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INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATIONOF SEDIMENTOLOGISTS

31st IAS Meeting of Sedimentology

www.sedimentologists.org/ims2015

22nd–25th June 2015 Kraków, Poland

Second Circular

Call for abstracts

31st IAS Meeting of Sedimentology • June 22–25, 2015 • Kraków, Poland

Organized by

Polish Geological SocietyInstitute of Geological Sciences, Jagiellonian University in Kraków

Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw

Supported by

International Association of Sedimentologists

Organizing Committee

Michał Gradziński Chairman (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)Mariusz Kędzierski Secretary (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)

Grzegorz Haczewski (Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków)Renata Jach field-trip co-ordinator (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)

Piotr Jaglarz (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)Artur Kędzior (Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków)

Bogusław Kołodziej (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)Stanisław Leszczyński (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)

Ewa Niesiołowska (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)Tomasz Rychliński (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)

Wojciech Wróblewski (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)Anna Wysocka (University of Warsaw)

Honorary Scientific Committee

Daniel Ariztegui (Geneva, CH)Roman Aubrecht (Bratislava, SK)

Ondřej Bábek (Olomouc, CZ)Mark Bateman (Sheffield, UK)Thilo Bechstädt (Kraków, PL)Zdzisław Bełka (Poznań, PL)

Krzysztof Birkenmajer (Kraków, PL)Pavel Bosák (Prague, CZ)Marc De Batist (Gent, BE)

Poppe de Boer (Utrecht, NL)Giovanna Della Porta (Milan, IT)

Pierre Francus (Québec, CA)Tracy Frank (Lincoln, USA)

M. Adam Gasiński (Kraków, PL)Hans-Jürgen Gawlick (Leoben, AU)

Andrzej Gaździcki (Warsaw, PL)Ryszard Gradziński (Kraków, PL)

Adrian Immenhauser (Bochum, DE)Juraj Janočko (Košice, SK)

Krzysztof Jaworowski (Warsaw, PL)Józef Kaźmierczak (Warsaw, PL)

Krzysztof P. Krajewski (Warsaw, PL)Jerzy Lefeld (Warsaw, PL)

Stephen Lokier (Abu Dhabi, AE)Stanisław Lorenc (Poznań, PL)

Jacek Matyszkiewicz (Kraków, PL)

Jozef Michalík (Bratislava, SK)Sigrid Missoni (Leoben, AU)Jacek Motyka (Kraków, PL)

Nigel Mountney (Leeds, UK)Slavomír Nehyba (Brno, CZ)

Wojciech Nemec (Bergen, NO)Kajetan d’Obyrn (Wieliczka, PL)Nestor Oszczypko (Kraków, PL)Vincenzo Pascucci (Sassari, IT)

Tadeusz Peryt (Warsaw, PL)Grzegorz Pieńkowski (Warsaw, PL)

Szczepan Porębski (Kraków, PL)Piotr Roniewicz (Warsaw, PL)

Grzegorz Racki (Sosnowiec, PL)Andrzej Radwański (Warsaw, PL)Stanisław Skompski (Warsaw, PL)

Tadeusz Słomka (Kraków, PL)Ján Soták (Banská Bystrica, SK)

Joachim Szulc (Kraków, PL)Michał Szulczewski (Warsaw, PL)

Andrzej Ślączka (Kraków, PL)Alfred Uchman (Kraków, PL)

David Uličný (Prague, CZ)Michael Wagreich (Vienna, AU)

Jurand Wojewoda (Wrocław, PL)Tomasz Zieliński (Poznań, PL)

331st IAS Meeting of Sedimentology • June 22–25, 2015 • Kraków, Poland

InvitationWe are most honoured to invite you cordially to Kraków,

the cradle of Polish sedimentology, for the 31st IAS Meeting of Sedimentology to be held on the 22nd-25th of June 2015.

Kraków will host an IAS meeting for the second time, 29 years after the IAS 7th European Regional Meeting in 1986. The IAS annual meetings are an excellent opportunity to share research experience and progress in ideas, to discuss all new hot or controversial topics, to initiate collaborative projects, and also to become acquainted with the sedimen-tary successions and their studies in the host country.

The late June in Kraków – an architectural pearl among the medieval central European cities – is still the time of an active academic life, when the city is full of its students and the wave of tourists is just starting to swell.

The city of Kraków is geologically located at the bound-ary of the young Carpathian Mountains and the old Euro-pean Platform, with a plethora of sedimentary rock succes-sions and research issues. This location allows us to offer you a wide range of topics for the pre- and post-meeting field trips.

See you then in Kraków!

For the organizing committee,Michał Gradziński

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Venue Kraków (Cracow), the historical capital of Polish kings,

lies in the place where the Vistula River crosses the narrow-est segment of the Carpathian foredeep, between the Car-pathian foothills built of flysch and the cliff-flanked horsts of karstified Oxfordian limestones. The medieval Old City, now surrounded by the modern city with a population of ca 760 000, is delineated by a narrow green belt known as the Planty Park, created in the place of the ancient moat and town walls, of which one majestic section is preserved. The Old City, with its spectacular Main Market Square and Cloth Hall, is a UNESCO world heritage site housing dozens of ancient churches and other architectural monuments. It now hosts also hundreds of restaurants, pubs, coffee bars, clubs, museums, exhibition halls and commercial shops (see http://www.krakow.pl/english/). The Old City abuts on the Vistula River, where the limestone horst of the Wawel Hill rises topographically with the Royal Castle and Cathedral at the top. The hill has a karst cave formed by ascending ther-mal waters. This is the famous Polish cave, which – according to a legend – was once occupied by a dragon. This Dragon’s Den is now open for visitors, as is also the whole Royal Castle museum complex.

Adjacent to the Old City is Kazimierz, another historical district of the city, originally a separate medieval independ-ent town with its own town hall, churches and synagogues.

The numerous museums and exhibitions in Kraków in-clude several geological ones. The city abounds also in inter-esting geological outcrops including numerous abandoned quarries at the city peripheries. The underground of the Old City, with excavated basements of medieval constructions, is now accessible at the Main Market Square as a spectacu-lar subterranean exhibition.

The Jagiellonian University. The Old City includes also the historical original buildings of the Jagiellonian Uni-versity, founded in 1364. The university’s most prominent alumni included Nicolaus Copernicus and Pope John Paul II. It was also the cradle of Polish geology. Geological research has been conducted here since 1782 and regular educa-tion in geology began in 1886. The university has ever since been one of the leading centres of geological science in Po-land, with its pioneer geologists using the same chemical laboratory where Zygmunt Wróblewski and Karol Olszewski had for the first time liquefied oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide in stable state. One of the major results of the early regional studies was the Geological Atlas of Galicia, a set of

99 detailed geological maps 1:75 000 with comprehensive volumes of explanations, covering the area of Galicia, then a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

After the World War I, when Poland was reborn as an independent state after the 123 years of partitioning be-tween three neighbouring countries, the Polish Geological Society was established in Kraków and soon initiated publi-cation of the first Polish geological journal, presently known

Old City, KrakówPhoto Public Domain

Old City (Barbakan fortress) photo Michał Kwaśniak

Main Market Square photo Piotr Kwas

Old City, Main Market SquarePhoto Waldemar Obcowski

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as Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae. Many pioneer-ing sedimentological papers, particularly on flysch deposits, were published in this journal, whose full contents are now available online.

