INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GEOMORPHOLOGISTS NEWSLETTER NO. 12 (3/1995)

✍ Scribed by Gupta, Avijit

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 242 KB
• Volume: 21
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0360-1269
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9837(199605)21:5<483::aid-esp632>3.0.co;2-g

✦ Synopsis

This was a success, starting from the pre-registration and John Wiley reception on the evening of 18 June. The meeting was attended by more than 200 delegates from 32 countries and the one-day workshop for teachers attracted another 250 participants. The papers were good and the exchange of information and ideas lively.

There were four plenary lectures: the temporal and spatial significance of humans as geomorphic agents, the Zeitschrift f i r Geomorphologie lecture (M. G. Wolman); geological framework of Southeast Asia (B. K. Tan); coastal geomorphology and coastal management: a nexus? (B. G. Thom); tectonic, environmental, and human aspects of weathering and erosion (R. F. Stallard).

It would be very long to list the individual papers, even a representative selection. A list of the sessions is provided instead. The sessions were: varieties of fluvial form; mass movement; sediment production and sedimentary rocks; the Quaternary records in the tropics; the Marjorie Sweeting special session on tropical karst; soil studies-understanding tropical landform genesis; tropical coasts; climate and landforms; palaeohydrology and environmental changes in the tropics; human impacts and management of river systems in Australia; aeolian environments; the SCOPE-IUGS-IAG symposium on the effects of human activities on earth surface processes; neotectonics and landforms; rocks, weathering and landforms; geomorphology of coasts; geomorphology and management of montane tropical streams; volcanic and granitic landforms; coastal biogeomorphology and sea-level change. The conference also included a crowded and lively poster session.