Inaugural

9:00am-9:10am

Quran Recitation

Inaugural Ceremony of Earth Sciences Pakistan 2014

Stage Secretary: Dr. Irfan Ullah Jan

9:10am-9:20am

Welcome address by Convener: Prof. Dr. M. Tahir Shah, (Director, National Centre of Excellence in Geology, University of Peshawar)

9:20am-9:30am

Address by Patron-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Muhammad Rasul Jan (VC, University of Peshawar)

9:30am-9:40am

Address by Chief Guest

9:40am-9:50am

Vote of Thanks by Chief Organizer: Dr. Muhammad Hanif

9:50am-

10:00am

SHIELD DISTRIBUTION

TEA BREAK & PHOTO SESSION (10:00-10:30am)

Himalayan Tectonics / Neo-Tectonics-1

Chair: Prof. Dr. M. Qasim Jan

10:30am-10:50am

Overview of the petrologic evolution of the mafic-ultramafic Jijal Complex in the Kohistan Himalaya of Pakistan

Invited talk by Professor Dr. M. Qasim Jan, (COMSTECH, Islamabad)

10:50am-11:10am

Structures and tectonics of the western margin of the Indian Plate

Invited talk by Ishtiaq A. K. Jadoon, (COMSATS, Abbottabad)               

11:00am-11:15am

Origin of the Permo-Triassic Swat-Chakdarra granites in the higher Himalayan region of Pakistan: I- or S-type granites

Tahseenullah Khan, Abid Ahmad, Muhammad Nawaz Chaudhry, Mamoru Murata, Hafiz Ur Rehman, Muhammad Zafar and Anwar Qadir

11:15am-11:30am

The depositional setting of the late Quaternary sedimentary fill in an intermountain basin, northwest Himalayan fold and thrust belt, Pakistan Asam Farid and Perveiz Khalid

11:30am-11:45am

Partitioning of Deformation Across the Metamorphic Hinterland in the Swat Region, Pakistan Himalayas

Syed Zahid Shah, Mohammad Sayab, Jamil Ahmad

11:45am-

12:00am

Segmental Petrographic Analyses of Kirana Hills Shield Rocks Sargodha

Muhammad Waseem Khan, Syed Abbas Sultan, Iftikhar Alam

12:00pm-

12:10pm

SHIELD DISTRIBUTION

PROFESSIONAL POSTER EXHIBITION (12:10- 12:45pm)

LUNCH AND PRAYER (12:45-1:25pm)

Economic Geology

Chair: Prof. Dr. Muhammad Arif

1:25pm-

1:45pm

New standards for conduct and reporting of mineral exploration projects

Invited talk by Fuzail Siddiqui, (P. Geo. Independent Geoscientist, Islamabad)

1:45pm-

2:05pm

Gemstone resource potential, a key component in rebuilding the Pakistan natural resource sector

Invited talk by Tahseenullah Khan, (Bahria University, Islamabad)

2:05pm-2:15pm

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mineral Policy 2014

Fuzail Siddiqui, (P. Geo. Independent Geoscientist, Islamabad)

2:15pm-2:30pm

GIS and Statistical techniques to evaluate stream sediments and pan concentrate from Peshawar basin, Pakistan

Liaqat Ali, M. Tahir Shah and Jehangir Khan

2:30pm-2:45pm

Preliminary geology and mineral potential of the Karezat and Barshor Quadrangles Toposheet 34N/6 and 5, District Pishin, Balochistan, Pakistan

Waliullah, Jamshed Ali Khan, Waheed Akhtar

2:45pm-3:00pm

Kulli Koh Iron Ore Deposits, District Dalbandin, Chagai, Balochistan, Pakistan-A Case Study

Nazar-Ul-Islam and Jamshed Ali Khan

3:00pm-3:15pm

Economic evaluation and provenance of placer gold from district Charsadda and Nowshera, Pakistan

Jehangir Khan, M. Tahir Shah, Liaqat Ali and Sajjad Ahmad

3:15pm-

3:20pm

SHIELD DISTRIBUTION

TEA BREAK (3:20-3:50pm)

Disaster Management & Mitigation

Chair: Prof. Dr. Attaullah Shah

3:50pm-4:10pm

Role of emerging technologies in disaster management

Invited talk by Attaullah Shah, (VC, City University of Science and Information Technology Peshawar)

4:10pm -4:25pm

Another Drought? Are we Prepared?