Extensive geological research and education have con-currently been conducted at the city’s Academy of Mining and Metallurgy (AGH), established after the World War I and presently known as the AGH University of Science and Technology. Other important centres of geological research in Kraków are the local branch of the Institute of Geologi-cal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Car-pathian Branch of the Polish Geological Institute (PGI).

It is fair to say that the Polish sedimentology originated in Kraków, in the middle of 20th century. Marian Książkiewicz (1906–1981), as a professor at the Jagiellonian University, conducted his ground-breaking studies on the geology of the Carpathians and the sedimentary structures of the Car-pathian flysch. His pioneering research was advanced fur-ther by his several students, including Stanisław Dżułyński (1924–2001) who – in collaboration with Philip H. Kuenen and Edward K. Walton across the infamous political ‚iron curtain’ – contributed significantly to the original con-

cept of turbidity current. A spectacular collection of Stan Dżułyński’s samples of turbidite solemarks is on a perma-nent display in the museum of the Jagiellonian University’s Institute of Geological Sciences (only a 10-minute walk from the meeting venue). Last, but not least, it is also in Kraków where the first and only Polish sedimentological textbook Sedymentologia was so successfully conceived by Ryszard Gradziński, Aleksandra Kostecka, Andrzej Radomski and Rafał Unrug in 1976.Conference centre

The meeting will be held in the modern conference cen-tre of the Jagiellonian University, called Auditorium Maxi-mum. This facility was opened in 2005 and offers an amphi-theatrical main lecture hall with 1200 seats, divisible into two independent parts, as well as one additional hall with 250 seats, two halls with 150 seats each, and one other hall with 100 seats. The halls are fully equipped with multimedia services and the building is completed with catering, sani-tary and several other facilities.

Auditorium Maximum Conference Centre photo Anna Wojnar

Auditorium Maximum Conference Centre photo Anna Wojnar

Collegium Maius Jagiellonian University photo Anna Wojnar

TravelReaching KrakówBy air

The Kraków International Airport (John Paul II Kraków Balice Airport, KRK) http://www.krakowairport.pl/en/ is the second largest airport in Poland, hosting 11 airlines with more than 3 million passengers a year and 47 daily connec-tions to 44 foreign airports, including main European cities in 15 countries.

The airport is 11 km from the Kraków centre. The regular commuter train connection with the town centre is currently inactive due to the train-line renovation, but may be reacti-vated by June 2015. A direct taxi transfer to your hotel – for up to 4 persons – may cost less than 80 PLN (~20 Euro). Al-ternatively, you may take the following public bus lines from the airport to reach the town centre: bus 292 (runs every 20 minutes), bus 208 (runs every hour) or bus 902 (night service

http://www.asgp.pl/

http://maximum.wkraj.pl/


between 11 PM and 4 AM, runs every hour). The drop-off bus stop is at Cracovia Błonie, with a ca. 10-minute walk to the conference centre. The day-time one-way ticket price (zone I) is 3.80 PLN (~1 Euro), but doubles at night.

For general information on the local bus services, see http://mpk.krakow.pl/en/prices-of-tickets/).

Our organizing partner, the Jordan Group, offers trans-port services for individual guests or groups from/to the airport or railway station; make your orders by visiting the Jordan website http://ims2015.jordan.pl/en/tours.

There is also the Katowice-Pyrzowice Airport (with many international airlines and ~2.5 mln passengers a year) ap-proximately 100 km from Kraków, with regular bus connec-tions to the Kraków city centre every 1.5 hr; the ticket price is ca. 50 PLN (~13 Euro). See https://www.katowice-airport.com/en/index/index/0.By rail

The Kraków main railway station (Dworzec Główny) is con-veniently located in the very centre of the city. There is a good train connection with Warszawa (the Pendolino, InterCity or Express trains run every hour during the day, and the travel takes only 2.5–3.5 hrs). Krakow also has direct railway connec-tions with the neighbouring countries (see http://rozklad-pkp.pl/en for details). From the railway station, you can either walk straight to your hotel (~15–20 minutes) or take a taxi (~5 Euro).By bus

The MDA Bus Station in Kraków (Dworzec Autobusowy) is located at the Bosacka Street near the main railway sta-tion. There are direct bus connections with most Polish cit-ies and several European countries. For details, see http://www.mda.malopolska.pl/en.home.html.By car

The A4 motorway, via Wrocław and Katowice, leads to Kraków from the country’s western border. There is also an easy direct access by main roads from the neighbour-ing Ukraine (motorway A4), Slovakia and the Czech Republic (motorway A1 and then A4).

If you arrive by car to the city, please be aware that there are three traffic-restriction zones (A, B, C), where most ho-tels are located and where parking fees must be paid. The entrance to zones A and B is restricted to local residents and hotels guests only.

The meeting venue, Auditorium Maximum, is located in the parking zone P1, where parking is permitted only in des-ignated places. We strongly suggest leaving your car at the hotel parking and either use the public transport (bus, taxi) or walk to the meeting venue.

Tourist informationAs a popular tourist city, Kraków has an extensive ac-

commodation infrastructure. The regular city transport in-cludes inexpensive tramways, buses and taxis. The tourist in-city services include el-car mini-coaches and ‘romantic’ horse-driven carts, whereas proper air-conditioned buses are used for all out-of-city trips. One of the must-see place is the unique and unforgettable undergrounds of the Wielic-zka salt mine near Kraków (http://www.wieliczka-saltmine.com/).

Kraków is also generally appreciated for its night life and a wide range of cultural entertainment, including live music

from jazz to rock. (Anyway, the food and drinks in Poland are relatively inexpensive.)

Lately, the British travel magazine Which? announced the historic city of Kraków as the best city outside the UK to visit. Kraków beats the popular destinations such as Amster-dam, Rome or Paris. Don’t believe? Check Which? website.

Our official organizing partner, the Jordan Group pro-vides on its website (http://ims2015.jordan.pl/) all key in-formation on the accommodation, tourist tours, airport transfers, public transport tickets and the low-price Kraków Tourist Card for in-city travelling.

For other information about the city of Kraków, see the Kraków website.

AccommodationThe city of Kraków offers a wide range of accommoda-

tion for everyone’s pocket. The participants can choose among luxurious 5-star hotels, regular 4- or 3-star hotels and guesthouses, and some least-expensive hostels. Most of the accommodation places recommended are located in the city centre, within a walking distance to the conference centre. Since the tourist high-season begins to grow in the late June, it is strongly recommended to make an early hotel booking. The Jordan Group in Kraków, our meeting’s offi-cial supporter, offers a range of hotel accommodations with special reduced prices for all the IAS participants (visit www.ims2015.jordan.pl). Hotel information will be updated on a regular basis, remember, however, first come, first served!

CurrencyThe local currency is the Polish Złoty (PLN). The currency

exchange rate per the 7th of November 2014 is as follows:EUR/PLN = 4.22; USD/PLN = 3.41; GBP/PLN = 5.39; CHF/PLN = 3.51

WeatherThe late June in Kraków promises a fair weather with

an average temperature of ca 18°C, possibly reaching 25°C at noon and falling to 10°C at night. However, rainfalls may occur and umbrellas are thus recommended. If rainstorms occur and the level of mountain streams rises, the route of some of the field trips may also need to be changed.

