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“Sedimentology to face societal challenges
on risk, resources and record of the past”
Detailed Conference Program
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September Sept Sept Sept Sept Sept Sept Short Course
Monday Icebreaker
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A1 A2 A4 A5 A6 A8
10 Opening Plenary
Registration Oral Lunch Oral Oral Poster
September Ceremony lecture Coffee Coffee
Tuesday 8.30 - 9.00 11.30-12.30 12.30-13.30 13.30-15.00 15.30-17.00 17.00-19.00
9.00 - 10.00 10.00-11.00
11 Plenary Lunch
September Oral Oral Oral Oral Poster
Coffee lecture 12.30-13.30 Coffee
Wednesday 8.30-10.00 10.30-11-30 13.30-15.00 15.30-17.00 17.00-19.00
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September IM1 IM2 IM3 IM4 IM6 IW1 IW1 IW1 Social Dinner
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Plenary General
September Oral Oral Lunch Oral Poster
Coffee lecture Coffee Assembly
Friday 8.30-10.00 11.30-13.00 13.00 - 14.00 14.00-15.30 16.00-18.00
10.30 - 11.30 18.00-19.00
September B1 B2 B5 B7
Saturday 14-15 14-18 14-18 14-15
Sept Sept Sept Sept 13.10 Group photo in front
of Earth Science Department
Pre-meeting field trip Intra-meeting field trip Post-meeting field trip Short course Half-a-da intra-meeting workshop
Index
Venue
Timetable
Rome
How to reach
Accommodation
Meeting Activities
Patronage of
Botanical Garden
Palazzo Brancaccio
Sapienza University
Plenary Lectures Speakers
Plenary Lectures Abstracts
I.A.S. President’s Welcome
Congress Chair’s Welcome
Pre-meeting field trips
Post-meeting field trips
Intra-meeting field trips
Field trip location (map)
GeoSed President’s Welcome
Intra-meeting workshops
Pre-meeting short course
La Sapienza Main Campus Map
General and practical information
Overview of the Meeting Program
Organizing and Scientific Committees
Activities for early career scientists (ECS)
Session description, convener(s) and SKT hours
Guidelines for presentation (oral, session keynote talks, poster)
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Meeting program - an overview I.A.S. President’s Welcome
The International Association of Sedimentologists has always recognised the need to include the
entire Sedimentological community as active participants carrying the Society forward into the
future. As part of this effort, IAS aims to catalyse and support the endeavours of all sedimentologists
One Short Three Half-a-day through - among others initiatives - the organisation of congresses and meetings. The IAS Meeting
Course workshops
of Sedimentology (IMS) is organized each year except for the year an International Sedimentological
Congress (ISC) takes place. This regional meeting gathers participants to discuss and share the most
6ƒ 7s 8 s 9m 10t 11w 12 t 13ƒ 14 s 15s 16m 17t 18w recent advances in the field of sedimentology while providing the opportunity to communicate the
needs of the Membership to the Bureau.
IAS is very proud sponsoring the 34th International Meeting of Sedimentology and welcoming
Six Pre-conference Five Intra-conference Four Post-conference
field trips field trips field trips all participants at the Sapienza University in Rome to discuss about how sedimentology can help
to face societal challenges on risk, resources and record of the past. Your contribution will aid
improving our present knowledge of the system Earth while defining priorities for future research.
We gratefully acknowledge the researchers and professionals involved in the meeting organization
and are confident that you will enjoy not only the scientific debates but also the wonderful city of
Event Date & Time Location Rome – la Città Eterna - that has grown and developed in a unique geological setting.
Daniel Ariztequi
Registration & Icebreaker Monday 9th, 18:00 Botanical Garden, Trastevere
Aula Magna
Eugenio Gaudio (Rector of Sapienza University of Rome),
Daniel Ariztequi (IAS President),
Congress Chair’s Welcome
Opening Seremony Tuesday 10th, 9:00 Prof. Fan (Digital Deep Earth Initiative),
Marco Brandano (President of the Italian Association On behalf of the Organising Committee I welcome all of you, the one thousand delegates participating
of Sedimentologists), the 34th IAS meeting of Sedimentology, to Rome and to Sapienza University. The theme of the Meeting
Francesco L. Chiocci (Chair of the Conference)
“Sedimentology to face societal changes on risks, resources and record of the past” fits very well with
Tuesday 10th, 10:00, the venue in our ”eternal city”, where all the landscape and the sub-surface talk about sedimentology.
Plenary Lectures Wednesday 11th, 11:30, Aula Magna Most of Rome is built on Tiber River highstand alluvial deposit, or on pyroclastic (the seven hills), that
Friday 13th, 10:30 overlie Pleistocene littoral sand and Pliocene marine mud, i.e. the post-rift sequences lying on top of
the Meso-Cenozoic limestones. Welcome to the Sapienza University, the largest in Italy (again, with
Tuesday 10th Earth Science Department, Law Faculty, a campus made up of travertine, so that we will have a workshop just looking at their facies on the
Scientific Sessions Wednesday 11th Rettorato, Blue rooms, building walls!).
Friday 13th Museum of Classical Arts Our main effort has been to deepen the researches in sedimentology and sedimentary geology, as well
as to widen the meeting to other communities (marine geology, volcanology, extra-terrestrial geology,
Tuesday 10th , cultural heritage) that use the reconstruction of sedimentary processes and of the stratigraphic record
Poster Session Wednesday 11th, Museum of Classical Arts as one of the main investigation tools. The result of this effort are 10 parallel sessions, 450 oral
Friday 13th communication plus 43 Session Keyonte Talks, 3 plenary lectures and 700 posters. We worked a lot
to let the meeting to be enjoyable, for the location (see where the poster will be presented!), the
Intra meeting field trips catering, the assistance by the volunteers. But, rephrasing Cicero, the good of the meeting will not be
Thursday 12th, 8:00-18:00 the excellence of the food but by the quality of the friends and of the words. Welcome!
and workshops
Francesco L. Chiocci
Conference dinner Thursday 12th, 20:00 Brancaccio Palace
ECS workshop:
GeoSed President’s Welcome
Odeion Room, Museum of Classical Arts,
“How to survive to a review” Wednesday 11th
Lunch time The Italian Community of Sedimentologists is very proud to host once again the International
Meeting of Sedimentology in Italy. Historically the Italian community, represented by GEOSED (Italian
ECS workshop: Association for Sedimentary Geology), has always felt to be part of the IAS and has participated and
“How to prepare your CV Odeion Room, Museum of Classical Arts, actively participates in many IAS initiatives. The Italian community has seen the meeting as a great
Friday 13th
(and yourselves) Lunch time opportunity to show their research activities and the world class outcrops that characterizes the Italy.
for an application” Three workshops, one short course and a total of 15 field trips will show the sedimentology of the
Italian territory, covering many and different topics. The Italian sedimentologists chair 40 sessions
General Assembly testifying a great activity in all field of sedimentology. I hope the meeting will foster discussion
Friday 13th, 18:00-19:00 Aula Magna and innovative collaboration between sedimentologists of universities, research institutes and
and closing Ceremony
companies. I am sure the meeting will offer the ideal environment to explore new scientific frontiers
that are relevant to face societal challenges on risk, resources and record of the past.
