSERVATION-- ...... 1542 Yoshio Okamoto

PETROLEUM PROSPECTING PROBLEMS IN THE BASE PLATE AND HYDROCARBONS MIGRATION CHANNELS DEFINITION...... 1544 Irina Yakhina

PYROLYSIS SIMULATION EXPERIMENT STUDY ON DIAGENESIS AND EVOLUTION OF ORGANIC- RICH SHALE ...... 1545 Chunmei Dong

RADIO-ANOMALIES AND ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS FOR THE TEACHING OF SEISMOLOGY...... 1546 Valentino Straser

SCIENCE AND EDUCATION AT CONGAREE NATIONAL PARK...... N/A Tarryn Lee

THE EDUCATION IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF GEOLOGY (GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF ROMANIA): ART, SCIENCE AND FUN...... 1548 Stefan Marincea

THE IMPORTANCE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EARTH SCIENCE EDUCATION: UNDERSTANDING OF THE PLANET THAT WE LIVE ON IS A FUNDAMENTAL STEP TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY ...... 1549 Patricia Vickers Rich

THE IMPORTANCE OF NON-FORMAL EDUCATION FOR GEOCONSERVATION: THE EXAMPLE OF THE MUSEUM OF UNA – SÃO JOSÉ DA COROA GRANDE (PERNAMBUCO, NE BRAZIL) ...... 1551 Artur Sá

THE RECESSION – SINK OR SWIM: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG EARTH SCIENTISTS TO INNOVATE...... 1553 Victoria Upindi

THE SUPERSPHERE CHARACTERS: CHILDREN’S BOOKS (UP TO 5 YEARS) PROMOTING GEOSCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ...... 1555 Gisele Vasconcelos

UNCONVENTIONAL OIL AND GAS WELLS HORIZONTAL WELLS PREFERRED DEMONSTRATION ANALYSIS...... 1557 Si Guo

UP-WARP AND DOWN-WARP CHARACTERISTIC OF STRIKE-SLIP FAULT ZONE AND ITS GEOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE IN THE MID-EASTERN PART OF THE TRIM BASION NORTHWEST CHINA...... 1558 Renhai Pu

VOLCANIC ACCUMULATION MODES OF THE THIRD MEMBER OF KONGDIAN FORMATION IN WEIBEI SAG, BOHAIWAN BASIN ...... 1559 Yaoting Sun

INTRODUCTION ...... N/A Ian Cloke

THE INFLUENCE OF THE TIMING OF SUBSIDENCE AND CLIMATE IN DETERMINING WHETHER INDIVIDUAL RIFT BASINS WILL BECOME PETROLIFEROUS OR NOT...... 1560 Paul Burden

THE PETROLEUM SYSTEM OF THE SOUTH LOKICHAR BASIN, KENYA (EARS) ...... 1562 Gion Kuper

DRILLING OF A 15 KM SUPER-DEEP WELL – A NEW STAGE IN SEARCH FOR LARGE AND UNIQUE HYDROCARBON ACCUMULATIONS IN THE PRECASPIAN BASIN...... 1564 Baltabek Kuandykov

METAL ANOMALIES IN GEOGAS ABOVE OIL RESERVOIR AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE FOR OIL EXPLORATION ...... 1566 Lulu Yuan

NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR PETROLEUM SYSTEMS EXPLORATION AND GEOLOGICAL RISKS MINIMIZATION ...... 1568 Alexei Soloviev

PETROLEUM PROSPECTIVITY AND CO2 STORAGE ASSESSMENT IN THE OFFSHORE BROWSE BASIN, NORTH WEST SHELF, WESTERN AUSTRALIA & ASHMORE CARTIER ...... 1570 Megan Lech

THE PROPERTIES OF GRANULAR, FRACTURED AND CAVERNOUS RESERVOIR ROCKS...... 1572 Marat Mailibayev

THE TYPE, CHARACTERISTIC AND EFFECT OF THE OVERPRESSURE FRACTURE IN SHALE OF EASTERN CHINA...... 1574 Guoqiang Luan

THEORY OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGY AND EXPLORATION IN SUPERIMPOSED SEDIMENTARY BASINS AROUND CHINA...... 1575 Dengfa He

IDENTIFICATION OF SEDIMENTARY-DIAGENETIC FACIES AND RESERVOIR PROPERTY PREDICTION: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE EOCENE BEACH-BAR SANDSTONE IN THE DONGYING DEPRESSION, CHINA ...... 1576 Jian Wang

LOOKING FOR HYDROCARBON OCCURRENCES BY THE AIRBORNE TRANSIENT SOUNDINGS...... 1577 George Trigubovich

RUSSIAN ARCTIC SHELF OIL&GAS: PRESENT AND FUTURE ...... 1579 Andrey Chernykh

TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON FROM WELL LOGGING IN THE SILURIAN AND SHALE GAS FORMATIONS IN POLAND...... 1580 Jadwiga Anna Jarzyna

DEVELOPING A REGIONAL GEOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE HORN OF AFRICA...... 1582 John Fisher

MUFTAH S AJDABYA UNIVERSITY, EL-EKHFIFI S NATIONAL OIL CORPORATION , MUSBAH B NATIONAL OIL CORPORATION ...... 1583 Saleh Muftah

OIL RESERVOIRS AND TRAPS IN THE ALBERTINE RIFT OF UGANDA...... 1585 Richard Steele

THE MID ZAMBEZI BASIN – COULD THIS BE THE ‘KAROO’ BASIN THAT WORKS?...... 1586 Nigel Quinton

PETROLEUM PROSPECTIVITY AND GEOLOGICAL CHALLENGES OF THE OFFSHORE EAST AFRICAN MARGIN...... 1587 Andrea Degli Alessandrini

PETROLEUM SYSTEMS OF EAST AFRICA; INSIGHTS FROM EXPLORATION ACTIVITY IN TANZANIA AND KENYA ...... 1589 Niall Sayers

RECORD DRILLING RESEARCH WELLS IN THE KAROO BASIN ...... 1590 Hermann Lauferts

REGIONAL INTERPRETATION OF SEISMIC HORIZONS ALONG THE EAST COAST OF SOUTH AFRICA...... 1592 Sean Davids

SUCCESSFUL LITHOLOGY AND FLUID PREDICTION BASED EXPLORATION IN EAST AFRICA, TANZANIA, BLOCK 2 ...... 1593 Edwin Schomacker

THE OUTSTANDING EXPLORATION SUCCESSES OF ROVUMA BASIN AFTER 60 YEARS OF DISAPPOINTING RESULTS IN EAST AFRICAN COASTAL BASIN...... 1594 Marco Orsi

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY OF THE A-J GRABEN, ORANGE BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA...... 1596 David Van Der Spuy

PETROLEUM SYSTEMS OF THE ANGOLAN MARGIN ...... 1598 Laura Mackay

THE PETROLEUM GEOLOGY AND HYDROCARBON POTENTIAL OF THE ATLANTIC MARGIN BASINS OF NAMIBIA...... 1599 Matthew Taylor

THE PETROLEUM SYSTEM OF THE WALVIS AND ORANGE BASINS, NAMIBIA ...... 1601 Marcio Rocha Mello

THE PROSPECTIVITY OF THE DEEP WATER ORANGE BASIN, OFFSHORE NAMIBIA AND SOUTH AFRICA...... 1602 Piet Lambregts

PETROLEUM SYSTEM ANALYSIS OF THE DEEPWATER MAURITANIA/SENEGAL BASIN ...... 1603 Tracy Henderson

PETROLEUM SYSTEMS OF THE TANO-IVORIAN BASIN, GULF OF GUINEA...... 1604 Justine Tinker

PETROLEUM SYSTEMS OF WEST AFRICA SALT BASINS: A REVIEW ...... 1606 Delhaye-Prat Vincent

UPPER CRETACEOUS TO RECENT PALEO-SUBMARINE CHANNEL SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY IN THE SOUTHERN ORANGE BASIN, OFFSHORE SOUTH AFRICA...... 1608 Jonathan Salomo

APPLICATION OF HIGH-RESOLUTION SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY IN RIFT LACUSTRINE BASIN – A CASE STUDY OF SHAHEJIE FORMATION, PALEOGENE, GAOLIU AREA, NORTHEAST BOHAI BAY BASIN, CHINA...... 1610 Xue Song Fan

CHARACTERISTIC OF MIGRATION AND ACCUMULATION OF OIL AND GAS OF FUYANG RESERVOIR IN CHANGYUAN AND THE WEST AREA, DAQING, SONGLIAO BASIN, CHINA ...... 1611 Lizhi Shi

CORRELATION OF THERMAL MATURITY PARAMETERS USING GEOCHEMICAL METHODS IN AZADEGAN OIL FIELD...... 1612 Bahram Habibnia

DISCOVERY OF THE JURASSIC OIL UNDER THE COVERAGE OF VOLCANIC ROCKS, TUQUAN BASIN, NE CHINA ...... 1613 Chen Shuwang

EVALUATION OF THE PRODUCTION POTENTIAL OF RESERVOIR AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF PERMEABILITY AND ESTIMATION OF POROSITY, BASED ON GEOSTATISTICS MODELLING IN DEZFUL EMBAYMENT...... 1614 Bahram Habibnia

GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS AND ORIGIN OF GAS IN VOLCANIC RESERVOIRS OF THE SONGLIAO BASIN IN CHINA ...... 1615 Shizhen Tao

GEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND HYDROCARBON ACCUMULATION MODEL OF SINIAN- CAMBRIAN PLAYS IN SICHUAN BASIN, SOUTHWEST CHINA...... 1617 Anna Xu

INTRODUCTION ...... N/A Paul W Britt

HYDROCARBON MIGRATION MECHANISM AND ACCUMULATION MODEL OF ULTRA-DEEP CARBONATE ROCKS: A CASE FROM CHINA ...... 1619 Jingdong Liu

ORIGIN MECHANISM OF RESERVOIR TIGHTNESS AND "SWEET SPOTS" PREDICTION OF DEEP TIGHT SANDSTONE GAS RESERVOIR IN TUHA BASIN, CHINA ...... 1620 Shaochun Yang

RESERVOIR CHARACTERISTICS, FORMATION MECHANISMS AND PETROLEUM EXPLORATION POTENTIAL OF VOLCANIC ROCKS IN CHINA...... 1622 Zhiguo Mao

SEISMIC MULTI-ATTRIBUTE OPTIMIZATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE APPLICATION IN THE RESERVOIR PREDICTION OF CARBONATE FRACTURE...... 1623 Changcheng Han

THE ROLE OF MOBILE SHALE IN FORMING FOLD BELT ANTICLINES AND HYDROCARBON ACCUMULATIONS IN SABAH BASIN, MALAYSIA ...... 1624 Nguyen Binh

THE ULTRA DEEP WATER OF BOHAI BAY BASIN IN PALEOGENE: ITS SIGNIFICANCE OF OIL AND GAS ...... 1625 Yong Li

COMBINING ROCK PHYSICS SIMULATION AND GAUSSIAN STATISTICAL TECHNIQUE TO IDENTIFY FIZZ WATER AND GAS SATURATED RESERVOIRS ...... 1627 Nisar Ahmed

DYNAMIC EVALUATION METHOD OF LOW POROSITY AND PERMEABILITY SANDSTONE RESERVOIR ...... 1629 Sun Di

FLUVIAL RESERVOIR ARCHITECTURE CHARACTERIZATION OF MATURING OILFIELDS WITH SEISMIC SEDIMENTOLOGY METHOD: TAKE X BLOCK OF GUDONG OIL FIELD AS AN EXAMPLE ...... 1631 Xianguo Zhang

LIGHT PHENOMENA USED TO SEARCH FOR HYDROCARBON DEPOSITS...... 1632 Valentino Straser

THE GLOBAL ENERGY TRANSITION: FUNDAMENTAL MATTERS ...... 1634 Scott W. Tinker

AN INVESTIGATION OF KEY SEISMIC ATTRIBUTE ANALYSIS OF THE IN THE KAROO BASIN ...... 1635 Wahiebah Hoosain Daniels

CHINA OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION & DEVELOPMENT CURRENT SITUATION AND TREND...... 1638 Hong Wang

EVALUATION OF SEISMIC REFLECTION IN THE KALAHARI KAROO BASIN, BOTSWANA ...... 1643 Onkgopotse Ntibinyane

FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF WEIYUAN-ANYUE EXTENSION-EROSION GROOVE IN SINIAN SYSTEM, SICHUAN BASIN...... 1644 Ying Li

GAS AND PETROLEUM OPERATING NECESSITY OF VIRUNGA PARK AND LAKE KIVU / DRC FACE OF THE IMPERATIVES OF PROTECTION ENVIRONNEMENT, BIODIVERSITY AND DEVELOPMENT...... N/A Kiro Kubuya

HEALTH SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECT IN PETROLEUM IN AFRICA...... 1646 Benjamin Kering

IMPACT OF THE OIL EXPLOITATION ON THE ABERTINE BLOCK: CASE OF THE VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK AT THE EAST OF DR CONGO...... N/A Bora Uzima Bahavu

PETROLEUM SYSTEM MODELLING OF THE EASTERN BARENTS SEA BASIN...... 1647 Petr Sobolev

PETROLEUM SYSTEM: FROM CONVENTIONAL TO UNCONVENTIONAL ...... 1649 Jingzhou Zhao

THE COMBINATION OF CARBONIFEROUS VOLCANIC RESERVOIR SPACES AND HYDROCARBON STORAGE MODES...... 1650 Shaochun Yang

A REGIONAL NORTH- SOUTH CROSS SECTION THROUGH THE GHADAMES BASIN AND ITS IMPICATIONS TO HC POTENTIAL IN THE GHADAMES BASIN AND THE NORTHERN AREAS AROUND JABAL NAFUSAH, LIBYA...... 1652 Salah S. El-Ekhfifi

ANALYSES ON FORMATION CONDITIONS OF PALEOGENE STRATIGRAPHIC-LITHOLOGIC RESERVOIRS IN LARGE SLOPE AREA IN QIKOU SAG, BOHAI BAY BASIN ...... 1653 Wenzhong Han

CHARACTERISTICS OF CARBON AND OXYGEN ISOTOPES IN CARBONATE IN LUCAOGOU FORMATION AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE ON PALAEOLAKE IN JIMSAR SAG ...... 1654 Changsheng Qu

VOLUME 5

CHARACTERISTICS OF HYDROCARBON MIGRATION IN THE SLOPE OF SUPERIMPOSED FORELAND BASIN OF SOUTH JUNGGAR, NW CHINA ...... 1655 Luofu Liu

CHARACTERIZATION OF COMPACT CARBONATE PORE-THROAT NETWORK SYSTEMS USING NMR AND NANO-CT TECHNIQUES: CASE STUDY FROM XIAGOU FORMATION (K1G) IN QINGXI SAG, JIUQUAN BASIN, CHINA ...... 1657 Yan Zhao

COMPLEX EXPLORATION APPROACH IN HEDGING THE GEOLOGICAL RISKS AND OPTIMIZATION OF EXPLORATION EXPENDITURES TO DEVELOP THE HYDROCARBON PROSPECTS...... 1658 Albert Iskhakov

GEOCHEMICAL SIGNATURE OF THE LATE DEVONIAN EVENTS IN THE RHENISH MASSIF, THE HOLY CROSS MOUNTAINS AND THE CARNIC ALPS ...... 1659 Agnieszka Pisarzowska

HISTORY AND PRESENT DAY OF CRUDE OIL AND NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION IN POLAND...... 1661 Stanislaw Wolkowicz

IDENTIFICATION AND LOCALIZATION OF OIL AND GAS PERSPECTIVE ZONES AND LARGE OBJECTS BASED ON REGIONAL VOLUMETRIC MODELING ...... 1662 Mikhail Afanasyev

ORIGIN OF OIL AND GAS AND PROFITABLE EXPLORATION AREAS IN THE PLATFORM OF TARIM BASIN, NW CHINA...... N/A Zhi Jun Jin

PALAEO-TUFA FROM LIUHUANGGOU NO 2 CAVE IN THE ORDOVICIAN CARBONATE, NORTH TARIM BASIN, CHINA: FEATURES AND PETROLEUM SIGNIFICANCES...... 1664 Jianhua Zhong

SILICIFICATION OF ORDOVICIAN DOLOMITE RESERVOIRS,TARIM BASIN, NW CHINA ...... 1666 Shaonan Zhang

THE HYDROCARBON TRAP DISTRIBUTIONAL PATTERNS OF THE SIMPLE SLOPE AREA OF A CONTINENTAL BASIN: A CASE STUDY FROM THE SONGLIAO BASIN, CHINA...... 1667 Hongyu Wang

THE JURASSIC STRATA IN THE POLISH LOWLANDS (CENTRAL POLAND) - FUTURE OF UNCONVENTIONAL SOURCES? ...... 1668 Pawel Kosakowski

THE STUDY OF THERMAL EFFECT ON TURBIDITES OF TACIBA FORMATION (), SOUTH OF PARANÁ BASIN, BRAZIL, USING X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY AND PALYNOFACIES ...... 1670 Lucas Vieira

THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL DESCRIPTION FOR FRACTURE-CAVITY CARBONATE RESERVOIRS IN TAHE OILFIELD, TARIM BASIN...... 1672 Changcheng Han

UNLOCKING NEW PETROLEUM SYSTEM BASED ON OUTCROPS, PETROGRAPHIC DESCRIPSTION AND MEASURE SECTION IN NORTH SERAYU FRONTIER BASIN...... 1674 Muhammad Nashir

WELL LOG SEQUENCES STRATIGRAPHY AND POTENTIAL RESERVOIRS OF WELLS KF-1AND KF-2; KRIBI OIL FIELD, DOUALA-KRIBI-CAMPO BASIN, CAMEROON...... 1675 Nkwanyang Lionel Takem

"PETROLEUM EXPLORATION INTO BLACK SHALE SYSTEM": CHARACTERISTICS AND POTENTIALS ...... 1676 Caineng Zou

A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO DECIPHER THE COMPLEXITY AND POTENTIAL OF AN UNCONVENTIONAL GAS RESOURCE: THE PERMIAN WHITEHILL FORMATION (KAROO BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA) ...... 1678 Annette E. Goetz

A SYNTHETIC STUDY OF UNCONVENTIONAL HC POTENTIAL RESERVOIR IN TAIWAN...... 1679 Louis Loung-Yie Tsai

PETROLEUM ACCUMULATION: FROM CONTINUOUS TO DISCONTINUOUS...... 1680 Jingzhou Zhao

STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR SHALE GAS DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA ...... 1682 Paul Lochner

2D AND 3D INVERSION RESULTS FROM MAGNETOTELLURIC SURVEY IN THE EASTERN KAROO BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 1683 Jade Candice Greve

DEVELOPMENT OF THE GROUNDWATER THEME OF THE INTERACTIVE VULNERABILITY MAP FOR UNCONVENTIONAL OIL AND GAS IN SOUTH AFRICA...... 1684 Surina Esterhuyse

DIAGENETIC, THERMAL AND PROVENANCE HISTORIES OF THE PERMIAN LOWER BASED ON TWO NEWLY DRILLED BOREHOLES IN THE WESTERN AND EASTERN MAIN KAROO BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 1686 Claire Geel

PALYNOFACIES OF PERMIAN BLACK SHALES (KAROO BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA): A POWERFUL TOOL FOR SHALE GAS EXPLORATION ...... 1687 Annette E. Goetz

SWEET SPOTS PREDICTION AND QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION OF GAS-BEARING SHALE BASED ON THE OPTIMIZED LOG INTERPRETATION ...... 1688 Maojin Tan

THE IMPACT OF DOLERITE INTRUSIONS ON THE ORGANIC-RICH MUDSTONES OF THE ECCA GROUP IN A BOREHOLE FROM THE CENTRAL KAROO BASIN ...... 1690 Elijah Adeniyi

THE USE OF THERMOMAGNETIC CURVES FOR PALEOTEMPERATURE EVALUATION IN SEDIMENTARY BASINS...... 1691 Leonie Maré

HETEROGENEITY OF SILURIAN AND ORDOVICIAN SHALE GAS DEPOSITS IN POLAND INVESTIGATED BY FACTOR ANALYSIS APPLIED TO WELL LOGGING DATA ...... 1692 Kamila Wawrzyniak-Guz

NANO-GEOLOGY AND UNCONVENTIONAL OIL AND GAS...... 1694 Yiwen Ju

NEW UNCONVENTIONAL POTENTIAL OF THE MATURE PETROLEUM PROVINCES – A CASE STUDY OF POLAND...... 1696 Pawel Poprawa

OIL AND GAS FIELDS DISCOVERY POTENTIAL IN OIL AND GAS PROSPECTING ZONES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION...... 1698 Pavel Melnikov

STRESS FIELD AND NATURAL FRACTURE SYSTEMS IN LOWER SHALE BELT IN POLAND BASED ON BOREHOLE IMAGES ...... 1699 Birger Hansen

SYLURIAN SHALES HYDRAULIC FRACTURING OPERATION QUALITY ASSURANCE AS A KEY OF SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT - CASE STUDY ...... 1700 Wieslaw Prugar

THE DISCOVERY OF THE GLOBAL BIGGEST LOWER PALEOZOIC SHALE GAS FIELD OF FULING SHALE GAS AND ITS SUGGESTION FOR EXPLORATION PROSPECT OF SHALE GAS IN CHINA...... N/A Zhijun Jin

USGS ASSESSMENTS OF UNCONVENTIONAL GAS AND OIL RESOURCES IN CHINA...... 1701 Christopher Potter

CHARACTERIZATION OF PORE-THROAT STRUCTURE AND PREDICTION OF SWEET SPOT OF THE EOCENE LOW PERMEABILITY-TIGHT BEACH-BAR SANDSTONE RESERVOIRS IN THE DONGYING DEPRESSION, BOHAI BAY BASIN, CHINA...... 1703 Jian Wang

ENRICHMENT MECHANISM OF SOURCE AND SEAL COUPLING SHALE GAS OF UPPER ORDOVICIAN WUFENG FORMATION - LOWER SILURIAN LONGMAXI FORMATION IN SICHUAN BASIN...... 1704 Zhi Jun Jin

IN-SITU FRACTURING CHARACTERIZATION OF TIGHT SAND: INSIGHT FOR RESERVOIR STIMULATION ...... 1705 Songtao Wu

QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERIZATION OF TRANSITIONAL SHALE RESERVOIR: A CASE STUDY FROM THE UPPER CARBONIFEROUS TAIYUAN SHALE IN EASTERN UPLIFT OF LIAOHE DEPRESSION, CHINA...... 1707 Qin Zhang

UNLOCKING KEY FACTORS OF LIQUID-RICH-SHALES: "MASSIVE RESOURCE AREA" & "SWEET AREA" EVALUATION ...... 1709 Zhi Yang

DELINEATION AND ASSESSMENT OF GAS-HYDRATES IN KRISHNA-GODAVARI BASIN, EASTERN CONTINENTAL MARGIN OF INDIA...... 1711 Kalachand Sain

IDENTIFICATION OF BOTTOM SIMULATING REFLECTORS (BSRS) TO HELP UNCOVER POTENTIAL GAS HYDRATES WITHIN THE ORANGE BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 1712 Anthony Fielies

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF GAS HYDRATE EXPLOITATION FROM SUBSEA RESERVOIRS...... 1714 Georg Janicki

SPATIAL VARIATION IN VERTICAL METHANE MIGRATION AND CONTRIBUTION TO SHALLOW SEDIMENT CARBON CYCLING: HIKURANGI MARGIN, MAHIA PENINSULA, NEW ZEALAND ...... 1715 Richard Coffin

THE UNCONVENTIONAL HYDROCARBON POTENTIAL IN THE VOLGA-URALS, WEST AND EAST SIBERIA, RUSSIAN FEDERATION ...... 1716 Pavel Melnikov

3D GEOLOGY MODELLING FROM BOREHOLES, CROSS-SECTIONS AND GEOLOGICAL MAPS TO SUPPORT SHALE GAS POTENTIAL INVESTIGATIONS IN THE BEAUFORT WEST AREA, SOUTH AFRICA...... 1717 Haajierah Mosavel

A BASELINE STUDY OF GROUNDWATER RESOURCES AND CONNECTIVITIES IN ANTICIPATION OF HYDRAULIC FRACTURING IN THE KAROO...... 1718 Divan Stroebel

ANALYSIS OF HYDRAULIC FLOW PARAMETERS IN SHALE GAS FORMATIONS FROM NORTH POLAND ...... 1719 Paulina Krakowska

BOREHOLE BREAKOUT ANALYSIS FROM BOREHOLE IMAGE LOGS IN THE ULLEUNG BASIN, EAST SEA: PRELIMINARY RESULTS FOR INTERPRETATION OF IN SITU STRESS STATE ...... 1720 Gil Young Kim

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EARLY SILURIAN ORGANIC-RICH BLACK SHALES IN CENTRAL PART OF THE BALTIC SILURIAN BASIN: IMPLICATIONS FOR SHALE OIL(GAS) RESERVOIR QUALITY ...... 1721 Grazina Skridlaite

CONTROLLING FACTORS OF PORE TYPES IN SHALE RESERVOIRS FROM THE LOWER SILURIAN LONGMAXI FORMATION IN EASTERN SICHUAN BASIN, CHINA...... 1723 Yikai Geng

CRYOGENIC FRACTURE BEHAVIOUR OF INDIAN GONDWANA SHALE - A LABORATORY STUDY...... 1724 Ashutosh Tripathy

DEEP BOREHOLE STRATIGRAPHY AND BASIN STRUCTURE OF THE SOUTHERN KAROO BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA...... 1725 Bastien Linol

DEEP STRATIGRAPHIC BOREHOLE FOR SHALE GAS GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL BASELINE RESEARCH IN THE KAROO ...... 1727 Luc Chevallier

ENERGIZED FRACTURING FLUIDS AS AN ALTERNATIVE FOR EFFECTIVE STIMULATION OF SHALES GAS FORMATION...... 1729 Klaudia Wilk

FORMATION MECHANISM OF BEDDING FRACTURES IN THE LUCAOGOU FORMATION TIGHT RESERVOIR IN JIMUSAR SAG, JUNGGAR BASIN...... 1731 Yunzhao Zhang

FRACTURING FLUIDS ADDITIVES SELECTION FOR POLISH SYLURIAN SHALE - FROM LABORATORY RESEARCH TO FIELD APPLICATION...... 1732 Piotr Kasza

GEOCHEMICAL, MINERALOGICAL AND PORE STRUCTURE OF SHALES FROM AURANGA BASIN, JHARKHAND, INDIA ...... 1733 Divya Mishra

GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE AND HYDROCARBON POTENTIAL OF SEDIMENTARY DEPOSITS IN THE WEST SIBERIAN PROVINCE...... 1735 Alexander Shpilman

GEOPHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE SOUTHWESTERN KAROO BASIN USING GRAVITY, DENSITY AND BOREHOLE DATA, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 1737 Zusakhe Nxantsiya

HIGH-RESOLUTION X-RAY COMPUTED MICROTOMOGRAPHY USE IN GEOLOGY – A CASE STUDY OF BALTIC BASIN UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVOIR ROCKS ...... 1738 Tomasz Wejrzanowski

IDENTIFICATION OF POTENTIAL RESERVOIR INTERVALS IN OIL-SHALE FORMATIONS BASED ON GEOCHEMICAL DATA ...... 1739 Svetlana Mozhegova

KARIN EXPLORES THE KAROO BASIN AND ITS FOSSIL ENERGY RESOURCES: NEW FINDINGS AND PERSPECTIVES FROM DEEP DRILL CORES ...... N/A Annette E. Goetz

LAB EXPERIMENTS ON THE FORMATION ARTIFICIAL FLOWBACK FROM HYDRAULIC FRACTURING WITH ENERGIZED FLUID...... 1741 Krzysztof Labus

LINXI FORMATION SHALE GAS RESOURCES PROSPECT OF LATE PERMIAN IN THE MIDDLE- SOUTHERN PART OF DA HINGGAN MOUNTAINS IN CHINA ...... 1742 Jian Zhang

LITHOFACIES AND SEDIMENTARY MICRO-FACIES OF FINE-GRAINED SEDIMENTARY ROCKS IN THE SECOND MEMBER OF KONGDIAN FORMATION IN CANGDONG SAG...... 1743 Yuan Deng

PETROGRAPHIC, GEOCHEMICAL AND PETRO-PHYSICAL ANALYSIS OF THE COLLINGHAM FORMATION NEAR JANSENVILLE, EASTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA – POTENTIAL CAP ROCKS TO SHALE GAS IN THE KAROO ...... 1744 Dawn Black

PORE STRUCTURE CHARACTERISTICS AND CONTROLLING FACTORS OF MUD STONE AND SHALE OF THE 3RD SECTION OF ES3 IN ZHANHUA SAG ...... 1745 Chuanxiang Ning

POROSITY EVOLUTION OF LACUSTRINE ORGANIC-MATTER-RICH SHALES IN CHINA ...... 1746 Xiufen Zhai

SEVERAL ISSUES IN STUDIES ON FINE-GRAINED SEDIMENTARY ROCKS...... 1747 Yuan Deng

SHALE GAS FORMATIONS FROM THE NORTHERN POLAND – ANALYSIS OF ROCK CLASSIFICATION ...... 1748 Paulina Krakowska

SOURCE–RESERVOIR ASSEMBLAGE TYPES AND DIFFERENTIAL ACCUMULATION MECHANISMS IN TIGHT OIL RESERVOIRS - A CASE STUDY IN QINGXI SAG...... 1749 Qun Luo

SOUTHERN MAIN KAROO BASIN: ASSESSING THE LOWER PERMIAN SHALE FORMATIONS POTENTIAL FOR SHALE GAS ...... 1750 Selwyn Adams

SPATIOTEMPORAL SEDIMENTARY FACIES VARIATIONS IN THE PERMIAN WHITEHILL FORMATION, MAIN KAROO BASIN...... 1751 Kenneth Chukwuma

STORAGE SPACE CHARACTERIZATION AND RESERVOIR POTENTIAL OF TERRESTRIAL SHALE IN CHINA...... 1752 Rukai Zhu

THERMAL ALTERATION OF SEDIMENTARY ORGANIC MATTER IN RESPONSE TO IGNEOUS INTRUSION (KAROO BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA) AND ITS IMPLICATION FOR SHALE GAS EXPLORATION ...... 1753 Annette E. Goetz

THRUST AND REVERSE FAULTING OF PERMIAN BLACK SHALES (KAROO BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA): NEW INSIGHTS FROM BOREHOLE KZF-1 ...... N/A Annette E. Goetz

TIGHT RESERVOIR OF LUCAOGOU FORMATION IN JIMUSAR SAG, JUNGGAR BASIN...... 1754 Yunzhao Zhang

UNCONVENTIONAL POTENTIAL OF THE LOWER PALEOZOIC STRATA IN THE LUBLIN-PODLASIE BASIN (EASTERN POLAND) ...... 1755 Pawel Kosakowski

VARIATIONS IN ISOCHORE THICKNESS OF THE KAROO SEDIMENTS IN THE EASTERN CAPE PROVINCE OF SOUTH AFRICA, AS DEDUCED FROM GRAVITY MODELS ...... 1757 Christopher Baiyegunhi

A FURTHER EVALUATION OF MUD COOLING TECHNOLOGY FOR GAS HYDRATE EXPLORATION...... 1758 Youhong Sun

A METHOD OF LOGGING RECOGNITION FOR PORE STRUCTURE OF TIGHT SANDSTONE OIL RESERVOIR ...... N/A Quanqi Dai

ANALYSIS ON CHARGING PROCESS OF LACUSTRINE TIGHT OIL IN ORDOS BASIN, CHINA: EVIDENCE FROM FLUID INCLUSIONS ...... 1759 Zhengjian Xu

CARBON DIOXIDE MIGRATION IN SEDIMENTS ON THE CHATHAM RISE, NEW ZEALAND ...... 1761 Richard Coffin

CHARACTERISTICS AND CONTROLLING FACTORS OF LACUSTRINE TIGHT OIL ACCUMULATION OF YANCHANG FORMATION IN ORDOS BASIN, CHINA...... 1762 Zhengjian Xu

CHARACTERISTICS AND CONTROLLING FACTORS OF LACUSTRINE TIGHT OIL ACCUMULATION: A CASE STUDY FROM YANCHANG FORMATION, ORDOS BASIN, CHINA ...... 1763 Zhengjian Xu

DIAGENESIS AND ITS IMPACT ON THE RESERVOIR QUALITY OF CHANG 7 TIGHT SANDSTONES IN ORDOS BASIN, CHINA ...... 1765 Wenchao Dou

ESTIMATION OF THE GAS-HYDRATE RESOURCE VOLUME USING 3-D SEISMIC AND WELL-LOG DATA IN THE ULLEUNG BASIN, EAST SEA, KOREA ...... 1767 Bo-Yeon Yi

GAS HYDRATE IDENTIFICATION NEAR SEAFLOOR BASED ON GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL METHODS IN THE EASTERN PEARL RIVER MOUTH BASIN OF SOUTH CHINA SEA...... 1768 Chunbo Jiao

GAS HYDRATE OCCURRENCES FROM SEISMIC ANALYSIS OFFSHORE CHILOE ...... 1770 Iván De La Cruz Vargas-Cordero

GAS TORCHES AS THE SEARCH FEATURE OF HYDROCARBON DEPOSITS ...... 1771 Sergii Goshovskyi

GEOCHEMICAL COMPARISONS OF NATURAL GAS IN INCLUSIONS AND RESERVOIRS OF THE XUJIAHE FORMATION, SICHUAN BASIN, CHINA ...... 1773 Zhiyong Chen

GEOSTRESS RESEARCH AND APPLICATION AT LUCAOGOU FORMATION TIGHT OIL RESERVOIR IN JIMSAR SAG, JUNGGAR BASIN ...... 1775 Jian Wang

HEAT FLOW AND A ROUGH ESTIMATION OF GAS HYDRATE IN SEDIMENTS AT THE PATAGONIAN ACTIVE CONTINENTAL MARGIN OFFSHORE CHILE ...... 1776 Lucia Villar-Muñoz

IMPLICATIONS OF MASS TRANSPORT DEPOSIT FOR GAS HYDRATE-BEARING SEISMIC CHIMNEYS IN THE ULLEUNG BASIN, EAST SEA, KOREA...... 1778 Nyeon Keon Kang

INTERNATIONAL GAS HYDRATE RESEARCH PROGRAM: KEY FINDINGS AND PERSPECTIVES ...... 1779 Sung-Rock Lee

METHANE HYDRATES OF THE RUSSIAN ARCTIC SEAS: FORECASTS OF DISTRIBUTION AND RESOURCE ASSESSMENT ...... 1781 Tatiana Matveeva

PHOTOCATALYTIC HYDROGEN PRODUCTION BY MODIFIED TITANIA CATALYSTS...... 1783 Abniel Machín

PHYSICAL PROPERTY ANALYSES USING PRESSURE CORES RECOVERED FROM THE ULLEUNG BASIN, EAST SEA, KOREA...... 1785 Joo Yong Lee

PORE PRESSURE PREDICTION IN GAS HYDRATE BEARING SEDIMENTS OF KRISHNA-GODAVARI BASIN, INDIA ...... 1786 Rima Chatterjee

PORE STRUCTURE RESEARCH AND APPLICATION OF RATE-CONTROLLED MERCURY PENETRATION AT CHANG 7 TIGHT OIL RESERVOIR AT ORDOS BASIN ...... 1788 Xu Zhu

POROSITY WELL LOGGING PREDICTION FOR TIGHT OIL RESERVOIRS WITH VARIABLE MATRIX PARAMETER IN ZAHAQUAN AREA, QAIDAM BASIN ...... 1789 Zhang Xiaoli

SANDSTONE RESERVOIR CHRONOLOGICAL TIGHTENING ATTRIBUTED TO THEIR MINERAL COMPONENTS AND DIFFERENTIAL BURIAL-DIAGENETIC EVOLUTION - A CASE STUDY OF THE HE 8 GROUP, UPPER PALEOZOIC FROM THE EASTERN ORDOS BASIN ...... 1791 Jinglan Luo

SEISMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF GAS HYDRATE AND FREE GAS IN THE NORTHWEST ULLEUNG BASIN, EAST SEA...... 1793 Dong Geun Yoo

STUDY ON PORE STRUCTURE CHARACTERISTICS OF TIGHT SANDSTONE OIL RESERVOIR: EVIDENCES FROM CHANG 7 MEMBER IN ORDOS BASIN, CHINA ...... 1794 Quanqi Dai

EVALUATION OF CO2 STORAGE POTENTIAL ON THE NORWEGIAN CONTINENTAL SHELF...... N/A Eva Halland

GEOLOGIC CARBON STORAGE AT A ONE MILLION TONNE DEMONSTRATION PROJECT: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE ILLINOIS BASIN – DECATUR PROJECT, USA ...... 1796 Sallie E Greenberg

LARGE PILOT SCALE TESTING OF LINDE/BASF POST-COMBUSTION CO2 CAPTURE TECHNOLOGY AT THE ABBOTT COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT, ILLINOIS USA ...... N/A Sallie E Greenberg

MOVING CCS FORWARD: BRIDGING THE INDUSTRIAL DIVIDE – LEARNINGS FROM THE CO2CRC OTWAY PROJECT, AUSTRALIA ...... 1798 Matthias Raab

SEDIMENTOLOGICAL AND H2O-CO2-ROCK INTERACTION STUDIES FOR A LONG-TERM GEOLOGICAL CO2 STORAGE IN THE ONSHORE ZULULAND BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 1800 Lowanika Victor Tibane

THE PILOT SITE KETZIN, GERMANY – LESSONS LEARNT ON CO2 STORAGE...... 1802 Mario Wipki

THE PLAINS CO2 REDUCTION PARTNERSHIP: DEVOLOPING TECHNOLOGIES FOR CCS DEPLOYMENT IN CENTRAL NORTH AMERICA...... 1804 L. J. Steadman

UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CLASSIFICATION 2009 ...... 1805 Sean Davids

CHALLENGES AND ANALYTIC OPPORTUNITIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE CONCEPT OF NET CARBON NEGATIVE OIL...... 1807 Sarah Forbes

MONETIZED LEAKAGE RISK OF GEOLOGIC CO2 STORAGE AND THE ROLE OF SECONDARY TRAPPING IN INTERVENING STRATIGRAPHIC LAYERS ...... N/A Jeffrey Bielicki

THE BONGWANA NATURAL CO2 RELEASE ...... 1809 Nigel Hicks

THE DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF GASPRO PCO2 SENSORS FOR CCS MONITORING ...... N/A Sabina Bigi

THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING GEOCHEMICAL BASELINES FOR CCS MONITORING...... N/A Salvatore Lombardi

THE NATURAL CO2 LEAKING LABORATORY OFFSHORE PANAREA ISLAND, ITALY ...... N/A Salvatore Lombardi

A NEW TECHNIQUE FOR REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELLING IN CARBONATE RESERVOIRS UTILIZED FOR CO2 SEQUESTRATION ...... 1811 Tina Roberts-Ashby

APPLICATION EFFECT OF MICROTREMOR SURVEY METHOD IN THE EXPLORATION OF GEOTHERMAL RESOURCE ...... 1812 Peifen Xu

GEOTHERMAL HEAT FROM GENERATED GEOTHERMAL ENERGY SYSTEMS (GENESYS)...... 1814 Peter Gerling

GEOTHERMAL RESOURCE ASSESSMENT OF THE ST. LAWRENCE LOWLANDS SEDIMENTARY BASIN, QUÉBEC, CANADA ...... 1815 Michel Malo

OPTIMALLY EXTRACTING GEOTHERMAL HEAT FROM SEDIMENTARY BASINS USING CARBON DIOXIDE...... N/A Jeffrey Bielicki

PRELIMINARY REMOTE SENSING ANALYSES OF THE ALID VOLCANIC GEOTHERMAL DISTRICT (ERITREA) ...... 1817 Antonio Galgaro

AN OVERVIEW OF RESEARCH AT THE LATERA CALDERA, ITALY, NATURAL CO2 ANALOGUE SITE...... 1819 Salvatore Lombardi

ASSESSMENT OF THE GEOTHERMAL POTENTIAL OF THE MAIN KAROO BASIN (SOUTH AFRICA): AN OUTCROP ANALOGUE STUDY OF PERMIAN SANDSTONE RESERVOIR FORMATIONS...... 1821 Annette E. Goetz

ASSESSMENT OF THE TOTAL CO2 STORAGE CAPACITY OF SHALES – UPSCALING FROM SORPTION AND RESERVOIR DATA ...... 1822 Marcin Lutynski

CARBON DIOXIDE SORPTION ON GAS BEARING SHALE AND HALLOYSITE...... 1823 Marcin Lutynski

CHARACTERISTICS AND ORIGIN OF DAWSONITE IN SONGLIAO BASIN, CHINA: A NATURAL ANALOGUES FOR CO2 SEQUESTRATION IN DEEP-SALINE AQUIFERS...... 1825 Li Liu

CO2 STORAGE PROJECT IN ITALY: THE SULCIS COAL BASIN, ITALY...... N/A Sabina Bigi

DETECTION OF FRACTURES ACTING AS HYDROTHERMAL FLUID PATH BY LINEAMENT ANALYSIS AND RADON GAS MEASUREMENT ...... 1826 Katsuaki Koike

EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS OF GEOTHERMAL HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEM USING GROUNDWATER IN SOUTH KOREA...... 1828 Jinsung Kim

FRACTURE CONTROLLED CO2 GAS MIGRATION AT THE BONGWANA NATURAL CO2 RELEASE SITE, SOUTH AFRICA...... 1830 Nigel Hicks

GEOLOGICAL REVIEW OF EBURRU-BADLANDS GEOTHERMAL PROSPECT; SURFACE STRUCTURAL AND GEOLOGICAL MAPPING ...... 1831 Irene Ronoh

GEOLOGICAL SUBSURFACE DATA COLLECTION AS A PART OF THE EUROPEAN ESTMAP PROJECT (ENERGY STORAGE MAPPING AND PLANNING) ...... 1833 Laurent Beccaletto

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY FROM THE MAIN KAROO BASIN: NEW INSIGHTS FROM BOREHOLE KWV-1 (EASTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA)...... N/A Annette E. Goetz

HIGH TEMPERATURE HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION IN ACTIVE GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS: A CASE STUDY OF OLKARIA DOMES ...... N/A James Nyandigisi

MODELLING THE GEOLOGY OF THE GEOENERGY TEST BED, EAST MIDLANDS UK...... 1835 Tim Pharaoh

PALEOSTRESS RECONSTRUCTION BASED ON MINOR FAULTS IN CORE...... 1836 Sehyeon Gwon

PETROLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY CHARACTERISTICS OF MUDSTONE INTERLAYER WITHIN THE PALEO-CO2 RESERVOIRS, IN THE SOUTHERN SONGLIAO BASIN, CHINA ...... 1837 Li Liu

PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE PUCHULDIZA-LICANCURA GEOTHERMAL FIELD IN THE CENTRAL ANDEAN VOLCANIC ZONE, NORTHERN CHILE...... 1839 Eugenio Veloso

STRUCTURAL CONTROLS ON GEOTHERMAL ACTIVITY IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN REGION: EXAMPLE OF THE MAIN MENDERES AREA (WESTERN TURKEY)...... 1841 Vincent Roche

STUDY OF THE EVALUATION OF THE RESERVOIR TEMPERATURE FOR GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM: GEOTHERMOMETRY IN BOLOANG MONGONDOW AREA, PROVINCE OF NORTH SULAWESI, INDONESIA...... 1842 Sayyed Faturahman

ALTERATION MINERALOGY OF KARISIMBI PRODUCTS FROM WELL KW01 THROUGH GEOTHERMAL PROSPECT, NYABIHU DISTRICT, NW-RWANDA ...... 1843 Digne Rwabuhungu Rwatangabo

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON THE REACTIVITY OF MG-ORTHOPYROXENE AND CA- PLAGIOCLASE UNDER DIRECT AQUEOUS MINERAL CARBONATION – EASTERN CASE STUDY...... 1844 Zakhele Nkosi

GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES IN MADAGASCAR...... 1846 Lala Andrianaivo

GEOTHERMAL FLUID CIRCULATION WITHIN A -REGIONAL SCALE- CARBONATE RESERVOIR. A REVIEW OF DATA FROM WESTERN SICLIY, ITALY...... 1847 Domenico Montanari

GEOTHERMAL POTENTIAL OF TRIASSIC OF THE PANNONIAN BASINS SYSTEM: NEW INSIGHTS FROM A DEEP BOREHOLE OF CENTRAL HUNGARY ...... 1848 Annette E. Goetz

APPLIED MINERALOGY FOR THE RESPONSIBLE UTILISATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES ...... 1849 Deshenthree Chetty

CHARACTERISING FLOTATION PERFORMANCE FOR GEOMETALLURGY - WHERE ARE WE AT? ...... 1851 Dee Bradshaw

CONSIDERING RHEOLOGY AS A KEY GEOMETALLURGICAL TOOL...... 1852 Theophilus Dzingai

DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL APPROACH FOR INTEGRATION OF FUNDAMENTAL GEOLOGICAL PARAMETERS WITH ROCK STRENGTH. CASE STUDY : LOS BRONCES, CHILE...... 1853 Malcolm Powell Dee Bradshaw

IDENTIFYING EXTREMELY LOW-CONCENTRATION NON-TARGET COMPONENTS IN COPPER ORES AND CONCENTRATES...... 1854 Nigel Cook

MINERALOGY OF EXCESSIVE FINES-PRODUCING MANGANESE ORE, KALAHARI MANGANESE FIELD, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 1856 Nicolaas Steenkamp

TOWARDS DEVELOPING AN INTEGRATED GEOMETALLURGICAL MODELLING FRAMEWORK OF THE MINERALS BENEFICIATION CHAIN...... 1857 Edson Charikinya

GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF THE EUROPEAN KUPFERSCHIEFER – FROM METHOD DEVELOPMENT TO DATA ASSESSMENT...... 1859 Anne Rahfeld

IMPORTANCE OF GEOMETALLURGY IN THE SIILINJÄRVI PHOSPHATE MINE ...... 1861 Pasi Heino

MINERALOGICAL ANALYSIS OF A FLUORSPAR DEPOSIT: A CASE STUDY FROM THREE ORE ZONES AT THE OKORUSU FLUORSPAR MINE, NAMIBIA...... 1863 Piet Sebola

MINERALOGY OF TIO2- HEAVY MINERAL SAND DEPOSIT OF NATAKA ...... 1865 Silvio Jose Elias

THE GEOMETALLURGY OF THE NAMAKWA SANDS HEAVY MINERAL DEPOSIT: CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS...... 1867 Carlo Philander

TOWARDS A GEOMETALLURGICAL MODEL FOR BY-PRODUCT RESOURCE ESTIMATION OF STRATEGIC METALS WITHIN THE ST AUSTELL KAOLIN DEPOSITS...... N/A Quentin Dehaine

FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF A CHEMISTRY PROXY FOR GEOMETALLURGICAL MODELLING AT THE MOGALAKWENA MINE...... 1869 Robert Schouwstra

MINERALOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL VARIATIONS IN THE UG2 REEF AT BOOYSENDAL AND ZONDEREINDE MINES, WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR BENEFICIATION OF PGM...... 1870 Michael-John McCall

PLATINUM GROUP MINERALS IN OXIDISED CHROMITITE LAYERS AND THEIR BEHAVIOUR DURING CHROMITE CONCENTRATION: A PROCESS MINERALOGY APPROACH ...... 1872 Themba Mothupi

PLATINUM-GROUP MINERAL COMPOSITION AND MINERALOGY OF LG6 AND LG6A CHROMITITES OF THE WESTERN BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 1873 Kai Bachmann

RECOVERY OF VALUABLE ELEMENTS FROM PLATINUM GROUP METAL (PGM) TAILINGS AND SYNTHESIS OF IRON-BASED MATERIALS ...... 1875 Sameera Mohamed

ADVANCED MINERAL IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERISATION BY µ-XRF...... 1877 Samuel Scheller

APPLICATION OF COMPUTER DATA PROCESSING AND IMAGE ANALYSIS IN STUDIES OF PORE SPACE IN THE PENNSYLVANIAN SANDSTONES FROM WESTERN POMERANIA ...... 1879 Aleksandra Kozlowska

COMBINING EDS AND MICRO - XRF FOR ADVANCED MINERAL CLASSIFICATION AND ORE CHARACTERIZATION...... N/A Max Patzschke

PLSR AND XRD FOR PROCESS MONITORING AND EXPLORATION OF ORES ...... 1881 U. Konig

QUANTIFYING THE RESOURCE POTENTIAL OF FLOTATION TAILINGS STORAGE FACILITIES – THE ROLE OF GEOMETALLURGICAL CHARACTERIZATION ...... 1883 Jens Gutzmer

USING X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (XCT) FOR THE 3D TEXTURAL ANALYSIS OF DRILL CORE IN GEOMETALLURGY...... 1885 Megan Becker

A GEOMETALLURGICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE P1 AND P2 UNITS OF THE PLATREEF AT LONMIN’S AKANANI PROJECT, NORTHERN LIMB, BUSHVELD COMPLEX ...... 1886 Gloria Motloba

A GEOMETALLURGICAL STUDY OF THE MINERALIZED FOOTWALL UNDERLYING THE BRAKSPRUIT FACIES OF MERENSKY REEF AT THE LONMIN KAREE PT MINE, BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA...... 1888 Matome Moitsi

BENEFICIATION OF FELDSPAR-RICH FOR THE CERAMIC INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS ...... 1890 Refilwe Moeletsi

BY-PRODUCT RECOVERY OF CRITICAL ELEMENTS FROM ORES AND CONCENTRATES USING DEEP EUTECTIC SOLVENT IONIC LIQUIDS: BRIO ...... 1892 Gawen Jenkin

EFFICIENT SEARCH FOR ACCESSORY PHASES AND CHEMICAL CHARACTERISATION OF MAJOR ROCK FORMING MINERALS FOR PETROLOGIC APPLICATIONS BY COMBINING ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS AND SEM AUTOMATED MINERALOGY...... 1894 Joachim Krause

MINERALOGICAL CHARACTERIZATIONS OF LOW-GRADE NICKEL–IRON LATERITES FROM NORTH OMAN: MLA-SEM BASED AUTOMATED QUANTITATIVE MINERALOGY APPROACH ...... 1895 Salah Al-Khirbash

MINERALOGY IN PROCESS CONTROL – REASONS FOR FURNACE BUILD-UP AND METAL LOSSES TO SLAG...... 1896 Wilma Clark

QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERISATION OF LOW TEMPERATURE HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION OF MAGMATIC NI-CU-PGE SULFIDE ORES...... 1898 Zeinab Adeyemi

UNDERSTANDING THE PROGRESSION OF LEACHING IN MICROWAVE TREATED PARTICLES USING X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (XCT) ANALYSIS...... 1900 Edson Charikinya

‘’HIDDEN’’ GOLD...... N/A Julie Hunt

A REVIEW OF SCANDIUM IN AND ALKALINE IGNEOUS ROCKS OF AFRICA...... 1902 Pete Siegfried

AN INVESTIGATION OF RARE EARTH ELEMENT ENRICHMENT PROCESSES IN DIATREMES AND RELATED CARBONATITES IN WESTER AFRICA ...... 1904 Manoka Marageni

COLTAN IN COLOMBIA: STRATEGIC OR CONFLICT MATERIAL?...... 1906 Amed Bonilla

CRITICAL METALS AND MATERIALS, AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE...... 1908 Paul Nex

THE CRITICAL ROLE OF THE BUSHVELD MAGMATIC EVENT FOR A MODERN SOCIETY ...... 1909 Judith Kinnaird

AN IN-SITU CHEMICAL AND ISOTOPIC INVESTIGATION OF CARBONATITIC APATITE AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RARE EARTH ELEMENT SYSTEMATICS...... 1911 Wei Chen

DIRECT AND INDIRECT EVIDENCE FOR THE COMPOSITION OF REE-MINERALISING FLUIDS...... 1913 Sam Broom-Fendley

METAMORPHIC CONTROL ON REE REDISTRIBUTION IN ALKALINE COMPLEXES – THE NORRA KÄRR EXAMPLE ...... 1915 Petya Atanasova

PERALKALINE IGNEOUS COMPLEXES: THE FRONTIER OF REE DEPOSITS ...... 1917 Emma Hunt

POTENTIAL RARE EARTH ELEMENT METALLOGENETIC BELTS IN AFRICA ...... 1918 Kathryn Goodenough

REDISCOVERING THE PANDA HILL NIOBIUM-RICH CARBONATITE IN TANZANIA ...... 1920 Neil Inwood

BADDELEYITE FROM AR TO PZ TIME IN BASITE AND CARBONATITE DEPOSITS FROM THE ARCTIC REGION ON THE FENNOSCANDIAN SHIELD: U-PB (ID-TIMS) AND LA-ICP-MS DATA ...... 1922 Tamara Bayanova

DEVELOPMENTS AND TRENDS IN THE AVAILABILITY OF HIGH-TECH METALS WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON THE GERMAN SITUATION ...... 1924 Volker Steinbach

GEOLOGY AND GENESIS OF PEGMATITE-HOSTED REE–Y–NB MINERALIZATION IN SAUSAR MOBILE BELT, CENTRAL INDIA ...... 1925 Rajkumar Meshram

LOCAL CONTROLS ON MINERAL TRANSFORMATIONS: REPLACEMENT OF (Y-NB-REE)-RICH TITANITE BY RUTILE...... 1927 Barbara Etschmann

REE MINERALIZATION ASSOCIATED WITH FE-CU-(REE) DEPOSITS IN THE SOUTHWESTERN YANGTZE BLOCK, SOUTHERN CHINA AND NORTHERN VIETNAM ...... 1929 Mei Fu Zhou

REE MINERALIZATION IN THE EASTERN DHARWAR CRATON AT MINCHERI, RAICHUR DISTRICT, KARNATAKA, INDIA...... 1930 Laxminandan Deori

TECHNIQUES USED TO DETERMINE RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (REE’S) IN COAL FLY ASH GENERATED FROM THREE DIFFERENT POWER STATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA...... 1931 Matiane Ripfumelo Arnold

THE SN, NB, TA, F (REE, U, TH) WORLD CLASS DEPOSIT AND THE MASSIVE CRYOLITE DEPOSIT ASSOCIATED WITH THE ALBITE-ENRICHED FACIES OF THE MADEIRA A-TYPE GRANITE, PITINGA, AMAZONAS STATE, BRAZIL...... 1932 Artur Bastos Neto

EU CRITICAL RAW MATERIALS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC - COMPETENCE CENTRE FOR EFFECTIVE AND ECOLOGICAL MINING OF MINERAL RESOURCES (CEEMIR)...... 1933 Petr Rambousek

GE DISTRIBUTION IN SUPERGENE WILLEMITE (ZN2SIO4): NEW INSIGHTS FROM THE BOU ARHOUS DEPOSIT (MOROCCO)...... 1935 Flavien Choulet

MASSIVE POLLUCITE ((CS,NA)2AL2SI4O12 X H2O) – PROCESSES OF EXTREME CAESIUM ENRICHMENT WITHIN LCT PEGMATITES...... 1937 Thomas Dittrich

RARE-ELEMENT PEGMATITES OF THE KEIVY-KOLMOZERO ZONE, NE BALTIC SHIELD: CLASSIFICATION, AGE DISTRIBUTION, SOURCES...... 1939 Nikolay Kudryashov

REGULARITY OF FORMATION AND CRITERIA OF FORECASTING RARE METAL DEPOSITS IN EAST KAZAKHSTAN...... 1941 Boris Dyachkov

SOLUBILITY OF MONAZITE AND CHERALITE IN HIGHLY FLUXED PERALKALINE TO PERALUMINOUS PEGMATITIC MELTS...... 1943 Aurelien Eglinger

THE MONAPO ALKALINE-CARBONATITE COMPLEX, MOZAMBIQUE ...... 1945 Fabio Masotti

THE M´FEMA AND SM CARBONATITES, MOZAMBIQUE ...... 1947 Fabio Masotti

THE TAILINGS POND OF CINOVEC DEPOSIT (CZECH REPUBLIC) AS NON-TRADITIONAL SOURCE OF LITHIUM ...... 1949 Jiri Malis

MAGMATIC-HYDROTHERMAL PROCESSES FORMING THE REE MINERALISATION IN THE LOOLEKOP CARBONATITE OF THE PHALABORWA COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA...... 1950 R. Johannes Giebel

REE FRACTIONATION AND ELEMENT TRANSFER WITHIN WEATHERING PROFILES IN A MILD AND HUMID CLIMATE: ALTERATION ZONES OF THE FEN-CARBONATITE COMPLEX, NORWAY ...... 1952 Uwe Altenberger

THE SC-NB-TR TOMTOR DEPOSIT AND ITS GENESIS...... 1954 Elena N. Levchenko

AFRICAN COPPER ...... 1956 Murray Hitzman

IMPACT OF GLOBAL CHANGE ON RESOURCES – EXPLORATION TO MARKETS ...... 1957 John Thompson

INNOVATIVE USES OF GEOLOGICAL MATERIALS AS CROP NUTRIENTS...... 1959 David Manning

MINERAL RESOURCES - SUPPLY, DEMAND, AND THE FUTURE...... 1960 Lawrence Meinert

MINERALISATION IN THE BUSHVELD COMPLEX...... 1962 Morris Viljoen

EIT RAWMATERIALS, A NEW EUROPEAN INITIATIVE IN RAW MATERIALS...... 1964 Karen Hanghøj

EUROPE AND JAPAN: COMMON CHALLENGES AND THREATS ON THE SUPPLY OF MINERAL RAW MATERIALS...... 1965 Kip Jeffrey

GLOBAL TRENDS IN MINERAL COMMODITIES FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES ...... 1967 Steven Fortier

PROMOTING RFG IN CONJUNCTION WITH CHINA’S “THE BELT AND THE ROAD” INITIATIVE ...... 1969 Anjian Wang

RESOURCING FUTURE GENERATIONS...... 1970 Edmund Nickless

SUBMARINE MINERAL RESOURCES: WHO WILL MINE THEM AND WHO WILL REAP THE BENEFITS? ...... 1971 Nicholas Arndt

THE DYNAMIC NATURE OF RESOURCE AVAILABILITY: THE CASES OF COPPER AND RARE EARTHS...... 1973 Roderick Eggert

3D MAPPING FOR MINERAL EXPLORATION UNDER COVER: CONTINENTAL TO REGIONAL SCALE EXAMPLES IN AUSTRALIA...... 1974 Richard Blewett

ALUMINIUM RECOVERY FROM COAL FLY ASH FOR SUSTAINABLE ALUMINA RESOURCE ...... 1976 Frederic Doucet

GLOBAL RARE EARTH ELEMENT RESOURCES AND CHALLENGES FOR PRODUCTION ...... 1978 Kathryn Goodenough

GLOBAL RESOURCE ASSESSMENTS OF PRIMARY METALS: AN OPTIMISTIC REALITY CHECK ...... 1980 Gavin Mudd

KEY ENABLERS OF A SUCCESSFUL MINING INDUSTRY: LESSONS FROM SOUTH AFRICA ...... 1983 Fatheela Brovko

REFORMING KYRGYZSTAN’S MINING SECTOR ...... 1985 Duishenbek Zilaliev

RESOURCES DEPLETION SCENARIOS - HOW SHOULD WE ADDRESS THE LIMITATIONS?...... 1986 Stephen Northey

TECHNOLOGICAL DREAMS: BUILDING ADDITIONAL HUMAN AND TECHNOLOGICAL CAPACITY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND DEVELOPMENT...... 1988 Jeannette McGill

THE ROLE OF AFRICAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS IN ATTRACTING MINERAL INVESTMENT INTO AFRICA...... 1989 Gabriele Schneider

PROCESS METALLURGY: A KEY ENABLER OF A CIRCULAR ECONOMY...... 1990 Markus Reuter

RARE EARTHS SUPPLY: CURRENT AND FUTURE SITUATION ...... 1991 J. W. Li

RAW MATERIALS FUTURES 2050: A REVIEW OF RECENT AND ONGOING FORESIGHT EXERCISES IN EUROPE...... 1993 Vitor Correia

THE EU INTERNATIONAL OBSERVATORY FOR RAW MATERIALS: ENHANCING FRAMEWORK CONDITIONS FOR A STABLE SUPPLY OF RAW MATERIALS ...... 1994 Vitor Correia

THE INDUSTRIAL APPROACH TO METAL RECYCLING - OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES TO CLOSE THE LOOP FOR TECHNOLOGY METALS...... 1996 Christian Hagelueken

DEVELOPMENT OF AN E-WASTE IMPLEMENTATION TOOLKIT (EWIT) TO SUPPORT THE RECYCLING AND SECONDARY RAW MATERIAL RECOVERY STRATEGIES IN METROPOLITAN AREAS IN AFRICA...... 1997 Mariekie Gericke

GREEN MINING AND SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES PROSPECTING OF NEW TECHNOLOGY MINERALS IN CHINA ...... 1998 Jionghui Wang

THE IMPORTANCE OF TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR STONE CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTS - THE CASE STUDY OF "STONEPT BRAND", A PRODUCT CERTIFICATION FOR PORTUGUESE STONE ...... 1999 Luís Lopes

TOWARD A MORE EQUITABLE USE OF RESOURCES ...... 2001 Patrice Christmann

TOWARDS EU CONCEPT OF MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE FOR THEIR SAFEGUARDING FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS - CONSIDERATIONS ON QUALIFYING CRITERIA DEFINING SUCH DEPOSITS...... 2003 Krzysztof Galos

CERAMIC PASTE FORMULATION FOR THE PRODUCTION OF TRADITIONAL POTTERY FROM SUB- PRODUCTS OF THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRY OF MARBLES - ALENTEJO, PORTUGAL ...... 2004 Luís Lopes

MINERAL EXPLORATION AND THE CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE SUPPLY OF MINERALS...... 2006 Fabio Masotti

TECHNOGENIC RAW MATERIAL IN ENRICHMENT PLANT OF ZHEZKAZGAN ...... 2008 Adilkhan Baibatsha

THE ORIGIN AND FORMATION OF THE ALBITITE MARKER, OTJIKOTO GOLD MINE, CENTRAL NAMIBIA...... 2010 Lisias Negonga

FLUID INCLUSION STUDIES OF SHEAR – CONTROLLED GOLD MINERALIZATION OF G.R.HALLI AREA, CHITRADURGA SCHIST BELT, DHARWAR CRATON...... 2012 Govindappa Gopalakrishna

FLUID INCLUSION STUDIES ON AURIFEROUS QUARTZ VEINS OF KUDREKONDA-PALAVANAHALLI AREA SHIMOGA SCHIST BELT, DHARWAR CRATON INDIA: INFERENCES ON THE NATURE OF HYDROTHERMAL FLUID DURING MINERALIZATION ...... 2013 K. C. Nimmy

GENESIS OF GOLD MINERALIZATION IN KUNDARKOCHA GOLD DEPOSIT, SINGHBHUM CRATON, EASTERN INDIA: EVIDENCES FROM HOST ROCK GEOCHEMISTRY...... 2015 Akella Venkatesh

GEODYNAMIC CONDITIONS OF FORMATION OF LARGE-SCALE GOLD MINERALIZATION IN THE SIBERIAN CRATON MARGIN...... 2016 Nikolay Goryachev

GOLD DEPOSITS IN THE COLOMBIAN AMAZONIA AND SOME OF THEIR SOCIAL-ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS...... 2017 Zeze Amaya Perea

THE CRUSTAL GOLD CYCLE...... 2019 Hartwig Frimmel

GOLD MINERALIZATION IN CHITRADURGA SCHIST BELT, DHARWAR CRATON, INDIA ...... 2021 Jayaprakash Mohakul

HIGH-K TO SHOSHONITIC MAGMATISM ACROSS THE NORTHERN ARCHEAN KÉMÉNA MAN MARGIN (GUINEA): IMPLICATIONS FOR THE LATE EBURNEAN OROGENIC GOLD MINERALIZATIONS ...... 2023 Aurelien Eglinger

HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION AND GOLD MINERALIZATION OF THE META-SEDIMENTARY ROCK HOSTED GOLD DEPOSIT AWAK MAS, SULAWESI ISLAND, INDONESIA ...... 2025 Ernowo Harjanto

HYDROTHERMAL FLUID EVOLUTION AND ITS IMPLICATION ON THE GOLD MINERALIZATION ASSOCIATED WITH CHANDIL FORMATION WITHIN THE NORTH SINGHBHUM CRUSTAL PROVINCE, EASTERN INDIA...... 2027 Vandana Jha

METALLOGENESIS OF MESOZOIC OROGENIC GOLD DEPOSIT IN BANGONG-NUJIANG SUTURE BELT: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE SHANGXU GOLD DEPOSIT ...... 2028 Guangming Li

PRESERVATION OF GOLD DEPOSITS IN JIAODONG , CHINA: CONSTRAINTS FROM BIOTITE GEOBAROMETRY AND APATITE FISSION TRACK DATA...... 2030 Jianping Wang

FLUID INCLUSION AND MULTIPLE ISOTOPE (H, O, S, PB) STUDIES OF THE SANDAOWANZI EPITHERMAL AU-AG-TE DEPOSIT, NE CHINA...... 2032 Degao Zhai

SECULAR AU AND PGE SEQUESTRATION IN THE KAAPVAAL CRATONIC CRUST, SOUTH AFRICA...... 2034 Glen Nwaila

STRUCTURAL CONTROLS OF FLUID FLOW AT THE BASE OF THE KAGERA SUPERGROUP AND IMPLICATIONS FOR REGIONAL GOLD MINERALIZATION, KARAGWE-ANKOLE BELT, NORTH- WESTERN TANZANIA...... 2036 Corne Koegelenberg

THE AURIFEROUS MISSISSAGI AND MATINENDA PALEOPLACER FORMATIONS OF THE HURONIAN BASIN ...... 2038 Wesley Whymark

THE CONTINENT OF UR AND THE BEGINNING OF THE CRUSTAL GOLD CYCLE...... 2040 Quinton Hennigh

THE MINERAL CHARACTERISTICS AND METALLOGENESIS OF SCHEELITE IN THE ZHAISHANG GOLD DEPOSIT IN THE WESTERN QINLING OROGENIC BLET ...... 2042 Jiajun Liu

GEOLOGY OF THE GIANT JIAODONG GOLD PROVINCE, CHINA ...... 2044 R. J. Goldfarb

TOPOLOGY OF A MINERALISED STOCKWORK: SUNRISE DAM GOLD MINE, W. AUSTRALIA...... 2046 Thomas Blenkinsop

USE OF PXRD IN THE QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF ALTERATION IN EPITHERMAL AU DEPOSITS ...... 2048 Ian Graham