Personal insurance and visasPersonal insurance is not included in the registration fee

(please, remember, field trips in Slovakia or Czech Republic may need addtional insurance).

Poland has belonged to the Schengen Convention since 2007, and the participants coming directly from the Schen-

Wieliczka Salt Mine chamber photo Rafał Stachurski

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http://www.krakow.pl/english


gen states thus do not need visa for entering the country. All other nationals may enter Poland if possessing a valid travel document (passport) and a visa (if required). You can apply for a Polish visa on-line (choose a suitable interface

language by rolling the list at the upper right-hand corner of the screen). More information about entering Poland can be obtained from the Polish embassy/consulate in your own country.

Social programme Icebreaker party on the beach

The icebreaker party will be held in a beach bar upon the Vistula (Wisła) river bank. This place attracts people due to its unique atmosphere and a picturesque view across the river. See the Beach Club at http://www.plazakrakow.com/en/beach-and-pool

Conference dinnerThe joint Gala Dinner will be held at the Wieliczka Salt

Mine, a UNESCO world-heritage museum site, in a restau-rant located several hundreds of metres underground in an abandoned excavation chamber – a most unique and memorable place. The price per person is 290 PLN (~65 Euro). This evening dinner event will be combined with a breath-taking trip along the mine’s old collieries (http://www.wieliczka-saltmine.com/).

Leisure optionsKraków is a very lively city, full of major touristic attrac-

tions, with many interesting places to visit in its surround-ings. The Jordan Group, our organizing partner (http://ims2015.jordan.pl/), will offer a wide range of daily cultural and site-seeing trips both before and after the IAS Meeting and for the accompanying persons also during the meeting. Particularly worth visiting outside the town are:• The Wieliczka Salt Mine, 10 km from the Kraków centre

(see http://www.wieliczka-saltmine.com/), with its im-pressive underground chambers (now a museum and a UNESCO world heritage site).

• The Benedictine Abbey in Tyniec, a picturesque monas-tery located on a hill of Upper Jurassic limestones on the Wisła river side ca. 5 km away from Kraków (see http://www.tyniec.benedyktyni.pl/en/contact/).

• The Ojców National Park in Prądnik river valley, ca. 20 km north of Kraków, the smallest but probably best-known national park in Poland, featuring rocky limestone cliffs,

caves, monadnocks (including the famous Hercules Cudgel) and the spectacular Renaissance Pieskowa Skała Castle are the main tourist attractions.

• The Pieniny Mts with the traditional rafting on the Duna-jec river (http://www.splyw-dunajcem.com/english/), starting in Sczawnica, 120 km south-east of Kraków.

• The city of Zakopane (110 km south of Kraków, near the border with Slovakia), famous for its unique highland-er culture and food, especially home-made cheeses; a good place to take a close look at the Tatra Mountains – the highest mountain range of the Polish Carpathians, with Rysy standing at 2503 m above the sea level.For more touristic information about Kraków and the

Małopolska region, see http://www.krakow.pl/english/) and the folder at http://pliki.visitmalopolska.pl/Katalog_EN_2013.pdf

Exhibition and sponsorship optionsThe 31st IAS Meeting offers a wide range of sponsorship

and advertising opportunities for both commercial compa-nies and scientific institutions (see https://www.sedimen-tologists.org/ims2015/sponsors; for further details contact Ewa Niesiołowska [email protected]).

Registration feesRegistration packages will cover meeting materials in-

cluding detailed programme and abstracts on a flash drive, morning and afternoon refreshments and one ticket (1 per-son) to the Icebreaker Party.

The 31st IAS Meeting of Sedimentology in Kraków is partially sponsored by the International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS), therefore IAS student Members can request a travel grant. IAS Student Members can apply for travel grant on IAS website https://www.sedimentologists.org/grants

Icebreaker Party Venue photo Renata Jach

Wieliczka Salt Mine (gala dinner hall) photo Rafał Stachurski

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Participants of field trips and short courses must be also registered for the Meeting. Registration fees are payable by all attendees registered for the meeting and participants of field trips or short courses.

Abstracts will only be included in the conference vol-ume if one of the authors is registered for the meeting.

Payment options Registration should be made online via the IAS con-

ference registration website operated by ExOrdo system [http://ims2015.exordo.com]. Follow the instructions given therein in the registration and submission workflows.

Payment can be by debit/credit card or bank transfer, and should be made to the Polish Geological Society Pay-Pal account. In the website, you will be asked to select the method of your payment during the registration procedure.

In case of a bank transfer, you will receive an e-mail with the invoice and bank-account info. You should transfer the total amount of your payment within 10 days of your regis-tration and purchase (according to the date specified in the invoice); otherwise, your reservation may be cancelled. All payments must be without charges for the receiver. Note: When you make an international wire transfer you can choose who pays the transfer charges appointed as BEN, SHA or OUR codes. In the case of the IAS Meeting of Sedi-mentology, please, select OUR code. This means that you pay all transfer charges and we receive your full payment.

Payment on-site: Participants can pay the higher, “late registration” fee at the registration desk with cash (in Polish złoty, PLN).

Any problems with the registration and payment should be reported to the organizers by e-mail [email protected] of invitation

Upon request, the organizers may send a personal let-ter of invitation to enable participants to obtain supporting funds or visas to attend this IAS meeting. The invitation let-ters shall not be considered as an offer of financial support from the organizers.

FEE until 28th February 2015

between 1st March and 22nd May 2015 23rd May 2015 onwards

IAS Members 1250 PLN 1450 PLN 1650 PLN

Non IAS Members 1450 PLN 1650 PLN 1900 PLN

IAS Student Members 800 PLN 950 PLN 1100 PLN

Student non-IAS Member 950 PLN 1100 PLN 1250 PLN

Guest of a regular participant 650 PLN 650 PLN 850 PLN

Day ticket* 550 PLN 550 PLN 550 PLN

Conference Dinner + Wieliczka salt mine tour 290 PLN 290 PLN 290 PLN

Language of the MeetingEnglish will be the official language of the meeting and

no translation facilities will be provided. Polish is the official language of Poland and visitors may encounter some com-munication barriers, although most of the service people in Kraków can speak English and many can also communicate in German or Russian.

Cancellation policyIn case you cancel your participation

Full refund of pre-payment will be given until 28 Febru-ary 2015. Later, until 15 April 2015, only 50% of the pre-pay-ment will be refunded. No refunding of pre-payment will be given after 22 May 2015, without exceptions.Cancellation of under-subscribed field trips/short courses

Please book and pay early to help avoid cancellation of field trips/short courses (deadline 28th February 2015). We realize the inconvenience and expense you may sus-tain due to cancellation. We will make every effort not to cancel anything. However, in times it becomes necessary to cancel field trips/short courses due to under subscrip-tion.

We cannot accept responsibility for costs associated with any cancellation of under-subscribed field trips or short courses, i.e. airline tickets, hotel costs, etc. Refund of the field trip/short course fee will be issued if it is can-celled.

You will be informed about cancellation of field trips/short courses by 15th March 2015.Responsibility

The organizers of the 31st IAS Meeting make all attempts to provide the necessary services and a smooth conduction of the meeting, but accept no responsibility for any possible dis-turbances that are beyond the reach of the organizers, such as personal insurance, natural disaster (e.g., flood, fire, etc.), state of emergency, riots, citizen strikes, war, communication acci-dents, changes of currency exchange rates and similar.