Welcome to Rome and enjoy the meeting
Marco Brandano
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Organizing Committee General and practical information
Chair Francesco Latino Chiocci (Università di Roma “Sapienza”) Stefano Catalano (Università di Catania) The meeting will be held in the Sapienza University campus, in particular in four main areas: the Aula Magna
Co-Chair Marco Brandano (Università di Roma “Sapienza”) Domenico Cosentino (Università “Roma Tre”) placed in the Rettorato building, the Earth Science Department (Room 1, 8, 11 and slide center), the Law
Co-Chair Daniele Casalbore (CNR-IGAG - Università di Roma “Sapienza”) Chiara D’Ambrogi (ISPRA, Istituto Superiore Faculty (Room Calasso), Museum of Classical Arts (Room Odeion and Aula Partenone) and the Blue area
Honorary Chairs per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale)
(Room blue 1, 2,3). The poster area will be located in the Museum of Classical Arts. The location of welcome
Alfonso Bosellini, Emiliano Mutti, Franco Ricci Lucchi Giancarlo Davoli (ENI, Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi)
desk is in the terrace behind the Aula Magna (see map next page).
Treasurer Vincenzo Pascucci (Università di Sassari) Fabrizio Galadini (INGV, Ist. Naz. di Geofisica e Vulcanologia)
Fundraising Simonetta Cirilli (Università di Perugia) Maria Cristina Giovagnoli (ISPRA, Istituto Superiore
Field-Trips Marcello Tropeano (Università di Bari) per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale) OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
Visual Luisa Sabato (Università di Bari) Fabrizio Lirer (CNR, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Napoli)
The official language of meeting is English.
Sergio Longhitano (Università della Basilicata) Lucia Marinangeli (Università di Chieti)
ECS Program Andrea Di Capua (CNR, Milano) Massimiliano Moscatelli
(CNR,Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Roma) RULES OF CONDUCT (See also page 20)
Silvano Agostini (Soprintendenza Archeologica, Paola Petrosino (Università di Napoli “Federico II”) 1- The congress badge is mandatory for access to the meeting; please proceed directly to Welcome Desk
Belle Arti e Paesaggi dell’Abruzzo) Michele Rebesco (INOGS, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di upon arrival on the first day.
Sergio Cappucci (ENEA, Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie, l’Energia Geofisica Sperimentale)
2- Smoking is prohibited in the lecture rooms.
e l’Ambiente) Andrea Sposato (CNR, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Roma)
3- Telephones should be switched off in the lecture rooms.
4 - We expect respectful conduct and proper dressing of all delegates.
Scientific Committee CONGRESS REGISTRATION FEES, BADGES AND CONFERENCE KIT
At the registration desk, you will receive your Conference badge and kit when signing in. To access the
Alessandro Amorosi (Università di Bologna), Sergio Longhitano (Università della Basilicata),
Daniel Ariztegui (University of Geneva), Luca Martire (Università di Torino), venue, the coffee breaks and lunches and all social events, please make sure to wear your badge at all time
Fabrizio Berra (Università di Milano), Judith Ann McKenzie (ETH di Zurigo) while attending the Conference.
Adele Bertini (Università di Firenze), EidgenössischeTechnischeHochschule),
Angelo Camerlenghi (OGS – Trieste), Salvatore Milli (Università di Roma “Sapienza”),
Marcos Aurell Cardona (Universidad de Zaragoza), Nigel Mountney (University of Leeds), Registration fee includes:
Matthieu Cartigny (Durham University), Gian Gabriele Ori (Univ. “G. D’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara), a. Access to scientific sessions
Sandro Conticelli (University of Firenze) Mariano Parente (Università di Napoli Federico II),
Salvatore Critelli (Università della Calabria), Nereo Preto (Università di Padova), b. Icebreaker on Monday, September 9th at 18.00 at Botanical Garden
Marc De Batist (Ghent University), Peir Pufahl (Acadia University), c. Conference coffee and tea breaks and lunches on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday
Giovanna Della Porta (Università di Milano), Sam Purkis (University of Miami),
d. Abstract book, field trip guides, extended program on a USB flash drive
Andrea Di Giulio (Università di Pavia), Marco Roveri (Università di Parma),
Agata Di Stefano (Università di Catania), Daniela Ruberti (Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli), e. Printed Program Book
Daniela Fontana (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia), Elias Samankassou (University of Geneva), f. Conference bag, metal water bottle and fan
Tracy Frank (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), Maria Rosaria Senatore (Università del Sannio Benevento),
g. Guided tour of the Earth Science Museum
Eduardo Garzanti (Università Milano-Bicocca), Attilio Sulli (Università di Palermo),
Massimiliano Ghinassi (Università di Padova), Peter K. Swart (University of Miami),
Piero Gianolla (Università di Ferrara), Roberto Tinterri (Università di Parma), The Welcome Desk is open on Monday, September 9th from 18:00 to 20:00 at the Icebreaker in the
Alessandro Iannace (Università di Napoli Federico II), Fabio Trincardi (CNR, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bologna),
Adrian Immenhauser (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), David Van Rooij (Ghent University),
Botanical Garden, and Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 8:00 to 14:00. The onsite payment
James Klaus (University of Miami), Helmut JürgWeissert (ETH di Zurigo – Eidgenössische Technische is possible with the following fees:
Stephen Lokier (Bangor University), Hochschule).
Student and retired IAS member 300€
Secretariat Commitee Delegate IAS member
Student non IAS member
600€
350€
Delegate non IAS member 650€
Ionela Pintilie (Coordinator) - CoNISMa Federica Maisto - Sapienza University
Francesco Falese - CNR-IGAG Martina Pierdomenico - CNR-IGAG One day registration 80€
Michela Ingrassia - CNR-IGAG Accompanying (no badge, only conference dinner and icebreaker party) 100€
Icebreaker 30€
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WiFi
Free wireless internet access is available throughout the university campus. ID and passwords will be provided
at the registration.
STAFF AND INFORMATION SERVICE
Main Campus
The multilingual staff welcomes all 34th IAS Meeting delegates to the University of Rome. The 34th IAS
Meeting staff will be identifiable by branded t-shirts and name tags. Please do not hesitate to approach
them for any question or assistance.
An information desk is available in the registration desk at the rectorate. Maps of the City are available for all
M Metro B
Policlinico
participants. You may find a wardrobe to store your luggage. Please note that the organizer of the 34th IAS 500m
Meeting Conference and the University of Rome does not accept any liability for lost items. BR3
PHOTOSHOOT AND RECORDINGS
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BR1
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While registering to the Conference the organizers will gather permission to take photos and/or recording
during the Conference, to be published in the Conference websites and social media.
All IAS 2019 delegates are invited to participate in the group picture shot on Wednesday at 13.10 in front of
Welcome desk
the Earth Science Department.
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKERS/SESSION CHAIRS
In case you are a presenting author, please go to the slide center in the Speaker Ready Room in the Earth
OD
Science Department, room 12 (see campus map). You have to upload your presentation within the half-day Rectorate
before the beginning of your session, to avoid any delay on the scientific session. B Par
DRINKING WATER
Gal
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Tap water in Rome drinkable. Please note that water dispensers and bottles are available onsite for all IAS
2019 participants. In the campus map blue drops indicate water fountains where you may re-fill the water
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bottle you found in your conference bag.
