GEOLOGICA BELGICA LUXEMBURGA Scientia & Professionis

Work group excursion
2016-06-23 10:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Paris) | Villers le Gambon (Philippeville) and Resteigne (Tellin), Belgium
Mineral extraction vs Ecology work group excursion
Management of active and abandoned limestone quarries
Morning session (start 10h): Merlemont dolomite quarry (Villers le Gambon)
Guides: Emmanuel Boland, Jean Chaboteaux & Denis Colart (Lhoist)
Access: Dolomies de Merlemont, Rue du Viveroux 20, 5600 Merlemont (Philippeville) www.carriere-merlemont.be
Afternoon session (start 14h): Quarry of the Lesse, Resteigne (Tellin)
Guides: Yves Quinif (UMons), Sophie Verheyden (VUB, Belspo), both Calestienne geopark scientific committee, & Sabine Blockmans (U-Namur).

Mineral extraction vs Ecology: adversaries or allies ?
2015-11-27 | Small Auditorium, RBINS, Vautierstraat 29, rue Vautier, B-1000 Brussels
As a first step, BLUG/UBLG and Geologica Belgica invite you to participate in a brainstorming session with the purpose of defining the agenda for demonstrating the benefits of geodiversity for biodiversity to the public. The meeting will start with presentations on the clash of geo-bio paradigms, success stories and failures of geo-bio cooperation to end with the creation of a working group and discussion on the next steps.

Master Day 2015
2015-11-03 | Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Rue Vautier 29, Bruxelles, 1000, Belgium
The last Master Day 2015 was organized on the 3rd November 2015.
• 14h10 Bram Paredis (KULeuven)
Concentration and Distribution of Platinum Group Elements in Sulfide Ores with as subtitle “Musongati mafic-ultramafic intrusion, Burundi”.
• 14h30 Nick Janssens (KULeuven)
Reservoir analogue and fluid characterization of travertine carbonate in Acquasanta Terme, Italy.
• 14h50 Michèle Verhaert (ULB)
Characterization and genesis of the Cu-Pb-V supergene ore deposits in the Oriental High Atlas Mountain Belt (Morocco).
• 15h10 Julie De Weirdt (UGent)
A new dinoflagellate cyst biostratigraphic record of the Paleocene/Eocene sequence of the Landana outcrop in Cabinda, Angola.
• 15h30 Bastien Soens (UGent)
Petrology and geochemistry of the Crommyonia volcanic rocks north of the Saronic Gulf, Greece
• 15h50 Gerben Van Ranst (UGent)
The Miocene-Pliocene boundary in the eastern North Atlantic (ODP Site 982): dinoflagellate cyst biostratigraphy and paleoenvironmental reconstruction.