*One day ticket covers a whole day participation in the Meeting. Note, payment has to be made in Polish zloty (PLN). Your registration and abstract submissions without payment of the registration fee cannot be considered.


Scientific programmeMeeting CalendarMeeting Schedule• Pre-meeting field trips: 19–22nd June 2015• Pre-meeting short courses: 22nd June 2015• Registration: start on Monday 22nd June 2015• Icebreaker party: 22nd June 2015 at 7:00 p.m.• Sessions: 23–25th June 2015• Gala dinner: 24th June 2015• Post-meeting field trips: 25-28th June 2015• Post-meeting short courses: 26nd June 2015

Key dates• 15th October 2014 – deadline for proposals of special-topic sessions• 15th November 2014 – distribution of the 2nd Circular• 15th November 2014 – registration opens• 28th February 2015 – deadline for an ‚early-bird’ (low) registration fee• 28th February 2015 – deadline for field-trip and short-course registration and fee• 28th February 2015 – deadline for abstract submission (talks and posters)• 15th April 2015 – acceptance of abstracts for oral or poster presentation• 22nd May 2015 – deadline for regular (full) registration fee • 31st May 2015 – distribution of the 3rd Circular with final programme

Keynote Lecturers• Michael D. Blum (University of Kansas, USA): Predicting sedimentary system response to human activities: the future of

the Mississippi Delta• Adrian Immenhauser (Ruhr-Univeristät Bochum, Germany): Mg• Brian Jones (University of Alberta, Canada): Facies and precipitates associated with carbonate-producing hotsprings• Wojciech Nemec (University of Bergen, Norway): Colluvium – the ugly duckling of clastic sedimentology• Ronald J. Steel (University of Texas, USA): The future of sequence stratigraphy• Helmut Weissert (Geological Institute, ETH Zürich, Switzerland): Carbonates: carrier of Carbon Cycle history and archive

for chemostratigraphy

Call for abstract Submission deadline: 28 February 2015

The organisers propose 21 Meeting themes (T) and 30 special sessions (SS). The conveners and descriptions of these sessions are provided below. All participants are in-vited to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations suited for the proposed Meeting themes or special sessions.

Meeting themes (T)T1. Physical sedimentary processesT2. Biotic sedimentary processesT3. Chemical sedimentary processes and diagenesisT4. Geochemical record of sedimentationT5. Economic sedimentologyT6. Freshwater carbonatesT7. Alluvial, colluvial and lacustrine depositional systemsT8. Aeolian depositonal systemsT9. Glacial depositional systemsT10. Volcanic depositional systemsT11. Shallow-marine depositional systemsT12. Deep-marine depositional systemsT13. Carbonate platforms and reefsT14. Cycles and rhythms in sedimentary recordT15. Sequence stratigraphy: eustatic vs. tectonic con-

trol on sedimentation

T16. Environmental sedimentology: challenges of glo-bal warming and geohazard prediction

T17. Sedimentary record of climate changeT18. Trace fossils and environmental analysisT19. Remote sensing, imaging and numerical modelling

in sedimentologyT20. Geophysics in sedimentologyT21. Research frontiers in sedimentology

Special Sessions (SS)SS1. Carbonate platforms: archives of global changeStephen Lokier (Petroleum Institute, University and Researc Centre, United Arab Emirates)Marco Brandano (Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, La Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy)

Marine carbonate platforms form through a mixture of biological, chemical and physical processes that make them sensitive recorders of climatic and oceanographic change. Precisely-constrained high-resolution stratigraphic records are important for determining past global change and de-tailing the interactions between climatic processes, the biosphere and stratigraphic architecture. This session will explore a range of geochemical, biological and stratigraphic proxies and investigate their applications to understanding Earth history.


SS2. Sedimentology and geobiology of carbonate build-upsDaniela Basso (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)Agostina Vertino (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)Jürgen Titschack (Senckenberg Inst., Germany)

Carbonate build-ups include a wide range of structures, showing either evidence of framework, or relief, or both. They have been described from such diverse depositional environments as modern and ancient shelves of all lati-tudes, and from shallow to deep settings. The session will focus on our understanding of build-ups as controlling factors of substantial local geomorphological change and sediment production; on their record and role in respect of the ongoing and past environmental change, and on the phenomena involved in their inception, development, and burial or dismantling. We invite contributions on the sedi-mentology, paleontology, stratigraphy, paleoecology and (bio)geochemistry of build-ups across their full range of dis-tribution in space and geological time, as a prominent evi-dence of the continuous interaction between biosphere and lithosphere along the Earth history.

SS3. Recent advances in vent carbonates and mud moundsZdzisław Bełka (Isotope Laboratory, Adam Mickiewicz Uni-versity, Poznań, Poland)

Sedimentology and geochemistry of vent carbonates and mud mounds; hydrothermal vents and cold seeps; geosphere-biosphere coupling processes; fluids – their na-ture and pathways; carbonate precipitation, diagenesis and microbial processes; isotope signatures and biomarkers; hydrocarbon-derived precipitates; biotic communities - re-lationships between geological, geochemical and biological processes.

SS4. Carbonate coated grains!Bruno Granier (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France)Tadeusz Peryt (Polish Geological Institute – National Re-search Institute, Warsaw, Poland)

Other the last decades key books summarizing the state of the art in carbonate sedimentology (e.g., Peryt, ed., 1983; Reitner et al., eds., 2011) have highlighted the ‚visionary’ contributions of Ernst Kalkowsky (1851-1938) to the understanding of the true nature of ooids and stroma-tolites.

The core of the session will be the ooids, marine and la-custrine, aragonitic, calcitic and mixed, as well as their clas-sification, fabrics, origin, use in stratigraphy (!), sedimenta-tion, relationship to some oncoids and stromatolites, ...

Besides these „microbial” allochems, there is also a world of encrusting organisms, among which calcareous red algae, foraminifers, balanids, serpulids, bryozoans, ... that may contribute to the production of the largest coated grains. Remark: the latters are characteristic but not re-stricted to the heterozoan facies, whereas calcareous ooids are one of the three signatures of the photozoan facies.

As such the session topics should span most of the geo-logical time scale and a wide range of the environmental settings.

SS5. Calcareous algae as facies indicators in carbon-ate platform environmentsIoan I. Bucur (Babeş-Bolyai University, Department of Geol-ogy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)Bruno Granier (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France)Emanoil Săsăran (Babeş-Bolyai University, Department of Geology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

The study of recent and fossil carbonate platforms has clearly demonstrated the importance of calcareous algae as components of the carbonate sediments and rocks. In the last decades, microfacies analyses represented the main tool used for environmental reconstructions in shal-low carbonate successions. Calcareous algae are known as sensitive proxies for environmental factors. Thus, they represent ideal index-elements in facies studies and en-vironmental reconstructions concerning carbonate plat-forms.

The session aims to provide new arguments for the significance of calcareous algae in the interpretation of shallow-water carbonate facies starting from the following themes:– Algal biodiversity and reconstruction of carbonate plat-

form environments– Algae in reefs and organic build-ups– Taphonomy of fossil calcareous algae– Algae as carbonate producers– Using calcareous algae assemblages to identify sequence

stratigraphic events.

