Training in geo mapping continues
The PanAfGeo WP1 training in Namibia will be repeated again next year.
The International project PanAfGeo, targetted at the practical improvement and capacity building for the staff of geological surveys of African states, has been moving around Africa to anchor the crucial practical training in the field of geological mapping in Windhoek.
The second training of the field geological mapping followed the introductory course in Ethiopia early this year. It is focused on person-to-person teaching of the petrological, structural, sedimentologic and volcanological methods leading to the construction of geological maps on different scales. An important role in the mapping process is played by remote sensing and GIS approaches that are forming major part of in-door training.
The programme took 25 days, combined with in-door lectures, field excursions, demonstration, practice in instrumental methods and a mapping part.
The field part was conducted in small groups of trainees, each of them supervised by one expert from Europe or Namibia. The training was coordinated by a Czech team and launched with the joint effort of experts from the Czech Geological Survey, the Geological Survey of Slovenia, the Geological Survey of Namibia, and with support by local specialists from the University of Namibia (UNAM).
The total number of 25 trainees represented 17 different African countries who were trained during this session.
The field part was in the Tsaobis National Park, which has been used as the traditional field training area by geologists from UNAM. It was complemented by several excursions organised around the Damara Belt and in the wider Karibib area. The Karibib area represents ideally exposed and geologically variegated terrain, famous for numerous mineralogical occurrences and mining history.
The second training of the field geological mapping followed the introductory course in Ethiopia early this year. It is focused on person-to-person teaching of the petrological, structural, sedimentologic and volcanological methods leading to the construction of geological maps on different scales. An important role in the mapping process is played by remote sensing and GIS approaches that are forming major part of in-door training.
The programme took 25 days, combined with in-door lectures, field excursions, demonstration, practice in instrumental methods and a mapping part.
The field part was conducted in small groups of trainees, each of them supervised by one expert from Europe or Namibia. The training was coordinated by a Czech team and launched with the joint effort of experts from the Czech Geological Survey, the Geological Survey of Slovenia, the Geological Survey of Namibia, and with support by local specialists from the University of Namibia (UNAM).
The total number of 25 trainees represented 17 different African countries who were trained during this session.
The field part was in the Tsaobis National Park, which has been used as the traditional field training area by geologists from UNAM. It was complemented by several excursions organised around the Damara Belt and in the wider Karibib area. The Karibib area represents ideally exposed and geologically variegated terrain, famous for numerous mineralogical occurrences and mining history.
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