WHY ARE HYPOZONAL OROGENIC GOLD DEPOSITS RESTRICTED TO PRECAMBRIAN OROGENS? ...... 2050 Jochen Kolb

WITWATERSRAND-TYPE PALAEOPLACERS IN BRAZIL: PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN THE JACOBINA AND MOEDA GOLD DEPOSITS ...... 2052 Enzio Garayp

MINERALIZING FLUIDS OF HYDROTHERMAL GOLD DEPOSITS IN GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF EARTH ...... 2054 Vsevolod Prokofiev

MINERALOGICAL STUDY AND FLUID CHARACTERISTICS OF OLON OVOOT GOLD DEPOSIT, SOUTHERN MONGOLIA ...... 2056 Sarantuya Oyungerel

MOBILITY OF GOLD DURING METAMORPHISM: LINKS BETWEEN FERTILITY, EFFICIENCY AND ENDOWMENT...... 2058 Iain Pitcairn

TEXTURES AND IN-SITU CHEMICAL AND ISOTOPIC ANALYSES OF PYRITE, HUIJIABAO TREND, YOUJIANG BASIN, CHINA: IMPLICATIONS FOR PARAGENESIS AND SOURCE OF S ...... 2060 Lin Hou

THE MANTELLIC CONNECTIONS OF NEOARCHEAN SANUKITOID PORPHYRY GOLD DEPOSITS, ABITIBI, CANADA ...... 2062 Michel Jébrak

WEST AFRICAN OROGENIC GOLD DEPOSITS: DO THEY FIT THE GLOBAL PARADIGM?...... 2064 Peter Treloar

VOLUME 6

DETERMINING HYDROTHERMAL FLUID SOURCE FOR GOLD DEPOSITS THROUGH GEOCHEMISTRY OF MONAZITE AND XENOTIME CRYSTALS...... 2065 Ryan Taylor

METAL-CONTAINING THIOANIONS: THEIR STABILITY AND ROLE IN GOLD AND OTHER ELEMENT TRANSPORT IN HYDROTHERMAL ORE SOLUTIONS...... 2067 Terry M. Seward

METALLOTECTONIC EVOLUTION OF NORTH SINGHBHUM FOLD AND THRUST BELT AND ITS PROVINCE-SCALE IMPLICATIONS ON THE GOLD PROSPECTS OF SINGHBHUM CRUSTAL PROVINCE, EASTERN INDIA...... 2069 Sahendra Singh

POSSIBLE ANALOGS OF WITWATERSRAND IN THE NORTH ASIAN CRATON...... 2070 Victor Starostin

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE BENTONG-RAUB SUTURE ZONE USING PALSAR REMOTE SENSING DATA, PENINSULAR MALAYSIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR SEDIMENT-HOSTED/OROGENIC GOLD MINERAL SYSTEMS EXPLORATION ...... 2072 Amin Beiranvand Pour

THE MURUNTAU GOLD DEPOSIT (UZBEKISTAN) - A UNIQUE ANCIENT HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM IN THE SOUTHERN TIEN SHAN...... 2074 Reimar Seltmann

BIOTITE AND WHITE MICA COMPOSITION AS A VECTOR TO ORE ZONES: DECIPHERING HYDROTHERMAL AND METAMORPHIC EFFECTS IN THE CANADIAN MALARTIC GOLD DEPOSIT ALTERATION HALO, QUÉBEC ...... 2076 Nicolas Gaillard

CHARACTERISTICS OF HIGH GRADE AU-AG MINERALIZATION AT THE HISHIKARI DEPOSITS, KAGOSHIMA, JAPAN ...... 2077 Ryohei Takahashi

HOW TO IMPROVE GOLD RECOVERY FROM PLACER DEPOSITS IN ADOLA REGION (SOUTHERN ETHIOPIAN GREENSTONE BELT) ...... 2079 Stanislaw Wolkowicz

PREFERENTIAL MINERALISATION OF SHALLOWLY DIPPING VEINS AT THE NAVACHAB GOLD DEPOSIT, NAMIBIA ...... 2081 Katharina Wulff

THE USE OF FRACTAL ANALYSIS FOR GOLD EXPLORATION IN THE MANICA MUTARE ODZI (MMO) GREENSTONE BELT...... 2083 Salvador Mondlane

TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING THE GIANT KIBALI OROGENIC GOLD DEPOSIT, NE DRC...... 2084 Peter Treloar

CONTROLS ON HIGH-GRADE GOLD MINERALIZATION AT NYABIRAMA GOLD DEPOSIT AS REVEALED FROM DETAILED MAPPING AND 3-D MODELLING. NORTH MARA MINE (ACACIA MINING PLC) - TANZANIA ...... 2085 Sebastian Ndile

NATURE OF GOLD MINERALIZATION AT ABU KHALAG, CENTRAL BAYUDA DESERT, SUDAN...... 2087 Mohammed Alnaghasi Hassan Altigani

PRELIMINARY STUDY ON THE ZIBYAUNG GOLD PROSPECT, KYAIKHTO AREA, SOUTHERN MYANMAR ...... 2089 Myo Kyaw Hlaing

A COMPARISON OF THE GOLD FINENESS IN THE ROMANIAN GOLD DEPOSITS...... 2090 Lucian Petrescu

GOLD-BEARING STRUCTURE OF GREATER ALTAI: GEOTECTONIC POSITION AND RESEARCH CRITERIA ...... 2092 Boris Dyachkov

HIGH POTASSIUM ALKALINE MAGMATIC ROCKS OF THE CENTRAL ALDAN ORE DISTRICT (SOUTH YAKUTIA) AND ASSOCIATED GOLD AND GOLD-URANIUM MINERALIZATION...... 2094 Anatoly Molchanov

PROSPECTS OF EXPANSION OF RAW MATERIAL BASE SOURCE OF GOLD-MINING INDUSTRY IN UZBEKISTAN...... 2096 Jakhongir Movlanov

TEXTURES OF SULPHIDES, AND ASSOCIATION WITH GOLD MINERALISATION IN THE BEATONS CREEK DETRITAL GOLD DEPOSIT, PILBARA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA ...... 2098 Chris Guldbrandsen

CHEMICAL VARIABILITY OF ORE MINERALS IN SEVERAL EPITHERMAL DEPOSITS FROM THE GOLD QUADRILATERAL, APUSENI MOUNTAINS, ROMANIA ...... 2100 Marian Munteanu

COMPLEX GOLD MINERALIZING SYSTEM OF THE PLAVICA DEPOSIT, R. MACEDONIA...... 2102 Todor Serafimovski

EASTERN TANNU-OLA ORE DISTRICT OF THE ALTAI-SAYAN FOLDED AREA (REPUBLIC TUVA, RUSSIA): THE STRUCTURAL FEATURES AND METALLOGENY...... 2104 Alexandr Chernykh

GEOLOGICAL FEATURES OF LANDSLIDE-ACCUMULATION ORE OF THE NIBAO GOLD DEPOSIT SW GUIZHOU CHINA ...... 2106 Lian-Su Qi

GOLD MINERALIZATION AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF RIXEN DEPOSIT IN ULU SOKOR AREA, PENINSULAR MALAYSIA ...... 2107 Khai Yuen Chong

LATE METALLOGENETIC PROCESSES IN THE SUURIKUUSIKKO GOLD DEPOSIT (KITTILÄ MINE, FINLAND)...... 2108 Marian Munteanu

MAGMATISM, MINERALOGICAL AND HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS CONSTRAINTS IN THE MARMATO GOLD DEPOSIT, COLOMBIA...... 2110 Reyes Leonardo Santacruz

MINERALOGICAL AND GEOCHRONOLOGICAL STUDY OF EPITHERMAL GOLD MINERALIZATION IN KERTA, WEST JAVA, INDONESIA ...... 2112 Kotaro Yonezu

OROGENIC GOLD IN GREENSTONE BELTS IN NORTH-EASTERN FENNOSCANDIA ...... 2114 Arkadiy Kalinin

PIXE ELEMENTAL MICROMAPS OF GOLD-URANIUM-CARBON ASSOCIATIONS IN SEAM CARBON OF THE “C” –REEF IN THE WITWATERSRAND BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA...... 2116 Tremain Woods

PRECAMBRIAN GOLD-BEARING NEMUI CONGLOMERATES, EASTERN SIBERIA: POSSIBLE ANALOGUE OF THE WITWATERSRAND BASIN AND A NEW EMERGING GOLD PROVINCE ...... 2118 Pavel Kepezhinskas

CLIMATIC CONTROLS ON THE FORMATION OF EVAPORITIC SEQUENCES AND ASSOCIATED BRINE DEPOSITS IN THE QAIDAM BASIN, NORTHERN TIBET-QINGHAI PLATEAU, CHINA ...... 2120 Junqing Yu

EVIDENCES AND PROVENANCES OF SEISMO-TURBIDITES IN THE NORTHERN PART OF NARCONDAM-BARREN BASIN ...... 2122 G. Drishya

PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL FLUCTUATIONS DURING A TERMINAL OLIGOCENE-EARLY MIOCENE TRANSGRESSION AT THE SOUTHWESTERN TIP OF AFRICA ...... 2124 Hayley Cawthra

REANALYSIS OF CRYPTIC SEDIMENTOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIP OF THE RIPON AND VISCHKUIL/LAINGSBURG FORMATIONS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE MAIN KAROO BASIN...... 2126 Schalk Walters

SEDIMENTARY CHARACTERISTICS AND MODEL OF SHALLOWWATER DELTA SYSTEM OF THE PALEOGENE OF JIANQUANZI MEMBER IN YAERXIA AREA, JIUQUAN BASIN...... 2127 Jia-Ni Liao

STUDY OF THE COARSE FRACTION COMPONENTS OF DEEP-SEA SEDIMENTS FROM THE INDIAN OCEAN AND ITS EFFECT ON THE BULK SEDIMENT COMPOSITION...... 2128 Simontini Sensarma

SURFACE SEDIMENT GRAIN SIZE CHARACTERISTICS AND THEIR RESPONSE TO THE HYDRODYNAMIC CONDITIONS OF QIANTANG RIVER ESTUARY, CHINA...... 2129 Yuxin Shi

THE DISPERSAL OF PEARL RIVER SEDIMENTS ON THE NORTHWEST SOUTH CHINA SEA SHELF, CONSTRAINED BY MINERAL CHEMISTRY AND ELEMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY...... 2131 Gang Li

DETRITAL ZIRCONS AS A NEXT-GENERATION TOOL IN SOURCE-TO-SINK SEDIMENTOLOGICAL AND STRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS ...... 2132 Mike Blum

LATE CRETACEOUS AND PALEOGENE SEDIMENT-DISPERSAL SYSTEMS IN AN EVOLVING FORELAND-BASIN SYSTEM, NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MEXICO ...... 2134 Timothy Lawton

LATE EDIACARAN LARGE RIVER DEPOSITS AT THE SIBERIAN PLATFORM SOUTH-WEST: SEDIMENTOLOGY AND PROVENANCE RELATING TO PALEOCONTINENTS CONNECTION...... 2136 Julius Sovetov

LATE PALEOZOIC SEDIMENT ROUTING SYSTEMS OF THE APPALACHIAN BASIN – LINKAGES WITH ALLEGHANIAN OROGENESIS ...... 2138 Kenneth Eriksson

ZIRCON U–PB AGES AND HF ISOTOPIC EVIDENCE FOR EOARCHEAN CRUSTAL REMNANT, CRUSTAL GROWTH AND REWORKING IN NW INDIA AND IMPLICATIONS ON SUPERCONTINENTAL CYCLES ...... 2140 Wei Wang

A GEOCHRONOLOGICAL STUDY OF PALEOGENE- NEOGENE FORELAND BASIN SEDIMENTS WESTERN NEPAL HIMALAYA: IMPLICATION OF PROVENANCE ANALYSIS ...... N/A Upendra Baral

A PROVENANCE STUDY OF THE MESOZOIC NORTH CELTIC SEA BASIN AND EASTERN SECTOR OF THE UPPER DEVONIAN MUNSTER: INSIGHTS FROM DETRITAL ZIRCON U-PB AGES...... 2141 Brenton Fairey

CRETACEOUS THROUGH PALEOGENE NORTH AMERICAN DRAINAGE REORGANIZATION FROM DETRITAL ZIRCONS...... 2143 Mike Blum

DETRITAL RECORD OF TECTONIC AND CLIMATE INTERACTIONS DURING GONDWANIDE OROGENESIS FROM THE LOWER ECCA GROUP, KAROO BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA...... 2145 Amy Weislogel

SOURCE TO SINK - OR SINK TO SINK? SEDIMENTARY RECYCLING AND ITS EFFECTS ON DETRITAL ZIRCON-BASED PROVENANCE ANALYSIS...... 2146 Tom Andersen

SOURCE TO SINK RELATIONS BETWEEN NEOCOMIAN SANDSTONES FROM THE AKAMAS AREA AND LATE MIOCENE SANDSTONES FROM THE PSEMATISMENOS AREA (CYPRUS): EVIDENCE FROM DETRITAL U-PB ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY ...... 2148 Jean-Michel Kluska

A QUANTITATIVE KNOWLEDGE BASE OF CONTINENTAL DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEMS: NEW APPROACHES TO FLUVIAL FACIES MODELS AND SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY...... 2149 L Colombera

EVOLUTION OF THE WESTERN NAMIBIAN DRAINAGE SYSTEMS SINCE EOCENE TIMES – A MULTI- METHODICAL APPROACH ...... 2151 Andreas Gärtner

NEED TO RELOOK ON DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE HIMALAYAN FORELAND BASIN DURING TRANSITION FROM THE LAST MARINE TO FIRST CONTINENTAL SEDIMENTATION ...... 2153 Seema Singh

THE ANSWERS ARE BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND: ULTRA-DISTAL AIRFALL ZIRCONS, EVIDENCE OF CRETACEOUS SUPER-ERUPTIONS IN EASTERN GONDWANA...... 2155 Milo Barham

THERE’S MORE THAN ONE WAY TO BUILD A POINT BAR: MULTIPLE GROWTH PROCESSES IN RIVER-CHANNEL POINT BARS ...... 2157 John Holbrook

U-PB DETRITAL ZIRCON SIGNATURES OF MISSISSIPPIAN CLASTIC ROCKS AND THEIR TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS, SOUTHERN MID-CONTINENT, UNITED STATES...... 2158 Xiangyang Xie

A RECORD OF SEDIMENTATION OF THE LATE-ORDOVICIAN SOOM MEMBER (CEDARBERG FORMATION) FROM NEW BOREHOLE DATA IN THE CEDARBERG REGION OF SOUTH AFRICA...... 2159 Claire Browning

EVIDENCE OF AN ATMOSPHERIC OXYGENATION EVENT IN THE “BORING BILLION” PERIOD PROVIDED BY TRACE ELEMENT CONTENT OF SEDIMENTARY PYRITE IN PROTEROZOIC BLACK SHALES ...... 2160 Indrani Mukherjee

GRAVITY CURRENT DEPOSITS: DOMINANT RESERVOIRS OF SHALE OIL IN POST-RIFT BASINS - INSIGHT FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS QINGSHANKOU AND NENJIANG FORMATIONS, SONGLIANG BASIN, NORTHEASTERN CHINA...... 2162 Youliang Feng

LITHOLOGY-BASED SEQUENCE-STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK AND SEDIMENTARY EVOLUTION OF THE SUCCESSION IN THE NORTHEASTERN NANPU SAG, CHINA...... 2163 Mengyi Ren

MIXED BIOGENIC AND HYDROTRHERMAL ORIGIN OF QUARTZ AGGREGATES IN THE LACUSTRINE SHALE OF THE LUCAOGOU FORMATION, SANTANGHU BASIN, NW CHINA ...... 2165 Xin Jiao

NUMERICAL STRATIGRAPHIC MODEL OF FLUVIAL POINT-BAR ARCHITECTURES CONTROLLED BY TECTONIC FORCING ...... 2167 Na Yan

PYRITIC EVENT BEDS AND SULFIDIZED FE (OXYHYDR)OXIDE AGGREGATES IN ORGANIC-RICH BLACK MUDSTONES OF THE PALEOPROTEROZOIC TALVIVAARA FORMATION, FINLAND...... 2169 Joonas Virtasalo

THE VEMBO SHALES (REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO): NEW INSIGHTS ON THE TRANSITION FROM LACUSTRINE TO MARINE SETTINGS FOR THE SOUTH ATLANTIC ...... 2171 Vincent Delhaye-Prat

AFRICA’S MEGAFANS AND THEIR TECTONIC HABITAT ...... 2173 Justin Wilkinson

LINKING SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY TO MEGAFAN FORMATIONS USING REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES SPACE-BASED TECHNOLOGIES...... 2175 H Mills

MEGAFANS OF THE GANGETIC PLAINS: A REVIEW OF DECADES OF RESEARCH ...... 2176 Rajiv Sinha

MEGAFANS OF THE NORTHERN KALAHARI BASIN ...... 2177 Justin Wilkinson

SEASONAL DEPOSITION AND POST-DEPOSITIONAL MODIFICATION UNDER SEMI-ARID CONDITIONS OF THE TERTIARY, LOW-GRADIENT CUBANGO MEGAFAN, NORTHERN NAMIBIA...... 2178 Roy Miller

A NEW STUDY OF LATE PERMIAN MARINE SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENT IN THE XINGMENG AREA, EASTERN INNER MONGOLIA, CHINA: CONSTRAINTS FROM THE STRONTIUM, OXYGEN AND CARBON ISOTOPES, RARE EARTH AND TRACE ELEMENTS DATA ...... 2180 Yongsheng Zhang

GEOCHEMISTRY OF LIMESTONES: IMPLICATIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND PROVENANCE INTERPRETATIONS USING A CASE STUDY FROM MIOCENE CARBONATES (LEITHA LIMESTONES, AUSTRIA)...... 2182 Ahmed Ali

MOLAR TOOTH STRUCTURES IN CHINA...... 2184 Hongwei Kuang

PALEOARCHEAN CARBONATES ON EARLY EARTH - MICROBIAL BIOSIGNATURE VERSUS HYDROTHERMAL ORIGIN ...... 2185 Joachim Reitner

SEDIMENTATION, LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC DIFFERENTIATION OF KAURIYALA FORMATION AND DELINEATION OF LIMESTONE BANDS, INNER KROL BELT, HIMACHAL HIMALAYAS, INDIA...... 2187 N. S. Nayyar

SEDIMENTOLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF CARBONATE BEARING-ARGILLITES ON THE SOUTHEASTERN FLANK OF MOUNT CAMEROON (LIKOMBA)...... 2189 Gilbert Mbzighaa Chongwain

CHARACTERISTICS OF HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE LOWER PALEOZOIC CARBONATE RESERVOIRS IN THE TARIM BASIN, CHINA ...... 2190 Wei Liu

CONTROLS ON SALTMARSH STRATIGRAPHY AND EVOLUTION, NORTHWEST IRELAND...... 2191 Jasper Knight

EARLY DIAGENETIC GEOCHEMICAL HOMOGENIZATION OF FINE-GRAINED CARBONATE SEDIMENTS...... 2193 Adrian Immenhauser

MESOPROTEROZOIC TIDALITES FROM SOUTHERN PART OF LALSOT BASIN, NORTH DELHI FOLD BELT, RAJASTHAN, INDIA ...... 2194 Biplab Bhattacharya

OVERALL TRANSGRESSIVE VERSUS REGRESSIVE TIDAL FLAT SEQUENCES: A KEY FOR STRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS...... 2196 Jean-Loup Rubino

SEDIMENTARY MODEL AND RESERVOIR DISTRIBUTION OF CAMBRIAN EVAPORITE-CARBONATE PARAGENESIS IN THE SICHUAN BASIN, SOUTHWEST CHINA ...... 2198 Anna Xu

TIDAL RHYTHMITES: WHAT, WHY, HOW AND WHERE?...... 2199 Kenneth Eriksson

A REVIEW OF THE VOLCANOLOGY AND SEDIMENTATION OF THE MID PERMIAN SOUTHERN SYDNEY BASIN; WITH REFERENCE TO CONVERGENCE AND SUBDUCTION ALONG THE GONDWANAN PANTHALLASSAN MARGIN...... 2200 Glen Bann

CLIMATIC INDUCED SHIFT IN RAINFALL ZONES PRESERVED IN KALAHARI SALT PANS...... 2202 Irka Schüller

GLACIOTECTONIC COMPLEXES IN THE CENTRAL ANTI-ATLAS (MOROCCO): IMPLICATIONS REGARDING THE END-ORDOVICIAN ICE-MARGIN DYNAMICS...... 2204 Pierre Dietrich

HIGH-RESOLUTION HYDROCLIMATE OF SOUTHEASTERN AFRICA: A 1.3 MILLION RECORD OF LAKE LEVEL VARIABILITY FROM LAKE MALAWI (NYSASA) SCIENTIFIC DRILL CORE ...... 2205 Christopher Scholz

HOLOCENE CLIMATE RECORDS FROM LAKE SEDIMENTS IN INDIA: ASSESSMENT OF COHERENCE ACROSS CLIMATE AND LATITUDINAL ZONES...... 2207 Sampat Tandon

LAND-OCEAN LINKAGES OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN THE LATE QUATERNARY BERING SEA...... 2208 Bernhard Diekmann

ANATOMY OF A DEGLACIAL SEQUENCE: THE EXAMPLE OF THE UPPER – HOLOCENE OF THE ST. LAWRENCE NORTH SHORE (QUÉBEC, CANADA)...... 2209 Pierre Dietrich

CARBON SEQUESTRATION CAPACITY OF NATURALLY REINTRODUCED TEMPERATE EELGRASS MEADOWS...... 2211 Emilia Jankowska

COASTAL UPWELLING NEAR THE WESTERN MARGIN OF THE SIBERIA IN THE LATE CRYOGENIAN: PHOSPHATIC STROMATOLITE, MARINE LOESS AND CORRELATION OF TRANSITIONAL CRYOGENIAN-EDIACARAN STRATA...... 2213 Julius Sovetov

GEOCHEMICAL PROVENANCE OF TERTIARY SEDIMENTS IN THE NORTH-EASTERN INDIA: UNDERSTANDING TECTONIC UPLIFT AND WEATHERING IN THE HIMALAYAS...... 2215 Neeraj Awasthi

LARGE SCALE PALEOCENE RIDGE AT THE BASE OF THE ATLANTIC URUGUAYAN SLOPE AS A RESULT OF AN EXTENSIVE SYSTEM OF DENSE SHELF CASCADING CURRENTS...... 2216 Jean-Loup Rubino

PALAEOCLIMATE AND DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT OF SEDIMENTS FROM EASTERN PART OF SATPURA GONDWANA BASIN, CENTRAL INDIA ...... 2218 Manjusha Mahajan

SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION OF TERMINAL CENOZOIC SUCCESSION OF KUTCH (SANDHAN FORMATION), WESTERN INDIA ...... 2220 Shubhendu Shekhar

IDENTIFICATION OF FORAMINIFERA AND RESEARCH ON SEDIMENTARY MICROFACIES IN WELL ZK17503 IN SOUTHERN SICHUAN...... 2222 Yunzhao Zhang

MODERN AND ANCIENT LAGOONS OF THE NAMIBIAN COAST: SEDIMENTATION PROCESSES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES...... 2223 Irka Schüller

MORPHOLOGIC RESPONSE OF THE JANGAN LINEAR TIDAL SAND RIDGE TO ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACTS OVER FOUR DECADES, WEST COAST OF KOREA ...... 2225 Tae Soo Chang

NON-CONTEMPORARY, NORMAL SEAWATER FOR THE FORMATION OF CRYSTALLINE DOLOMITE IN THE LOWER TRIASSIC FEIXIANGUAN FM RESERVOIRS, NE SICHUAN BASIN, CHINA ...... 2226 Yijiang Zhong

RESERVOIR ARCHITECTURE OF ESTUARINE TIDAL BAR DEPOSITS IN THE MCMURRAY FORMATION, ALBERTA, CANADA...... 2228 Jixin Huang

SADDLE DOLOMITE CEMENT IN UPPER PALEOZOIC CLASTIC RESERVOIR ROCKS FROM ORDOS BASIN AND THE EFFECT ON RESERVOIR PROPERTIES...... 2230 Yijiang Zhong

SEDIMENTOLOGY AND DEPOSITIONAL EVOLUTION OF JUIN 4 BLOCK IN ORINOCO HEAVY OIL BELT, VENEZUELA ...... 2231 Wensong Huang

TIDAL RHYTHMITES AS HIGH-RESOLUTION CHRONOMETERS FOR BASIN ANALYSIS...... 2232 Kenneth Eriksson

TWO CONTRASTING BEACHES ON MACROTIDAL COASTS: BYUNSAN AND GOSAPO BEACHES, WEST OF KOREA ...... 2233 Seok Hwi Hong

WAVELET ANALYSIS OF PALEOPROTEROZOIC TIDAL SEDIMENTS DISTRIBUTED IN THE SINGHBHUM CRATON, NORTHEAST INDIA: ESTIMATION OF EARLY EARTH’S (2 GA) ROTATION VELOCITY...... 2234 Hiroyuki Miyata

2D SEISMIC-STRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF THE JC-A1 WELL, DURBAN BASIN, EAST COAST, SOUTH AFRICA...... 2236 Thulisile Nokwethemba Buthelezi

BEACH BAR SEDIMENTARY CHARACTERISTICS OF ES1 MEMBER IN BEIPU AREA, NANPU SAG...... 2237 Mengyao Li

DEPOSITIONAL CHANGES AND SEA-LEVEL FLUCTUATION FROM HOLOCENE NAKDONG RIVER DELTAIC SEDIMENTS, SOUTH KOREA ...... 2239 Daekyo Cheong

ENVIRONMENTAL DRIVERS AND BENTHIC CONTROLS OF ORGANIC CARBON STORAGE IN SEDIMENTS OF NORTHERN FJORDS - A LATITUDINAL STUDY (60–80°N) ...... 2240 Maria Wlodarska-Kowalczuk

EPALAEOTOPOGRAPHY AS AN IMPORTANT FACTOR FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONTINENTAL GLACIATIONS: EDIACARAN AND FAMENNIAN CASES...... N/A Mariusz Paszkowski

HOLOCENE SEDIMENT TRANSFER IN GODAVARI RIVER: INFERENCES FROM MINERAL MAGNETIC STUDIES ...... 2241 Satish Sangode

ORIGIN AND FORMATION SPECIFICITY OF THE LATE CENOZOIC SEDIMENTS OF THE CENTRAL ARCTIC RISES: THE EXPERIENCE OF MOLECULAR STRATIGRAPHY...... 2243 Ivan Litvinenko

PALAEO-ENVIRONMENTAL EVOLUTION IN LAKE LÚNGUE, SOUTHERN MOZAMBIQUE, DURING THE LAST 1000 YEARS...... 2245 Sandra Sitoe

PALEOCLIMATIC, PALEOENVIRONMENTAL AND PALEOTECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE OF MIDDLE JURASSIC FE CONCENTRATIONS OF CENTRAL SARDINIA (ITALY) ...... 2247 Andrea Vacca

PETROGRAPHIC AND GEOCHEMICAL CRITERIA FOR DISTINGUISHING HUMID VERSUS ARID LAMINATED CALCRETE DEPOSITS, PUERTO RICO ...... 2249 Katherine Kuklewicz

PREDICTION OF SUBMARINE CANYON BATHYMETRY BY THE MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF SEDIMENT GEOCHEMISTRY: A CASE STUDY OF NORTHERN IONIAN SEA, ITALY ...... 2251 Tohru Ohta

REVISITING BEACHROCK CEMENTATION PROCESSES ...... 2253 Isabel Villaneda-Van Vloten

SEDIMENTOLOGY AND MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE CRETACEOUS FORMATIONS IN THE HAMAKOUSSOU AND MAYO OULO-LERE BASSINS IN THE NORTHERN CAMEROON (BENUE THROUGHT)...... 2255 Jacqueline Ntsama Atangana

SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY AND SEDIMENTARY FACIES ANALYSIS OF SHAHEJIE FORMATION IN NANPU SAG OF BOHAI BAY BASIN ,CHINA ...... 2257 Jinliang Zhang

STRATIGRAPHY AND PALAEOENVIRONMENTS OF PERMIAN TO JURASSIC STRATA IN THE LEBOMBO-TSHIPISE BASIN, NORTHEAST SOUTH AFRICA...... 2259 Katherine Clayton

THE CHEMICAL STRATIGRAPHY AND PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE KALKKOP IMPACT CRATER LAKE DEPOSITS, EASTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA...... 2261 Ponani Mthembi

THE RECONSTRUCTION OF PALEO-ENVIRONMENT ALBO-APTIAN SEDIMENTS OF THE MASSIVE EL HMAIMA NORTH TÉBESSA NORTH-EASTERN ...... 2262 Diab Hamida

A GIS-BASED CIRCUM-ARCTIC ZIRCON U-PB AGE DATABASE...... 2263 Michael Pointon

DETERMINATION OF THE AGE OF BASIC VOLCANIC ROCKS OF THE FORMER PALEOPROTEROZOIC XIONG'ER GROUP ON THE SOUTHWESTERN MARGIN OF THE NORTH CHINA CRATON BASED ON DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY...... 2265 Jinhai Luo

GEOCHEMISTRY AND WEATHERING HISTORY OF SANDSTONE FROM , KAROO BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA: IMPLICATIONS FOR PROVENANCE AND TECTONIC SETTING...... 2266 Monica Enifome Oghenekome

PRELIMINARY MULTI-TOOL (LA-ICP-MS, EMPA AND XRD) INVESTIGATION ON HEAVY MINERALS FROM SELECTED HOLOCENE PEAT BOG DEPOSITS FROM SOUTHERN POLAND ...... 2267 Krzysztof Szopa

PROVENANCE OF LATE TRIASSIC LIUYEHE AND LINGGUANMIAO BASINS IN NORTH QINLING AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE ORDOS BASIN, CHINA: DETRITAL ZIRCON EVIDENCE...... 2269 Anlin Guo

SEDIMENTARY PATTERNS AND STRATIGRAPHIC TRAP MODELS OF DEEPLY BURIED INTERVALS IN THE BAXIAN DEPRESSION, NORTH CHINA ...... 2271 Shengli Li

SOURCE ROCK DETERMINATION OF DETRITAL QUARTZ GRAINS BY UTILIZING THE VOIGT PEAK SEPARATION OF CATHODOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM...... N/A Masahito Osawa

THE PALEOGENE SEDIMENTARY RECORD OF THE SOUTH DEPRESSION OF NYIMA BASIN IN TIBET...... 2272 Wentian Mi

THE EVALUATION OF SAND GRAIN SHAPES USING ELLIPTIC FOURIER AND PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSES: DISCRIMINATION OF MODERN SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENTS AND APPLICATION TO THE GEOLOGICAL RECORDS...... 2274 Tomoko Hashimoto

THE FEATURES AND SIGNIFICANCE OF AEOLIAN SANDSTONE IN THE LOWER CRETACEOUS SYSTEM, NORTHERN ORDOS BASIN, CHINA...... 2276 Jianhua Zhong

SEISMIC INDUCED LARGE-SCALE DISH STRUCTURES IN THE EARLY CRETACEOUS OF THE NORTHERN ORDOS BASIN ...... 2278 Liangtian Ni

U-PB DATING OF DETRITAL ZIRCONS AND ITS GEOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE FROM UPPER TRIASSIC YANCHANG FORMATION IN THE SOUTHWESTERN MARGIN OF ORDOS BASIN...... 2280 Di Sun

U-PB, O AND HF ISOTOPE STUDY OF DETRITAL ZIRCON FROM LOWER PALAEOZOIC SANDSTONES SITTING ON THE PRECAMBRIAN UNCONFORMITY OF SAUDI ARABIA...... 2281 Martin Whitehouse

ZIRCON U-PB DATING AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE TWL CONGLOMERATE DEPOSITS IN THE SOUTH MARGIN OF THE ORDOS BASIN, NORTH CHINA BLOCK ...... 2283 Gang Chen

CHARACTERISTICS OF ORGANIC MATTERS IN SEDIMENTS FROM THE NORTHERN SOUTH CHINA SEA...... 2285 Weihai Xu

DEPOSITIONAL CONDITIONS DURING SEDIMENTATION OF THE CRETACEOUS (APTIAN-ALBIAN) ORGANIC-RICH SILTSTONE OF THE CAROLINEFJELLET FORMATION AT ISFJORDEN, SPITSBERGEN ...... 2286 Michal Rakocinski

DEPOSITIONAL CONTROLS ON CRETACEOUS SOURCE ROCKS: INSIGHTS FROM THE WESTERN INTERIOR SEAWAY ...... 2288 James Scaife

FACIES VARIATIONS IN THE KALAHARI-KAROO BASIN OF BOTSWANA USING BOREHOLE CORE AND 2D SEISMIC DATA ...... 2289 Vuyolwethu Mahlalela

THE FATE OF BIOGENIC VS. ABIOGENIC ORGANIC MATTER DURING THERMAL MATURATION ...... 2291 Helge Mißbach

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DISTRIBUTION OF BENTHIC FORAMINIFERAL ASSEMBLAGES AND GEOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES IN THE IZNIK LAKE (TURKEY) BOTTOM SEDIMENT...... 2292 Ipek F. Barut

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION OF THE KENYA-TANZANIA SHEAR MARGIN...... N/A Jean-Claude Ringenbach

EXPLORING THE CONTRASTS BETWEEN FAST AND SLOW RIFTING...... 2294 A De Montserrat

LINKING LITHOSPHERE DEFORMATION AND SEDIMENTARY BASIN FORMATION OVER MULTIPLE SCALES...... 2295 Ritske S. Huismans

LONG-TERM COUPLING AND FEEDBACKS BETWEEN SURFACE PROCESSES AND TECTONICS DURING RIFTING...... 2296 Ritske S. Huismans

MAGMATIC UNDERPLATING IN CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE...... 2297 Hans Thybo

THE CRITICAL ROLE OF EXTENSION-ORTHOGONAL SHEARS IN OBLIQUE RIFT DEVELOPMENT...... 2298 Ritske S. Huismans

MODELING ALONG-AXIS VARIATIONS IN FAULT ARCHITECTURE IN THE MAIN ETHIOPIAN RIFT: IMPLICATIONS FOR NUBIA-SOMALIA KINEMATICS...... 2299 A. E. Doelesso

NEW ACTIVE-SOURCE SEISMIC IMAGING OF THE MALAWI (NYASA) RIFT FROM THE SEGMENT PROJECT...... 2300 Donna Shillington

THE LAKE ALBERT RIFT (UGANDA, EAST AFRICAN RIFT SYSTEM): DEFORMATION, BASIN AND RELIEF EVOLUTION SINCE 17 MA...... 2302 Brendan Simon

TRACKING THE ONSET OF PLUME VOLCANISM IN THE SOUTHERN EAST AFRICAN RIFT ...... 2304 Gary Mesko

WHAT’S MELT GOT TO DO WITH IT? CONSTRAINTS ON THE THERMOMECHANICAL STATE OF THE UPPER MANTLE BENEATH TWO END MEMBER LOCALITIES IN THE EAST AFRICAN RIFT SYSTEM USING SEISMIC OBSERVABLES ...... 2306 Natalie Accardo

DETRITAL ZIRCON PROVENANCES AND GEODYNAMIC EVOLUTION OF THE CONGO BASIN ...... 2308 Bastien Linol

LATE CRETACEOUS-CENOZOIC INTRAPLATE DEFORMATION IN CONGO BASIN: EFFECT OF THE SOUTH-ATLANTIC OPENING?...... 2310 Damien Delvaux

LOW DEFORMATION RATE IN AN « INCIPIENT RIFTING ZONE »: THE OKAVANGO BASIN ...... 2311 Anne-Morwenn Pastier

NAJD WRENCH FAULT SYSTEM AND DEAD SEA SHEAR ZONE IN THE ARABIAN PLATE: LIKE FATHER LIKE SON ...... 2313 Ali T. Al-Mishwat

TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF SEDIMENTARY BASINS OF NORTHERN SOMALIA ...... 2314 Mohammed Ali

THE SUBSURFACE STRUCTURE OF THE CONGO BASIN: GRAVITY SIGNATURES, ISOSTATIC ANOMALY AND SEISMIC CONSTRAINTS ...... 2316 K. E. Kadima

AN INTEGRATED GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL STUDY OF THE PARNAÍBA CRATONIC BASIN, NORTH-EAST BRAZIL ...... 2318 Anthony Brian Watts

INITIATION OF TARIM BASIN IN THE NORTHWEST OF CHINA ...... 2319 Bizhu He

NEW LOOK AT THE BOUNDARY OF PRECAMBRIAN AND PALAEOZOIC EUROPE – RECENT DEEP SEISMIC DATA FROM THE SW MARGIN OF THE EAST EUROPEAN CRATON IN POLAND...... 2321 Piotr Krzywiec

UNRAVELLING THE GEOLOGY BENEATH THE MESO-CENOZOIC SEDIMENTARY COVER OF THE INTRACRATONIC PARIS BASIN - PART 1: NEW INSIGHTS FROM SEISMIC AND POTENTIAL FIELD METHODS...... 2323 Laurent Beccaletto

BASIN ARCHITECTURE AND EVOLUTION AT NE ATLANTIC CONJUGATE MARGINS ...... 2325 Jan Inge Faleide

DEEPENING EVENTS AND SEDIMENT ROUTING SYSTEMS IN MIGRATING RIFTS. INSIGHTS FROM THE CORINTH RIFT...... 2327 Mary Ford

MECHANISMS OF CRUSTAL EXTENSION IN THE BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE ...... N/A Nicholas Christie-Blick

ON THE LINKAGE OF THE WESTERN BOUNDARY FAULTS OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA ...... 2329 Yongjian Yao

TECTONIC STRESS EVOLUTION AND A NEW ORIGIN MODEL OF BOHAI BAY BASIN, CHINA...... 2330 Hengmao Tong

THE STRUCTURE AND SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE EVOLUTION OF RIFTING STAGE, LISHU FAULTED-DEPRESSION, SONGLIAO BASIN, CHINA ...... 2331 Hongyu Wang

HOW DO SDRS FORM AND WHAT DOES IT TELL US ABOUT VOLCANIC MARGIN EVOLUTION? ...... N/A Douglas Paton

PASSIVE MARGIN ASYMMETRY AND ITS POLARITY IN THE PRESENCE OF A CRATON...... 2332 Miguel Andres-Martinez

PLATE FLEXURE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEPOSITIONAL CYCLES IN SEDIMENTARY BASINS ...... N/A James Moore

RHEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF SEDIMENT TRANSPORT FOR CONTINENTAL RIFTING AND ITS IMPACT IN MARGIN GEOMETRY AND MAJOR ...... 2333 Miguel Andres-Martinez

SOFT SEDIMENTARY DEFORMATION STRUCTURES FROM THE KALADGI BASIN, DHARWAR CRATON, INDIA: REFLECTIONS ON TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF A PROTEROZOIC CRATONIC BASIN...... 2334 Vivek Kale

THERMAL EVOLUTION OF EARLY PASSIVE MARGINS FORMATION AND CONSEQUENCES ON THEIR GEOPHYSICAL SIGNATURE...... 2335 Romain Bousquet

PAN-AFRICAN COLLISSION, SLAB BREAK-OFF AND RHEIC OCEAN OPENING IMPRINTED IN PRE- VARISCAN COMPLEXES OF THE WESTERN TATRA MOUNTAINS, WESTERN CARPATHIANS (POLAND/SLOVAKIA)...... 2337 Aleksandra Gaweda

REVISED MODEL OF THE BREAK-UP AND EARLY SEA-FLOOR SPREADING BETWEEN INDIA AND ANTARCTICA ...... N/A German Leitchenkov

RIFT ARCHITECTURE AND EVOLUTION OF THE EASTERN CONTINENTAL MARGIN OF INDIA – ROLE OF THE INTRA-CONTINENTAL SHEAR ZONES ON STYLE OF RIFTING OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT ...... 2339 K. S. Krishna

SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TECTONIC DEVELOPMENT OF PANGEA CONTINENTAL MARGIN SALT BASINS...... N/A Ian Norton

TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHIC EVOLUTION OF AN INVERTED RIFT BASIN INFERRED FROM MULTI- SCALE AEROMAGNETIC AND GRAVITY DATASETS: A CASE STUDY FROM THE GHANZI RIDGE PORTION OF THE KALAHARI COPPERBELT, BOTSWANA ...... 2340 Wesley Hall

CENOZOIC DEFORMATION ASSESSED THROUGH SEDIMENTOLOGICAL BENCHMARKS: CONSTRAINTS ON DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHY AND NEOTECTONICS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA ...... N/A Milo Barham

CONTRASTING DEVELOPMENT OF FORELAND BASINS IN WESTERN TAIWAN: ITS IMPLICATIONS OF KINEMATICS OF OROGENIC EVOLUTION...... 2342 Kenn-Ming Yang

CRUST-MANTLE COUPLING IN FORELAND BASIN SYSTEMS ...... 2344 Frederic Mouthereau

NEW GEO-THERMOCHRONOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE DEFORMATION HISTORY OF THE SW MARGIN OF GONDWANA: LINKING THE TERRA AUSTRALIS FOLD BELTS AND FORELAND BASINS OF SOUTH AMERICA AND SOUTHERN AFRICA ...... 2345 Eric Tohver

RECENT ACTIVITY IN THE EYVANEKEY FORELAND BASIN , SOUTHERN ALBORZ, IRAN ...... 2346 Soheila Bouzari

INVERSION OF A SALT-RICH HYPER-EXTENDED RIFT: GEOMETRY AND EVOLUTION OF THE RETROWEDGE FORELAND SYSTEM OF THE FRENCH PYRENEES. RESULTS OF THE PYRAMID PROJECT...... 2347 Mary Ford

PLATE FLEXURE AND THE EVOLUTION OF FORELAND BASINS...... 2349 Anthony Watts

SUPERIMPOSITION AND STRUCTURAL REACTIVATION OF FORELAND BASINS IN THE MOUNTAIN- FRONT REGION, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES ...... 2350 Tim Pharaoh

TECTONO-STRATIGRAPHIC EVOLUTION OF THE NORTHEASTERN PYRENEAN FORELAND...... 2352 Frédéric Christophoul

THE ROLE OF EXTENSIONAL INHERITANCE AND SURFACE PROCESSES ON MOUNTAIN BELT EVOLUTION...... 2354 Ritske S. Huismans

TRACKING BASIN INVERSION IN THE RETROARC FORELAND BASIN: INTEGRATED PROVENANCE STUDIES IN THE CACHEUTA BASIN, SOUTH-CENTRAL ANDES...... 2355 J. Brian Mahoney

ACTIVE COASTAL THRUSTING AND FOLDING, AND UPLIFT RATE OF THE SAHEL ANTICLINE AND ZEMMOURI EARTHQUAKE AREA (TELL ATLAS, ALGERIA) ...... 2356 Said Maouche

COASTAL LARGE EARTHQUAKES AND EVIDENCE FOR PALEOTSUNAMI DEPOSITS ALONG THE MEDITERRANEAN COAST OF EGYPT ...... 2358 Mustapha Meghraoui

COASTAL TECTONICS OF WEST LUZON, PHILIPPINES: CLUES FROM THORIUM-230 AGES OF VARIABLY UPLIFTED CORAL TERRACES...... 2359 Kathrine Maxwell

EARLY CAMBRIAN SEA-LEVEL CHANGES: A SCANDINAVIAN PERSPECTIVE ...... 2360 Arne Thorshøj Nielsen

HIGH RESOLUTION MAGNETIC SURVEY OF THE MARMARIS BAY, SW TURKEY...... 2362 Denizhan Vardar

MARGINAL MARINE DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT OF MAHADEK FORMATION: CRETACEOUS PALAEOGEOGRAPHY OF THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE MEGHALAYA PLATEAU...... N/A Apoorve Bhardwaj

GRAVITY TECTONICS IN WESTERN AFRICAN PASSIVE CONTINENTAL MARGIN IN DRIFT STAGE AND ITS IMPLICATION IN PETROLEUM EXPLORATION ...... 2363 Shuping Chen

INTEGRATED APPROACH TO SALT BASIN EXPLORATION ...... 2365 Bjørn Albert Rasmussen

PETROLEUM SYSTEMS OF WEST AFRICA SALT BASINS: A REVIEW ...... 2366 Philippe Montagnier

PETROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF EOCENE CARBONATES IN THE NORTHERN ARABIAN PLATFORM: INSIGHTS INTO DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT AND DIAGENETIC PROCESSES ...... 2368 Mimonitu Opuwari

THE SOUTHERN BRAZILIAN AND WEST AFRICAN MARGINS: DRILLING RESULTS AND EXPLORATORY PERSPECTIVES ...... 2369 Webster Mohriak

CORRELATIONS BETWEEN THE BASEMENT GEOLOGY OF FLORIANÓPOLIS TO VITORIA COASTLINE (BRAZIL) AND SWAKOPMUND (NAMIBIA) TO LUANDA (ANGOLA) COASTLINE...... 2371 Julio Almeida

KINEMATICS AND TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SKELETON COAST DYKE SWARM, KAOKO BELT, NORTH-WEST NAMIBIA ...... N/A Michael McMaster

MANTLE DENSITY INHOMOGENEITIES BENEATH BAY OF BENGAL...... N/A Chandra Prakash

OROGENIC STRUCTURAL INHERITANCE AND RIFTED PASSIVE MARGIN FORMATION ...... 2373 Ritske S. Huismans

PARNAÍBA BASIN: ONE OF THE GREAT INTERIOR SYNECLISES OF WESTERN GONDWANA...... 2374 Renata S. Schmitt

RIFTED CONTINENTAL MARGINS: THE CASE FOR DEPTH-DEPENDENT EXTENSION ...... 2376 Ritske S. Huismans

A TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHIC COMPARISON OF THE EASTERN AND WESTERN PARTS OF THE GAMTOOS BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 2377 Chantell Van Bloemenstein

ANISOTROPY OF MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY, PALAEOMAGNETISM AND ROCK MAGNETIC STUDIES ON MAFIC INTRUSIVES FROM KADDAM FAULT: IMPLICATIONS TO GODAVARI RIFT RELATED MAGMATISM...... 2379 Dhananjay Meshram

CENOZOIC TECTONIC JUMPING IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC CONTINENTAL MARGIN...... 2380 Yanhui Suo

CONTROLS ON MARGIN DEVELOPMENT DURING THE BREAKUP OF EAST GONDWANA...... 2381 Joshua Davis

GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL INTEGRATION IN THE IDENTIFICATION OF STRUCTURAL FEATURES AND CRUSTAL LIMITS ON ONSHORE AND OFFSHORE PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH OF SANTOS BASIN, BRAZIL...... 2383 Henrique Bruno

MAGMATIC SEGMENTS ABANDONED DURING CONTINENTAL BREAKUP – INSIGHTS INTO THE FORMATION OF SEAWARD DIPPING REFLECTORS ...... N/A James Norcliffe

STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION OF THE GAMTOOS BASIN, BASED ON 2D SEISMIC DATA ...... 2385 Anthea Davids

TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE ULLEUNG BACK-ARC BASIN, EAST SEA (SEA OF JAPAN), KOREA ...... 2387 Jaehong Ko

THE APPLICATION OF MAGNETIC AMPLITUDE INVERSION FOR STRUCTURE INTERPRETATION IN SOUTH CHINA SEA...... 2388 Shuling Li

ACCOMMODATION OF PENETRATIVE STRAIN DURING DEFORMATION ABOVE A DUCTILE DECOLLEMENT...... 2389 Bailey Lathrop

THE PERMO-TRIASSIC SEDIMENTOLOGICAL RECORD IN THE PAI-KHOI AREA, ARCTIC RUSSIA: A FRAMEWORK FOR A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE EVOLUTION AND TIMING OF DEFORMATION IN THE PAI-KHOI FOLD-AND-THRUST BELT...... N/A Gloria Heilbronn

THE TECTONO-STRATIGRAPHIC EVOLUTION OF THE CÁDIZ BASIN (GULF OF CÁDIZ, SPAIN) IN THE NEOGENE AND QUATERNARY: ITS THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS ON HYDROCARBON PROSPECTIVITY ...... N/A F. Javier Hernández-Molina

SMALL-SCALE PETROLIFEROUS BASINS IN CHINA: CHARACTERISTICS OF TYPE AND HYDROCARBON OCCURRENCE...... 2390 Chiyang Liu

U-PB AGE IN ZIRCON (LA-ICP-MS) OF ALKALINE ROCKS FROM MARAPICU MASSIF (RJ), BRAZIL...... 2392 Mauro Geraldes

CHARACTERISTICS OF FAULT SYSTEM IN ENPING SAG...... 2394 Yiming Liu

MICROFABRICS AND GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PALEOZOIC CHERTS AND THEIR GEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS FROM SOUTHERN QINLING OROGEN, CHINA ...... 2395 Yongzhang Zhou

THE DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION OF BURIED HILLS IN LIAODONG BAY AND ANALYSIS ON THEIR RESERVOIR FORMING CONDITIONS? ...... 2396 Chen Zhang

THE KENYA RIFT REVISITED: NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE STRENGTH OF THE LITHOSPHERE THROUGH DATA-DRIVEN 3D GRAVITY AND THERMAL MODELLING ...... 2397 Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth

THE PRE-SILURIAN RIACHÃO BASIN, A KEY INSIGHT INTO THE EVOLUTION OF THE PARNAIBA CRATONIC BASIN, NE BRAZIL...... N/A Amanda Porto

UNRAVELLING THE GEOLOGY BENEATH THE MESO-CENOZOIC SEDIMENTARY COVER OF THE INTRACRATONIC PARIS BASIN - PART 2: GEOLOGICAL MAPPING OF THE BURIED VARISCAN BASEMENT COMBINING AEROMAGNETIC, GRAVITY AND PETROPHYSICAL DATA...... 2398 Laurent Beccaletto

UNRAVELLING THE GEOLOGY BENEATH THE MESO-CENOZOIC SEDIMENTARY COVER OF THE INTRACRATONIC PARIS BASIN - PART 3: USING SEISMIC DATA TO DECIPHER THE STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION AND SEDIMENTARY RECORD OF THE STEPHANO-PERMIAN BASINS ...... 2400 Laurent Beccaletto

LAUNCH OF PANAFGEO...... N/A N/A

GEOLOGICAL MAPPING AND CAPACITY BUILDING IN AFRICA ...... 2402 Felix Toteu

MORE THAN 40 YEARS EFFORTS OF THE STATE GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF DIONÝZ ŠTÚR IN THE PRODUCTION OF REGIONAL GEOLOGICAL MAPS OF SLOVAKIA...... 2404 Branislav Zec

GMIS SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM...... N/A N/A

BEING BETTER INFORMED FOR A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE IN AFRICA AND EUROPE – BUILDING BRIDGE THROUGH PANAFGEO...... 2406 Claudia Delfini

CAPACITY BUILDING ON GEOHAZARDS IN AFRICA - PANAFGEO PROJECT...... 2408 Jonas Satkunas

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF MINES ...... 2410 Berndt Pettersson

PANAFGEO PROJECT: A PAN AFRICAN SUPPORT TO THE EGS-OAGS PARTNERSHIP...... 2412 Jean-Claude Guillaneau

PANAFGEO PROJECT: GEOSCIENCE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT...... 2414 Marc Urvois

PANAFGEO PROJECT: MINERAL RESOURCES ...... 2416 Riitta Teerilahti

PANAFGEO: ARTISANAL AND SMALL-SCALE MINING IN AFRICA...... 2418 John Tychsen

PANAFGEO: EVOLUTION OF A MILESTONE IN EUROPEAN AND AFRICAN GEOLOGICAL COLLABORATION ...... 2420 Koen Verbruggen

PERSPECTIVES ON GEOHERITAGE RESEARCH AND PROMOTION FOR AFRICAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ORGANIZATIONS...... 2422 Enrique Díaz-Martínez

A DECADE OF JOINT GEOLOGICAL MAPPING BY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND AND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF TANZANIA...... 2424 Kristian Lindqvist

GEOCHRONOLOGY ON ROCKS FROM RWANDA: DEPOSITION, MAGMATISM AND MINERALIZATION ...... 2426 Gerrit De Kock

GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES - ANALYSIS OF STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION (PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS VS STATE DEPARTMENT)...... 2428 Didier Bonijoly

NEW 1/2,5 MILLION SCALE GEOLOGIC AND MINERAL OCCURRENCES MAPS OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO...... 2430 Max Fernandez-Alonso

THE NEW MINEROGENIC MAP OF TANZANIA – AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL INFORMATION SYSTEM OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF TANZANIA ...... 2432 Andreas Barth

THE ROLE OF A NATIONAL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY IN ARTISANAL AND SMALL-SCALE MINING (ASSM)...... 2434 John Tychsen

THE SOUTH AFRICA GEOLOGICAL SUITABILITY FOR UNDERGROUND SOURCE HEAT PUMP SYSTEM (USHP) ...... 2436 Antonio Galgaro

WORKFLOW AND CHALLENGES IN THE GEOLOGICAL MAPPING OF UGANDA 2008-2012...... 2438 Hannu Mäkitie

CHARACTERISATION AND SOURCE CONSTRAINTS ON THE MESOPROTEROZOIC EENDOORN SUITE MEGACRYSTIC GRANITES AND GRANITIC OF SOUTHERN NAMIBIA AND THEIR CONTEXT WITHIN THE WESTERN NAMAQUA PROVINCE...... 2440 Jodie Miller

DISTRIBUTION AND CHARACTERISTICS OF , GABBRONORITES AND ACROSS THE WESTERN NAMAQUA PROVINCE AND THEIR ROLE IN CONSTRAINING TERRANE BOUNDARIES ...... 2442 Jodie Miller

GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF THE AURUS MOUNTAINS, SPERREGEBIET DOMAIN, NAMIBIA ...... 2444 Bob Thomas

THE LOWER FISH-RIVER/ONSEEPKANS THRUST ZONE: TIME CONSTRAINTS AND INSIGHTS INTO NAMAQUAN THRUST TECTONICS...... 2446 Hendrik Smith

THE MARSHALL ROCKS-POFADDER SHEAR ZONE AND OTHER LATE-NAMAQUA DEXTRAL SHEAR ZONES BETWEEN AI-AIS AND POFADDER IN THE WESTERN NAMAQUALAND METAMORPHIC PROVINCE: FABRICS, TIMING AND LATE STAGE MELT CONTROLS...... 2448 Christopher Lambert

TOWARDS A NEW GEODYNAMIC MODEL FOR THE WESTERN NAMAQUA PROVINCE ...... 2450 Paul Macey

COMPARABILITY AND TRACEABILITY IN LABORATORY ANALYSIS OF GLOBAL GEOCHEMICAL BASELINES MAPPING SAMPLES ...... 2452 Wensheng Yao

GE-GA-CS IN AGRICULTURAL AND GRAZING LAND SOILS AT EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL SCALE...... 2453 Philippe Negrel

MAPPING THE CHEMICAL ELEMENTS ON THE EARTH: SUSTAINING NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTS...... 2455 Xueqiu Wang

MAPPING THE GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE EARTH’S SURFACE AT GLOBAL TO LOCAL SCALES...... 2457 Alecos Demetriades

THE THREE GEOCHEMICAL ATLASES OF EUROPE ...... 2459 Alecos Demetriades

EFFECT OF SOIL EROSION ON SOIL ORGANIC CARBON IN WUYUER RIVER BASIN, CHINA ...... 2461 Qingye Hou

GEOCHEMICAL MAPPING ACROSS THE BOUNDARY REGIONS OF CHINA AND MONGOLIA ...... 2462 Lanshi Nie

GEOCHEMICAL MAPPING OF THE TUGELA TERRANE, KWAZULU-NATAL, SOUTH AFRICA: SEMI- REGIONAL SOIL SURVEY ...... 2464 Mehdi Bensid

THE GEOCHEMICAL BASELINE SURVEY OF SOUTHERN NEW ZEALAND ...... 2466 Mark Rattenbury

A 3D GEOLOGICAL MODEL OF THE NORTH GERMAN BASIN ...... 2468 Christian Mueller

AN APPLICATION OF AUDIOMAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD TO 3D GEOLOGICAL MAPPING IN SOUTHERN CHINA, JIURUI REGIONAL ...... 2470 Lei Da

FIRST 3D MODELLING OF THE SUB-SURFACE OF EAST-CENTRAL NAMIBIA USING COMBINING GEOPHYSICS WITH DISTAL GEOLOGICAL DATA...... 2472 John-Paul Mubita

PALEOPROTEROZOIC MAGMATIC ARC IN SW OF ANGOLA (CONGO CRATON SW BORDER): PETROCHEMICAL EVIDENCES AND GEOCHRONOLOGICAL DATA...... 2474 José Feliciano Rodrigues

PRB 3D GEOLOGICAL MAP MODELING TECHNOLOGY...... 2476 Li Chaoling

VOLUME 7

SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NAMIBIA AND THE RIO DE JANEIRO STATE UNIVERSITY: GOVERNMENT AND ACADEMIA WORKING TOGETHER FOR SCIENTIFIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT ...... 2478 Julio Almeida

THE LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY AND STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS OF THE EUREKA SHEAR ZONE, SOUTHERN NAMIBIA ...... 2479 Moses Angombe

THE MGAZINI SHEET IN S TANZANIA: THE EXTENT OF THE UBENDIAN, IRUMIDE AND MOZAMBIQUE OROGENIC BELTS...... N/A Gerrit De Kock

THE “RÉFÉRENTIEL GÉOLOGIQUE DE LA FRANCE” : FROM THE VOSGES-FOSSÉ RHÉNAN DEMONSTRATOR TO THE PYRÉNÉES APPLICATION SITE...... 2481 Herve Theveniaut

GEOCHEMICAL MAPPING OF SOIL AND WATER AROUND ABANDONED MINES IN KADOMA, ZIMBABWE ...... 2483 Daina Mudimbu

GEOLOGICAL MAPPING IN THE USA...... 2485 Harvey Thorleifson

POLLUTION POTENTIAL MECHANISMS OF URBAN AQUIFERS OF GREATER BANGALORE USING REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES -A CASE STUDY , KARNATAKA, SOUTH INDIA ...... 2487 Hanumanahally Kambadarangappa Ramaraju

SEPARATING NATURAL FROM ANTHROPOGENIC TRACE ELEMENT PATTERNS IN SOILS OF LEFKOSIA (NICOSIA), CYPRUS ...... 2489 David Cohen

THE POTENTIAL OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS IN GEOCONSERVATION ...... 2491 Enrique Díaz-Martínez

GEOSCIENCE JOB CREATION VIA THE “POSITIVE DISRUPTION” OF A BUSINESS CLUSTER...... 2493 Koen Verbruggen

ONEGEOLOGY - ACCESS TO GEOSCIENCE FOR ALL – FOCUS ON AFRICA ...... 2495 Marko Komac

REALISATION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGS) IN GEOSCIENTIFIC PROJECTS...... 2496 Franca Schwarz

UNDERSTANDING THE INTERNATIONAL POOL OF RECENT GEOSCIENCE GRADUATES ...... 2497 Carolyn Wilson

REMOTE SENSING AND GEOSCIENTIFIC MAPPING TRAINING WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE PANAFGEO PROJECT...... 2498 Petr Mixa

GEOCHEMICAL MAP OF RUSSIA IN SCALE 1:2 500 000...... 2500 Victor Kilipko

METHODS AND RESULTS OF REGIONAL GEOCHEMICAL PROSPECTING OF PETROLIFEROUS DEPOSITS ...... 2502 Victor Kilipko

AN INTERGRATED APPROACH TO THE INTERPRETATION OF HIGH-RESOLUTION AIRBORNE GEOPHYSICAL AND REMOTE SENSING DATA TO SIMPLIFY GEOLOGICAL MAPPING AND EXPLORATION FOR WARMBAD AREA, SOUTHERN NAMIBIA...... 2503 Ewereth Muvangua

CRUSTAL EVOLUTION IN THE WEST AFRICAN ARCHAEAN CRATON IN , LIBERIA, GUINEA AND IVORY COAST: A REVIEW...... 2505 Hugh Rollinson

GEOLOGICAL HISTORY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF BRENDAN’S DOME ...... 2507 Joseph Amakali

GEOLOGICAL MAPPING OF BURGERSDORP AND KATBERG FORMATIONS, WHITTLESEA AREA, SOUTH AFRICA...... 2508 Beatrice Otunola

GEOLOGICAL MAPPING OF COSTA RICA: A FURTHER STEP FOR STANDARDIZATION OF GEOLOGICAL MAP AT 1:50 000 SCALE OF CENTRAL AMERICAN...... 2509 Ana Sofia Huapaya

INTEGRATED GEOPHYSICAL INTERPRETATION OVER UHEIB FARM, SOUTH-EAST OF NAMIBIA...... 2511 Ismael Zaaruka

SOLVING GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT INSTITUTE: EXAMPLE OF CHIBA PREFECTURE GOVERNMENT ...... 2513 Osamu Kazaoka

THE 2016 EDITION OF THE 1: 1 MILLION SCALE GEOLOGICAL MAP OF THE REPUBLIC OF SA, AND THE KINGDOMS OF LESOTHO AND SWAZILAND...... 2515 Coenraad De Beer

THE GENERAL MAP OF TECTONIC ZONING OF THE TERRITORY OF RUSSIA IN SCALE 1:10000000 ...... 2517 Victor Kilipko

THE LATE-NAMAQUA SPERLINGSPUTS SHEAR ZONE SYSTEM, HAIB REGION, SOUTHERN NAMIBIA...... 2518 Jason Indongo

THE REGIONAL GEOLOGICAL SETTING OF THE HAIB PORPHYRY-COPPER DEPOSIT, SOUTHERN NAMIBIA...... 2520 Gerhard Shifotoka

COMBINING PETROGRAPHIC AND GEOCHEMICAL STUDIES TO UNDERSTAND THE MODE OF EMPLACEMENT OF HIMALAYAN GRANITES FROM ARUNACHAL PRADESH, NORTHEASTERN INDIA...... 2522 Santanu Bhattacharjee

DETRITAL ZIRCON MICRO-GEOCHRONOLOGY ACROSS THE MAIN CENTRAL THRUST (MCT), UTTARAKHAND HIMALAYA: IMPLICATIONS FOR LESSER HIMALAYA AND HIGHER HIMALAYAN TERRANE CHARACTERIZATION...... 2524 Pulok K Mukherjee

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE BLUESCHIS AND MARBLE-BEARING HIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHIC BELT OF RONGMA AREA IN THE CENTRAL QIANGTANG, TIBET ...... 2526 Guo-Li Yuan

HIMALAYAN COESITE ECLOGITES: AGES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF PROGRADE, PEAK AND EXHUMATION FEATURES AND GEOTECTONIC IMPLICATIONS ...... 2528 Patrick O'Brien

RARE OCCURRENCE OF GAHNITE IN MAIN CENTRAL THRUST ZONE OFWESTERN ARUNACHAL HIMALAYA, ARUNACHAL PRADESH, INDIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR SHEAR HEATING...... 2530 Sandip Nandy

EVOLUTION OF THE AMU DARYA BASIN: INTERPLAY BETWEEN TECTONICS AND INHERITED STRUCTURES ...... 2532 Marie-Francoise Brunet

MESOPROTEROZOIC CONTINENTAL ARC MAGMATISM AND CRUSTAL GROWTH IN THE EASTERN CENTRAL TIANSHAN ARC TERRANE OF THE SOUTHERN CENTRAL ASIAN OROGENIC BELT ...... 2534 Zhenyu He

ND-HF ISOTOPIC MAPPING OF GRANITOID PLUTONS IN THE SOUTHWESTERN CENTRAL ASIAN OROGENIC BELT AND IMPLICATIONS FOR CONTINENTAL ARCHITECTURE AND GROWTH ...... 2535 Tao Wang

ORE-FORMING AGES OF IRON ORE DEPOSITS IN THE WESTERN TIANSHAN MOUNTAIN, NW CHINA ...... 2537 Zuoheng Zhang

STRUCTURAL AND METAMORPHIC CONSTRAINTS ON BARROVIAN AND HIGH-TEMPERATURE DOMAINS IN THE CHINESE ALTAI, CENTRAL ASIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR CRUSTAL THICKENING AND DOMING IN ACCRETIONARY OROGENS ...... 2539 Yingde Jiang

SYN-COLLISIONAL OR POST-COLLISIONAL BELT? IN THE VIEW FROM THE STRUCTURE OF THE MIDDLE CENTRAL TIANSHAN BELT...... 2541 Wei Lin

THE EARLY PALEOZOIC TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE RUSSIAN ALTAI: IMPLICATIONS FROM META-SEDIMENTARY COMPLEXES IN THE CHARYSH-TEREKTA-ULAGAN-SAYAN SUTURE ZONE...... 2542 Min Sun

AN HP-UHP OROGENIC BELT OR AN EXTENSIONAL ZONE? IN THE VIEW FROM THE SOUTH SULU MASSIF, EASTERN CHINA...... 2544 Wei Lin

HOW TO DEFINE A SUTURE: THE IZMIR-ANKARA SUTURE IN THE CENTRAL TURKEY...... 2545 Aral Okay

LANDSAT-TM-BASED DISCRIMINATION AND TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE NEOPROTEROZOIC LITHOLOGIES OF SHWAS SHEAR ZONE, CENTRAL ASIR TERRANE, ARABIAN SHIELD...... 2547 Zakaria Hamimi

THE STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NORTHERN PART OF ADANA BASIN, SOUTHERN TURKEY ...... 2548 Halil Yusufoglu

THE TETHYS HISTORY IN SOUTHEAST IRAN: A TALE FROM MAKRAN AND SISTAN...... 2550 Jean-Pierre Burg

CHROMIUM-BEARING PHASES IN THE EARTH’S MANTLE: EVIDENCE FROM EXPERIMENTS AT 10- 24 GPA AND 1600°C ...... 2552 Andrey Bobrov

CLASSIFICATION OF DIAMOND SOURCE ROCKS IN THE WAJRAKARUR KIMBERLITE FIELD OF SOUTHERN INDIA: A MINERAL GENETIC APPROACH ...... 2554 Ashish Dongre

PETROLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF CHINTALAPALLE LAMPROITE, EASTERN DHARWAR CRATON, SOUTHERN INDIA ...... 2556 Praveer Pankaj

TRACE ELEMENT VARIATIONS ACROSS OLIVINE RECORD THE EVOLUTION OF KIMBERLITE MELTS: CASE STUDIES FROM THE KIMBERLEY KIMBERLITES (SOUTH AFRICA) ...... 2558 Andrea Giuliani

EARLY PALEOZOIC SUBDUCTION PROCESSES OF THE SOUTHERN PALEO-ASIAN OCEAN: INSIGHTS FROM PALEOZOIC DIORITES AND GRANITOIDS IN THE ALXA TERRANE ...... 2560 Qian Liu

EARLY-PALEOZOIC STRUCTURAL FEATURES AND TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE EASTERN PART OF THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY OF THE PROTO-TETHYS OCEAN...... 2561 Shujuan Zhao

LATE MESOZOIC INTRACONTINENTAL OROGENY OF THE QINLING OROGEN, CENTRAL CHINA AND ITS IMPLICATION...... 2563 Anlin Guo

NEW PALEOMAGNETIC RESULTS FROM THE MESOZOIC ROCKS OF THE INDOCHINA BLOCK ...... 2564 Yonggang Yan

NORTHERN CONTINENTAL MARGIN OF THE GONDWANALAND IN EARLY PALEOZOIC: INSIGHTS FROM RESTORATION OF TWO OROCLINE OROGENS IN THE PROTO-TETHYAN TECTONIC DOMAIN...... 2565 Sanzhong Li

OPHIOLITES IN THE XING’AN-INNER MONGOLIA ACCRETIONARY BELT OF THE CAOB: IMPLICATIONS FOR TWO CYCLES OF SEAFLOOR SPREADING AND ACCRETIONARY OROGENIC EVENTS ...... 2567 Shuguang Song

RECONSTRUCTING THE ROLE OF SOUTH CHINA IN PANGEA AND EARLIER SUPERCONTINENTS...... 2568 Peter Cawood

DIFFERENTIATION OF THE ALTAI ACCRETIONARY WEDGE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE STABILIZATION OF CONTINENTAL CRUST IN THE CENTRAL ASIAN OROGENIC BELT ...... 2569 Yingde Jiang

MELTING OF SUBDUCTED SLAB IN THE CHINESE ALTAI DURING DEVONIAN AND ITS TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS...... 2570 Yang Yu

NEW INSIGHTS INTO EARLY PALEOZOIC TECTONISM OF SOUTH CHINA FROM STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY, U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY AND 40AR/39AR THERMOCHRONOLOGY...... 2572 Jianhua Li

PETROGENESIS OF PERMIAN INTERMEDIATE-MAFIC DIKES IN THE CHINESE ALTAI, NW CHINA: IMPLICATION FOR A POST-ACCRETION EXTENSIONAL SCENARIO ...... 2573 Keda Cai

THE EVOLUTION OF THE AILAOSHAN OCEAN: RECORDED BY DETRITAL ZIRCONS FROM PERMO- TRIASSIC STRATA...... 2575 Xiaoping Xia

THE GEODYNAMICS OF NORTHERN PART OF SIKHOTE-ALIN OROGEN ...... 2576 Alexei Didenko

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE MAJOR NSFC PROGRAM “RECONSTRUCTION OF EAST ASIAN BLOCKS IN PANGEA”...... 2578 Guochun Zhao

DISTINCT STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION OF TWO CONTRASTING LITHO-TECTONIC DOMAINS IN THE CHINESE ALTAI: UNRAVELLING A COMPLICATED ACCRETIONARY PROCESS OF THE WESTERN CENTRAL ASIA OROGENIC BELT...... 2580 Jian Zhang

NEW PALEOMAGNETIC RESULTS FROM THE ~130 MA VOLCANIC ROCKS OF NORTH CHINA AND SOUTHERN MONGOLIA, AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE MONGOL–OKHOTSK SUTURE ...... 2581 Qiang Ren

THE DISCUSSION ABOUT THE CLOSURE TIME OF THE PALEO-ASIAN OCEAN IN THE NORTHEAST ASIAN AREA ...... 2582 Mao Fu

TRANSFORMATION HYBRID OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE INTO CONTINENT AND ENIGMA OF PALEOZOIC ASIAN CONTINENTAL GROWTH ...... 2584 Karel Schulmann

U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF VOLCANIC ROCKS IN THE MANZHOULI- ERGUNA, NORTHEASTERN CHINA AND TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS...... 2585 Wing Sum Regine Tsui

ACCRETIONARY TECTONIC ARCHITECTURE INFERRED FROM OFFSET MAGMATIC AGE SIGNATURES BETWEEN TERRANES OF THE BEISHAN OROGENIC COLLAGE IN THE SOUTHERN CENTRAL ASIAN OROGENIC BELT, NW CHINA ...... 2586 Shoufa Lin

ENIGMATIC PALEOPOSITIONS OF SOUTH CHINA IN THE RODINIAN AND GONDWANAN RECONSTRUCTIONS: NEW PALEOMAGNETIC CONSTRAINTS...... 2587 Zhenyu Yang

HOW DID THE NORTH CHINA CRATON MEET THE AMURIA BLOCK IN PERMIAN ...... 2589 Shihong Zhang

IS THE SOUTH CHINA BLOCK AN ACCRETIONARY OROGENY? INSIGHTS FROM RECENT GEOLOGICAL AND GEOCHRONOLOGICAL EVIDENCE ...... 2590 Changqing Yin

NEW PALEOMAGNETIC DATA FROM UPPER PERMIAN AND LOWER TRIASSIC VOLCANIC SEQUENCES FROM NORTHWEST VIETNAM AND THEIR BEARING ON THE ACCRETION HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST ASIA ...... 2591 John Geissman

THE DEVONIAN-PERMIAN TARBAGATAY ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX OF WESTERN JUNGGAR (NW CHINA): IMPLICATIONS FOR THE AMALGAMATION OF THE WESTERN CAOB ...... 2593 Wenjiao Xiao

THE SYSTEMATIC METAMORPHIC PATTERN ALONG THE QINLING-DABIE-HONGSEONG COLLISION BELT BETWEEN THE NORTH AND SOUTH CHINA BLOCKS AND ITS TECTONIC MEANING ...... 2594 Chang Whan Oh

BURIAL AND EXHUMATION HISTORY OF SOUTHERNMOST NORWAY: EPEIROGENIC UPLIFTS BEFORE AND AFTER NE ATLANTIC BREAK-UP ...... 2595 Peter Japsen

DYNAMICS OF THE AFRO-ARABIAN RIFT: NEW INSIGHTS FROM SHEAR-WAVE SPLITTING...... 2597 Walter Mooney

EPISODIC BURIAL AND EXHUMATION OF THE SOUTHERN MARGIN OF AFRICA BEFORE AND AFTER BREAKUP...... 2598 Paul Green

GEODYNAMICS OF PASSIVE MARGINS: INSIGHTS FROM THE DFG SCHWERPUNKTPROGRAMM SAMPLE FOR THE SOUTH ATLANTIC AND BEYOND...... 2600 Hans-Peter Bunge

THE AFRICAN SURFACE (85-45 MA): A RECORD OF MANTLE DEFORMATIONS AT THE SCALE OF A CONTINENT SINCE 35 MA...... 2601 François Guillocheau

UNDERSTANDING CONTINENTAL UPLIFT THROUGH WATERSHED ANALYSIS...... 2602 Thomas Blenkinsop

WHY CONTINENTS UPLIFT?...... 2604 Eugenio Carminati

COMPRESSIVE AND SHEAR STRENGTH AS QUALITY CONTROL FOR SOME SOIL MATERIALS UNDER DIFFERENT DEPTHS, NILE DELTA, EGYPT...... 2606 Ali Ismail

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF DRILLING WASTE...... 2607 Javad Tabatabaei

HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATION IN INDUSTRIAL AREA IN AND AROUND HYDERABAD CITY; HYDROGEOLGICAL AND HYDROGEOCHEMICAL STUDIES OF THE CHINNAERU RIVER BASIN, SUB - BASIN OF MUSI RIVER IN THE NORTHERN PARTS OF NALGONDA DISTRICT, TELANGANA STATE, INDIA...... 2608 Ganaboina Machender

HYPOTHESIS OF A THIN METHANE GAS-SPHERE BETWEEN EARTH’S CRUST AND MANTLE...... 2610 Zhong-Qi Quentin Yue

KEDARNATH FLASH-FLOOD TRAGEDY OF 2013 : A TESTIMONY OF CLIMATE CHANGE CAUSED EXTREME EVENTS IN THE HIMALAYA...... 2612 Bhanu Prasad Naithani

SCENARIO OF SECONDARY HAZARD DUE TO LIQUEFACTION OVER NATIONAL CAPITAL TERRITORY, DELHI, INDIA - A CASE STUDY ...... 2614 Mandal H. S.

