GEOFUTURE  Presentation type              
Scientific sessions O = oral:   15 minutes unless otherwise listed      
Programme PP = poster presentation: 5 minutes (Hons, MSc) 10 minutes (others unless otherwise listed)
WEDNESDAY,  November 28
Time TOPIC  Presenter Type Time Title                      
9 Landscape evolution  LINOL, Bastien PP 10 The Kalahari Epeirogeny of sub-Saharan Africa: linking Kalahari Plateau uplift with the subsidence history of the intracratonic Congo Basin
9.10 Landscape evolution  SCHARF, Taryn PP 10 Denudation rates and geomorphic evolution of the Cape Mountains, determined through the use of in-situ produced cosmogenic 10Be
9.20 Land use, soils & water  MABUZA, Brenton PP 5 Investigating Reasons For The Lack of Redoximorphic Features in Sandy Wetland Soils Of The Kosi Bay Coastal Wetland
9.25 Land use, soils & water  JOHNSON, Tracey PP 5 Evaluation of Iron coated tubes to detect reduction in soils for wetland identification in the Kruger National Park, South Africa
9.30 Land use, soils & water  MOHASE, Lintle O 15 Elicitors in Russian wheat aphid saliva induce defence responses in wheat
9.45 Land use, soils & water  VISSER, Botma O 15 Impact of selected plant activators on wheat and herbicides on soil microbial populations
10 Land use, soils & water  LOKE, Palo Francis PP 10 Long-term effects of wheat production management on exchangeable base cations and exchange capacity of a Plinthosol in semi-arid South Africa
10.10 Land use, soils & water  VAN AARDT, Andri PP 10 A vegetation and environmental analysis of the Palaeo-kimberley, Palaeo-Modder Rivers and the surrounding area, Free State Province, South Africa
10.20 Land use, soils & water  ADAMS, Adrian PP 5 Abiotic transformation of atrazine in soils
10.25 Land use, soils & water  THARAGA, Phumudzo Charles PP 5 Analysis of Accumulated Daily Chill Units  At Bethlehem, South Africa
10.30 Land use, soils & water  KOIKOI, Likeleli PP 5 The Effects of Sewage Effluents on the Water Quality of Sepanespruit, Thaba-Nchu in the Free State
10.35 Land use, soils & water  VERMAAS, Susanna Helena PP 5 Estimating recharge of an aquifer through surface infiltration methods - a chemical and physical perspective
10.40 Land use, soils & water  VAN TONDER, Danel PP 10 The development and evaluation of solar desalination technology
10.50 50 min Coffee + Posters        
11.40 Open Session  FRIMMELL, Hartwig O 15 Did pre-existing lithospheric anisotropies control the opening of the South Atlantic?
11.55 Open Session   ALMANZA, Roberto PP 5 Structural Control of Joints on the Geomorphology of the Groot and Bobbejaans River Canyons in the Western Cape, South Africa
 COETZEE, Tanya absent 0 A Petrographic study of the joint filling minerals found in the Prince Albert Formation of the Ecca Group within the Karoo Supergroup near Jansenville.
12.00 Open Session   DLAMINI, Zandile PP 5 A structural study of natural fracture systems at the transition between the Cape Fold Belt and the Karoo Basin Eastern Cape, South Africa
12.05 Open Session   MDLULI, Nomfundo PP 5 Structural investigation and mapping of the coastline between point Cape Recife and schoenmakerskop, Port Elizabeth
12.10 Open Session   MILLER, Daniel PP 5 Geological mapping and geochronology of the Kaaimans Group rocks that outcrop along the coast directly south of George.
12.15 Open Session   MILLER, Warren PP 5 New field mapping and tectono-stratigraphy of the (Pre-Cape) Gamtoos Group, Eastern Cape, Port Elizabeth
SAFFOU Eric absent 0 Structural and geomechanical modelling of the evolution of structures in the Warm Zand area, Kakamas terrane, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
12.20 Open Session  THOMPSON, Shane PP 5 A biostratigraphic correlation between the Otavi and Nama Groups in Namibia, to the lower Kango Group in South Africa; using Otavia fossils
12.25 Open Session   JACOBS, Tamzon PP 5 Magnetite composition and its use in provenance studies
12.30 Open Session   KIDANE, Abiel PP 5 Textural and Chemical analysis of Zircons using SEM and EMP
12.35 Open Session  ENGELHARDT, Jonathan PP 5 Constraints from high resolution zircon geochronology on age and provenance of the Archean Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa
12.40 Open Session   MOLOKOANE, Pule PP 5 Synthesis, characterisation and catalytic applications of 3-hydroxy-2-methylpyran-4-one (maltol) and 3-hydroxy-2-ethylpyran-4-one (ethyl maltol) derivatives
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13 LUNCH and POSTERS      75 minutes, coffee + tea at posters      
14.15 Platinum Value Chain  ROELOFSE, Frederick O 10 The lower Main Zone in the Northern Limb of the Bushveld Complex: A product of mush emplacement?
