| 09:00 - 09:10 | Welcome by Roger Gibson (University of the Witwatersrand) |
| 09:10 - 09:20 | Welcome by the organisers |
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| 09:20 - 09:50 | Thomas Jordan (keynote): Implications of the strong isopycnic hypothesis for cratonic evolution
(pdf) |
| 09:50 - 10:05 | Joerg Ebbing: The lithospheric structure of Northern Africa from seismological constrained gravity inversion
(pdf) |
| 10:05 - 10:20 | Susan Webb: Magnetic studies of the Bushveld Complex
(pdf) |
| 10:20 - 10:35 | Manoj Pandit: A synopsis of recent contributions on the Neoproterozoic tectonic evolution of NW India |
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| 10:35 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
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| 11:00 - 11:15 | Colin Reeves: The Bouvet hotspot, South Patagonia and the initiations of Gondwana Dispersal
(pdf) |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Torgeir Andersen: Early-Alpine subduction between Africa and Europe: Earthquakes and Metamorphism on an extremely cold geotherm |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Grant Bybee: Alaskan-Uralian intrusions in Africa and their tectonic significance
(pdf) |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Louise Coney: The Bosumtwi impact structure, Ghana: Deep drilling unravels the formation and history of a well-preserved young impact crater
(pdf) |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Iain McDonald: Distribution of meteoritic material in the Morokweng crater, South Africa: an unique African impact |
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| 12:15 - 13:30 | Lunch |
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| 13:30 - 14:00 | Maarten de Wit (keynote): New stratigraphic and volcanic architecture of the Onverwacht Suite, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa: Fresh ferment for Mid-Archean tectonic models |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Richard Viljoen: Discovery of Komatiite - the 40th Anniversary
(pdf) |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Carl Anhaeusser: Archaean layered ultramafic complexes and volcano-sedimentary cyclicity in komatiite flow sequences at Schapenburg, Barberton Mountain Land, South Africa
(pdf) |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Jay Barton: The source and history of the Sand River Gneisses, Limpopo Belt, South Africa
(pdf) |
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| 14:45 - 15:10 | One minute poster presentations |
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| 15:10 - 16:16 | Coffee break and poster session |
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| 16:15 - 16:30 | Roger Gibson: New Constraints on Mesoarchean Crustal Development in the Vredefort Dome, South Africa: Quantitative Phase Equilibria Modeling in THERMOCALC |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Grant Cawthorn: Emplacement Geometry of the Pilanesberg Complex, South Africa |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Laurence Robb: Polyorogenic tectonic setting for gold mineralization in Nigeria
(pdf) |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | Tony Naldrett: Platinum-group Elements in the chromitites of the Bushveld Complex: New evidence on how the PGE got there
(pdf) |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | Stephen Haggerty: Deep Carbon repositories: Evolution and dynamics
(pdf) |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Kevin Burke (keynote): Is Plate Tectonics being forgotten?
(pdf) |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Hans Thybo: Magmatism and continental rifting |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Allan Wilson: The 3.0 Ga Pongola Supergroup - the world's oldest continental rift or the world's oldest continental margin? |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Matt Rowberry: Widespread denudation and uplift within a passive continental setting: geological and geomorphological insights into the late Mesozoic and Cenozoic evolution of southern Africa |
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| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee break |
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| 11:15 - 11:30 | Leigh Royden: Late Cenozoic evolution of the Hellenic system |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Douwe van Hinsbergen: Geological expressions of subduction, collision, delamination and slab break-off in western Turkey: a record of a continuous process |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Irina Artemieva: How representative are mantle xenoliths? |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Nico de Koker: Physics of silicate melts at deep mantle conditions
(pdf) |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Jan Kramers: Is the D'' layer a very early sunken mafic crust? Problems solved and new ones created. |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | Trond H. Torsvik: Diamonds sampled by plumes from the core-mantle boundary |
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| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch |
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| 14:00 - 14:30 | Celal Sengor (keynote): The Palaeo-Tethys and the Permian extinction: problems of tectonics and palaeontology |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Carmen Gaina: The African plate: an overview of plate tectonic forces since the Jurassic
(pdf) |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Bernard Ingram: The Palaeoproterozoic Transvaalide Orogeny
(pdf) |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Susanne Buiter: The uplift of the Atlas Mountains |
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| 15:15 - 16:15 | Coffee break and Poster session |
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| 16:15 - 16:30 | Bjoern Jamtveit: From Africa with vents |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Chris Harris: Origin of low d18O magmas in South African large igneous provinces |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Luke Longridge: Constraining the timing of deformation, metamorphism, and crustal recycling in the Central Zone of the Damara Orogen, Namibia |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | Trishya Owen-Smith: Petrogenesis and mode of emplacement of the Doros Complex, Namibia, with implications for early Cretaceous continental reconstruction
(pdf) |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | Terence McCarthy: The pre-Karoo geology of the southern portion of the Kaapvaal Craton |
| 17:30 - 17:45 | Closing remarks |
| Carla Braitenberg: Gravity-gradient fields in mapping unknown structures of the African plate
(pdf1)
(pdf2) |
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| Susanne Buiter: Could subsidence in the Congo Basin be caused by the interplay of lithosphere deformation and mantle flow? |
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| Natalie Deseta: Structural constraints on the generation of ultramafic pseudotachylites from Cima di Gratera, Corsica |
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| Joerg Ebbing: The lithospheric structure of Northern Africa from seismological constrained gravity inversion
(pdf) |
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| Morgan Ganeroed: Paleoposition of the Seychelles continent in relation to the Deccan Traps and the Plume Generation Zone in KT boundary time |
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| Ashley Gumsley: Towards establishing a 'bar code' for the southeastern terrane of the Kaapvaal Carton in norhtern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
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| Bart Hendriks: African 30 Ma and younger volcanism and its relationship to the Plume Generation Zone
(pdf) |
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| Antje Kellner: Deformation of the forearc wedge along the obliquely convergent Chilean margin |
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| Nico de Koker: First principles computations of lattice thermal conductivity at high P and T: Implications for CMB heatflux |
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| Nico de Koker: Self-consistent thermodynamic description of silicate liquids |
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| Cinthia Labails: Insights on the deep structure of the conjugate East African and Madagascan margins |
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| Sharad Master: Neoproterozoic DARCs in the Damara-Lufilian-Zambezi and Ubendian belts and the Western Rift Rise- relics of Rodinia fragmentation at 750 +- 50 Ma.
(pdf) |
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| Iain McDonald: Geochemistry of 2.63-2.49 Ga impact spherule layers in Western Australia and South Africa. |
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| Sergei Medvedev: Estimations of stresses within the African Plate |
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| Leone Melluso: U-Pb ages, Pb-Os isotopes and PGE composition of Mailaka picritic basalt to rhyodacite volcanic sequence, West-Central Madagascar LIP
(pdf) |
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| Colin Reeves: The Bouvet hotspot, South Patagonia and the initiations of Gondwana Dispersal |
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| Anika Solanki: A geochronological, geochemical and petrographic study of granitoids from the Mt. Abu pluton and surrounds, SW Rajasthan, India.
(pdf) |
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| Valby van Schijndel: New microbeam zircon dating insights on migmatites of the former Mooirivier metamorphic complex and the Neuhof formation, Sinclair group, Namibia |
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| Marek Wendorff: Rodinia breakup and Gondwana assembly in the Lufilian Arc, Central Africa: New tectonic stages revealed by syntectonic conglomerates |
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| Stephanie C. Werner: The Lunar rayed-crater population - Characteristics of the spatial distribution and ray retention |