THE INVESTIGATION AND REHABILITATION OF THE PRETORIUS AVENUE SINKHOLE IN LYTTELTON MANOR, CENTURION...... 2616 John Stiff

A REVIEW OF THE TECTONIC HISTORY OF THE AMAZONIAN CRATON...... 2618 Umberto Cordani

GEOTECTONIC SETTING AND PALEOGEOGRAPHY OF A C. 565 MA OLD CADOMIAN GLACIATION IN NW GONDWANA CONSTRAINED BY ZIRCON U-PB AGES, HF ISOTOPES, AND PERI-GONDWANAN ZIRCON PROVINCES ...... 2620 Ulf Linnemann

GONDWANA TECTONIC EVOLUTION RECOUNTED THROUGH THE GONDWANA MAP – IGCP-628 ...... 2621 Renata S. Schmitt

ON CONSTRAINING THE PAN-AFRICAN HIGH-GRADE METAMORPHISM TIME OF THE LARSEMANN HILLS, EAST ANTARCTICA ...... 2623 Liudong Ren

ORIGIN AND TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE NE BASEMENT OF OMAN - A WINDOW INTO THE NEOPROTEROZOIC ACCRETIONARY GROWTH OF INDIA? ...... 2624 Brandon Alessio

TECTONIC PROVINCES OF EAST ANTARCTICA ...... 2626 German Leitchenkov

TESTING AZANIA: USING DETRITAL ZIRCON U-PB AGES AND HF ISOTOPIC RECORD TO CONSTRAIN TECTONIC AFFINITIES WITHIN THE EAST AFRICAN OROGEN...... 2628 Alan Collins

CONDITIONED DUALITY OF THE EARTH SYSTEM VIA THE SUPERCONTINENT CYCLE ...... 2630 Martin Van Kranendonk

CRUSTAL EVOLUTION AND THE TEMPORALITY OF ANORTHOSITES...... 2632 Lewis D. Ashwal

MELTING SEDIMENT AND SUBDUCTING BACTERIA: EXPLORING THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE GREAT OXIDATION EVENT AND THE RISE OF δ18O IN ZIRCON...... 2634 Christopher Spencer

THE DETRITAL ZIRCON RECORD OF EARTH’S EVOLVING SURFACE ENVIRONMENT...... 2636 Ryan McKenzie

LITHOSPHERIC AND SUB-LITHOSPHERIC UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE OF AFRICA FROM FULL WAVE LONG-PERIOD AMBIENT NOISE TOMOGRAPHY...... 2637 Erica Emry

LONG-TERM, DEEP-MANTLE SUPPORT OF THE ETHIOPIA-YEMEN PLATEAU: IMPLICATION FOR MANTLE DYNAMICS ...... 2639 Claudio Faccenna

ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VOLCANIC HOTSPOT LOCATIONS, THE RECONSTRUCTED ERUPTION SITES OF LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES AND DEEP MANTLE SEISMIC STRUCTURE...... 2640 Rhodri Davies

POST RIFT EVOLUTON OF THE INDIAN MARGIN OF SOUTHERN AFRICA...... 2641 Guillaume Baby

THE DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHY OF MADAGASCAR: A CENOZOIC HISTORY OF UPLIFT AND EROSION...... 2643 Simon Stephenson

EXPERIENCE OF COMPILING A COMPLEX GEOHAZARD MAP AT 1: 200 000 SCALE FOR CROSS- BORDER AREAS OF TAJIKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN (UNDER THE TAPRI UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME)...... 2644 Viktor Snezhko

IDENTIFICATION OF EXPANSIVE SOILS APPLIED TO LAND USE PLANNING IN MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY...... 2646 Sebastián Huelmo

MANAGEMENT OF MINE WATER AND AMD CHALLENGES USING RIVER WATER CATCHMENT AREA AND GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL PROVINCES APPROACH, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 2647 Bisrat Yibas

DETRITAL ZIRCON AGES OF EDIACARAN AND EARLY CAMBRIAN SUCCESSIONS AT THE EDGE OF THE RÍO DE LA PLATA CRATON (URUGUAY) REVEAL CONTRASTING GEOTECTONIC SETTINGS...... 2648 Claudio Gaucher

DEVONIAN ACCRETION SOUTH OF CHILENIA...... 2650 Francisco Hervé

FIRST DIRECT EVIDENCE OF PAN-AFRICAN OROGENY ASSOCIATED WITH GONDWANA ASSEMBLY IN THE CATHAYSIA BLOCK OF SOUTHERN CHINA...... 2651 Longming Li

THE ENIGMATIC HASTINGS BLOCK - HISTORY OF EMPLACEMENT AND SUBSEQUENT DEFORMATION ...... 2653 Paul Lennox

THE MALVINAS ISLANDS: DID THE ROTATED LAFONIAN MICROPLATE COLLIDE IN THE PALAEOZOIC WITH THE SOUTH AMERICAN CONTINENTAL MARGIN? ...... 2655 Victor A. Ramos

UNDERSTANDING THE ONSET OF ANDEAN SUBDUCTION: NEW SR AND ND ISOTOPIC DATA FROM LATE PALEOZOIC TO LATE TRIASSIC MAGMATISM IN NORTHERN CHILE ...... N/A González-Maurel Osvaldo

CENOZOIC SURFACE DYNAMICS OF WEST AFRICA: DRAINAGE, HOT SPOT SWELL GROWTH, EROSION BUDGET AND OFFSHORE SEDIMENTARY RECORD...... 2657 Dominique Chardon

DATA ASSIMILATION IN GLOBAL MANTLE FLOW MODELS: THEORY, COMPUTATION AND UNCERTAINTIES TO RESTORE GLOBAL MANTLE FLOW BACK IN TIME ...... 2658 Hans-Peter Bunge

GRAVITY, DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHY AND MANTLE FLOW...... 2659 Lorenzo Colli

OPENING OF THE EQUATORIAL ATLANTIC OCEAN AND PALEOGEOGRAPHIC EVOLUTION OF WEST AFRICA SINCE THE EARLY MESOZOIC...... 2660 Dominique Chardon

RAPID SOUTH ATLANTIC SPREADING CHANGES AND COEVAL VERTICAL MOTION IN SURROUNDING CONTINENTS: EVIDENCE FOR TEMPORAL CHANGES OF PRESSURE-DRIVEN UPPER MANTLE FLOW ...... 2661 Lorenzo Colli

GOLD MINERALIZATION IN THE PRECAMBRIAN OF SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA ...... 2662 Bisrat Yibas

MAGMATISM ON THE SW INDIAN RIDGE – REMELTING THE GONDWANAN MANTLE ...... 2664 Henry Dick

PALEOSTRESS IN CENTRAL AFRICA REVEALS THE LATE PALEOZOIC-RECENT EVOLUTION OF CENTRAL GONDWANA...... 2666 Damien Delvaux

SUBDUCTION, ACCRETION AND CLOSURE OF PROTO-TETHYAN OCEAN: EARLY PALEOZOIC ACCRETION/COLLISION OROGENY IN THE ALTUN-QILIAN-NORTH QAIDAM OROGENIC SYSTEM, NORTHERN TIBET OF CHINA...... 2667 Jianxin Zhang

THE HISTORY OF THE GONDWANA CONTINENT AND THE CHRONOLOGY OF BREAK-UP...... 2668 John Bradshaw

WEST CENTRAL GONDWANA CORRELATIONS AND PALEO-RECONSTRUCTION OF ITS MAIN PHANEROZOIC CONTINENTAL BASINS ...... 2669 Bastien Linol

ANALYSIS OF BASIN–RANGE COUPLING MECHANISMS DURING EPEIROGENETIC UPLIFT – A CASE STUDY OF TECTONIC COUPLING IN THE SONGPAN–GANZI PLATEAU–LONGMEN MOUNTAIN– SICHUAN BASIN REGION ...... 2671 Wei Long

GEODYNAMIC EVOLUTON OF THE GULF OF MEXICO, SINCE LATE TRIASSIC TO BAJOCIAN, BASED ON PALYNOLOGICAL, PALEONTOLOGICAL, GEOPHYSICS, TECTONIC DATA AND METAMORPHIC QUARTZ ORIGIN FOR KNOWING ITS PALEOGEOGRAPHIC EARLY HISTORY...... 2673 Jaime Rueda-Gaxiola

MIDDLE JURASSIC ACCRETION OF AN EXOTIC MICROCONTINENTAL FRAGMENT ALONG THE SOUTHEAST CHINA CONTINENTAL MARGIN...... 2675 Roderick Sewell

TRANSLATION AND ROTATION OF CRUSTAL BLOCKS IN THE SOUTHERNMOST ATLANTIC REGION PRIOR TO SEAFLOOR SPREADING: IN SEARCH OF A MECHANISM...... 2676 Ian Dalziel

CONTRASTING COOLING RATES OF TWO BRASILIANO TERRANES IN SE BRAZIL USING 40AR/39AR DATA – THE GONDWANA COLLAGE PROPAGATES THROUGH THE SILURIAN -DEVONIAN...... 2678 Renata S. Schmitt

DATING ROCKS FROM THE CENTRAL ZONE, DAMARA BELT, NAMIBIA: TIME CONSTRAINTS ON OROGENIC EVENTS...... 2681 Gerrit De Kock

HOW TO MAKE A TRIPLE JUNCTION – NEW EVIDENCE FOR THE ASSEMBLAGE OF GONDWANA ALONG THE KAOKO-DAMARA BELTS, NAMIBIA ...... 2683 Cees Passchier

TIMING OF TECTONIC EVENTS IN THE CENTRAL ZONE AND THE CASE FOR SUBDUCTION IN THE OF THE DAMARA BELT, NAMIBIA...... 2685 Luke Longridge

VOLCANIC ARC TURBIDITES OF THE EDIACARAN ROCHA FORMATION LINKED TO THE BRASILIANO OROGENY AND (CUCHILLA DIONISIO TERRANE, URUGUAY) ...... 2686 Gonzalo Blanco

GENETIC PROCESS UNDERLYING THE MW 7.8 NEPAL EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCE ...... 2689 Jiagui Zhang

POSTSEISMIC DEFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH THE 2010 YUSHU, CHINA MS7.1 EARTHQUAKE FROM GPS MEASUREMENTS...... 2691 Guo-Jie Meng

SEESAW-TYPE TO INTEGRAL GROWTH IN THE CENOZOIC LONGMEN SHAN THRUST BELT, EASTERN MARGIN OF TIBETAN PLATEAU...... N/A Ming Sun

TECTONIC SETTING OF THE LOHIT GRANITOID COMPLEX (LGC) IN TRANS HIMALAYAN BELT, ARUNAHCAL PRADESH, INDIA: A GEOCHEMICAL APPROACH ...... 2693 D Adhikary

TECTONIC-MAGMATIC-METALLOGENIC SYSTEM OF DEQEN-YANGLA AREA WITHIN THE JINSHAJIANG OROGEN ...... 2694 Pusheng Zeng

THE HIMALAYAN SEISMOGENIC ZONE: A NEW FRONTIER FOR EARTHQUAKE RESEARCH ...... 2696 Larry Brown

DETACHMENT FAULTING AT THE MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE ...... 2698 Catherine Mevel

NEOGENE OROCLINE OF CENTRAL JAPAN AND TTT-TRIPLE JUNCTION CONSEQUENCE (A REVIEW): A HINT FOR EMPLACEMENT OF OCEANIC AND SERPENTINITE BODIES...... 2700 Yujiro Ogawa

TETHYAN OPHIOLITES: PRODUCTS OF RIFT-DRIFT, SEAFLOOR SPREADING & SUBDUCTION ZONE TECTONICS OF MARGINAL BASIN EVOLUTION FOLLOWING THE GONDWANA BREAKUP...... 2702 Yildirim Dilek

THE PALEO-TETHYS OPHIOLITE IN THE QIANGTANG BLOCK, NORTH TIBET, CHINA ...... 2704 Qing Guo Zhai

VOLCANIC ROCKS AND KINDRED SEDIMENTS OF THE OPHIOLITE BELT OF INDO-MYANMAR RANGES OF NORTHEAST INDIA AND IMPLICATIONS ON THE TECTONIC SETTING OF THE CONTINENTAL MARGIN BASIN...... 2705 Chabungbam Mangi Khuman

AR/AR AGES FROM THE SHERGOL BLUESCHIST UNIT, INDUS SUTURE ZONE, LADAKH: PRESERVATION OF EARLY STAGES OF SUBDUCTION OF THE NEOTETHYS...... 2707 Johann Genser

CENOZOIC CONTINENTAL SUBDUCTION IN THE NW-HIMALAYA: FROM STEEP TO SUB- HORIZONTAL CONFIGURATION OF THE INDIAN PLATE...... 2709 Arvind K. Jain

EXHUMATION AND WEATHERING HISTORY OF THE HIMALAYAN FRONTAL SYSTEM ...... 2711 N. R. McKenzie

INTERPRETING BEDROCK UPLIFT AND CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY FOR TECTONIC INTERPRETATION IN ALAKNANDA VALLEY, GARHWAL HIMALAYA, INDIA ...... 2712 Naresh Rana

NEOTECTONICALLY CONTROLLED BLOCK TILTING AND ITS INFLUENCE ON DRAINAGE AND SOIL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SONE MEGAFAN: A STUDY OF THE HIMALAYAN TECTONICS TO THE SOUTH OF THE GANGA RIVER ...... 2713 Pitambar Pati

THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE OROGRAPHIC BARRIER IN CHENAB RIVER BASIN AND ITS ROLE IN THE SLOPE STABILITY CONDITION...... 2714 Ravindra Pratap Singh

THE MW 6.7, 2016, IMPHAL EARTHQUAKE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON THE SEISMIC HAZARD ALONG THE INDO-BURMESE PLATE...... 2716 Revathy Parameswaran

CONSTRAIN MULTISTAGE DEFORMATION USING FIAS, GARNET LU-HF AND MONAZITE U-PB DATING- A CASE STUDY OF NORTH QILIAN, CHINA...... 2717 Hui Cao

DISCUSSION ON CENOZOIC TECTONIC EVOLUTION AND TECTONIC DYNAMICS OF THE HUANGHUA DEPRESSION...... 2718 Min Dong

GEOCHEMICAL AND GEOCHRONOLOGICAL STUDIES ON TWO BIMODAL MAGMATISM IN THE EASTERN TIANSHAN BELT, NORTHWEST CHINA AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE LATER PALEOZOIC TECTONIC EVOLUTION ...... 2719 Xijie Chen

INDIA-ASIA COLLISION NEAR THE WESTERN SYNTAXIS: PALEOMAGNETIC CONSTRAINTS FROM LATE CRETACEOUS VOLCANIC ROCKS AT THE WESTERNMOST LHASA TERRANE ...... 2721 Zhiyu Yi

KINEMATICS, FABRICS AND GEOCHRONOLOGY ANALYSIS IN THE MÉDOG SHEAR ZONE, EASTERN HIMALAYAN SYNTAXIS ...... 2723 Hanwen Dong

GEOCHEMISTRY, ZIRCON U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY AND LU-HF ISOTOPE OF GRANITOIDS AND MICROGRANULAR ENCLAVES FROM LADAKH BATHOLITH, INDIAN HIMALAYA: EVIDENCE OF SYNCHRONOUS MIXING-FRACTIONATION AND CHEMICAL RE-EQUILIBRATION ...... 2724 Santosh Kumar

INTEGRATING THEMOKINEMATIC MODELS AND BALANCED CROSS SECTIONS TO DETERMINE THE GEOMETRY, SEQUENCE AND RATE OF FAULTING THROUGH THE EASTERN HIMALAYA...... 2726 Nadine McQuarrie

PALEOMAGNETIC RESULTS FROM THE EARLY CRETACEOUS LAVA FLOWS: CONSTRAINTS ON THE PALEOLATITUDE OF THE TETHYAN HIMALAYA AND THE INDIA–ASIA COLLISION ...... 2728 Tianshui Yang

RECONSTRUCTION OF THE HIMALAYAN ARCHITECTURE: INSIGHTS FROM THE TETHYAN HIMALAYAN DECOLLEMENT AND THE GREAT HIMALAYAN THRUST...... 2730 Zhiqin Xu

TECTONIC FRAMEWORK OF OROGENIC BELTS AND BASINS SYSTEM IN ABDOMEN OF ASIA...... 2732 Zhanlong Yang

TIMING OF TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE EAST KUNLUN OROGEN, NORTHERN TIBET PLATEAU...... 2734 Yunpeng Dong

AN APPRAISAL OF PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY OF COASTAL MAHARASHTRA, INDIA...... 2736 Lalitkumar Kshirsagar

FLUID-INDUCED STRAIN LOCALIZATION AND THE FE ENRICHMENT-A CASE STUDY OF THE GONGCHANGLING IRON MINE, NE CHINA ...... 2738 Zhang Qing

INDO-ASIAN COLLISION: TECTONIC TRANSITION FROM COMPRESSION TO STRIKE SLIP ...... 2739 Zhiqin Xu

POST INDIAN PLATE-KOHISTAN ISLAND ARC COLLISION TECTONICS OF THE NORTHWEST HIMALAYA AT THE MAIN MANTLE THRUST, LOWER SWAT, PAKISTAN ...... 2740 Asghar Ali

THERMAL SOFTENING OF CONTINENTAL CRUST, STRAIN LOCALIZATION, AND LOW-PRESSURE, HIGH-TEMPERATURE METAMORPHISM: INSIGHTS FROM THE MARY KATHLEEN ZONE, MOUNT ISA INLIER (AUSTRALIA)...... 2741 Juergen Reinhardt

DISCOVERY OF MIDDLE-LATE TRIASSIC CONODONTS WITHIN ACCESSORY COMPLEXES OF SOUTH QIANGTANG IN THE REGION OF TIBETAN MARIGANGRI (CHINA) AND ITS TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE...... 2743 Gen-Hou Wang

GEOCHEMISTRY AND TECTONO-SEDIMENTARY EVOLUTION OF SURMA BASIN, MIZORAM, INDIA...... 2744 Bubul Bharali

KEY CHALLENGES IN HIMALAYAN TECTONICS AND CLIMATE-TECTONIC INTERACTIONS ...... 2746 Alex Webb

NEO-TECTONIC ACTIVITY IN SARPANG RE-ENTRANT, FRONTAL BHUTAN HIMALAYA, KOKRAJHAR DISTRICT, ASSAM, INDIA CONSTRAIN FROM GEOLOGICAL, GEOMORPHOLOGICAL AND GPS SURVEYS...... 2747 Tanay Dutta Gupta

ANCIENT CONTINENTS AMONG THE ACCRETIONARY COMPLEXES OF THE CENTRAL ASIA OROGENIC BELT: IN SITU OS ISOTOPE EVIDENCE ...... 2749 Kuo-Lung Wang

DETERMINATION OF THE EARLY PALEOZOIC GRANITE IN ZHIFANG AREA, EAST JUNGGAR, XINJIANG, NW CHINA AND ITS GEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS ...... 2751 Qinqin Xu

GEODYNAMIC RECONSTRUCTION AND METALLOGENY OF THE TIEN SHAN, UZBEKISTAN...... 2752 Reimar Seltmann

NEOPROTEROZOIC DIAMICTITES-BEARING STRATA IN THE TARIM AND YILI BLOCKS AND THEIR CONSTRAINTS ON THE PRECAMBRIAN EVOLUTION OF MICROCONTINENTS IN THE CENTRAL ASIAN OROGENIC BELT...... 2754 Wenbin Zhu

RELATIONSHIP OF TARIM CRATON TO CENTRAL ASIAN OROGENIC BELT: INSIGHTS FROM DEVONIAN INTRUSIONS IN NORTHERN MARGIN OF TARIM CRATON, CHINA...... 2756 Qie Qin

THE MAGMATIC CONDITIONS AND GEODYNAMIC SETTING FOR THE CARBONIFEROUS VOLCANIC ERUPTION TYPE IRON DEPOSITS IN WEST TIANSHAN, CHINA...... 2758 Zhongping Ma

THE SILURIAN- CARBONIFEROUS IN THE NORTH AND SOUTH OF KARAMAILI TECTONIC ZONE (XINJIANG): TECTONO- SEDIMENTATION ...... 2760 Lei Zhao

A RE-EVALUATION OF THE KUMTA SUTURE IN SOUTHWEST INDIA AND ITS EXTENSION INTO MADAGASCAR...... 2761 Sheree Armistead

FROM RODINIA TO PANGEA: GEOLOGIC AND ISOTOPIC EVIDENCE FOR AN ENTIRE SUPERCONTINENT CYCLE IN THE CHIAPAS MASSIF COMPLEX, SOUTHERN MEXICO...... 2762 Bodo Weber

HARD AND FAST OR SOFT AND SLOW: RATES OF CRUSTAL REWORKING AND OROGENESIS IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC REGION...... 2764 Christopher Spencer

HOW FAR DOES THE CRYPTIC MAWSON PALAEOCONTINENT EXTEND WITHIN EAST ANTARCTICA AND WAS IT SOURCED TO FORM A COLUMBIAN COVER IN THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH LAND?...... 2766 Evgenii Mikhalskii

MID-NEOPROTEROZOIC MAGMATIC EVOLUTION IN THE NORTHEASTERN MARGIN OF THE INDOCHINA BLOCK, SW CHINA: GEOCHRONOLOGICAL AND PETROGENETIC CONSTRAINTS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GONDWANA ASSEMBLY ...... 2768 Xuexiang Qi

PALAEOMAGNETISM OF DYKES FROM SOUTHWEST COAST OF INDIA: IMPLICATION FOR INDIA- MADAGASCAR PRE-DRIFT CONFIGURATION...... 2770 Mathew Joseph

QUEUE TECTONICS, ROUNDABOUT TECTONICS, AND THE OPENING AND CLOSING OF NARROW OCEAN BASINS ...... 2772 Åke Johansson

U-TH-PB AND HF ISOTOPIC STUDIES OF ZIRCON FROM THE WEST CONGO BELT OF NW ANGOLA AND THE ADJACENT IGNEOUS BASEMENT...... 2773 Andreas Gärtner

DENSITY STRUCTURE OF THE CRATONIC MANTLE IN SIBERIA, CORRELATIONS WITH MANTLE PETROLOGY AND KIMBERLITE DISTRIBUTION ...... 2775 Irina Artemieva

DIAMOND TECTONICS AND GEOTECTONICS - HOW DO THEY INTERSECT IN THE ARCHEAN...... 2777 Herwart Helmstaedt

DWYKA-AGE DIAMONDIFEROUS ESKERS IN THE LICHTENBURG/VENTERSDORP DIAMOND FIELDS, NORTH WEST PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA...... 2779 Michiel Cornelis Jan De Wit

EARLY ARCHEAN ONSET OF PLATE TECTONICS SUGGESTED BY OLDEST CONFIRMED DIAMONDS – EVIDENCE FROM THE WITWATERSRAND...... 2781 Katie Smart

HOW DEEP (AND HOT) IS A DIAMOND?...... 2783 Paolo Nimis

THE SOURCE OF METHANE-BEARING DIAMOND FLUIDS: C-N ISOTOPE AND TRACE ELEMENT CONSTRAINTS FROM ZIMBABWE DIAMONDS ...... 2784 Karen Smit

A GEOTRAVERSE ACROSS TWO PALEO-SUBDUCTION ZONES IN TIEN SHAN, TAJIKISTAN...... 2786 Dmitry Konopelko

CRUSTAL GROWTH AND REWORKING OF THE SOUTHEASTERN CENTRAL ASIAN OROGENIC BELT DURING LATE PALEOZOIC: EVIDENCE FROM THE MAGMATISM IN CENTRAL INNER MONGOLIA, CHINA...... 2788 Jianfeng Liu

GEOCHRONOLOGY OF DETRITAL ZIRCONS FROM SCHIST IN KYRGYZ SOUTH TIANSHAN: EVIDENCE FOR THE PROVENANCE OF METAMORPHIC SEDIMENTS IN THE ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX...... 2790 Bo Chen

SEDIMENTOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE FINAL TIME OF VARIOUS TERRANES AMALGAMATION IN THE NORTHERN XINJIANG, CHINA ...... 2792 Kai Weng

THE TIMING OF THE CLOSURE OF SOUTHERN TIANSHAN PALEOZOIC OCEAN: EVIDENCE FROM DETRITAL ZIRCON DATING IN NORTHWESTERN TARIM MARGIN ...... 2794 Jinyi Li

ZIRCON U-PB AGES AND HF ISOTOPIC CHARACTERISTICS OF PALEOZOIC GRANITOID INTRUSIONS FROM THE BALUNTAI REGION, CENTRAL CHINESE TIANSHAN: IMPLICATIONS FOR TECTONIC EVOLUTION AND CONTINENTAL GROWTH ...... 2796 He Huang

A FOLDED HIMALAYAN-STYLE COLLISIONAL-OROGEN MODEL FOR THE ORIGIN OF THE LIMPOPO BELT IN SOUTH AFRICA: IMPLICATIONS FOR RECONSTRUCTING AN AMALGAMATED ARCHEAN CRATON ...... 2798 An Yin

EXTENT AND CHARACTER OF A PALEOPROTEROZOIC CRATONIC-SCALE LOWER CRUSTAL DOMAIN IN ARCTIC LAURENTIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR TECTONIC PROCESSES DURING ASSEMBLY OF NUNA ...... 2799 Edith Martel

ITINERANT SIBERIA DURING THE NEOPROTEROZOIC...... 2800 Nadezhda Priyatkina

NEOARCHEAN SUPERCONTINENT KENORLAND: GEOLOGICAL AND PALEOMAGNETIC DATA ...... 2802 Aleksandr Slabunov

NOT SO SUBTLE CONSTRAINTS FROM THE PHANEROZOIC ON PRECAMBRIAN PLATE RECONSTRUCTIONS...... 2804 Bruce Eglington

ILLUMINATING CRATON ARCHITECTURE USING DEEP-PROBING ELECTROMAGNETIC STUDIES...... 2806 Alan Jones

KYANITE-BEARING ECLOGITE XENOLITHS FROM THE UDACHNAYA KIMBERLITES, SIBERIA ...... 2807 Ioana-Bogdana Radu

MAPPING OFF-CRATON SUBCONTINENTAL MANTLE LITHOSPHERE GROWTH AND DESTRUCTION IN THE SOUTHWEST UNITED STATES USING OS ISOTOPES...... 2808 Alan Brandon

WATER IN THE CRATONIC MANTLE LITHOSPHERE...... 2810 Anne Peslier

CENOZOIC DEFORMATION IN COUPLING REGIONS ON BOTH SIDES OF TIAN SHAN AND ITS CONSTRAINT ON THE MINERALIZATION OF SANDSTONE-TYPE URANIUM DEPOSITS ...... 2814 Zhengle Chen

END-PERMIAN TO MID-TRIASSIC TERMINAL OROGENY IN THE BEISHAN OROGENIC COLLAGE, NW CHINA ...... 2816 Wenjiao Xiao

LATE PALEOZOIC MESOSCOPIC TECTONIC DEFORMATION OF THE SOUTH TIAN SHAN...... 2817 Jiang Liu

NEOPROTEROZOIC MAGMATISM AND ITS TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE IN NORTHERN ALTYN TAGH TECTONIC BELT ...... 2818 Xianfeng Zha

PETROLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR MANTLE PLUME OF LATER CARBONIFEROUS-PERMIAN IN THE NORTHERN BOGDA MOUNTAINS, XINJIANG, NW CHINA...... 2819 Xiaohu Zhou

RESEARCH ON METALLOGENIC SYSTEM OF GOLD AND COPPER DEPOSITS IN THE MIDDLE SECTION OF EASTERN TIANSHAN, XINJIANG, CHINA...... 2820 Bin Cui

ANIMATED ILLUSTRATION OF PLATE RECONSTRUCTIONS WHICH EFFECTIVELY UTILISE DIGITAL INFORMATION SUCH AS LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY, GEOCHRONOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS TO FACILITATE SPATIAL ASSESSMENT OF CRUSTAL EVOLUTION...... 2822 Bruce Eglington

PALAEOPROTEROZOIC PALAEOMAGNETISM AND THE GEODYNAMIC SETTING OF THE INDIAN SHIELD WITHIN THE EARLY SUPERCONTINENTAL RECONSTRUCTIONS ...... 2823 Radhakrishna Tallavajhala

TECTONIC INFLUENCES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONTINENTAL CRUST...... 2824 Mike Daly

THE LIFE CYCLES OF MANTLE PLUMES AND SUPERPLUMES: OBSERVATIONS, MODELLING, AND GEODYNAMIC IMPLICATIONS...... 2826 Zheng-Xiang Li

THE RIBEIRA BELT IN THE CONTEXT OF SUPERCONTINENT CYCLES ...... 2827 Monica Heilbron

A HIDDEN MANTLE RESERVOIR IN THE CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE? EVIDENCE FROM HF-SR- ND-PB ISOTOPES IN MEGACRYSTS AND KIMBERLITES ...... 2830 Philip Janney

DENSITY STRUCTURE OF THE CRATONIC MANTLE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA, KIMBERLITE DISTRIBUTION, MANTLE VELOCITIES, MOHO SHARPNESS, AND DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHY...... 2832 Irina Artemieva

HYDROUS SILICIC FLUID FILMS AROUND SOLID INCLUSIONS IN GEM-QUALITY DIAMONDS ...... 2834 Paolo Nimis

INDIA’S FAST MESOZOIC DRIFT LINKED TO CONTINENTAL MANTLE LITHOSPHERE DELAMINATION: NEW INSIGHTS FROM (U-TH)/HE THERMOCHRONOLOGY OF DHARWAR CRATON KIMBERLITES...... 2835 Sebastian Tappe

KIMBERLITES FROM THE KUNDELUNGU PLATEAU (SOUTHEAST DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO): AGE AND IMPLICATION FOR REGIONAL TECTONISM AND MINERALISATION ...... 2837 Ruananzatoto Lubala

TIMING OF THE SIBERIAN CRATON KIMBERLITE MAGMATISM: EVIDENCES FROM THE U-PB DATING OF KIMBERLITIC ZIRCON ...... 2839 Vladimir Malkovets

WHOLE-ROCK GEOCHEMISTRY AND MINERAL CHEMISTRY OF LATE TRIASSIC GRANITOIDS FROM MERIDA ANDES, VENEZUELA: TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS FOR NW GONDWANA ...... 2841 Bodo Weber

A COMPARISON OF THE GEOCHEMISTRY OF MEGACRYSTS FROM GROUP I AND GROUP II SOUTHERN AFRICAN KIMBERLITES: EVIDENCE FOR A COGNATE ORIGIN...... 2843 Jaziel Nkere

ACTIVE LINEAMENT MAPPING WITHIN KARONGA AREA; NORTHERN MALAWI: USING AUTOMATIC LINEAMENT EXTRACTION METHODS...... 2845 Hassan Steven Mdala

ARCHEAN OCEANIC CRUST AND BONINITIC MAGMATISM IN THE NORWEGIAN CRATON: GEOCHEMICAL AFFINITIES AND PRELIMINARY GEODYNAMIC INTERPRETATIONS ...... 2846 Pavel Kepezhinskas

ASTRONOMICALLY TUNED MANTLE CONVECTION ...... 2848 Eleonora Ficini

AUTOCHTHONOUS OR ALLOCTHONOUS INCEPTION OF THE MACQUARIE ARC ALONG EASTERN GONDWANA? EVIDENCE FROM ZIRCON U/PB AND HF ISOTOPE DATA...... 2850 Qing Zhang

BALTICA AT 1.55-1.40 GA: CONTRASTING TECTONICS VS ROTATIONS ...... 2852 Natalia V. Lubnina

BASEMENT NATURE OF JUNGGAR BASIN IN THE NW CHINA: ZIRCON U-PB-HF ISOTOPE EVIDENCE FROM THE CARBONIFEROUS PYROCLASTICS OF BOREHOLE SAMPLES...... 2854 Hong Hao

CENOZOIC INTRACONTINENTAL DEFORMATION OF THE KOPEH DAGH BELT, NORTHEASTERN IRAN ...... 2856 Yang Chu

COMPARING THE STRUCTURE OF THE MAIN FRONTAL THRUST IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN NEPAL – IMPLICATIONS FOR SEISMIC HAZARD ESTIMATES ...... 2858 Rafael Almeida

CONSTRAINTS FROM C-O ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS ON THE ORIGIN OF THE ZHAXIKANG ZINC POLYMETALLIC DEPOSIT, TIBET, CHINA...... 2860 Bin Lin

CONTRASTING THERMAL HISTORIES FROM TWO HIGH-PRESSURE METAMORPHIC SEQUENCES OF THE NAGALAND OPHIOLITE COMPLEX, NE INDIA: IMPLICATION OF SUBDUCTION CHANNEL WITHIN THE NEO-TETHYS ...... 2862 Aliba Ao

DEPOSITIONAL EVOLUTION OF SOUTHWEST GONDWANA NEOPROTEROZOIC PALEOBASINS BASED ON SR, C AND O ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS OF CARBONATIC ROCKS FROM THE SUL- RIOGRANDENSE SHIELD, BRAZIL...... 2863 Rossana Goulart

DETRITAL ZIRCON U-PB AND HF ISOTOPIC DATA FROM THE IDERMEG TERRANE, EASTERN MONGOLIA: CONSTRAINS ON DEPOSITIONAL AGE, SEDIMENTARY PROVENANCE AND TECTONIC SETTING ...... 2865 Tserendash Narantsetseg

EARLY CRETACEOUS BAODER EXTENSIONAL GRANITIC DOME AND ITS TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS, SUNITE ZUOQI, CHINA-MONGOLIA BORDER AREA ...... 2867 Lei Guo

EARLY PALEOZOIC TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE NORTH QINLING OROGENIC BELT IN CENTRAL CHINA: INSIGHTS ON CONTINENTAL DEEP SUBDUCTION AND MULTIPHASE EXHUMATION...... 2868 Liang Liu

EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE PARAMETERS FOR KWAZULU-NATAL PROVINCE...... 2870 Victor Mapuranga

FENNOSCANDIA (THE EAST EUROPEAN CRATON) DURING PALEOPROTEROZOIC: NEW PALEOMAGNETIC AND AMS DATA...... 2872 Nikolay Tarasov

GEOCHEMISTRY OF 1800 MA RAMGARH GRANITOIDS OF KUMAUN LESSER HIMALAYA – AN EXAMPLE OF PALAEOPROTEROZOIC ARC MAGMATISM IN COLUMBIA SUPERCONTINENT...... 2874 Arindam Das

GEOCHRONOLOGY AND PETROGEOCHEMISTRY OF ARC-VOLCANIC ROCKS FROM MEIRIQIECUO GROUP IN THE DUOLONG PORPHYRY-EPITHERMAL COPPER (GOLD) DEPOSIT, WESTERN TIBET ...... 2876 Shao-Gang Wei

GEOCHRONOLOGY, GEOCHEMISTRY AND GEOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MESOZOIC- CENOZOIC VOLCANIC ROCKS IN SOUTHERN LHASA BLOCK, TIBET ...... 2878 Zuohai Feng

GEOMORPHOLOGIC AND STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONSHIPS AS INDICATORS OF UPPER PLEISTOCENE– HOLOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE AND TSUNAMI HAZARD, CENTRAL COAST OF ECUADOR...... 2879 Kervin Chunga

INTRACONTINENTAL TECTONIC STRESS FIELD OF THE TIEN SHAN IN CENTRAL ASIA ...... 2881 Weiran Li

INVESTIGATION OF FORELAND FOLD-AND-THRUST BELT BY TTI MEDIA REVERSE-TIME MIGRATION WITH GPU...... 2883 Hong Liu

LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING ON MACRO-SCALE ALONG ROAD CORRIDOR USING HEURISTIC APPROACH...... 2885 Pankaj Kumar

MELT-CRYSTAL INTERACTION DURING MAGMA MIXING: THE ZIRCON U-PB-HF-O ISOTOPE AND MINERAL MICROANALYSIS OF GRANITOIDS AND MAFIC ENCLAVES IN KARAMAY PLUTON, WEST JUNGGAR, NW CHINA ...... 2886 Lei Kang

MESOPROTEROZOIC ANOROGENIC MAGMATISM IN SW AMAZONIAN CRATON USING LU-HF ISOTOPES IN GRANITES: PALEOCONTINENT RECONSTRUCTION INSIGHTS BASED ON MANTLE CORRELATION...... 2887 Mauro Geraldes

MID ORDOVICIAN CONTACT METAMORPHISM IN ARC ROCKS (SW SARDINIA, ITALY): NEW PALEOGEOGRAPHIC CONSTRAINTS ...... 2889 Laura Gaggero

MIDDLE TO LATE ORDOVICIAN ARC IN THE KYRGYZ MIDDLE TIANSHAN: FROM ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION TO SUBSEQUENT EVOLUTION OF A CONTINENTAL MARGIN...... 2891 Alfred Kroener

NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE PROVENANCE OF PALAEOCENE TO MIOCENE IN LENGHU STRUCTURAL BELT, QAIDAM BASIN: RESPONSE TO THE TIBETAN PLATEAU UPLIFTING...... 2893 Rui Zhao

VOLUME 8

NOVEL GEOTECHNICAL INVESTIGATION: - ERMELO RING ROAD TO DEMARCATE RISK DUE TO HISTORIC COAL UNDERMINING IN SOUTH AFRICA...... 2895 Stoffel Fourie

ORDOVICIAN FRAGMENTATION OF GONDWANA: INTEGRATED MAGMATIC – SEDIMENTARY – STRUCTURAL RECORD OF THE VARISCAN DOMAIN ...... 2897 Dominique Chardon

P-TYPE OPHIOLITE IN THE LAJISHAN, QILIAN OROGENIC BELT, NW CHINA: MANTLE-PLUME ACTIVITY IN CAMBRIAN OCEAN BASIN ...... 2898 Yuqi Zhang

PETROGRAPHY, MINERALOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF ROCKS IN THE BOREHOLE ZA, ONSHORE ZULULAND BASIN: EVALUATION FOR CARBON DIOXIDE STORAGE ...... 2900 Fillsmith Luzolo Ndongani

PLATE TECTONICS BY THE EINSTEIN´S THEORY OF RELATIVITY ...... 2902 Nivaldo Destro

PROTOLITH FEATURES OF “JIAGEDA GROUP” METAMORPHIC ROCK SERIES IN NORTH GREAT XING’AN RANGE, NE CHINA...... 2903 Changqing Zheng

RADIOGENIC AND STABLE ISOTOPE CONSTRAINTS ON THE SOURCE REGIONS OF PHANEROZOIC CARBONATITES AND ASSOCIATED IGNEOUS ROCKS FROM WESTERN SOUTH AFRICA AND SOUTHERN NAMIBIA...... 2905 P. I. Ogungbuyi

SEISMIC VELOCITY MODEL OF GREAT BEAR FAULT ZONE, NWT, CANADA...... 2907 Alan Davies

SEISMICITY OF BOTSWANA FOR THE PERIOD 1950 - 2014...... 2911 Onkgopotse Ntibinyane

STRUCTURAL CONTROL OF LANDSLIDES IN SOUTH WESTERN HIMALAYA: STUDY FROM CHAMBA-BHARMOUR SECTION, HIMACHAL PRADESH, INDIA...... 2912 Ajay Kumar Arya

STRUCTURAL MAPPING BASED ON REMOTE SENSING AND POTENTIAL FIELD DATA FROM SON- MAHANADI GONDWANA RIFT BASIN, INDIA ...... 2913 Chowdari Swarnapriya

SUBDUCTION OF THE INDIAN LOWER CRUST BENEATH SOUTHERN TIBET: EVIDENCE OF ZIRCON HF–O AND WHOLE-ROCK LITHIUM ISOTOPIC CHARACTERISTICS OF POST-COLLISIONAL POTASSIC AND ULTRAPOTASSIC ROCKS IN SW TIBET...... 2914 Shihong Tian

TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE WEST QINLING OROGEN FROM OCEAN SPREADING TO IBM-TYPE SUBDUCTION ...... 2916 Liming Yang

THE CHARACTERS OF LAREGE-SCALE CONTINENTAL SHELF EDGE DELTA AND ITS EFFECT ON RELATED GAS RESERVOIR IN BAIYUN SAG OF PEARL RIVER MOUTH BASIN, SOUTH CHINA SEA...... 2918 Chuncheng Liu

THE EARLIEST STAGES OF THE CENTRAL ASIAN FOLD BELT CONTINENTAL CRUST FORMATION: MAGMATISM AND PALEOTECTONIC RECONSTRUCTIONS OF THE YENISEY RIDGE OROGEN FROM THE SOUTHWESTERN FRAMING OF THE SIBERIAN CRATON...... 2919 Antonina Vernikovskaya

THE GREATER MALANI SUPERCONTINENT ...... 2921 Naresh Kochhar

THE PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY OF BOTSWANA: AN UPDATE FROM MAGNETIC AND GRAVITY DATA...... 2922 Portia Tshepiso Letlole

THE ROLE OF SULPHUR DURING PARTIAL MELTING OF THE ECLOGITIC CRATONIC MANTLE ...... 2923 Sara Burness

THE STUDY OF SEDIMENTARY CHARACTERISTIC AND TECTONIC SETTING ON THE DEVONIAN, EASTERN QINLING OROGENIC BELT,CHINA...... 2925 Xiaojun Jiang

THE TECTONIC SETTING AND EVOLUTION OF THE LONGMEN SHAN IN LATER TRIASSIC, THE EASTERN MARGIN OF TIBET PLATEAU, SW CHINA...... 2926 C. Bin

UNIVERSAL GRID OF PLANETARY FAULTS AND DISPLACEMENT OF MINERALS DEPOSITS...... 2928 Pavel Nagevich

UPLIFT-DENUDATION OF PERIPHERAL OROGENIC BELTS CONTROL ON THE FORMATION OF SANDSTONE TYPE URANIUM (U) DEPOSITS IN JUNGGAR BASIN, NORTHWEST CHINA: IMPLICATION FROM APATITE FISSION TRACK RESEARCH...... 2929 Jiye Song

U–PB ZIRCON AGES, FIELD GEOLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE KERMANSHAH OPHIOLITE (IRAN): FROM CONTINENTAL RIFTING AT 79 MA TO OCEANIC CORE COMPLEX AT CA. 36 MA IN THE SOUTHERN NEO-TETHYS...... 2931 Songjian Ao

WESTERN TIEN SHAN GEODYNAMIC ZONING AND MINERAGENY ...... 2932 Rustam Mirkamalov

“SPLIT PERSONALITY” BEHAVIORS OF THE LONGMENSHAN FOLD BELT: SUGGEST A NE GROWTH TOWARD TIBET SINCE 40 MA ...... 2934 Xiaodian Jiang

A RECONNAISSANCE ROCK-MAGNETIC AND PALEOMAGNETIC SURVEY ON A 27 M LONG LACUSTRINE CORE FROM LAKE CHAPALA (WESTERN TRANS-MEXICAN VOLCANIC BELT. (CHAPHOLO PROJECT, CONACYT GRANT 168685)...... 2936 Pedro F Zarate-Del Valle

ANISOTROPY OF MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY, PALAEOMAGNETISM AND ROCK MAGNETIC STUDIES ON THE MAFIC INTRUSIVES ALONG KADDAM FAULT: IMPLICATIONS TO GODAVARI RIFT RELATED MAGMATISM ...... 2938 Dhananjay Meshram

CHARACTERISTICS OF TECTONICS AND GENETIC TYPES OF BEARING-OIL-GAS BASINS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA REGION...... 2939 Hailing Liu

DEFORMATION OF THE SONGSHUGOU OPHIOLITE IN THE QINLING OROGEN...... 2942 Shengsi Sun

DIVIDING SOUTH AMERICA INTO CONTINENTAL BLOCKS AND APPLYING IT TO WEST GONDWANA RE-ASSEMBLE...... 2944 Pâmela C Richetti

EARLY PALEOZOIC MAGMATIC ROCKS IN THE NORTH-CENTRAL TIBETAN PLATEAU, CHINA: AN ANDEAN-TYPE ARC MAGMATISM ALONG THE GONDWANA MARGIN...... 2945 Peiyuan Hu

FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF THE JURASSIC PROTOTYPE BASIN IN QAIDAM BLOCK AND ADJACENT AREAS...... 2947 Qiao Feng

GEOCHEMICAL, AR-AR GEOCHRONOLOGICAL AND SR-ND ISOTOPIC CONSTRAINTS ON THE ORIGIN OF LATE MESOZOIC VOLCANIC ROCKS FROM THE WEST QINLING AREA IN CHINA...... 2949 Feifei Zhang

INTEGRATED REMOTE SENSING AND GEOLOGICAL DATA UTILIZATION FOR GEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF THE GONGHE BASIN, NW CHINA ...... 2950 Xiaohu Zhou

LAS MATRAS PLUTON, CUYANIA TERRANE, ARGENTINA: IS IT TRULY MESOPROTEROZOIC, OR IS IT EARLY PERMIAN DERIVED FROM MESOPROTEROZOIC ? ...... 2952 Carlos Jorge Chernicoff

MULTI-CHRONOMETRIC DATING OF THE FOPING DOME: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EXHUMATION AND DEFORMATION OF THE QINLING OROGEN ...... 2954 Zhao Yang

MULTIPLE METAMORPHIC REWORKING OF BASEMENT ROCKS IN NORTHEASTERN CATHAYSIA BLOCK, SOUTH CHINA ...... 2955 Lei Zhao

OCCURRENCE OF AN OUTLIER OF LOWER GONDWANA SANDSTONE IN THE BELA- MANGRUDA AREA, ADILABAD DISTRICT, TELANGANA STATE, INDIA...... 2957 D. Barman

PALEOZOIC ACCRETIONARY OROGENESIS IN THE EASTERN BEISHAN OROGEN: CONSTRAINTS FROM ZIRCON U–PB AND 40AR/39AR GEOCHRONOLOGY ...... 2958 Songjian Ao

SEISMIC STRUCTURE OF THE SOUTHERN PART OF MADAGASCAR DETERMINED BY WAVEFORM INVERSION...... 2960 Andriamiranto Raveloson

SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY AND ANISOTROPY OF THE HELAN-LIUPAN TECTONIC BELT: INSIGHT INTO LOWER CRUSTAL FLOW AND SEISMOTECTONICS...... 2962 Bin Cheng

STRUCTURAL STUDIES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR PALAEOPROTEROZOIC COLLISION ALONG BHAVANI SHEAR ZONE, SOUTHERN INDIA...... 2964 Mathew Joseph

SUBDUCTION RECORDS OF PALEO-TETHYS OCEAN OF TIBETAN PLATEAU: EVIDENCE FROM HIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHIC ROCKS OF HONGJISHAN AREA, MIDWEST OF QIANGTANG...... 2966 Rukui Lu

TATRIC AND VEPORIC CRYSTALLINE BASEMENT OF THE WESTERN CARPATHIANS (SLOVAKIA): ORIGIN, PRIMARY POSITION AND TRANSLATION TO THE ALPINE OROGENIC BELT...... 2968 Vladimír Bezák

TECTONIC-MAGMATIC PROCESSES OF THE INDIAN OCEAN: EVIDENCE ON THE RESIDUAL MANTLE BOUGUER GRAVITY ANOMALY...... 2970 Yanhui Suo

BREAKUP MECHANISM OF THE NORTHERN CENTRAL CONTINENTAL MARGIN OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA ...... 2973 Zhen Sun

THE MOUNTAINS OF SOUTH NORWAY AND EAST GREENLAND REACHED THEIR PRESENT ELEVATION LONG AFTER ATLANTIC BREAK-UP ...... 2974 Peter Japsen

THE RECONSTRUCTION OF ELLSWORTH-WHITMORE TERRANE AND MALVINAS (FALKLAND) ISLANDS: NEW APPROACH USING STRATIGRAPHIC AND GEOCHRONOLOGICAL DATA...... 2976 Mateus Rodrigues De Vargas

THE STATHERIAN EL RENEGADO GRANITE NAPPE (NICO PÉREZ TERRANE, URUGUAY), AND ITS TECTONIC EMPLACEMENT IN THE LATEST EDIACARAN-EARLY CAMBRIAN...... 2977 Claudio Gaucher

THE STEILRANDBERG OF NAMIBIA: RELICT OR REENTRANT? ...... 2979 Mary Hubbard

THE TECTONIC FEATURES OF THE WEST PACIFIC MARGIN AND THE FORMATION OF SOUTH CHINA SEA ...... 2981 Xuejie Li

THE ‘EAST’ MARGIN OF NEOPROTEROZOIC INDIA: NEW PROVENANCE, GEOCHEMICAL AND AGE CONSTRAINTS FROM MEGHALAYA, NE INDIA ...... 2983 Alan Collins

U-PB ZIRCON DATA FROM MID-NEOPROTEROZOIC STRATA OF THE STEILRANDBERG, NORTHERN NAMIBIA: ESTABLISHING A “BARCODE” FOR THE NORTHERN FORELAND OF THE DAMARA BELT ...... 2985 Mary Hubbard

UNIFORMITY OF URANIUM DEPOSITS IN MINERALIZATION AGES AND H-O ISOTOPES, SOUTH CHINA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THEIR GENESIS ...... 2987 Chuang Zhang

VOLCANICLASTIC-EPICLASTIC ROCKS RELATED TO THE PARANÁ CONTINENTAL FLOOD VOLCANISM: THE EARLY CRETACEOUS VOLTA ALEGRE FORMATION, JACUÍ BASIN, SOUTHERN BRAZIL...... 2989 Claudio Riccomini

DEVELOPMENT, PROPERTIES AND DRILLING TEST OF HIGH PERFORMANCE F147MM ALUMINUM ALLOY DRILL PIPE ...... 2990 Baochang Liu

IN-DEPTH RESEARCH OF GEOLOGY IS INSEPARABLE FROM THE SUPPORT OF ADVANCED DRILLING TECHNOLOGY...... 2992 Xiaoxi Zhang

INTERNATIONAL CONTINENTAL SCIENTIFIC DRILLING PROGRAM: ACCOMPLISHMENTS, DEVELOPMENTS, STRATEGIES...... 2994 Uli Harms

MYLONITIC ROOTS OF THE SCANDINAVIAN CALEDONIDES REVEALED BY DEEP DRILLING ...... 2995 Uli Harms

ONLINE MONITORING OF DRILLING MUD GAS IN ICDP AND IODP SCIENTIFIC DRILLING PROJECTS ...... 2997 Thomas Wiersberg

SCIENTIFIC DRILLING PROJECT OF MK-2 WELL FOR GAS HYDRATE EXPLORATION IN MOHE BASIN OF CHINA...... 2999 Rui Jia

THE COLORADO PLATEAU CORING PROJECT (CPCP): EXPORTABLE CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC CONTEXT FOR TRIASSIC-JURASSIC EARTH SYSTEM EVENTS AND PROCESSES ...... N/A Paul Olsen

A NEW GENERATION 3D DENSITY MODEL OF THE LITHOSPHERE AND UPPER MANTLE OF ASIA AND SURROUNDINGS...... 3001 Mikhail Kaban

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE DEFORMATION IN THE EASTERN MARGIN OF THE TIBETAN PLATEAU CONSTRAINTS FROM DEEP SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES ...... 3002 Rui Gao

MEASURING PB IN MANTLE SULFIDES USING IN-SITU TECHNIQUES ...... 3003 Megan D'Errico

NEW TECTONIC AND METALLOGENIC MAPS OF NORTH, CENTRAL, EAST ASIA AND ADJACENT AREAS...... 3004 Gennadiy Babin

OXIDATION STATE OF THE LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE BENEATH THE MASSIF CENTRAL, FRANCE: THE MESSAGE FROM CLINOPYROXENE...... 3006 Alan Woodland

PLANAR DEFORMATION BANDS IN ZIRCON: A NEW EVIDENCE OF SEISMICITY...... 3008 Elizaveta Kovaleva

REE ENRICHED CARBONATITE FROM KAMTHAI AREA, BARMER DISTRICT, RAJASTHAN, INDIA: IMPRINTS OF A δ34S DEPLETED MANTLE SOURCE...... 3010 Subhasish Ghosh

DO MANTLE PLUMES PRESERVE THE HETEROGENEOUS STRUCTURE OF THEIR DEEP MANTLE SOURCE?...... 3013 Rhodri Davies

GLOBAL SEISMIC LITHOSPHERE-ASTHENOSPHERE-BOUNDARY MEASUREMENTS FROM FULL WAVEFORM TOMOGRAPHY ...... 3014 Huaiyu Yuan

IMAGING THE LITHOSPHERE-ASTHENOSPHERE BOUNDARY BENEATH CONTINENTS USING MINERAL PHYSICS AND SURFACE OBSERVATIONAL CONSTRAINTS...... 3016 Alan Jones

INTERACTION OF MELT AND DEFORMATION AT THE LITHOSPHERE-ASTHENOSPHERE BOUNDARY ...... 3017 Mary-Alix Kaczmarek

LITHOSPHERIC THICKNESS BENEATH THE EAST AFRICAN RIFT SYSTEM: RESULTS FROM SURFACE WAVE TOMOGRAPHY ...... 3019 Stewart Fishwick

THE STABILITY OF TIBETAN CONTINENTAL MANTLE LITHOSPHERE...... 3020 Gregory Houseman

ACADEMIC "TREASURE" FROM INDUSTRY "TRASH"- UNCONVENTIONAL IMAGING WITH LARGE N SEISMIC EXPLORATION DATASETS...... 3022 Larry Brown

DEEP SEISMIC REFLECTIONS AND MINERAL DEPOSITS ...... 3023 Larry Brown

GEOLOGICAL PROCESSES AND MINERALIZATION OF THE CONTINENTAL MARGIN IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN...... 3024 Tingdong Li

METAMORPHIC ZONES AND CONSTRAINING ON TIMING OF THE MAJOR METAMORPHISM EVENT IN THE QINLING COMPLEX, WESTERN HENAN PROVINCE ...... 3025 Liudong Ren

RELATIONSHIP OF IMPORTANT GEOLOGICAL EVENTS AND LARGE-SCALE MINERALIZATION: EVIDENCES FROM THE CHINA & ADJACENT AREAS ...... 3026 Ruizhao Qiu

THE GEOLOGY AND PETROCHEMISTRY OF THE PRE–MIDDLE JURASSIC PONTIC OPHIOLITES, CENTRAL-NORTHERN TURKEY...... 3028 Ender Sarifakioglu

CAN MANTLE SUCTION FLOW TRIGGER SUBDUCTION INITIATION AT PASSIVE MARGINS? ...... 3030 Marzieh Baes

CONDITIONS, DURATIONS AND THE RESPONSE OF THE LOWER CRUST TO HIGH-TEMPERATURE METAMORPHIC EVENTS ...... 3031 Chris Clark

DEEP STRUCTURE MAPS OF NORTHERN, CENTRAL AND EASTERN ASIA ...... 3032 Evgenia Milshtein

INTEGRATED 3D GEOPHYSICAL MODEL OF THE MAIN KAROO BASIN ...... 3033 Susan Webb

NORTHERN-CENTRAL-EASTERN ASIA: MAIN STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES OF THE EARTH CRUST FORMATION OF DIFFERENT AGES ...... 3035 Sergey Shokalsky

PETROLOGICAL AND METAMORPHIC EVOLUTION STUDY OF THE STAUROLITE-BEARING GARNET IN THE NYINGCHI COMPLEX OF THE LHASA BLOCK ...... 3037 Cong Zhang

SEISMIC STRUCTURE AND HETEROGENEITY OF THE OCEANIC CRUST...... 3038 Qin Wang

DIAMOND-BEARING OPHIOLITES AND THEIR GEOLOGICAL OCCURRENCE...... 3040 Jingsui Yang

MULTI-STAGE PROCESS OF THE BULQIZA CHROMITITES, EASTERN OPHIOLITIC BELT, ALBANIA ...... 3041 Fahui Xiong

OPHIOLITE-HOSTED TYPE IB MICRODIAMONDS: SPECTROSCOPIC EVIDENCE FOR THEIR NATURAL ORIGIN ...... 3043 Karen Smit

PRESERVATION OF C CENTRES IN IB DIAMONDS DUE TO RAPID TECTONIC EXHUMATION FOLLOWING GONDWANA ASSEMBLY: RE-OS AGE CONSTRAINTS OF WEST AFRICAN DIAMONDS ...... 3045 Karen Smit

STRUCTURE OF THE BAIMARANG MASSIF FROM THE XIGAZE OPHIOLITE, YARLUNG ZANGBO SUTURE ZONE, TIBET, CHINA...... 3047 Yuan Li

THE KOKCHETAV MASSIF: TYPE LOCALITY OF METAMORPHIC DIAMONDS ...... 3049 H.-P. Schertl

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ZIRCON IN OCEANIC MANTLE PERIDOTITES AND CHROMITITES ...... 3051 Paul T Robinson

WESTERN YARLUNG ZANGBO OPHIOLITES IN SOUTH TIBET FORMED IN FOREARC SETTING: EVIDENCE FROM STRUCTURE, GEOCHRONOLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY ...... 3052 Fei Liu

APPLICATION OF “CRUST-1” CONTINENTAL SCIENTIFIC DRILLING RIG IN CCSD-SK-2 SCIENTIFIC DRILLING ENGINEERING...... 3053 Youhong Sun

CONSTRAINING RESIDUAL TOPOGRAPHY BY VIRTUAL DEEP SEISMIC SOUNDING (VDSS)...... 3055 Wang-Ping Chen

GRAVITY ANOMALIES OVER INDIAN CRATONS AND THEIR GEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS...... 3057 Jammivenkata Ramarao

MICRODIAMONDS IN THE SCANDINAVIAN CALEDONIDES RELATED TO ORDOVICIAN CONTINENT- ARC AND SILURO-DEVONIAN CONTINENT-CONTINENT COLLISION...... 3059 David G Gee

RESPONDING TO THE INDO-ASIAN COLLISION: FROM THE CRUST TO THE MANTLE...... 3061 Mian Liu

CRATONS FORGED BY LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES: EVIDENCE FROM THE SIBERIAN AND YANGTZE CRATONS...... 3062 Qin Wang

INTEGRATING MAGNETIC AND GRAVITY FOR MAPPING THE EARTH STRUCTURE USING COLOR SCHEME: A CASE STUDY OF BOTSWANA...... 3064 Chikondi Chisenga

MINERAL PHYSICS AND SURFACE OBSERVATIONAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE TOPOGRAPHIC UPLIFT OF THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN PLATEAU DUE TO THE AFRICAN SUPERSWELL...... 3065 A. G. Jones

SEISMIC AND MAGMATIC EVIDENCE FOR CRUSTAL AND MANTLE LITHOSPHERIC DELAMINATION UNDER THE PUNA PLATEAU OF THE CENTRAL ANDES...... 3066 Suzanne Kay

SEISMIC STRUCTURE OF THE CRUST IN EURASIA...... 3068 Hans Thybo

AEROMAGNETIC AND GRAVITY STUDIES FOR EVOLUTION OF DEEP CRUSTAL CONFIGURATION OF SAURASHTRA-CAMBAY BASIN-DECCAN LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE, INDIA...... 3069 Somanchi Srinivas

