By Dr Tim Pharaoh; Seismic/Basin Analyst at the British Geological Survey (BGS)
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| Cape Town in South Africa |
Tim Pharaoh is just back from the International Geological
Congress (IGC) recently held in Cape Town.
The week-long IGC is the most prestigious conference in the geoscience world,
held every four years and attracting 5000 participants from over 100 countries.
Tim presented a poster on behalf of colleagues from the British Geological Survey
(BGS); Keith Ambrose, Ceri Vincent, Jonathan Pearce and University of
Nottingham; Matt Hall and Lindsay Holowka under the GeoEnergy Research Centre (GERC)
banner.
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| The GERC poster in all its glory! |
The poster is the first official presentation of GERC
research at an international conference. It describes initial 3D modelling
work; the ongoing investigation and ground characterisation of the GeoEnergy Test Bed site, which will ultimately provide a unique test facility for monitoring
the shallow subsurface; and the draft science plan for future monitoring
activities. Colleagues from the South African Council for Geosciences, TNO –
the Netherlands Organisation for applied scientific research, PGI – the Polish
Geological Institute and the Czech Geological Survey congratulated the GERC
team on successfully completing and logging the first deep site investigation
borehole to a total depth of 270m, and expressed interest in future
collaborative projects.
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| The 'Mantle Room' at Cape Town University |
Following a visit to the world-famous ‘Mantle
Room’ at Cape Town University during the conference, Tim plans to pursue research on CO2
sequestration into the mantle, where diamonds (as well as being a girl’s best
friend!) demonstrate effective sequestration of carbon for the last
3,500,000,000 years!!!!
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