ESD8 ESD1
SAPIENZA MUSEUMS
Sapienza University offers you a wide range (some 18) humanistic museums (http://web.uniroma1.it/
polomuseale). In one of them (classical arts) the poster exhibition will take place. In the Earth Science
Museum guided tours will be organized for IAS Meeting
participants during lunch time on tuesday to friday.
A- Aula Magna (Plenary lecture)
University Hospital
B- Faculty of Law Room “Calasso”
CURRENCY, EXCHANGE, CREDIT CARDS
C- Earth Science Department
The official currency is the Euro €. You will find a bank Room 1 - ESD1
and ATM in the Campus (see campus map) open on Room 8 - ESD8
working days, generally between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. You Room 11 - ESD11
can also withdraw cash at the ATM. Speaker Ready Room
D- Museum of Classical Arts - OD e Par
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E- Blue Rooms - BR1, 2, 3
F- Speaker Ready Room
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LOST AND FOUND Rome has 3 subway lines (A - B - C) and several bus routes covering almost all parts of Rome and its suburbs.
In case of Lost and Found items, please refer to the Information and registration desk. For lost property in the A single ticket costs euro 1,50 and it is valid 100 minutes after validation.
territory of Roma Capitale: +39 06 67693214 / 3217 Buses run from 5:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. with only the night buses after 11:30 p.m.
The subway (metro) lines run from 5:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. and, on Friday and Saturday nights, to 1:30 a.m.
EMERGENCIES, MEDICAL ADVICE Tickets can be bought at all railway and metro stations, as well as at the authorized sales points (newsagents,
In case of emergency, 112 may be dialed free-of-charge from any landline or mobile phone. Every emergency coffee bars, tobacconists and P.I.T. – Tourist information points).
or rescue phone calls converge to one number (Police, Fire fighters and also Medical emergency). The If you plan to stay for 3 days or more, we suggest you buy “Roma Pass” tourist card (for further information,
operator identifies the demand sorting the phone calls to the competent body. please approach the onsite touristic Info Point).
Note that the University Hospital (Policlinico Umberto I) is adjacent to the Campus and the Police Station is As an alternative, you can call a taxi by dialing 060609 (“ChiamaTaxi“ service). We advice you to use authorized
within it (see campus map). taxi only (with the official sign in the roof and doors)
ELECTRICITY SUPPLY CONFERENCE SUSTAINABILITY
Power Connection & Voltage: European plug with two roundmetallic pins, 230V/50Hz. IAS 2019 is an environmentally-friendly event promoting social solidarity. Thanks to the Food for
Near the Museum of Classical Arts there is a solar powered mobile phone recharge station. In the relax area Good project endorsement, any food not consumed during the Conference will be recovered
near the registration desk there are extra power supplies. and redistributed to charitable organizations.
Moreover, with the aim to reduce plastic and water waste, in the Conference bag you will find a
LOCAL TIME, WEATHER reusable bottle to be filled in the water dispensers available onsite.
The local time in Rome is CEST time.
Summer time in Rome (from June to middle September) is usually warm and sunny. It is the driest period of LIABILITY
the year (about 75mm rain in 9 days). In case of long lasting summers, it is not unusual for the thermometer to Neither the organizers of IAS 2019 neither Sapienza University assume liability for damage or injury to
sign 30°C (86ºF). We warmly suggest to wear light clothes and carry sun cream. Please note that in September persons or property in association with the conference and/or related events.
the sunrise is around 6.50 am and the sunset is around 7.20 pm.
CONFERENCE APP
TRAVEL & LOCAL TRANSPORTATION Please find all information and updates regarding the Conference, the venue, the
You can easily get around Rome and visit its fantastic attractions by bus, by subway (“Metropolitana”), by technical sessions, the social events and more in the ExOrdo App (download from
taxi and on foot. Play Store or Apple Store) and look for IASRoma2019.
SOCIAL MEDIA
You can follow IAS 2019 on:
Facebook www.facebook.com/IAS2019Rome
Twitter @34thIAS
Policlinico
Castro Pretorio
www.iasroma2019.org
COFFEE-BREAKS AND LUNCHES
Coffee-breaks and lunches are served in the garden of the Earth Science Department and in the terrace behind
the Aula Magna. During Poster Sessions in the Poster Area (Museum of Classical Arts) beer will be offered.
You will find the drink bouchers in the conference badge.
Please note that in
September some subway BOOK OF ABSTRACTS, FIELD TRIP GUIDES AND DETAILED PROGRAM
line wil be in maintenance
so look for information at You will find PDFs of the above into the USB flash drive included in your conference bag. All updates will be
https://www.atac.roma.it.
available in the conference app.
8 9Activities for Early Career Scientists Venue
(and others as well) The Meeting will be held at the Sapienza University of Rome. The campus (Città Universitaria) lecture rooms offer all the
facilities needed for a such large conference. It is located in center of Rome, a few hundred meters far from the main
railway stations (Roma Termini and Roma Tiburtina) where shuttle trains and buses from international airports arrive.
Countless hotels and tourist facilities are present nearby, as well as along the subway lines, whose stations are located at
Following the activities organized by IAS Early Career Scientists Committee in Quebec walking distance from the campus. Within the university campus there are a church, a police station, a post office, a bank
and Toulouse meetings, in Rome we will offer a wide range of activities (open to all but with ATM, and the main hospital of the city is few hundred meters far.
mainly targeted to scientists at the beginning of their career).
Babysitting yourselves) for an application” and you will find the right
Accommodation
The IAS organization cares about sedimentology as well way to valorise your job profile for the application you are
as family, thus it would be proud to give support to all the looking for. The city of Rome offers a wide range of accommodation ranging from very cheap to very expensive. We offer the possibility
Two technical training workshops will be organised, mainly of booking through secretariat@iasroma2019.org. Otherwise you may book by yourself as that the number of hotels in Rome
participants and their little kids seeking for a babysitting
is countless; only in one km range from Sapienza University there are more than 500 accommodation structures. The choice
service for all the duration of the congress. (but not only) addressed to Early Career Scientists. They
is huge, and it is easy to find an accommodation according to personal requirements in term of price, facilities and position.
If need, please contact the IAS organization committee will deal with “How to prepare a successful CV” and “how Most of the accommodation places recommended are located in the city center, within a walking distance to the university.
(secretariat@iasroma2019.org) and we will be happy to to survive referee”. The workshop, free of charge, will be Since Rome is a touristic city it is strongly recommended to make an early hotel booking.
help you. held during meeting days during lunch time.
ECS workshop:
“How to survive to a review” ECS corner
Wednesday 11th, Museum of Classical Arts, Room Do you want to briefly show your work? Have you got a
Odeion, Lunch time Tracy Frank (Un. Nebraska) and brilliant idea to share? Are you looking for a job position
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Adriano Viana (Petrobras) and do you want to present your competencies through
Although the manuscript has been hardly prepared, what you are doing? Come to the ECS corner! Launched
although you double checked your English, although you for the first time in Québec City 2018, the ECS corner is an
spent many days working on the last figure, the reviewers open space where PhD students and early career scientists
always have something to complain. It’s a long way to the have a microphone, a laptop and 5 minutes to interact with
top… and how to reach it now? What do the reviewers and
the editors expect from your work now? How to deal with
the sedimentological community, showing who they are,
what they are doing and discuss their data and ideas.