Mohammad Riaz and Lawangin Sheikh

4:25pm-4:40pm

Attabad Landslide Risk Management

Deedar Karim

4:40pm-4:55pm

Detection of Forest Fires in Margalla Hills Range, Islamabad: A GIS and Remote Sensing Approach

Maryum Mushtaq, Shahida Arif Khan and Tayyaba Sana

4:55pm-

5:00pm

SHIELD DISTRIBUTION

TEA (5:00-5:30pm)

Himalayan Tectonics / Neo-Tectonics-2

Chair: Prof. Dr. Ishtiaq A.K. Jadoon

Environment

Chair: Dr. Hussain Ahmed

9:00am-9:20am

Late Cretaceous post-obduction siliciclastic sediments of Oman Mountains, north Oman

Invited talk by Prof. Dr. Iftkhar Ahmed Abbasi, (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman)

Challenges and opportunities of Climate Change for Pakistan

Invited talk by Ghulam Rasool, (Pakistan Met Department, Islamabad)

9:20am-9:40am

Structural styles in Raskoh Range Pakistan 

Invited talk by Abid Hussain, co-authors Muhammad Iqbal and Moin Raza Khan, (Pakistan Petroleum Limited)

Radon Gas in the Environment: A Terrific Mate or Horrific Rival?

Nimat Ullah Khattak

9:40am-9:55am

Structural Evolution of South Eastern Kohat Deciphered Through 3D Geoseismic Model Using Move Software, Shakardarra Area, KP Pakistan

Humaad Ghani, Hamid Hussain, Muhammad Zafar, Irum Khan, Aamir Malik, Muhammad Abid, Ehtisham Javed

Arsenic and fluoride bioaccumulation in Vegetables through water and soil: A toxicological risk assessment study

Kapil Dev Brahman and Tasneem Gul Kazi

9:55am-10:10am

Petrology and Geochemistry of the dykes from the Muslim Bagh Ophiolite Balochistan, Pakistan

Mohammad Ishaq Kakar, Mehrab Khan, Khalid Mahmood, Mohammad Arif

Physico-chemical and Microbial Studies of the Drinking Water of Union Council Gandheri, District Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

M. Naveed Anjum, M. Tahir Shah, Ezaz Hussain, Liaqat Ali and M.A. Swati

10:10am-10:25am

Folding Style within Thrust Sheet above Decollement: An example from Central Trans-Indus Salt Ranges, Pakistan 

Iftikhar Alam, Abdul Majid Azhar, Muhammad Waseem Khan

Variation of Radon in Various Drinking Water Sources of Abbottabad-Pakistan

Tabassum Nasir and F. Khan

10:25am-10:40am

Surficial Geologic Features and Physical Evidences of Noorpur Thrust Fault of Southeastern Hazara

Zeeshan ul Hassa Abbasi, Zaka ur Rehman Abbasi, Agha Baber, Fahad Jahangir Abbasi

Health risks associated with heavy metals in the drinking water of Swat, northern Pakistan   

Kifayatullah Khan, Yonglong Lu, Hizbullah Khan, Shahida Zakir, Ihsanullah, Sardar, Ali Khan, Luo We and Tieyu Wang     

10:40am-

10:45am

SHIELD DISTRIBUTION

SHIELD DISTRIBUTION

TEA BREAK (10:45-11:10am)

Sedimentology-Biostratigraphy

Chair: Prof. Muhammad Haneef

Geo-hazards: Earthquakes, floods, landslides-1

Chair: Prof. Dr. M. Asif Khan

11:10am-11:30am

Late Middle Eocene (Bartonian) orthophragminids from Fulra Limestone, Kutch Basin (W India); regional implications and their correlation to well-known assemblages in western Tethys (north Africa, Europe and Turkey)

Invited talk by Prof. Dr. Ercan Özcan, (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)