14.25 Platinum Value Chain  GAUERT, Christoph O 10 Mineralogical and geochemical investigations of upper Critical Zone rocks S and N of the Steelpoort fault, eastern Bushveld Complex
14.35 Platinum Value Chain  REID, David Louis O 10 IRUP sees the light of day: open pit exposures reveal their emplacement by incremental replacement
14.45 Platinum Value Chain  VEKSLER, Ilya O 10 Electrochemical processes in the Bushveld and other mafic layered intrusions
14.55 Platinum Value Chain  SIAD, Abdi O 10 Geochemical  characterization of metasomatized rocks within the Platreef at Sandsloot farm, Bushveld Complex  A multivariate statistical approach
15.05 Platinum Value Chain  BAILIE, Russell O 10 Petrographic evidence for multiple fluid flow events and extensive metasomatism of the Platreef  above a carbonate footwall, Sandsloot, N Bushveld Complex
15.15 Platinum Value Chain  REID, David Louis PP 5 Application of modern analytical techniques and innovations to the characterization of platinum ores : 3D Mineralogy
Platinum Value Chain  REID, David Louis PP 5 Application of modern analytical techniques and innovations to the characterization of platinum ores: search for nanoscale PGM
15.25 Platinum Value Chain  TERBLANS, J J ( Koos) O 10 Molecular Dynamics simulations  to characterize Platinum nanoparticles: research instruments available in the Physics department at UFS
15.35 Platinum Value Chain  PURCHASE, Megan PP 10 Investigation of the positioning of Platinum-group Minerals in chromites of the Bushveld Igneous Complex, South Africa
15.45 Platinum Value Chain  HOOSAIN, Yafah PP 10 The framework and geochemistry of regolith associated with platinum-group element mineralization in the Rooipoort prospect, Platreef
15.50 Platinum Value Chain  KHALO, Mmapholo Pricilla PP 5 Serpentinisation in the Platreef of the northern limb, Bushveld Complex
15.55 Platinum Value Chain  BEUKES, Jarlen PP 5 Investigation of Norites of the Merensky Reef Unit at Two Rivers Platinum, Eastern Bushveld
16 Platinum Value Chain  MARKRAM, Justine PP 5 Mineralogical & geochemical interpretation on the pegmatoidal and non-pegmatoidal Merensky reef
16.05 Platinum Value Chain  ANDREWS, Marcelene PP 5 The use of chemostratigraphy and geochemical vectoring as an exploration tool for platinum group metals in the Platreef, Bushveld Complex: a case study
16.10 Platinum Value Chain  CHIWESHE, Trevor PP 10 Spectrometric determination of osmium
16.20 Platinum Value Chain  MADITO, Moshawe PP 10 The segregation of Indium from polycrystalline Copper crystals
16.30 45 min Coffee + Posters        
17.15 Mining and the environment  LIPPMANN-PIPKE, Johanna O 10 Long-term, on-site borehole monitoring of gases released from an ?active? fault system at 3.6km depth, TauTona Gold Mine, South Africa
17,25 Mining and the environment  NTHOLI, Thakane PP 10 Technical and socio-economic feasibility of the Passive Underground Mine-water Purification (PUMP) model
17.35 Mining and the environment  MIELKE, Christian PP 10 Field Spectroscopy of Geological Materials, Alteration Zones and Mine Waste; Possible Applications and Test Sites for  Hyperspectral Sensor EnMAP
17.45 Mining and the environment  BOESCHE, Nina Krisitine PP 10 Detecting rare earth elements in western Mongolia
17.55 Mining and the environment  AMPONSAH-DACOSTA, Maxwell PP 5 Mineralogical characterization of South African PGM tailings with the aim of evaluating their potential for Mineral Carbonation
18.05 Mining and the environment  LEKGAU, Sefularo PP 5 Mineralogical investigation of historic PGE tailings of Amandelbult mine, Limpopo Province and their potential use for CO2-sequestration.
18.10 Mining and the environment  MATSHUSA, Khodani PP 5 Geo-environmental modelling of heavy metals dispersion at Klein Letaba and Louis Moore tailings dams, Giyani Greenstone Belt, South Africa
18.15 Mining and the environment MAKHADI, Rinae PP 5 Geochemical analysis of surface water quality in the Welkom area with special reference to impacts on the environment
18.20 Mining and the environment  MILANZI, Kenneth PP 5 Investigation of nitrate contamination of groundwater associated with chromite mining in the Kroondal area, South Africa
18.25  Final posters
19.00 DINNER      Poster REMOVAL Wednesday Evening  
20.30 Evening Lectures
Dr. Hugues Lantuit AWI  Telegrafenberg O 30 Climate change in the Arctic: The fate of frozen ground and frozen water
Dr. Uwe Schliewen & Dr. Fenton Cotterill LMU Munich & AEON  O 30 Using (next generation) molecular clocks in fish phylogenies to understand landscape evolution