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all the comments and suggestions in a properly way?
Come to the ECS workshop “How to survive to a review”:
Thus, we are waiting for you there! But, don’t waste
time and express your interest to the ECS corner (ECS@ 2
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our speakers will give you all the answers and all the iasroma2019.org).
suggestions you need to improve your way to review your
manuscripts. The workshop, free of charge, will be held
during meeting days during lunch time. Best Poster Prizes
IAS 34th Meeting will award two best poster prizes, one
ECS workshop: for Student and one for ECS (i.e. post-doc and researchers
“How to prepare your CV (and yourselves) with less than 7 years from their PhD). Those wishing to
for an application” volunteer for prizes may contact ECS@iasroma2019.org.
Friday 13th, Museum of Classical Arts, Room Odeion,
Lunch time, by editors of different IAS journals
Websites are full of job opportunities… but now you Evening event
found the job you have always dreamt. There is only a An evening event will be organized, not overlapping with
gap between you and it: the application. How could you the conference dinner, in a pub or other location, to have
show the commission that you are the right man/woman a friendly, unformal meeting among ECS researchers.
in the right place? Which are the differences between the Details will be given on the conference app and during
academical and the industrial world? 1 Università di Roma La Sapienza 3 Botanical Garden (Icebreaker)
the meeting.
Come to the ECS workshop “How to prepare your CV (and 2 Palazzo Brancaccio (Conference Dinner) T Roma Termini Train Station
10 11How to reach Palazzo Brancaccio
The venue of the Conference dinner is located in Viale del Monte Oppio, 7.
Rome It is some 2 km from Conference Venue and 1 km from Termini train station.
The nearest subway station is Vittorio Emanuele (Line A).
Fiumicino International Airport (FCO) is the main Italian gateway with direct flights from the most relevant To plan subway or bus transfer visit
cities all over the world, while Ciampino Airport (CIA) is a relevant hub for low-cost flights. https://www.atac.roma.it.
From Fiumicino and Ciampino airports to downtown Rome there are bus connections and train shuttle
leaving every 30 minutes (duration 35’, 14 €). Train shuttle arrives at Termini railway station, one km far from GPS position 41°54’ 07,2’’ 12°29’23,1’’
the Meeting venue at Sapienza University (see figure below).
Similarly, almost all Italian and European destinations are connected to Rome by trains stopping at Termini
and Tiburtina train stations.
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The venue of the Conference is Sapienza Main Campus, located in Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5.
It is some 1 km from Termini train station and 2 from Tiburtina train station.
The nearest subway station is Policlinico or Castro Pretorio (both Line B).
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Tuesday, 10 September Tuesday, 10 September
Room 8 ESD Room 1 ESD Room 11 ESD Room Calasso Aula Magna Room Odeion Room Partenone Blue Room1 Blue Room2 Blue Room 3
8.30 - 9.00 Registration Registration 8.30 - 9.00
9.00 - 10.00 Opening Ceremony Opening Ceremony 9.00 - 10.00
10.00 - 11.00 Plenary lecture Plenary lecture 10.00 - 11.00
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break Coffee break 11.00 - 11.30
5.D 6.A 11.A 1.B 4.A 10.B 11.I
New advances Stratigraphic Sedimentological, Open Session Deep-water Sediment Organic
in Lacustrine controls on the stratigraphic on Carbonates & channels: Management:from matter in
11.30 - 12.30 sedimentology geochemical and geomorphic Bioconstructions Morphology, science to practice paleoenvironmental, 11.30 - 12.30
and fossil record architecture, flow paleogeographical
processes and and hydrocarbon
sedimentation exploration
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch Lunch 12.30 - 13.30
10.A 5.D 6.A 11.A 1.B 2.C 7.L 4.A 10.B 11.I
Anthropocene: New advances Stratigraphic Sedimentological, Open Session Aeolian sediments Open session Deep-water Sediment Organic
a rising and in Lacustrine controls on the stratigraphic on Carbonates & and coastal systems of sedimentological channels: Management:from matter in
critical issue sedimentology geochemical and geomorphic Bioconstructions studies Morphology, science to practice paleoenvironmental,
13.30 - 15.00 in Earth Science and fossil record record of architecture, flow paleogeographical 13.30 - 15.00
and Society the evolution processes and and hydrocarbon
of the Tethys sedimentation exploration
ocean related
basins
15.00 - 15.30 Coffee break Coffee break 15.00 - 15.30
10.A 5.D 6.A 11.L 1.B 2.C 7.L 4.A 3.A 11.I
Anthropocene: New advances Stratigraphic Methane-rich Open Session Aeolian sediments Open session Deep-water channels: Interplays of Organic
a rising and in Lacustrine controls on the fluid expulsion on Carbonates & and coastal systems of sedimentological Morphology, hydrodynamic matter in
critical issue sedimentology geochemical processes and Bioconstructions studies architecture, flow processes in paleoenvironmental,
15.30 - 17.00 in Earth Science and fossil record their signatures processes and shallow marine paleogeographical 15.30 - 17.00
and Society in marine sedimentation environments and hydrocarbon
sediments exploration
17.00 - 19.00 Poster session Poster session 17.00 - 19.00
Grey box indicates Session Keynote Talk
14 15Wednesday, 11 September
Wednesday, 11 September Wednesday, 11 September
Room 8 ESD Room 1 ESD Room 11 ESD Room Calasso Aula Magna Room Odeion Room Partenone Blue Room1 Blue Room2 Blue Room 3
7.H 2.A 1.A 11.B 7.G 9.A 7.A 7.D 7.C 11.E
Recent insights Estuarine systems: Carbonate New concepts The sedimentary From sediment Marine microbialites: Integrated Sedimentary New frontiers
and outstanding from morphodynamics producers and tools to unravel record of generation to a record of approaches to the processes on in mudrock
questions in planetary to stratigraphy and Cenozoic depositional earthquakes, sediment routing bio-sedimentary recognition high-latitude sedimentology
8.30 - 10.00 sedimentary geology platforms architecture in tsunamis, and other systems processes of contourite continental margins and stratigraphy 8.30 - 10.00
deforming basins: extreme/catastrophic through time depositional systems
From seismic events
stratigraphy to
analogue models
10.00 - 10.30 Coffee Break Coffee Break 10.00 - 10.30
7.H 2.A 1.A 11.B 7.G 9.A 7.A 7.D 7.C 11.E
Recent insights Estuarine systems: Carbonate New concepts The sedimentary From sediment Marine microbialites: Integrated Sedimentary New frontiers
and outstanding from producers and tools to unravel record of generation to a record of approaches to the processes on in mudrock
questions in planetary morphodynamics and Cenozoic depositional earthquakes, sediment routing bio-sedimentary recognition high-latitude sedimentology
10.30 - 11.30 sedimentary geology to stratigraphy platforms architecture in tsunamis, and other systems processes of contourite continental margins and stratigraphy 10.30 - 11.30
deforming basins: extreme/catastrophic through time depositional systems
From seismic events
stratigraphy to
analogue models
11.30 - 12.30 Plenary Lecture Plenary Lecture 11.30 - 12.30
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch Lunch 12.30 - 13.30
5.B 2.A 11.D 11.F 7.G 7.I 1.D 7.D 7.F 11.H
Palaeosols: Estuarine systems: Siliciclastic- Recent advances in The sedimentary Evaporites The carbonate Integrated Subaqueous Sedimentary
a treasure chest to from carbonate and other carbonate diagenesis record of on Earth platform record approaches to the mass movements heterogeneity