WAPDA Micro Seismic Monitoring System in Northern Pakistan Seventy-Five Months of Recording around Diamer-Basha Dam Project

Invited talk by S. Kazim Mehdi, (WAPDA)

11:30am-11:50am

Lithofacies Associations and Depositional Environments of the Neogene Molasse succession, Pishin Belt, northwestern Pakistan

 Aimal Khan Kasi, Akhtar Muhammad Kassi, Muhammad Umar, Henrik Friis

Giant Attabad Landslide Dammed the Hunza River, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

Invited talk by Alamgeer Hussain,(Focus Humanitarian Assistance Pakistan)

11:50am-12:05pm

Appraisal of Biostratigraphic techniques at subsurface

Suleman Khan and Sajjad Ahmad

Evaluation and Performance Improvements in the Construction
Techniques of Mud houses in Flood Affected areas of Swat

Attaullah Shah and Muhammad Iqbal

12:05pm-12:20pm

Depositional modeling of the Bathonian-Callovian carbonate unit in Hazara Basin, Pakistan

Abdus Saboor, M. Haneef, M. Hanif, M. Imraz and Suleman Khan

Slope Stability Analysis of Londalen Landslide in Norway by Using Ordinary Method of Slices and Bishop’s Modified Method

Asif Razzak

12:20pm-12:35pm

Facies and Diagenetic analysis of Pab Sandstone in Rakhi Nala Section, Eastern Sulaiman Fold and Thrust Belt: Implication for Provenance and Hydrocarbon Reservoir Characterization

Imran Khan, Sajjad Ahmad and Nowrad Ali

Seismic Clusters in and around Pakistan

Khaista Rehman, Paul W. Burton and Graeme Weatherill

12:35pm-

12:45pm

SHIELD DISTRIBUTION

SHIELD DISTRIBUTION

LUNCH AND PRAYER (12:45-2:00pm)

Hydrocarbon Exploration

Chair: Prof. Dr. Ercan Özcan

Geo-hazards: Earthquakes,

floods, landslides-2

Chair: Prof. Dr. M. Umar Khan Khattak

2:00pm-2:20pm

Pakistan’s Energy Crises, Potential and Security.

Invited talk by Dr. Hussain Ahmed, (EPA Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)

Focal Mechanisms Computation and Seismicity Distribution of Major Earthquakes in Lesser and Central Himalaya

Invited talk by Prof. Dr. Perveiz Khalid and co-authors Asif Ali Bajwa & Shahid Ghazi, (University of the Punjab)

2:20pm-2:40pm

Hydrocarbon generation potential and depositional environment of the Cherat coal, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Khalid Latif, Muhammad Hanif, Syed Anjum Shah, M. Saeed Khan Jadoon, Asghar Ali and  Irfan U. Jan

Historical records of snow avalanche events as guidance for preventive spatial planning: Case Study of Washich Village, Tehsil Torkho, District Chitral,  KPK

Invited talk by Niaz Ali, (Focus Humanitarian Assistance, Pakistan)

2:40pm-2:55pm

Geoseismic Modelling of Anticlinal structures of Sakhi Sarwar, Drigri and Kotrum in the south of Zindapir area of Sulaiman Fold Belt with the help of Seismic Reflection Data.

Shazia Asim,  Sarfraz Hussain Sloangi, M. Qasim Mirza, Shabeer Ahmed Abbasi and Faizan

Effect of Precipitation on Discharge Level in Barrages in Pakistan

Salman Atif, Shahida Arif Khan and Mashal Riaz

2:55pm-3:10pm

Reserve Estimation Techniques in Unconventional Resources and Comparison of Different Available Methods

Shakeel,  Yasir Ali,  Atif Zameer, Tasaddaq Younas and Mian Tauseef Raza

Geological Mapping With Special Emphasis On Landslides Hazard Analysis From Gharri Dopatta To Hatian Area, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan

Syed Naveed-ul-Hassan Bukhari, Nawaz Ikram, Syed Ahsan Hussain Gardezi

3:10pm-3:25pm

Seismic Attribute and petrophysical Analysis of Dhulian area, Upper Indus Basin, Pakistan by using Seismic and Well Log data