DESIGN AND PRELIMINARY FIELD EXPERIMENT OF OIL SHALE BOREHOLE HYDRAULIC MINING TOOL WITH EXPANDABLE NOZZLE...... 3071 Shuai Gao

DEVELOPMENT AND EXPERIMENTS OF HOLE-BOTTOM FREEZING DRILLING TOOL FOR GAS- HYDRATE-BEARING SEDIMENTS SAMPLING ...... 3072 Yuan Wang

NANO OXIDE PARTICLES MODIFIED DRILLING FLUID FOR DEEP, COMPLICATED DRILLING CONDITIONS ...... 3074 Baochang Liu

NUMERICAL STUDY ON LAG TIME CORRECTION OF CUTTINGS IN SONGLIAO BASIN DRILLING PROJECT...... 3076 Haidong Wu

RESEARCH ON ELEVATED TEMPERATURE RESISTANT ALUMINUM ALLOY DRILLING PIPE FOR DEEP AND ULTRA-DEEP WELLS ...... 3077 Shaoming Ma

SIMULATION OF AUTO-DRILLING SYSTEM OF THE CRUST-1 CONTINENTAL SCIENTIFIC DRILLING RIG...... N/A Youhong Sun Yan Zhao

STUDY OF ULTRASONIC VIBRATION MECHANISM OF ROCK FRAGMENTATION ...... 3079 Zihang Sun

EARTH’S CRUST AND UPPER MANTLE DENSITY MODEL OF THE OFFSHORE-ONSHORE GEOTRANSECT “EAST SIBERIAN SEA – CHUKCHI-KOLYMA REGION – OKHOTSK SEA”...... 3080 Evgenia Milshtein

EARTH’S CRUST AND UPPER MANTLE DENSITY MODELS OF NORTH-EAST RUSSIA ON THE BASIS OF OFFSHORE WIDE-ANGLE SEISMICS ...... 3081 Evgenia Milshtein

ESTIMATION OF CO-SEISMIC GRAVITY CHANGE FOR THE EARTHQUAKE IN KOYNA-WARNA REGION ...... 3082 Roshan Kumar Singh

FURTHER ON CHINA LITHOSPHERIC TECTONIC UNITS ...... 3084 Tingdong Li

GEOCHRONOLOGY AND TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE WEST SECTION OF THE JIANGNAN OROGENIC BELT IN SOUTH CHINA ...... 3086 Heng Zhang

GEODYNAMIC MODEL OF DEVELOPMENT AND THE TECTONIC STRUCTURE OF KAZAKHSTAN FROM THE STANDPOINT PLUME TECTONICS...... 3088 Adilkhan Baibatsha

INTEGRATION OF GEOPHYSICAL METHODS IN CREATING MODELS OF THE EARTH'S CRUST AND UPPER MANTLE (CASE STUDY OF THE GEOTRANSECT “CENTRAL ASIAN FOLD BELT–SOUTH OF THE SIBERIAN CRATON–VERKHOYANSK-KOLYMA FOLD AREA”)...... 3090 Evgenia Milshtein

METASOMATIZED SPINEL PERIDOTITE XENOLITHS FROM THE QUATERNARY INTRAPLATE ALKALI BASALT, JEJU ISLAND, SOUTH KOREA ...... 3091 Kyounghee Yang

NUMERICAL MODELLING OF SUBDUCTION ZONES: A NEW BEGINNING...... 3092 Eleonora Ficini

REDOX REACTIONS CAUSED BY EXSOLUTION: A POTENTIAL FACTOR INFLUENCING MANTLE REDOX STATE AND DIAMOND FORMATION ...... 3094 Alexander Proyer

SAPHYR: THE SWISS ATLAS OF PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS...... 3095 Alba Zappone

THE DEEP PROCESSES AND MAGMATISM OF CHINA'S PERI-PACIFIC ...... 3097 Tingdong Li

THE IDENTIFICATION OF MAGNETIC STRIPES: CORRECTED AGE OF SEAFLOOR SPREADING IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA BASIN ...... 3099 Xiaohong Meng

THE OXIDATION STATE OF THE SUB-ARC LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE: NEW DATA AND MODELS...... 3101 Alan Woodland

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY DETERMINATIONS ON GRANITOIDS FROM CENTRAL INDIA: A COMPARISON BETWEEN MEASURED AND CALCULATED THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY...... 3103 Nishu Chopra

THREE DIMENSIONAL VELOCITY AND POISSON'S RATIO STRUCTURE BENEATH EASTERN- CENTRAL CHINA AND IMPLICATION FOR DEEP GEODYNAMICS...... 3104 Guibin Zhang

ALONG THE STRIKE MAGNETOTELLURIC PROFILE TO MAP ELECTRICAL STRUCTURE OF RADHANPUR-AJMER TRANSECT IN RAJASTHAN, INDIA...... 3106 Tanvi Arora

CRUST AND UPPERMOST MANTLE STRUCTURE OF MADAGASCAR...... 3107 Fenitra Andriampenomanana

CRUSTAL ARCHITECTURE ALONG BABEL AND FIRE PROFILES – INSIGHT IN THE GROWTH OF THE SVECOFENNIAN OROGEN, FENNOSCANDIAN SHIELD...... 3109 Annakaisa Korja

CRUSTAL CONDUCTORS AND LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE IN AN ACCRETIONARY SVECOFENNIAN OROGENY IN FENNOSCANDIA ...... 3111 Toivo Korja

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION BENEATH NORTHEASTERN TIBETAN PLATEAU FROM TELESEISMIC RECEIVER FUNCTION ANALYSIS ...... 3113 Xinfu Li

DEEP EARTH EXPLORATION BY MAGNETOTELLURIC (MT) SURVEY ...... 3114 Dulal Chandra Naskar

DEEP STRUCTURE OF THE EAST EUROPEAN CRATON MARGINAL ZONE IN POLAND FROM JOINT INVERSION OF SURFACE-WAVE DISPERSION AND RECEIVER FUNCTIONS ...... 3116 Kajetan Chrapkiewicz

MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF SHEAR AND CONVERTED WAVES IN DEEP SEISMICS OFFSHORE...... 3118 Alexander Rybalka

PETROGENESIS IMPLICATIONS OF ZONED SPINEL FROM NORTHEASTERN JIANGXI PROVINCE OPHIOLITE (NEJXO), CHINA ...... 3119 Guolin Guo

POISSON’S RATIO AND POROSITY IN DEEP SEISMIC ZONE UNDER IZU-BONIN, JAPAN...... 3121 Guoming Jiang

PRELIMINARY GRAVITY SURVEY OF WESTERN BHUTAN ...... 3122 Kevin Mickus

REDUCING ENVIRONMENT IN CHROMITITES: POSSIBLE CAUSES FOR PGE AND DIAMOND FORMATION...... 3123 Alexander Proyer

SEISMIC STRUCTURE OF NORTHERN SEGMENT OF THE N-S TECTONIC BELT IN NORTH-CENTRAL CHINA AND ITS GEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS ...... 3125 Shunyou Cheng

STRUCTURAL HETEROGENEITY OF WEST-PACIFIC SUBDUCTION ZONES AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERPLATE MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKES...... 3126 Xin Liu

THE GRAVITY DERIVED MOHO DEPTH OF BOTSWANA AND ITS IMPLICATION IN THE RECENT GEODYNAMIC ACTIVITIES...... 3128 Chikondi Chisenga

THE MULTI-STAGE TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE XITIESHAN TERRANE, NORTH QAIDAM OROGEN, WESTERN CHINA: FROM GRENVILLE-AGE OROGENY TO EARLY-PALEOZOIC ULTRAHIGH-PRESSURE METAMORPHISM...... 3130 Cong Zhang

THICKNESS AND COMPOSITION OF THE CRUST IN SOUTHERN AFRICA...... 3132 Hans Thybo

WATER CONTENTS ON PERIDOTITE XENOLITHS FROM SOUTHWEST CHINA...... 3133 Rong Wang

A DECADE OF PROGRESS IN STUDIES OF ARCHEAN OXYGENATION ...... 3134 Timothy Lyons

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING OF FE, S, C, N, AND MO RECORDED IN DXCL BLACK SHALES SUGGESTS EXISTENCE OF OXYGENATED OCEAN 3.2 BILLION YEARS AGO ...... 3135 Kosei Yamaguchi

EVIDENCE FROM MOLYBDENUM ISOTOPES FOR A TRANSIENT AND LOCALIZED NATURE OF FREE AQUATIC OXYGEN AROUND 3 GA...... 3137 Jan Kramers

OXYGEN-BASED REDOX SYSTEMS IN DYNAMIC ARCHEAN OCEANS...... 3139 Nicolas Beukes

SPECIES-SPECIFIC FE-ISOTOPES ON PALAEOPROTEROZOIC BIF AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS ...... 3141 Paul Oonk

U-PB AGE FOR THE ONGELUK BASALTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR GOE AND GLOBAL GLACIATIONS...... 3142 Wouter Bleeker

AMPHIBOLE-DEHYDRATION MELTING FOR HADEAN PROTOCRUST...... 3144 Xiaolei Wang

DEVELOPMENT OF THE DEPLETED MANTLE RESERVOIR AND GROWTH OF THE CONTINENTAL CRUST BEGINS AT ~ 3.8 GA...... 3145 Jeff Vervoort

MAJOR ELEMENT COMPOSITION OF EARLY ENRICHED RESERVOIR: CONSTRAINTS FROM 146SM- 142ND SYSTEM AND MELTING EXPERIMENTS OF PRIMITIVE PERIDOTITE...... 3147 Nozomi Kondo

ON THE REMARKABLE SIMILARITY OF THE ARCHAEAN GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF THE SINGHBHUM AND KAAPVAAL CRATONS ...... 3149 Axel Hofmann

RESOLVING HISTORY OF THE EARLY PALEOPROTEROZOIC TIME REVEALS PATTERNS SIMILAR TO THOSE IN THE LATE NEOPROTEROZOIC...... N/A Andrey Bekker

STAGNANT-LID TECTONICS DURING THE ARCHAEAN AND DELAYED ONSET OF PLATE TECTONICS...... 3150 Vinciane Debaille

A VOLCANIC PLATEAU ORIGIN OF THE BARBERTON GRANITOID-GREENSTONE TERRAIN ...... 3152 Martin Van Kranendonk

GRANITE-GREENSTONE RELATIONSHIPS IN THE OLDEST MAFIC ROCKS OF THE BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT, SOUTH AFRICA...... 3154 Kathrin Schneider

HIGH-GRADE METAMORPHISM AND CRUSTAL MELTING AT CA. 3.2 GA IN THE EASTERN KAAPVAAL CRATON, SOUTHERN AFRICA...... 3156 Alfred Kröner

THE EVOLUTION OF ARCHEAN CRATONIC ROOTS: A GEOPHYSICAL PERSPECTIVE...... 3158 Walter Mooney

ZIRCON AGES AND HF-O ISOTOPES OF THE STOLZBURG AND HONINGKLIP PLUTONS IN THE SOUTHERN BARBERTON GRANITOID-GREENSTONE TERRANE, SOUTH AFRICA: IMPLICATIONS FOR TECTONIC PROCESSES...... 3159 Hao Wang

ZIRCON HF-O ISOTOPIC EVIDENCE FOR GENERATION AND REWORKING OF ANCIENT CRUST IN SWAZILAND...... 3161 Jin-Hui Yang

3.3 GA INTRAPLATE VOLCANIC-PLUTONIC SYSTEM OF THE GAVIÃO BLOCK, SÃO FRANCISCO CRATON, BRAZIL: IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEOARCHEAN CRUSTAL GROWTH ...... 3163 Stefano Zincone

A TRANSITION FROM STAGNANT TO MOBILE LID TECTONICS BETWEEN 4.0 AND 2.55 GA IS RECORDED IN CONTINENTAL CRUST OF THE WYOMING CRATON, USA...... 3165 David Mogk

ARCHEAN MAGMATISM AND CRUSTAL EVOLUTION IN THE NORTHERN TARIM CRATON: INSIGHTS FROM ZIRCON U-PB-HF-O ISOTOPES AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF ~2.7 GA ORTHOGNEISS AND AMPHIBOLITE IN THE KORLA COMPLEX...... 3167 Rongfeng Ge

SIMS DATING OF THE NEOARCHEAN TO EOARCHEAN SAGLEK BLOCK, LABRADOR ...... 3168 Daniel Dunkley

THE ARCHEAN DHARWAR CRATON, SOUTHERN INDIA: A WIDE TIME WINDOW TO ACRETIONARY OROGENESIS, CONTINENTAL GROWTH AND ASSEMBLY OF MICRO-BLOCKS ...... 3170 Mudlappa Jayananda

THE EARTH AT 4.1 BILLION YEARS...... 3172 Mark Harrison

ARCHAEAN VOLCANO-SEDIMENTARY CYCLICITY IN KOMATIITE FLOW SEQUENCES AT SCHAPENBURG, BARBERTON MOUNTAIN LAND, SOUTH AFRICA...... 3173 Carl Anhaeusser

ARCHEAN VOLCANO-SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCES IN THE CHITRADURGA SCHIST BELT, DHARWAR CRATON, SOUTHERN INDIA ...... 3175 Madhusoodhan Satish-Kumar

CARBONACEOUS CHERTS OF THE DAITARI GREENSTONE BELT, SINGHBHUM CRATON, INDIA: A WELL PRESERVED RECORD OF EARLY LIFE...... 3177 Jaganmoy Jodder

CHRONOLOGY OF THE OLDEST SUPRACRUSTAL SEQUENCES IN THE PALAEOARCHAEAN BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT, SOUTH AFRICA AND SWAZILAND ...... 3178 Alfred Kroener

GEOLOGY, PETROLOGY AND GEODYNAMIC EVOLUTION OF THE PALEOARCHEAN , BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 3179 Eugene Grosch

NEW APATITE U-PB THERMOCHRONOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF GRANITE-GNEISS DOMES IN THE MESOARCHEAN EASTERN PILBARA CRATON ...... 3181 Scott Maclennan

ORIGIN OF BASALTIC MAGMAS FROM THE NEOARCHEAN QINGYUAN GREENSTONE BELT IN THE EASTERN BLOCK, NORTH CHINA CRATON: IMPLICATIONS FOR GEODYNAMIC EVOLUTION...... 3183 Zhuang Li

CARBONATES FROM THE ~3.4 GA OLD BUCK REEF CHERT OF SOUTH AFRICA: TESTING POTENTIAL MICROBIAL ACTIVITY IN AN ARCHEAN HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM...... 3185 Francesco Greco

NEOARCHEAN MINERAL SYSTEMS IN THE LOWER CONTINENTAL CRUST OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC CRATON, GREENLAND...... 3187 Jochen Kolb

SULFATE IN THE PALEOARCHEAN OCEANS: INSIGHT FROM BARITE DEPOSITS AND THEIR SURROUNDING SEDIMENTARY ROCKS IN THE BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT...... 3189 Paul Mason

THE ORIGIN OF GRANULAR CHERT IN THE BARB3 DRILL CORE FROM THE 3.4 GA BUCK REEF CHERT, ONVERWACHT GROUP, BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT, SOUTH AFRICA...... 3191 Mmasetena Anna Molekwa

THE SOURCE OF SULFUR IN THE MESOARCHAEAN GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT, SOUTHERN AFRICA ...... 3193 Andrea Agangi

THE TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE MAIN GOLD-PRODUCING REGION OF THE BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT, SOUTH AFRICA...... 3194 Carl Anhaeusser

ARCHEAN LIFE ON LAND ...... 3196 Gregory Retallack

EARLY LIFE AND ANCIENT GOLD...... 3198 Hartwig Frimmel

GEOLOGY OF THE ARCHEAN BUSIA-KAKAMEGA GREENSTONE BELT, WESTERN KENYA...... 3200 Tim Sharp

KAAPVAAL, SUPERIOR AND WYOMING: NEAREST NEIGHBOURS IN SUPERCRATON SUPERIA ...... 3202 Wouter Bleeker

THE MID-ARCHAEAN PONGOLA SUPERGROUP: VOLCANISM, SEDIMENTATION AND EARLY LIFE DEVELOPMENT ON EARTH’S OLDEST STABLE CONTINENTAL MARGIN...... 3204 Allan Wilson

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CHROMIAN SPINELS IN ARCHEAN SERPENTINIZED ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS FROM THE LIMPOPO COMPLEX AND BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT, SOUTHERN AFRICA...... 3206 Kazuyasu Shindo

ARCHEAN TO PALEOPROTEROZOIC CRUSTAL EVOLUTION OF ORDOS BLOCK BASEMENT, NORTH CHINA CRATON: EVIDENCE FROM DETRITAL ZIRCON U–PB AGE AND HF-ISOTOPES OF MESOPROTEROZOIC SANDSTONES ...... 3208 Chengli Zhang

CONTINENTAL ARC VOLCANISM IN THE LATE ARCHAEAN: EVIDENCES FROM A GREENSTONE BELT, WESTERN DHARWAR CRATON, SOUTH INDIA ...... 3210 Sujit Kumar Tripathy

CR STABLE ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES OF 2.32 TO 2.9 GA OLD MARINE CHEMICAL SEDIMENTS...... 3212 Gülüm Albut

CRUSTAL GROWTH AND UHT METAMORPHISM DURING PRECAMBRIAN COLLISION OROGENY: RESULTS OF PETROTHERMOMECHANICAL MODELING...... 3214 Alexey Perchuk

DEFORMATION HISTORY OF THE QIANLISHAN COMPLEX: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE KHONDALITE BELT IN THE NORTH CHINA CRATON ...... 3215 Hengzhong Qiao

HYDROUS CONDITIONS IN THE ARCHEAN AS EVIDENCED FROM PRIMARY MAGMATIC AMPHIBOLE IN META-PYROXENITE FROM THE HIGH-GRADE METAMORPHIC CENTRAL ZONE, LIMPOPO COMPLEX, SOUTHERN AFRICA ...... 3217 Mpho Keeditse

IGNEOUS PROTOLITHS OF THE UIVAK GNEISS, SAGLEK BLOCK, NORTHERN LABRADOR...... 3220 Monika A. Kusiak

NEOARCHEAN SUBDUCTION RECORDED IN THE NORTHERN MARGIN OF THE YANGTZE CRATON, SOUTH CHINA...... 3222 Shao-Bing Zhang

SEDIMENTOLOGY, STRATIGRAPHY AND DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS OF THE 3.2 GA MAPEPE FORMATION IN THE BARB5 DRILL CORE, BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT, SOUTH AFRICA...... 3224 Nadja Drabon

SOURCE HETEROGENEITY FOR THE 2.3-2.2 GA YUANJIACUN BANDED IRON FORMATION IN CHINA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ND CYCLE IN EARTH’S EARLY OCEANS...... 3226 Changle Wang

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY AND GEOCHRONOLOGY OF ARCHAEAN ROCKS IN THE TONOTA AREA, NE BOTSWANA ...... 3228 Stephen McCourt

THE ARCHAEAN CRUSTAL EVOLUTION OF THE BUNDELKHAND CRATON, NORTHERN INDIA: CONSTRAINTS FROM ZIRCON U-PB-HF ISOTOPE DATA AND WHOLE-ROCK GEOCHEMISTRY OF GRANITOIDS ...... N/A Parampreet Kaur

THE GEOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE REDISCOVERED FUCHSITE QUARTZITE WITH ABUNDANT EOARCHEAN DETRITAL ZIRCONS IN EASTERN HEBEI PROVINCE, CHINA ...... 3230 Hang Chu

TTG AND POTASSIC GRANITOIDS IN THE EASTERN NORTH CHINA CRATON: MAKING A NEOARCHEAN UPPER CONTINENTAL CRUST DURING MICRO-CONTINENTAL COLLISION AND POST-COLLISIONAL EXTENSION ...... 3232 Chao Wang

ZIRCON HF ISOTOPE AND ITS TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS ON CRUSTAL GROWTH AND EVOLUTION OF THE WESTERN BLOCK, NORTH CHINA CRATON...... 3233 Xiaolan He

3.2 GA SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENT IMPLIED FROM HETEROGENEITY OF SULFUR ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS OF BARITE BEDS IN PILBARA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA ...... 3234 Tsubasa Miki

A 4-D MODEL OF THE ARCHAEAN CRUSTAL EVOLUTION OF THE FENNOSCANDIAN SHIELD...... 3236 Aleksandr Slabunov

A MINERALOGICAL-GEOCHEMICAL STUDY OF MESOARCHAEAN QUARTZ-PEBBLE CONGLOMERATES FROM THE PONGOLA SUPERGROUP AND IMPLICATIONS FOR U/AU PLACER DEPOSITS ...... 3238 Axel Hofmann

CONTRASTING GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS IN ADJACENT UNITS OF ARCHEAN GREENSTONES IN THE CHITRADURGA SCHIST BELT, SOUTHERN INDIA...... 3241 Yoshihiro Enya

DETRITAL PYRITE: A REVISED CLASSIFICATION SCHEME AND APPLICATION TO PLACER GOLD DEPOSITS ...... 3243 Giuliana Costa

FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF THE HUANGLING BASEMENT IN YANGTZE CRATON, SOUTH CHINA...... 3245 Junqi Wei

GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISATION OF THE MAFIC/ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS FROM THE BARB-3 DRILLING SITE IN THE BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT ...... 3247 Nina Bellot

GEOCHRONOLOGY OF MANTLE AND CRUSTAL PROCESSES OF ARCHAEAN ROCKS OF THE KOLA REGION (FENNOSCANDIAN SHIELD)...... 3248 Nikolay Kudryashov

GEOLOGY AND GOLD MINERALIZATION OF A NEWLY IDENTIFIED MAFIC-ULTRAMAFIC SEQUENCE IN THE ARCHEAN BUSIA-KAKAMEGA GREENSTONE BELT, WESTERN KENYA...... 3250 Takalani Netsianda

GEOPHYSICAL ANALYSIS OF THE PALEOPROTEROZOIC BUI GREENSTONE BELT, WESTERN GHANA; THE CONSTRAINTS OF CONDUCTIVITY ON THE BELT USING AN EM INVERSION TECHNIQUE...... 3252 Abigail Ayikwei

KOMATIITE FROM MESOARCHAEAN BADAMPAHAR-GORUMAHISANI GREENTONE BELT, SINGHBHUM CRATON, EASTERN INDIA: PETROGENETIC AFFINITY WITH ‘BARBERTON TYPE’ ...... 3254 Pawan Yadav

MULTIPLE SULFUR ISOTOPE EVIDENCE OF AN ARCHEAN AGE FOR THE DEPOSITION OF JACOBINA BASIN, SÃO FRANCISCO CRATON, BRAZIL...... 3256 Guilherme Teles

ON USING THE KAAPVAAL CRATON TO NATURALISE THE INTERNATIONAL CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC CHART FOR THE PRECAMBRIAN...... 3258 Christopher Hatton

PRELIMINARY RESULTS ON THE PETROGENESIS AND METALLOGENESIS OF ARCHAEAN RARE METAL GRANITIC PEGMATITES ALONG THE SOUTHERN MARGIN OF THE ZIMBABWE CRATON...... 3261 G. S Chagondah

CORONA TEXTURE IN MEGACRYSTIC LEUCOGABBRONORITE, WESTERN BASTAR CRATON, CENTRAL INDIA: ITS PETROGENETIC SIGNIFICANCE ...... 3262 Harbans Singh

LATE ARCHAEAN GRANITOID MAGMATISM: AN INSIGHT TO SW BUNDELKHAND CRATON ...... 3264 Joyeeta Bhattacharjee

NEOPROTEROZOIC TRANSPRESSION AND POLYPHASE FAULT REACTIVATION IN GAVILGARH- TAN SHEAR ZONE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF CENTRAL INDIAN CRATON...... 3265 Anupam Chattopadhyay

PALEOPROTEROZOIC EXTENSION OF THE EAST DHARWAR CRATON AND ITS IMPRINT ON THE PAPAGHNI SUB-BASIN, INDIA...... 3267 Sarbani Patranabis-Deb

PALEOPROTEROZOIC FELSIC MAGMATISM FROM MAHAKOSHAL SUPRACRUSTAL BELT, CITZ: CONSTRAINTS FROM U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY, WHOLE ROCK GEOCHEMISTRY AND SM-ND ISOTOPES ...... 3269 Bhupendra Singh Yadav

PROVENANCE OF SEDIMENTS IN THE NEOPROTEROZOIC MARWAR BASIN, WESTERN INDIA ...... 3271 Bivin Geo George

ZIRCON U-PB-HF ISOTOPIC DATA FROM SYNTECTONIC GRANITES OF ARAVALLI FOLD BELT, INDIA: AGE OF A PALAEOPROTEROZOIC ACCRETIONARY OROGENY ...... N/A Krishnapriya Basak

GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND PETROGENESIS OF PROTEROZOIC KHAIRAGARH VOLCANICS AND THE SAKOLI MOBILE BELT; BASTAR CRATON, CENTRAL INDIAN SHIELD: IMPLICATION FOR PRECAMBRIAN CRUSTAL EVOLUTION...... 3272 K. C. Longjam

GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND PETROGENESIS OF THE PROTEROZOIC MAFIC MAGMATISM IN GWALIOR BASIN, CENTRAL INDIAN SHIELD – CONSTRAINTS ON CRUSTAL EVOLUTION...... 3273 Jwellys Devi Samom

GEOCHEMISTY, DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT AND TECTONIC SETTING OF NEOARCHAEAN BANDED IRON FORMATIONS: EVIDENCE FROM WESTERN BASTAR CRATON, CENTRAL INDIA ...... 3275 Deepak Malpe

MESOPROTEROZOIC OROGENY ALONG EASTERN BOUNDARY OF ARAVALLI CRATON, NORTHWESTERN INDIA: A TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHIC AND GEOCHRONOLOGICAL STUDY ...... 3277 Siladitya Sengupta

TECTONO-METAMORPHIC EVOLUTION OF WEST AFRICA: IMPLICATIONS FOR MINERALIZATION...... 3281 Lenka Baratoux

NEW CONSTRAINTS FROM ZIRCON U-PB AGES AND HF ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS ON THE LATE PALAEOPROTEROZOIC CONTINENTAL ARC GRANITOIDS IN THE ARAVALLI OROGEN, NW INDIA...... 3283 Naveen Chaudhri

PETROGENETIC AND GEOCHEMICAL CONSTRAINTS OF HIGH-MG GRANITOIDS FROM BUNDELKHAND CRATON, CENTRAL INDIA ...... 3285 Gargi Rai

LOWER AND MIDDLE CRUST EXHUMATION DURING PALAEOPROTEROZOIC ACCRETIONARY TECTONICS: KEY NEW EVIDENCE FROM THE SEFWI GREENSTONE BELT, SW GHANA ...... N/A Helen McFarlane

PALEOPROTEROZOIC EVOLUTION OF THE GUIANA SHIELD IN SURINAME: A REVISED MODEL...... 3287 Salomon B. Kroonenberg

PRECISE ZIRCON DATING REVEALS THE THREEFOLD EVOLUTION OF THE SINCLAIR SUPERGOUP OF NAMIBIA...... 3289 David Cornell

PRELIMINARY REPORT OF THE GHANA BIRIMIAN GREENSTONE BELT DRILLING PROJECT (GHB): RECONSTRUCTION OF THE PALEOPROTEROZOIC OCEAN ENVIRONMENT...... 3291 Shoichi Kiyokawa

SELF-CONSISTENT THERMO-CHEMICAL MODELLING OF THE LITHOSPHERE BENEATH THE WEST AFRICAN CRATON ...... 3293 Alan Jones

TECTONICS-MINERALISATION RELATIONSHIPS IN ANCIENT CRATONS, A NEW STRUCTURAL FRAME...... 3295 Denis Gapais

MESOPROTEROZOIC GEOCHRONOLOGY IN THE NORTH CHINA CRATON ...... 3297 Huaikun Li

PROGRESSIVE STRUCTURAL OVERPRINTING DURING CONVERGENCE OF ARCS AND ACCRETION TO THE KAAPVAAL CRATON: EVIDENCE FROM THE NORTHERN NATAL BELT, SOUTH AFRICA...... 3299 Juergen Reinhardt

PROTEROZOIC TECTONO-MAGMATIC PROCESSES IN ARAVALLI- DELHI MOBILE BELT, NW INDIA AND ITS IMPLICATION TO COLUMBIA AND RODINIA SUPERCONTINENTS...... 3301 Sudheer Kumar Tiwari

TECTONIC TRIBULATIONS OF RODINIAN-COLUMBIAN VINTAGE ALONG THE WESTERN MARGIN OF THE KAAPVAAL CRATON...... 3302 Marthinus Mathee

THE DISCOVERY OF THE NEOPROTEROZOIC RIFT-RELATED FELSIC VOLCANIC ROCKS IN THE NORTHERN MARGIN OF NORTH CHINA CRATON: IMPLICATIONS FOR RODINIA RECONSTRUCTION AND MINERAL EXPLORATION ...... 3304 Runmin Peng

THE GEOCHRONOLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE FERROAN, A-TYPE GRANITES ON THE EASTERN MARGIN OF THE NAMAQUA SECTOR, NAMAQUA-NATAL METAMORPHIC PROVINCE, SOUTHERN AFRICA ...... 3306 Russell Bailie

GEOCHEMISTRY OF MAFIC SANUKITOIDS AND CLOSEPET TYPE ROCKS FROM PALGHAT- CAUVERY SHEAR ZONE: IMPLICATIONS ON ARCHAEAN-PROTEROZOIC CRUSTAL EVOLUTION IN THE SOUTHERN TERRAIN, INDIA...... 3308 P. Soney Kurien

GRAVITY MAGNETIC SURVEY ACROSS MOYAR BHAVANI SHEAR ZONE, SOUTHERN GRANULITE TERRAIN, INDIA AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR NEOARCHEAN-PALEOPROTEROZOIC SUBDUCTION- ACCRETION TECTONICS...... 3310 S. S. Ganguli

VOLUME 9

MAGMATIC AND METAMORPHIC P-T EVOLUTION OF UDAYAGIRI ANORTHOSITE COMPLEX, EASTERN GHATS BELT, EASTERN INDIA ...... 3312 Satya Narayana Mahapatro

PLAGIOCLASE MEGACRYSTS IN PROTEROZOIC LEUCOGABBRONORITE DYKE FROM BASTAR CRATON, CENTRAL INDIA: MELT-CRYSTAL INTERACTION AT CRUSTAL LEVEL...... 3314 Muduru Lachhana Dora

PROTEROZOIC MAGMATIC PROCESSES; INSIGHTS INTO THE CRUSTAL GROWTH AND ACCRETIONARY EVENTS IN DIVERSE TECTONIC SETTINGS...... 3316 Valiveti Venkata Sesha Sai

THE FOUR ARCHEAN CRUSTAL SEGMENTS OF SÃO FRANCISCO CRATON, BAHIA, BRAZIL, AND THEIR PALEOPROTEROZOIC COLLISION...... 3318 Rafael Barbosa

EVOLUTION OF THE EASTERN ARABIAN BASEMENT - GEOCHRONOLOGIC AND ISOTOPIC CONSTRAINTS FROM SOCOTRA AND BASEMENT INLIERS IN OMAN...... 3320 Martin Whitehouse

GENESIS AND PETROLOGY OF LATE NEOPROTEROZOIC PEGMATITES AND APLITES ASSOCIATED WITH THE TABA METAMORPHIC COMPLEX IN SOUTHERN SINAI, EGYPT ...... 3322 Mokhles Azer

GEOLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE KANDA KANDA TONALITE – TRONDJEMITE – GRANITE GREY GNEISSES IN THE KASAÏ ARCHAEAN CRATON (D. R. CONGO) ...... 3323 Francois Toto Lubala

LITHOFACIES ANALYSIS OF A PALAEOPROTEROZOIC (2.06 GA) SILICIC LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE DOMINATED BY LAVA-LIKE, RHEOMORPHIC IGNIMBRITES – THE ROOIBERG GROUP, KAAPVAAL CRATON, SOUTH AFRICA...... 3325 Samson Masango

NEW SHRIMP AGE AND MICROSTRUCTURES FROM A DEFORMED A-TYPE GRANITE, KANIGIRI, SOUTHERN INDIA: CONSTRAINING HIATUS BETWEEN OROGENIC CLOSURE AND POST-OROGENIC RIFTING ...... 3327 Arnab Sain

SR, ND ISOTOPES AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE WESTERN NUBA MOUNTAINS LOW-GRADE METAVOLCANICS (SUDAN): NEW EVIDENCE FOR NEOPROTEROZOIC ARC MAGMATISM ON THE EASTERN SAHARAN METACRATON...... 3328 Montasir Ibinoof

TYPOMORPHIC MINERALOGY OF THE VATTIKOD LAMPROITES FROM MESOPROTEROZOIC RAMADUGU LAMPROITE FIELD, NALGONDA DISTRICT, TELANGANA, INDIA: A PLAUSIBLE MANIFESTATION OF SUBDUCTION-RELATED ALKALINE MAGMATISM IN THE EASTERN GHATS MOBILE BELT?...... 3329 Gurmeet Kaur

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS AT THE ARCHEAN-PALEOPROTEROZOIC BOUNDARY: GEOCHEMICAL STUDIES FROM CENTRAL INDIA ...... 3331 Sarada Prasad Mohanty

BITTER SPRING C-ISOTOPE ANOMALY IN THE VINDHYAN SUPERGROUP, RAJASTHAN, INDIA...... 3333 Jyotiranjan Ray

MULTIPLE CARBON BURIAL EPISODES AND ISOTOPE EXCURSIONS IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE PALAEOPROTEROZOIC GREAT OXIDATION EVENT ...... 3334 Adam Martin

SHALLOW MARINE SILICICLASTICS TO PELAGIC CHERT IN A PALEOPROTEROZOIC OPHIOLITE COMPLEX, SOUTHERN INDIA...... N/A Dilip Saha

THE SEDIMENTOLOGY OF THE PALEOPROTEROZOIC DUITSCHLAND FORMATION (TRANSVAAL SUPERGROUP, SOUTH AFRICA): NEW INSIGHTS FROM LANGBAKEN 340KS...... 3336 Matthew Warke

THE SEDIMENTOLOGY OF THE ROOIHOOGTE FORMATION OF THE TRANSVAAL SUPERGROUP IN THE CARLETONVILLE AREA, SOUTH AFRICA...... 3338 Sabiyyah Zardad

GEOCHEMISTRY OF A PALEOWEATHERING PROFILE ON THE "BOSTONITE" MAFIC INTRUSIVES OF AVONTUUR DEPOSIT, NORTHERN CAPE ...... 3340 Batobeleng Monareng

MECHANISM OF THE LATE CRYOGENIAN LARGE SCALE MN-MINERALISATION IN NANHUA BASIN, SOUTH CHINA...... 3341 Xiang Kun Zhu

ORIGIN OF NEOPROTEROZOIC IRON FORMATIONS IN NAMIBIA AND AUSTRALIA...... 3343 Maxwell Lechte

THE ENIGMA OF THE MISSING LARGE REGIONAL EROSIONAL UNCONFORMITY AT THE BASE OF MARINOAN SNOWBALL EARTH SUCCESSIONS (NORTHEASTERN NAMIBIA) ...... 3345 Thilo Bechstaedt

EVIDENCE FOR MID OCEANIC RIDGE BASALTIC (MORB) SETTING OF MAFIC ROCKS IN ARCHAEAN AMGAON GREENSTONE BELT OF WESTERN BASTAR CRATON, CENTRAL INDIA...... 3347 Deepak Malpe

GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISATION, SM-ND AND U-PB ZIRCON CHRONOLOGY OF THE TIRODI GNEISSIC COMPLEX (TGC), CENTRAL INDIAN TECTONIC ZONE (CITZ): CONSTRAINTS ON PROTEROZOIC CRUSTAL EVOLUTION ...... 3349 Meraj Alam

NEO-PROTEROZOIC ALKALI MAFIC MAGMATISM IN BETUL BELT, CENTRAL INDIAN TECTONIC ZONE...... 3350 Mohamed Shareef

TECTONOTHERMAL EVOLUTION OF MEGHALAYA GNEISSIC COMPLEX, NE INDIA: A MIMIC OF CHOTTANAGPUR GNEISSIC COMPLEX DURING GRENVILLIAN OROGENY ...... 3352 Susobhan Neogi

U-PB ZIRCON AGES FROM THE ARAVALLI CRATON AND VINDHYAN SUPERGROUP SEDIMENTS, RAJASTHAN – DISCUSSION OF TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS ...... 3354 Sojen Joy

MAGNETOTELLURIC STUDY OF THE NEOPROTEROZOIC SHEAR ZONE OF 4°50’ ...... 3356 Aboubakr Deramchi

MESO- AND NEOPROTEROZOIC THERMOTECTONIC EVOLUTION OF SOUTH-WESTERN BALTICA: INSIGHTS FROM P/T STUDIES, U-PB ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY AND 40AR/39AR THERMOCHRONOLOGY...... 3357 Jan Ulmius

MULTI-DIMENSIONAL RESISTIVITY MODELLING OF THE LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE OF THE BAOULÉ-MOSSI DOMAIN IN WEST AFRICA...... 3359 Alan Jones

NEW U-PB AGES AND GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PROTEROZOIC DOLERITIC DYKE SWARMS FROM THE LEO-MAN CRATON...... 3361 Lenka Baratoux

RADIOMETRIC SIGNATURES OF IMPACT STRUCTURES: APPLICATION TO IMPACT CRATER STUDIES IN WEST AFRICA ...... 3363 David Baratoux

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE RIEMVASMAAK MEGA SHEATH FOLD (RKMS) SITUATED IN THE GRÜNAU TERRANE OF THE NAMAQUA-MOBILE BELT ...... 3365 Marthinus Mathee

STRUCTURAL AND TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE BUFFELS RIVER SHEAR ZONE, WESTERN NAMAQUA SECTOR, NAMAQUA-NATAL METAMORPHIC PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA: PRELIMINARY STUDIES...... 3367 Yasmeen Abrahams

TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE GAOUA REGION, BURKINA FASO: IMPLICATIONS FOR MINERALIZATION ...... 3369 Lenka Baratoux

ZIRCON AGES FROM TECTONIC BELTS THOUGHT TO REPRESENT SOME OF THE OLDEST (>815 MA) UNITS IN THE ARABIAN SHIELD, SAUDI ARABIA ...... 3371 Victoria Pease

AGE CONSTRAINTS ON PALEOPROTEROZOIC GLACIALS AND OXYGENATION FROM SOUTH AFRICA...... 3372 Stefan Schroeder

DISCUSSIONS ON THE NEOPROTEROZOIC STRATA–TECTONIC–MAGMATIC EVENT SEQUENCE OF THE EASTERN JIANGNAN OROGEN, SOUTHEAST CHINA ...... 3374 Xinqi Yu

FELSIC MAGMATIC EVENTS WITHIN 1.36 – 1.00 GA TIME INTERVAL IN THE SW AMAZONIAN CRATON, BRAZIL AND BOLIVIA: TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS AND MAGMA SOURCES ...... 3376 Washington Barbosa Leite Júnior

GEOCHEMISTRY AND SIMS U-PB ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE VIJAYAN ANATECTIC MELTS OF EASTERN SRI LANKA ...... 3377 Samuel Wai-Pan Ng

IN SITU U-PB ZIRCON DATING ON SEDIMENTARY AND GRANITOID ROCKS IN IMJINGANG BELT, NORTH KOREA...... 3379 Yanbin Zhang

NEOPROTEROZOIC BASIC AND MID-ACIDIC INTRUSIONS IN WELEGA AREA (ETHIOPIA):LITHO- GEOCHEMICAL EVIDENCE FOR MANTLE AND PARTLY CRUST MELTING...... 3381 Huazhou Yao

NEOPROTEROZOIC TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF SOUTH QINLING, CHINA: EVIDENCE FROM ZIRCON AGES AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE YAOLINGHE VOLCANIC ROCKS ...... 3383 Xi Yan Zhu

PROTEROZOIC FERROAN FELDSPATHIC MAGMATISM IN EASTERN DHARWAR CRATON; CONSTRAINTS FROM THE PETROGENESIS OF MESOPROTEROZOIC GRANITE MAGMATISM TO THE EAST OF THE NALLAMALAI FOLD BELT, SE INDIA ...... 3385 Valiveti Venkata Sesha Sai

REASSESSING PROCESSES OF PRIMARY DEPOSITION AND DIAGENESIS OF IRON AND MANGANESE, USING CM-SCALE VARIATIONS IN IRON AND CARBON ISOTOPE RATIOS OF THE PALAEOPROTEROZOIC HOTAZEL FORMATION, SOUTH AFRICA...... 3387 Xolane Mhlanga

SOFT-SEDIMENT DEFORMATION STRUCTURES INTERPRETED AS SEISMITES IN EDIACARAN CARBONATES (BAMBUÍ GROUP, BRAZIL)...... 3389 Juliana Okubo

THE GAMAGARA FORMATION REVISITED: STRATIGRAPHY, SEDIMENTOLOGY, ORIGIN AND METALLOGENIC SIGNIFICANCE...... 3391 Harilaos Tsikos

ZIRCON U-PB AGES, HF ISOTOPES AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE PRECAMBRIAN GNEISSES IN THE WONJU-JECHON AREA, SOUTHERN MARGIN OF THE GYEONGGI MASSIF: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PRECAMBRIAN TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE GYEONGGI MASSIF AND NORTHEAST ASIA ...... 3392 Byungchoon Lee

A NEW AGE FOR 40AR/39AR GEOCHRONOLOGY – OUT OF AFRICA AND BEYOND… ...... 3393 David Phillips

DISASSEMBLING PETROLEUM SYSTEMS WITH RE-OS ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY ...... 3394 Judith L Hannah

GEOCHRONOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF METALLIC PB NANOSPHERES IN ZIRCON EXPOSED TO HIGH-GRADE METAMORPHISM...... 3396 Monika A. Kusiak

TWENTY YEARS ON – RE-OS REVOLUTION FOR CRUSTAL ROCKS ...... 3398 Holly Stein

NEW INSIGHTS INTO ERUPTION AGES OF PLIO-PLEISTOCENE MAARS AND SCORIA CONES OF SOUTH-EASTERN AUSTRALIA VIA HIGH PRECISION 40AR/39AR DATING OF FELDSPAR ‘MEGACRYSTS’ ...... 3400 Erin Matchan

SPELEOTHEMS AS MONITORS OF LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION ...... 3402 Jon Woodhead

TIMING, DURATION, AND CAUSES FOR LATE JURASSIC-EARLY CRETACEOUS ANOXIA IN THE BARENTS SEA ...... 3404 Holly Stein

UNRAVELLING CALDERA-FORMING GIGANTIC ERUPTIONS BY QUATERNARY ZIRCON U-PB DATING ...... 3405 Hisatoshi Ito

ARGON AGES OF MUSCOVITE FROM THE , SOUTH AFRICA AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR UNDERSTANDING THE CAPE FOLD BELT - KAROO BASIN SYSTEM ...... 3407 Jeroen Hansma

BASEMENT ARCHITECTURE OF THE CENTRAL AFRICAN KASAI CRATON REVEALED USING HIGH PRECISION SHRIMP U-PB ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY ...... 3408 Hielke Jelsma

DATING FAULTS, METAMORPHISM, DIAGENESIS, AND SURFACE PROCESSES BY U-PB SMALL SCALE ISOCHRONS...... 3410 Axel Gerdes

EVOLUTION OF THE CAPE FOLD BELT, SOUTH AFRICA: HIGH-PRECISION DATING OF DETRITAL AND METAMORPHIC MUSCOVITE FROM THE PALAEOZOIC CAPE SUPERGROUP...... 3411 Scarlett Blewett

NEW CHRONOLOGY FOR THE SOUTHERN KALAHARI GROUP SEDIMENTS WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR SEDIMENT-CYCLE DYNAMICS AND EARLY HOMININ OCCUPATION ...... 3413 A Matmon

RIVER SEDIMENT SYSTEM RESPONSES TO CLIMATE FORCING EVALUATED USING LUMINESCENCE PARTIAL BLEACHING...... 3414 Jasper Knight

TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITIES OF NON-TRADITIONAL (U-TH)/HE THERMOCHRONOMETERS AND THERMAL EVOLUTION OF THE PHALABORWA CARBONATITE COMPLEX, KAAPVAAL CRATON, SOUTH AFRICA...... 3415 Jaclyn Baughman

URANIUM-SERIES DATING OF BRACKETING MINERAL ACCRETIONS ASSOCIATED WITH KIMBERLEY ROCK ART...... 3417 Helen Green

EVIDENCE FOR MESOARCHEAN MAGMATISM IN THE DHARWAR CRATON FROM SM-ND ISOTOPE STUDIES ON MAFIC METAVOLCANIC ROCKS OF THE CHITRADURGA GREENSTONE BELT, INDIA...... 3418 D Kamalakannan

LARGE-SCALE ZINC AND LEAD MINERALIZATION IN THE WESTERN MARGIN OF THE YANGTZE BLOCK FROM LATE TRIASSIC TO EARLY JURASSIC...... 3420 Guangshu Yang

RADIOCARBON DATING OF HOLOCENE TIME PLANES: IMPLICATION FOR SEA LEVEL CHANGE ALONG SAURASHTRA COAST, WESTERN INDIA...... 3422 Gargi Bhattacharya

U-PB-HF ISOTOPIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE JURASSIC GRANITOIDS IN THE JIAODONG AREA AND THEIR TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE ...... 3424 Dong Wang

LA-MD-ICPMS ZIRCON U-PB AGE AND HF ISOTOPIC STUDIES OF THE LOHIT PLUTONIC COMPLEX, ARUNACHAL PRADESH, INDIA...... 3426 James Pebam

40AR/39AR AGES IN TWO ALKALINE IGNEOUS COMPLEXES FROM THE TIKAR PLAIN, CAMEROON (CENTRAL AFRICA): A CONTRIBUTION TO THE INTERPRETATION OF THE CAMEROON LINE MAGMATISM ...... 3429 Emmanuel Njonfang

A REVIEW OF THE GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE MARGATE TERRANE OF THE NATAL METAMORPHIC BELT...... 3431 Peter Mendonidis

CLOSURE OF THE RHEIC OCEAN AND POST-OROGENIC UPLIFT OF THE WESTERN TATRA MOUNTAINS WESTERN CARPATHIANS (POLAND/SLOVAKIA)...... 3433 Aleksandra Gaweda

DATING OF ALTERED MAFIC INTRUSIONS BY APPLYING A ZIRCON FISSION TRACK THERMOCHRONOMETER TO BAKED COUNTRY ROCK ...... 3436 Hiroyuki Hoshi

REVISION OF THE CAMBRIAN PART OF RUSSIAN GENERAL STRATIGRAPHIC TIME SCALE AND ITS CORRELATION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE...... 3437 Konstantin Pak

STRATEGIES TOWARDS STATISTICALLY ROBUST INTERPRETATIONS OF IN SITU U–PB ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY ...... 3438 Christopher Spencer

THE GEOCHEMISTRY AND GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE BARBY FORMATION, SOUTHERN NAMIBIA ...... 3439 Theresia Malobela

U-PB SIMS SHRIMP-II TITANITE AGE AND TIME-RANGE OF APATITE-TITANITE MINERALIZATION OF LOVOZERO AND KHIBINY AGPAITIC MASSIFS ...... 3440 Oleg Petrov

A MULTIPRONGED APPROACH TO CONSTRAINING THE TIMING OF THE MOLOPO FARMS COMPLEX EMPLACEMENT ...... 3442 Livhuwani Ravhura

CONSTRAINING THE TIMING OF SEDIMENTARY IN-FILLS AT THE VAALPUTS RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITY...... 3444 Mary Evans

GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE PALAEOPROTEROZOIC MAGONDI BELT (ZIMBABWE), AND THE CHOMA-KALOMO BLOCK (ZAMBIA), WITH REGIONAL IMPLICATIONS...... 3445 Sarah Glynn

MULTI-DATING APPROACHES APPLIED TO THE PROTEROZOIC MBUJI-MAYI SUPERGROUP (D.R. CONGO) TO CONSTRAIN THE DIVERSIFICATION OF EARLY EUKARYOTES IN CENTRAL AFRICA ...... 3447 Camille Francois

ORDOVICIAN DIORITIC MAGMATISM OF THE DONKEN AREA, FAR SE LAOS: IMPLICATIONS FOR GONDWANA EVOLUTION IN SE ASIA...... 3449 Chad Gardner

RESOLVING THE EVOLUTION OF LONG-LIVED OROGENS THROUGH LASER-SPLIT STREAM ICP-MS OF DETRITAL ACCESSORY MINERALS PRESERVED IN SUCCESSOR BASINS...... 3452 Sonia Armandola

STRUCTURAL CONTROL OF HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION OF BIF AND FORMATION OF GOETHITE-DOMINANT MINERALISATION IN THE NORTHERN MAURITANIDE BELT...... 3453 Bert De Waele

THE AGE AND GEOCHEMICAL EVOLUTION OF THE WESTERN ETHIOPIAN SHIELD; IT’S ROLE IN GONDWANA FORMATION...... 3455 Morgan Blades

USING ISOTOPIC TECHNIQUES TO CONSTRAIN THE TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE BASEMENT OF OMAN ...... 3457 Morgan Blades

U–PB CHRONOLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF DETRITAL MONAZITES FROM MAJOR AFRICAN RIVERS ...... 3459 Keita Itano

A PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL PROXY WITH MORE BITE: ASSESSING THE APPLICABILITY OF O- ISOTOPES IN MICROMAMMAL TEETH ...... 3460 Milo Barham

FRACTIONATION OF LITHIUM ISOTOPES DURING GRANITE WEATHERING REVEALED IN WATERS, SAPROLITES, SOILS AND SEDIMENTS (MASSIF CENTRAL, FRANCE)...... 3462 Philippe Negrel

SURFACE WATER – GROUNDWATER INTERACTIONS IN ALLUVIAL CONTEXTS: CONSTRAINTS USING SINGLE AND MULTI-ISOTOPE TRACERS ...... 3464 Emmanuelle Petelet-Giraud

ORIGIN OF HYDROCARBON GASES ACCUMULATED IN THE ZECHSTEIN MAIN DOLOMITE RESERVOIR IN WIELKOPOLSKA PROVINCE OF THE POLISH PERMIAN BASIN ...... 3466 Elzbieta Bilkiewicz

PALAEOZOIC TO ARCHAEAN ZIRCONS IN ROCKS DERIVED FROM THE GALAPAGOS MANTLE HOTSPOT: WHERE DO THEY COME FROM?...... 3468 Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte

THE OXYGEN ISOTOPE STUDY OF ZIRCON GRAINS FROM CATANDA EXTRUSIVE CARBONATITE (ANGOLA)...... 3470 Stanislaw Wolkowicz

TWO DIFFERENT NEOPROTEROZOIC-CAMBRIAN SEDIMENTARY BASINS OF DZABKHAN CONTINENTAL BLOCK (CENTRAL ASIAN FOLD BELT)...... 3471 Irina Vishnevskaia

CADMIUM ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION OF MATERIALS ORIGINATING FROM DIFFERENT INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES ...... 3473 Jan Curík

CLUMPED ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS OF MARBLES FROM THE BACKBONE RANGE OF TAIWAN ...... 3475 Tzen-Fu Yui

COMBINED ANALYSIS OF URANIUM SERIES NUCLIDES AND IN SITU 10BE IN A WEATHERING PROFILE LOCATED IN THE STRENGBACH CATCHMENT (VOSGES MASSIF, FRANCE) ...... 3477 Phillipe Negrel

CONSTRAINING FLUID MIXING PROCESSES AT THE IRISH-TYPE LISHEEN ZN-PB OREBODY: PRELIMINARY EVIDENCE FROM CLUMPED C-O ISOTOPES ...... 3479 Steve Hollis

IN SITU LASER MICROPROBE TECHNIQUE FOR CARBON AND OXYGEN ISOTOPE ANALYSIS OF CARBONATE...... 3481 Changfu Fan

NEW INSIGHT INTO THE TECTONIC FRAMEWORK OF THE VANUATU ISLAND ARC FROM THE DISTRIBUTION OF HELIUM ISOTOPES IN VOLCANIC GASES AND THERMAL WATERS...... 3482 Philippe Jean-Baptiste

ORIGIN OF LOW D18O VALUES IN THE CRETACEOUS KOEGEL FONTEIN COMPLEX: EVIDENCE FOR PRE-EXISTING 18O-DEPLETION IN THE COUNTRY ROCK...... 3484 Benjamin Whitehead

PORE FLUID EVOLUTION, DISTRIBUTION AND WATER-ROCK INTERACTIONS OF CARBONATE CEMENTS IN RED-BED SANDSTONE RESERVOIRS IN THE DONGYING DEPRESSION, CHINA...... 3486 Jian Wang

PRELIMINARY STUDY OF OXYGEN ISOTOPES IN TOURMALINE, QUARTZ AND MUSCOVITE FROM THREE GRANITIC PEGMATITES OF THE BORBOREMA PEGMATITE PROVINCE, NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL...... 3488 Alcides Sial

TRACKING A DETRITAL ZIRCON PROVENANCE – PB-PB AND OXYGEN ISOTOPIE INTEGRATED RECORD FROM LATE PALEOPROTEROZOC METASEDIMENTS ON FANNOSCANDIA-SARMATIA JUNCTION ZONE...... 3489 Janina Wiszniewska

U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY AND ND ISOTOPE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE INTERPRETATION OF A PECULIAR RING MASSIF: THE SANTA EULÁLIA PLUTONIC COMPLEX (SW IBERIA, PORTUGAL) ...... 3491 Luís Lopes

LIPS IN SPACE AND TIME ...... 3493 Richard Ernst

PETROLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF MAFIC DYKE AND SILLS IN CUMBUM FORMATION, OF THE PROTEROZOIC NALLAMALAI FOLD BELT, RAJAMPET AREA, ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA ...... 3495 Munmun Chakraborty

PLUME-RELATED MAGMATIC SYSTEMS AND THEIR ROOTS: EVIDENCE FROM LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES AND MANTLE XENOLITHS IN BASALTS ...... 3497 Evgenii Sharkov

THE GAWLER RANGE VOLCANICS: PETROGENESIS OF A SILICIC LARGE IGNEOUS PROVENCE...... N/A John Foden

VARIABLY DEFORMED AND METAMORPHOSED PALAEOPROTEROZOIC MAFIC DYKES ACROSS THE NAGSSUGTOQIDIAN FORELAND, SE GREENLAND ...... 3498 Riaan Bothma

ALKALINE AND THOLEIITIC MAGMATISM IN THE BUEM STRUCTURAL UNIT OF THE PAN-AFRICA DAHOMEYIDE OROGENIC BELT, SOUTHEASTERN GHANA...... 3500 Daniel Kwayisi

GEOCHEMISTRY AND TECTONIC SETTINGS OF METAVOLCANICS OF CHITRADURGA SCHIST BELT, KARNATAKA, INDIA ...... 3501 M M Korakoppa

THE AHEIMIR VOLCANIC SUITE (AVS) A BIMODAL EDIACARAN SEQUENCE FROM THE NORTHERNMOST ARABIAN NUBIAN SHIELD, WADI ARABA, SW JORDAN: AGE, GEOCHEMISTRY AND PETROGENESIS...... 3503 Ghaleb Jarrar

A ~3 GA RECORD OF MAFIC DYKE AND SILL SWARMS ACROSS THE KAAPVAAL CRATON: FURTHER STRUCTURAL AND GEOCHEMICAL CLUES FOR SIX LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES...... 3504 Martin Klausen

DID THE DIORITIC INTRUSIONS OF THE VREDEFORT DOME IN SOUTH AFRICA FORM DURING THE BUSHVELD EVENT? ...... 3506 Willem Kruger

PALEOPROTEROZOIC PGE-BEARING MONCHETUNDRA MASSIF (FENNOSCANDIAN SHIELD): ISOTOPE-GEOCHEMICAL ND-SR FEATURES OF THE MAFIC ROCKS ...... 3507 Evgeniy Kunakkuzin

THERMODYNAMIC EXAMINATION INTO THE CAUSATION OF THE MINERALOGICAL CYCLICITY OF THE UPPER ZONE OF THE BUSHVELD COMPLEX...... 3509 Tawnee Britt

TI-THERMOMETRY OF MAGMATIC QUARTZ IN EVOLVED ROCKS FROM THE BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA...... 3511 Musawenkosi Buthelezi

TRACE ELEMENT AND SR-ISOTOPIC VARIATIONS IN PLAGIOCLASE OF THE MAIN AND UPPER ZONES, NORTHERN AND WESTERN LIMBS, BUSHVELD COMPLEX...... 3512 Frederick Roelofse

CORONITE STRUCTURES IN FERROGABBROS AS EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF A HIGH-FE MELT: EXAMPLE FROM THE ELET’OZERO INTRUSIVE COMPLEX (NORTH KARELIA, RUSSIA) ...... 3513 Evgenii Sharkov

COUPLED S AND PB ISOTOPIC SYSTEMATICS OF THE ~2.06 GA PHALABORWA PHOSCORITE- CARBONATITE COMPLEX: SULPHUR SOURCES AND AGE OF SULPHIDE MINERALIZATION ...... 3515 Robert Bolhar

GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE HIGH-TI FLOOD BASALTS IN MID-EASTERN EMEISHAN LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE, SW CHINA ...... 3517 Guangshu Yang

MAGMA PLUMBING TO THE 2014-15 HOLUHRAUN ERUPTION, ICELAND...... 3518 Harri Geiger

MAGMATIC COMPLEXES OF THE URALS THAT MAY BELONG TO LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES ...... 3519 Victor Puchkov

MESOPROTEROZOIC MIASKITIC ALKALINE MAGMATISM AND ITS MANIFESTATION IN THE CUDDAPAH INTRUSIVE PROVINCE OF PENINSULAR INDIA: A PETROLOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL STUDY...... 3521 N. Sridhar

PGE - BEARING SULPHIDES IN MAFIC-ULTRAMAFIC SILLS AND DYKES OF KRISHNARAJPET AND HADANUR- TAGADUR BELTS, WESTERN DHARWAR CRATON (INDIA)...... 3522 Nibin Tom

SEISMIC IMAGING OF SILLS, DYKES AND HYDROTHERMAL VENTS IN THE MAIN KAROO BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA: IMPLICATIONS FOR SHALE GAS POTENTIAL ...... 3524 Susan Webb

CHEMISTRY OF CHROME-SPINEL IN SERPENTINITE OF THE TAKA, CENTRAL INDIA: ITS GENETIC SIGNIFICANCE...... 3526 Rajkumar Meshram

PETROGENESIS OF CHROMITITE PODS IN ANDAMAN OPHIOLITE: MAGMATIC EVOLUTION IN TWO STAGES OF MELT-ROCK INTERACTION...... 3528 Tapan Pal

STUDY OF ARCHAEAN MAFIC-ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS FROM A PARTLY PRESERVED OPHIOLITE COMPLEX OF BANGRIPOSI AND KULIANA AREAS, ORISSA, EASTERN INDIA...... 3530 Arijit Ray

THE MESOPROTEROZOIC PILANESBERG COMPLEX - AGE AND WHOLE ROCK GEOCHEMISTRY ...... 3532 Marlina Elburg

THE MIASKITIC-TO-AGPAITIC TRANSITION IN THE PILANESBERG ALKALINE COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA...... 3534 Tom Andersen

CRUSTAL AND TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF ACCRETIONARY OROGENS IN NE ASIA: EVIDENCE FROM GEOCHRONOLOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL STUDY OF GRANITOIDS AND COMPARISON WITH THE CENTRAL ASIAN OROGENIC BELT...... 3535 Bor-Ming Jahn

GEOCHEMICAL FINGERPRINTING OF GRANITES REVISITED...... 3537 Julian Pearce

ENCLAVES OF DIVERSE ORIGIN IN PUNUGODU GRANITE PLUTON, PRAKASAM DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR SOURCE ROCK COMPOSITION AND CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION ...... 3539 Chintapally Narshimha

LATE ARCHAEAN ALKALI SYENITE PLUTON FROM KOPPAL, KARNATAKA STATE, SOUTH INDIA: AN EMPLACEMENT DURING THE ACCRETION OF THE DHARWAR BATHOLITH...... 3541 David Kummera

PETROGENESIS OF HIGH SR/Y LEUCOGRANULITES IN THE LIANGCHENG AREA, CENTRAL- NORTHERN MARGIN OF THE NORTH CHINA CRATON...... 3542 Luojuan Wang

PETROLOGY OF IGNEOUS INTRUSIVE ROCKS IN NE TAKESTAN-IRAN ...... 3544 Mohammad Foudazi

PETROLOGY OF THE KOEDOESFONTEIN COMPLEX IN THE VREDEFORT DOME, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 3545 Ricart Boneschans

PROBLEMS OF INTRUSIVE MAGMATISM IN SAUR REGION OF EASTERN KAZAKHSTAN ...... 3547 Elena Jes

PROTEROZOIC, PALEOZOIC AND MESOZOIC RAPAKIVI GRANITES IN CHINA CENTRAL OROGENIC SYSTEM AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS ...... 3549 Xiaoxia Wang

CONTINENTAL STYLE CALC-ALKALINE PLUTONISM IN AN OCEANIC ISLAND ARC: THE CENTRAL ALEUTIAN HIDDEN BAY PLUTON...... 3551 Suzanne Kay

EARLY CRETACEOUS MAGMA MINGLING IN XIAOCUO, SOUTHEASTERN CHINA CONTINENTAL MARGIN ...... 3552 Liyun Zhou

EVIDENCE FOR HYBRIDIZATION IN THE TYNONG PROVINCE GRANITOIDS, LACHLAN OROGEN, EASTERN AUSTRALIA...... 3553 Kamal Regmi

HETEROGENEOUS ZIRCON INHERITANCE IN LATE JURASSIC GRANITIC PLUTONS WITHIN THE JIULING COMPOSITE BATHOLITH, SOUTH CHINA...... 3555 Di Wang

PHASE PETROLOGY, GEOCHEMISTRY AND U-PB SHRIMP ZIRCON CHRONOLOGY OF MYLLIEM GRANITOIDS AND MICROGRANULAR ENCLAVES FROM MEGHALAYA PLATEAU, NORTHEAST INDIA: EVIDENCE OF SYNCHRONOUS CRYSTALLIZATION, MAGMA-MIXING AND MINGLING DURING PAN-AFRICAN THERMAL OROGENY...... 3557 Santosh Kumar

AUGITE AND ENSTATITE PYROXENE STANDARDS FOR SIMS OXYGEN ISOTOPE ANALYSIS AND THEIR APPLICATION TO MERAPI VOLCANO, SUNDA ARC, INDONESIA...... 3559 Frances Deegan

BASEMENT CONTROLS OVER THE COMPOSITION OF ANDEAN ARC MAGMAS: HF ISOTOPIC CONSTRAINTS FROM CENTRAL CHILE (~33° -34.5°S) ...... 3560 Marcia Muñoz

PATCHY ZONED CLINOPYROXENES OF PYROXENITE ENCLAVES OBSERVED IN PYROCLASTIC DEPOSITS: IMPLICATIONS OF DECOMPRESSION DURING ASCEND OF MAGMA...... 3562 Efe Akkas

PETROLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF ACID VOLCANICS IN CUMBUM FORMATION, OF NALLAMALAI FOLD BELT, RAJAMPET AREA, ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA ...... 3564 Munmun Chakraborty

RECONSTRUCTING THE PLUMBING SYSTEM OF KRAKATAU VOLCANO...... 3566 Valentin Troll

THE LATE MESOZOIC , POTASH-RICH VOLCANIC ROCKS IN LATE MESOZOIC OF NORTH YANGTZE AND DABIE OROGENIC BELT: HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH DISCUSSION ON COLLISIONAL OROGENIC CYCLING, BUT REFLECT SUBDUCTION POLARITY AND MANTLE FEATURES OF THE ANCIENT OROGENIC BELT...... 3567 Shiming Wang

A PETROGRAPHIC, GEOCHEMICAL AND GEOCHRONOLOGICAL STUDY OF MAFIC SILLS WITHIN THE TRANSVAAL SUPERGROUP, EAST OF THE BUSHVELD IGNEOUS COMPLEX...... 3569 Thendo Netshidzivhe

CHALCOPHILE ELEMENT GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE BAIMA LAYERED INTRUSION, EMEISHAN LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE, SW CHINA: IMPLICATIONS FOR SULFUR SATURATION HISTORY AND GENETIC RELATIONSHIP WITH HIGH-TI BASALTS ...... 3571 Xiaoqi Zhang

CRYSTALLIZATION AND INITIAL MUSH POROSITY OF POIKILITIC ANORTHOSITES IN THE BUSHVELD COMPLEX...... 3573 Ben Hayes

GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE BITUNGULU LAVA FLOW OF THE JANUARY 17 , 2002 NYIRAGONGO VOLCANO ERUPTION (VIRUNGA, EAST-AFRICAN RIFT) ...... 3575 K. Ephrem Kamate

IN-SITU MULTIPLE-TRACE ELEMENT ANALYSES AS A TOOL FOR INVESTIGATING THE PETROGENESIS OF PHOSCORITE-CARBONATITE ASSOCIATIONS, AS EXEMPLIFIED BY THE PHALABORWA COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 3576 Lorenzo Milani

MAFIC ROCKS ALONG THE KASAI RIVER (DRC/ANGOLA)...... 3578 Wean Welgemoed

PALEOPROTEROZOIC MONCHETUNDRA MASSIF (FENNOSCANDIAN SHIELD): GEOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS AND GEOCHEMICAL FEATURES OF ROCKS ...... 3580 Elena Borisenko

PERMIAN-JURASSIC RIFT-RELATED ALKALINE MAGMATISM OF THE EASTERN MOUNTAINS, CENTRAL ANDES BOLIVIA ...... 3582 Ramiro Matos

SIGNIFICANCE OF DISCOVERY AND EXPLOITATION OF KAOLIN DEPOSIT IN JINDEZHEN, CHINA ...... 3584 Guo-quan Chen

SPATIO-CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF DYKES IN THE ETENDEKA LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE, NAMIBIA: INSIGHTS INTO THE MAGMATIC PROCESSES ASSOCIATED WITH CONTINENTAL BREAK-UP ...... 3587 Trishya Owen-Smith

THE POST-TECTONIC GRANITES OF THE GAVIÃO BLOCK: THE EXAMPLE OF SALININHA MONZOGRANITE, BAHIA, BRAZIL...... 3588 Rafael Gordilho-Barbosa

CLASSIFICATION, MINERALOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL VARIATIONS IN PEGMATITES OF THE CAPE CROSS –UIS PEGMATITE BELT, NAMIBIA...... 3589 Warrick Fuchsloch

CRUSTAL EVOLUTION IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN AFRICA, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCES TO THE GRANITOIDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PALEOPROTEROZOIC UBENDIAN BELT: SE D.R. CONGO, SW TANZANIA AND NE ZAMBIA...... 3591 Francois Toto Lubala