understand morphodynamics mixed deposits: studies: analytical earthquakes, and beyond of extreme recognition and their controls on fluid
13.30 - 15.00 13.30 - 15.00
the sedimentary to stratigraphy sedimentology and challenges and tsunamis, and other paleoenvironmental of contourite consequences: flow in aquifers and
processes in reservoir properties application to case extreme/catastrophic events depositional systems from scientific hydrocarbon
continental realm histories events knowledge reservoirs
to geohazard
assessment
15.00 - 15.30 Coffee Break Coffee Break 15.00 - 15.30
5.B 7.B 11.D 11.F 4.B 5.E 1.D 7.D 7.F 11.H
Palaeosols: When volcanoes Siliciclastic- Recent advances in Linking deep Sedimentary The carbonate Integrated Subaqueous Sedimentary
a treasure chest to meet carbonate and other carbonate diagenesis water depositional processes, stratal platform record approaches to the mass movements heterogeneity
understand the environment mixed deposits: studies: analytical processes, facies architecture and of extreme recognition and their controls on fluid
15.30 - 17.00 the sedimentary sedimentology and challenges and and stratigraphy stratigraphy paleoenvironmental of contourite consequences: flow in aquifers and 15.30 - 17.00
processes in reservoir properties application to case of alluvial systems events depositional systems from scientific hydrocarbon
continental realm histories knowledge reservoirs
to geohazard
assessment
17.00 - 19.00 Poster session Poster session 17.00 - 19.00
Grey box indicates Session Keynote Talk
16 17Friday, 13 September
Friday, 13 September Friday, 13 September
Room 8 ESD Room 1 ESD Room 11 ESD Room Calasso Aula Magna Room Odeion Room Partenone Blue Room1 Blue Room2 Blue Room 3
8.A 5.C 1.C 11.C 4.B 5.E 11.G 7.E 6.B 2.B
Ichnology, Modern lakes and Understanding Sedimentology Linking deep Sedimentary Seismic Modern and Technological Along-strike
trace fossils and lacustrine sediments carbonate at reservoir-scale: water depositional processes, stratal Geomorphology ancient straits and conceptual variability in
depositional as archives factories through recent improvements processes, facies architecture and and Seismic and seaways: advances in sequence modern and
8.30 - 10.00 environment of geological paleoecological and and way forward and stratigraphy stratigraphy Sedimentology: towards a universal stratigraphy. New ancient coastal and 8.30 - 10.00
environmental geochemical signals of alluvial systems Improvements and model for their achievements and shelfal depositional
change and Applications sedimentary open questions environments
anthropogenic dynamics
impact
10.00 - 10.30 Coffee Break Coffee Break 10.00 - 10.30
10.30 - 11.30 Plenary Lecture Plenary Lecture 10.30 - 11.30
6.B
8.A 5.C 5.A 11.C 4.B 5.E 11.G 7.E Technological and 2.B
Ichnology, Modern lakes and Non-marine Sedimentology Linking deep Sedimentary Seismic Modern and conceptual advances Along-strike
trace fossils and lacustrine sediments carbonates: from at reservoir-scale: water depositional processes, stratal Geomorphology ancient straits variability in
depositional as archives the geological recent improvements processes, facies architecture and and Seismic and seaways: modern and
11.30 - 13.00 environment of geological record to present-day and way forward and stratigraphy stratigraphy Sedimentology: towards a universal 9.B ancient coastal and 11.30 - 13.00
environmental processes of alluvial systems Improvements and model for their Arenite petrology shelfal depositional
change and in continental Applications sedimentary for unravelling environments
anthropogenic settings dynamics hinterland
impact and offshore
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch Lunch 13.00 - 14.00
1.E 5.A 11.C 4.B 5.E 11.G 7.E 9.B 2.B
3D modelling Non-marine Sedimentology Linking deep Sedimentary Seismic Modern and Arenite petrology Along-strike
of carbonates: carbonates: from at reservoir-scale: water depositional processes, stratal Geomorphology ancient straits for unravelling variability in
techniques the geological recent improvements processes, facies architecture and and Seismic and seaways: hinterland modern and
14.00 - 15.30 and applications at record to present-day and way forward and stratigraphy stratigraphy Sedimentology: towards a universal and offshore ancient coastal and 14.00 - 15.30
different scales and processes of alluvial systems Improvements and model for their paleogeography. shelfal depositional
processes in continental Applications sedimentary A tribute to Gian environments
settings dynamics Gaspare Zuffa
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break Coffee Break 15.30 - 16.00
16.00 - 18.00 Poster session Poster session 16.00 - 18.00
16.00 - 18.00 General Assembly General Assembly 16.00 - 18.00
Grey box indicates Session Keynote Talk
18 19Guidelines Session Description, Convener(s) and Skt Hours
Oral presentation 1.A Carbonate producers and Cenozoic platforms
Oral presentations are 12 minutes + 2 minutes for questions, 1 minute is reserved for setting up the following
presentation (15 minutes in total). “Short orals” in the Open session of sedimentological studies are 3 mins at Daniela Basso - daniela.basso@unimib.it; Valentina Bracchi; Giovanni Coletti (Univ. Milano-Bicocca, Dept. of Earth and Environmental
maximum.Please ensure your presentation does not exceed these time limits. Sciences, Italy)
Please prepare your oral presentation in a Power Point (ppt, pptx) or pdf format named “Lastname_firstname_
sessionnumber.ppt(x)/pdf”. The presentation will be displayed on screen by video projector. Carbonate depositional systems record changes in architecture, geometry, texture, lithofacies, and biogenic components through
Authors are requested to upload their presentations directly in the slide centre, located in the Earth Science time. Carbonate producers are living organisms with precise energetic and environmental requirements, therefore climatic and
Department (Room 12) within the half-day before the beginning of the oral block. Assistance will be available oceanographic variations, driven by geology, exert a strong influence over them. This is especially true for neritic systems located at the
for help. It will be not possible to load the presentations in the meeting rooms, they must be brought to the boundary between the tropical and temperate realms, which are very sensitive to climate belts dynamics through geological time and
speaker ready room to be loaded centrally. to sea-level oscillations. The Earth went through major environmental revolutions during the Cenozoic, shifting from a “greenhouse”
to an “icehouse” world and witnessing dramatic oceanographic events. Several global changes affected the functioning and the
relative dominance of the major carbonate factories (coral reefs, large benthic foraminifera banks, rhodolith beds and algal build-ups)
Session Keynote Talk that recorded in detail the temporal and spatial variation of these events. Unveiling this natural archive is of paramount importance for
understanding and modelling the future of our planet under the expected consequences of the ongoing climate change.
Key-note presentations for each session are 20 minutes plus 9 minutes for questions, 1 minute is reserved for This session aims at offering an overview of the Cenozoic environmental evolution of our planet by presenting a series of case histories
setting up the following presentation (30 mins in total). from a suite of diverse carbonate factories, geological contexts and time, to depict their inception, evolution and demise.
Instruction for preparation are the same as for the standard oral presentations (see above).