Umair Bin Nisar, Mona Lisa, Syed Amjad Ali bukhari, Mudasir Nawaz, Sarfraz Khan  and Shakil Ahmad

Chair: Prof. Dr. Iftikhar A. Abbasi

Stratigraphy

Triassic-Jurassic boundary: Evidences from the Tethyan Salt Range, Pakistan and correlation with Europe

Shahid Iqbal, Irfan U. Jan, Gulraiz Akhter, Michael Wagreich and Muhammad Hanif

3:25pm-

3:40pm

Unique Approaches, Tools and Lessons Learnt in Development of Coalbed Methane

Azam Khan, Mian Tauseef Raza, Tasaddaq Younas, Sikander Azam, Amir Ali Lakhu and Sayed Muhammad Iqbal

Revised Stratigraphy of Balochistan Basin; Petroleum and Construction stone Resources of Balochistan, Sulaiman and Kirthar basins (Pakistan)

M. Sadiq Malkani

3:40pm-

3:55pm

SHIELD DISTRIBUTION

Revised stratigarphy and structural interpretations of a part of the Samana-Khyber Ranges, NW Pakistan

Muhammad Ashraf, Walliullah Khattak and M. Asif Khan

3:55pm-

4:00pm

SHIELD DISTRIBUTION

TEA (4:00-4:30pm)

Engineering Geology & Geomechanics

9:00am-9:15am

Rock Characterization and Empirical Design of Support for a Hydropower Tunnel in Shangla, KPK, Pakistan

Sohail Akram

9:15am-9:30am

Propagation of dip-slip fault rupture through uniform soil cover

Waqas Ahmed, Javid Hussain and Israr Ahmad

9:30am-9:45am

Suitability Studies of Kirana Hills Aggregate as Sub Base Material at Lahore Ring Road, Northern Phase, Pakistan

Hafeez-Ur-Rahman, Muhammad Sanaullah and Waqas Bashir

9:45am-10:00am

Sensitivity study of different parameters affecting Design of the clay blanket in Small Earthen dams

Ishtiaq Alam and Irshad Ahmad

10:00am-10:20am

The remediation of landslide at Jhika Gali, Murree

Invited talk by Sohail Kibria, (NESPAK, Lahore)

10:20am-

10:25am

SHIELD DISTRIBUTION

TEA BREAK (10:25-10:50am)

GIS/Remote Sensing

Chair: Prof. Dr. Tahseenullah Khan

10:50am-11:10am

Preliminary flood inundation estimates using CREST hydrological model: Case study of Mangla subwatershed of Indus River System Simulation using GIS and RS Technologies

Invited talk by Prof. Dr. Muhammad Umar Khan Khattak, (NUST, Islamabad)

11:10am-11:25am

Temporal Land Use Change Detection Using Remote Sensing And GIS case Study Of District Lahore And Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan

Zille Huma Qureshi, Sajid Rashid Ahmad and Asdullah Khan Ghalib

11:25am-11:40am

Examination of tectonic activity using RS/GIS approach: a case study of Chaman fault

F. Rabab, S. R. Ahmed, H. Waheed, S. Shahid and S. A. Mehmood

11:40am-11:45am

SHIELD DISTRIBUTION

STUDENT POSTER EXHIBITION (11:45-1:00pm)

LUNCH AND PRAYER (1:00-2:00pm)

CLOSING CEREMONY AND AWARD DISTRIBUTION (2:00-3:00pm)

Closing Ceremony

Prof. Dr. M. Qasim Jan, Prof. Dr. M. Asif Khan, Prof. Dr. M. Tahir Shah, Prof. Dr. Sajjad Ahmad and Dr. Liaqat Ali

2:00pm-2:15pm

Closing Remarks: Prof. Dr. M. Asif Khan (Ex-Director NCE in Geology, University of Peshawar and VC Karakoram International University)

2:15pm-2:45pm

Awards and Prize distribution Ceremony (Mr. Wajid Ali)

2:45pm

3:00pm

Vote of Thanks by Chief Organizer: Dr. Liaqat Ali

TEA & PHOTO SESSION (3:00-3:30pm)