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• Tuesday 11 Sept. 2012 - NEW

• Wednesday 12 Sept. 2012 - NEW

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Welcome

4^th International Geologica Belgica Meeting 2012
September 11-14, 2012 - Brussels, Belgium

MOVING PLATES AND MELTING ICECAPS.
Processes and forcing factors in geology.

The Geological Society of Belgium, ‘Geologica Belgica’, is happy to welcome you all to its 4th International conference that will take place at the conference center of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences [www.naturalsciences.be] in Brussels on September 11-14, 2012. Following the request of several authors, the organising committee has decided to extend the deadline for abstract submission to Sunday 13 May 2012

Alfred Wegener and the centennial of the concept of continental drift. This international conference is organized under the general theme “Moving plates and melting icecaps - Processes and forcing factors in geology” to celebrate the centenary of the first paper on the concept of moving continents published by Alfred Wegener (Wegener, 1912) who died at the age of 50 during an expedition in Greenland.
 
Wegener A. 1912. Die Entstehung der Kontinente. Geologische Rundschau 3, p. 276-292. [www.springerlink.com/content/u62w514x720482hu/].

Wegener during the expedition in 1912-1913 [This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired]

Continental drift fossil evidence. As noted by Snider-Pellegrini and Alfred Wegener, the locations of certain fossil plants and animals on present-day, widely separated continents would form definite patterns (shown by the bands of colors), if the continents are rejoined. [Image in the public domain, originally from the United States Geological Survey]