Authors should keep in mind that SKTs have been given double time (30’ including questions, instead than 15’) Session Keynote Talk (SKT) –Wednesday, 11 – Room 11 ESD – 9:00 – 9:30 am- “Cenozoic carbonate factories: global distributional
Meeting theme 1 - Carbonate platforms and reefs
as they are supposed to illustrate a specific research framing it in the more general context of the present-day trends of carbonate platforms” Dr. Julien Michel, Dr. Alexandre Lettéron, Dr. Cyprien Lanteaume, Prof. Jean Borgomano, Dr.
state of the knowledge in their field. The aim is 1) to attract specialists in other fields that like to have a sense Jeroen Kenter
of what is going on in different scientific areas and 2) to stimulate discussion among colleagues (9’ have been
foreseen for that).
1.B Open Session on Carbonates & Bioconstructions
Poster Presentation
Stephen Lokier- s.lokier@bangor.ac.uk (Bangor University, UK); Laura Tomassetti (Earth Science Department, Sapienza University of
Poster will be in PORTRAIT format, should not be larger than A0 (118cm height and 84cm width). Any poster Rome, Italy)
printed in landscape or larger than A0 may not be shown. Poster display time is 08:30 to 19:00 daily in Museum
of Classical Arts but poster session is from 17 pm to 19 pm, (on Friday from 16 pm to 18 pm), according to the This Open Session invites contributions from general and interdisciplinary topics within the diverse fields of Carbonates (marine and
session program. The authors are expected to be available for presentation next to their poster during poster continental) and Bioconstructions. The session provides an opportunity to present studies that do not sit comfortably within any of the
sessions. research topics covered by the special themes.
Presenters have access to the Museo di Arte Classica from 8.30 am each morning and they are responsible of
setup of their poster in the morning. Assistance will be available for help and to provide fixing material. Posters Session Keynote Talk (SKT) – Tuesday, 10 – Room Aula Magna – 12:00 – 12:30 pm - “Marine cementation in Quaternary reefs: a
should be removed by authors by the end of the session. quantitative approach“ Prof. Eberhard Gischler
I.A.S. Code of Conduct
1.C Understanding carbonate factories through paleoecological
The IAS (International Association of Sedimentologists) is a premier, international scientific association dedicated to the
publication, discussion, and interchange of research results in sedimentary geology. The purpose of the IAS Code of Conduct
and geochemical signals
is to ensure that all activities sponsored by the IAS are in agreement with the generally accepted ethics rules and the mission
of IAS. Leading principles are honesty, carefulness, transparency, openness, independence, responsibility, and democracy. Guillem Mateu-Vicens - guillem.mateu@uib.es (Dept. of Biology, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain); Marco
IAS meetings, which are open to IAS and non-IAS members including those interested in and from neighbouring disciplines, Brandano (Earth Science Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Juan Ignacio (Baceta, Department of Stratigraphy and
are among the most respected scientific meetings in the global field of sedimentology. IAS-sponsored meetings foster Paleontology, The University of the Basque Country, Spain)
the exchange of scientific ideas through respectful and open dialogue. Together with the IAS, the meeting organizers are
committed to providing a safe, productive, and welcoming environment for all participants. All meeting participants, including Carbonate factories are possibly dependent by many environmental factors such as carbonate saturation, biological metabolism,
but not limited to attendees, speakers, volunteers, exhibitors, staff, service providers, are expected to abide by the IAS Code biologically-controlled and -induced carbonate precipitation, loci of accumulation and preservation. How the conditions for a
of Conduct. This Code of Conduct applies to all IAS meeting-related events. carbonate factory efficiency can been achieved and how the conditions have varied with evolutionary history, atmosphere and ocean
IAS considers the neglect of these rules as being equal to a scientific misconduct. chemistry, tectonic plate configurations, paleoclimate, and other factors will be discussed in the session. Contributions and case
Treat all participants with equal respect and consideration. histories dealing on facies and geochemical characterization of carbonate factories from Paleozoic to Modern carbonate platforms
Critique ideas rather than individuals. are welcome.
Avoid personal attacks directed toward other participants and organizations.
Be mindful of your surroundings and of your fellow participants. Alert event organizers if you notice a potentially dangerous Session Keynote Talk (SKT) – Friday, 13 – Room 11 ESD – 08:30 – 09:00 am- “Why do carbonate rocks exist?” Prof. Luis Pomar,
situation, unsafe behaviour or someone in distress. Prof. Pamela Hallock, Dr.Guillem Mateu Vicens
Respect the rules and policies of the host country, meeting venue, hotels, contracted facility, and/or any other venue.
Permission must be sought from the presenter or author to take photographs, movies or to undertake other forms of
recording of any presentation.
20 211.D The carbonate platform record of extreme 2.B Along-strike variability in modern and ancient coastal and
palaeoenvironmental events shelfal depositional environments
Mariano Parente - maparent@unina.it (University of Naples Federico II, Italy); Sabrina Amodio (University of Naples Parthenope, Italy); Miquel Poyatos Moré -m.p.more@geo.uio.no (Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Norway); Ernesto Schwarz (Centro de
Helmut Weissert (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) Investigaciones Geológicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata-CONICET, Argentina); Alessandro Amorosi (Department of Biological,
Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy); Janok Bhattacharya (School of Geography and Earth Sciences,
Shallow-water carbonate platforms provide unique windows to Earth’s geological past. These environments document the response McMaster University, Canada)
Meeting theme 2 - Coastlines and deltas
of neritic biocalcifiers to severe perturbations of biogeochemical cycles and host a precious record of carbonate-associated proxies
of past ocean conditions. In this session we invite contributions that employ traditional and novel approaches to decipher the Basin margin development and the timing of sediment transport to the oceans are strongly influenced by the position and
palaeonvironmental archive of shallow-water carbonates. Within this broad topic, contributions dealing with stratigraphic intervals character of paralic systems relative to the changing physiography of the coastline, and the relative dominance of depositional
encompassing extreme events, like the end-Permian, end-Triassic and end-Cretaceous events, the Mesozoic OAE sand the Cenozoic processes occurring along its adjacent shelf. Here, the dynamic interaction of numerous factors results in a complex heterogeneity
Meeting theme 1 - Carbonate platforms and reefs
hyperthermals are particularly encouraged. of nearshore deposits, observable both in modern, ancient and high-resolution seismic datasets. This complexity has been
generally well studied along depositional dip profiles, but the lateral (along-strike) variability of sedimentary systems from the
Session Keynote Talk (SKT) – Wednesday, 11 – Room Partenone– 03:30 – 04:00 pm - “How healthy carbonate platforms react to shoreline to the shelf is less understood, possibly due to the difficulty in recognizing sub-seismic lateral facies changes, and
extreme paleoenvironmental disturbances - Insights from the Cretaceous Arabian Platform?” Prof. Volker Vahrenkamp the absence of well-documented large-scale outcrop examples. Consequently, the lateral variability of nearshore sedimentary
systems and its resulting complex stratigraphic expression are still poorly constrained.
In this session we invite contributions from both modern and ancient studies of coastal to shelfal depositional environments,
which might help improving our understanding about the complex interaction between numerous factors in this segment of
1.E 3D modelling of carbonates: techniques and applications at source-to-sink systems. The session aims to integrate detailed studies of internal bed-scale facies architecture with larger-scale
different scales and processes plan-view analysis, tracking along-strike geomorphological changes and controls in the resulting laterally-variable stratigraphic
record of these system.
