2009 IASPEI General Assembly

2009 IASPEI General Assembly

The Council for Geoscience (CGS) cordially invites you to attend the first IASPEI general assembly to be held on the African continent in Cape Town, South Africa from 10 to 16 January 2009. The assembly will take place at the well-equipped Cape Town International Convention Centre, located in the heart of Cape Town. The general assembly will be followed by a Summer Training school from 19-24 January 2009 and will take place at the Ritz Hotel.

The African plate exhibits three main types of seismicity, strongly related to its long and complex geological history dating back some 3,7 billion years:

• Intraplate – with its low level of seismic activity randomly distributed in space and time;
• Continental rifting – associated with the East African Rift System;
• Induced – associated with large reservoirs and deep mining, such as the gold mining operations found in some areas on the Kaapvaal Craton. (The Kaapvaal Craton, particularly South Africa, boasts a geological record that is characterized by an almost complete geochronological succession of events that can be traced without major interruptions from the Archaean up to Recent times).

IASPEI 2009 provides an ideal platform for geoscientists across the world to discuss these seismological topics.

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