The Geology and Soil Science Session at the 2016 SANAP Symposium held at the University of Pretoria last month was chaired by Dr Thulani Makhalanyane (Lecturer at Pretoria University) and covered research conducted mainly in Antarctica in western Dronning Maud Land.
During the session Dr David Hedding (Lecturer at the University of South Africa) gave a very interesting talk on the topography of sub-Antarctic Marion Island, indicating that Marion was somewhat bigger during the Last Glacial Maximum.
See Table 1 for links to the institutions involved within SANAP. Please feel free to contact these institutions for more information.
See Table 2 for authors and titles of talks given during the session.
Please also follow the link to our Facebook page, Antarctic Legacy of South Africa to connect some faces to these talks.
Anché Louw, Antarctic Legacy of South Africa, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, 10 August 2016
Table 1: Research institutions involved in Geology, Geography and Soil Science research within SANAP
| Institute | Department/Research Group | Social Media |
| Rhodes University | Department of Geography | Facebook: @RhodesAntarctica |
| University of South Africa | Department of Geography | |
| University of Pretoria | Department of Geology | |
| University of Johannesburg | Department of Geology |
Table 2: Talks given during the Geology and Soil Science Session at the 2016 SANAP Symposium
| Title | Author/Presenter | Institute |
| Active layer landforms and environments in western Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica | Prof Ian Meiklejohn | Rhodes University |
| Evaluating the Kuunga Collisional Orogeny in Dronning Maud Land – progress and the future | Dr Geoffrey Grantham | University of Johannesburg |
| The topography of sub-Antarctic Marion island during the Last Glacial Maximum: evidence from bathymetry data | Dr David Hedding | University of South Africa |
| Early-middle Jurassic mafic dykes from the HU Sverdrupfjella, Antarctica | Mabuela Morake | University of Johannesburg |
| Two stages of granitoid formation in HU Sverdrupfjella, western Dronning Maud Land | Erasmus Burger | University of Pretoria |
| Characteristics of Tafoni in western Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica | Jessica Rosenfels | Rhodes University |
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