SS6. Hard and mobile substrates in palaeoecological dynamicsMichał Zatoń (Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Si-lesia, Sosnowiec, Poland)Davide Bassi (Dipartimento di Fisica e Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy)Yasufumi Iryu (Institute of Geology and Paleontology, To-hoku University, Sendai, Japan)

Hard and mobile substrates in the form of various rock-grounds (e.g., cobbles, hiatus concretions), coated grains (e.g., oncoliths, rhodoliths, balanuliths, ostreoliths), and shells (e.g., organic and inorganic in origin), can serve as valuable tools in (palaeo)environmental studies. As hard settlement areas, they provide the special substrate for cementing and boring organisms (i.e., taphonomy). Being mobile, they control the colonization and ecological suc-cession in a dynamic sedimentary environment. Assess-ment of hard substrates is applied to basin analysis, as their presence may also mark the distinct sedimentation breaks and sea-level changes. In recent years, a growing number of studies dealing with hard and mobile substrates have been conducted, highlighting their importance in ec-ological, palaeontological, and sedimentological analyses. The main aim of the present topical session is dissemina-tion of the current knowledge and progress in research of the hard and mobile substrates from both modern and fos-sil environments.


SS7. Triassic to Jurassic peritidal SedimentationFotini Pomoni-Papaioannou (Department of Historical Geol-ogy & Paleontology, Faculty of Geology & Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)Dan Bosence (Professor Carbonate Sedimentology, Royal Holloway University of London, Great Britain)

Early Mesozoic carbonate platforms, particularly of the Tethyan region, are characterised by thick successions of peritidal carbonates. What were the controlling factors on their abundance and why are they so abundant at this pe-riod of time? Some of the facies and carbonate producers are also unusual (e.g., thick oncoidal and megalodont bi-valve limestones) and their palaeoecology and palaeoen-vironments are poorly understood. Commonly these limestones and dolomites are packaged into sedimentary cycles with varying facies trends but cycle origin and driv-ing mechanisms continue to be hotly debated. Do the sedimentology and stacking patterns support autocyclic, tectonic or eustatic driving mechanisms or a combination of these processes? Many of the platforms are capped by distinctive drowning successions. What are the palaeoen-vironmental or tectonic processes that lead to platform drowning? This session is a call for contributions to these debates in the anticipation of furthering our understand-ing of some of these distinctive carbonate rocks and the records they contain of early Mesozoic environments.

SS8. Triassic to Jurassic depositional systems in the north-western Tethyan realm: a basinal perspectiveFabrizio Berra (University of Milano, Italy)Tetsuji Onoue (Kumamoto University, Japan)Sigrid Missoni (Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria)

A substantial lack of knowledge limits our understand-ing in the evolution of the Triassic-Jurassic north-western Tethys margins and the interplay with (a) the onset of exten-sion in the future Alpine-Atlantic/Alpine-Tethys system, and (b) the closure of the Palaeotethys (early Cimmerian orog-eny) and the Neotethys (late Cimmerian orogeny). This story record diversified depositional systems of the Tethys mar-gins and basins, with complex evolutions at local to regional scale. Reconstructions of these major geodynamic events, its exact time constraints and its palaeogeographic setting are relevant for the Late Triassic Tethys passive margin set-ting. In late Early Jurassic time orogenic movements starting in the interior of the Neotethys Ocean and transferred the Triassic to Early Jurassic with its characteristic shore-parallel facies belts in a lower-plate position affected by ophiolite obduction and tectonic imbrication. Contributions on the stratigraphic evolution of this complex system in a geody-namical and geochronological framework are welcome.

SS9. Biotic versus abiotic processes in terrestrial sedi-mentary environments through timeConcha Arenas Abad (Stratigraphy, Dept. Earth Sciences, University of Zaragoza, Spain)Ana Alonso-Zarza (Dept. Petrology and Geochemistry, Fac-ulty of Geology, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain)

The aim of the session will be to discuss the influence of biotic versus abiotic processes on the formation of different types of deposits, covering a wide range of environments.

A wide array of facies, structures and rocks offer the op-portunity to discuss the still controversial duality, such as microbialites, tufas, travertines, sinters and calcretes/pale-osoils. Contributions dealing with modern environments will also be welcome. The goal is to gather insights from di-verse multi-proxy approaches.

SS10. Non-marine carbonates: a multidisciplinary ap-proachEnrico Capezzuoli (Department of Physics and Geology, Pe-rugia University, Perugia, Italy)Rudy Swennen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium)

Several studies have already demonstrated how conti-nental carbonates represent one of the best repositories in non-marine Basin analysis. Frontier approaches and tech-niques, even derived from the petroleum geoscience, are now commonly applied to a wide range of these deposits to illustrate how tectonics, climate and sedimentary/chemical geology interacted with hydrology and life in their produc-tion and intimately affect their facies character, spatial dis-tribution and diagenesis. This session aims to pay attention on non-marine carbonates (e.g., hydrothermal travertine, calcareous tufas, microbialites, calcretes, speleothems, ...), with a wide view on their inter-multidisciplinary use (sedi-mentological, tectonic, geochemical, paleontological, hy-drological, palaeoclimatic, ...), and with a special perspec-tive on the innovative approaches (geostatistical, industrial, petrophysical, ...) now extensively applied for assessing their reservoir properties. Session will provide a focal point both for researchers and for those wishing to expand their knowledge, boosting the informal cross-disciplinary inter-change of information which at present is increasingly po-larizing into a number of topical research areas. For this rea-son, we are encouraging free oral and poster presentations.

SS11. Diagenetic imprint on primary sedimentary fea-turesMaciej Bojanowski (Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland)Rudy Swennen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium)

Diagenesis often has an important impact on the even-tual petrographical, geochemical and petrophysical prop-erties of the sedimentary rocks as well as on the preser-vation of their sedimentary structures. It may obscure the primary features, e.g., by dissolution or substitution of some components, or enhance the preservation of the original sediment properties, e.g., by precompactional cementation. The recognition of diagenetic processes is therefore crucial, not only for tracing diagenetic pathways that the rock experienced, and the related changes in po-roperm, but also with regard to the reconstruction of the primary sedimentological features related to the deposi-tional environment. We welcome contributions which use different petrographic and geochemical methods and their link to petrophysical properties to characterize postdepo-sitional processes and, in particular, to address the role of diagenesis in the reconstructions of the depositional envi-ronments.


SS12. Sedimentary record of cherty rocks in the Phan-erozoicHans-Jürgen Gawlick (Montanuniversität Leoben, Leoben, Austria)Hisashi Suzuki (Otani University, Kyoto, Japan)

Cherty sedimentary rocks play an important role in the reconstruction of the palaeoenvironment in oceanic realms. In addition, they are an important tool to reconstruct lost oceanic domains or distal passive margin settings. For ex-ample, their episodic occurrence in relative shallow-water depths is quite unexplored. Until recent times there are sev-eral models to explain these depositional events. All contri-butions related to cherty rocks including their palaeogeog-raphy, stratigraphy (e.g., bio-, chemo-, isotope-, sequence-, cyclo-stratigraphy) their palaeodepositional environment and their diagenetic features are highly appreciated.

