15^th Congress of the Geologists of Serbia
- TRADITION   AND   NEW   CHALLENGES -

SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

Organizer:	The Serbian Geological Society
Co-Organizers:	The Association of Geological Engineers and Technicians of Serbia
	The Geological Institute of Serbia
	The University of Belgrade - Faculty of Mining and Geology

 

                                        Belgrade, May 26 – 29, 2010 

The Serbian Geological Society, the Faculty of Mining and Geology and the Association of Geological Engineers and Technicians have a long tradition in organizing geological meetings. The 15th Congress with international participation, continues this practice with a demonstration of the latest research results and achievements in geological sciences. The Congress activities will demonstrate the importance of geology in solving problems of a geological nature, natural resources research, analysis of natural hazards, environmental protection and issues of urban planning and construction of infrastructure facilities. The Congress events will include plenary sessions, oral and poster sessions, panel discussions, special sessions and field trips.

Themes:

1. Mineralogy, Crystallography, Petrology and Geochemistry
2. Regional Geology and Paleontology
3. Investigation and Exploitation of Mineral Deposits, Economic Geology
4. Geology and processing of oil and gas deposits
5. Geophysics
6. Engineering Geology and Geotechnics
7. Hydrogeology and Geothermal Energy
8. Geoecology and Urban Geology
9. Geological Information Systems and Remote Sensing
10. Student Papers

Panel discussions:

• “Geological education and its popularization”
• “Current state and geological perspectives”

The Official Congress languages are Serbian and English.

 

Registration fees:

Here You can download payment instructions:

The Registration fees include:

• Congress participation

• Program of the Congress activities

• Proceedings volume

• Welcome party

• Refreshment drinks

• Banquet dinner

                        Daily fee

All interested have the option of paying a daily registration fee of 20 €, allowing participation on the Congress work during the selected day. The daily fee include the Program of the Congress activities and Refreshment drinks.

                        Paper presentation

The Congress activities will include oral and poster sessions. Power-Point presentations for the oral session are recommended. Detailed instructions on poster presentations will be presented on the Congress web site (www.nsgd.org/15Congress2010/English) and listed in the 2^nd Announcement.

Paper registration

The maximum number of papers per author or co-author is two. The papers are to be reviewed by members of the Congress Scientific Committee. Author(s) whose papers are accepted will be notified by e-mail and their paper will be published in the Congress Proceedings Volume.

Here You can download the more detailed instructions prepared as MSWORD file.

Deadline for submitting papers: February 15, 2010

A requirement for publication of papers in the Proceedings is payment of the category A registration fee before March 31, 2010

Detailed instructions on paper preparation will be presented on the Congress web site (www.nsgd.org/15Congress2010/English) and listed in the 2^nd Announcement

Excursions:

Two single-day Field trips are proposed.

The first excursion will include a visit to interesting geological sites in the Belgrade area.

Few points of observation are proposed.

1. Miocene reef at Kalemegdan. Section of Miocene sediments at the central part of City Park. It represents part of the historical complex of the Kalemegdan fortress and is located within remnants of the Roman fortress from the second century, and the Turkish and Austrian fortress of medieval age. The participants will also visit the gunpowder storage, which is part of the fortress historical complex, where they will be informed with specific geotechnical work performed in order to protect this structure.

2. New Sava bridge building site. Short stay is planned, with the presentation of the geological section at the substrate.

3. Mašin Majdan, geological site in Topčider Park. On the exposure can be observed a typical Orgonian deposits of  lower Cretaceous age, covered by shallow water sediments of the Upper Cretaceous age.

4. Exposures of Mesozoic rocks in Topčider River valley. It is intended to visit several sites with different formations of  Jurassic and Cretaceous age.

5. Tunnel "Straževica". The site where the works on the construction of a new tunnel are performed. Tunnel will be part of the Belgrade detour highway. At the site can be seen geology of the locality as well as some methods of geological research.

Here you can download Okolina Beograda.kml file with excursions localities wich can be opened and observed in Google Maps.

Trip will be held during the congress. Detailed program will be coordinated with the schedule of Congress. Participation in this excursion will be free of charge.

The Second excursion includes a travel around of the open pit coal mine in Kostolac with a visit to paleontological and archaeological sites.

1. Visiting the active open pit coal mine "Drmno" in which the lignite coal is exploited. It is main source for the "Kostolac" A and B power plants with total power of 1 000 MW.

2. Sightseeing of the mine from observation point. It is possible to take a look at the whole lithological section of the upper Pontian series. Series itself was discovered in the depths of approx. 80 m and width of more than 3km. It is easy to observe the surface soil cover below which extends a series of gravels and sand as well as productive coal layer..

3. Archaeological locality "Viminacium," where are the remains of one of the major cities of the Roman Empire from the period between I to VI century AC.

 Viminacium consists of:

• Military Camp,

• Urban core,

• port,

• autochthonous settlements,

• residential buildings,

• Art studios, workshops, mints, etc..,

Part of the settlement area of approximately 2 km2 was unveiled by geophysical exploration. It is primarily the city cemetery, Roman baths – bathrooms, and a gateway of the military camp. Due to Mining works aqueduct was unveiled. Viminacium aqueduct was built for transport of drinking water from the springs to the town in the length of 10 km.

During the tour of archaeological sites professional guides and curators will be provided, with detailed explanations on the site and life style in this Roman city. At the http://www.viminacium.org.rs/ you can see more about Viminacum site

4. Visiting the Mammoth skeleton, that was discovered at the coal mine. The reconstruction of the skeleton is visible at the Viminacium site. About six meters long and more than three meters high, is over a million years old and belong to one of the oldest Mammoth specimens discovered in Europe. Mammoth is called "Vika" and more about it you can find on many sites, eg. http://staklenozvono.rs/?p=909.

Here you can download Kostolac_en.kml file with excursions localities wich can be opened and observed in Google Maps.

Field trip will be held immediately after the Congress. Preliminary cost for participation in this trip is determined by the equivalent € 20.

 

Important dates

Organizing Committee:

 

President:                  Nenad Banjac

Vice President:         Adam Dangić.

 

Secretariat:

Secretary:                  Boško Jevtović

Collaborators:

Uroš Đurić
          Dragana Petrović

Ana Mladenović

Ivanka Mitrović

 

Members:

 Dušan Podunavac

 Dobrica damnjanović

 Miodrag Banješević

 Aleksandra Maran

 Ljubinko Savić

 Dane Radaković

 Iris Vuković

 Dejan Marković

 Milena Cukavac

 Nataša Đokić

 Zoran Nikić

 Aleksandra Gulan

 Meri Ganić

 Zoran Popović

 Marko Babović

 Nemanja Todorović

 Rodoljub Gajić,

 Gordana Hadži-Ninković,

 Vladimir Simić,

 Radmila Pavlović

 Petar Dokmanović

 Ivana Vasiljević          

 

Scientific Committee:

Duško Sunarić 

Milun Marović 

Mihailo Milivojević

Radmila Pavlović         

Milan Sudar                

Dragan Milovanović

Slobodan Ćorić           

Zoran Stevanović         

Aleksandar Đorđević

Rade Jelenković          

Nebojša Vasić 

Branislav Trivić

Ljupko Rundić 

Vidojko Jović  

Divna Jovanović          

Ivan Dulić                    

Dušan Mijović 

Suzana Erić                 

 

For additional information, please contact the Organizing Committee

E-mail: gorgf@rgf.bg.ac.rs

Phone: +381 11 3219 103

Fax: +381 11 3235 539

                                                                                             
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