EARLY-JURASSIC TONALITE- MONZOGRANITE ASSOCIATION FROM THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE ZHANGGUANGCAI RANGE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PALEO-PACIFIC PLATE SUBDUCTION ALONG THE NE CHINA...... 3593 Jiangfeng Qin

EMPLACEMENT MECHANISM OF THE MIDDLE-LATE JURASSIC QITIANLING PLUTON AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON THE MESOZOIC TECTONICS OF THE SOUTH CHINA BLOCK...... 3594 Yan Chen

EMPLACEMENT MECHANISM OF YUECHENGLING GRANITIC BATHOLITH OF NE GUANGXI, CHINA ...... 3596 Zuohai Feng

EVIDENCE OF HETEROGENEOUS CRUSTAL ORIGIN FOR THE PAN-AFRICAN MBENGWI PLUTONICS (NORTHWESTERN CAMEROON, CENTRAL AFRICA)...... 3597 Emmanuel Njonfang

FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION AND MAGMA MIXING IN THE CALC-ALKALINE KARADAG GRANITOID (BALYA-BALIKESIR-TURKEY) ...... 3599 Sabah Yilmaz Sahin

GENESIS AND MAGMATIC EMPLACEMENT MODEL OF THE HIMALAYAN INTRUSIONS FROM BAOXINGCHANG AREA, WESTERN YUNNAN...... 3601 Yan Dao

GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF LATE CRETACEOUS TO PLIOCENE ARC MAGMATISM IN THE CENTRAL CHILEAN ANDES (~35°S) AND ITS RECORDS OF THE EVOLVING GEODYNAMIC FRAME...... 3602 Marcia Muñoz

GEOCHEMISTRY AND PETROGENESIS OF THE LATE JURASSIC GRANITOIDS FROM XURU TSO AREA, WESTERN LHASA TERRANE, TIBETAN PLATEAU...... 3604 Jingjing Yan

GEOCHRONOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK AND TECTONIC BACKGROUND OF GRANITES IN SOUTHERN MARGIN (ANHUI AREA) OF THE NORTH CHINA BLOCK ...... 3605 Weiping Wu

GEOCHRONOLOGICAL, GEOCHEMICAL AND SR-ND–HF ISOTOPIC CONSTRAINTS ON THE PETROGENESIS OF CRETACEOUS MONZONITIC PLUTONS IN ZHEJIANG PROVINCE, SOUTHEAST CHINA...... 3606 Jian-Sheng Qiu

MESOZOIC SUBDUCTION HISTORY OF THE PALEO-PACIFIC PLATE BENEATH THE EURASIAN CONTINENT: EVIDENCE FROM IGNEOUS ROCKS AND ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX ...... 3608 W. L. Xu

ISOTOPIC HETEROGENEITY IN GRANITES: MELTING OR MIXING? ...... 3610 Janet Hergt

LATE CRETACEOUS ARC VOLCANISM IN THE CENTRAL CHILEAN ANDES (~35 S): CHARACTERISTICS AND TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS ...... 3611 Marcia Muñoz

MAFIC AND FELSIC PLUTONISM IN THE ELVAS REGION (SW IBERIA, PORTUGAL): TWO DISTINCT ND ISOTOPE SOURCES AND GEODYNAMICS...... 3613 Luís Lopes

MAGMATIC EVOLUTION OF THE RÖDÖ RAPAKIVI COMPLEX (SWEDEN); THE IMPORTANCE OF REE-FLUOROCARBONATES ...... 3615 Ulf B. Andersson

OCCURRENCE OF RAPAKIVI GRANITE AROUND TARAI, KANO STATE, NORTHWESTERN NIGERIA: A PRELIMINARY REPORT ...... 3617 Abdulgafar Amuda

PETROGRAPHY, GEOCHEMISTRY, AND RADIOMETRIC DATING U-PB SHRIMP II OF THE TONALITE COMPLEXES OF THE LOK-KARABAKH, LESSER CAUCASUS (AZERBAIJAN) ...... 3619 E. A. Sadikhov

PETROLOGY OF PALEOCENE KOUJYAKU GRANITES IN SHIGA AND FUKUI PREFECTURES, CENTRAL JAPAN ...... 3620 Kazuhiko Sawada

PETROLOGY OF THE TWO CONTRASTING CRETACEOUS GRANITOID PLUTONS, WEST TO LAKE BIWA, SOUTHWEST JAPAN ...... 3622 Masaru Taga Mamoru Murata

REEXAMINATION OF THE RADIOMETRIC AGES OF THE MIOCENE FOREARC MAGMATISM SW JAPAN ...... 3624 Hironao Shinjoe

THE LATE JURASSIC SYNTECTONIC HENGSHAN GRANITIC MASSIF (HUNAN, SE CHINA) AND ITS SIGNIFICATION OF AN EARLY EXTENSIONAL EVENT OF THE SOUTH CHINA BLOCK DURING THE LATE MESOZOIC ...... 3626 Yan Chen

THREE STAGES TO FORM A LARGE BATHOLITH DURING TERRANE ACCRETION – AN EXAMPLE FROM THE CENTRAL FINLAND GRANITOID COMPLEX, SVECOFENNIAN OROGEN, NORTHERN EUROPE...... 3628 Annakaisa Korja

TWO GENERATIONS OF IN THE BUEM STRUCTURAL UNIT, SOUTHEASTERN GHANA. CONSTRAINS FROM PETROGRAPHY AND GEOCHEMISTRY ...... 3630 Daniel Kwayisi

CHARACTERISTICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MINERALS IN ATMOSPHERIC DUST OF SHIJIAZHUANG, CHINA ...... 3631 Wenlou Luan

HYDROCARBONS IN NORTHERN GERMAN SALT DOMES – CONTENT, DISTRIBUTION, ORIGIN AND STRUCTURAL POSITION...... 3632 Maximilian Pusch

LOW TEMPERATURE SYNTHESIS OF HYDROCARBON FLUID-BEARING CRYSTALS...... 3634 Katarzyna Jarmolowicz-Szulc

THE EFFECT OF ORIGIN ON FIRING BEHAVIOUR OF KAOLINITIC CLAYS ...... 3635 Aydin Aras

THE THERMOMETRIC DATA OF THE HIGH-TEMPERATURE VEIN QUARTZ FROM WADROZE WIELKIE AREA (FORE-SUDETIC BLOCK, POLAND)...... 3637 Krystyna Wolkowicz

THERMAL STABILITY AS ALTERNATE INDICATOR OF CERAMIC POTENTIALS OF SELECTED SOUTH AFRICAN KAOLINS...... 3639 Makia Lawrence Diko

FLUID EVOLUTION OF THE ZHUNUO PORPHYRY CU(-MO-AU) SYSTEM IN GANGDESE TRACT IN TIBET,CHINA: A FLUID INCLUSION INVESTIGATION...... 3640 Jie Dai

FLUID INCLUSION CHARACTERISTICS OF AGARGAON TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS IN THE SAKOLI FOLD BELT, NAGPUR DISTRICT, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA ...... 3641 Girish Kumar Mayachar

FLUID INCLUSION CHARACTERISTICS OF PORPHYRY MO SYSTEMS IN TWO CONTRASTING TECTONIC ENVIRONMENTS: INSIGHTS FROM SHAPINGGOU AND ZHILINGTOU DEPOSITS IN SOUTH CHINA...... 3643 Pei Ni

PETROGENESIS AND FLUID INCLUSION STUDY OF BISMUTH MINERALIZATION FROM BETUL BELT, INDIA...... 3645 Thankappan Pradeepkumar

THE FLUID EVOLUTION IN SHEAR HOSTED CU-AU MINERALISATION AT THANEWASNA, CENTRAL INDIA: CONSTRAINTS FROM FLUID INCLUSION AND STABLE ISOTOPE STUDY...... 3647 Muduru Lachhana Dora

THE MECHANISM OF METAL PRECIPITATION IN THE DEXING GIANT ORE CLUSTER, SOUTH CHINA: EVIDENCE FROM FLUID INCLUSIONS ...... 3649 Guo-Guang Wang

AN ECLOGITIC AND DEEP MANTLE ORIGIN OF PANNA DIAMONDS, MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA: EVIDENCE FROM MORPHOLOGICAL AND RAMAN SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES...... 3651 Aparajita Bhattacharya

AN UNUSUAL RUBY-SAPPHIRE TRANSITION IN MEGACRYSTIC CORUNDUM, NEW ENGLAND GEM FIELD, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA...... 3653 Stephen Harris

GEMSTONES OF SOUTHERN AFRICA: A TOUR OF THE SUBCONTINENT ...... 3655 Bruce Cairncross

GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BERYL FROM PEGMATITES OF THE ERONGO VOLCANIC COMPLEX, NAMIBIA ...... 3657 Jullieta Lum

MODERN MINING OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY GEM DEPOSITS IN MOGOK, MYANMAR...... 3659 Brendan Laurs

PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF NINE DIAMOND PARCELS FROM THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - IS SOURCE DISCRIMINATION POSSIBLE? ...... 3661 Susan Foulkes

[FE,NI,CU](O,S) SPHEROIDES FROM CATOCA KIMBERLITS ECLOGITE XENOLITES ...... 3663 Vladimir Zinchenko

BLUE SAPPHIRES IN SYENITE PEGMATITES FROM ILMEN MOUNTAINS, SOUTH URALS ...... 3666 Elena S. Sorokina

GEOCHEMISTRY AND RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY OF MICAS ASSOCIATED WITH GREISENS IN THE POIMENA GRANITE, NE TASMANIA ...... 3668 Jan Van Moort

NEW MICROLITE-GROUP MINERALS FROM VOLTA GRANDE PEGMATITE, MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL...... 3671 Marcelo Andrade

ORIGIN OF RUBIES FROM THE PARANESTI REGION, NORTH-EASTERN GREECE...... 3673 Kandy Wang

POLYOXONIOBATES FROM CAJATI, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL...... 3677 Daniel Atencio

RELATION OF MAGNETITE COMPOSITION TO MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY IN MAURITIAN BASALTS...... 3678 Yashirvad Thakurdin

AN OVERVIEW ON NEW PLATINUM-GROUP MINERALS AND THEIR SYNTHETIC ANALOGUES ...... 3680 Anna Vymazalova

COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING STUDIES OF THE MINERALS SULPHIDES WITH THE PENTLANDITE STRUCTURE...... 3682 Mofuti Mehlape

ELEMENT MOBILIZATION RESULTING FROM MINERAL REPLACEMENT REACTIONS...... 3683 Christine V. Putnis

OSBORNITE (TIN): IMPLICATIONS FOR AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL ORIGIN OF CARBONADO- DIAMONDS...... 3685 Gopalakrishnarao Parthasarathy

SIMULATION STUDY OF AU OCCURRENCE STATE IN ARSENOPYRITE CRYSTAL...... 3687 Hongying Yang

COST COMPARISON OF SAMPLE PREPARATION FOR THE MINERALOGICAL COMMUNITY - PRIMITIVE TECHNIQUES VS ADVANCED MECHANICAL TECHNIQUES ...... 3688 Igor Tonzetic

POLYMORPHS AND MORPHOLOGIES OF CALCIUM CARBONATE INDUCED BY INORGANIC AND ORGANIC ADDITIVES ...... 3690 Hong Li

ABOUT THE PRESENCE OF NON-REPORTED ZEOLITES RELATED TO KARROO BASALTS AT SOUTH MOZAMBIQUE, A POSSIBLE NEW COMMODITY TO USE FOR ENVIROMENT PROTECTION...... 3692 Gerardo Antonio Orozco

CLAYEY SOILS, ADDITIVES FOR TRADITIONAL POT MAKING AND ARTEFACT MOTIVES AS CULTURAL INDICATORS IN LIMPOPO AND FREE STATE, SOUTH AFRICA...... 3693 Phindile Hlekane

CRYSTAL CHEMICAL PRINCIPLES OF CLASSIFYING EUDIALYTE GROUP MINERALS ...... 3695 Sergey Aksenov

MINERALS IN THIN SECTION: AN OPEN-ACCESS, INTERACTIVE WEBSITE FOR TRANSMITTED- LIGHT PETROGRAPHIC MICROSCOPY ...... 3697 Juergen Reinhardt

NEW INVESTIGATIONS ON ZN-CLAYS FROM SKORPION (NAMIBIA)...... 3699 Giuseppina Balassone

AUTOMATED MINERALOGY ANALYSIS AS A FIRST APPROACH TO RECOGNIZE OLIVINE-HOSTED MELT INCLUSIONS IN LAVAS FROM THE CENTRAL VOLCANIC ZONE (CVZ), CHILE...... 3701 Osvaldo González-Maurel

FLUID INCLUSION STUDIES OF HIGH GRADE GRANULITE TERRAIN OF SIVASAMUDRAM - SATNUR AREA, SOUTHERN KARNATAKA, INDIA...... 3703 Girish Kumar Mayachar

ORIGIN AND GENESIS OF ALLUVIAL SAPPHIRES FROM THE OROSMAYO REGION, SIERRA DE RINCONADA, JUJUY PROVINCE, NORTHWEST ARGENTINA...... 3705 Stephen Harris

PLAGIOCLASE MORPHOLOGY AND COMPOSITIONAL VARIATION DETERMINED USING AUTOMATED MINERALOGICAL ANALYSIS: WHAT DOES IT MEAN?...... 3707 Osvaldo González-Maurel

SOME SECONDARY MANGANESE MINERALS GROWN ON MANGANESE HUMITES ASSOCIATION IN RAZOARE MN-FE DEPOSIT, PRELUCA MTS, EAST CARPATHIANS, ROMANIA ...... 3709 Delia-Georgeta Dumitras

TARANAKITE IN FEW FOSSIL BAT-GUANO DEPOSITS FROM CAVES IN SOUTHERN ROMANIA...... 3711 Delia-Georgeta Dumitras

THE FORMATION OF GAHNITE (ZN-SPINEL) AND ZN-BEARING STAUROLITE IN THE BIG SYNCLINE EAST, AGGENEYS TERRANE, NAMAQUA METAMORPHIC COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 3714 Peter Horvath

THE W–MO POLYMETALLIC DEPOSIT IN THE ANDRADITIC SKARN FROM THE UPPER MRACONIA VALLEY (ALMAJ MOUNTAINS, ROMANIA) ...... 3716 Stefan Marincea

THERMOBARIC CHARACTERISTICS OF FLUID INCLUSIONS IN SUBSALT SEDIMENTS OF EAST PART OF PRECASPIAN BASIN ...... 3718 Talgat Yensepbayev

VIRIDINE, PIEMONTITE AND EPIDOTE GROUP MINERALS FROM THASSOS ISLAND, NORTHERN GREECE ...... 3720 Ian Graham

A HUNDRED MILLION YEARS IN A LONG, HOT OROGEN: ZIRCON AND MONAZITE GROWTH DURING TECTONO-THERMAL ACTIVITY IN THE LÜTZOW-HOLM COMPLEX OF EAST ANTARCTICA...... 3722 Daniel Dunkley

CRUSTAL THICKENING DURING AMALGAMATION OF EAST AND WEST GONDWANA: A CASE STUDY FROM THE HAFAFIT COMPLEX, EGYPT ...... 3724 Tamer Abu-Alam

DESTRUCTION OF THE MOZAMBIQUE OCEAN: EVIDENCE FROM THE SCHIRMACHER OASIS, EAST ANTARCTICA FOR ACCRETION AS A PRECURSOR TO GONDWANA ASSEMBLY...... 3725 Ravikant Vadlamani

TECTONIC OVERPRESSURE AS AN ALTERNATIVE DRIVING FORCE OF HIGH-P ASSEMBLAGES WITHIN THE CAMBRIAN HIGH-GRADE OROGENS OF EAST ANTARCTICA ...... 3727 Evgenii Mikhalskii

TECTONOTHERMAL EVOLUTION OF SOUTHEASTERN NIGERIAN BASEMENT COMPLEX...... 3729 Barth Ekwueme

THE CONTINUATION OF THE ARABIAN-NUBIAN SHIELD AND THE MOZAMBIQUE BELT INTO EAST ANTARCTICA: IMPLICATIONS OF GONDWANA ASSEMBLY ...... 3730 Steven Boger

A BRIEF PULSE OF ARCHEAN GRANULITE-FACIES METAMORPHISM: THE BEARTOOTH MOUNTAINS OF MONTANA, US ...... 3732 Mark Caddick

ET AT HIGH-T: METAMORPHISM OF ORDINARY CHONDRITES...... 3734 Tim Johnson

VOLUME 10

GRANITIC INTRUSIONS AND UHT METAMORPHISM IN THE SOUTHERN MARGINAL ZONE OF THE LIMPOPO COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA...... 3736 Oleg Safonov

HT/UHT GARNET GEO-THERMOCHRONOLOGY: LIMITATIONS AND APPLICATIONS FROM TWO NEOARCHEAN TERRANES ...... 3738 Besim Dragovic

PALEOPROTEROZOIC ULTRAHIGH-TEMPERATURE PELITIC IN THE NORTHERN SULU OROGEN, CHINA ...... 3740 Xiang Hua

TECTONIC DRIVERS OF UHT METAMORPHISM IN EASTERN INDONESIA...... 3741 Jonathan Pownall

UHT METAMORPHISM FROM IN OUZZAL TERRANE (HOGGAR, SOUTHERN ALGERIA) ...... 3743 Khadidja Ouzegane

WIDESPREAD CO2-RICH CORDIERITE IN THE UHT BAKHUIS GRANULITE BELT, SURINAME...... 3745 Emond De Roever

DETAILS OF THE GABBRO-TO-ECLOGITE TRANSITION DETERMINED FROM MICROTEXTURES AND CALCULATED CHEMICAL POTENTIAL RELATIONSHIPS...... 3747 Simon Schorn

FLUID-ROCK INTERACTION : HYDRATION, STRESS GENERATION AND MASS TRANSFER ...... 3749 Andrew Putnis

THE RAPID KINETICS OF FLUID-CATALYZED EXSOLUTION PROCESSES IN HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEMS...... 3750 Joel Brugger

THE TIMING OF MANTLE METASOMATISM REVEALED BY DIFFUSION PROFILES IN ZONED GARNET CRYSTALS – A NANOSIMS STUDY ...... 3752 Brendan Hanger

CARBONATITIC MELT INCLUSIONS IN PERITECTIC GARNET FROM CARLOS CHAGAS BATHOLITH: IMPLICATIONS FOR CRUSTAL MELTING IN THE ARAÇUAÍ OROGEN, BRAZIL...... 3753 Gary Stevens

DISEQUILIBRIUM MELTING OF PLAGIOCLASE DURING THE GENERATION OF S-TYPE GRANITE MAGMA...... 3755 Nonkuselo Madlakana

KUMDYKOLITE, KOKCHETAVITE, AND CRISTOBALITE CRYSTALLIZED IN NANOGRANITES FROM FELSIC GRANULITES, ORLICA-SNIEZNIK DOME (BOHEMIAN MASSIF): NOT AN EVIDENCE FOR ULTRAHIGH-PRESSURE CONDITIONS...... 3756 Patrick O'Brien

FROM SHALE TO SLATE: USING HIGH RESOLUTION X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY TO DETERMINE THE LOWER BOUNDARY OF METAMORPHISM IN PELITIC ROCKS ...... 3758 Victor Cardenes

ASSESSMENT OF THE TI-IN ZIRCON THERMOMETER BY DOCUMENTING PROGRADE AND RETROGRADE ZIRCON GROWTH IN A HIGH-PRESSURE MIGMATITIC PELITIC SCHIST OF THE CANADIAN CORDILLERA ...... 3759 Felix Gervais

BOOSTING THE PETROCHRONOLOGY ARSENAL: REE PARTITIONING BETWEEN GARNET AND MONAZITE IN BHUTANESE PELITIC METASEDIMENTS...... 3760 Tom Argles

ORIENTED INCLUSIONS AND NANOPARTICLES IN APTITE IN THE SULU UHP TERRANE, EASTERN CHINA...... 3762 Yu Hong

SPECTROSCOPIC APPROACHES TO PROBING METAMORPHIC EPISODICITY AND ITS DRIVERS ...... 3764 Daniel Viete

TRACE-ELEMENT VARIATION IN METAMORPHIC APATITE...... 3766 Isadora Henrichs

U-TH-PB ISOTOPE BEHAVIOUR IN ZIRCON, MONAZITE, APATITE, ALLANITE, XENOTIME, TITANITE AND RUTILE: DECIPHERING HIGH-TEMPERATURE POLY-METAMORPHISM BY IN SITU LA-SF-ICP-MS DATING OF ACCESSORY MINERALS...... 3767 Jeanne Taylor

ARCHEAN HOT SUBDUCTION: EVIDENCES FROM THE COMPLEXES IN THE AREA OF NORTHWEST HEBEI, CHINA ...... 3769 Yongshun Liu

EARLY PALEOZOIC POLYPHASE METAMORPHISM AND OROGENESIS IN NORTHERN TIBET, CHINA...... 3770 Jianxin Zhang

GEOCHEMICAL EVIDENCE FOR THE METASOMATIC ORIGIN OF PYROPE QUARTZITE IN WESTERN ALPS...... 3771 Yi-Xiang Chen

NB-TA MOBILITY AND FRACTIONATION DURING EXHUMATION OF UHP ECLOGITE FROM SOUTHWESTERN TIANSHAN, CHINA ...... 3772 Lijuan Zhang

PARTIAL MELTING OF HP MAFIC GRANULITES AND TECTONIC EVOLUTIONS OF THE HIMALAYAN OROGEN ...... 3773 Zeming Zhang

PHASE EQUILIBRIA IN HIGH- AND ULTRAHIGH-PRESSURE ECLOGITES ...... 3774 Chunjing Wei

THE TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF UHP METAMORPHIC BELT OF SW TIANSHAN, CHINA...... 3775 Lifei Zhang

VARISCAN-STYLE UHPM BELTS: HIGH PRESSURES AT DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES, HIGH TEMPERATURES AT DIFFERENT PRESSURES, AND CRUSTAL RELAMINATION...... 3776 Patrick O'Brien

FLUID ACTIVITIES DURING OCEANIC SUBDUCTION RECORDED BY GARNET OXYGEN ISOTOPES...... 3778 Guibin Zhang

HIGH-PRESSURE METAMORPHISM OF SUBDUCTED PASSIVE CONTINENTAL MARGINS: TAVSANLI ZONE IN TURKEY AND OMAN...... 3779 Aral Okay

HIGH-PRESSURE METASOMATISM IN THE MANTLE WEDGE: INSIGHT FROM THE TI- CLINOHUMITE-BEARING ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS OF THE MAKSYUTOV COMPLEX, SOUTH URAL MOUNTAINS, RUSSIA ...... 3781 Alexey Perchuk

JADEITITES AND RELATED HP-ROCKS FROM THE RIO SAN JUAN COMPLEX, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: PETROLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS...... 3783 H.-P. Schertl

METAMORPHIC COMPLEXES OF ZHELTAVSKY PRECAMBRIAN MASSIF (SOUTHERN KAZAKHSTAN) ...... 3785 Anfisa Pilitsyna

THE RUSSIAN BELOMORIAN ECLOGITE, NOT THE ARCHEAN ECLOGITE, BUT THE OLDEST PALEOPROTEROZOIC ECLOGITE RELATED TO CONTINENTAL COLLISION ...... 3787 Huanglu Yu

MULTIFRACTAL ANALYSIS FOR THRESHOLD DETERMINATION IN HYDROTHERMALLY ALTERED IMAGES AROUND DUTSEN DANBAKOSHI, NORTHWESTERN NIGERIA...... 3788 Abdulgafar Amuda

OBLIQUE CONVERGENCE ALONG PLATE BOUNDARIES LED TO FORMATION OF A PAIRED METAMORPHIC BELT IN CHINESE SW TIANSHAN ...... 3790 Bin Xia

PRESSURE-TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS AND INHERENT METAMORPHIC SIGNATURES IN THE NIGERIAN BASEMENT COMPLEX: A REVIEW...... 3791 Abdulgafar Amuda

SUPERIMPOSED TECTONOTHERMAL EVENTS FROM BHAVANI LAYERED COMPLEX : A NORTHERN EXTENSION TO THE PAN AFRICAN EVENT FROM SGT...... 3792 Kasturi Chakraborty

THE PETROLOGICAL AND GEOCHRONOLOGICAL STUDIES ON THE ECLOGITE AND ITS COUNTRY ROCK IN THE SUMDO AREA, TIBET, CHINA...... 3794 Cong Zhang

THERMAL STRUCTURE OF THE DABIE ECLOGITE-BEARING TERRANE REVEALED FROM THE RESULTS OF THE TI-IN-ZIRCON THERMOMETRY...... 3795 Jingbo Liu

FULL PLATE TOPOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION OF GONDWANA AMALGAMATION ...... 3796 Alan Collins

HOT OROGENS AND SUPERCONTINENT AMALGAMATION: A GONDWANAN EXAMPLE FROM SOUTHERN INDIA...... 3797 Chris Clark

MESOZOIC METAMORPHISM AND ITS TECTONIC IMPLICATION ALONG THE SOLONKER SUTURE ZONE IN CENTRAL INNER MONGOLIA, CHINA...... 3798 Jinrui Zhang

METAMORPHIC AND STRUCTURAL EVIDENCE IN THE ARABIAN-NUBIAN SHIELD FOR MID- CRUSTAL SUB-HORIZONTAL CHANNEL FLOW DURING PAN-AFRICAN EXHUMATION ...... 3799 Tamer Abu-Alam

TECTONO-THERMAL REWORKING OF THE SE ARCHEAN KAAPVAAL CRATON DURING GONDWANA ASSEMBLY: EVIDENCE FROM DRONNING MAUD LAND, ANTARCTICA ...... 3800 Eugene Grosch

TECTONOMETAMORPHIC HISTORY AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF A CA 1450 MA EVENT RECORDED IN THE PROTEROZOIC SUCCESSION FROM A PART OF THE PAKHAL BASIN ADJOINING THE EASTERN GHAT MOBILE BELT, SOUTH INDIA...... 3801 Debapriya Adhikary

ARCHEAN METAMORPHISM AND GEODYNAMICS: FROM EPISODIC AND LOCAL TO CONTINUOUS AND GLOBAL SUBDUCTION AND MOBILE-LID PLATE TECTONICS ...... 3803 Michael Brown

MESO-PROTEROZOIC METAMORPHIC EVOLUTION OF INDIAN CRATON – STUDIES FROM GNEISSIC COMPLEX OF WEST KHASI HILLS, MEGHALAYA, NORTH EAST INDIA...... 3805 Susobhan Neogi

METAMORPHIC PROCESSES IN THE EOARCHAEAN: EVIDENCE FROM THE 3.7-3.8 GA ISUA GREENSTONE BELT...... 3807 Hugh Rollinson

REMARKABLE PRESERVATION: METAMORPHIC PROCESSES IN THE 3.5 GA NORTH POLE DOME, PILBARA CRATON, AUSTRALIA...... 3809 Martin Van Kranendonk

THE DWALILE SUPRACRUSTAL SUITE OF THE ANCIENT GNEISS COMPLEX, SWAZILAND: EVIDENCE FOR DISCONTINUOUS DEPOSITION AND POLYMETAMORPHISM...... 3811 Valby Van Schijndel

THE METAMORPHIC HISTORY OF PALEO-, MESO AND NEO-ARCHEAN SEDIMENTARY ROCKS AND ASSOCIATED BASEMENT ALONG THE EASTERN AND NORTHERN EDGE OF THE KAAPVAAL CRATON: INSIGHTS INTO THE ENIGMATIC GEODYNAMIC PROCESSES THAT FORMED AND SHAPED THE ARCHEAN EARTH...... 3813 Gary Stevens

LOW PRESSURE-HIGH TEMPERATURE COMPRESSIONAL TECTONICS IN CENTRAL INDIAN TECTONIC ZONE: A STUDY OF THE METAPELITES OF MAHAKOSHAL GROUP OF ROCKS IN CENTRAL INDIA...... 3815 Kasturi Chakraborty

METAMORPHIC EVOLUTION AND PETROGENESIS OF ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS OF KOMATIITIC COMPOSITION FROM THE CENTRAL ZONE OF THE LIMPOPO BELT, SOUTH AFRICA...... 3817 Tapabrato Sarkar

METAMORPHIC PT PATH OF SHIROKAYA SALMA ARCHEAN ECLOGITE-BEARING COMPLEX OF BELOMORIAN PROVINCE, RUSSIA...... 3819 Xiaoli Li

NATURE OF FLUIDS AND TIMING OF METAMORPHISM OF THE REGIONAL HIGH GRADE GRANULITE TERRAIN OF BILIGIRIRANGAN HILL, DHARWAR CRATON, SOUTHERN INDIA ...... 3820 Girish Kumar Mayachar

THE NOEARCHEAN GRANULITE FACIES METAMORPHISM IN THE EAST HEBEI, NORTH CHINA CRATON...... 3822 Chunjing Wei

HIGH-PRESSURE MAFIC GRANULITE AT THE ARCHEAN/PROTEROZOIC BOUNDARY FROM THE JIAODONG TERRAIN, NORTH CHINA CRATON: PETROGRAPHY, GEOCHRONOLOGY, GEOCHEMISTRY AND GEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS ...... 3823 Shoujie Liu

METAMORPHIC P-T PATHS AND ZIRCON U-PB AGE DATA FOR THE PALEOPROTEROZOIC METABASIC DYKES OF HIGH-PRESSURE GRANULITE FACIES FROM EASTERN HEBEI, NORTH CHINA CRATON ...... 3824 Zhanzhan Duan

PELITIC HIGH-P GRANULITES FROM THE HUAI’AN COMPLEX, NORTH CHINA CRATON: METAMORPHIC EVOLUTION AND GEOLOGICAL SIGINIFICANCE ...... 3825 Jialin Wu

PHASE EQUILIBRIA MODELLING AND ZIRCON AGE DATING OF PELITIC GRANULITES IN ZHAOJIAYAO, FROM THE JINING GROUP OF THE KHONDALITE BELT, NORTH CHINA CRATON...... 3827 Xianwei Li

P–T–T EVOLUTION OF THE WUTAI–HENGSHAN AREA, NORTH CHINA CRATON: INSIGHTS FROM PHASE EQUILIBRIA AND GEOCHRONOLOGY OF GARNET AMPHIBOLITES...... 3828 Jiahui Qian

REWORKING OF NEOARCHEAN TTGS AND AMPHIBOLITES THROUGH FLUID-FLUXED PARTIAL MELTING, WESTERN SHANDONG PROVINCE, NORTH CHINA CRATON...... 3829 Chris Yakymchuk

CARBONATITIC MELT AND SILICATE MELT PRODUCED DURING PARTIAL MELTING OF METASEDIMENTS AT LOWER CRUSTAL DEPTH ...... 3831 Silvio Ferrero

GRANULITE FACIES METAMORPHISM AND MELTING: THE MESSAGE FROM METABASALTS ...... 3832 Richard White

NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE PALAEOPROTEROZOIC TECTONOTHERMAL EVOLUTION OF THE NORTHEASTERN SECTOR OF THE AILERON PROVINCE, CENTRAL AUSTRALIA...... 3833 Barry Reno

PETROGRAPHY AND P-T CONDITIONS OF GARNET-STAUROLITE MICA SCHISTS FROM THE TUGELA TERRANE, NATAL METAMORPHIC COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA...... 3835 Peter Horvath

RCRUST: A NEW P-T-X MODELLING TOOL AND APPLICATION TO MELT LOSS...... 3837 Matthew Mayne

STEPWISE METAMORPHIC AND ANATECTIC REACTIONS IN HIGH-GRADE METAMORPHIC TERRAINS...... 3838 Lingsen Zeng

DRONNING MAUD LAND, THE SOUTHERN EXTENSION OF GONDWANA SUPERCONTINENT: INCOMPLETE VISION ...... 3839 Tamer Abu-Alam

ROLE OF THE ASWA SHEAR ZONE, UGANDA, IN THE NEOPROTEROZOIC EAST AFRICAN OROGEN ...... 3840 Kerstin Saalmann

TECTONIC SETTING AND PROVENANCE OF THE CAPANÉ ANTIFORM, PORONGOS COMPLEX, DOM FELICIANO BELT, BRAZIL: EVIDENCE FROM U-PB AGES...... 3842 Daianne Francis Silva Da Silveira

TECTONO-METAMORPHIC HISTORY OF GRANULITE FACIES TERRAIN OF BALARAM-ABU ROAD, NORTH GUJARAT, W. INDIA : IMPLICATIONS FOR INDIA –MADAGASCAR CONNECTION IN GONDWANA CORRELATION...... 3843 Manoj Limaye

CHANNELIZED FLUID CONTROLLED METAMORPHISM-METASOMATISM: A STUDY FROM CALC SILICATES OF MAHAKOSHAL GROUP OF ROCKS IN CENTRAL INDIA ...... 3845 Kasturi Chakraborty

METAMORPHIC MODELLING OF HIGH ALUMINIUM METAPELITE WITH PSEUDOSECTION AND ZR IN RUTILE THERMOMETER: EXAMPLE OF LUMINÁRIAS NAPPE, SE, BRAZIL...... 3847 Regiane Andrade Fumes

METASOMATIC EFFECTS IN CRITICAL ZONE NORITE ADJACENT TO A CALC-SILICATE XENOLITH IN THE WESTERN BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA: IMPLICATIONS FOR CHROMITE-SPINEL CHEMISTRY...... 3849 Bavisha Koovarjee

NEOARCHAEAN TO PALEOPROTEROZOIC HIGH-PRESSURE METAPELITIC GRANULITES FROM THE JIDONG TERRANE, HEBEI PROVINCE, NORTH CHINA CRATON ...... 3851 Jun Sheng Lu

PETROLOGY AND GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PRECAMBRIAN BASEMENT COMPLEX ROCKS IN THE SOUTHEASTERNMOST PART OF WONAKA SCHIST BELT, NORTH-WESTERN NIGERIA...... 3853 Abdulgafar Amuda

RISING BUOYANCY OF VISCOUS FLUIDS AND EXHUMATION OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE METAMORPHIC BELT...... 3854 Kazuhiro Miyazaki

THE CONTINENTAL COLLISION PROCESS DEDUCED FROM THE METAMORPHIC PATTERN IN THE DABIE-HONGSEONG AND HIMALAYAN COLLISION BELT...... 3855 Chang Whan Oh

DISTRIBUTION OF TRACE ELEMENTS IN GARNET FROM COLD SUBDUCTION SETTING – TRACING REACTION HISTORY...... 3856 Hana Ditterova

FLUID-MELT EVOLUTION DURING PROGRADE MELTING AS RECORDED IN THE GARNETS OF THE OBERPFALZ , WESTERN MOLDANUBIAN ZONE (CENTRAL EUROPE) ...... 3857 Silvio Ferrero

FROM MICRO TO MACRO: MICROSAMPLING LU–HF GARNET GEOCHRONOLOGY ...... 3859 Hao Cheng

GEOCHEMICAL BEHAVIOUR OF ZR AROUND A METASOMATIC VEIN AND POSSIBLE BRINE INFILTRATION UNDER UPPER AMPHIBOLITE FACIES CONDITIONS ...... 3860 Fumiko Higashino

PETROLOGY AND PETROFABRIC OF THE METASEDIMENTS OF THE WEST DARAN METAMORPHIC COMPLEX...... 3862 Saeideh Sanieinezhad

SIMS S ISOTOPE PYRITE OF TIANSHAN HPM ROCKS AND THEIR VEIN IN CHINA: IMPLICATION FOR SULFUR EVOLUTION ...... 3864 Wen Su

A “BRIEF” HISTORY OF AEGEAN SUBDUCTION: P-T-T EVOLUTION OF THE CYCLADIC BLUESCHIST UNIT, SIFNOS, GREECE...... 3866 Besim Dragovic

ANTICLOCKWISE PT PATH AND ZIRCON U-PB DATING OF HP GRANULITES IN YUSHUGOU GRANULITE-PERIDOTITE COMPLEX, SOUTHERN TIANSHAN, CHINA ...... 3868 Lu Zhang

CHEMICAL AND THERMAL EVOLUTION OF SUBDUCTION ZONES: INSIGHTS FROM TRACE- ELEMENT DISTRIBUTION AND LU–HF GEOCHRONOLOGY IN HP OCEANIC ROCKS, HALILBAGI COMPLEX (CENTRAL ANATOLIA)...... 3869 Amaury Pourteau

CHEMICAL ZONING, PSEUDOSECTIONS AND P-T PATH OF WELL PRESERVED ECLOGITES FROM THE ADRAR IZZILATÈNE AREA (EGÉRÉ-ALEKSOD TERRANE, CENTRAL HOGGAR , SOUTH ALGERIA)...... 3871 Khadidja Ouzegane

HIGH-PRESSURE PETILIC GRANULITES FROM THE WEST KUNLUN OROGENIC BELT, CHINA:P-T-T PATH AND GEOTECTONIC IMPLICATIONS ...... 3872 Wenqiang Yang

THE DISCOVERY OF FLUID INCLUSION IN MOISSANITE OF SERPENTINITE FROM SOUTHERN DABIE MOUNTAIN (ANHUI AREA), PR CHINA ...... 3873 Weiping Wu

THE OCCURRENCE OF EXCESS 40AR IN AMPHIBOLE: IMPLICATION OF 40AR/39AR DATING BY LASER STEPWISE HEATING AND IN VACUO CRUSHING ...... 3874 Rong-Guo Hu

TIMING OF THE BLUESCHIST-FACIES METAMORPHISM IN THE NORTH QILIAN OROGEN...... 3876 Hao Cheng

GEOBIOLOGY OF AN EARLY ARCHEAN MICROBIAL MAT FACIES (STRELLEY POOL FORMATION, WESTERN AUSTRALIA) ...... 3877 Jan-Peter Duda

GROWTH, PRESERVATION, AND BIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF CUSPATE MICROBIAL FORMS: MESOPROTEROZOIC DISMAL LAKES GROUP, ARCTIC CANADA ...... 3879 Linda Kah

HIGH-RESOLUTION TRACE METAL ANALYSIS OF A STROMATOLITE DEPOSITED DURING THE END-TRIASSIC EXTINCTION EVENT...... 3880 Victoria Petryshyn

MORPHOLOGICAL AND MINERALOGICAL BIOSIGNATURES OF ANOXYGENIC PHOTOSYNTHETIC BENTHIC MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES ...... 3882 Tanja Bosak

PRESERVATION OF LIFE ACROSS OCEAN ANOXIC EVENTS...... 3883 Kliti Grice

THE EFFECTS OF SEDIMENTATION ON MODERN MICROBIAL MATS IN ANTARCTIC LAKES ...... 3884 Dawn Sumner

COULD ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS PLAY IMPORTANT ROLE IN CARBONATE FACIES FORMATION? A REAPPRAISAL BASED ON NEW BIO-GEOCHEMICAL APPROACH IN MODERN MICROBIALITES FROM JAPAN...... 3886 Rafael França Mattos

DAILY LAMINATION FORMED BY SULFUR OXIDIZING BACTERIA AND CHLOROFLEXUS IN A HOT SPRING STROMATOLITE...... 3887 Tomoyo Okumura

DISCOVERY OF A NEW PHOSPHORITE ORE-BEARING STRATA AND STROMATOLITE PHOSPHORITES OF DENGYING FORMATION OF LATE EDIACARAN IN GUIZHOU PROVINCE, SW CHINA...... 3889 Haili Ren

GENESIS OF THE MOONMILK DEPOSITS AT SAHASTRADHARA CAVE, INDIA: SOME GEOCHEMICAL, MINERALOGICAL AND MICROBIOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS ...... 3891 Ramanathan Baskar

GEOCHEMICAL AND MINERALOGICAL MICROBIAL SIGNATURES RECORDED WITHIN THE CONDENSED DEPOSITS OF THE MIDDLE-UPPER JURASSIC TRANSITION ON THE ROMANIAN TERRITORY...... 3892 Lucian Petrescu

LARGE STROMATOLITES AROUND THE K-P BOUNDARY IN NORTHERN PATAGONIA, ARGENTINA...... 3894 Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta

MICROBIALITE DEVELOPMENT IN QUATERNARY REEFS : THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM ...... 3896 Gilbert Camoin

NEW OCCURRENCES OF PERMIAN STROMATOLITES NEAR PURROS AND ORUPEMBE, KUNENE REGION, NW NAMIBIA...... 3898 Aimée Barroso

PETROPHYSICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL VARIATIONS RELATED TO STROMATOLITE DISSOLUTION...... 3900 João Victor D. Alcantara

TEXTURAL AND GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS, AND PROCESS OF FORMATION, OF OOIDS IN THE MESOARCHAEAN PONGOLA SUPERGROUP, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 3901 Axel Hofmann

THE MOLYBDENUM ISOTOPE COMPOSITION OF MODERN AND ANCIENT STROMATOLITES...... 3903 Marie Thoby

UNUSUAL VERY POSITIVE ENRICHMENT OF 13C IN CARBONATE SEDIMENTS DEPOSITED IN MODERN HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT, LAGOA SALGADA, BRAZIL: INDICATOR OF SALINITY CONTROLLED METABOLIC PROCESSES...... 3905 Crisogono Vasconcelos

CLIMATE CHANGE- IDENTIFICATION OF DEEP SALINE AQUIFER FOR CO2 SEQUESTRATIONIN BIKANER-NAGAUR BASIN, RAJASTHAN, INDIA...... 3907 Devinder Kumar Chadha

CLIMATIC VARIABILITY IN WESTERN MEXICO DURING HOLOCENE (10,000 BP) INTERPRETED FROM DIATOM AND POLLEN RECORD IN SEDIMENT FROM LAKE CHAPALA. (CHAPHOLO PROJECT, CONACYT GRANT 168685)...... 3909 Pedro Zarate-Del Valle

IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON LIVELIHOOD OF CENTRAL HIMALAYAN COMMUNITIES ...... 3911 Mahabir Singh Negi

LOWER GONDWANA CRYOSPHERE OF THE SIKKIM LESSER HIMALAYA,(HIMALAYAN GONDWANA), INDIA ...... 3912 Vinod Tewari

PALEOCLIMATE RECORD FROM SPELEOTHEM : CARBON AND OXYGEN ISOTOPE VARIATION IN A STALAGMITE FROM THE SAHASTRADHARA CAVE, UTTARAKHAND LESSER HIMALAYA, INDIA ...... 3914 Vinod Tewari

PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFER RECORD OF A STRONGER INDIAN WINTER MONSOON DURING THE LAST GLACIAL PERIOD IN A DEEP SEA CORE FROM THE EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEAN...... 3916 Subhradeep Das

SIGNIFICANCE OF SPELEOTHEMS IN PALEOCLIMATE CHANGE , INTENSITY OF TROPICAL MONSOON , INTER TROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE AND GEOMICROBIOLOGICAL PROCESS : EVIDENCES FROM THE HIMALAYAN AND ASIAN CAVES ...... 3918 Vinod Tewari

SUBANNUAL-TO-BIANNUAL-RESOLVED RECORD OF INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON INTENSITY IN THE EARLY HOLOCENE RECORDED BY A TRAVERTINE AT THE EASTERN EDGE OF TIBETAN PLATEAU ...... 3920 Hailong Sun

ASSESSMENT OF THE CAVE ENVIRONMENTS APPROPRIATE FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE QUATERNARY SETTINGS IN CROATIA – SPELEOTHEM-BASED APPROACH...... 3921 Maša Suric

CIRCULATION EFFECT OF δ18O IN PRECIPITATION AND ITS IMPLICATION FOR PALEOCLIMATE ...... 3922 Ming Tan

ONSET AND DURATION OF TRANSITIONS INTO GREENLAND INTERSTADIALS 15.2 AND 14 IN NORTHERN CHINA CONSTRAINED BY AN ANNUALLY LAMINATED STALAGMITE...... 3923 Wuhui Duan

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN δ13C OF SHELL ARAGONITE IN TERRESTRIAL SNAILS AND LOCAL CLIMATE OF THE EAST-ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON REGION ...... 3924 Xuefen Sheng

SPELEOTHEMS AND PAST CLIMATE RECORD FROM HIMALAYA AND MEGHALAYA,INDIA...... 3925 Vinod Tewari

CHEMICAL WEATHERING IN THE TROPICAL RIVER CATCHMENTS OF WESTERN GHATS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON CLIMATE CHANGE- A CASE STUDY FROM A TROPICAL RIVER IN SOUTHWEST COAST OF INDIA...... 3927 K. Balakrishna

HOLOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE IN SW INDIA - A MULTI PROXY STUDY USING COASTAL SEDIMENTS AS AN ARCHIVE...... 3929 Damodharan Padmalal

HOLOCENE MANGROVE ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS OF THE CHILKA LAGOON, MAHANADI DELTA, INDIA...... 3931 Shilpa Pandey

LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION OF KACHCHH PALAEO-RIFT BASIN, WESTERN INDIA: QUATERNARY CLIMATE AND TECTONIC ODYSSEY...... 3932 Mahesh Thakkar

MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY AS A PROXY FOR PALEORAINFALL: NEW DATA FROM HIREKOLALE LAKE SEDIMENTS, SOUTHERN INDIA...... 3934 Rajashekaraiah Shankar

UPPER PLEISTOCENE PALAEOCLIMATE AND PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL EVOLUTION OF KIVU...... 3936 Chantal K. Nzabandora

ABRUPT PRODUCTIVITY SHIFT RECORDED DURING EARLY-MIDDLE HOLOCENE, IN THE NE ARABIAN SEA...... 3937 Syed Azharuddin

RECONSTRUCTING THE SURFACE WATER CONDITION OF SOUTHEAST ATLANTIC OCEAN FOR LAST 1.8MA USING PLANKTIC FORAMINIFERA CENSUS AND STABLE CARBON AND OXYGEN ISOTOPE RECORD...... 3938 Ankush Shrivastava

CHRONOLOGY OF RELICT LAKE DEPOSITS IN THE UPPER ALAKANANDA BASIN: IMPLICATION TO PALEOCLIMATE AND VARIABILITY OF CHEMICAL WEATHERING INTENSITY...... 3939 Jitendra Kumar Pattanaik

GEOCHEMISTRY AND 10BE ANALYSIS OF SEDIMENTS FROM SVALBARD, ARCTIC OCEAN: A PROXY FOR CLIMATE CHANGE...... 3941 Pankaj Kumar

RE-VISITING THE GLOBIGERINOIDES RUBER δ18O SALINITY TEMPERATURE RELATIONSHIP IN THE INDIAN OCEAN ...... 3943 Rajeev Saraswat

CAPACITY BUILDING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IN TAJIKISTAN...... 3944 Aziz Gulamadshoev

CHARACTERISING GROUNDWATER HYDROLOGY OF KRISHNA-GODAVARI BASINS...... 3946 Harika Munagapati

CLIMATE VARIABILITY OF THE ASIAN MONSOON AND WESTERLIES AS SEEN THROUGH SPELEOTHEM RECORDS ...... 3948 Hai Cheng

NEW RESULTS ON LATE QUATERNARY GEOCHRONOLOGY OF CASPIAN SEA BASED ON OSL- DATING ...... 3950 Nikolai Tkach

RECENT GLACIER EXTENT AND MASS BALANCE SURVEY IN THE RWENZORI MOUNTAINS, UGANDA/D.R. CONGO ...... 3952 Denis Samyn

RECONSTRUCTING GLACIER CHANGE POST-LITTLE ICE AGE (LIA) IN THE NORTH-WESTERN HIMALAYA, INDIA: AN OVERVIEW AND SPECIFIC EXAMPLES ...... 3953 Pritam Chand

TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CHANGES OF EFFECTIVE PRECIPITATION AND THEIR KEY ROLE IN CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ON GROUNDWATER IN CENTRAL EUROPE...... 3955 Peter Malik

ANTHROPOGENIC CARBONATE DEPOSITS: A NEW TOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AND ARCHAEOLOGY...... 3957 Gül Sürmelihindi

CARBON DIOXIDE SEQUESTRATION DUE TO CHEMICAL WEATHERING FROM THE INDIAN RIVER CATCHMENTS – A REVIEW...... 3959 Keshava Balakrishna

CORRELATION OF QUATERNARY SEDIMENTS OF EAST EUROPEAN PLAIN AND CASPIAN SEA REGION ...... 3960 Redzhep Kurbanov

NEW DATA ON THE STRUCTURE OF QUATERNARY DEPOSITS OF MANYCH DEPRESSION ...... 3961 Nikolai Tkach

NEW RESULTS FOR QUATERNARY STRATIGRAPHY AND PALEOGEOGRAPHY OF CASPIAN SEA BASED ON LOWER VOLGA SECTIONS ...... 3963 Redzhep Kurbanov

OSL-BASED CHRONOLOGY OF SAND MOBILISATION IN GOLESTAN PROVINCE OF NORTHERN IRAN ...... 3965 Manfred Frechen

OVERLOOKED GEOLOGICAL AND HUMAN-HISTORICAL EVIDENCE THAT SEA-LEVEL RISE WILL APPROACH OR EXCEED IPCC WORST-CASE SCENARIO, REGARDLESS OF HUMAN ACTION ...... 3966 Roger Higgs

EVALUATION OF PALAEOCLIMATIC VARIABILITY DURING DECCAN VOLCANIC EPISODE: PERCEPTIONS FROM THE INTRABASALTIC PALAEOSOLS (BOLE BEDS) OCCURRING AROUND KOYNANAGAR AREA OF MAHARASHTRA (INDIA)...... 3968 Mohammed Rafi Sayyed

PALEO BEACH-RIDGE COMPLEXES, INDICATOR OF SEA-LEVEL CHANGES AND CLIMATIC FLUCTUATIONS: A CASE STUDY FROM PART OF THE ANDHRA PRADESH COAST, INDIA...... 3969 Rimpal Kar

STABLE CARBON ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION OF BLACK CARBON IN SURFACE SOIL AS A PROXY FOR RECONSTRUCTING VEGETATION IN THE NORTHERN CHINA...... 3971 Lian Liu

ASSESSMENT OF CLIMATE IMPACTS ON THE KARST-RELATED CARBON SINK IN SW CHINA USING MPD AND GIS ...... 3973 Sibo Zeng

GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND IN-SITU QUARTZ OXYGEN ISOTOPE RATIO IN A TERRA ROSSA PROFILE: AN UNCONSOLIDATED PALEOSOL HORIZON...... 3974 Hongbing Ji

GEOLOGICAL RELICT AS THE CLIMATIC REFUGIA OF PLANTS...... 3975 Woo-Seok Kong

PALAEOCLIMATIC IMPRINTS REVEALED FROM THE DECCAN INTRABASALTIC PALAEOSOLS FROM THE LONAND AREA (SATARA DISTRICT) OF MAHARASHTRA (INDIA)...... 3976 Uday Kulkarni

PETROGRAPHIC AND ORGANIC GEOCHEMICAL EVIDENCES OF WILDFIRE FROM THE MIDDLE PERMIAN COAL OF NORTH CHINA BASIN AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE FOR PERMIAN MASS EXTINCTION ...... 3977 Yuzhuang Sun

CLIMATE CHANGE EVIDENCED BY PALEOSOL RECORDS IN THE KAZAKHSTAN STEPPE AREA ...... 3978 Jiri Chlachula

CLIMATE CHANGE: A REALITY OR A MYTH? KOA DUNEFIELD CASE STUDY, NORTHERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA...... 3980 Cindy Faul

COUNTING LAND CARBON STORAGE IN GUIZHOU PROVINCE, SOUTHWESTERN CHINA ...... 3982 Jian Ni

GEOMORPHOLOGICAL AND PALEOPEDOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT ON CRETACEOUS PARENT SOURCE ROCK AROUND NSUKKA SOUTHEASTERN NIGERIA...... 3983 Izuchukwu Mike Akaegbobi

THE DIFFERENCE OF THE SEDIMENT UNDER DIVERSE CLIMATE IN THE NORTH-SOUTH PART OF BOHAI BAY BASIN IN THE EOCENE...... 3987 Liangjun Wu

CARBON CAPTURE IN MAN MADE STRATA ...... 3989 David Manning

COLLAPSE OF THE AFRICAN SURFACE ACROSS THE CONGO BASIN SURGES THE STRONTIUM ISOTOPE BUDGET OF THE CENOZOIC OCEAN...... 3991 Bastien Linol

GEOCHEMISTRY OF HIMALAYAN FORELAND SEDIMENTS USING SOIL CHEMISTRY AS PROXY: CONSTRAIN ON PROVENANCE...... 3993 Dhiraj Banerjee

MULTI-PROXIES STUDY OF THE HANON PALEO-MAAR SEDIMENT, JEJU ISLAND, KOREA: IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEOCLIMATE VARIABILITY OVER THE LAST 35 KYRS...... 3994 Sangmin Hyun

NEOGENE ENVIRONMENTS – KEY TO THE FUTURE?...... 3996 Peter Smolka

ORGANIC CARBON ISOTOPE AND MOLECULAR FOSSIL RECORDS OF VEGETATION EVOLUTION IN CENTRAL LOESS PLATEAU SINCE THE LATE QUATERNARY ...... 3998 Bin Zhou

CLIMATE CHANGE : IMACT ON HIMALAYA, MELTING OF GLACIERS, ASSOCIATED NATURAL DISASTERS AND MITIGATION ...... 4000 Vinod Tewari

DATING OF MORAINES BY LICHENOMETRY IN HAMTAH GLACIER VALLEY, LAHUAL AND SPITI DISTRICT, HIMACHAL PRADESH, INDIA: RETREAT OF HIMALAYAN GLACIER DURING LITTLE ICE AGE (LIA)...... 4001 Abhinandan Srivastav

GEOMORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF SATLUJ VALLEY IN THE CLIMATIC SENSITIVE TRACT BETWEEN RAMPUR AND LUHREE, HIMACHAL HIMALAYA, INDIA DURING LATE QUATERNARY...... 4003 S. A. I. Mujtaba

KROL CARBONATES OF THE MUSSOORIE SYNCLINE, LESSER HIMALAYA,INDIA WITH REFERENCE TO PALEOCLIMATE AND GEOTECHNICAL STUDY OF THE SURBHI LANDSLIDE ...... 4004 Vinod Tewari

HOLOCENE GLACIATIONS IN SOUTHERN ASPECT OF CENTRAL HIMALAYA: A CASE STUDY OF DUNAGIRI VALLEY (BANGNI GLACIER), CENTRAL HIMALAYA, INDIA ...... 4006 Sarswati Prakash Sati

PALEOZOIC PALEOCLIMATE OF THE HIMALAYA AND THE GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE...... 4007 Vinod Tewari

SEDIMENTARY AND DENDROCHRONOLOGICAL RECORDS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND RAINFALL VARIABILITY, SOUTHWEST MADAGASCAR ...... 4009 Estelle Razanatsoa

ASSEMBLAGES AND PATHWAYS OF MINERAL MAGNETIC AND GEOCHEMICAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN LATERITES, PALEOSOLS AND RED BOLES FROM TROPICAL INDIAN CONDITIONS ...... 4010 Satish Sangode

GEOCHEMICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF IRIDIUM (IR) AND OTHER PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENTS FROM THE INTRABASALTIC PALAEOSOLS (BOLE BEDS), ASSOCIATED BASALTS AND SOILS FROM THE DECCAN TRAPS OF KOYNANAGAR REGION (INDIA)...... 4011 Mohammed Rafi Sayyed

LONG-TERM TROPHICATION EVOLUTIONS RESPONDING TO CHANGES IN CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEM IN POYANG LAKE, CHINA ...... 4012 Ge Yu

MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE CLIMATE CHANGES IN THE CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN AS RECORDED BY SOIL WEATHERING PROFILES FROM THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF VALLE GIUMENTINA (ITALY)...... 4014 Jean-Philippe Degeai

MINERAL MAGNETIC STUDIES OF THE INTRABASALTIC BOLE BEDS FROM THE DECCAN VOLCANIC PROVINCE (INDIA): IMPLICATIONS TO THEIR PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS...... 4016 Irfan Shaikh

MIOCENE TO PLEISTOCENE DISTRIBUTION OF CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSILS AND THEIR PALEOCEANOGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE IN THE EQUATORIAL PACIFIC, WESTERN PACIFIC AND ATLANTIC OCEANS ...... 4017 Santi Dwi Pratiwi

PALAEOPEDOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS FROM THE INTRABASALTIC BOLE BEDS (PALAEOSOLS) OCCURING IN THE BOPDEV GHAT SECTION OF THE DECCAN TRAPS, SOUTH OF PUNE (INDIA): IMPLICATIONS FOR PALAEOCLIMATES DURING DECCAN VOLCANISM...... 4018 Ravindrasing Pardeshi

PEDOGENIC EVIDENCE OF HIGH PRECIPITATION IN RED PALEOSOLS: MAASTRICHTIAN OF BAURU GROUP/BRAZIL...... 4019 Francisco Ladeira

PHYTOLITH ANALYSIS ON THE INTRABASALTIC RED BOLES (PALAEOSOLS) AND MODERN SOILS FROM THE KOYNANAGAR REGION OF MAHARASHTRA (INDIA): IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PALAEOCLIMATIC RECONSTRUCTIONS...... 4020 Mohammed Rafi Sayyed

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF CLAY MINERAL ASSEMBLAGES FROM THE INTRABASALTIC PALAEOSOLS (BOLE BEDS) OCCURRING IN THE PARTS OF WESTERN DECCAN TRAPS (INDIA): PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL INFERENCES...... 4021 Mohammed Rafi Sayyed

SEASONAL AND INTER-ANNUAL VARIABILITY IN DRIP WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS OF KAITE CAVE, N SPAIN: IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTIONS...... 4022 Maria J. Turrero

SHILIN STONE FORESTS, YUNNAN, CHINA ...... 4024 Martin Knez

STUDY ON LIMESTONE HORIZONTAL CORROSIVE GROOVES IN KARST DEPRESSIONS ...... 4026 Yuhui Li

COMPARATIVE IMPACT OF SOLAR INSOLATION AND THE INDO-PACIFIC WARM POOL TEMPERATURE ON THE EAST ASIA SUMMER MONSOON DURING THE MIS-13 INTERGLACIAL...... 4027 Umesh Kumar Singh

MODERN FACIES CHANGE: REPLACEMENT OF CORALS BY CRUSTOSE CORALLINE ALGAE AND RHODOIDS IN REEFS NEAR LA PARGUERA AND ISLA DE MONA, PUERTO RICO...... 4029 Karin Abrahamsson

PALEOCLIMATOLOGY STUDY IN KANIBARAZAN WETLAND (SOUTH OF LAKE URMIA) ...... 4030 Bita Mirzapour

BEDFORM DISTRIBUTION AND SEDIMENT PATHWAYS ON A HIGH-ENERGY, MIXED WAVE- AND TIDE-INFLUENCED SHELF, NORTH COAST, NORTHERN IRELAND...... 4032 J. A. G. Cooper

OUTER SHELF DYNAMICS IN A SEDIMENT-UNDERSUPPLIED MARGIN: THE MALTA PLATEAU, CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN SEA ...... 4033 Aaron Micallef

SHELF-EDGE SAND BODIES IN THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN: RELICT DELTAS REWORKED BY MODERN PROCESSES ...... 4034 Serge Berné

THE GULF OF MAINE: A ROCKY, PARAGLACIAL SHELF ...... N/A Joseph Kelley

THE TSITSIKAMMA COASTAL SHELF, AGULHAS BANK, SOUTH AFRICA: EXAMPLE OF AN ISOLATED HOLOCENE SEDIMENT TRAP...... 4036 Burghard Flemming

A LATE CRETACEOUS MIXED-DRIFT SYSTEM ON THE URUGUAYAN MARGIN: SEDIMENTARY AND PALEOCEANOGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE ...... 4038 Adam Creaser

CONTOURITE DRIFTS AS INDICATORS OF CENOZOIC BOTTOM WATER INTENSITY IN THE EASTERN AGULHAS RIDGE AREA, SOUTH ATLANTIC ...... 4040 Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben

DISCREPANCIES UNDER WATER: MARINE GEOLOGICAL INFORMATION AND SEMANTIC HARMONISATION FOR THE EMODNET II PROJECT...... 4041 Kristine Asch

MAPPING MARINE MINERALS IN EUROPE ...... 4043 Maria Judge

SANDY CONTOURITE DEPOSITS FROM THE GULF OF CADIZ AT SITE U1388 (EXP IODP 339): SEDIMENTOLOGICAL ASPECTS AND ITS EVOLUTIONARY IMPLICATION ...... 4045 Javier Hernández-Molina

VISITING THE SHAKA RIDGE - A PART OF THE BOUVET HOTSPOT TRAIL...... 4047 Harald Brekke

INTRODUCING INFOMAR, IRELANDS NATIONAL SEABED MAPPING PROGRAMME ...... 4049 Koen Verbruggen

MAP OF SUBMERGED VOLCANIC STRUCTURES IN ITALY ...... 4051 Alessandra Pensa

MAPPING TECTONICS: A KEY ELEMENT IN SUBMARINE GEOLOGICAL EVENTS AND PROBABILITIES ASSESSMENT...... 4053 Filomena Loreto

MAPPING THE SEAFLOOR OF THE UK, EUROPE AND THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN: SHARING INFORMATION TO DELIVER NEW MARINE GEOLOGICAL PRODUCTS...... 4055 Alan Stevenson

OFFSHORE GEOLOGICAL MAPPING FROM HIGH RESOLUTION DATASETS – A “NEW” WAY TO INVESTIGATE THE EVOLUTION OF THE ANGLO-PARISIAN BASIN...... 4056 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...... 4058 Kim Picard

SEABED SUBSTRATE AND SEDIMENTATION RATE DATA FROM EUROPE’S SEAS, EMODNET GEOLOGY...... 4060 Anu M. Kaskela

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...... 4061 Gill Scott

VARIATIONS IN THE ABUNDANCE OF MICRO-FAUNA DURING THE LATE PLEISTOCENE AND HOLOCENE: ANDAMAN SEA...... 4063 Rajesh Kumar Joshi

AGGLUTINATED FORAMINIFER COMMUNITY WITHIN CENTRAL ANDAMAN TROUGH OF ANDAMAN SEA: AN APPROACH TO UNDERSTAND THE EFFECT OF SPREADING AXIS CHANNEL WAY ON FAUNA ...... 4065 Danish Anwar

COLD SEEP BENTHIC FORAMINIFERAL ASSEMBLAGES AS INDICATOR TO METHANE VENTING EVENTS IN THE NORTHERN SOUTH CHINA SEA ...... 4067 Xin Su

PROVENANCE AND PALEOENVIRONMENTAL EVENTS INFERRED FROM THE GEOCHEMICAL RECORDS OF QUATERNARY MARINE SEDIMENTS FROM SOUTH ANDAMAN SEA...... 4068 Mohan Nagasundaram

QUATERNARY PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFER BIOSTRATIGRAPHY AND BIOCHRONOLOGY OF A DEEP SEA CORE FROM SOUTH ANDAMAN SEA ...... 4069 Mritunjay Chaturvedi

RECONSTRUCTING MID- TO LATE HOLOCENE SEA-LEVEL CHANGES FROM CORAL MICROATOLLS, FRENCH POLYNESIA...... 4071 Nadine Hallmann

THE MOZAMBIQUE RIDGE: A PRODUCT OF LONG LASTING MAGMATIC ACTIVITY ...... 4072 Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben

ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE VARIATION DURING THE LAST GLACIAL CYCLE AND ITS SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHIC REFLECTION AT THE SOUTH CHINA SEA'S NORTHERN MARGIN...... 4073 Jan Harff

MORPHOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY OF THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA SHELF - RESULTS FROM THE CALIFORNIA SEAFLOOR AND COASTAL MAPPING PROGRAM ...... 4075 Samuel Johnson

SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY OF THE SALDANHA BAY AND LANGEBAAN LAGOON AREAS ...... 4077 Vamumusa Khumalo

SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY OF THE DURBAN BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA...... 4079 Nigel Hicks

SUBMERGED BEACH RIDGES IN MECKLENBURG BAY (SW BALTIC SEA) INDICATE LATE PLEISTOCENE AND HOLOCENE SHORE LINES ...... 4080 Christoph Heinrich

THE ROLE OF SHELF MORPHOLOGY AND ANTECEDENT SETTING IN THE PRESERVATION OF SUBMERGED SHORELINE SEQUENCES...... 4082 Andrew Green

COASTAL SYSTEMS IN JAPAN ...... 4083 Yoshiki Saito

CONTROL OF QUATERNARY SEA-LEVEL CHANGES ON FLUID FLOW AND SHALLOW GAS RESERVOIRS IN THE LEVANT MARGIN...... 4084 Nicolas Waldmann

DEPOSITIONAL AND EROSIONAL PROCESSES DURING THE EARLY POSTGLACIAL PHASES IN THE GULF OF CÁDIZ SHELF ...... 4085 Francisco José Lobo

GEOMORPHOLOGY OF A TROPICAL SHELF: RIO GRANDE DO NORTE EAST SECTOR, NE BRAZIL ...... 4087 Helenice Vital

GLOBAL COMPILATION OF MARINE VARVE RECORDS...... 4089 Arndt Schimmelmann

HOLOCENE DEVELOPMENT AND SEDIMENTOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ANDAMAN SEA INNER SHELF OFFSHORE PHANG NGA PROVINCE (THAILAND) ...... 4091 Klaus Schwarzer

PRESENT-DAY BREAKDOWN OF A SUBMERGED SHORELINE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF WAVE RAVINEMENT SURFACES ...... 4093 Lauren Pretorius

GEOLOGICAL BUILT-UP AND SEDIMENT DISTRIBUTION OF AMRUM BANK (NORTH SEA)...... N/A Kerstin Wittbrodt

INSHORE GAS LIMIT AND SHALLOW STRATIGRAPHY OF THE ORANGE RIVER MUD BELT...... 4094 Errol Wiles

SEISMIC-STRATIGRAPHIC APPROACH TO LATE PLEISTOCENE/HOLOCENE EVOLUTION OF LAGOA DOS PATOS, SOUTHERN BRAZIL ...... 4095 Eduardo Bortolin

TERRESTRIAL QUATERNARY SEDIMENTS PRESERVED ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN SHELF SHED LIGHT ON THE GLACIAL PALAEOENVIRONMENT...... 4097 Hayley Cawthra

D/V CHIKYU IODP SCIENTIFIC OCEAN DRILLING ACHIEVEMENTS AND THE BEYOND ...... 4099 Shin'Ichi Kuramoto

ECORD MISSION-SPECIFIC PLATFORM EXPEDITIONS IN THE INTERNATIONAL OCEAN DISCOVERY PROGRAM ...... 4101 Carol Cotterill

EUROPEAN CONSORTIUM FOR OCEAN RESEARCH DRILLING (ECORD) IN THE INTERNATIONAL OCEAN DISCOVERY PROGRAM (IODP) : NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN SCIENTIFIC DRILLING ...... 4103 Gilbert Camoin