SS13. Phanerozoic giant marine evaporite basins: from Zechstein to Mediterranean and in betweenFrank van den Belt (Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht Univer-sity, Netherlands)Poppe de Boer (Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Netherlands) Tadeusz Peryt (Polish Geological Institute - National Re-search Institute, Warsaw, Poland)

In the subsurface of Poland thick salt bodies are present from two of the most important evaporite precipitation stages of the Phanerozoic: the Zechstein evaporites from the giant Central European salt basin and Late Miocene evaporites from the Carpathian Foredeep, which accumulated simulta-neously with the Messinian salts in and around the Mediter-ranean. These two systems, and other evaporite giants such as e.g. the East Siberian (Cambrian), Precaspian (Permian) and Khorat (Cretaceous) basins, have much in common in terms of large-scale basin evolution, cyclic buildup of successions, and the extreme climatic conditions that prevailed during their deposition and allowed their formation in the first place. Evaporite basins are commonly studied in isolation and when compared the emphasis is often on the differences. The pur-pose of this session is to bring together studies on a range of marine evaporite systems Zechstein, Mediterranean and oth-er basins, and to focus on what unites these basins. A more general depositional model might come a step closer and it may help clarify some of the differences observed.

SS14. Processes and sedimentary successions in the fluvial-marine transition of estuariesPaul A. Carling (University of Southampton, Great Britain)Dan Parsons (University of Hull, Great Britain)

Estuarine deposits presumed to form in the fluvial-to-marine transition are often identified in the geological record. However, but there are relatively few modern ana-logue studies to support such interpretations. Terrestrial and marine processes strongly interact in the transition and there is a combination of allogenic and autogenic controls. Thus an understanding of facies composition and the hy-drodynamic controls on deposition through transitions is necessary if we are to correctly interpret the palaeo-envi-ronments and sequence-stratigraphies. Presentations are invited that particularly address modern transitional envi-

ronments but ancient examples and cognate studies of es-tuarine processes more generally are also welcome.

SS15. Advances in delta sedimentology and stratigra-phy in ancient and modern settingsIvan Martini (Department of Environment, Earth and Physi-cal Sciences, University of Siena, Italy)Enrica Viparelli (College of Engineering and Computing Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Caro-lina, U.S.A.)Astrid Blom (Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)

Deltas are one of the most important geological ele-ments in modern and ancient settings. Deltaic deposits ac-cumulate in the fluvial-to-marine/lacustrine transition zone, a complex depositional environment with a large number of interacting terrestrial and marine/lacustrine processes.

Modern deltas are important for their strategic role in supporting dynamic ecosystems and densely populated cit-ies, while the study of ancient deltaic deposits is primarily related to the characterization and identification of fluids reservoirs. The definition of sustainable practices for the exploitation of ancient deposits, and for the restoration and management of human-perturbed modern systems, depends on the understanding of the interactions between physical, ecological and geochemical processes that govern delta build-up and stratigraphic architecture. Thus, basic and applied research efforts, as well as interdisciplinary col-laborations, are needed to advance our understanding of deltaic processes.

For this session we seek field-based, experimental and modeling contributions that focus on i) the sedimentology, stratigraphy and morphodynamics of ancient and modern deltas; ii) the control of autocyclic and allociclic controlling factors on delta build-up; iii) the interaction between physi-cal, ecological and geochemical processes on delta build-up and in the management of modern deposits.

SS16. New insights into processes, architectures and geometries in basin-floor fansYvonne Spychala (School of Earth and Environment, Univer-sity of Leeds, Great Britain)Arnau Obradors Latre (School of Geological Sciences, Uni-versity College Dublin, Ireland)Nigel Mountney (School of Earth and Environment, Univer-sity of Leeds, Great Britain)

Basin-floor fans, the largest deposits on the planet, are found along all continental margins, and comprise subma-rine lobe deposits fed by distributary channel networks. The stratigraphy of basin-floor fans has great potential as an archive of environmental change. Recent advances, includ-ing the role of static and dynamic slope and basin bathym-etry, the influence of flow confinement on sediment disper-sal patterns, and longitudinal changes of flow rheology on depositional architecture will help to unlock this record.

The aim of this session is to showcase new insights into the processes and products in basin-floor fan stratigraphy, and stimulate constructive discussion on important future work between researchers. We encourage contributions ranging from physical and numerical experiments of weakly


confined to unconfined flows, to the quantification of mod-ern seabed systems and ancient outcrop successions.

SS17. Linking sedimentary processes and stratigraphy across scales in deep water systems: field, experimen-tal and computational approachesDavid Hoyal (ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, USA)Joris Eggenhuisen (Utrecht University, Netherlands)Rafael Manica (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil)Vitor Abreu (ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, USA)

Deepwater depositional environments are less under-stood than other depositional environments in terms of re-lating sedimentary processes to the resulting stratigraphic architecture and lithofacies distribution in depositional sub-environments. Recently, developments in subsurface imaging, seafloor monitoring, and outcrop characterization have closed historic gaps in data resolution, resulting in the emergence of a fairly complete observational framework. Additionally, developments in monitoring and numerical and physical modelling of sedimentary processes are start-ing to clarify the fluid mechanics of processes and their in-teraction with seafloor topography. This session brings to-gether presenters with a diverse background to showcase the present state-of-knowledge in outcrop and subsurface characterization, seafloor monitoring, and physical and nu-merical experimentation. The aim is to clarify the systematic process controls on the organization of deepwater deposits.

Aspects of interest include, but are not limited to:• Linking lithofacies to flow processes • Linking sedimentary structures to fluid mechanics • Investigating how sedimentary structures and bed ge-

ometries build the emergent morphotypes of channels and lobes

• Linking the evolution of seafloor morphology to pre-served depositional bodies

• Linking stratal architecture to sedimentary processes• Scaling analyses of bathymetric and seismic data based

on governing equations of fluid mechanics • Different regimes of sediment transport processes in

proximal-distal or axial-lateral sub-environments

SS18. Heavy minerals in the sedimentary recordDorota Salata (Institute of Geological Sciences, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland)Andrew Morton (HM Research Associates, CASP, University of Cambridge, Great Britain)Sergio Andó (Department of Earth and Environmental Sci-ences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy)

Heavy mineral analysis has been used as a tool in identifi-cation of sediment provenance for a long time. However, due to commonly known factors influencing heavy mineral as-semblages, such as transportation processes, hydraulic sort-ing, surficial weathering and diagenetic dissolution, heavy mineral data are difficult to interpret. Thanks to the devel-opment of new high-precision techniques, there is a grow-ing interest in heavy mineral studies of sedimentary rocks. The session is dedicated to heavy minerals in a very broad sense. Therefore, contributions dealing with the behavior of heavy minerals in sedimentary rocks are welcome, as well as

contributions dealing with new techniques of heavy mineral analyses such as single grain geochemical analysis, isotopic analysis (including single grain dating), Raman spectroscopy and Qemscan, in order to improve our understanding of sedi-ment provenance.

SS19. Trace fossils in palaeoenvironmental studiesAlfred Uchman (Institute of Geological Sciences, Jagiellon-ian University in Kraków, Poland)Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar (Facultad de Ciencias, Univer-sidad de Granada, Spain)

Ichnological methods are widely applied for recognition of many palaeoenvironmental parameters. They became complementary in sedimentological studies, and in many cases, necessary for proper recognition of depositional sys-tem. The session should gather presentations, which show these aspects of ichnological researches.