L. Tomassetti - laura.tomassetti@uniroma1.it (Earth Science Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); M. Franceschi (Department Session Keynote Talk (SKT) – Friday, 13 – Room Blue3 – 12:30 – 01:00 pm - “Time-stratigraphy in point-sourced deltas” Dr. Janok
of Geosciences, University of Padua, Italy); B. Bádenas (Department of Earth Science, University of Zaragoza, Spain); S. Tomás (Institute Bhattacharya, Dr. Andrew Miall, Mr. Jeremy Gabriel, Mr. Curtis Ferron, Mr. Nicolas Randazzo
of Geoscience, University of Potsdam, Germany); J. Kenter (Total, France)
3D modelling holds great potential for the quantitative study of carbonates at different scales and its application ranges, for
example, from volume assessment, calculation of growth rates and distribution of facies and heterogeneities to forward modelling of 2.C Aeolian sediments and coastal systems
sedimentation and diagenetic processes.
Several methods (e.g. seismic, photogrammetry, LIDAR, drone and hyperspectral imaging, CT scanning) provide an invaluable and Lars Clemmensen- larsc@ign.ku.dk (University of Copenhagen) and Ken Pye (Kenneth Pye Associates Ltd., Reading, UK).
increasingly accessible source of three-dimensional information and software for data management and interpretation is becoming
increasingly sophisticated. However, integration of datasets through efficient workflows as well as adequate data-sharing platforms The session would cover both modern and ancient environments. It would be timely to have papers looking at the linkages between
and standardization of formats are still underdeveloped. climate (including windiness) and sea level change, aeolian sedimentation, dune mobility and stabilization phases, including carbonate-
This session seeks contributions of 3D modelling examples across different scales and within the broad field of carbonate sedimentology rich dunes (aeolianites), siliciclastic dunes and paleosol sequences.
to capture the range of applications, the current state of the art on workflows including those for sharing data sets and, finally,
stimulate discussion on synergies and new directions to improve the understanding of carbonate sedimentary systems. Session Keynote Talk (SKT) – Tuesday, 10 – Room Odeion – 04:30 – 05:00 pm - “A 5,000 Year Record of Coastal Dune Evolution
along the Eastern Shore of Lake Michigan in the North American Great Lakes: The Relationship of Geography, Lake-Level
Session Keynote Talk (SKT) – Friday, 13 – Room 1 ESD – 03:00 – 03:30 pm - “Best modelling approaches on a carbonate reservoir, Fluctuations, and Sand Supply” Dr. Alan Arbogast, Dr. William Lovis
a case study from the Majella Mountain, Central Apennines, Italy” Dr. Fabio Trippetta, Mr. Davide Durante, Dr. Lorenzo Lipparini,
Mr. Alessandro Romi
3.A Interplays of hydrodynamic processes in shallow
2.A Estuarine systems: from morphodynamics to stratigraphy marine environments
Shallow-water depositional systems
Meeting theme 2 - Coastlines and deltas
Massimiliano Ghinassi - massimiliano.ghinassi@unipd.it; D’Alpaos Andrea, Dr. Alvise Finotello (Department of Geosciences, University Romain Vaucher- romain.vaucher88@gmail.com (CICTERRA, National University of Córdoba, Argentina); Marcello Gugliotta (Estuary
of Padua, Italy) Research Center -EsReC, Shimane University, Japan)
Meeting theme 3
Estuaries are delicate coastal environments, which evolve under the intertwined effect of hydrological, chemical and biological processes. Do purely wave, tide, and fluvial environments in shallow-marine settings exist? In the last decade, an increased number of
In the past, the complex interaction among these processes promoted the accumulation of thick sedimentary successions, which can studies referring to “hybrid sedimentary systems” or “mixed-energy system” have been published. These studies focus on
be of relevant economic importance (i.e. hydrocarbon reservoirs). Today, the morphodynamics of coastal environments occurs under the the interplay of at least two of the three main processes (i.e., river, tide and wave) controlling sedimentation and depositional
influence of rapid climate changes and anthropogenic pressures, which make imminent evolution of estuarine systems poorly predictable. architecture in coastal to shallow-marine settings. This led to the identification of hybrid sedimentary structures generated as the
Understanding estuarine morphodynamics and related deposits has therefore remarkable social and economic implications, both in terms result of wave-tide and river-tide process interactions, whereas less attention has been paid to wave-river ones. More studies are
of landscape management and subsurface exploration. Exploiting the up-to-date knowledge about estuarine morphodynamics, this session required to refine our conceptual models of facies and how interplays influence the sedimentation from the genesis of bedforms
aims at reconciling results from field studies, mathematical modelling and laboratory investigations in order to discuss: i) principles to towards the overall geometry of the systems. This session aspires to group research exhibiting data from modern and ancient
investigate estuarine sedimentary products; ii) models to predict evolution of estuarine systems. This session aims at bringing together marginal marine environments subjected to process interplay and other studies on this topic based on numerical modelling and
researchers working on modern geomorphology and ancient deposits, as well as researchers undertaking physical and numerical modelling flume experiments.
approaches. Presentations are welcome on all aspects of estuarine systems: hydrology, hydrodynamics, morphological characterisation,
morphodynamics, sediment transport, stratigraphy, impact of climate change and sea-level rise. Session Keynote Talk (SKT) – Tuesday, 10 – Room Blue2– 03:30 – 04:00 pm - “Sedimentation in shallow-marine environments – a
product of mixed-energy processes in four dimensions” Prof. Shahin Dashtgard
Session Keynote Talk (SKT) – Wednesday, 11 – Room 1 ESD – 02:00 – 02:30 pm - “How tides and rivers shape levees and
crevasses: Holocene overbank phases of the Old Rhine river, the Netherlands” Dr. Harm Jan Pierik, Mr. Jelle Moree, Mrs. Lonneke
Roelofs, Mr. Marcio Boechat Albernaz, Dr. Antoine Wilbers, Mr. Jasper Leuven, Dr.Tjalling de Haas, Prof. Maarten Kleinhans
22 234.A Deep-water channels: Morphology, architecture, flow 5.A Non-marine carbonates: from the geological record to
processes and sedimentation present-day processes in continental settings
Chenglin Gong -chenglingong@hotmail.com (College of Geosciences, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China); Peter Talling Giovanna Della Porta - giovanna.dellaporta@unimi.it (University of Milan, Earth Sciences Department, Milan, Italy); Enrico Capezzuoli
(Departments of Earth Sciences and Geography, Durham University, UK), Michele Rebesco (National Institute of Oceanography and (University of Florence, Earth Sciences Department, Florence, Italy); Mike Rogerson (University of Hull, School of Environmental
Experimental Geophysics- OGS, Italy); Matthieu Cartigny (Departments of Earth Sciences and Geography, Durham University, UK); Sciences, Hull, UK); Ezher Tagliasacchi (Pamukkale University, Turkey)
Maarten Heijnen (National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton Waterfront Campus, UK); Peng Hu (Ocean College,
Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China) Non-marine carbonates form in a variety of depositional settings such as lakes, rivers, hydrothermal vents, caves and soils, representing a
significant component of terrestrial sedimentary basins and useful proxies of palaeoenvironmental conditions. Understanding modern
Deep-water channels in either marine or lacustrine have been the focus of extensive research since their discovery in the early 20th century. physico-chemical and microbially mediated processes of non-marine carbonate precipitation helps constraining biogeochemical cycles
This is largely because they: (1) play a significant role in shaping and building continental margins; (2) are prodigious features traversing and investigating the geological past in terms of changing depositional environments, hydrology and climate. A robust understanding
hundreds or even thousands of km of the seafloor; (3) serve as the major conduits for the delivery of large quantities of nutrients, pollutants, of what features of a sediment are uniquely microbial is also a critical requirement of dawn of life studies on Earth and astro-biological
carbon, and sediments into deep-water sites; (4) preserve critical paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic information; and (5) form major research.