INTERNATIONAL OCEAN DISCOVERY PROGRAM (IODP): THE LATEST INCARNATION OF ALMOST FIVE DECADES OF SCIENTIFIC OCEAN DRILLING EXCELLENCE ...... 4105 James Austin

A QUARTER-CENTURY OF GEOPHYSICAL RESULTS FROM ODP/IODP CORK OBSERVATORIES ...... 4107 Keir Becker

ANTARCTICA'S CENOZOIC ICE AND CLIMATE HISTORY: NEW SCIENCE AND NEW CHALLENGES OF DRILLING IN ANTARCTIC WATERS...... 4109 Trevor Williams

EVOLUTION OF THE GULF OF CADIZ MARGIN AND SOUTHWEST PORTUGAL FROM IODP EXPEDITION 339 RESULTS ...... 4110 F. Javier Hernández-Molina

HOLOCENE SEDIMENTATION IN THE ÅNGERMANÄLVEN RIVER ESTUARY, THE BALTIC SEA – IODP SITE M0062 ...... 4112 Aarno Kotilainen

MIOCENE TO RECENT OCEANOGRAPHIC AND CLIMATIC HISTORIES FROM THE AUSTRALIAN NORTHWEST SHELF: RESULTS FROM IODP EXPEDITION 356...... 4114 Craig Fulthorpe

OCEANOGRAPHIC AND CLIMATE CHANGES DURING THE MID PLEISTOCENE UNCOVERED FROM BERING SEA AND PACIFIC OCEAN SEDIMENT CORES...... 4116 Sev Kender

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)...... 4117 Beth Christensen

DRILLING THE AGULHAS PLATEAU AND TRANSKEI BASIN TO RECONSTRUCT THE CRETACEOUS - PALEOCENE TECTONIC AND CLIMATIC EVOLUTION OF THE SOUTHERN OCEAN BASIN ...... 4119 Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben

DRILLING TO THE CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY: SLOMO PROJECT, PHASE 1...... 4120 Henry Dick

FLUID ORIGINS, CYCLING, FLUXES, AND THERMAL REGIMES IN SUBDUCTION ZONE FOREARCS ...... 4122 Miriam Kastner

LORD HOWE RISE DEEP STRATIGRAPHIC DRILLING: TECTONICS, CLIMATE AND ANCIENT LIFE...... 4124 Kliti Grice

SEDIMENTARY RECORD AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS SINCE THE LATE PLIOCENE FROM THE CORE CSDP-1 IN SOUTH YELLOW SEA ...... 4126 Xunhua Zhang

BETWEEN-HOLE CORRELATION OF SANDY AND SILTY CONTOURITE BEDS, EXPEDITION 339, GULF OF CADIZ...... 4127 Roger Flood

EARLY HISTORY OF MEDITERRANEAN-ATLANTIC EXCHANGE – NEW INSIGHTS FROM IODP EXPEDITION 339...... 4128 Werner E. Piller

EVOLUTION OF THE NORTHERN ARGENTINE MARGIN DURING THE CENOZOIC CONTROLLED BY BOTTOM CURRENT DYNAMICS AND GRAVITATIONAL PROCESSES...... 4129 Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben

TRANSITION FROM THE CRETACEOUS OCEAN TO CENOZOIC CIRCULATION IN THE WESTERN SOUTH ATLANTIC - A TWOFOLD RECONSTRUCTION...... 4130 Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben

ZAMBEZI CONTINENTAL MARGIN: ALLOCYCLIC AND ANTECEDENT CONTROLS ON SEDIMENT TRANSPORT IN THE MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL...... 4131 Errol Wiles

COLD-WATER CORAL MOUNDS AND CONTOURITE DRIFTS: TWO CHAPTERS OF THE PALAEOCEANOGRAPHIC LOG-BOOK? ...... 4132 David Van Rooij

EVIDENCE FOR LATE MIOCENE MEDITERRANEAN OVERFLOW FROM BOTTOM CURRENT DEPOSITS WITHIN THE RIFIAN CORRIDOR (MOROCCO) ...... 4134 F. Javier Hernández-Molina

INFERRED SHORT-PERIOD INTERNAL-WAVE DEPOSITS IN GEOLOGICAL RECORDS FROM CROSS LAMINATIONS IN DEEP-WATER ENVIRONMENT...... 4136 Xiangdong Li

VOLUME 11

LARGE BEDFORMS ON CONTOURITE TERRACES: CONCEPTUAL CONSEQUENCES ...... 4137 F. Javier Hernández-Molina

ORIGIN OF MORPHOLOGICAL DEPRESSIONS IN THE GUADALQUIVIR BANK AREA (GULF OF CADIZ MIDDLE SLOPE) ...... 4139 Marga Garcia

SMALL-SCALE CONTOURITE DEPOSITS IN THE EL ARRAICHE AREA, SOUTHERN GULF OF CADIZ ...... 4141 Thomas Vandorpe

CHARACTERIZATION OF HOLOCENE NE ATLANTIC CLIMATIC VARIATIONS USING THE COLD- WATER CORAL LOPHELIA PERTUSA ...... 4143 Xavier Monteys

MORPHOLOGY AND RECENT SUB-SURFACE STRATIGRAPHY OF DOVE BASIN, SCOTIA SEA: PHYSIOGRAPHIC CONSTRAINS ON BOTTOM CURRENT DEPOSITION...... 4145 Francisco José Lobo

MORPHOLOGY AND SEISMIC FACIES OF A SEDIMENTARY WEDGE OFF SÃO SEBASTIÃO ISLAND, SÃO PAULO BIGHT, SOUTHWEST ATLANTIC OCEAN ...... 4147 Francisco José Lobo

OCCURRENCE, CHARACTERISTICS AND FORMATION MECHANISMS OF METHANE GENERATED MICRO-POCKMARKS IN DUNMANUS BAY, SW IRELAND ...... 4149 X Monteys

SEA OF MARMARA AS THE PASSAGE WAY BETWEEN THE BLACK SEA AND THE AEGEAN SEA...... 4150 Recai Sergin

SEABED MAPPING OF A DEEP-WATER BASIN; TOWARDS COMPLETING A BROAD-SCALE SEABED SUBSTRATE MAP OF IRELAND’S OFFSHORE ...... 4152 Xavier Monteys

THE MARINE GEOLOGY OF THE 1 NAUTICAL MILE EXCLUSIVE ZONE AROUND ROBBEN ISLAND, SOUTH AFRICA...... 4154 Michael Machutchon

CONTOURITE DEPOSITIONAL AND EROSIONAL FEATURES ALONG THE URUGUAYAN CONTINENTAL MARGIN ...... 4155 F. Javier Hernández-Molina

CONTOURITIC DRIFTS IN THE MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL SINCE THE CRETACEOUS: PALEOCEANOGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS ...... 4157 F. Javier Hernández-Molina

DEGLACIAL DYNAMICS OF SCANDINAVIAN ICE SHEET (SIS) AND CHANGES IN ATMOSPHERIC OCEAN CIRCULATION IN NORTH ATLANTIC REGION...... 4159 Outi Hyttinen

HIGH RESOLUTION MAPPING OF OFFSHORE MORPHOSEDIMENTARY FEATURES IN THE NORTHWESTERN IBERIAN CONTINENTAL MARGIN AND ABYSSAL PLAINS ...... 4161 F. Javier Hernández-Molina

MIDDLE MIOCENE SEDIMENTARY SHIFT IN THE SCOTIA SEA (SOUTHERN OCEAN): GLOBAL TECTONIC AND OCEANOGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS...... 4163 F. Javier Hernández-Molina

SOURCE AND TRANSPORTATIONS OF ORGANIC MATTERS AROUND THE KOREAN PENINSULA: ISOTOPE INVESTIGATION AND LAND-OCEAN LINKAGES...... 4165 Sangmin Hyun

STABLE ISOTOPES FROM MIOCENE TO PLIOCENE PLANKTONIC AND BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA: PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM IODP EXPEDITION 354 (BENGAL FAN) ...... 4166 Kara Bogus

VARIATIONS OF SURFACE AND BOTTOM CURRENTS IN EASTERN PART OF THE CHARLIE-GIBBS FRACTURE ZONE DURING THE LATE QUATERNARY...... 4168 Evgenia Dorokhova

AN ONSHORE-OFFSHORE RECORD OF SEDIMENTATION AND SHORELINE SHIFT THROUGH TWO GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLES ...... 4170 Hayley Cawthra

INTERACTION BETWEEN INTERMEDIATE/DEEP-WATER MASSES AND THE SEDIMENTATION IN A MID-SLOPE CANYON (OFF ARGENTINA/URUGUAY, 38°S) DURING THE LAST 25 KYR ...... 4172 Grit Warratz

LATE QUATERNARY SHELL CONCENTRATIONS ON THE CONTINENTAL SHELF OF SOUTHERN KOREA: BIOCLASTIC FABRICS AND PALEOENVIRONMENTS ...... 4174 Tae Soo Chang

MORPHOLOGY OF SMALL-SCALE CONTOURITIC DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEMS ASSOCIATED TO TOPOGRAPHIC HEIGHTS AT THE GALICIAN MARGIN (NW-SPAIN) ...... 4176 Julia Haberkern

PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE DURING THE LATE HOLOCENE IN THE SOUTHEASTERN YELLOW SEA, KOREA...... 4178 Hyen Goo Cho

STUDY OF A REBUILT DEEP WATER RESERVOIR IN QIONGDONGNAN BASIN, SOUTH CHINA SEA...... 4179 Lulu Cai

THE SCAN BASIN CONTOURITE FAN, SOUTHERN SCOTIA SEA (ANTARCTICA). HIGH-RESOLUTION SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY AND OCEANOGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS...... 4180 Marga Garcia

ABOUT GEOMAGNETIC FIELD OVER THE NINETYEAST RIDGE, INDIAN OCEAN...... 4182 Oleg Levchenko

BIOAVAILABLE FE DISTRIBUTION IN THE SOUTHERN ATLANTIC OCEAN ON GLACIAL- INTERGLACIAL TIMESCALES ...... 4184 Bridget Lee

BURIED COLD-WATER CORAL MOUNDS IN THE ATLANTIC MOROCCAN CORAL PROVINCE...... 4186 Thomas Vandorpe

HOLOCENE PALEOCLIMATE CHANGE IN THE NAKDONG RIVER DELTA (SOUTHEASTERN KOREA) AND ROLE OF TSUSHIMA WARM CURRENT ...... 4188 Boo-Keun Khim

MARINE GEOLOGICAL DATA AS A BASIS FOR SUSTAINABLE GROWTH, AN EXAMPLE FROM THE GULF OF BOTHNIA, FINLAND ...... 4189 Anu M. Kaskela

SEDIMENT PROVENANCE ON THE NORTHWESTERN SHELF OF SOUTH CHINA SEA AND THE SEDIMENTARY MODEL FOR HEAVY-MINERAL PLACERS...... 4190 Wen Yan

SUBAQUEOUS LANDSCAPES – DISCOVERING THE INVISIBLE USING A MULTIBEAM ECHOSOUNDER (EXAMPLES FROM THE SOUTHERN BALTIC) ...... 4192 Kazimierz Szefler

THE LATE QUATERNARY EVOLUTION OF THE SOUTHERN BRAZILIAN COAST: INSIGHTS FROM SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY AND DIATOM RECORDS ...... 4194 Jair Weschenfelder

THE SOUTH-EASTERN BALTIC SEA FLOOR MAPPING ...... 4196 Dmitriy Dorokhov

UNCONFORMITIES AID THE STRATIGRAPHIC DIVISION OF STRATA IN A FORMERLY GLACIATED SEMI-ENCLOSED BASIN: THE BALTIC SEA PROTOTYPE...... 4197 Joonas Virtasalo

3-D MAGNETIC MODELING OF THE IONIAN SEA DEEP-SEA CRUST: EVIDENCE FOR THE OLDEST IN- SITU OCEAN FRAGMENT OF THE WORLD...... 4199 Fabio Speranza

DEVELOPMENT OF THE NORTHEASTERN SHELF MARGIN OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA SINCE THE LATE MIOCENE: SEQUENCE ARCHITECTURE, DEPOSITIONAL EVOLUTION AND SEA-LEVEL CHANGES ...... 4201 Jing Jiang

ELEMENTAL ABUNDANCES AND PALEOCLIMATE IMPLICATIONS: PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM XRF CORE SCANNING OF IODP EXPEDITION 356 SITE U1463 ...... 4203 Evan O'Brien

INFLUENCE OF NEAR SHORE STRUCTURES ON THE COASTAL PROCESSES OF WEST COAST OF INDIA...... 4204 Mamatha P. K.

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...... 4205 Changsong Lin

CHARACTERISTICS OF CONTINENTAL GLACIER SURGE IN NE-PAMIR ...... 4206 Xin Yao

EVALUATION OF SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING ALBEDO RETRIEVALS OVER THE ABLATION AREA OF THE SOUTHWESTERN GREENLAND ICE SHEET...... 4208 Samiah Moustafa

GLACIAL ACCELERATION - REMOTE-SENSING OBSERVATIONS, GEOMATHEMATICAL CLASSIFICATION AND RELEVANCE FOR SEA-LEVEL CHANGE ASSESSMENT...... 4210 Ute Herzfeld

OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION IN FRONTIER AREAS - AN ARCTIC UPDATE FROM GREENLAND ...... 4212 Kristian Grube Jakobsen

RUSSIAN ARCTIC SHELF MINERAL RESOURCES POTENTIAL ...... 4214 Svetlana Babaeva

THE ANTARCTIC AND GREENLAND ICE SHEET CONTRIBUTION TO GLOBAL SEA LEVEL RISE...... 4216 Andrew Shepherd

DATING REDUCTIVE FLUIDS FLOW BY MEANS OF PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; EXAMPLE FROM THE TRIASSIC SANDSTONES OF THE SOUTHERN SPITSBERGEN...... 4218 Marek Lewandowski

GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE AND HISTORY OF THE ARCTIC OCEAN ...... 4220 Oleg Petrov

NEW EVIDENCES FOR THE CONTINENTAL NATURE OF THE CENTRAL ARCTIC SUBMARINE ELEVATIONS AND THEIR STRUCTURAL CONNECTION WITH THE EURASIAN SHELF ...... 4222 Valeriy Kaminsky

TECTONIC MAP OF ARCTIC CANADA (TEMAC): ACCURATELY TRACKING 4 BILLION YEARS OF CRUSTAL HISTORY ...... 4224 Marc St-Onge

TECTONIC STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION OF THE ALPHA-MENDELEEV FRACTURE ZONE...... 4226 Andrey Chernykh

THE LATE PROTEROZOIC - PALEOZOIC HISTORY OF THE TIMAN-PECHORA – POLAR URALS – WEST SIBERIAN REGION...... 4228 Dmitrii Remizov

THE STRUCTURE AND MORPHOLOGY OF HETEROGENEOUS ACOUSTIC BASEMENT OF THE EASTERN ARCTIC ...... 4230 Pavel Rekant

THE TECTONIC MAP OF THE EAST SIBERIAN SEA: THE UNDISTURBED PALEOZOIC COVER (ACCORDING TO THE DATA ACQUIRED BY MAGE) ...... 4232 Gennady Ivanov

MODEL OF REGIONAL GEODYNAMICS FOR ARCTIC AND NORTH-EASTERN ASIA ...... 4234 Leopold Lobkovsky

PALAEOZOIC CARBONATE DEPOSITS AND FAUNA IN THE MENDELEEV RISE...... 4235 Olga Kossovaya

SHALLOW DRILLING IN NORTH-EAST BARENTS SEA...... 4237 Dag Bering

THE EOCENE EUREKAN DEFORMATION IN THE ARCTIC - ARCHITECTURE AND KINEMATICS OF A STRANGE FOLDBELT...... 4239 Karsten Piepjohn

UPPER TRIASSIC HYDROEXPLOSIVE BRECCIA: A POSSIBLE NEW DIAMONDIFEROUS FORMATION OF ARCTIC SIBERI ...... 4241 Mikhail Naumov

CENOZOIC EXHUMATION OF THE WESTERN BROOKS RANGE, ALASKA, USA, REVEALED FROM APATITE FISSION TRACK DATA ...... 4243 William Craddock

CRUSTAL PROVENANCE OF THE "TIMANIDE" DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY SIGNATURE IN THE CIRCUM-ARCTIC STRATIGRAPHIC RECORD...... 4244 Eric Gottlieb

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE MENDELEEV RISE BY OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETERS DATA...... 4246 Alexander Rybalka

STRUCTURE AND SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY OF SEDIMENTARY COVER IN THE AMERASIAN BASIN OF THE ARCTIC OCEAN...... 4247 Artem Kireev

THE PRECAMBRIAN AGE OF THE ARCTIC SHELF BASEMENT AND PLATE TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTIONS BASED ON THE FIRST PALEOMAGNETIC DATA...... 4249 Valery Vernikovsky

TIMING AND FORMATION OF STRUCTURAL HIGHS IN THE EASTERN PART OF THE NORTHERN NORWEGIAN BARENTS SEA ...... 4251 Rune Mattingsdal

ADVANCE OF TRIASSIC PROGRADING CLINOFORMS IN THE BARENTS SEA FROM THE NORWEGIAN MAINLAND TO KVITØYA IN THE SVALBARD ARCHIPELAGO...... 4252 Tore Hoy

CARBONIFEROUS CARBONATE ROCKS OF CHUKOTKA FOLD BELT: FACIES, GEOCHEMICAL AND ISOTOPIC DATA (NORTH-EAST OF RUSSIA) ...... 4254 Marianna Tuchkova

LITHOSPHERE STRUCTURE AND TOPOGRAPHY AROUND THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN ...... 4256 Hans Thybo

MESOZOIC FAULT ACTIVITY AND DIAPIRISM IN THE SVERDRUP BASIN: NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE NE CANADIAN ARCTIC...... 4257 Berta Lopez-Mir

TECTONIC MAP OF ALASKA: A RECORD OF DEFORMATION BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTHWEST PROMONTORY OF NORTH AMERICA ...... 4259 Thomas Moore

TECTONIC MODEL FOR THE EVOLUTION OF THE ARCTIC OCEAN ...... 4261 Harald Brekke

GEOLOGICAL MAPPING AND U-PB AND SM-ND CHRONOLOGY OF THE RAUER GROUP ISLANDS (EAST ANTARCTICA)...... 4263 Nikolay Alexeev

LAMPROPHYRES AND K-RICH PLUTONIC ROCKS FROM SCHIRMACHER OASIS, EAST ANTARCTICA: MAGMA SOURCE AND RELATED ISSUES ...... 4265 Kirtikumar Randive

LATE OPENING OF THE AMERASIA OCEAN BASIN FOLLOWING ARRIVAL OF HALIP PLUME?...... 4267 Wouter Bleeker

NATURE AND EXTENT OF A TONIAN OCEANIC ARC SUPER TERRANE (TOAST) IN EASTERN DRONNING MAUD LAND, EAST ANTARCTICA: INTEGRATING GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS ...... 4269 Marlina Elburg

NEW TECTONIC MAP OF THE ARCTIC...... 4271 Sergey Drachev

PAN-AFRICAN SYENITES AND A-TYPE GRANITES IN THE SØR RONDANE MOUNTAINS, ANTARCTICA ...... 4273 Marlina Elburg

TECTONICS OF WRANGEL ISLAND, RUSSIAN ARCTIC...... 4275 Sergey Sokolov

THE RUSSIAN ARCTIC SEDIMENTARY BASINS AND THEIR PROSPECTS FOR HYDROCARBONS ...... 4277 Sergey Drachev

COMPARISON OF SR-ND ISOTOPE DATA FROM SOUTHERN AFRICA AND DRONNING MAUD LAND, ANTARCTICA...... 4279 Geoffrey Grantham

GEOCHEMISTRY OF GRANITOID SHEETS FOUND IN HU SVERDRUPFJELLA, WESTERN DRONNING MAUD LAND, EAST ANTARCTICA ...... 4281 Erasmus P. Burger

IN SITU U-PB-HF ISOTOPE ANALYSES OF THE ULTRA-HIGH TEMPERATURE METAPELITE FROM MATHER PENINSULA, EAST ANTARCTICA...... 4283 Yanbin Wang

OXYGEN ISOTOPE EVIDENCE FOR GROWTH OF ZIRCON IN METACARBONATE ROCKS FROM SØR RONDANE MOUNTAINS, EAST ANTARCTICA...... 4284 Madhusoodhan Satish-Kumar

PRESSURE-TEMPERATURE-TIME PATH AND TIMING OF CL-BEARING FLUID INFILTRATION TO THE UPPER-AMPHIBOLITE TO GRANULITE FACIES METAMORPHIC ROCKS AT PERLEBANDET, SØR RONDANE MOUNTAINS, EAST ANTARCTICA...... 4286 Tetsuo Kawakami

UNVEILING EAST ANTARCTICA AND ITS SUPERCONTINENTAL LINKAGES WITH GEOPHYSICAL IMAGING ...... 4288 Fausto Ferraccioli

A GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE STRAUMSNUTANE LAVAS (JUTULSTRAUMEN GROUP) IN WESTERN DRONNING MAUD LAND, ANTARCTICA AND THE ESPUNGABERA LAVAS (MKONDO GROUP) IN CENTRAL MOZAMBIQUE: EVIDENCE FOR COMAGMATIC AND CONTINENTAL EMPLACEMENT...... 4290 Neo Moabi

AGE AND SOURCE OF THE HANSON FORMATION—UNLOCKING THE EARLY JURASSIC HISTORY OF THE PALEO-PACIFIC MARGIN OF GONDWANA ...... 4292 Demian Nelson

ANOMALOUS FEATURES WITHIN THE MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE OF ANTARCTICA AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO VOLCANISM AND SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY...... 4293 Erica Emry

EARLY-MIDDLE JURASSIC MAFIC DYKES FROM THE H.U. SVERDRUPFJELLA, ANTARCTICA ...... 4295 Mabuela Morake

PETROGENETIC OVERVIEW OF THE RIFTED, SOUTHERN VICTORIA LAND LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE, ANTARCTICA ...... 4297 Adam P. Martin

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF PERIGLACIAL LAKE SEDIMENTS FROM SCHIRMACHER OASIS, EAST ANTARCTICA: IMPLICATIONS FOR LATE QUATERNARY DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT ...... 4299 Prakash Kumar Shrivastava

EPITHERMAL GOLD IN ICELAND...... 4301 Bryndis Robertsdottir

METALLOGENY OF ARCTIC NORWAY...... 4303 J. S. Sandstad

METALLOGENY OF GREENLAND...... 4305 Jochen Kolb

MINERAL RESOURCES OF ALASKA...... 4307 Richard Goldfarb

RESOURCE ASSESSMENTS IN GREENLAND...... 4309 Karen Hanghøj

THE CIRCUM-ARCTIC MINERAL RESOURCE PROJECT...... 4311 Rognvald Boyd

DEFORMATION ON BERING GLACIER, ALASKA: MODELING OF CONTINUUM DAMAGE WITH COMPARISONS TO AERIAL OBSERVATIONS ...... 4312 Thomas Trantow

GEOCHEMICAL PROSPECTING OF RAW HYDROCARBONS IN THE SYSTEM: CONTINENTAL MARGIN - THE ARCTIC OCEAN FLOOR ...... 4314 Alexander Kremenetskiy

LITHOSPHERIC EVOLUTION, ULTRAMAFIC MAGMATISM AND DIAMOND POTENTIAL OF THE NORWEGIAN LAPLAND...... 4316 Pavel Kepezhinskas

SURGES OF OUTLET GLACIERS FROM THE DRANGAJÖKULL ICE CAP, NORTHWEST ICELAND...... 4318 Anders Schomacker

FOSSIL IVORY DEPOSITS IN THE ARCTIC RELIC PERMAFROST...... 4319 Maria Zhurilova

GEOCHEMICAL MAP OF THE RUSSIAN POLAR SECTOR OF THE ARCTIC REGION ...... 4320 Alexander Kremenetskiy

GEOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF NOVAYA ZEMLYA (WEST OF THE RUSSIAN ARCTIC) ...... 4322 Evgeny Korago

HEAVY MINERAL ANALYSIS OF SANDSTONES FROM RESERVOIR AND SOURCE ROCK UNITS OF PRUDHOE BAY OIL FIELD, NORTHERN ALASKA...... 4324 Victoria Pease

POST-COLLISIONAL GRANITOIDS AND MID-CRETACEOUS (117-106 MA) EXTENSION IN TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF CHUKOTKA MESOZOIDES, NORTHEAST RUSSIA...... 4326 Marina Luchitskaya

SUPRAREGIONAL CORRELATION ACROSS THE WESTERN ARCTIC OCEAN - TOWARDS AN IMPROVED QUATERNARY STRATIGRAPHY AND ITS PALEOENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS -...... 4328 Seung-Il Nam

TECTONIC MAP OF THE ELLESMERIAN AND EUREKAN DEFORMATION BELTS ON SVALBARD, NORTH GREENLAND AND THE QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS (CANADIAN ARCTIC) ...... 4329 Karsten Piepjohn

THE SOURCES OF MAGMATIC ROCKS MATTER OF THE ARCTIC OCEAN AND THE CENTRAL ATLANTIC OCEAN FROM ISOTOPIC GEOCHEMICAL DATA ...... 4331 Alexander Kremenetskiy

TIMING OF EXHUMATION AND DEFORMATION ACROSS THE TAIMYR FOLD AND THRUST BELT FROM APATITE FISSION TRACK DATING AND BALANCED CROSS-SECTIONS ...... 4333 Victoria Pease

1D NUMERICAL MODELLING OF CRUSTAL HEAT TRANSFER IN THE ANTARCTIC GLACIERS OF NORTHERN VICTORIA LAND...... 4334 Mario Gaeta

A 1:1000 000 TECTONO-GEOLOGICAL MAP OF MAC.ROBERTSON LAND AND PRINCESS ELIZABETH LAND (EAST ANTARCTICA) ...... 4336 Evgenii Mikhalskii

AR40/AR39 DATA FROM SVERDRUPFJELLA AND KIRWANWEGGAN, MAUD PROVINCE, DRONNING MAUD LAND, ANTARCTICA: POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS FOR GONDWANA AMALGAMATION...... 4338 Geoffrey Grantham

CRUSTAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE GAMBURTSEV PROVINCE IN EAST ANTARCTICA...... 4340 Fausto Ferraccioli

DETAILED GRAVITY ANALYSIS OF THE EREBUS VOLCANO, ANTARCTICA ...... 4342 Kevin Mickus

INVESTIGATING EAST ANTARCTIC BASEMENT PROVINCES FROM THE SHACKLETON RANGE TO DRONNING MAUD LAND WITH NEW MAGNETIC AND GRAVITY COMPILATIONS ...... 4343 Fausto Ferraccioli

NEW AEROGEOPHYSICAL SURVEY TARGETS THE SOUTH POLE FRONTIER ...... 4345 Fausto Ferraccioli

NEW SHRIMP ZIRCON AGE FROM THE LARSEMANN HILLS REGION, PRYDZ BAY, FOR A LATE MESOPROTEROZOIC TO EARLY NEOPROTEROZOIC AND PAN-AFRICAN TECTONO-THERMAL EVENT IN EAST ANTARCTICA ...... 4347 Yanbin Wang

SATELLITE GRAVITY GRADIENT AND AIRBORNE GRAVITY VIEWS OF THE ANTARCTIC LITHOSPHERE ...... 4349 Fausto Ferraccioli

STUDY OF FROZEN GROUND CONDITIONS IN BYERS PENINSULA OF LIVINGSTON ISLAND (MARITIME ANTARCTICA) BASED ON ELECTRICAL AND GEOMORPHOLOGICAL DATA ...... 4351 Antonio Correia

VARIATIONS IN TRACE ELEMENTS AND PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENTS COMPOSITIONS DURING THE PAST 800,000 YEARS AT DOME C EPICA ICE CORES, ANTARCTICA ...... 4353 Soon Do Hur

AFRICAN CENOZOIC SEDIMENTARY FLUX FROM MODELLING OF DRAINAGE NETWORKS ...... 4354 Simon Stephenson

BASALT WEATHERING PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS IN THE LESOTHO HIGHLANDS, SOUTHERN AFRICA...... 4355 Stefan Grab

CONTRASTING STYLES OF SUPERGENE PHOSPHORUS AND RARE EARTH ELEMENT MINERALISATION IN WEATHERED CARBONATITES – EXAMPLES FROM SOUTHERN AFRICA INCLUDING GLENOVER, ZANDKOPSDRIFT AND KARINGARAB...... 4357 Pete Siegfried

LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION AND REGOLITH CHARACTERISTICS OF EAST CENTRAL NAMIBIA...... 4359 Kenneth McQueen

REGOLITH IN THE SEDIMENT ROUTING SYSTEM: A VIEW FROM TROPICAL SHIELDS ...... 4361 Dominique Chardon

TEMPO OF LATERITIC WEATHERING AND EROSION OF PENINSULAR INDIA OVER THE CENOZOIC: MORPHOCLIMATIC IMPLICATIONS ...... 4363 Anicet Beauvais

THE USE OF LATERITIC PROFILES TO INTERPRETATION OF GEOMORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION IN CUESTAS AREAS: THE CASE OF ITAQUERI HILL – BRAZIL ...... 4365 Francisco Sergio Ladeira

DECODING FLUVIAL ARCHIVES ALONG RIVER TISTA AT THE FRONTAL HIMALAYAN FORELAND, INDIA...... 4366 Sreemati Gupta

GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF PARABOLIC BEDFORMS IN GREAT INDIAN THAR DESERT ...... 4368 Sudesh Wadhawan

GLOBAL SEDIMENT SYSTEMS IN THE ANTHROPOCENE ...... 4370 Jasper Knight

LANDFORM SURFACE ANALYSIS OF SCHIRMACHER OASIS, EAST ANTARCTICA AS AN INDICATOR OF GEOMORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION ...... 4371 Prakash Kumar Shrivastava

NUMERICAL MODELLING ACTIVATION OF VEGETATED PARABOLIC DUNES DRIVEN BY CLIMATIC CHANGE AND ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCE...... 4373 Na Yan

COMPARISON OF CROSS-BEDDING IN EOLIAN DUNES IN THE NAMIB DESERT AND THE EOLIAN STIMSON SANDSTONE IN GALE CRATER, MARS ...... 4374 David Rubin

IMPACT OF A MEGACITY ON THE CONNECTIVITY OF A LARGE RIVER SYSTEM...... 4376 Nupur Bawa Chakraborty

IMPACT OF FOG AND DEW INDUCED SAND MOISTURE ON BARCHAN DUNE ASYMMETRY, THE EXAMPLE FROM WESTERN SAHARA...... 4377 Joanna Rotnicka

NEW RECORDS OF SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE QUATERNARY DUNE SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT DERIVED FROM ACCUMULATION INTENSITY ANALYSIS ...... 4379 David S. G. Thomas

SAND SEAS AND DUNE FIELDS OF EGYPT...... 4381 Olaf Bubenzer

ASSESSING THE AEOLIAN ASSUMPTION...... 4382 Johan Smit

DEEP CRUSTAL CO2 FLUXES IN JORDAN AND THEIR VARIOUS GEOLOGICAL MANIFESTATIONS ...... 4384 Nizar Abu-Jaber

FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY OF MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATED WITH DEEP-SEA HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSITS...... 4385 Anna-Louise Reysenbach

REDEFINING THE SURFACE | PETRA –JORDAN A CASE STUDY ...... 4386 Catreena Hamarneh

SEDIMENTOLOGY, GEOCHRONOLOGY AND PROVENANCE OF THE “YANGTZE GRAVELS”: LINK YANGTZE RIVER TO LATE CENOZOIC TECTONIC AND CLIMATE IN EASTERN CHINA...... 4387 Ping Wang

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...... 4389 Sharat Dutta

CHEMICAL WEATHERING AND CO2 CONSUMPTION RATE IN THE LIAOHE RIVER BASIN, NORTHEAST OF CHINA...... 4391 Yang Chen

EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS CONTROL ON QUATERNARY DRAINAGE MIGRATION AND SEDIMENTATION IN THE DAS CINZAS RIVER BASIN, PARANÁ STATE, BRAZIL ...... 4392 Marcilene Dos Santos

HIGH BARIUM FLUX FROM GOMATI RIVER BASIN (GANGA ALLUVIAL PLAIN) AND ITS IMPLICATIONS TO GANGA FLUVIAL SYSTEM ...... 4394 Shahina Siddiqui

ORIGIN OF IN SITU QUARTZ SILT FROM QUARTZITE WEATHERING, SHILLONG PLATEAU (INDIA) ...... 4396 R. V. S. Shimyaphy

10BE DATA ON EROSIONAL SURFACES IN THE MAYOMBE MASSIF (SW CONGO)...... 4397 Denis Thiéblemont

CHROMIUM ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION DURING EXTREME BASALT WEATHERING...... 4398 Michael Babechuk

ERG CHEBBI, SE MOROCCO: MORPHOMETRY, GRANULOMETRY, AND GROUNDWATER RECHARGE ...... 4400 Olaf Bubenzer

EXCEPTIONAL ALTERATION OF CASSITERITE, RUTILE, ZIRCON, XENOTIME AND MONAZITE DURING WEATHERING OF VHMS MINERALISATION...... 4401 Ravi Anand

GEOCHEMICAL EVOLUTION OF POLYGENIC FERRICRETE-CAPPED LANDSCAPES: EXAMPLE FROM THE POURA REGION, BURKINA FASO...... 4403 Ousmane Bamba

MINERALOGICAL AND δ18O-δD ISOTOPIC STUDY OF KAOLINIZED MICASCHISTS AT PENESTIN, ARMORICAN MASSIF, FRANCE: NEW CONSTRAINT IN THE KAOLINIZATION PROCESS...... 4404 Veronique Ansan

MOBILITY AND FRACTIONATION OF ZR-HF, ND-TA AND Y-HO DUE TO EXTREME AND OVERPRINTING WEATHERING EVENTS...... 4406 Ignacio Gonzalez-Alvarez

MONAZITE CHARACTERIZATION IN A CARBONATITE WEATHERING PROFILE – A NEW TOOL FOR LANDSCAPE GEOCHRONOLOGY...... 4407 Loic Le Bras

PETROLOGY AND LITHOGEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BASEMENT ROCKS OF SOUTHWESTERN NIGERIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR WEATHERING INDUCED METAL RELEASE AND REDISTRIBUTIONS IN SOILS...... 4409 Saheed Oke

REGOLITH AND LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION IN PENINSULAR INDIA AND WEST AFRICA: MORPHOCLIMATIC EVOLUTION OF THE TWO CONTINENTS OVER THE CENOZOIC...... 4411 Anicet Beauvais

THE REAL PROCESS OF RIVER CAPTURE IN MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS ...... 4413 Jiagui Zhang

INTERACTIVE STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF VIRTUAL GEOLOGICAL OUTCROPS...... 4415 Michael Roach

INTERPRETING CONTINUOUS-DISCONTINUOUS DEFORMATION STRUCTURES CONSIDERING A CONTINUUM OF FAULT SLIP STYLES: THE EXAMPLE OF FLEXURAL-SLIP FOLDS ...... 4417 Ake Fagereng

MICROSTRUCTURAL AND CHEMICAL HETEROGENEITY OF PSEUDOTACHYLYTES FROM INDIAN CRATON, AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR FRICTIONAL MELTING PROCESS ALONG SEISMIC FAULTS...... 4419 Anupam Chattopadhyay

PSEUDOTACHYLYTES: TOWORDS A DEPTH OF ORIGIN...... 4421 Uwe Altenberger

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF JWANENG MINE, BOTSWANA ...... 4423 Ian Basson

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE STEENKAMPSKRAAL MONAZITE DEPOSIT, WESTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA...... 4425 Ian Basson

A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN MAGMATIC AND MAGNETIC FABRICS WITH FLOW INDICATORS TO INFER MAGMA FLOW IN SILLS...... 4427 Lauren Hoyer

INTERPRETING EARTHQUAKE-TRIGGERED MASS TRANSPORT AND SOFT SEDIMENT DEFORMATION IN LAKE LISAN, DEAD SEA BASIN ...... 4428 Shmuel Marco

MICRO-STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS TO IDENTIFY MICRO-SCALE DEFORMATION MECHANISMS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON FAULT SEALING CAPACITY: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE LENGHU5 THRUST- FOLD BELT, QAIDAM BASIN, NE TIBETAN PLATEAU...... 4430 Yangwen Pei

STRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE POTCHEFSTROOM THRUST AND FAULT SYSTEM, WITWATERSRAND BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA...... 4432 Matt Terracin

THE ARCHITECTURE OF BURIED REVERSE FAULT ZONE IN SEDIMENTARY BASIN: A CASE FROM THE NORTHWEST MARGIN OF JUNGGAR BASIN, CHINA...... 4434 Yin Liu

THE TIME THAT GEOLOGY FORGET – WHAT DYKES IN THE SYDNEY BASIN TELL US ABOUT THE VOLCANIC EVOLUTION OF THE EAST AUSTRALIAN CONTINENTAL MARGIN...... 4435 Helen Baxter

CARBON RELEASE IN ITALY THROUGH VOLCANIC, TECTONIC AND OTHER STYLES OF DEGASSING : IMPLICATION FOR CARBON DIOXIDE SEQUESTRATION AND STORAGE...... N/A Sabina Bigi

DEFORMATION CHARACTERISTICS OF IRON-ORE-BODIES IN XINYU IRON DEPOSIT, CENTRAL JIANGXI PROVINCE AND ITS IMPLICATION FOR ORE-PROSPECTING ...... 4436 Zhengle Chen

GAS BEARING FAULTS: HOW DO THEY WORK?...... N/A Sabina Bigi

PALEOMAGNETISM OF THE PERMIAN AND THE JURASSIC ROCKS OF THE VELEBIT MT. AND ITS IMPLICATION FOR TECTONIC HISTORY OF THE KARST DINARIDES (CROATIA)...... 4438 Marek Lewandowski

PSEUDO MEGA RING STRUCTURE IN WATERBERG SANDSTONE ...... 4440 Carike Pretorius

THE BRITTLE EVOLUTION OF THE CRITICAL ZONE ACROSS SOUTH AFRICA: IMPLICATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE TRANSFORMATION...... 4442 Taufeeq Dhansay

CRUSTAL DEFORMTION CHARACTERISTICS REVEALED BY GPS OBSERVATIONS IN GUANGDONG AREA...... 4443 Xing Yan

GEOMETRY AND KINEMATICS OF MOYAR-BHAVANI SHEAR ZONE (CENTRAL PART), TAMIL NADU INDIA: CHARACTERISING A NEOPROTEROZOIC OBLIQUE TRANSPRESSION...... 4445 Siddhartha Karmakar

INTRACONTINENTAL DEFORMATION AND REACTIVATION, SOUTH WALES COALFIELD, UK...... 4446 Thomas Blenkinsop

SOFT-SEDIMENTS DEFORMATION STRUCTURES OF THE NIGER RIVER RIGHT BANK ALLUVIUMS AT BAMAKO, MALI, AND THEIR PALEOSEISMIC SIGNIFICANCE...... 4448 N'Dji Dit Jacques Dembele

STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION AND ITS IMPLICATION OF DEFORMATION TIMING OF THE DAERBUTE STRIKE SLIP FAULT...... 4450 Kongyou Wu

THE TRANS-EUROPEAN SUTURE ZONE: ORIGIN AND TECTONOMAGMATIC EVENTS IN LATE VARISCAN TIMES ...... 4451 Andrzej Zelazniewicz

3D MICROFABRIC ANALYSIS OF PROGRESSIVE, POLYPHASE SUBGLACIAL DEFORMATION BENEATH THE LATE WEICHSELIAN BALTIC ICE STREAM (SCANDINAVIAN ICE SHEET, EUROPE)...... 4453 Heiko Huneke

DEFORMATION PATTERNS IN THE BAGALKOT GROUP OF ROCKS IN THE INTRACRATONIC KALADGI BASIN, SOUTH WESTERN INDIA: A CASE OF MESOPROTEROZOIC GRAVITY GLIDING OF THE COVER OVER THE BASEMENT DURING BASIN UPLIFT...... 4454 Mrinal Kanti Mukherjee

STRESS ROTATION, SCALE INVARIANCE AND THE LOCKED IN STRESS ...... 4456 Gerrie Van Aswegen

THREE PAGODA FAULT ZONE OF THE KANCHANABURI REGION INTERPRETED FROM AIRBORNE GEOPHYSICAL DATA ...... 4458 Dhiti Tulyatid

CALEDONIDES TO CASCADES CONNECTIONS: TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF PALEOZOIC TERRANES IN NW WASHINGTON, USA ...... 4459 Elizabeth Schermer

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS AND IMPLICIT 3D MODELLING OF HIGH-GRADE HOST ROCKS TO THE VENETIA KIMBERLITE DIATREMES, CENTRAL ZONE, LIMPOPO BELT, SOUTH AFRICA...... 4460 Ian Basson

THE RECORD OF SUBDUCTION AND COLLISION ALONG THE SOUTHERN MARGINAL ZONE OF THE DAMARA OROGEN ...... 4461 Michael Hartnady

UPPER CRETACEOUS-TERTIAY STRIKE-SLIP TECTONICS IN NE LIBYA: EVOLUTION WITHIN DEXTRAL SPLAY DUPLEX STRUCTURE...... 4463 Maher El Amawy

A COMPARISON BETWEEN MODELING AND FIELD OBSERVATIONS OF OFF-FAULT STRAIN AROUND PSEUDOTACHYLYTE FAULT VEINS, NORUMBEGA SHEAR ZONE, SOUTHERN MAINE ...... 4464 Catherine Ross

AGE OF FOLDING AND RELATIONSHIPS OF PAI-HOI–NOVAYA ZEMLYA AND URALS OROGENIC BELTS...... 4466 Mikhal Shishkin

ANOTHER LOOK AT GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES OF PART OF THE NANGODI BELT, NORTHEASTERN GHANA: AN INTEGRATED STRUCTURAL AND GEOPHYSICAL APPROACH...... 4468 Elikplim Dzikunoo

EN-ECHELON QUARTZ VEIN ARRAYS IN A PROGRESSIVE DEXTRAL TRANSPRESSIONAL SYSTEM, STORMS RIVER, EASTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 4469 Matthew Brayshaw

GEOLOGICAL MAPPING, STRUCTURAL SETTING AND PETROGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF THE ARCHEAN VOLCANIC ROCKS OF MNANKA AREA, NORTH MARA, TANZANIA...... 4471 Ezra Kavana

GEOPHYSICAL EVIDENCE ON THE ORIGIN OF THE CALDAS NOVAS DOME...... 4472 Detlef Walde

HYDRAULIC FRACTURING FOR PLASTER UNDER BRITTLE-DUCTILE TRANSITION CONDITION ...... 4474 Akihisa Kizaki

ORIGIN OF PSEUDOTACHYLYTE: A CASE STUDY FROM THE FAULT ZONE BETWEEN THE MANGALWAR AND SAND MATA PLUTONS, CENTRAL RAJASTHAN, INDIA...... 4476 Gautam Deb

PHYLLOSILICATE OCCURRENCE ALONG EXTENSIONAL FAULTS IN CARBONATE ROCKS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR SEISMIC RUPTURE PROPAGATION: CASE STUDIES FROM THE CENTRAL APENNINES, ITALY ...... 4478 Luca Smeraglia

SERIES OF CHINA’S METALLOGENIC GEOLOGICAL SETTING MAPS...... 4480 Yanfang Feng

STRUCTURAL MAPPING AND IDENTIFICATION OF HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION ZONES TRHOUGH SRTM AND ASTER IMAGES IN MACOSSA, MOZAMBIQUE...... 4482 Manuel Nopeia

THE DIFFERENCE OF FRACTURE DENSITY AND FLUID FLOW CHARACTERISTICS BETWEEN FOOTWALL AND HANGING WALL OF A HIGH ANGLE FAULT ...... 4483 Taehyung Kim

THE EFFECTS OF TECTONIC AND STRATIGRAPHIC INHERITED DISCONTINUITIES ON FAULT DEVELOPMENT AND THEIR SURFACE EVIDENCES THROUGH ANALOGUE MODELS ...... 4485 Silvio Seno

THE ELUSIVE RAYTON FORMATION IN THE KHAYAKHULU AREA; WESTERN OF THE NORTH WEST PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 4487 P. R. Shelembe

THE METAMORPHIC BASEMENT FROM THE SANTANDER MASSIF (COLOMBIAN EASTERN CORDILLERA): A NEW STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK...... 4488 Luis Carlos Mantilla Figueroa

40AR/39AR AGE FOR THE FOSSIL-BEARING TIAOJISHAN FORMATION IN NE CHINA...... 4490 Su-Chin Chang

CHANGES IN CARBON DIOXIDE CONCENTRATIONS ACROSS THE CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY REVEALED BY FIRST SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE (NEW ZEALAND) STOMATAL PROXY- BASED PCO2 RECONSTRUCTION...... 4491 Vivi Vajda

IMPLICATIONS OF U-PB ZIRCON CA ID-TIMS AGES FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION STRATIGRAPHY AND TIMESCALE OF JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS CONTINENTAL STRATA OF NORTHERN CHINA ...... 4493 Sean Kinney

THE NOTHAL JURASSIC RECORD AS PRESERVED IN SEQUENCES OF ZEALANDIA...... 4494 Hamish Campbell

USING THE ISOTOPIC CONTENT OF FOSSIL REMAINS AS EVIDENCE OF PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CONDITION OF THE LATE JURASSIC WEST GONDWANA...... 4495 Paulo Roberto Souto

BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC SUCCESSION OF ACANTHOMORPHIC ACRITARCHS OF THE EDIACARAN DOUSHANTUO FORMATION AT THE YANGTZE GORGES AREA AND ITS IMPLICATION FOR THE GLOBAL CORRELATION...... 4496 Pengju Liu

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY, CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY AND KEROGEN PALEOTHERMOMETRY OF THE PROTEROZOIC MBUJI-MAYI SUPERGROUP (KASAÏ, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO)...... 4498 Blaise Kabamba Baludikay

DECIMETER-SCALE MULTICELLULAR EUKARYOTES FROM THE 1.56-BILLION-YEAR-OLD GAOYUZHUANG FORMATION, NORTH CHINA...... 4499 Maoyan Zhu

EVOLUTIONARY TRENDS OF THE EARLIEST EUKARYOTES: EVIDENCE FROM THE 1.8 GA CHANGCHENG GROUP AND THE 1.7-1.4 GA RUYANG GROUP, NORTH CHINA CRATON...... 4500 Heda Agic

NEW RECORD OF ORGANIC-WALLED, MORPHOLOGICALLY DISTINCT MICROFOSSILS FROM THE LATE PALEOPROTEROZOIC CHANGCHENG GROUP IN THE YANSHAN RANGE, NORTH CHINA...... 4502 Lanyun Miao

ORIGIN AND DIVERSIFICATION OF PRECAMBRIAN EUKARYOTES: EVIDENCE FROM PROTEROZOIC SUCCESSIONS OF INDIA...... 4504 Mukund Sharma

UNRAVELING BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION FROM EARLY SINGLE-CELLED EUKARYOTES IN THE PALEO-MESOPROTEROZOIC RUYANG GROUP, NORTH CHINA ...... 4506 Ke Pang

(U-TH)-HE DATING OF CACO3 SPELEOTHEMS: A NEW PERSPECTIVE FOR DATING FOSSIL-BEARING CAVE DEPOSITS...... 4508 Tebogo Vincent Makhubela

ASSESSING THE FIDELITY OF FOSSIL MARINE MICROVERTEBRATE OXYGEN ISOTOPE SIGNATURES AND THEIR POTENTIAL PALAEO-ECOLOGICAL AND -CLIMATIC UTILITY ...... 4510 Milo Barham

EVALUATING ARIDITY USING TRIPLE OXYGEN ISOTOPES IN TOOTH ENAMEL...... 4511 Sophie B. Lehmann

EVIDENCE FOR FORMER LAND SURFACES ON THE EMERGENT SOUTH COAST SHELF, SOUTH AFRICA...... 4513 Hayley Cawthra

MIO-PLIOCENE ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA...... 4515 Loïc Segalen

PALAEOCLIMATIC IMPLICATIONS OF SUMMER BREEDING FROG TAXA FROM LANGEBAANWEG AT 5.1 MYA AT THE SOUTH-WESTERN TIP OF AFRICA ...... 4516 Thalassa Matthews

PLIO-PLEISTOCENE HOMININ EVOLUTION IN THE MALAWI RIFT: PERSISTENT C3 VEGETATION IN HETEROGENEOUS WOODED SAVANNA ECOSYSTEMS ...... 4518 Tina Luedecke

SUBTROPICAL PRECIPITATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF OCEAN TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS OVER THE LAST 5 MILLION YEARS ...... 4519 Natalie Burls

A FOSSIL BIOTA INDICATES THE PRESENCE OF WARM AND WET LOWLANDS IN CENTRAL TIBET DURING THE LATE OLIGOCENE...... 4520 Feixiang Wu

ANGOLAN FOSSIL VERTEBRATES AND GEOTECTONIC INFLUENCES INFORM CRETACEOUS AND CENOZOIC PALEOENVIRONMENTS OF AFRICA...... 4522 Louis Jacobs

BIOGEOGRAPHIC MIXING IN THE MAASTRICHTIAN OF ANGOLA ...... 4524 Louis Jacobs

FIRST REPORT ON TRACE FOSSILS FROM FLYSCH SEDIMENTS OF NAGALAND, NORTHEAST INDIA AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE...... 4525 Hemanta Singh Rajkumar

GEOARCHAEOLOGY OF THE DOUGLAS KORONGO EAST AND BELL'S KORONGO EAST SITES, OLDUVAI GORGE: PRELIMINARY RESULTS ...... 4526 Cynthia M. Fadem

THE INFLUENCE OF COASTAL AND MARINE GEOLOGY ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL OCCUPATION IN PONDOLAND: THE SOUTH AFRICAN WILD COAST...... 4528 Hayley Cawthra

THYLACOCEPHALAN ARTHROPODS FROM THE UPPER DEVONIAN OF POLAND...... 4530 Krzysztof Broda

USE OF MORPHOMETRIC DATA IN TAXONOMY AND FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY: A CASE STUDY OF MODERN AND CRETACEOUS DIVING BIRDS ...... 4532 Alyssa Bell

WHY IS SEXUAL SIZE DIMORPHISM RESTRICTED TO A SINGLE LINEAGE OF POST-TRIASSIC NAUTILOIDS?...... 4534 Kalyan Halder

ASTRONOMICAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE DURATION OF THE EARLY JURASSIC PLIENSBACHIAN AND TOARCIAN STAGES AND GLOBAL CARBON-CYCLE AND CLIMATIC PERTURBATIONS...... 4536 Micha Ruhl

JURASSIC REEF EVENTS IN MOROCCAN ATLASIC DOMAIN (MIDDLE ATLAS AND CENTRAL HIGH ATLAS IN PARTICULAR) ...... 4538 Driss Sadki

LACUSTRINE EXPANSION AND CARBON DRAWDOWN DURING THE EARLY TOARCIAN OCEANIC ANOXIC EVENT ...... 4540 Stephen P. Hesselbo

LOW-LATITUDE TERRESTRIAL CLIMATE COOLING EVENT IN THE LATE TRIASSIC (NORIAN- RHAETIAN): PALAEOBOTANICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE SICHUAN BASIN, SOUTHERN CHINA ...... 4542 Yongdong Wang

TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION PATTERN OF THE MARINE-BRACKISH-WATER BIVALVE WAAGENOPERNA IN CHINA AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR TRIASSIC-JURASSIC TRANSITION CLIMATE AND PALAEOGEOGRAPHY ...... 4544 Jingeng Sha

THE GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY OF TANZANIA: AN OVERVIEW ...... 4545 Emma Msaky

FEATHERED DINOSAURS OF CHINESE MESOZOIC LACUSTRINE LAGERSTÄTTEN: EXTRAORDINARY PRESERVATION OR EXTRAORDINARY EFFORT? ...... 4546 Paul Olsen

LATE CRETACEOUS OSTRACOD FAUNA FROM THE SHENJIATUN SECTION (SONGLIAO BASIN, NORTHEAST CHINA) AND ITS BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC, PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS ...... 4547 Yaqiong Wang

MESOZOIC NONMARINE PALAEOGEOGRAPHY AND PALAEOTECTONIC EVOLUTION IN THE MIDDLE-EAST CHINA ...... 4549 Yongqing Liu

PROBLEM OF TERRESTRIAL JURASSIC AND CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY IN NORTHERN CHINA ...... 4550 Xiaoqiao Wan

THE EARLIEST HERBACEOUS SEED PLANT FROM THE MIDDLE JURASSIC OF CHINA ...... 4552 Xin Wang

VOLUME 12

THE RECORD OF CADDISFLY-DOMINATED MICROBIAL-CARBONATED BIOHERMS FROM THE EARLY CRETACEOUS YIXAN FORMATION IN WESTERN LIAONING, CHINA: OCCURRENCE AND PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS ...... 4554 Jiang Xu

THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MIDDLE-LATE JURASSIC TECTONICS AND FORMATION OF THE YANLIAO BIOTA ...... 4556 Diying Huang

ON THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF THE GORGONOPSIA, WITH NEW INFORMATION ON THEIR GLOBAL FIRST AND LAST APPEARANCES...... 4558 Christian Kammerer

PALAEOECOLOGY AND PALAEOENVIRONMENTS OF GLOSSOPTERIS FORESTS FROM THE HEART OF GONDWANA: THE LAMBERT GRABEN, EAST ANTARCTICA ...... 4560 Stephen McLoughlin

TAPINOCEPHALID DINOCEPHALIANS, THE FIRST LARGE TERRESTRIAL TETRAPODS – POTENTIAL FOR REFINED MIDDLE PERMIAN BIOSTRATIGRAPHY?...... 4562 Bruce Rubidge

TETRAPOD BIOCORRELATION OF PANGEA: THE PERMO-TRIASSIC TERRESTRIAL VERTEBRATE FAUNAS OF SOUTH AFRICA AND RUSSIA ...... 4564 Fernando Abdala

THE PRISTEROGNATHUS AZ AND THE AFTERMATH OF THE CAPITANIAN EXTINCTION EVENT IN THE MAIN KAROO BASIN ...... 4566 Michael Day

PALEONEUROLOGY OF THERAPSIDA (SYNAPSIDA) AND THE EVOLUTION OF SOFT TISSUE TRAITS IN THE MAMMALIAN ANCESTRY...... 4568 Julien Benoit

SOUTH AFRICA'S TRIASSIC-JURASSIC SAUROPODOMORPH FAUNA: PHYLOGENETIC FIT TO STRATIGRAPHY, EVOLUTIONARY RATES, AND THE BIASED APPEARANCE OF CHARACTERS IN TIME...... 4570 Jonah Choiniere

SOUTHEASTERN AUSTRALIA’S CRETACEOUS POLAR TETRAPODS IN A GREENHOUSE WORLD ...... 4571 Thomas Rich

THE BEAUFORT-STORMBERG CONTACT IN THE MAIN KAROO BASIN – THE MOST IMPORTANT UNCONFORMITY SURFACE FOR UNDERSTANDING THE BASIN’S DEVELOPMENT...... 4573 Philip John Hancox

THE FOSSIL PLANTS FROM THE MIDDLE TRIASSIC LINJIA FORMATION IN BENXI OF EASTERN LIAONING, CHINA AND ITS PALEOCLIMATIC IMPLICATION ...... 4574 Yi Zhang

AN EARLY EDIACARAN PREDATOR FROM THE SOUTHWESTERN SIBERIAN CRATON: WHEN DID THE DAWN OF METAZOAN BEGIN?...... 4576 Julius Sovetov

BEHAVIOURAL AND TAPHONOMICAL TESTIMONY OF TREPTICHNUS PEDUM, INFERENCES FROM THE NAGAUR SANDSTONE, MARWAR SUPERGROUP, INDIA ...... 4577 Mukund Sharma

EDIACARAN MACROALGAE AND THE EARLY EVOLUTION OF ANIMALS...... 4579 Natalia Bykova

EDIACARAN TUBULAR FOSSILS WITH BURGESS SHALE-TYPE PRESERVATION, ARROYO DEL SOLDADO GROUP, URUGUAY ...... 4580 Claudio Gaucher

SYSTEMATIC DESCRIPTION OF PUTATIVE ANIMAL FOSSILS FROM THE EARLY EDIACARAN LANTIAN FORMATION OF SOUTH CHINA...... 4582 Bin Wan

THE LAST OF THE EDIACARA BIOTA: THE PRECAMBRIAN-CAMBRIAN BOUNDARY AT MT. DUNFEE, NEVADA, USA ...... 4583 Emmy Smith

WHY CORUMBELLA IS A CLOUDINID AND NOT A CONULARID ...... 4584 Bernd Erdtmann

AUTHIGENIC AND EARLY DIAGENETIC MINERALS AS INDICATORS OF GEOMICROBIOLOGICAL PROCESSES IN SHELLY FOSSIL PRESERVATION AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE FOR LATE NEOPROTEROZOIC-EARLY PALAEOZOIC NEAR-SURFACE ENVIRONMENTS ...... 4586 A. D. Muscente

BEYOND THE STONY VEIL; RECONSTRUCTING EARLY TRACE FOSSILS USING MICRO-CT ANALYSIS, A CASE STUDY FROM THE YANGTZE GORGES AREA, SOUTH CHINA...... 4587 Michael Meyer

IMPROVING THE EDIACARAN GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE FOR THE STUDY OF OCEANIC REDOX HISTORY AND EARLY ANIMAL EVOLUTION ...... 4589 Shuhai Xiao

MISTAKEN POINT (EDIACARAN, CANADA): THE WORLD’S FIRST PRECAMBRIAN WORLD HERITAGE SITE ...... 4591 Guy Narbonne

NEW PRECAMBRIAN TRACE FOSSILS, THE END OF THE EDIACARA BIOTA, AND THE FIRST MASS EXTINCTION OF COMPLEX LIFE...... 4592 Simon Darroch

STUDIES IN EDIACARAN PRESERVATION...... 4594 Marc Laflamme

THE PALAEOBIOLOGY OF EDIACARAN RANGEOMORPHS: REPRODUCTION, ENVIRONMENTAL SENSITIVITY AND ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION...... 4595 Charlotte Kenchington

EARLY DIVERSIFICATION OF THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION: SIGNIFICANCE OF A REMOTE GRAVEYARD IN THE SIRIUS PASS, NORTH GREENLAND ...... 4596 David Harper

NEW ADVANCE OF GUANGWEICARIS FROM THE CAMBRIAN (STAGE 4, SERIES 2) GUANSHAN BIOTA IN KUNMING , YUNNAN , SOUTH CHINA ...... 4598 Yichen Wu

ONYCHOPHORANS: A KEY ROLE IN UNDERSTANDING ARTHROPOD ORIGINS? ...... 4599 Jianni Liu

PRIMARY PRODUCERS AND DETRITIVORES: MICROBIAL FOSSILS FROM THE LOWEST CAMBRIAN OF SOUTH CHINA ...... 4600 Xingliang Zhang

SUBSTRATE-RELATED PHENOTYPIC VARIATION IN THE CAMBRIAN BURGESS SHALE BRACHIOPOD MICROMITRA BURGESSENSIS...... 4602 Timothy Topper

THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT OF THE CRYOGENIAN-EDIACARAN DIVERSIFICATION OF METAZOA...... 4604 Douglas Erwin

A NEW LOCALITY OF THE BURGESS SHALE-TYPE FAUNA FROM THE LOWER CAMBRIAN SHUIJINGTUO FORMATION IN CHANGYANG, HUBEI, SOUTH CHINA ...... 4605 Dongjing Fu

EARLY SPONGES AND TOXIC PROTISTS: CRYOSTANE, A NEW BIOMARKER ANTEDATING STURTIAN SNOWBALL EARTH...... 4606 Jochen Brocks

ECOLOGY AND PHYLOGENETIC AFFINITY OF THE EARLY CAMBRIAN TUBULAR MICROFOSSIL MEGATHRIX LONGUS...... 4608 Xiaodong Shang

EVOLUTION OF BIOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN EARLY COMPLEX CELLS ...... 4609 Emmanuelle J. Javaux

NEW SPECIES OF VETULICOLIANS FROM THE LOWER CAMBRIAN GUANSHAN BIOTA, CHINA...... 4611 Jinshu Li

THE DIVERSITY AND SYSTEMATICS OF EARLY CAMBRIAN LOPHOTROCHOZOANS (THE CHENGJIANG LAGERSTATTE, CHINA): DISCOVERIES AND NEW PROGRESS ...... 4612 Zhifei Zhang

A FIRST REPORT OF WOOD-BORING TRACE FOSSIL ASTHENOPODICHNIUM AND TEREDOLITES FROM THE BARMER HILL FORMATION OF THE BARMER BASIN, WESTERN RAJASTHAN, INDIA...... 4614 Suresh Chandra Mathur

ADVANCE IN CRETACEOUS BENNETTITALEAN TRUNK FROM CHINA ...... 4615 Yeming Cheng

CARBON ISOTOPE IN TOOTH ENAMEL OF PLEISTOCENIC MEGAMAMMALS FROM ALAGOAS AND PERNAMBUCO, NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL...... 4617 Alcides Sial

CHANGES IN RODENTS ASSOCIATIONS FROM CAVE SEDIMENTS (ROMANIA) DURING THE UPPER PLEISTOCENE MAIN CLIMATIC EVENTS ...... 4618 Alexandru Petculescu

CORALS OF NARARA BET, JAMNAGAR DISTRICT, GUJARAT AND ITS IMPLICATION IN SEA LEVEL CHANGES ...... 4619 Arpita Pankaj

DWARFISM OF IRREGULAR ECHINOIDS FROM POLAND DURING THE CAMPANIAN- MAASTRICHTIAN BOUNDARY EVENT (CMBE) ...... 4621 Katarzyna Lesko

DWARFISM OF IRREGULAR ECHINOIDS FROM POLAND DURING THE CAMPANIAN- MAASTRICHTIAN BOUNDARY EVENT (CMBE) ...... 4622 Katarzyna Lesko

FIRST REPORT OF TRACE FOSSILS FROM LOWER ODANIA MEMBER OF LATHI FORMATION OF JAISALMER BASIN, AKAL AREA, DISTRICT -JAISALMER, WESTERN RAJASTHAN, INDIA...... 4623 Virendra Singh Parihar

FOSSIL WOODS FROM THE CRETACEOUS DEPOSITS OF RUSSIAN FAR EAST ...... 4624 Maxim Afonin

HEXACTINELLID SPONGE AMPHISPONGIA FROM PENNSYLVANIAN OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...... 4625 Lucas Mouro

JUVENILE KOSOIDEA SP. FROM LOWER PALEOZOIC STRATA, PARANÁ BASIN, BRAZIL ...... 4627 Carolina Zabini

MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN LA CRISTALINA FORMATION: AFTER 50 YEARS NEW FOSSIL LOCALITIES WERE FOUND, INCLUDING THE FIRST ORDOVICIAN FORAMINIFERA IN COLOMBIA ...... 4629 Maria Fernanda Almanza

NEW FINDINGS OF GALEASPIDS (AGNATHA) FROM THE SILURO-DEVONIAN OF CHINA ...... 4631 Zhikun Gai

ON DAMONELLA ULTIMA FROM THE SANTANA FORMATION (UPPER APTIAN, LOWER CRETACEOUS), ARARIPE BASIN, NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL...... 4632 Lucas Antonietto

ROLE OF TEMPERATURE IN BRACHIOPOD MIGRATION? EVIDENCE FROM THE JURASSIC SEDIMENTS OF WESTERN INDIA...... 4634 Debahuti Mukherjee

STRATIGRAPHY AND PALEOECOLOGY OF MIDDLE JURASSIC DINOCYST ASSEMBLAGES FROM THE DNIEPER-DONETS BASIN OF CENTRAL UKRAINE...... 4636 Olena Shevchuk

TAXONOMY OF CYPRIDEA BOSQUET 1852 (CRUSTACEA, OSTRACODA) FROM QUIRICÓ FORMATION, LOWER CRETACEOUS FROM SÃO FRANCISCO BASIN, STATE OF MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL: NEW RELATIVE DATING AND REMARKS ON NODDING...... 4638 Amanda Moreira Leite

THE MICROVERTEBRATE FAUNA FROM THE PALAEOCENE – EOCENE OF AKLI FORMATION OF BARMER BASIN, WESTERN RAJASTHAN, INDIA ...... 4640 Shanker Lal Nama

TOWARDS A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE ORIGINS OF MICROLENS ARRAYS IN MESOZOIC ECHINODERMS ...... 4641 Przemyslaw Gorzelak

TURRITELLINE DOMINATED ASSEMBLAGES FROM THE MIOCENE OF KUTCH, WESTERN INDIA REVEAL DEPOSITIONAL HISTORIES AND THE NURSERY GROUND OF THE SPECIES...... 4642 Kalyan Halder

CADDISFLY-DOMINATED MICROBIAL-CARBONATE BIOHERMS FROM THE EARLY CRETACEOUS YIXIAN FORMATION, WESTERN LIAONING CHINA ...... 4643 Enpu Gong

CONCHOSTRACANS OF THE MIDDLE-LATE JURASSIC DAOHUGOU AND LINGLONGTA BEDS IN NE CHINA...... 4645 Huanyu Liao

EVALUATING URANIUM AS A TOOL TO INFER CRYOGENIAN MARINE OXYGENATION...... 4647 Claire Miles

EXPLORING FOR VERTEBRATE FOSSILS IN THE RIVERSLEIGH AREA OF QUEENSLAND USING FIELD-PORTABLE XRF ...... 4649 David Cohen

GEOCHEMICAL EVIDENCES FOR PHOTIC ZONE EUXINIA DURING THE END - ORDOVICIAN MASS EXTINCTION EVENT FROM THE BLACK SHALES OF POLAND...... 4651 Justyna Smolarek

ORDOVICIAN ACRITARCH STUDIES IN CHINA ...... 4653 Kui Yan

PALEOECOLOGICAL AND TAPHONOMIC ANALYSIS OF PERMIAN COAL SEAM OF RIO BONITO FORMATION, PARANÁ BASIN, WESTERN GONDWANA ...... 4655 Fresia Ricardi-Branco

SPINA BIFIDA IN AN EARLY TRIASSIC TETRAPOD FROM SOUTH AFRICA...... 4657 Jörg Fröbisch

THE HIRNANTIA FAUNA AND THE STRATIGRAPHIC ASSESSMENT OF THE UPPERMOST ORDOVICIAN IN THE CENTRAL ANTI-ATLAS (MOROCCO) ...... 4659 Enrique Villas