SS20. Application of sedimentary records in coastal environments for natural hazard assessmentWitold Szczuciński (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland)Yuichi Nishimura (Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan)Karl Stattegger (Kiel University, Germany)

The coastal zone belongs to the most populated and ex-ploited environment on the Earth. However, it is also sub-jected to a number of natural hazards. Many of the hazard-ous processes are of low frequency (e.g., tsunami, extreme storms) or of long duration (e.g., sea level changes, subsid-ence, coastal erosion). Thus, historical records are not sat-isfactory in identification of the endangered areas and as-sessment of frequency as well as magnitude of catastrophic processes. Geological information, mainly in form of sedi-mentary records, is therefore critical for improvement of natural hazard assessment. However, identification and cor-rect interpretation the sedimentary evidence of catastrophic events (tsunami, storms), as well as changes caused by long-term processes (sea-level changes) are not straightforward. Despite significant progress and development of new tech-niques during the last decade many questions in particular related to geological record of coastal floodings remain open.

We welcome contributions from all aspects of coastal sedimentary records. In particular these focused on the record of tsunami, storm and sea level changes from both onshore and offshore studies and incorporating application of sedimentary data in natural hazard assessment.

SS21. Sedimentary response of polar coastal and shal-low marine environments to climate changesWitold Szczuciński (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland)Matthias Forwick (University of Tromsø – The Arctic Univer-sity of Norway)

Recent climate changes are most pronounced in the polar regions where coastlines, fjords and shallow shelves are affected by large-scale transformations due to shrinking sea-ice extent, retreat of tidewater glaciers, increased sedi-ment fluxes and other factors. However, even though such changes are clearly visible at the present, the interpretation of similar transitions from sedimentary records remains dif-


ficult. Marginal marine environments such as fjords act as natural sediment traps and typically have high sediment accumulation rates, providing the potential for high-resolu-tion palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental studies. New techniques developed during the last decade, e.g. high-resolution multibeam bathymetry, new sedimentary, geo-chemical and biological proxies improved the understand-ing of processes in the shallow water polar environments as well as the related ecological responses.

The aim of this session is to gather contributions docu-menting the sedimentary response of coastal, fjord and shelf environments in polar regions to ongoing changes, as well as to present studies focusing on reconstructions of cold climate variability in these environments in the past.

SS22. The changeable greenhouse world: interpreting records of climate, sea level, biota, and biogeochemi-cal cycles of the CretaceousDavid Uličný (Institute of Geophysics, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic)Ian Jarvis (School of Geography, Geology and the Environ-ment, Centre for Earth and Environmental Sciences Re-search, Kingston University London, Great Britain)Ireneusz Walaszczyk (Faculty of Geology, University of War-saw, Poland)

The Cretaceous Period has long been associated with a greenhouse climate involving polar warmth, a Phanero-zoic maximum in sea level, exotic thermohaline circulation patterns in oceans, and global perturbations of the carbon cycle expressed in oceanic anoxic events (OAEs). However, during the past decade, a vigorous debate has developed about potential short-lived glacial episodes even in the warmest mid-Cretaceous time. Other recent work shed new light on the relationships between orbital forcing of climate change, volcanic events, development of OAEs and oceanic circulation, and help to better understand how the global environmental changes affected the evolution and biogeography of Cretaceous biota. At the same time, major advances in resolution of combined radiogenic and astro-chronological time scales, together with greatly increased accuracy of carbon-isotope stratigraphy and refined bios-tratigraphies, provide better insights into the workings of the Cretaceous world, at a resolution approaching that of much younger sedimentary archives of the Cenozoic.

This session aims to present current work on the above topics, focusing particularly on high-resolution and multi-disciplinary studies, encompassing a broad range of ap-proaches from sedimentology, palaeontology, petrology, mineralogy and geochemistry, through sequence stratigra-phy, chemo- and cyclostratigraphy, to numerical modelling.

SS23. Hominin evolution, tectonic basins and climateMatthew Bennett (Bournemouth University, Great Britain)Sally Reynolds (Bournemouth University, Great Britain)

Much of the sedimentary record of hominin evolution is focused on the East African Rift which contains a com-plex record of sedimentary fill in rift and lake basins that contain important fossil and palaeoclimatic evidence. Over the last few years the sophistication with which these basin histories has been reconstructed has increased as research

has focused on the recovery of deep lake cores and an in-creasing array of palaeoclimate proxies have been brought to bear. Focus has progressively shifted from hypothesises around African aridity driving faunal turnover to models that increasingly stress climatic variability as the cause for evolutionary events within our ancestors. The aim of the session is to bring together palaeontologists, palaeoanthro-pologists and sedimentologists to explore the themes of palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, the role of landscape processes and the role of climatic changes in creating these unique sedimentary records that offer insights into the en-vironments and processes underlying human evolution. We plan to invite some of the leading figures in the hominin field to the session from both Europe and the US and to seek if the session is accepted a publisher for an associated volume or special journal issue. The session would be attractive to a wide cross-section of participants and we have the con-tacts and experience to deliver.

SS24. Sedimentary archives of human development and anthropogenic contaminationOndřej Bábek (Palacký University of Olomouc, Czech Re-public)Cecile Grosbois (Universite Francois-Rabelais de Tours, France)

Interactions between human activities and their en-vironment, which are imprinted in sediments represents a challenge for the science of sedimentology, stratigraphy and geochemistry. This session will focus on late Holocene to present-day sedimentary archives of human activities and development such as contaminant release, deforesta-tion, land use and river and coastal regulation, in a variety of environments including fluvial, lacustrine, coastal and urban ones. Emphasis wil be given to anthropogenic pollut-ants and sedimentary processes controlling their distribu-tion in sedimentary bodies such as transport and sorting, deposition and early diagenesis. Contributions addressing contamination histories, tracing of polutant sources, risk as-sesment of secondary contaminant acummulations, stratig-raphy and timing of anthropogenic events and many more are welcome.

SS25. From millennia to seasons ‒ environmental and climatic change recorded in lake sedimentsMichał Gąsiorowski (Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)Wojciech Tylmann (Department of Geomorphology and Quaternary Geology, University of Gdańsk, Poland)Steven D. Andrews (School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, Great Britain)

Lake sediments gather valuable records of environmen-tal change. Using multi proxy study we can reconstruct many paleoenvironmental features (e.g. sedimentation re-gime, paleoclimate, ecosystem evolution etc.) from these archives which span the geological record and can provide insights in to the evolution of the Earths environment. How-ever, time control and age-depth modelling for lacustrine sediments is often a challenge. This session focuses on in-teresting lacustrine record (e.g. varved sediments, pre-Qua-ternary records) and application of different chronological


techniques to age-depth models. Papers trying to merge different dating methods in one age-depth model and pres-entation of a new computing techniques are welcome..

SS26. Controlling factors on source rock quality and hydrocarbon generation during basin development – case studies from EuropeHartmut Jäger (GeoResources STC, associated to Heidel-berg University, Heidelberg, Germany)Axel Emmerich (EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, Karlsruhe, Germany)Szczepan Porębski (AGH University of Science and Technol-ogy, Kraków, Poland)

Following the huge success of hydrocarbon shale plays in North America, hydrocarbon source rocks have become a major target for global exploration and production during recent years. Therefore the focus of successful exploration has been subsequently shifted from the reservoirs towards an improved understanding of shale systems and source rocks. Studies on depositional and compositional develop-ment of source rocks during basin evolution will bring ex-ploration to a whole new level in both, conventional and un-conventional hydrocarbon systems. Depositional processes, structural complexity together with basin topography and size are major controls on source rock development and productivity. Hence this session calls for contributions from several sedimentological disciplines in order to cover the full life cycle of source rocks in European basins. It is firstly dedicated to basin-wide and local processes influencing and controlling source rock quality from initial sedimentation, in-situ degradation until recycling of kerogen. It secondly draws the attention towards processes during basin devel-opment leading to maturation of organic matter, hydrocar-bon expulsion and exhumation / erosion of source rocks.

