Second
Workshop of CERCAMS
28 November 2002
Launch
of the
Atlas of Lithological-Paleogeographical, Structural, Palinspastic and
Geoenvironmental Maps of Central Eurasia
International
project on geology, ecology, oil, gas and minerals of Kazakhstan, Russia,
China, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tadjikistan and Azerbaidjan
Launch
co-sponsored by the Journal of Petroleum Geology and by
IGCP-473
“GIS metallogeny of Central Asia on a modern geodynamic background”
Venue: Natural History Museum, Mineralogy Department,
Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London
Presentations, Mineralogy Seminar Room (opens for tea at 09:30 a.m.)
Date: Thursday, 28 November 2002, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00
p.m.
Dear
colleagues,
CERCAMS (Centre for Russian and Central EurAsian Mineral Studies) has been
set up at the Natural History Museum (NHM) as a forum for geological
studies focused on the former Soviet Union and adjacent territories.
The NHM has long established links with the region through collaborative
research and its geological collections.
CERCAMS-1, the inaugural workshop, took place during the 30th-31st May
2002, and attracted about 90 international participants from the academic
and mining industry sectors. The resulting proceedings and contents
of this meeting have since been published on CD.
The next workshop, CERCAMS-2, was a joint event with the Journal of
Petroleum Geology and IGCP-473 to launch the newly published Atlas of
Lithological-Paleogeographical, Structural, Palinspastic and Geoenvironmental
Maps of Central Eurasia. This Atlas is the result of an international
project coordinated by Dr Oleg Fedorenko (YUGGEO Almaty, Kazakhstan;
http://www.yuggeo.nursat.kz/
), one of our closest co-operation partners.
CERCAMS-2 was held on the last Thursday in November (28th) at the Natural
History Museum in London (the invited keynote speaker Dr Fedorenko was
supported through the British Airways Communities & Conservation Free
Flights scheme).
To receive more information please contact:
Dr Reimar Seltmann, CERCAMS, Department of Mineralogy, The Natural History
Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD; r.seltmann@nhm.ac.uk
, Tel: +44 (0)20 7942-5042, Fax: -5537
CERCAMS-2
Thursday, 28 November 2002
Preliminary
Programme
09:30
Arrival of participants at NHM, Dept. Mineralogy
(take entrance from Cromwell Road, Life Galleries, call 5042 from reception
desk);
Registration. Coffee and tea in foyer with CERCAMS poster exhibitions.
10:00
Workshop opening
Convener: Reimar Seltmann (Head of CERCAMS, Department Mineralogy, NHM)
10:15-12:00
LAUNCH PRESENTATION
Atlas of Lithological-Paleogeographical, Structural, Palinspastic and
Geo-environmental Maps of Central Eurasia. International project on
geology, ecology, oil, gas and minerals of Kazakhstan, Russia, China,
Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tadjikistan and Azerbaidjan
Oleg Fedorenko (YugGeo Almaty, Kazakhstan)
12:00-13:00
Discussion, ATLAS map viewing
Coffee and tea in foyer
13:00-14:30
Work Luncheon
CERCAMS poster and ores exhibitions, project presentations and lab tour
14:30-15:00
CERCAMS - Vision for applied research. First products and program
for 2003
Reimar Seltmann (Head of CERCAMS, Department Mineralogy, NHM)
15:00-15:30
Mineral Deposits of Central Asia (database and map, scale 1
: 1 500 000) – a new ArcView 3.2 GIS based package. Beta version
presentation
Vitaly Shatov (VSEGEI St Petersburg, Russia), Reimar Seltmann and Alexander
Yakubchuk (NHM-CERCAMS, London, UK)
15:30-16:00
Wrap-up and discussion
Reimar Seltmann, Oleg Fedorenko, and Vitaly Shatov
17:30 London Mining Industry Sundowner
The Captains Cabin, 4-7 Norris Street, Off Haymarket (nearest tube:
Picadilly Circus)