subsurface oil and gas reservoirs worldwide. Despite their significance and widespread occurrence, deep-water channels remain a key This session aims to get better insights into the variety of non-marine carbonate facies and the abiotic/biotic control on processes of
research challenge in sedimentological community, because of their three- dimensional complexity and diversity. We hope the proposed carbonate and associated minerals precipitation. We welcome contributions investigating fossil and modern non-marine carbonates
session will facilitate open and lively discussion towards an advanced and deeper understanding of all aspects of deep-water channels in through multi-disciplinary approaches highlighting their variability across different depositional environments and the biological,
either marine and lacustrine basins. environmental and physico-chemical factors controlling their formation, fabrics, accumulation rates and spatial distribution.
We solicit presentations that explore morphology, architecture, flow dynamics, and genesis of deep-water channels, and welcome studies
that may include, but not limited to: Session Keynote Talk (SKT) – Friday, 13 – Room 11 ESD – 02:30 – 03:00 pm - “Tufa and microbialites in non-marine carbonate
Meeting theme 4 - Deep-marine depositional systems
How do deep-water channels work; including how they are formed and maintained, internal flow processes, and how they evolve. settings: a multi- scale approach” Dr. Concha Arenas Abad, Mrs. Leticia Martin-Bello, Dr. Francisco Javier Pérez-Rivarés, Mrs.
Morphology, architecture, genesis, and reservoir characterization of deep-water channels in either marine or lacustrine basins. Nerea Santos-Bueno
Meeting theme 5 - Continental environments
How submarine channels host and influence ecological communities, and their globally important role for organic carbon transfer and burial.
New ways to study deep-water channels, including numerical simulations, physical experiments, and direct field observations of active
events on the seafloor.
5.B Palaeosols: a treasure chest to understand the sedimentary
Session Keynote Talk (SKT) – Tuesday, 10 – Room Blue1 – 01:30 – 02:00 pm - “A unique channel-levee-lobe system in a modern processes in continental realm
deep-water carbonate slope (Great Bahama Bank)” Dr. Emmanuelle Ducassou, Ms. Joanna Lapuyade, Dr. Melanie Principaud,
Dr.Ludivine Chabaud, Dr. Vincent Hanquiez, Prof. Thierry Mulder
Giorgio Basilici- basilici@ige.unicamp.br (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil); Marco Benvenuti (University of Florence, Italy);
Stefano Carnicelli (University of Florence, Italy); Isabelle Cojan (Centre de Géosciences, Mines ParisTech, France); André Marconato
(Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil); María Sol Raigemborn (Centro de Investigaciones Geológicas, Universidad Nacional de
4.B Linking deep water depositional processes, facies and La Plata, Argentina); Augusto Varela (CONICET – Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
stratigraphy Palaeosol are constantly present in continental sedimentary successions, from the Archean to the Present. Their occurrence can be
extremely variable: from almost completely absent, where high sedimentation rate or extreme palaeoenvironmental conditions acted,
to comprise more than 80% of the thickness in many other sedimentary successions. Nevertheless, the attention of who studies the
Jörg Lang -lang@geowi.uni-hannover.de (Institute of Geology, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany); Juan J. Fedele
ancient continental sedimentary successions is not always proportional to the occurrence of palaeosols.
(ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, USA); David C. Hoyal (ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston,
Although since the 80s the scientific consideration of palaeosols certainly increased, studies focusing palaeosols are not common in
USA); Roberto Tinterri (Earth Sciences Unit, University of Parma, Parma, Italy); Timothy M. Demko (ExxonMobil Upstream Research
scientific papers and even more uncommon are studies linking sedimentary processes and palaeosols.
Company, Houston, USA); Fabiano Gamberi (Institute of Marine Sciences - National Research Council, Bologna, Italy)
Notwithstanding, palaeosols represent in continental sedimentary succession, a data source probably much more efficient than
sediments. Indeed, if the deposits are commonly yielded by rapid and paroxysmal processes, often associated to abnormal conditions
Understanding sedimentary processes is crucial to comprehend the sediment dispersal and the depositional record of deep water
of the depositional environment, the palaeosols do not follow these rules. A well-developed palaeosol forms in more than 1000yr;
systems. Recently, new insights into flow processes, based on direct flow measurements and experiments, have led to revised
during this period this is an open-system, that can record all the environmental conditions and changes in the atmosphere and just
interpretations of depositional processes in deep water systems. Concomitantly, investigations of the seafloor have contributed
beneath its surface.
detailed images of geomorphic elements in the different deep water environments. Refined process-based facies models, linking
By proposing this session we want stimulate the sedimentologists to present whichever communication whose focus are the palaeosols
depositional processes to stratigraphy, have thus been developed, also thanks to the contributions by outcrop and seismic data
and/or their relationships with the sedimentary environments.
studies.
Nevertheless, many important aspects of deep water sedimentary systems and their interrelations remain poorly understood. Our
Session Keynote Talk (SKT) – Wednesday, 11 – Room 8 ESD – 02:00 – 02:30 pm - “Evidence of Ediacaran life on land preserved
knowledge, however, can be improved especially through the integration of results from different research approaches.
in the oldest pedogenic siderites” Dr. Maciej Bojanowski, Ms. Magdalena Goryl, Dr. Barbara Kremer, Dr. Beata Marciniak-
This session aims to bring together contributions on observations from modern systems (flow monitoring-seafloor bathymetry),
Maliszewska, Prof. Jan Środoń
outcrops, seismic data and experiments (physical-numerical) to deal with these issues. We seek contributions addressing the behaviour
of sediment-gravity flows, focusing on: subcritical vs. supercritical flows, surging vs. sustained flows, transitional-hybrid events and
interactions between flows and basin morphology.
At a larger scale we aim at integrating different views regarding: autogenic organization vs. allogenic forcing, intrabasinal vs. 5.C Modern lakes and lacustrine sediments as archives of
extrabasinal controls, oceanographic forcing, sediment-feeding systems, sediment supply, tectonics and sequence stratigraphy.
geological environmental change and anthropogenic impact
Session Keynote Talk (SKT) – Friday, 13 – Room Aula Magna – 08:30 – 09:00 am - “A tribute to Prof. Guido Ghibaudo talented
sedimentologist and stratigrapher” Prof. Luca Martire Marta Marchegiano -marta.marchegiano@unige.ch (University of Geneva, Switzerland); Domenico Cosentino (Roma Tre University,
Italy); Elsa Gliozzi (Roma Tre University, Italy); Daniel Ariztegui (University of Geneva, Switzerland); Laura Sadori (Sapienza University
of Rome, Italy)
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