THE PARADOX OF “CLAM SHRIMP” PALEOECOLOGY...... N/A Paul Olsen

AN EARLY MULTICELLULAR HOLOZOAN FROM THE 1 GA TORRIDON GROUP, SCOTLAND ...... 4661 David Wacey

DID EARLY EUKARYOTES THRIVE IN ANCIENT LAKES? NEW EVIDENCE FROM THE TORRIDONIAN SUPERGROUP, NW SCOTLAND ...... 4663 Eva Stüeken

DIVERSIFICATION OF EARLY LIFE: MICROFOSSILS OF THE C. 2.4 GA TUREE CREEK GROUP, WESTERN AUSTRALIA ...... 4664 Erica Barlow

EARLY CAMBRIAN PALAEOBIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE ZHENBA–FANGXIAN BLOCK (SOUTH CHINA): INDEPENDENT TERRANE OR PART OF THE YANGTZE PLATFORM?...... 4666 Ben Yang

EOPRIAPULITES SPHINX FROM THE EARLY CAMBRIAN OF SOUTH CHINA ...... 4667 Yunhuan Liu

MULTICELLULAR MACROFOSSILS FROM THE TONIAN LIULAOBEI FORMATION, NORTH CHINA ...... 4669 Qing Tang

NEW DISCOVERIES IN THE LATE NEOPROTEROZOIC OF IRAN...... 4670 Patricia Vickers Rich

NEW DISCOVERIES IN THE LATE NEOPROTEROZOIC OF NAMIBIA: NEW MATERIAL-NEW ANALYSIS...... 4671 Patricia Vickers Rich

NEW SMALL SHELLY FOSSILS ACANTHOCASSIS FROM THE EARLY CAMBRIAN...... 4673 Tiequan Shao

OBSERVATIONS ON THE LOWER CAMBRIAN ICHNOSPECIES MONOMORPHICHNUS MULTILINEATUS RECORDED FROM THE MARWAR SUPERGROUP, INDIA: A REVIEW...... 4674 Mukund Sharma

PHOSPHATIZED QUADRAPYRGITES FROM THE EARLY CAMBRIAN OF SOUTH CHINA...... 4676 Tiequan Shao

PRELIMINARY PALEONTOLOGICAL AND MINERALOGICAL STUDY OF THE DIATOMITES FROM ADAMCLISI, SOUTH DOBROGEA, ROMANIA...... 4678 Stefan Marincea

THE COMPLEX MINERALOGICAL AND PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL INVESTIGATION OF CRETACEOUS VERTEBRATE REMAINS FROM THE HA?EG BASIN, ROMANIA ...... 4679 Delia-Georgeta Dumitras

XIXIANG BIOTA OF THE EARLY CAMBIAN FROM THE NORTHERN YANGTZE PLATFORM ...... 4681 Tiequan Shao

HANDHELD LIBS FOR PRECIOUS MINERAL EXPLORATION: PROSPECTING FOR GEMS, CONFLICT MINERALS, AND DIAMOND KIMBERLITES...... 4683 Russell S. Harmon

SMARTLAB – A NEW CONCEPT OF GLOBAL GEOLOGICAL LABORATORY SERVICE ...... 4685 Ferenc Fedor

DETERMINATION OF HEMATITE AND MAGNETITE ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS FOR THE OPTIMISATION OF X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNING RESOLUTION...... 4687 Lunga Bam

MINERAL QUANTIFICATION AT THE NANOSCALE BY COMBINING SYNCHROTRON RADIATION X- RAY TOMOGRAPHY, FLUORESCENCE AND DIFFRACTION...... 4689 Jussi-Petteri Suuronen

NEW CAPABILITIES OF AEROMAGNETIC METHODS BASED ON UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE FOR MONITORING OF GEODYNAMIC PROCESSES ...... 4691 Victoria Kurmaeva

ROLE OF UNMANNED AIRCRAFT AND SENSOR MINIATURIZATION IN GEOLOGY...... 4692 Marc Goossens

THE AEROMAGNETIC SURVEY USING NON-MAGNETIC UNMANNED AERIAL PLATFORM IN KALUGA REGION (RUSSIA)...... 4693 Sergey Cherkasov

USE OF DRONES FOR AEROMAGNETIC SURVEYS; AN OVERVIEW ...... 4695 Marina Diaz Michelena

DISCRIMINATION OF DANBURITE FROM DIFFERENT DEPOSITS BY CHEMICAL COMPONENTS: A FEMTOSECOND LA-ICP-MS STUDY...... 4697 Le Huong

FEMTOSECOND LASER ABLATION – ICP MASS SPECTROMETRY: A POWERFUL HIGH-RESOLUTION METHOD FOR IN-SITU TRACE ELEMENT AND ISOTOPE RATIO MEASUREMENTS IN CLIMATE GEOCHEMISTRY...... 4699 Klaus Jochum

IMPROVING THE BENEFICIATION PROCESS OF SCHEELITE ORES USING X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY...... 4701 Stephan Le Roux

X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY OF CUT AND POLISHED DIAMONDS AND GEMSTONES ...... 4702 Anton Du Plessis

COMPLEX PETROPHYSICAL INVESTIGATION OF PANNONIAN-MIOCENE SHALES – PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF ACOUSTIC ANISOTROPY MEASUREMENTS...... 4703 Péter János Koroncz

DIGITAL MACROSCOPY IN EARTH SCIENCES ...... 4704 Michael Doppler

GEOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS OF ATOM PROBE TOMOGRAPHY ...... 4705 Ian Holton

INVESTIGATING PEGMATITE HOSTED GEM QUALITY GARNET AND TOURMALINE BY SELFRAG LIBERATION...... 4707 Nicolaas Steenkamp

STXM-NEXAFS: APPLYING A NEW TECHNIQUE WHICH HELPS TO UNRAVEL THE MYSTERY OF ROCK VARNISH...... 4709 D. S. Macholdt

THREE DIMENSIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF METAL CONTENT IN PYRITE...... 4711 Lingli Zhou

X-RAYS FOR EARTH SCIENCE - ADDING NEW DIMENSIONS TO THE ANALYSIS OF MINERALOGICAL SAMPLES ...... 4712 U. Konig

APPLICATIONS OF SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY IN MINERAL NANOMATERIALS...... 4714 Li Chen

CLAYSTONE AS A POTENTIAL HOST ROCK: SCALE-DEPENDENT OBSERVATIONS IN X-RAY CT, MINERALOGY AND GEOMECHANICS...... 4716 Thomas Paul

LASER ABLATION MOLECULAR ISOTOPIC SPECTROSCOPY (LAMIS) ...... 4718 Alex Bol'Shakov

SYNCHROTRON LIGHT APPLIED TO ORE GEOLOGY ...... 4720 Bjorn Von Der Heyden

THE EXPLORATION OF MARS WITH THE CHEMCAM LIBS INSTRUMENT AND THE CURIOSITY ROVER...... 4721 Nathan Bridges

AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE EFFICACY OF ELEMENTAL DISTRIBUTION MAPPING USING HAND HELD LASER-INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY FOR THE QUALITATIVE CHARACTERISATION OF GEOLOGICAL MATERIALS...... 4723 Andrew Somers

LASER INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY 2D MAPPING COMBINED WITH 3D X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY: FIRST RESULTS ...... 4725 Anton Du Plessis

TOWARD REAL-TIME GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS IN THE FIELD: PROVENANCE DETERMINATION AND CORRELATION STUDIES OF CARBONATES USING HANDHELD LIBS...... 4726 Richard Hark

AN APPLICATION OF UAV FOR COASTAL MAPPING, EAST COAST OF KOREA...... 4728 Baeck Oon Kim

GENETIC IMPLICATIONS OF GOLD GRAIN MORPHOLOGY IN WITWATERSRAND CARBON SEAM FACIES: NEW INSIGHTS FROM NON DESTRUCTIVE 3D X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY ...... 4729 Anton Du Plessis

SYNERGY OF LASER-INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY AND MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY FOR VOLUME DISTRIBUTION OF PT IN MINERALS ...... 4730 Tomas Zikmund

A NEW METHODOLOGY FOR MICROFOSSILIFEROUS RECOVERY: THE USE OF THE EQUIPMENT SELFRAG ...... 4732 Guilherme Caixeta

COUPLING TOMOGRAPHY TECHNIQUES FOR ORE CHARACTERISATION IN LEACHING STUDIES ...... 4733 Megan Becker

DETERMINATION OF LANTHANIDES AND TRACE ELEMENTS IN GEOLOGICAL SAMPLES USING INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY (ICPMS) TECHNIQUE...... 4734 Manik Chandra Saha

INSIGHT INTO THE USE OF ION BEAM BASED TECHNIQUES FOR ENERGY RELATED ISSUES IN EARTH SCIENCES...... 4735 Nelly Toulhoat

PRELIMINARY STUDY OF ALTERED CARBONATITES FROM CATANDA, ANGOLA ...... 4737 Krystyna Wolkowicz

PRESERVATION TECHNIQUE FOR FOSSIL FISH AND LEAF IMPRESSIONS IN PAPYRACEUS SHALE, FROM THE QUIRICÓ FORMATION, LOWER CRETACEOUS FROM SÃO FRANCISCO BASIN, SATE OF MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL...... 4739 Amanda Moreira Leite

ROLE OF BACKSTOP INDENTER SHAPE ON THE EVOLUTION OF CURVED THRUST TRACES IN CONTRACTIONAL OROGENS: AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION...... 4741 Mansi Jain

SUMXCORE TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE THE ANALYSIS OF GEOLOGICAL MATERIALS...... 4742 Uwe König

A POSSIBLE VOLCANIC HAZARD RISK OF THE GÖLCÜK VOLCANO (ISPARTA), SW TURKEY...... 4743 Nevzat Ozgur

CRUSTAL XENOLITH IN DECCAN TRAPS OF SAURASHTRA REGION, GUJARAT: THEIR NATURE, CHEMISTRY AND EVOLUTION...... 4744 Md Naushad

DISEQUILIBRIUM PETROGRAPHIC TEXTURES AND THEIR GENESIS: EVIDENCES FROM SHIELD- FORMING LAVAS OF TIANCHI VOLCANO BETWEEN CHINA AND NORTH KOREA ...... 4746 Yongshun Liu

GROWTH OF INTERMEDIATE OLIVINE (FO 49-62) WITHIN MG-RICH OLIVINE (FO 82-90) OF BASALTIC LAVA OF ACTIVE BARREN VOLCANO, -- AN UNUSUAL PRODUCT OF TERRESTRIAL ROCK ...... 4748 Tapan Pal

LITHOSPHERIC CONTROLS ON MAGMA COMPOSITION ALONG EARTH'S LONGEST CONTINENTAL HOTSPOT-TRACK...... 4750 R. Davies

MULTIPLE EPISODES OF PALAEOGENE-NEOGENE FELSIC VOLCANISM RECODED FROM ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA – CORRELATION WITH FELSIC VOLCANISM OF SE ASIA...... 4751 Anindya Bhattacharya

ULTRA-HIGH PRECISION 40AR/39AR GEOCHRONOLOGY OF VOLCANIC ROCKS, USING AN ARGUSVI MULTI-COLLECTOR MASS SPECTROMETER ...... 4753 David Phillips

CONTEMPORARY VOLCANIC HAZARDS IN THE MAIN ETHIOPIAN RIFT ...... 4755 Karen Fontijn

LIBERATING WATER DURING VOLCANO COLLAPSE ...... 4757 Audray Delcamp

THE GEOCHEMICAL CRITERIA OF PLUME ORIGIN FOR CENOZOIC VOLCANO-ROCKS, MAIN ETHIOPIA RIFT(MER):A REVIEW ...... 4759 Huazhopu Yao

THE NSENGA TEPHRA ERUPTION OF THE NGOZI CALDERA, SW TANZANIA ...... 4761 Gert-Jan Peeters

THE ROLE OF FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION AND MAGMA MIXING IN THE GEOCHEMICAL AND MINERALOGICAL EVOLUTION OF SILICATE ROCKS AT THE OLDOINYO LENGAI VOLCANO (NORTHERN TANZANIA)...... 4763 Anna Balashova

USING LAKE CORES AND TERRESTRIAL TEPHRAS AS A RECORD OF HOLOCENE VOLCANISM IN THE CENTRAL MAIN ETHIOPIAN RIFT ...... 4764 Keri McNamara

A MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDY ON THE XIANGSHAN URANIUM-BEARING CALDERA STRUCTURE: EVIDENCES FROM ANISOTROPY OF MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY AND GRAVITY MODELING...... 4766 Guangrong Li

ARCHITECTURE OF LAVAS FROM DECCAN VOLCANIC PROVINCE, INDIA AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ...... 4767 Vivek Kale

CHARACTERIZATION AND SIGNIFICANCE OF INTRUSIVE ROCKS IN GEOTHERMAL RESERVOIRS...... 4769 Emmanuel Ngetich

INTEGRATED GRAVITY AND MAGNETICS AS A TOOL FOR INVESTIGATING THE NEOGENE- QUATERNARY VOLCANISM OF EAST CARPATHIANS ...... 4770 Lucian Besutiu

RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS OF GRAVIMETRY TO STUDYING VOLCANIC UNREST OR REACTIVATION...... 4772 Peter Vajda

LAKE EMPAKAT - NEW TEPHROCRONOLOGICAL DATA ON THE STRATIGRAPHIC RECORD IN NORTHERN TANZANIA...... 4774 Anna Balashova

LAVA TUBES FROM CENTRAL PORTION OF THE PARANÁ CFB PROVINCE, BRAZIL ...... 4775 Breno Waichel

LOCATING THE DEPTH OF MAGMA SUPPLY FOR VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS...... 4777 Harri Geiger

MAAR DEPOSITS IN NORTH TANZANIA: PHREATOMAGMATIC OR DRY FRAGMENTATION? ...... 4778 Audray Delcamp

MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF HOLOCENE SCORIA CONES AND MAAR VOLCANOES OF THE ALKALINE BAYUDA VOLCANIC FIELD IN NE AFRICA (SUDAN): NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION OF A MONOGENETIC VOLCANIC FIELD ...... 4780 Nils Lenhardt

REDUCTION RISK AND SEISMIC ACTIVITY AT NYIRAGONGO AND NYAMULAGIRA VOLCANOES IN THE WESTERN BRANCH OF THE EAST AFRICAN RIFT/DRC ...... N/A Kiro Kubuya

THE EARLIEST OPEN CONDUIT ERUPTIVE CENTRE OF THE ETNA VOLCANO: EVIDENCE FROM AEROMAGNETIC AND GEOLOGICAL DATA...... 4782 Francesca D'Ajello Caracciolo

THEORETICAL MODELS FOR GRAVITY ANOMALIES CAUSED BY THERMOELASTIC DEFORMATIONS IN THE VICINITY OF MAGMATIC BODIES ...... 4784 Ladislav Brimich

U-PB EVIDENCE FOR RAPID FORMATION OF THE NOHI RHYOLITE, ONE OF THE LARGEST CALDERA-FORMING VOLCANIC COMPLEXES ON EARTH ...... 4785 Hiroyuki Hoshi

VEIN NETWORKS RECORD PRESSURIZATION EVENTS IN THE ACTIVE HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM OF LIPARI ISLAND (ITALY)...... 4786 Luigi Cucci

VOLCANIC SOURCE-TO-SINK: STRATIGRAPHY AND CHRONOLOGY OF LAHAR DEPOSITS IN A VOLCANIC FAN-DELTA-LAKE SYSTEM, ADATARA AND BANDAI VOLCANOES, NE JAPAN ...... 4788 Kyoko Kataoka

ANATOMY OF A MASS EXTINCTION: NEW DATA ON THE TIMING OF RAPID ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND EXTINCTION PHASES AT THE PERMO-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY IN THE MAIN KAROO BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 4790 Roger Smith

ASSESSING GLOBAL BOUNDARY STRATOTYPE SECTION AND POINT (GSSP) CANDIDATES FOR THE ANTHROPOCENE...... 4792 Colin Waters

THE ANTHROPOCENE: OVERVIEW OF STRATIGRAPHICAL ASSESSMENT TO DATE...... 4794 Colin Waters

THE MISTAKEN DRIVE TO DEFINE THE 'ANTHROPOCENE' AS AN OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED UNIT OF THE GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE...... 4796 Stanley Finney

EARLY CRETACEOUS PRECISE RADIOISOTOPIC AGES, AMMONITE BIOSTRATIGRAPHY AND CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSIL BIOEVENTS FROM THE NEUQUÉN BASIN, ARGENTINE ANDES...... 4798 Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta

IMPLICATIONS OF NEW DATA FOR LATE CRETACEOUS MARINE TRANSGRESSIONS IN CENTRAL PENINSULAR INDIA ...... 4800 Sunil Bajpai

NEW INTEGRATED STRATIGRAPHIC DATA FROM HUNGARY AND A GLOBAL CARBON ISOTOPE STACK ACROSS THE JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY ...... 4801 József Pálfy

NEW MULTIPROXY RECORD OF THE JENKYNS EVENT (A.K.A. TOARCIAN OCEANIC ANOXIC EVENT) FROM THE MECSEK MOUNTAINS (HUNGARY) ...... 4802 József Pálfy

THE “ULTIMATE BASIS OF CHRONOLOGY”: CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHIC CALIBRATION OF HIGH- RESOLUTION AMMONITE-CORRELATED ‘EVENTS’ IN THE LOWER JURASSIC...... 4803 Kevin Page

UNRAVELLING SHORT-TERM CLIMATE AND SEA-LEVEL CHANGES IN A GREENHOUSE WORLD – EVIDENCE FROM THE CRETACEOUS (IGCP 609) ...... 4805 Benjamin Sames

A RELIABLE PALEOINTENSITY RECORD ACROSS THE MATUYAMA-BRUNHES BOUNDARY FROM A MARINE SUCCESSION AT THE CHIBA SECTION, A LOWER-MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE GSSP CANDIDATE...... N/A Okada, M.

AN ASTROCHRONOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE TETHYAN CAMPANIAN...... 4807 Erik Wolfgring

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS DURING OAE1A (EARLY APTIAN) IN THE EASTERN RUSSIAN PLATFORM AND DURING OAE1B (EARLY ALBIAN) IN THE MIDDLE CASPIAN: NEW DATA ...... 4809 Svetlana Zorina

FIRST STRATIGRAPHICALLY COMPLETE CONIACIAN-SANTONIAN BOUNDARY RECORD FROM THE RUVUMA BASIN (SOUTHERN TANZANIA, EAST AFRICA): PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERAL, GEOCHEMICAL AND PALEOCEANOGRAPHIC PATTERNS...... 4811 Maria Rose Petrizzo

GLOBAL GLACIATION DURING GLACIAL CYCLES: ASSESSING THE FINE-SCALE DIVISION OF GLACIAL STAGES...... 4813 Philip L. Gibbard

GREENHOUSE SEA-LEVEL CHANGES: GROWING EVIDENCE FOR AQUIFER-DRIVEN EUSTASY ...... 4814 Michael Wagreich

INTEGRATED PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERAL AND CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSIL BIOSTRATIGRAPHY AND PALEOENVIRONMENTAL INFERENCES FOR TURONIAN SEDIMENTS FROM TANZANIA...... 4816 Brian Huber

MIDDLE TO UPPER CRETACEOUS HIGH FREQUENCY CYCLIC RECORDS ON THE ARABIAN CARBONATE PLATFORM, SE TURKEY; CLIMATIC AND TECTONIC CONTROLS...... 4818 Ismail Omer Yilmaz

SIGNIFICANCE OF CRETACEOUS STRATAL RECORDS IN JAPANESE ISLANDS: FOREARC-TRENCH SYSTEMS...... 4819 Hisao Ando

TERRESTRIAL CLIMATE AND CARBON CYCLE OF EAST ASIA IN THE LATE CRETACEOUS: RECORDS FROM THE CONTINENTAL SCIENTIFIC DRILLING OF THE SONGLIAO BASIN ...... 4821 Chengshan Wang

CLIMATE-SENSITIVE SEDIMENTS OF THE CRETACEOUS IN SOUTH CHINA ...... 4822 Xianghui Li

DEFINING THE LOWER–MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE SUBSERIES BOUNDARY ...... 4824 Martin Head

EARLY ANGIOSPERMS OF SIBERIA...... 4826 Lina Golovneva

NEW RECORDS OF FOSSIL CONIFEROUS WOOD FROM THE EARLY CRETACEOUS JEHOL BIOTA IN WESTERN LIAONING, NE CHINA AND PALAEOCLIMATE IMPLICATIONS...... 4828 Yongdong Wang

THE LOWER-MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY AT THE MONTALBANO JONICO SECTION (SOUTHERN ITALY) ...... 4830 Maria Marino

AUTHIGENIC 10BE/9BE RATIO SIGNATURE OF THE BRUNHES/MATUYAMA TRANSITION IN THE MONTALBANO JONICO MARINE SUCCESSION ...... 4831 Quentin Simon

CHARACTERISTICS OF LOWER-ORDER UNCONFORMITY IN CARBONATES AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE FOR RESERVOIR DEVELOPMENT: A LOWER-ORDOVICIAN UNCONFORMITY IN TARIM BASIN, NW CHINA...... 4832 Tailiang Fan

DEFINING THE UPPER PLEISTOCENE SUBSERIES: ASSESSING ANTARCTIC ICE CORES FOR A POTENTIAL GLOBAL BOUNDARY STRATOTYPE SECTION AND POINT (GSSP) ...... 4834 Martin Head

DETAILED LITHO-STRATIGRAPHY AND SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENT OF UPPER PART OF KOKUMOTO FORMATION WITH THE L-M PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY...... 4836 Osamu Kazaoka

INTERCOMPARING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE YOUNGEST TWO INTERGLACIALS: BASE MIS1 VS BASE MIS5E, BASE HOLOCENE VS BASE LAST INTERGLACIAL, BASE MIDDLE HOLOCENE VS BASE EEMIAN...... 4838 Kim Cohen

OSL-BASED LOESS CHRONOLOGIES IN WEST AND CENTRAL ASIA: HOW PRECISE AND RELIABLE?...... 4840 Manfred Frechen

CHARACTERISTICS OF LOW-ORDER UNCONFORMITIES AND CONTROLLING ON KARST RESERVOIR OF MIDDLE-LOWER ORDOVICIAN IN SW TARIM BASIN, CHINA...... 4842 Jie Liu

MULTI-SCALE STRATIGRAPHIC FORWARD MODELLING OF THE SURAT BASIN FOR GEOLOGICAL STORAGE OF CO2...... 4844 Cedric Griffiths

ORDOVICIAN SEA-LEVEL CHANGES: ONE GLOBAL CURVE OR TWO SEMI-GLOBAL ONES?...... 4846 Andrei Dronov

PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL SHIFTS AND SEQUENCE ANALYSIS OF THE EARLY-MIDDLE DEVONIAN IN THE CLANWILLIAM SUB-BASIN OF SOUTH AFRICA...... 4848 Cameron Penn-Clarke

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN STRATIGRAPHIC FORWARD MODELLING ...... 4850 Cedric Griffiths

SEDIMENTOLOGY AND HIGH-FREQUENCY SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY OF MIDDLE-LOWER ORDOVICIAN YINGSHAN FORMATION IN THE TAHE OILFIELD OF TARIM BASIN, NORTHWEST CHINA...... 4852 Xiaoqun Yang

USING THE FLUVIAL-TIDAL TRANSITION ZONE (FTTZ) IN SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION (PLIO-PLEISTOCENE TALPARO AND ERIN FORMATIONS, TRINIDAD) ...... 4853 Annalize McLean

A NEW APPROACH TO QUANTIFYING STRATIGRAPHIC RESOLUTION, INTEGRATING CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHIC DATA, AND TESTING GLOBAL STRATOTYPES ...... 4854 Junxuan Fan

CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE EDIACARAN-CAMBRIAN LESSER HIMALAYA, INDIA, EASTERN GONDWANA, AND CORRELATION WITH SOUTH AMERICA, WESTERN GONDWANA...... 4856 Vinod Tewari

KATIAN (UPPER ORDOVICIAN) – AERONIAN (LOWER SILURIAN) CARBON ISOTOPE EXCURSIONS IN SOUTH CHINA...... 4857 Junxuan Fan

MULTIPROXY APPROACH AND HI-RES STRATIGRAPHY: CONTRASTING EXAMPLES OF DEGREE OF PRECISION ATTAINED IN CORRELATION OF MID-PALAEOZOIC STRATA...... 4859 Ladislav Slavik

NEW CARBON ISOTOPE DATA ON THE PRECAMBRIAN-CAMBRIAN INTERVAL OF THE TOMMOTIAN STAGE HYPOSTRATOTYPE - ISIT’ SECTION (LENA RIVER, SIBERIAN PLATFORM) ...... 4861 Pavel Parkhaev

ORDOVICIAN CONODONTS OF THE SOUTH URALS: BIOGEOGRAPHIC AFFINITY OF THE EAST EUROPEAN PLATFORM’S EASTERN MARGIN...... 4863 Tatiana Tolmacheva

REGIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF LCT AND NYF SIGNATURE IN ZAMBEZIAN PEGMATITES, MOZAMBIQUE ...... 4865 João Reynolds Marques

CONODONT ZONATION FOR THE LOWER TRIASSIC OF WESTERN TETHYS - A CASE STUDY FROM SLOVENIA ...... 4867 Tea Kolar-Jurkovšek

EARLY MINING GEOCHEMICAL ANOMALIES AT AROUND 3000 YEARS BP AS A POTENTIAL STRATIGRAPHIC MARKER FOR THE BASE OF AN EARLY ANTHROPOCENE ...... 4869 Michael Wagreich

THE ORDOVICIAN OF THE WEST SØRKAPP LAND (SOUTHERN SPITSBERGEN)...... 4871 Tatiana Tolmacheva

MULTI-ORDER TECTONIC AND CLIMATIC SIGNALS IN PERMIAN-LOWER TRIASSIC TERRESTRIAL SEDIMENTARY SUCCESSIONS IN BOGDA MOUNTAINS, NW CHINA ...... 4873 Wan Yang

PALEOMAGNETIC DATA BEARING ON THE THERMAL HISTORY OF UPPER PERMIAN TO LOWER TRIASSIC (?) STRATA, KAROO BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA...... 4875 John Geissman

RED GREEN: GEOCHEMISTRY OF COLORED SILTSTONES FROM THE DAPTOCEPHALUS (DICYNODON) AND ASSEMBLAGE ZONES AT OLD LOOTSBERG PASS AND BETHULIE, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 4877 Robert Gastaldo

STRATIGRAPHY, U-PB DATING AND STRUCTURAL CONTROL OF POST- VARISCAN VOLCANISM IN SARDINIA AND SOUTHALPINE ...... 4879 Laura Gaggero

THE DAPTOCEPHALUS ASSEMBLAGE ZONE (LOPINGIAN), SOUTH AFRICA: A PROPOSED BIOSTRATIGRAPHY BASED ON A NEW COMPILATION OF STRATIGRAPHIC RANGES...... 4881 Pia Viglietti

THE END-PERMIAN MASS EXTINCTION AND THE PLANTS – HOW MUCH OF IT IS TAPHONOMICAL BIAS?...... 4883 Evelyn Kustatscher

VARIABILITY IN THE LATE PERMIAN LANDSCAPE OF THE UPPER BALFOUR FORMATION (BEAUFORT GROUP STRATA, KAROO BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA)...... 4885 Johann Neveling

CHARACTERIZATION OF CONODONT BIOSTRATIGRAPHY IN THE BASAL MOSCOVIAN BOUNDARY INTERVAL AT THE NAQING SECTION, LOUDIAN, GUIZHOU, SOUTH CHINA...... 4886 Lance Lambert

CLIMATIC CONTROL ON SALINITY GRADIENT ACROSS THE US MIDCONTINENT SEA DURING PENNSYLVANIAN GLACIO-EUSTATIC HIGHSTANDS ...... 4888 Michael Joachimski

ICE VOLUME AND PALEOCLIMATE HISTORY OF THE LATE PALEOZOIC ICE AGE FROM CONODONT APATITE OXYGEN ISOTOPES FROM NAQING (GUIZHOU, CHINA) ...... 4890 Bo Chen

LINKED SHIFTS IN GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CO2, CLIMATE AND TERRESTRIAL CARBON CYCLING DURING EARTH’S LAST ICEHOUSE ...... 4891 Isabel Montanez

REFINING THE CARBONIFEROUS-PERMIAN SUCCESSIONS OF THE PARANÁ BASIN, BRAZIL VIA HIGH-RESOLUTION ZIRCON U-PB CA-TIMS DATING...... 4892 Neil Griffis

THE CARBONIFEROUS WORLD: ASSEMBLY OF PANGAEA AND ONSET OF LATE PALEOZOIC GLACIATIONS...... 4893 Barry Richards

THE EVIDENCE OF THE LATE PALEOZOIC GLACIATION IN SOUTH CHINA ...... 4895 Xiangdong Wang

ATLANTIC- TO ANDEAN TYPE BASIN INVERSION ALONG THE SOUTHERN MARGIN OF GONDWANA: U-PB DETRITAL ZIRCON EVIDENCE FORM THE CAPE- AND LOWER KAROO SUPERGROUPS AND CORRELATIVES IN ARGENTINA AND THE FALKLAND ISLANDS...... 4897 Clarisa Vorster

PERMIAN CARBONATE OOIDS FROM THE BAOSHAN BLOCK, CHINA AND OTHER CIMMERIAN TERRANES WITH PALEOGEOGRAPHIC AND PALEOCLIMATIC SIGNIFICANCE ...... 4899 Hao Huang

PERMIAN CONODONT BIOSTRATIGRAPHY ...... 4901 Charles Henderson

THE TERRESTRIAL END-PERMIAN MASS EXTINCTION IN SOUTH CHINA ...... 4903 Shuzhong Shen

TRANSITIONAL CARBONATE FACIES FROM COOL- TO WARM-WATER SETTINGS: A PERMIAN CASE FROM THE BAOSHAN BLOCK IN WESTERN YUNNAN, CHINA ...... 4904 Xiaochi Jin

COLLAPSE AND REBUILDING OF MARINE ECOSYSTEMS DURING THE P-TR TRANSITION IN GONDWANA WORLD...... 4906 Zhong-Qiang Chen

DETRITAL ZIRCON AGE POPULATION STUDY FROM ROCKS OF THE , EASTERN CAPE PROVINCE OF SOUTH AFRICA ...... 4907 Laura Bowden

IMPOVERISHED HARD SUBSTRATE BIOTAS IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE END-PERMIAN MASS EXTINCTION: EVIDENCE FROM EAST GREENLAND...... 4909 Michal Zaton

SEISMITES IN TRANSGRESSIVE LOWER GONDWANA (PERMIAN) SUCCESSION, WEST BOKARO COALFIELD, INDIA: TECTONO-SEDIMENTARY AND SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS...... 4911 Biplab Bhattacharya

THE PERMIAN-TRIASSIC SUCCESSION IN THE SOUTHERN SYDNEY BASIN, SOUTHEASTERN AUSTRALIA: A UNIQUE AND COMPLETE STRATIGRAPHIC RECORD OF GLOBAL CHANGES DURING THE PALAEOZOIC-MESOZOIC TRANSITION...... 4912 Guang R. Shi

A REFINED MAGNETIC POLARITY STRATIGRAPHY AND PALEOMAGNETIC POLE FOR UPPER PERMIAN AND LOWER TRIASSIC STRATA DEPOSITED ACROSS THE END-PERMIAN EXTINCTION EVENT, WEST TEXAS (USA)...... 4914 John Geissman

ECOLOGIC RESTRUCTURING AFTER THE PERMO-TRIASSIC EXTINCTION: A GEOCHEMICAL AND PALEOECOLOGICAL CASE STUDY OF THE MIDDLE TRIASSIC OF LOW-LATITUDE EASTERN PANTHALASSA ...... 4916 Margaret Fraiser

RECOVERY AFTER THE END-PERMIAN BIOTIC CRISIS IN THE BOREAL SEA...... 4918 Kliti Grice

TERRESTRIAL PERMIAN-TRIASSIC TRANSITIONAL SEQUENCE IN NORTH CHINA: IMPLICATION FOR THE CORRELATION WITH THE MARINE EVENTS IN SOUTH CHINA...... 4919 Jinnan Tong

THE BLETTERBACH SECTION (S-ALPS, N-ITALY): A UNIQUE RECORD OF A LOW-LATITUDE LATE PERMIAN TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM...... 4921 Massimo Bernardi

THE CAPITANIAN/WUCHIAPINGIAN MASS EXTINCTION AND KAMURA EVENT FROM TROPICAL TO BOREAL ZONES (CHINA, SOUTH PRIMORYE [RUSSIA], AND SPITSBERGEN) ...... 4923 Olga Kossovaya

THE CHOIYOI SILICIC LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE OF ARGENTINA AND CHILE AND ITS POSSIBLE LINKAGE TO MIDDLE PERMIAN CLIMATE CHANGE AND MASS EXTINCTION ...... 4925 David Kimbrough

CYCLE-CALIBRATED MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY AND TIME SCALES FOR THE EARLY AND EARLY- LATE TRIASSIC ...... 4927 Yang (Wendy) Zhang

EARLIEST TRIASSIC EPHEMERAL REFUGE AT SHANGSI, CHINA...... 4929 Amanda Godbold

EVIDENCES OF MARINE REGRESSION AND PANGAEA BREAKUP: TRIASSIC-JURASSIC BOUNDARY FROM THE TETHYAN SALT RANGE, PAKISTAN...... 4931 Shahid Iqbal

IGCP 630 BUSINESS MEETING ...... N/A Zhong-Qiang Chen

IMPLICATIONS OF THE STRATIGRAPHIC RESULTS OF THE COLORADO PLATEAU CORING PROJECT (CPCP): SALT VS. PLATE TECTONICS VS. EUSTASY IN THE LATE TRIASSIC CHINLE FORMATION...... 4932 Paul Olsen

OLENEKIAN AMMONOID AND BRACHIOPOD SUCCESSIONS OF THE KAMENUSHKA RIVER BASIN AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS BASED ON N- AND C-ISOTOPE DATA FROM THE LOWER TRIASSIC OF SOUTH PRIMORYE, RUSSIAN FAR EAST ...... 4934 Yuri Zakharov

THE COLORADO PLATEAU (USA) CORING PROJECT (CPCP): PRELIMINARY MAGNETIC POLARITY STRATIGRAPHY AND ROCK MAGNETIC DATA FROM THE CONTINUOUS CORED RECORD OF TRIASSIC CONTINENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE...... 4936 John Geissman

THE VEGETATION CHANGES AND TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM VARIATIONS ACROSS THE TRIASSIC-JURASSIC TRANSITIONS IN THE SICHUAN BASIN, CHINA: PROGRESSES AND PERSPECTIVES...... 4938 Yongdong Wang

EASTERN TETHYS DEVELOPMENT IN NORTHEASTERN INDIA AND INDIA – ASIA COLLISION...... 4940 Vinod Tewari

PALAEOGEOGRAPHIC EVOLUTION OF THE CENTRAL-WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN AREA IN THE LAST 50 MYR: STRATIGRAPHICAL AND PALAEONTOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ...... 4942 Fabio Massimo Petti

PALEOMAGNETIC RESULTS FROM LOWER TRIASSIC RED SANDSTONES FROM THE AUTOCHTHONOUS COVER OF THE CENTRAL WESTERN CARPATHIANS: CONSTRAINTS ON LARGE- SCALE ROTATIONS OF THE ALCAPA MICROPLATE...... 4944 Rafal Szaniawski

THE DARIUS PALAEOTECTONIC MAPS: EVOLUTION OF THE CENTRAL TETHYS DOMAIN SINCE THE MIDDLE PERMIAN...... 4945 Eric Barrier

THE END-TRIASSIC CONODONT GENUS MISIKELLA IN THE SLOVENIAN BASIN ...... 4947 Tea Kolar-Jurkovšek

A TRIASSIC–JURASSIC CARBONATE RECORD FROM THE PALEOEQUATOR: CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY AND SEDIMENTOLOGY OF THREE BOUNDARY SECTIONS IN THE GHALILAH FORMATION RAS AL KHAIMAH, UAE...... 4949 Aisha Al Suwaidi

CARBON ISOTOPE STRATIGRAPHY ACROSS THE TRIASSIC-JURASSIC BOUNDARY: BUILDING A GLOBAL STACK, ASSESSING ITS CORRELATION UTILITY, AND UNDERSTANDING CARBON CYCLE PERTURBATIONS...... 4951 József Pálfy

CONTINUOUS HIGH-RESOLUTION CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHIC RECORD OF THE EARLY JURASSIC ...... 4953 Marisa Storm

METAMORPHOSED HEMI-PELAGIC EVAPORITES IN ANATOLIA: A MID-CRETACEOUS SALINITY CRISIS IN THE NEOTETHYS?...... 4955 Franziska Scheffler

SEA LEVEL RECONSTRUCTIONS AT THE TRIASSIC-JURASSIC BOUNDARY: SOUTHWESTERN MARGIN OF THE NEOTETHYS IN THE SALT RANGE, PAKISTAN...... 4957 Shahid Iqbal

TRIASSIC/JURASSIC BOUNDARY IN PERITIDAL CARBONATES FROM WESTERN TETHYS ...... 4958 Simona Todaro

NEW AMMONOID ARAGONITE 87SR/86SR RECORDS OF MESOZOIC ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE...... 4960 Yuri Zakharov

A FIELD RECONNAISSANCE TO LOCATE THE BASE OF THE CHANGHSINGIAN STAGE IN THE KAROO BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA...... 4962 Lwazi Magadaza

A REVISED CALIBRATION OF THE NEW ZEALAND GEOLOGICAL TIMESCALE: NZGT2015...... 4963 James Ian Raine

ANTHROPOCENE, VERNAL POINT, SOLAR CYCLE AND EL NIÑO 2015-2016...... 4965 Teodosio Chavez-Campos

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF NEOPROTEROZOIC STRATA BASED ON INVERTEBRATE SPECIES FROM SOUTH AMERICA...... 4967 Dermeval Do Carmo

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE VALONGO FORMATION (ORDOVICIAN) OF NORTHERN PORTUGAL ...... 4968 Artur Sá

BIVALVE BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF TERMINAL PERMIAN (PRE-OTOCERAS PART) OF THE SOUTH VERKHOYANSK REGION (NORTHEAST ASIA) ...... 4970 Alexander Biakov

CALCAREOUS NANNOPLANKTON AND FORAMINIFERA BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE UPPER CRETACEOUS ST LUCIA FORMATION (NIBELA PENINSULA, SOUTH AFRICA) ...... 4972 Maria Ovechkina

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CALCAREOUS NANNOPLANKTON DISTRIBUTION AROUND THE CAMPANIAN–MAASTRICHTIAN BOUNDARY ON THE AKTULAGAJ PLATO (KAZAKHSTAN)...... 4974 M. N. Ovechkina

CONCISE GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE 2016: A PARTIAL UPDATE OF GTS2012 ...... 4976 James Ogg

EARTH HISTORY VISUALIZATION SYSTEM FOR GONDWANA BASINS...... 4977 Rebecca Bobick

ECCENTRICITY SCALE CONODONT OXYGEN AND STRONTIUM ISOTOPIC TRENDS DURING CARBONIFEROUS CLIMATE TRANSITIONS...... 4978 Dillon Osleger

EVIDENCE FOR ANCESTRY IN TAXONOMIC STUDIES: LESSONS FROM MID-CRETACEOUS BISERIAL PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA ...... 4979 Brian Huber

FACTORS INFLUENCING ON FORMATION OF CHALK-MARL COUPLETS IN TURONIAN-SANTONIAN SUCCESSION, KOPET-DAGH BASIN, NE IRAN...... 4981 Leili Fateh Bahari

LATE BARREMIAN – EARLY ALBIAN CLIMATE OF THE NORTHERN MIDDLE LATITUDES: STABLE O- AND C-ISOTOPE EVIDENCE FROM BRACHIOPODS AND MOLLUSCS OF THE CAUCASUS...... 4982 Yuri D. Zakharov

LATE TRIASSIC (RHAETIAN) CARBON ISOTOPE STRATIGRAPHY AND DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS OF DEEP NERITIC TO BASINAL DEPOSITS IN THE NORTHERN CALCAREOUS ALPS (AUSTRIA)...... 4984 Wolfgang Mette

LITHO- AND CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY OF BUKIT MERAH, TAIPING PERMO-TRIASSIC SEMANGGOL FORMATION...... 4985 Mohamad Shaufi Sokiman

LOWER - MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY AT CHIBA SECTION AND DISTRIBUTION SITUATION OF BYK ZONE, CENTRAL JAPAN...... 4987 Hideto Kimura

MERCURY DEPOSITION AND MERCURY ISOTOPES IN SECTIONS STRADDLING THE CRETACEOUS– PALEOGENE BOUNDARY: LINK TO VOLCANISM ...... 4989 Alcides Sial

MICROFACIES AND DIAGENETIC ANALYSIS OF LOCKHART LIME STONE, SHAH ALLAH DITTA AREA ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN ...... 4991 M. A. Khan

NEARSHORE TO OFFSHORE FACIES CORRELATION OF THE TURONIAN-CONIACIAN STAGE BOUNDARY IN THE BOHEMIAN CRETACEOUS BASIN (CZECH REPUBLIC)...... 4992 Stanislav Cech

NEOGENE TERRESTRIAL CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCE OF CHINA BASED ON LAND MAMMALIAN AGES ...... 4994 Tao Deng

PROGRESSIVE GROWTH OF THE SCANDINAVIAN ICE SHEET ACROSS THE SOUTH-WESTERN BALTIC SEA BASIN DURING MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE 2...... 4996 Michael Kenzler

RETRIEVING A LATE CRETACEOUS MAJOR PLATE REORGANIZATION EVENT OF PACIFIC OCEAN, AGE 87-89 MA (LATE TURONIAN/ CONIACIAN): INSIGHT FROM EASTERN ASIA AND SIGNIFICANCE TO PACIFIC EVOLUTION ...... 4998 Ying Song

TAXONOMIC REMARKS AND STRATIGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS OF CLOUDINA SPECIES IN NEOPROTEROZOIC STRATA...... 5000 Rodrigo Adôrno

THE CHARACTERISTIC AND GEODAYNAMIC ORIGIN OF STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCE STRUCTURE IN THE COMPRESSIONAL BASIN: A JURASSIC EXAMPLE FROM THE FUKANG SAG IN THE JUNGGAR BASIN ...... 5002 Qisong Xu

THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE DEPOSITION AND ITS REGIONAL TECTONICS IN THE JURASSIC YABULAI BASIN, NORTHWESTERN CHINA ...... 5004 Haiyang Cao

THE FIRST DETAILED RECORD OF PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY SEDIMENTS IN DEEP-WATER FACIES IN NORTH-EAST ASIA (KOLYMA-OMOLON REGION)...... 5005 Alexander Biakov

THE STRATIGRAPHIC TABLE OF GERMANY REVISITED: 2016 ...... 5007 Manfred Menning

THREE-DIMENSIONAL CLOUDINA SPECIMENS EXTRACTION FROM LIMESTONE OF THE NAMA GROUP, NAMIBIA ...... 5009 Rodrigo Adôrno

TOWARDS A CALIBRATED ASTRONOMICAL TIMESCALE FOR THE MID ORDOVICIAN ...... 5011 Christian Rasmussen

UPPER VISEAN THROUGH GZHELIAN CONODONT ZONATION IN SOUTH CHINA...... 5013 Yuping Qi

UPPERMOST PERMIAN TO UPPER TRIASSIC CONODONT ZONATION AND CARBONATE CARBON ISOTOPES FROM KAMURA SECTION, SOUTHWEST JAPAN...... 5015 Feihong Ye

MICROBIAL MATS IN THE TERRESTRIAL LOWER TRIASSIC OF NORTH CHINA AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PERMIAN-TRIASSIC MASS EXTINCTION ...... 5016 Dao Liang Chu

STRATIGRAPHY AND SEA-LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS AROUND THE SANTONIAN-CAMPANIAN BOUNDARY INTERVAL...... 5017 Michael Wagreich

PROCESSES PRODUCING ROCK FRAGMENTS IN A HYPER-ARID, FRIGID AND WINDY ENVIRONMENT, THE INTERIOR OF GALE CRATER, MARS ...... 5018 Bernard Hallet

QAIDAM BASIN, NE TIBETAN PLATEAU: A NEW MARS ANALOGUE SITE ...... 5020 Long Xiao

THE NEW EARLY MARS: IMPLICATIONS FOR GEODYNAMICS, GEOLOGY AND CLIMATE...... 5023 David Baratoux

WHAT ARE WRINKLE RIDGES TELLING US ABOUT THE SUB-SURFACE OF MARS? ...... 5025 Veronique Ansan

A HIGH RESOLUTION STUDY OF MICRO-ALTERATION AND ORGANIC CARBON IN YAMATO 000593: EXPLORING SUBSURFACE IMPACT PROCESSES ON MARS ...... 5027 Nicola McLoughlin

ASTEROID 4VESTA’S SURFACE COMPOSITION AND GEOLOGY...... 5028 Katrin Stephan

DIFFERENTIATION MODELS OF CERES: DELAYED WATER SEPARATION AND THICK CRUST...... 5030 Wladimir O. Neumann

IMPACT CRATER FREQUENCIES ON PLANETARY SURFACES AS A STRATIGRAPHIC TOOL: APPLICATION TO JUPITER'S LARGEST SATELLITE GANYMEDE ...... 5032 Roland Wagner

PLANETARY AND ASTROBIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF CANARY ISLANDS (SPAIN): REVIEW, STATE-OF-THE-ART AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS ...... 5034 Jesús Martínez-Frías

THE ANTHROPIC METALLOGENIC PRINCIPLE ...... 5035 Morris Viljoen

3D VOLUME RENDERING TECHNIQUE REVEALS A POSSIBLE NEW IMPACT STRUCTURE WITHIN THE ORANGE BASIN, OFFSHORE SOUTH AFRICA...... 5037 Isiaka Ahmed

DYNAMICS OF VREDEFORT: EVIDENCE FOR LATE EMPLACEMENT OF GRANOPHYRE...... 5038 Matthew Huber

EFFECT OF A QUATERNARY METEORITE IMPACT IN INDO-CHINA ON THE SURFACE SEDIMENTARY RECORD...... 5040 Paul Carling

POLYMETALLIC AND NITROGEN CARBIDE DEBRIS IN FERRUGINOUS PALAEOSOL FROM THE LIBYAN DESERT GLASS AREA, SW EGYPT: FURTHER EVIDENCE OF A COMETARY ORIGIN FOR THE DIAMOND-BEARING HYPATIA STONE ...... 5042 Marco Achille Giacomo Andreoli

REVIEW OF CRITERIA FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF IMPACT STRUCTURES ON EARTH ...... 5044 Christian Koeberl

SHATTER CONES: NATURE AND GENESIS ...... 5046 David Baratoux

SYSTEMATIC CHARACTERISATION OF TARGET AND IMPACTITE LITHOLOGIES IN THE M4 DRILLCORE, MOROKWENG IMPACT STRUCTURE, SOUTH AFRICA...... 5048 S'Lindile Wela

DIFFERENTIATION OF PLANETESIMALS AND HF-W MODEL AGES OF IRON METEORITES...... 5050 Wladimir Neumann

MELT TEXTURES PRODUCED BY IMPACT EVENTS AND COMPOSITIONAL VARIATIONS IN L6- CHONDRITE (PUTINGA) ...... 5052 Renata Brandelli Schaan

METEORITES FROM MOROCCO: AN IMPORTANT IMPLICATION IN METEORITICS AND PLANETARY SCIENCES IMPROVEMENT ...... 5054 H. Chennaoui Aoudjehane

RAMAN SPECTROSCOPIC SIGNATURE OF SHOCK FEATURES IN CHONDRITIC METEORITES AND ITS COSMOGENIC IMPLICATIONS...... 5055 Arindam Dutta

SHOCK METAMORPHIC FEATURES OF OLIVINE, ORTHOPYROXENE, AMPHIBOLE, AND PLAGIOCLASE IN PHLOGOPITE-BEARING ULTRAMAFIC-MAFIC INCLUSIONS IN SUBLAYER, SUDBURY IGNEOUS COMPLEX, SUDBURY, CANADA...... 5057 Yujian Wang

CHEMISTRY OF CONGLOMERATES ANALYZED BY CURIOSITY AT GALE CRATER, MARS...... 5058 Nicolas Mangold

DOES ASTROBIOLOGY REQUIRE AN ASTROBIOETHICAL APPROACH?...... 5060 Jesús Martínez-Frías

HOW FAST WERE HUGE LANDSLIDES IN VALLES MARINERIS (MARS)?...... 5061 Francesca Bozzano

SHOCK PETROGRAPHY OF THE TARGET ROCKS AND IMPACTITES FROM THE M4 DRILLCORE, MOROKWENG IMPACT STRUCTURE, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 5062 S'Lindile Wela

SIGNIFICANCE ON MICROSTRUCTURES AND MORPHOCHEMISTRY OF SCHREIBERSITE FROM AGOUDAL IRON METEORITE (IIAB), ONE OF THE LATEST FIND OF MOROCCO ...... 5064 Dwijesh Ray

VREDEFORT IMPACT STRUCTURE: LARGER THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT? ...... 5066 Daniel Connelly

DEEP GROUNDWATER SYSTEMS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA - FROM OCCASSIONAL FINDINGS TOWARDS AN EXPLORATION STRATEGY - ...... 5067 Thomas Himmelsbach

GROUNDWATER EXPLORATION USING ELECTROMAGNETIC FREQUENCY DOMAIN AND ELECTROSEISMIC SOUNDING METHODS IN KALAHARI SANDS AND KAROO SEQUENCE IN ZIMBABWE...... 5069 Joseph M Zulu

GROUNDWATER RECHARGE IN AFRICA: IDENTIFYING CRITICAL THRESHOLDS...... 5071 Tamiru Abiye

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT FOR LUSAKA WATER SUPPLY, ZAMBIA ...... 5073 Tobias El-Fahem

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES OF BURUNDI. NEW ELEMENTS AND DECISION MAKING TOOLS...... 5075 Alexis Gutierrez

HYDROGEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION TO PROTECT THE ITAWA SPRING IN NDOLA, ZAMBIA ...... 5077 Tobias El-Fahem

AN ASSESSMENT OF GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION AT THE EMPANGENI AND RICHARDS BAY LANDFILL AREAS, KWAZULU-NATAL, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 5079 Vetrimurugan Elumalai

CAPE FLATS AQUIFER AND FALSE BAY - OPPORTUNITIES TO CHANGE ...... 5080 David McGibbon

COMBINATION OF GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL DATA FOR THE DETERMINATION OF AQUIFER GEOMETRY IN A COMPLEX HYDROSYSTEM. APPLICATION TO PLIO-QUATERNARY AQUIFER DRADERE SOUEIRE BASIN (MOULAY BOUSSELHAM REGION - NORTH WESTERN MOROCCO)...... 5081 Issam Bougarn

GROUNDWATER RESOURCE ASSESSMENT OF THE DEEP CONFINED PENINSULA AQUIFER IN BLOSSOMS (OUDTSHOORN), WESTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 5082 David McGibbon

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES OF THE DANAKIL DEPRESSION (NORTHEASTERN ETHIOPIA) – HYDROGEOLOGY IN THE HOTTEST PLACE ON EARTH ...... 5084 Dylan Blake

INVESTIGATING THE HYDROGEOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF THE DEEP FORMATION IN THE SOUTHERN KAROO BASIN – CASE STUDY OF THE KARIN-CIMERA KFZ-1 HOLE ...... 5086 S. S. De Lange

REGIONAL EXPLORATION TECHNIQUE OF GROUNDWATER RESOURCE IN THE PRECAMBRIAN AREAS OF MOZAMBIQUE THROUGH AN INTEGRATION OF TOPOGRAPHIC AND GEOPHYSICAL DATA...... 5087 Luis Magaia

DIEL CYCLING, FLUX, AND FATE OF HCO3- IN A TYPICAL KARST SPRING-FED STREAM OF SOUTHWESTERN CHINA...... 5088 Cheng Zhang

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON THE SMOOTH PARALLEL PLATE MODEL, ADDRESSING THE VALIDITY OF THE CUBIC LAW UNDER CONDITIONS OF VARIABLE SATURATION...... 5090 Brendon Ronald Jones

FLOW REGIME COMPARISON OF A SINGLE CLEAN SMOOTH PARALLEL FRACTURE WITH AND WITHOUT OVERLYING MATERIAL IN VARIABLY SATURATED CONDITIONS...... 5092 L. B. Brouwers

GROUNDWATER RECHARGE IN THE DISCHARGE AREA OF A SEMI-ARID CATCHMENT...... 5093 Xiao-Wei Jiang

MODELING GROUNDWATER FLOW AND DYNAMICS OF THE DENDRON AREA, LIMPOPO RIVER BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 5095 Girma Yimer Ebrahim

MODELING OF RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION IN FRACTURED ROCK AQUIFER AND ASSESSMENT OF GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION RISK ...... 5096 Irina Galitskaya

RECOGNIZING SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY IN AQUIFER DISTRIBUTIONS AND CHARACTERIZING GROUNDWATER DYNAMICS IN NW INDIA...... 5098 Rajiv Sinha

TOWARDS INTEGRATED TRANSBOUNDARY GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT IN SOUTHERN AFRICA - THE CASE OF THE RAMOTSWA AQUIFER SHARED BETWEEN SOUTH AFRICA AND BOTSWANA...... 5100 Y Altchenko

ESTIMATING GROUNDWATER AVAILABILITY AT CATCHMENT SCALE USING STREAMFLOW RECESSION AND INSTREAM FLOW REQUIREMENTS OF RIVERS IN SOUTH AFRICA...... 5102 Girma Yimer Ebrahim

GEOINFORMATICS FOR SUSTAINABLE GROUNDWATER RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT...... 5103 Arumugam Jothibasu

GIS BASED MODELLING OF GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY: A CASE STUDY OF BIRMINGHAM URBAN UNCONFINED AQUIFER, UNITED KINGDOM...... 5105 Abraham Thomas

GLOBAL FOOD PRODUCTION - SHARE FROM SUSTAINABLE AND UNSUSTAINABLE GROUNDWATER USE ...... 5108 Karen Grothe Villholth

GRACE GRAVITY APPROACH IN ESTIMATING CHANGES IN TOTAL WATER STORAGE IN THE VAAL RIVER BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA...... 5109 Khuliso Masindi

THE IMPORTANCE OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (IMS) TO GOOD GOVERNANCE OF SHARED GROUNDWATER RESOURCES...... 5110 Daniela Benedicto

COASTAL AQUIFERS MANAGEMENT IN ALGARVE – PORTUGAL...... 5112 Edite Reis

INVESTIGATING AND INCORPORATING LOCAL SCALE HETEROGENEITY FOR MAR IN KARST AQUIFERS THROUGH A HYDRO-GEOPHYSICAL APPROACH ...... 5114 Tanvi Arora

KINDRA PROJECT: CLASSIFICATION AND INVENTORY OF GROUNDWATER RESEARCH AND KNOWLEDGE IN EUROPE...... 5115 I. Fernandez

MAPPING IRRIGATION POTENTIAL FROM RENEWABLE GROUNDWATER PAN-AFRICA – AN INTEGRATED APPROACH ...... 5117 Y Altchenko

SUBMARINE GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE IN SW COAST OF INDIA AND ITS IMPLICATIONS...... 5118 D. S. Suresh Babu

ASSESSMENT OF IMPACT ON THE GROUNDWATER QUALITY DUE TO SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL SITE SOUTHEAST OF PUNE CITY, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA ...... 5120 Gajanan Wagh

CHEMICAL AND ISOTOPIC EVOLUTION OF DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON IN GROUNDWATER OF THE OKAVANGO DELTA, BOTSWANA...... 5121 Eliot Atekwana

EVALUATION OF IMPACT OF GEOMORPHIC CONTROLS ON THE GROUNDWATER QUALITY OF UDUPI DISTRICT, SOUTHWEST COAST OF INDIA...... 5123 B. Sruthi

GROUNDWATER CIRCULATION AND HYDROGEOCHEMICAL EVOLUTION IN A TYPICAL ALLUVIAL-LACUSTRINE PLAIN OF QAIDAM BASIN, NORTHWESTERN CHINA...... 5125 Yong Xiao

GROUNDWATER QUALITY STUDY OF SHENDRA & CHIKALTHANA MIDC AREA IN AURANGABAD DISTRICT (M. S.), INDIA ...... 5127 Ashok Tejankar

HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY AND GENESIS ANALYSIS OF THE GEOTHERMAL SPRINGS IN ARXAN, NORTHEASTERN CHINA ...... 5128 Xiaomin Gu

GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION CAUSED BY INDUSTRIAL WASTE IN WALUJ MIDC AREA, DIST. AURANGABAD (M.S) ...... 5129 Ashok Tejankar

GROUNDWATER POTENTIAL ZONING IN TURKANA COUNTY, KENYA—A LITHOLOGICAL AND STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY APPROACH...... 5130 Edward Kipkoech

HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY OF UKRAINE’S GROUNDWATER SYSTEM AND ITS IMPACT ON PUBLIC HEALTH ...... 5131 Georgii Rudko

INVESTIGATION POTENTIAL KARSTIC WATER RESOURCES IN SHAHROUD ,IRAN USING COMBINED FUZZY-AHP , AHP METHODS...... 5133 Razieh Akbari Jonosh

3D NUMERICAL GROUNDWATER FLOW MODELING IN KOHAT SUB BASIN, NORTHWEST HIMALAYAN FOLD & THRUST BELT PAKISTAN...... 5134 Majid Khan

ADAPTATION OF RDM FOR KARST GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT IN SOUTHWEST CHINA...... 5136 Lichao Yang

ALARMING NITRATE CONTENTS IN GROUNDWATER IN SEMI-ARID REGION IN SOUTH INDIA: ANALYZING FOR ITS VULNERABILITY...... 5137 Pagadala Damodaram Sreedevi

COMPARISON OF ATMOSPHERIC CO2 CONSUMPTION OF CARBONATE ROCK WEATHERING WITH SILICATE ROCK ONE IN THE PEARL RIVER BASIN, CHINA...... 5138 Zhongcheng Jiang

CONSTRUCTION OF CALIBRATION FACILITIES OF SLIM HOLE LOGGING SYSTEM FOR AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION...... 5140 Seho Hwang

DETERMINATION OF GROUNDWATER SUSTAINABLE YIELD USING NUMERICAL MODELLING APPROACH...... 5142 Lixiang Lin

GEOPHYSICAL DELINEATION OF AMD IN THE ...... 5143 Michael Van Schoor

GROUNDWATER RECHARGE QUANTIFICATION FROM HISTORICAL RAINFALL RECORDS AND SALINITY PROFILING IN THE RAMSAR LISTED VERLORENVLEI CATCHMENT...... 5145 Anya Eilers

GROUNDWATER ROLE ON THE ECOLOGICAL PRESERVATION OF THE BIGUGLIA LAGOON (CORSICA, FRANCE) ...... 5147 Emilie Garel

HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY OF GROUNDWATER IN A PART OF ALLUVIAL TERRAIN IN CENTRAL INDIA...... 5148 Laxmi Prasad Chourasia

THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SAMPLING PROTOCOL FOR RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS IN A FRACTURED ROCK AQUIFER OF SOUTH AFRICA ...... 5149 Gaathier Mahed

THE IMPORTANCE OF SCALE IN STUDYING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SURFACE AND HYPORHEIC ZONE PROCESSES ...... 5150 Oana Teodora Moldovan

A METHODOLOGY TO ASSESS THE MOVEMENT OF HYDROCARBONS IN THE SUBSURFACE AND THE REMEDIATION THEREOF ...... 5151 Sascha Roopa

A SPATIAL MODEL OF GROUNDWATER CHEMICAL COMPOSITION IN SLOVENIA IN GIS ENVIRONMENT ...... 5153 Marko Komac

ANALOGY OF THE MINERAL SYSTEMS APPROACH WITH THE NEW PROPOSED GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY APPROACH: CASE STUDY OF HIGHVELD-ERMELO-WITBANK COALFIELDS, SOUTH AFRICA...... 5155 Emmanuel Sakala

CHARACTERISATION OF DEEP GROUNDWATER IN THE KAROO BASIN THROUGH THE USE OF WARM SPRINGS AS PROXIES ...... 5157 Jodie Miller

COMBINING GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY AND HYDROGEOMECHANICS MAPPING IN HYDROMINERAL SYSTEMS (CALDAS DA CAVACA, CENTRAL PORTUGAL)...... 5159 M. J. Afonso

DELINEATION OF LOW ORDER PALAEOCHANNELS OF LOST RIVER SARASWATI IN THE INDIAN DESERT ...... 5161 Kanhaiya Lal Shricastava

DETERMINATION AND DELINEATION OF HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS OF THE OHANGWENA GROUNDWATER SYSTEM, CUBANGO MEGAFAN, NORTHERN NAMIBIA ...... 5162 Christoph Lohe

DEVELOPING CAPACITY OF GROUNDWATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IN KYRGYZ REPUBLIC...... 5163 Nikita Latyshev

DISTRIBUTION OF FE, MN, ZN AND AS IN GROUNDWATER OF SLAVONIA AND BARANJA REGION - CROATIA ...... 5165 Tamara Markovic

DROUGHT EFFECTS ON GROUNDWATER SYSTEM OVER RURAL AREA IN S. KOREA ...... 5168 Sung-Ho Song

ESTIMATION OF WELL EFFICIENCY AFTER WELL TREATMENT: CASE HISTORY IN S. KOREA...... 5170 Sung-Ho Song

FREEWAT A WATER MANAGEMENT TOOL ENHANCING THE PARTICIPATORY APPROACH IN THE STAMPRIET AQUIFER SYSTEM REGION...... 5172 Daniela Benedicto

GEOTHERMOMETRICAL MODELLING OF A CARBONATE-EVAPORITIC THERMAL SYSTEM ...... 5174 Mónica Blasco

GROUNDWATER DYNAMIC IN A PERIOD OF DROUGHT - ALLUVIAL PLAIN OF MOGI GUAÇU RIVER, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL...... 5176 Sueli Pereira

HYDROCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND GENESIS OF THE JINJIANG SPRINGS IN ARXAN, NORTHEASTERN CHINA ...... 5178 Yali Cui

IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON HYDRODYNAMICS OF COASTAL AQUIFER GUJARAT, INDIA...... 5179 Devinder Kumar Chadha

MONITORING FLUORESCENCE OF GROUNDWATER AT DISTINCT WAVELENGTHS WITH AN ON LINE FLOW-THROUGH FLUOROMETER AS POTENTIAL TOOL FOR EARTHQUAKE PRECURSUR RESEARCH...... 5180 W. Balderer

LABORATORY INVESTIGATIONS OF IRON AND MANGANESE PRECIPITATES FORMED DURING IN- SITU IRON REMOVAL BY OZONATION: UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECTS ON THE ATLANTIS AQUIFER PERMEABILITY ...... 5181 Jani Van Gend

MODELLING THE CONNECTION BETWEEN GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTION AND RECHARGE TO QUANTIFY BASEFLOW FOR A RAMSAR LISTED WETLAND IN WESTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 5182 Andrew Watson

OPTIMIZATION OF AN ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE- PUMPING SYSTEM FOR WATER SUPPLY IN THE MAGHAWAY VALLEY, CEBU, PHILIPPINES...... 5184 Nafyad Serre Kawo

OPTIMIZATION OF WATER CONSERVATION STRUCTURES IN OVER-URBANIZED AREA IN THE SUBURBS OF DELHI, INDIA ...... 5185 Nidhi Jha

OVER EXPLOITATION OF GROUND WATER , IT'S IMPACT ON AQUIFER SYSTEM AND RURAL WATER SUPPLY SCHEMES IN MADHUGIRI TALUK , TUMKUR DISTRICT , KARNATAKA ...... 5187 Hemamalini Rajanna

OVERVIEW OF GROUNDWATER IN CENTRAL HIGHVELD REGION, SOUTH AFRICA...... 5188 Haili Lin

SOUTH AFRICA’S CURRENT ANALYTICAL CAPABILITIES FOR STABLE ISOTOPES WITH REFERENCE TO COMPLIANCE MONITORING FOR HYDRAULIC FRACTURING AND FUTURE LEGISLATIVE REQUIREMENTS ...... 5189 Danita Hohne

STABLE ISOTOPE TECHNIQUE TO DISCERN SOURCE AND ORIGIN OF CONTAMINATION IN GROUNDWATER OF BANGALORE CITY, KARNATAKA, INDIA ...... 5191 R. K. Somashekar

STRUCTURAL AND GROUNDWATER MAPPING USING GEOPHYSICAL METHODS OVER SHEAR ZONES IN THE NAMAQUA METAMORPHIC PROVINCE ...... 5193 Fhatuwani Matome Adolph Sekiba

STRUCTURE OF WEATHERED AND FRACTURED PERIDOTITES OF NEW CALEDONIA: FROM FIELD DATA TO SIMPLIFIED MODELLING...... 5194 Julie Jeanpert

STUDY ON HYDROGEOLOGICAL MODEL OF LEAKAGE OF SANYOU CAVE INSCRIPTION AREA OF YICHANG CITY, CHINA ...... 5196 Deshan Cui

THE RATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND EXPLOITATION OF GROUNDWATER IN THE HUTUO-RIVER ALLUVIAL FAN IN THE NORTH CHINA PLAIN...... 5198 Jingli Shao

THE ROLE OF HYDROGEOLOGICAL AND CONTAMINATION SOURCES INVENTORIES IN GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT: PORTO CITY (NW PORTUGAL) ...... 5199 M. J. Afonso

WATER QUALITY OF GROUNDWATER SOURCE IN GACKO POLJE - CROATIA ...... 5201 Tamara Markovic

A GIS-BASED LANDSCAPE APPROACH TO FORENSIC SEARCH STRATEGIES AND RAG MAPPING...... 5202 Jennifer McKinley

ANALYSIS OF LEACHATE, VOCS, FATTY ACIDS AND MINERALOGY FOLLOWING THE DISCOVERY OF A HOMICIDE GRAVE: POTENTIAL IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICE LED OPEN AREA GROUND SEARCHES FOR BURIALS ...... 5204 Laurance Donnelly

ESTABLISHING AUSTRALIA’S FIRST BODY FARM - THE AUSTRALIAN FACILITY FOR TAPHONOMIC EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH (AFTER)...... 5206 Shari Forbes

SUCCESSES AND FAILURES IN DETECTING BURIED NON-METALLIC OBJECTS USING GROUND (AND WATER) PENETRATING RADAR (WPR AND GPR) ...... 5208 Alastair Ruffell

GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON (GSL), FORENSIC GEOSCIENCE GROUP (FGG); THE FIRST 10 YEARS AND THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES (IUGS), INITIATIVE ON FORENSIC GEOLOGY (IFG); THE FIRST 5 YEARS ...... 5210 Laurance Donnelly

IGNEOUS PHOSPHATE RESOURCES OF EAST AND SOUTH EAST AFRICA...... 5212 Wondafrash Mammo Ghebre

INTRODUCTION TO THE EXPLOITATION OF MICROSCOPIC TRACES FOR THE GEO-SOURCING OF FORENSIC SOIL AND DUST EVIDENCE: METHODS AND EXAMPLES FROM CASEWORK ...... 5213 Skip Palenik

PREDICTING THE ORIGIN OF SOIL EVIDENCE: HIGH THROUGHPUT EUKARYOTE SEQUENCING AND MIR SPECTROSCOPY APPLIED TO A CRIME SCENE SCENARIO ...... 5215 Jennifer Young

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FIELD OF FORENSIC SOIL EXAMINATION BEING ALIGNED WITH THE WIDER DISCIPLINE OF FORENSIC SCIENCE ...... 5216 Hilton Kobus

INTERPRETING THE TRANSFER METHOD OF SOIL EVIDENCE ON CLOTHING BY IDENTIFYING TRACE SOIL PATTERNS ...... 5218 Robert Fitzpatrick

MINERALOGY AND FORENSIC GEOLOGY TO SOLVE A FOREIGN TRADE TRICKERY...... 5220 Fabio Salvador

PORTABLE X-RAY FLUORESCENCE (PXRF) SPECTROMETRY OF SOILS: METHOD LIMITATIONS ...... 5222 Elisa Bergslien

THE IMPORTANCE OF GEOLOGICAL AND SOIL MATERIALS AS TRACE EVIDENCE IN SOLVING CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS IN AUSTRALIA...... 5224 Robert Fitzpatrick

TRACE EVIDENCE EXAMINATION USING LABORATORY AND SYNCHROTRON X-RAY DIFFRACTION TECHNIQUES ...... 5226 Mark Raven

TRACING ILLICIT GOLD FROM SOUTH AMERICA ...... 5228 Roger Dixon

TRACING THE SOURCE OF STOLEN PGM SMELTER PRODUCTS...... 5230 Roger Dixon

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LASER DIFFRACTION VS CONVENTIONAL SEDIMENTATION AND SIEVE ANALYSES FOR PARTICLE SIZE MEASUREMENT USING A VARIETY OF SOUTH AFRICAN SOILS...... 5232 Jaco Koch

ECOLOGICAL SERVICES AND BIOPHYSICAL FUNCTIONING OF AGRIECOLOGICAL SOILS OF BURKINA FASO...... 5233 Mikael Motelica-Heino

ENVIRONMENTAL MAGNETIC STUDIES OF SOIL PROFILES FROM TROPICAL SOUTHERN INDIA: A WINDOW TO PEDOGENIC PROCESSES AND SEDIMENT-SOURCE LINKAGE ...... 5235 Rajasekhariah Shankar

HYDROCHEMICAL CHARACTERISATION AND QUALITY APPRAISAL OF SOIL IN THE FOOTHILLS OF HIMALAYA IN PARTS OF UTTARAKHAND, INDIA...... 5237 Resmi Sathikumar

NOVEL POTASH FERTILISER FROM NEPHELINE SYENITE FOR AFRICA’S AGRICULTURAL GROWTH ...... 5239 Annock Chiwona

PLANT GROWTH PROMOTING RHIZOBACTERIA (PGPR) ENHANCE PLANT DROUGHT STRESS TOLERANCE: PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL CHANGES IN RHIZOSPHERIC SOIL...... 5241 Yan Jin

COMPARISON OF GINSENG PLANTING FIELD SOIL TO SOLVE A MURDER CASE ...... 5243 Hongling Guo

DEVELOPMENT OF CHERNOZEM – LUVISOL TOPOSEQUENCE IN THE NORTH-EAST NAMIBIA ...... 5244 Vit Penizek

ESTIMATION OF VOLUMETRIC OIL CONTENT IN UNSATURATED SOILS USING THERMO-TDR TECHNIQUES ...... 5246 Shinsuke Aoki

FORENSIC GEOPHYSICS: GROUND PENETRATING RADAR APPLICATION IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN TEKOHA JEVY VILLAGE, PARANA, BRAZIL...... 5248 Fábio Salvador

NOVEL USE OF MONOCHROMATIC LIGHT MINERAL SEPARATION TECHNIQUES TO ENHANCE AGROMINERAL CONCENTRATION FOR PLANT NUTRIENT RELEASE FROM MESOCRATIC AND LEUCOCRATIC FRACTIONS OF PELOTAS MONZOGRANITE, RS, BRAZIL...... 5250 Matheus Grecco

PRAIRIE MOUND MORPHOLOGY AND AGE IN THE ARKANSAS RIVER VALLEY, SOUTH-CENTRAL UNITED STATES ...... 5252 Brad Lee

PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF A GEOELECTRICAL SURVEY IN A VINEYARD IN ESTREMOZ, PORTUGAL...... 5254 Antonio Correia

FORENSIC GEOSCIENCES APPLIED TO THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF A CORPSE...... 5256 Rosa Maria Di Maggio

GEOFORENSICS IN ITALY: EDUCATION AND RESEARCH STANDARDS ...... 5257 Rosa Maria Di Maggio

POSSIBILITY OF DESCRIBING SAND GRAIN MORPHOLOGY BY IMAGE ANALYSIS ...... 5259 Ritsuko Sugita

CONTRIBUTION OF GEOLOGICAL DATA TO THE NAMIBIAN NATIONAL SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE...... 5261 Anna-Karren Nguno

GEOSCIENCE DATA IN AFRICA – LESOTHO ...... 5262 Ishmael Khalema

HARMONIZATION OF GEOSCIENCE DATA IN AFRICA TO ENHANCE GEOSCIENTISTS INTERACTION FOR KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE OF EXPERIENCE ...... 5263 Mesfin Wubeshet Gebremichael

SUSTAINABLE GEOSCIENCE INFORMATION IN AFRICA - THE GIRAF NETWORK AND ITS FUTURE DEVELOPMENT...... 5265 Kristine Asch

TOWARDS GEOSCIENTIFIC DATA INTEGRATION: CHALLENGES, APPROACHES AND IMPLEMENTATION...... 5267 H. M. Roos

TOWARDS GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION PARTNERSHIPS WITHIN THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN CUSTOMS UNION...... 5268 Lopang Maphale

(INTER)CONTINENTAL HYDROGEOLOGICAL MAPPING AT BGR FOR SOCIETAL IMPACT ...... 5269 Stefan Broda

1:200 000 GEOLOGICAL MAPS OF CIS COUNTRIES IN THE ONEGEOLOGY INTERNATIONAL PROJECT...... 5270 Grigory Brekhov

ASEAN MINERAL DATABASE AND INFORMATION SYSTEM (AMDIS)...... 5271 Yasukuni Okubo

INTEGRATED REPRESENTATION OF DATA ON GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE, PROGNOSIS AND MINERAL RESOURCES LOCATION REGULARITIES, BASED ON INTERNATIONAL FORMATS, TO ENSURE EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT...... 5273 Egor Yuon

STANDARDISING GEOSCIENCE DATA ...... 5274 Marcia Van Aswegen

TECHNICAL STANDARDS DEVELOPMENTS IN GLOBAL GEOSCIENCE: ONEGEOLOGY WWW INTEROPERABILITY 8 YEARS ON...... 5275 Tim Duffy

A BAYESIAN APPROACH TO GEOPHYSICAL INVERSION FOR QUANTIFYING GEOLOGICAL UNCERTAINTY ...... 5277 Helen Gibson

EMPLOYING OPEN-SOURCE APPLICATIONS TO DEVELOP A WEBGIS FOR LANDSLIDE INVENTORY AND EARLY WARNING IN VIETNAM ...... 5279 Nguyen Ho Khanh

GEOHAZARD WIDGET WEB APPLICATION: HOW TO MANAGE DATA IN A STANDARD WAY...... 5281 Carlo Cipolloni

GIS-BASED MINERAL SYSTEMS APPROACH TO MAPPING OF PROSPECTIVITY FOR SURFICIAL URANIUM DEPOSITS: A CASE STUDY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA ...... 5283 John Carranza

STUDY OF NEOTECTONIC EFFECTS IN SAURASHTRA PENINSULA USING REMOTE SENSING AND GIS...... 5284 Sanjay Das

THE CONCEPT OF AQUIFER SYSTEM SPECIFICATION BY THE USE OF SPATIAL DATA MODELLING...... 5286 Tomasz Nalecz

THESAURUS AND DATAVIEWER APPLICATION TOOL – KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION TO DEFINE CONCEPTS AND VISUALIZE GEOSCIENTIFIC DATA ...... 5287 Christine Hoerfarter

"GEOPORTAL IMK": WEB-BASED APPLICATION FOR EASY ACCESS TO SELECTED SPATIAL GEOLOGICAL DATA OF STATE GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF DIONÝZ ŠTÚR, SLOVAKIA...... N/A Marian Zlocha

SUPPORT TO BUILDING OF A SUSTAINABLE MINERAL SECTOR AND FACILITATING RESPONSIBLE USE OF MINERAL RESOURCES FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE IN NAMIBIA...... 5289 Riitta Teerilahti

USING GLOBAL DATASETS IN LOCAL GEOMORPHIC APPLICATIONS...... 5291 Frank Eckardt

ONEGEOLOGY – A SUCCESSFUL OPEN ACCESS MODEL FOR UP-TO-DATE GEOSCIENCE DATA USING A DISTRIBUTED DATA SYSTEM...... 5292 Marko Komac

3D TARGETING BASED ON GEOSCIENCE DATASETS AND METALLOGENIC MODEL IN THE EAST OF GEJIU TIN POLYMETALLIC DISTRICT, CHINA...... 5293 Gongwen Wang

APPLICATION OF FRACTAL MODELLING FOR INTEGRATION OF DATA LAYERS IN GIS, CASE STUDY: SHARAFABAD-HIZEHJAN AREA (NW IRAN) ...... 5295 Peyman Afzal

APPLICATION OF PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES METHODS IN IDENTIFYING INTEGRATED GEOCHEMICAL ANOMALIES USING STREAM SEDIMENT DATA IN NORTHWESTERN HUNAN, CHINA...... 5296 Kun Wang

GIS BASED INTEGRATION OF AIRBORNE MAGNETIC, RADIOMETRIC, LIDAR, SOIL AND SEDIMENT GEOCHEMISTRY: A CASE STUDY OF THE TELLUSSW SURVEYS, ENGLAND ...... 5298 Charlie Moon

HYBRID FUZZY WEIGHTS OF EVIDENCE AND ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS FOR MINERAL POTENTIAL MAPPING: A CASE STUDY FROM THE BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA...... 5300 Abera Tessema

MULTIFRACTAL ANALYSIS OF THE STRENGTH OF CU-AU PARAGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS, A CASE STUDY IN EASTERN TIANSHAN MINERAL DISTRICT, CHINA ...... 5302 Jie Zhao

NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN MINERAL PROSPECTIVITY MAPPING AT BRGM: AN OVERVIEW...... 5303 Bruno Tourlere

ONEGEOLOGY AFRICA PART II...... N/A Marko Komac

A FRACTAL MEASURE OF THE SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN GEOLOGICAL FEATURES AND MINERAL DEPOSITS...... 5305 Renguang Zuo

FUZZY LOGIC PROSPECTIVITY MODEL FOR GOLD WITHIN THE PALEOPROTEROZOIC PERÄPOHJA BELT, NORTHERN FENNOSCANDIAN SHIELD, FINLAND ...... 5307 Vesa Nykänen

GOLD EXPLORATION IN LIMPOPO PROVINCE USING FREE SATELLITE DATA ...... 5309 Neil Pendock

IDENTIFICATION OF ELEMENT ASSOCIATION ANOMALY AND EXTRACTION OF ITS ORE-FORMING INFORMATION OF SOUTHEASTERN YUNNAN ORE CONCENTRATION AREA BY USING PCA COMBINED WITH SVD ...... 5311 Luxue Qin

IDENTIFICATION OF ORE-FORMING ELEMENT ASSOCIATION ANOMALIES BY BI-DIMENSION EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION COMBINED WITH PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS IN TENGCHONG BLOCK, SOUTHWESTERN CHINA ...... 5313 Yongqing Chen

ONEGEOLOGY AFRICA PART II...... N/A Marko Komac

COST SENSITIVE NEURAL NETWORK-BASED METHOD FOR MAPPING MINERAL PROSPECTIVITY ...... 5315 Yihui Xiong

FRACTAL/MULTIFRACTAL ANALYSIS IN SUPPORT OF MINERAL EXPLORATION ...... N/A Wenlei Wang

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE, ROLE AND CHALLENGES IN THE USE OF GEOSCIENCES INFORMATION IN MINERAL RESOURCES EXPLOITATION AND IN PLANNING FOR SOCIAL- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN ZAMBIA...... 5316 Vincent Kawamya

IMPORTANCE OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) IN MAPPING THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION, USES AND IMPACTS OF NEGLECTED DEVELOPMENT MINERALS: CASE STUDIES IN SOME ADMINISTRATIVE DISTRICTS NEAR ACCRA, GHANA ...... 5318 Rosemary Okla

REGIONAL GIS BASED EXPLORATION TARGETING STUDIES IN DATA POOR ENVIRONMENTS: A CASE STUDY OF GOLD PROSPECTIVITY MAPPING IN NIGERIA...... 5319 Matthew Greentree

SEISMOTECTONIC FEATURES OF THE AFRICAN PLATE: THE POSSIBLE DISLOCATION OF A CONTINENT...... 5321 Mustapha Meghraoui

SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CONTAMINATED MINING AREAS AND PATHOLOGICAL STATES AROUND KADOMA, ZIMBABWE ...... 5323 Daina Mudimbu

THE APPLICATION OF HISTORICAL GEOLOGICAL AND AIRBORNE DATA IN MINING INDUSTRY – CASE OF COAL SECTOR IN MOZAMBIQUE...... 5325 Alfredo Pontavida

THE SOUTH EASTERN ‘BASEMENT’ COMPLEX OF SOUTH SUDAN...... 5326 Timothy Marais

ARE THE ALPS AN ALPINE-TYPE OROGENY? A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY MAPPING PROJECT ...... 5328 Romain Bousquet

EASTERN ASIA EARTHQUAKE AND VOLCANIC HAZARDS INFORMATION MAP...... 5330 Shinji Takarada

GEOLOGICAL MAPS OF THE FUTURE ...... 5332 Cees Passchier

HOW COOL CAN BE THE MIGRATION OF AN OLD GIS CORPORATE DATASET TO A NEW SYSTEM. FROM COVERAGES TO GEOSPATIAL DATABASES...... 5334 Carlos Gabriel Asato

OUTLETS FOR DISTRIBUTING GEOLOGIC MAPS IN THE DIGITAL AGE – JOURNAL OF MAPS AND EXAMPLES FROM THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ...... 5336 Randall Orndorff

TECTONIC MAP OF NORTHERN-CENTRAL-EASTERN ASIA: NEW CONCEPTION, NEW SCIENTIFIC RESULTS, NEW PERSPECTIVES...... 5338 Igor Pospelov

THE HISTORIC EVOLUTION OF THE GLOBAL GEOLOGICAL MAPPING OF AFRICA...... 5340 Philippe Rossi

THE NEW TECTONIC MAP OF SOUTH AMERICA (2016) AT THE 1:5 000 000 SCALE...... 5341 Umberto Cordani

AN UPDATED GEOLOGICAL MAP OF AFRICA AT 1/10 000 000 SCALE...... 5343 Denis Thiéblemont

INTERNATIONAL CROSS-BOUNDARY COOPERATION AND INTEGRATION: THE REVIEW OF THE INTERNATIONAL QUATERNARY MAP OF EUROPE (IQUAME 2500) ...... 5345 Kristine Asch

STRUCTURAL MAP OF THE CARIBBEAN...... 5347 Philippe Bouysse

THE 1:5 MILLION GEOLOGICAL MAP OF SOUTH AMERICA (NEW EDITION) ...... 5348 Jorge Gomez

THE NEW GEOLOGICAL MAP OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL AT 1:1 000 000 SCALE. HISTORY, CONTENTS AND DEVELOPMENT...... 5349 Alejandro Robador

THE STRUCTURAL MAPPING OF AN OCEAN - DATA AND INFORMATION ...... 5351 Peter Miles

AN INTEROPERABILITY FRAMEWORK TO ADDRESS HAZARD AND RISK DATA AS PART OF A TRANS-NATIONAL SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE...... 5353 Robert Tomas

EARTH OBSERVATIONS AND THE IMPORTANCE OF BROAD, OPEN DATA SHARING POLICIES ...... 5355 Barbara Ryan

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF E-INFRASTRUCTURES AND DATA MANAGEMENT PRIORITIES FOR GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH ...... 5357 M. L. Allison

ONEGEOLOGY A FUTURE SUBSURFACE INTEROPERABLE PLATFORM FOR GEOSCIENTISTS AND USERS ...... 5358 Matthew Harrison

THE EUROPEAN GEOLOGICAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE - EGDI ...... 5359 François Robida

20 YEARS OF INTRODUCING GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS – AN EXPERIENCE REPORT ...... 5360 Andreas Barth

BUILDING GEOLOGICAL SERVICES FOR THE EPOS EUROPEAN RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE ...... 5362 François Robida

BUILDING THEMATIC AND INTEGRATED SERVICES FOR EUROPEAN SOLID EARTH SCIENCES: THE EPOS INTEGRATED APPROACH...... 5364 Matthew Harrison

THE SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOLOGICAL REFERENCE OF FRANCE...... 5366 Marc Urvois

UPGRADING A NATIONAL DATA REPOSITORY TO A KEY REGISTER ...... 5367 Stephan Gruijters

A VISUAL AID FOR INTERPRETING AND FILTERING DOWN-HOLE GAMMA LOGS...... 5369 June Hill

ANALYSIS OF GEOLOGICAL FEATURES WITH ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS – METHODOLOGY AND EXAMPLES ...... 5371 Andreas Barth

APPLICATION AND VALIDATION OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODEL TO GROUNDWATER PRODUCTIVITY-POTENTIAL MAPPING ...... 5373 Saro Lee

LOCAL PROBABILITY DENSITY-BASED 3D EDGE DETECTION APPLIED TO AN ELECTROMAGNETIC INVERSION OF THE KEVITSA NI-CU-PGE DEPOSIT, FINLAND...... 5375 Tom Horrocks

LUMPING GEOLOGY UNITS IN DRILL HOLES FOR SIMPLIFIED 3D MODELLING ...... 5377 E. J. Hill

FROM 2D MAPS TO 3D MODELLING: MUCH MORE THAN “JUST ONE MORE DIMENSION”...... 5378 Gabriel Courrioux

FROM GEOMOL TO EGDI – TOWARDS THE INTEGRATION OF REGIONAL 3D GEOLOGICAL DATASETS INTO THE EUROPEAN GEOLOGICAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE ...... 5379 Gerold W. Diepolder

MAPPING OF AU ANOMALIES IN DRAINAGE SEDIMENTS BY MULTIFRACTAL MODELING...... 5381 Behnam Sadeghi

MODELING THE DUTCH SUBSURFACE: FROM PAPER PRODUCT TOWARDS DISSEMINATION OF A 3D-DIGITAL MODEL ...... 5383 Johan Ten Veen

ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THE GEOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE IN 3D MODELLING ...... 5385 Philippe Calcagno

STORING AND DELIVERING NUMERICAL GEOLOGICAL MODELS ON DEMAND FOR EVERYDAY EARTH SCIENCES APPLICATIONS ...... 5386 Christelle Loiselet

EARTHRESOURCEML - THE CGI-IUGS DATA STANDARD TO DELIVER MINERAL RESOURCE DATA...... 5388 Jouni Vuollo

VOLUME 14

GEO3DML: A PUBLIC 3D GEOLOGICAL MODEL DATA EXCHANGE FORMAT ...... 5390 Honggang Qu

GEOSCIML VERSION 4.0 - A COMING OF AGE...... 5392 Ollie Raymond

INTERNATIONAL STANDARDISATION OF GEOSCIENCE TERMINOLOGY VIA CGI-IUGS VOCABULARIES...... 5394 Mark Rattenbury

SUBMISSION AND DISSEMINATION OF GEOLOGICAL DATA FOR THE TERRITORY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION USING THE CGI STANDARDS TO ENSURE INTERNATIONAL DATA EXCHANGE ...... 5396 Leonid Chesalov

THE USE OF GEOSCIML HARMONISED LAYERS IN GEOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS ...... 5398 Carlo Cipolloni

100 YEARS OF ANTARCTIC TECTONIC CARTOGRAPHY...... 5400 German Leitchenkov

3D GEOMODELLING: A COLLABORATIVE PLATFORM FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY INTERPRETATION...... 5402 Philippe Calcagno

A NEW GEOLOGICAL MAP OF THE SE FENNOSCANDIAN SHIELD AS A BASIS FOR THE STUDY OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE EARLY EARTH CRUST...... 5404 Aleksandr Slabunov

DEVELOPMENT OF ASSISTED ROAD NAVIGATION BY THE DRAINAGE NETWORK ...... 5406 Talnan Jean Honore Coulibaly

THE STRUCTURAL MAP OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA ; HIGHLIGHTING THE MAIN TERTIARY EVENTS ...... 5408 Manuel Pubellier

APPLICATION OF BEMD IN EXTRACTION OF GRAVITY ANOMALY IMPLYING GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES AND GRANITES AT DIFFERENT DEPTHS WITHIN THE BOZHUSHAN-THE LAOJUNSHAN W-SN-AG-ZN-CU ORE CONCENTRATION AREA OF SOUTHESTERN YUNNAN, SOUTH CHINA...... 5409 Yongqing Chen

BAYESIAN HIERARCHICAL APPROACH COMBINED WITH GEOSTATISTICS FOR TEMPERATURE MODELING USING A WELL-LOGGING DATASET ...... 5411 Lei Lu

CASE STUDY: A DATA WAREHOUSE FOR A NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT MONITORING ...... 5412 Zhenhua Li

IDENTIFICATION OF LITHOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES IN THE EAST ANATOLIAN FAULT ZONE BY USING THE REMOTE SENSING METHODS...... 5414 Önder Gürsoy

MULTI-SOURCE THREE-DIMENSION GEOLOGICAL COMPLEX STRUCTURAL MODELLING ...... 5415 Mao Pan

SPECIALIZED GIS-TECHNOLOGY FOR IDENTIFYING ORE-BEARING OBJECTS, AREAS AND EXPECTED RESERVES EVALUATION...... 5417 Abish Sharapatov

APPLICATION OF MULTITHEMATIC GIS MODELLING TECHNIQUES FOR MINERAL POTENTIAL MAPPING ALONG THE KHODANA-NARNAUL AREA AS A PART OF THE NORTH-EAST EXTENSION OF KHETRI COPPER BELT...... 5419 Moumita Mitra Sinha

DISCRIMINATION AND MAPPING OF REES LITHO-GEOCHEMICAL ANOMALIES BY MULTI- FRACTAL MODELING...... 5420 Behnam Sadeghi

GIS-BASED FUZZY LOGIC MINERAL PROSPECTIVITY MODELLING OF SURFICIAL URANIUM SYSTEMS IN NAMAQUALAND REGION, SOUTH AFRICA...... 5422 Abdul Osman Kenan

LOCAL SINGULARITY BASED ON GRADIENT FOR MAPPING GEOCHEMICAL ANOMALIES IN GEJIU, YUNNAN, CHINA ...... 5423 Shengyuan Zhang

MINERAL MAPPING BASED ON SPECTRAL ANGLE MAPPER AND SPECTRAL DISTANCE CLASSIFICATION WITH ZERO-CROSSING WAVELET METHOD ...... 5424 Qing Qi

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GEOCHEMICAL ZONING AND MINERALIZATION IN QINLING MOUNTAINS AREA, CHINA ...... 5425 Jiangnan Zhao

SPATIALLY WEIGHTED PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS TO IDENTIFY GEOCHEMICAL ANOMALIES ASSOCIATED WITH OROGENIC GOLD DEPOSITS IN NORTHEAST JIANGXI, SOUTH CHINA...... 5428 Chengbin Wang

A MOBILE APP FOR GEOLOGICAL/GEOCHEMICAL FIELD DATA ACQUISITION ...... 5430 Nathan Reid

CRUSTAL SEISMIC ANISOTROPY OF NORTH-WEST HIMALAYA...... 5431 Avanie Jain

GEOSCIENCE INFORMATION AND DATA IN THE MOROCCAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...... 5433 Zoubir Skalante

INTERACTIVE 3D POTENTIAL FIELD MODELLING AND VISUALIZATION OF COMPLEX GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES ...... 5434 Hans-Juergen Goetze

MULTISPECTRAL LANDSAT 7 ETM+ ENHANCEMENT IMAGES AND AIRBORNE GEOPHYSICS DATA PROCESSING FOR GEOLOGICAL MAPPING OF THE AHNET TERRANE (WESTERN HOGGAR, ALGERIA)...... 5435 Safouane Djemai

NEW COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY FOR GEOLOGICAL PROBLEMS SOLVING...... 5437 Evgenia Cheremisina

REMOTE SENSING AND AIRBORNE GEOPHYSICS FOR GEOLOGICAL MAPPING OF THE TEFEDEST TERRANE (CENTRAL HOGGAR, ALGERIA)...... 5439 Safouane Djemai

STRATEGY FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF KIGAM GEOSCIENCE DATA REPOSITORY SYSTEM ...... 5440 Jonggyu Han

THE CONTINUED EVOLUTION OF THE OPEN SOURCE PYGMI PROJECT ...... 5442 Patrick Cole

WEBGIS-BASED GEOINFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM FOR EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA ...... 5444 Joel Bandibas

HISTORICAL STORM ANALYSIS AS AN INDICATOR OF FUTURE FLOOD RISK IN KZN, RSA...... 5446 Riaan Botes

OPPORTUNITIES IN DISASTERS – A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE CHRISTCHURCH 2010 – 2012 EARTHQUAKE SERIES...... 5448 Ann Williams

RADON AND SEISMOTECTONICS IN PARTS OF SHILLONG PLATEAU ...... 5450 Devesh Walia

TECTONIC GEOMORPHOLOGY AND PALEOSEISMOLOGY OF THE GATÚN FAULT IN CENTRAL PANAMÁ: SEISMIC HAZARDS AND THE PANAMÁ CANAL...... 5451 Eldon Gath

THE INFLUENCE OF ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS ON EROSION HAZARD: A CONCEPTUAL NOTE ...... 5453 Edmore Kori

UNDERSTANDING DISASTER RISK THROUGH BUILDING KNOWLEDGE CAPACITY – A BEST PRACTICE EXAMPLE FROM LATIN AMERICA TO LEVERAGE THE HYOGO/SENDAI-FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION...... 5454 Dirk Balzer

AN OVERVIEW OF SEISMIC HAZARD MICROZONATION OF THRISSUR CITY, THRISSUR DISTRICT, KERALA, INDIA ...... 5456 K. K. Behera

APPARENT DRYLAND SALINITY ON THE AUSTRALIAN UPLANDS: CAUSES, MECHANISMS, EFFECTS, MAPPING AND MANAGEMENT...... 5458 Glen Bann

COMPARISON AND QUANTITATIVE STUDY OF VULNERABILITY/DAMAGE CURVES IN SOUTH AFRICA...... 5460 Tebogo Pule

GEOHAZARDS AND GEODISASTERS: NATURAL AND HUMAN CONSEQUENCES ...... 5461 Yujiro Ogawa

QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT ON THE INFLUENCE OF RAINFALL ON LANDSLIDES IN JIANSHI COUNTY OF QING RIVER BASIN, CHINA...... 5463 Ningtao Wang

THE GEOLOGICAL, GEOMORPHOLOGICAL AND GEOTECHNICAL SETTING OF THE ZUNGWINI RAIL TUNNEL IN NORTHERN KWA ZULU-NATAL, REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA ...... 5465 Oliver Barker

THE GEOTECHNICS OF THE ZUNGWINI TUNNEL, NORTHERN KWA ZULU-NATAL REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA AND REGIONAL SIGNIFICANCE: WHY DID THE TUNNEL COLLAPSE...... 5467 Oliver Barker

FORMATION CHARACTERISTICS, MONITORING AND PREWARNING STUDIES OF LENGMUGOU DEBRIS FLOW IN LUSHAN EARTHQUAKE DISASTER AREA, CHINA ...... 5468 Jiliang Zhu

GEOMORPHIC SIGNATURE OF PALEO-SEISMIC LANDSLIDES- STUDIES FROM PARTS OF THE ACTIVE SEISMO-TECTONIC DOMAIN OF NAGALAND, NORTH EAST INDIA...... 5472 Niroj Kumar Sarkar

GRAVIQUAKES AND ELASTOQUAKES...... 5474 Carlo Doglioni

RESEARCH ON THE DEFINITION OF RAINFALL EVENT FOR THE DEBRIS FLOW TRIGGERED BY A RUNOFF-INDUCED MECHANISM ...... 5476 Bin Yu

SCENARIO EARTHQUAKE BASED SEISMIC SUSCEPTIBILITY ASSESSMENT OF KOHIMA URBAN AGGLOMERATION WITHIN ACTIVE SEISMO - TECTONIC DOMAIN OF NE INDIA...... 5478 Imti Kumzuk

TEMPORAL EVOLUTION OF SEISMICITY AROUND THE HYPOCENTER OF THE 23 OCTOBER 2011 VAN EARTHQUAKE DEDUCED FROM SEISMIC B-VALUE ESTIMATES, EASTERN ANATOLIA ...... 5480 Mustafa Toker

WHAT KIND OF DISTURBANCES DID MARCH 11, 2011 TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS LEAVE CONTINENTAL MARGIN ECOSYSTEMS? : LESSONS FROM FIVE YEARS MONITORING RESEARCH...... 5482 Hiroshi Kitazato

BUILDING A GIS-BASED 3D SEISMIC MICROZONATION MODEL FOR THE CITY OF JOHANNESBURG ...... 5483 Magda Roos

BUILDING OF SHORT-TERMED EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION SYSTEM IN WATER AREAS...... 5484 Vasily Palamarchuk

EARTHQUAKE HAZARD IN HIMALAYAN REGION: HOW TO MITIGATE? ...... 5485 Harsh Kumar Gupta

HYDRO-MECHANICAL FRAMEWORK FOR EARLY WARNING OF RAINFALL-INDUCED LANDSLIDES...... 5486 Jonathan Godt

LANDMON A NEW INTEGRATED SYSTEM FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF LANDSLIDE MONITORING NETWORKS...... 5488 Daniele Giordan

SWELLING CLAYS A CAMOUFLAGED GEOHAZARD A CASE OF LIWONDE AREA MALAWI ...... 5490 Elias Chikalamo

GEO-HAZARDS IN PAMIR PLATEAU ALONE CHINA-PAKISTAN ECONOMIC CORRIDOR ...... 5491 Xin Yao

GEOHAZARDS: BASIC SCIENCE FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION...... 5493 Alik Ismail-Zadeh

SOME KEY PROBLEMS ON SURVEY AND DESIGN OF DEBRIS FLOW IN WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE AREA...... 5495 Xiewen Hu

VOLCANIC DISASTER MITIGATION MEASURES OF G-EVER VOLCANIC HAZARDS ASSESSMENT SUPPORT SYSTEM AND ASIA-PACIFIC REGION EARTHQUAKE AND VOLCANIC HAZARDS INFORMATION MAPPING PROJECT ...... 5496 Shinji Takarada

ACID MINE DRAINAGE NUISANCE: CASE STUDIES IN ABUNDANT COLLIERIES IN WITBANK COALFIELDS ...... 5498 Zuko Mankayi

NON-VOLCANIC CO2 AND CH4 DEGASSING IN AN ACTIVELY EXTENDING OROGEN, SOUTHERN APENNINES, ITALY ...... 5499 Alessandra Ascione

OCCURRENCE OF 1 KA-OLD CORALS ON A RAISED MARINE TERRACE IN WEST LUZON, PHILIPPINES: EVIDENCE OF A PREHISTORIC HIGH-ENERGY WAVE EVENT IN SOUTHEAST ASIA? ...... 5500 Noelynna Ramos

SEISMIC VULNERABILITY INVESTIGATION OF RDP HOMES IN THE CITY OF MATLOSANA, NORTH WEST PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 5501 Zeenat Khoyratty

SIGNATURES OF PALEOSEISMIC AND PALEO-TSUNAMI FROM BADABALU, SOUTH ANDAMAN, ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLAND, INDIA ...... 5503 Javed Malik

SUBSURFACE GEOTECHNICAL EVALUATION FOR THE SEISMIC MICROZONATION OF THE GREATER JOHANNESBURG AREA, SOUTH AFRICA ...... 5505 Souleymane Diop

THE DATA COLLECTION AND TRANSMISSION PROTOCOL FOR GEO-HAZARDS MONITORING IN CHINA...... 5507 Guoxuan Cheng

AIR- AND SPACE-BORN INVENTORY AND MONITORING OF EMERGENCY SLOPE DEFORMATIONS IN SLOVAKIA ...... 5510 Pavel Liscak

ENGINEERING GEOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING AFTER THE 2015 GORKHA EARTHQUAKE...... 5512 Ranjan Kumar Dahal

INSAR BASED GROUND MOTION SERVICE FOR GERMANY – NATURAL AND ANTHROPOGENIC IMPLICATIONS...... 5514 Michaela Frei

LANDSLIDE CHARACTERIZATION FROM SPACE IN THE TROPICAL ENVIRONMENTS OF THE RIFT FLANKS WEST OF LAKE KIVU (DRC) ...... 5516 Olivier Dewitte

NEO-TECTONIC EVIDENCES OF REJUVENATION IN SPITI VALLEY FAULT, LAHAUL AND SPITI DISTRICT, NORTHWESTERN HIMALAYAS, INDIA...... 5518 N. S. Nayyar

SURFACE RECOVERY OF LANDSLIDES TRIGGERED BY 2008 MS8.0 WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE (CHINA): A CASE STUDY IN A TYPICAL MOUNTAINOUS WATERSHED ...... 5520 Li Lingjing

YAKIMA FOLD BELT STRUCTURES, EASTERN WA: STYLE AND RATE OF FAULTING BASED ON STRUCTURAL ANALYSES AND QUATERNARY STUDIES ...... 5522 Ryan Coppersmith

CHALLENGES IN CHARACTERIZING FAULT SOURCES IN A REACTIVATED SCR ENVIRONMENT, SOUTHERN SOUTH AFRICA...... 5524 Ryan Coppersmith

COSMOGENIC 10BE AND 26AL DATING OF ANCIENT SURFACES AND RECENT FAULT SCARPS IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH AFRICA – INDICATIONS OF BOTH FAULT MOTION AND STABILITY IN A STABLE CONTINENTAL REGION...... 5526 Paul Bierman

NEW CHALLENGES FOR SEISMIC HAZARD CHARACTERIZATION OF THE CHERAW FAULT, SOUTHEAST COLORADO, USA...... 5528 Dean Ostenaa

PALEOSEISMIC INVESTIGATION OF THE KANGO FAULT, SOUTH AFRICA: INCORPORATING TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CLUSTERING BEHAVIOR INTO A SEISMIC SOURCE CHARACTERIZATION MODEL...... 5530 Kathryn Hanson

SEISMICITY INDUCED BY MINE FLOODING...... 5531 Artur Cichowicz

THE 2014-2016 UPDATES OF THE NATIONAL SEISMIC HAZARD MODELS FOR THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN UNITED STATES: INSIGHTS FOR HAZARD IN STABLE CONTINENTAL REGIONS...... 5533 Mark Petersen

COMPLIMENTARY SOURCES OF EARTHQUAKE DATA – A UNIQUE SITUATION...... 5535 Artur Cichowicz

DRILLING INTO SEISMOGENIC ZONES OF M2.0 – M5.5 EARTHQUAKES IN DEEP SOUTH AFRICAN GOLD MINES (DSEIS)...... 5536 Hiroshi Ogasawara

LAND SUBSIDENCE MONITORING AND ITS COUNTERMEASURES IN THE LOWER YANGTZE DELTA AREA OF CHINA...... 5538 Bin Shi

SEISMICITY ANALYSIS FOR PAMIR-HINDUKUSH CONSIDERING SHALLOW AND INTERMEDIATE DEPTH EARTHQUAKES ...... 5539 Khaista Rehman

SHALLOW AND UPPER CRUSTAL AMPLIFICATION OF SEISMIC WAVES...... 5540 Ganesh W. Rathod

THE PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM HIGH RESOLUTION SEISMIC SURVEY OF LAKE ERÇEK (LESS- 2015 PROJECT), EASTERN ANATOLIA ...... 5542 Mustafa Toker

FORESHOCK ACTIVITY AS A COMPONENT OF THE SEISMIC EARLY WARNING...... 5544 Gerasimos Papadopoulos

LANDSLIDE ENVIRONMENT IN PAKISTAN AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE-2005 ...... 5545 Shahina Tariq

CYCLONES, TSUNAMIS AND POLYNESIAN OCCUPATION – A 3500 YEAR RECORD FROM MANGAIA IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC ...... 5546 Catherine Chague-Goff

ITRAX APPLICATIONS IN PALAEOTSUNAMI RESEARCH – PUSHING THE LIMITS ...... N/A Catherine Chague-Goff

JAPAN'S NUCLEAR REGULATION STANDARDS AGAINST NATURAL HAZARDS AFTER FUKUSHIMA ...... 5548 Akira Ishiwatari

PREVIOUSLY UNDOCUMENTED WIDESPREAD SUBDUCTION ON THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE ALPINE FAULT, NEW ZEALAND ...... 5550 James Goff

THE USE OF GRASS QGIS IN DETAILED MAPPING OF SLOPES IN THE GREATER TZANEEN LOCAL MUNICIPALITY, LIMPOPO PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA...... 5552 B. D. O Odhiambo

TSUNAMI RISK ASSESSMENT WITH GIS METHODS: COST FROM BUILDING DAMAGE AND EVACUATION MAPPING...... 5553 Ioanna Triantafyllou

TSUNAMIGENIC SLOPE FAILURES IN THE PACIFIC – AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH ...... 5554 James Goff

CONSIDERING GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES IN LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY ASSESSMENT: A CASE STUDY IN YEN BAI PROVINCE, VIETNAM ...... 5556 Nguyen Ho Khanh

FAULT ZONE ARCHITECTURE AND EVALUATION OF ITS FAULT SEALING PROPERTIES, XIAHONG NORTH FAULT IN JUNGGAR BASIN ...... 5557 Kongyou Wu

GEO-HAZARD ASSESSMENT, REMOTE SENSING AND EUROPEAN CULTURAL HERITAGE: THE PROTHEGO PROJECT...... N/A Daniele Spizzichino

LANDSLIDE INVENTORY MAPPING AT 1:50,000 SCALE IN THE FOURTEEN NORTHERN PROVINCES OF VIETNAM: ACHIEVEMENTS AND DIFFICULTIES ...... 5558 Nguyen Thi Hai Van

SEISMOTECTONIC MAP AND GEODYNAMIC EVOLUTION IN NORTHWEST AFRICA (MAGHREB REGION AND WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN) ...... 5560 Abdelhakim Ayadi

CHARACTERISING NATURAL HAZARD INTERACTIONS TO SUPPORT MULTI-HAZARD APPROACHES TO HAZARD MANAGEMENT...... 5562 Joel Gill

COMMUNICATION AND THE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF GEOHAZARDS ...... 5564 Laurance Donnelly

EFFECTS OF TOPOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL FEATURES ON BUILDING DAMAGE CAUSED BY 2015.4.25 MW7.8 GORKHA EARTHQUAKE IN NEPAL...... 5566 Fawu Wang

EXTENDING THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD FOR CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE (CSZ) EARTHQUAKES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA ...... 5568 Peter Bobrowsky

INVESTIGATION OF ARTIFICIAL WATER RESERVOIR TRIGGERED EARTHQUAKE AT KOYNA, INDIA...... 5570 Harsh Kumar Gupta

SUBMARINE PERMAFROST DYNAMICS ALONG THE ARCTIC SHELF EDGE ...... 5571 Charles Paull

TYPHOON-DRIVEN WAVE DEPOSITS ON ISLAND ROCK COASTS IN THE GULF OF THAILAND...... 5573 James Terry

DETECTION OF LANDSLIDES IN EARLY PHASES USING SAR INTERFEROMETRY ...... 5576 Mateja Jemec Auflic

LANDSLIDE MONITORING THROUGH SPATIAL SENSOR NETWORK...... 5577 Ping Lu

PRECONDITIONING FACTORS FOR THE UNSTABLE EASTERN ROCKALL BANK SLOPE, NE ATLANTIC ...... 5578 Aggeliki Georgiopoulou

SEDIMENTARY PROCESSES ASSOCIATED TO A LATE MIOCENE LARGE-SCALE SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE (SIERRA DE GÁDOR, ALMERÍA, SE SPAIN)...... 5579 Ángel Puga-Bernabéu

SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES AND RELATED GEOHAZARDS AROUND INDIAN SUBCONTINENT AND ISLANDS...... 5580 N. K. Sainaba

ASSESSING SLOPE STABILITY IN THREE DIMENSIONS THROUGHOUT A LANDSCAPE: STRATOVOLCANOES, COASTAL BLUFFS, AND SUBMARINE SLOPES ...... 5582 Mark Reid

LANDSLIDE VOLUME ESTIMATION BY LANDSLIDE AREA-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION...... 5584 Chien-Yuan Chen

RECENT SEISMICITY AND VOLCANISM IN AFAR AND THE MAIN ETHIOPIAN RIFT ...... 5585 Atalay Ayele

THE AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCE OF THE 5TH AUGUST 2014 ORKNEY EARTHQUAKE ...... 5587 Brassnavy Manzunzu

THE SEISMOTECTONIC MAP OF AFRICA ...... 5588 Mustapha Meghraoui

INVESTIGATING SEISMIC SOURCE ZONES IN CAMEROON: A PRELIMINARY STEP FOR SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT ...... 5590 Bekoa Ateba

NEOTECTONIC STRESS MAPPING IN SOUTHERN AFRICA SOLVES THE PUZZLING M5.5 ORKNEY EARTHQUAKE OF 5 AUGUST 2014, NORTH WEST PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA...... 5591 Marco Andreoli

NEOTECTONIC STRESS ORIENTATION IN THE KAAPVAAL CRATON, SOUTH AFRICA DERIVED BY THE DIHEDRA METHOD ...... 5593 Adam Bumby

PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE SEISMOTURBIDITE SUCCESSION ABOVE THE LWANDLE-NUBIA PLATE BOUNDARY, OFFSHORE SOUTH AFRICA...... 5595 John Rogers

STRESS CHANGE AND FAULT INTERACTION FROM A TWO CENTURY-LONG EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCE IN THE CENTRAL TELL ATLAS (ALGERIA)...... 5597 Mustapha Meghraoui

STRESS FIELD IN THE AFRICAN PLATE...... 5599 Damien Delvaux

STRESS FIELD IN THE WESTERN PART OF AFRICA-EURASIA BOUNDARY FROM THE AZORES TO TUNISIAN ATLAS ...... 5600 Farida Ousadou

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK BASED GEOHAZARD POTENTIAL MAPPING FOR SUSTAINABLE LAND USE PLANNING: APPROACHES AND EXAMPLES FROM GERMANY AND NAMIBIA ...... 5601 Israel Hasheela

COSMOGENICALLY DATED MARINE TERRACES IN SOUTH AFRICA REVEAL LOW LONG-TERM RATES OF UPLIFT AND NO EVIDENCE FOR LOCALIZED FAULTING ...... 5603 Paul Bierman

DIFFERENCES IN GEOLOGICAL HAZARDS FROM LIQUEFACTION–FLUIDIZATION AND GROUND WAVES IN THE AREAS FACING TOKYO BAY AND SAN FRANCISCO BAY...... 5605 Hisashi Nirei

FIELD EVIDENCES OF GORKHA EARTHQUAKES OF 25 APRIL (7.8M) AND KODARI 12 MAY 2015 (7.2M) IN NEPAL...... 5607 Arun Kumar

PRESENT PERMAFROST DEGRADATION IN NE SIBERIA: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS ...... 5608 Jiri Chlachula

THE USE OF DOWNHOLE GEOPHYSICAL LOGGING IN ASSESSING SUBSIDENCE FROM ABANDONED COAL MINES ...... 5610 David L Knott

VARIATIONS IN THE MORPHOLOGY OF REACTIVATED FAULT SCARPS IN THE UK ...... 5612 Laurance Donnelly

ANALYSIS OF LARGE-SCALE LANDSLIDES TRIGGERED BY THE 2008 WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE...... 5614 Xuanmei Fan

CONTROLLING FACTORS FOR LANDSLIDE INITIATION IN THE SEISMO-TECTONICALLY ACTIVE AND HIGH RAINFALL REGIONS OF NORTH EAST INDIA ...... 5616 Niroj Kumar Sarkar

FAILURE MODE AND MECHANISMS OF THE MAJIAGOU LANDSLIDE IN THE THREE GORGES RESERVOIR, CHINA...... 5618 Xinli Hu

INITIATION MECHANISM OF LARGE LANDSLIDES INDUCED BY 2008 CHINA MS8.0 EARTHQUAKE...... 5620 Xiaoyan Zhao

PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT OF SOUTH AFRICA...... 5621 Vunganai Midzi

SEISMIC GROUND MOTION AND HAZARD ASSESSMENT OF THE GREATER ACCRA METROPOLITAN AREA, SOUTHEASTERN GHANA...... 5623 Paulina Amponsah

SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS FOR ASWAN HIGH DAM RESERVOIR (EGYPT) ...... 5624 Awad Hassoup

GEOPHYSICS OF THE SIRT BASIN RIFT SYSTEM, LIBYA...... 5625 Abdunnur Bensuleman

LANDSLIDE DEVELOPMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS AND RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE SINCE THE LAST GLACIAL IN THE UPPER REACHES OF THE YELLOW RIVER, NE TIBETAN PLATEAU...... 5626 Zhiqiang Yin

MICROZONATION OF JOHANNESBURG: IMPACT OF UNCERTAINTIES ASSOCIATED WITH EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE ON SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT...... 5627 Thifhelimbilu Faith Mulabisana

SEISMIC ACTIVITY AND LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE IN NW OF WEST AFRICAN CRATON: CASE OF THE MOROCCAN ATLAS MOUNTAINS...... 5628 Youssef Timoulali

SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES ON THE GREAT BARRIER REEF MARGIN, NORTH-EASTERN AUSTRALIA: PRELIMINARY CHARACTERIZATION OF THEIR MORPHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOUR...... 5629 Ángel Puga-Bernabéu

THE SEISMIC LANDSLIDE HAZARDS MAPPING: A CASE STUDY IN THE YINGXIU AREA, SICHUAN, CHINA...... 5631 Hua Ge

APPLICATION OF FUZZY SET THEORY TO LANDSLIDE HAZARD ZONATION MAPPING IN LIMBE (CAMEROON) ...... 5632 M. L. Diko

ERUPTION OF MOUNT SINABUNG, NORTH SUMATERA, INDONESIA, AND SMS GATEWAY FOR DISASTER EARLY WARNING SYSTEM ...... 5633 Sari Bahagiarti Kusumayudha

GEOHAZARDS RISK ASSESSMENT FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT OF MOUNT MERAPI AND SURROUNDING AREA, YOGYAKARTA SPECIAL REGION, INDONESIA...... 5635 Ayu Narwastu Ciptahening

LANDSLIDE HAZARD ZONATION USING RAINFALL THRESHOLD BASED TEMPORAL PROBABILITY...... 5637 Pankaj Jaiswal

LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING AT REGIONAL SCALES USING WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE METHOD – A REVISION OF THE METHODICAL CONCEPT FROM A PRACTICAL POINT OF VIEW...... 5639 Michael Fuchs

LANDSLIDES IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA: IDENTIFYING CULTURALLY, TECHNICALLY AND ECONOMICALLY FEASIBLE RESILIENCE STRATEGIES ...... 5641 Olivier Dewitte

A METHOD TO DETERMINE ACCURATE HYPOCENTRRAL PARAMETERS OF SHALLOW EARTHQUAKES INCLUDING EXPLOSIONS ...... 5643 Woohan Kim

A SITE SPECIFIC GEOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT OF THE PROPOSED LOCATION OF SOUTH AFRICA’S SECOND NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, THYSPUNT, EASTERN CAPE ...... 5644 Debbie Claassen

DIFFERENTIAL UPLIFT AND INCISION OF THE YAKIMA RIVER TERRACES, CENTRAL WASHINGTON STATE, USA ...... 5646 Paul Bierman

EVIDENCE FOR QUATERNARY REVERSE OF RATTLESNAKE MOUNTAIN FAULT, YAKIMA FOLD BELT, EASTERN WASHINGTON...... 5648 Kathryn Hanson

MAP AND DATABASE OF ACTIVE FAULTS IN SLOVENIA...... 5650 Miloš Bavec

NEOCTONICS OF THE ALGERIAN CONTINENTAL MARGIN: BLOCKS ROTATIONS EVIDENCED BY A PALEOMAGNETIC ANALYSIS ...... 5651 Said Maouche

SEARCHING FOR THE SIGNIFICANT DISPLACEMENT ZONE OF THE 2014 ORKNEY EARTHQUAKE FAULT WITH STRAIN DATA AND MAP3DI FOR TARGETING SCIENTIFIC DRILLING...... 5653 Akimasa Ishida

SHEARING RATE EFFECT ON RESIDUAL STRENGTH OF SLIP SOILS AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE DEFORMATION CHARACTERISTICS OF LANDSLIDES ...... 5655 Lunan Wang

STRAIN PARTITIONING AND SEISMOTECTONICS IN THE EAST MARGIN OF THE TIBETAN PLATEAU CONSTRAINED BY RIVER LANDFORMS...... 5657 Shimin Zhang

THE 2014 ORKNEY M5.5: LOCATION OF INITIAL AND MAIN RUPTURE ORIGINS AND HIGH ENERGY SOURCES ...... 5659 Hiroyuki Ogasawara

THE PRODUCTION OF THE AFRICA SEISMOTECTONIC MAP AND DATABASE ...... 5661 H. M. Roos

VARIATION CHARACTERISTICS OF TECTONIC STRESS TENSORS ON LONGMEN-SHAN FAULT BELTS AND THE NEW INTERPRETATION OF THE DYNAMICS OF WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE...... 5662 Furen Xie

EVALUATION OF SEISMIC HAZARD AT THE NORTHEASTERN PART OF ALGERIA ...... 5663 Hamidatou Mouloud

PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT FOR WEST AFRICA AND SURROUNDING REGIONS ...... 5665 Umar Afegbua Kadiri

SEISMIC ZONATION OF HISPANIOLA ISLAND FOR HAZARD ASSESSMENT PURPOSES...... 5668 Monique Terrier

SEISMICITY STUDIES OF THE OKAVANGO DELTA REGION AND THE ENVIRONS, BOTSWANA...... 5670 Bokani Nthaba

SEISMOTECTONIC AND SEISMIC HAZARD MAP OF TUNISIA (NORTH AFRICA)...... 5671 Abdelkader Soumaya

SEISMOTECTONICS AND SEISMIC HAZARD MAP OF TUNISIA (NORTH AFRICA)...... 5672 Abdelkader Soumaya

SEISMOTECTONICS FOR MADAGASCAR...... 5673 Tsiriandrimanana Rakotondraibe

STRESS CHANGE AND FAULT INTERACTION FROM A TWO CENTURY-LONG EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCE IN THE CENTRAL TELL ATLAS (ALGERIA)...... 5675 Abdelhakim Ayadi

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TUNNEL DEFORMATION BY DESIGNING OF AUXILIARY TUNNELS ...... 5677 Haijun Zhao

ESTIMATION OF THE SEISMIC RISK IN MAJOR CITIES OF GANGWON PROVINCE, KOREA USING SHEAR-WAVE VELOCITIES ...... 5679 Ki Young Kim

FEASIBILITY TEST OF JOINT MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD EARTHQUAKE LOCATION WITH ARRIVED AND NOT-YET ARRIVED DATA FOR EARLY WARNING...... 5680 Dong-Hoon Sheen

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF DEEP-HOLE RESISTIVITY ANOMALY CAUSED BY DRILLING CONSTRUCTION IN XINFENGJIANG GEOELECTRIC STATION ...... 5681 Xing Yan

PALEOTSUNAMI IN EASTERN TAIWAN AND ITS IMPLICATIONS...... 5683 Jiun-Yee Yen

PREDICTION OF LANDSLIDES CONSIDERING THE DEPTH RATIO OF THE WETTING FRONT ...... 5684 Byung-Gon Chae

RAVINES IN ANGOLA. CAUSES AND RESTRAINT METHODS...... 5685 A. B. Pinho

RESIDUAL PORE PRESSURE ANALYSIS OF SHUPING LANDSLIDE IN THREE GORGES RESERVOIR, CHINA...... 5687 Weina Li

ROCK ENGINEERING AWARENESS TRAINING AND ITS BENEFITS...... 5688 Leon Booyens

SEASONAL, LONG-TERM, AND SHORT-TERM DEFORMATION IN THE CENTRAL RANGE OF TAIWAN INDUCED BY LANDSLIDES ...... 5690 Ya-Ju Hsu

THE SECONDARY HAZARD INDUCED BY SEISMIC ACTIVITY COULD BE MORE THREATENING IN KARST MINING AREA ...... 5692 Zhiyong Li

USING NEAR REAL-TIME SINGLE FREQUENCY GPS NETWORK MONITOR DEEP SEATED LANDSLIDES IN ACTIVE MOUNTAIN BELTS ...... 5694 Ching-Weei Lin

WESTERN PACIFIC MEGA WAVE: A 2-KYR-LONG GEOLOGICAL RECORD IN NORTHERN TAIWAN...... 5696 Neng-Ti Yu

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE GEOCHEMISTRY OF TWO TROPICAL WEST FLOWING RIVERS, SOUTHWEST COAST OF INDIA ...... 5698 Vidhya Marina

AGGRADATIONAL AND EROSIONAL RECORDS OF CLOUD BURST: AN EXAMPLE FROM 2010 LEH CLOUD BURST, LADAKH HIMALAYA, INDIA...... 5699 Dhananjay Meshram

CHARACTERISTICS OF BAND-LIMITED AMBIENT SEISMIC NOISE IN SOUTH KOREA ...... 5700 Ki Young Kim

GEOMORPHOLOGIC EVALUATION AND VALORATION OF GEOLOGICAL HAZARDS IN THE QUEBRADA VALLEY AND DIQUE LOS SAUCES-LA RIOJA, ARGENTINA ...... 5701 Adriana Ediht Niz

INTERGRATED STATIC AND DYNAMIC STRESS MODELING FOR INVESTGATING TREMOR SOURCE REGIONS IN THE SAN ANDREAS FAULT ...... 5702 Sandra Hardy

LAND DEGRADATION MAPPING ALONG THE EASTERN CAPE WILD COAST USING LANDSAT 8 SURFACE REFLECTANCE DATA ...... 5703 Rebekah Singh

MANTLE FLOW UNDER THE SEISMOGENIC ZONE OF THE EASTERN CARPATHIANS? EVIDENCES FROM COMPLEMENTARY GEOPHYSICAL AND SATELLITE INVESTIGATIONS...... 5705 Victor Mocanu

OBSERVATIONS ON INTRAPLATE SEISMICITY IN CENTRAL FENNOSCANDIA...... 5707 Annakaisa Korja

PHYSICO-CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF ASBESTOS DUST SAMPLES ...... 5709 Khutadzo Masindi

THE FIRST WORLD CATALOG OF EARTHQUAKE-ROTATED OBJECTS (EROS): OUTLINE, STATISTICAL ANALYSES, OUTLOOK...... 5710 Luigi Cucci

EVIDENCES OF A MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE ROCK AVALANCHE IN L’AQUILA BASIN (CENTRAL APENNINES, ITALY)...... 5712 Gabriele Scarascia-Mugnozza

SEISMIC GEOMORPHOLOGY OF MASS TRANSPORT DEPOSITS INFLUENCED BY HALOKINESIS: INSIGHTS FROM THE LEVANT BASIN, OFFSHORE CENTRAL ISRAEL...... 5714 Nicolas Waldmann

STUDY OF POSSIBLE TSUNAMIGENIC SEISMIC SOURCES FOR THE FRENCH COAST (ATLANTIC AND ENGLISH CHANNEL)...... 5715 Monique Terrier

STUDY ON REGULARITY OF TYPICAL LANDSLIDE STABILITY VARIATION AND INFLUENCING FACTORS WITH DRAWDOWN OF RESERVOIR WATER LEVEL ...... 5717 Xiaomeng Yin

A HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING FLIGHT CAMPAIGN IN THE VNIR-SWIR-TIR WAVE LENGTH FOR RECONNAISSANCE MAPPING OF THE BIFS OF THE KAAPVAAL CRATON...... 5718 Michaela Frei

A RAPID CHARACTERISATION STRATEGY INVOLVING HYPERSPECTRAL CORE LOGGING (HYLOGGING™), X-RAY DIFFRACTION (XRD) AND LASER INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY (LIBS) – A CASE STUDY ...... 5720 Suraj Gopalakrishnan

APPLICATIONS OF HYPERSPECTRAL SENSING IN OIL SANDS MINING OPERATIONS...... 5722 Benoit Rivard

AUSTRALIA’S NATIONAL VIRTUAL CORE LIBRARY: EXAMPLES OF INTEGRATING DATA ACROSS GEOLOGICAL TERRANES TO HIGHLIGHT PROSPECTIVITY ...... 5723 Belinda Smith

SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PLANTS GROWING ON CHROMITE MINERALIZATION IN WEST POKOT DISTRICT, KENYA...... 5725 Beneah D. Odhiambo

STRUCTURAL SETTING OF THE ASMARA AREA, ERITREA...... 5727 Tsehaie Woldai

THE CHAINE DES MONGOS- A NEWLY DISCOVERED PRECAMBRIAN FOLD BELT IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC AND SOUTH SUDAN ...... 5729 Sharad Master

CHARACTERIZATION OF THE LEAD-ZINC MINERALIZATION OF AGGENEYS, SOUTH AFRICA, BY VNIR-SWIR AND TIR HYPERSPECTRAL AIRBORNE DATA ...... 5731 Michaela Frei

EXPLORATION APPLICATIONS OF LABORATORY, FIELD, AND AIRBORNE IMAGING SPECTROMETER DATA COLLECTED FROM THE ORANGE HILL COPPER PORPHYRY DEPOSIT, EAST-CENTRAL ALASKA, USA...... 5733 Raymond Kokaly

GEOMAP BASE A GENERIC EXPERT SYSTEM MAPPER FOR IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY ...... 5735 Christian Mielke

GEOMAP-OUTCROP – 3D HYPERSPECTRAL OUTCROP MINERAL AND REE MAPPING...... 5736 Christian Rogass

HYDROCARBON DETECTION WITH MULTIPLE REMOTE SENSING PLATFORMS...... N/A Saeid Asadzadeh

IDENTIFICATION OF ROCKS USING A HYPERSPECTRAL SUPERCONTINUUM LIDAR ...... 5737 Jussi Leveinen

NEW ADVANCES ON URANIUM EXPLORATION USING AIRBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY: A CASE STUDY OF XUEMISITAN VOLCANIC BELT, XINJIANG, CHINA ...... 5739 Fawang Ye

HIGH RESOLUTION RAPID REVISIT INSAR MONITORING OF SURFACE DEFORMATION...... 5741 Vern Singhroy

NEW APPROACHES IN MINERAL MAPPING USING DIVERSE HYPERSPECTRAL DATA AS WELL AS SIMULATED ENMAP AND SENTINEL 2 DATA ...... 5742 Veronika Kopackova

REMOTE SENSING OF THE COPPER CREEK DISTRICT, ARIZONA. RESULTS FROM ASTER, AIRBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL AND FIELD SPECTROSCOPY...... 5744 Marc Goossens

THE INFLUENCE OF SAMPLE SURFACE PREPARATION ON THERMAL INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY RESULTS...... 5746 Christoph Hecker

USING SPECTRAL DATA IN EXPLORATION FOR GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES...... 5747 Wendy Calvin

USING THERMAL IMAGERY TO FIND G-SPOTS...... 5749 Neil Pendock

INFLUENCE OF THE SOIL MOISTURE ON RADARSAT-2 POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES USED FOR MAPPING SURFICIAL DEPOSITS IN PEATLAND ECOSYSTEMS IN NORTHERN ONTARIO AND FOR MAPPING LOWVELD SAVANNAH ECOSYSTEMS IN KRUGER NATIONAL PARK (SOUTH AFRICA) ...... 5750 Brigitte Leblon

POTENTIAL OF SINKHOLE PRECURSOR DETECTION THROUGH INTERFEROMETRIC SAR ...... 5752 Andre Theron

REMARKABLE LAND SUBSIDENCE IN PLAIN AQUIFERS OF IRAN: EVIDENCE FROM TWO DECADES OF INSAR OBSERVATIONS ...... 5754 Mahdi Motagh

SATELLITE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR FOR MONITORING OF SURFACE DEFORMATION IN SHALLOW UNDERGROUND MINING ENVIRONMENTS...... 5756 Jeanine Engelbrecht

FUTURE HYPERSPECTRAL VSWIR AND MULTISPECTRAL TIR SPACEBORNE INSTRUMENTS...... 5758 Michael Abrams

GEOLOGICAL MAPPING OF MOUNTAIN PASS CARBONATITE COMPLEX, USA, USING THE ENGEOMAP (BASIC MINERAL MAPPING AND REE MAPPING) ...... 5760 Nina K. Boesche

GLOBAL HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION AND MONITORING: CURRENT POSSIBILITIES AND PROJECTIONS FOR THE NEAR FUTURE AND BEYOND ...... 5762 Carlos Souza Filho

INSIGHT INTO THE GEODYNAMICS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA; CRUSTAL THICKNESS AND UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE OF BOTSWANA...... 5763 Mark Van Der Meijde

POTENTIAL OF SPACEBORNE IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY FOR SURFACE MINERAL DETECTION IN NORTHERN LATITUDES...... 5764 Benoit Rivard

PRE- AND CO-SEISMIC SURFACE DEFORMATION OF GRAVIQUAKES: THE 1997 COLFIORITO EARTHQUAKE (NORTHERN APENNINES, ITALY) ...... 5765 Emanuela Valerio

THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL MAPPING FOR ENERGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES ...... 5766 Wendy Calvin

RADAR INTERFEROMETRY FOR GROUND SUBSIDENCE IDENTIFICATION AND MONITORING USING ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 DATA: A CASE STUDY OF KOSH REGION OF SOUTH AFRICA ...... 5768 Abraham Thomas

RANDOM FORESTS APPLIED AS A SOIL SPATIAL PREDICTIVE MODEL ACROSS AN ARIDIC TO USTIC AREA OF INDIAN STATES...... 5770 Gaurav Shukla

SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION OF SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION IN THE NEAR SHORE WATERS, SOUTHERN KARNATAKA, INDIA...... 5771 Ateeth Shetty

THE ARCHITECTURE ON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INTELLIGENT SPACE...... 5773 Chaoling Li

APPLICATION OF REMOTE SENSING AND GIS TO NEAR-SURFACE AQUIFER MAPPING FOR LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY ASSESSMENT: A CASE STUDY IN IN HOA BINH PROVINCE, VIETNAM...... 5775 Le Quoc Hung

MAPPING SURFACE LINEAMENTS IN THE UMIUJALIK LAKE AREA, NUNAVUT USING MULTI-BEAM RADARSAT-2 POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES...... 5777 Brigitte Leblon

TOWARDS A GLOBAL MINERAL MAPPING OR EARTH’S SURFACE ...... 5778 S. Chevrel

USE OF RADARSAT-2 SAR AND LANDSAT-5 TM IMAGES FOR PERMAFROST FEATURE DISTRIBUTION MAPPING ...... 5780 Brigitte Leblon

APPLICATION OF MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE LANDSAT OLI AND ASTER FOR DETECTION OF GOLD MINERALIZATION IN MACOSSA DISTRICT – MOZAMBIQUE...... 5781 Félix Arnaldo Cumbane

MAPPING AND MINERALOGICAL DISCRIMINATION OF LINEAR PALEOPROTEROZOIC CARBONATITE COMPLEXES FROM IHOUHAOUENE AREA (IN OUZZAL TERRANE, HOGGAR, ALGERIA) ...... 5783 Massinissa Amara

SAMPLING METHODS IN COLLUVIUM MATERIAL FOR METALLURGICAL CHARACTERISATION ...... 5785 Willem Van Der Schyff

APPLICATION OF REMOTE SENSING IN SURVEYING FOR REE-RICH CARBONATITES IN TAMIL NADU (SOUTHERN INDIA) ...... 5786 V. Rapprich

ASSESSMENT THE ACTIVITY OF DEEP-SEATED LANDSLIDE BY USING TCP-INSAR INTERFEROMETRY FROM ALOS/PALSAR IMAGES ...... 5787 Rou-Fei Chen

FULLY POLARIMETRIC ALOS PALSAR DATA TO AID GEOLOGICAL MAPPING IN DENSELY VEGETATED AREAS ...... 5788 Jeanine Engelbrecht

LONGWALL MINING AND SURFACE DEFORMATION – LESSONS LEARNED FROM DINSAR MEASUREMENTS...... 5790 Jeanine Engelbrecht

RECENT SURFACE DEFORMATION IN WESTERN HIMALAYA: UTTARAKHAND STATE OF INDIA ...... 5792 Chung-Pai Chang

SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF FRESH AND WEATHERED ROCKS OVERLYING THE ALBORZ HYDROCARBON TRAP, QOM AREA, IRAN: REMOTE SENSING IMPLICATIONS ...... N/A Saeid Asadzadeh

SURFACE DEFORMATION MONITORING BY INSAR TECHNIQUES. CASE STUDY OF THE REGION OF IN SALAH, ALGERIA...... 5793 Mohammed Abed

USE OF RADARSAT-2 AND ALOS-PALSAR IMAGES FOR ORGANIC TERRAIN MAPPING IN NEW BRUNSWICK ...... 5794 Armand Larocque

GEOLOGICAL AND GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING WITH DIGITAL MONO- AND 3D STEREO- PHOTOGRAMMETRY...... 5795 Silvio Seno

THE STUDY ON THE MECHANISM FOR WEAK ANOMALY SPECTRAL RESPONSE OF PORPHYRY COPPER MINERALIZATION ALTERATION...... 5797 Zhifang Zhao

USING GIS TO EVALUATE LAKE PALESTINE AND POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF RAW WATER WITHDRAWAL FOR AN EXPANDING POPULATION...... 5799 Ryan Michell

EVIDENCE OF BASIN SUBSIDENCE AND SUBMERGENCE IN PART OF SUNDERBAN, WEST BENGAL INDIA...... 5801 S. K. Tripathi

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