SS27. Geothermal energy from sedimentary depositsIda Lykke Fabricius (DTU Byg - Department of Civil Engi-neering, Section for Geotechnics and Geology, Technical University of Denmark)Nicolaas Molenaar (Panterra Geoconsultants, Leiderdorp, Netherlands & Molenaar GeoConsulting, Utrecht, Nether-lands)Rikke Weibel (GEUS, Denmark)

The development of heat pumps makes extraction of thermal energy from relatively cool sediments and sedi-mentary rocks feasible. What are the requirements a sedi-mentary rock unit must meet in order to serve as a suitable heat reservoir? Can we improve our predictions of reservoir performance (flow rates and dimensions)?

This session will contain presentation of examples of sedimentary geothermal reservoirs and include discus-sion of necessary preconditions such as the architecture of sedimentary rock units, their petrophysical properties and distribution of these properties, and the mineralogical com-position.

Architecture and thus hydraulic conductivity of coarser grained and permeable sediments is a complex function of accommodation, sediment supply and primary sedimentary environment. To add to the confusion, burial history and di-agenesis modifies the primary petrophysical properties and

composition and additionally the induced flow and changes in temperature may also cause further modifications.

Potential problems during production are formation damage by fines migration or bacterial growth, but also changes in properties through precipitation/dissolution re-actions. This may affect the technical installations as well. Learnings from active geothermal heat plants as well as pre-dicted potential problems should be approached.

SS28. Sedimentary hosted mineralization and placer deposits concerning to mineral deposits associated with sedimentary processesAlexander V. Lalomov (Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Russian Acad-emy of Sсience (IGEM RAS), Russia)Harald G. Dill (Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany)

The deposition of sedimentary successions is accompa-nied by different types of mineralization from chemical and residual concentrations in weathered crusts, through me-chanical concentrations of heavy minerals in fluvial/coastal marine conditions (gold, tin, diamonds, rare metals etc.), to hydrogenic (leached) deposits related to (occurring on) complex geochemical barriers (uranium, manganese, rare elements, etc). These sedimentary mineral deposits forma-tion is known to occur in the basins of various ages from Recent to Pre-Cambrian. Studies of facies relationships and the lithodynamic conditions of mineralization, as well as evolution of the mineralization processes through Earth history, are important from the point of view of both funda-mental and applied science.

SS29. At the cross-roads of sedimentology and geo-physicsPiotr Krzywiec (Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)Ihor Kurovets (Institute of Geology and Geochemistry of Combustible Minerals, National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine)

Sedimentology was born in outcrops, during painstak-ing studies of various sedimentary structures. Progressively, sedimentological studies have migrated into the subsurface. This was due to tremendous development of geophysical methods, first of all geophysical well logging and reflection seismics. Modern well logs provide enormous amount of information on sedimentary sequences, including minera-logical and petrographical inventory, various petrophysical parameters such as porosity or permeability, but also sedi-mentary structures, both large-scale and very fine. High-resolution seismic reflection data is also capable of imaging sedimentary sequences in great details, often allowing for comparison of local structures with basin-scale depositional architecture.

This session is expected to bring together geologists working, between others, with the subsurface geophysical data, and geophysicist interested in advanced interpreta-tion techniques aimed at characterization of the sedimen-tary features. Overall goal of this session is to provide forum for geologists and geophysicists alike that would like to dis-cuss all sorts of aspects of sedimentology or facies analysis


from the geophysical perspective. We are expecting contri-butions that will document application of various geophysi-cal data and interpretation techniques for characterization of the siliciclastic and carbonate depositional environments, and methodological papers presenting latest leading edge geophysical techniques that could be used to study sedi-mentary rocks.

SS30. Magnetic susceptibility and Gamma Ray Spec-trometry - applications in sedimentary geologyJacek Grabowski (Polish Gelogical Institute-National Re-search Institute, Warsaw, Poland)Anne-Christine Da Silva (Université de Liège, Belgium)Krystian Wójcik (Polish Gelogical Institute-National Re-search Institute, Warsaw, Poland)

Magnetic susceptibility (MS) and Gamma Ray Spectrom-etry (GRS) have been more and more commonly applied in the last 2 decades on various types of sedimentary rocks for paleoenvironmental reconstructions. The interpretation of the MS and GRS signals are not always easy considering the multiple possible origin of the para- and ferromagnetic minerals for the MS and occurrence of the K, Th and U bear-ing minerals responsible for the GRS. In this session, we ex-pect contributions dealing with the application of these two techniques on all types of sediments, from all ages, bringing insight into climatic and sea level changes, as well as diagen-esis, cyclostratigraphy, chemo- and isotope stratigraphy. All new data on the origin the MS or GRS signals and on their variations through time are also welcome.

SS31. Hydrocarbon prospectivity of eastern Mediter-raneanAvraam Zelilidis (University of Patras, Department of Geol-ogy, Greece)Aggelos G. Maravelis (School of Environmental and Life Sci-ences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan 2308 NSW, Aus-tralia)

The Eastern Mediterranean is increasingly becoming an exploration hotspot with remaining both onshore and offshore frontier areas with unknown hydrocarbon poten-tial. The recent discoveries the Levantine Basin have sig-nificantly altered the energy outlook in the region, with the interest of both Authorities and petroleum industry spurring additional exploration activities in the region. Mapping the evolution of the petroleum system assists to reduce exploration risk in the search for undiscovered commercial quantities of petroleum and to increase the probability of success. This session is focused on sedimen-tary basins of Eastern Mediterranean and the Adriatic Sea, which is linked to this tectonically complex system by the Strait of Otrant. We invite contributions that elaborate pe-troleum geology techniques to unravel the occurrence and temporal relationships of source rocks, reservoirs rocks, trapping styles, sealing, petroleum charge, and timing of Eastern Mediterranean.

Submission of AbstractsAbstract submission deadline: 28th of February, 2015Acceptance of abstracts: 15th of April, 2015The 31th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology will accept contri-

butions from all fields of sedimentology and closely-related science branches. The presenting authors of abstracts must register for the meeting by the 22nd of May, 2015, or their abstracts will otherwise be removed from the programme.

Guidelines for abstract preparationFollow the instruction given below. Abstract submission

will be handled entirely by the ExOrdo system. Please fol-low the guidelines given in the submission workflow [http://ims2015.exordo.com]. The abstract text body should be limited to 500 words.

Any questions or requests for further information should be sent to [email protected], with correspondence limited to the presenting author. All the submitted abstracts will be evaluated before their acceptance. The authors should sug-gest their preferred mode of presentation (oral or poster), but the ultimate possibility of oral presentation will be de-cided by the organizing committee and session chairpersons according to the available time of particular sessions.

All accepted abstracts will be scheduled for oral or post-er presentation and will be compiled in PDF format. A digital version of the abstracts and the meeting’s final programme will be available on the IAS Meeting’s website.

Presentation ModesOral Presentation

Oral presentations will be organized into special sessions proposed by convenors and open sessions in the frame of given a theme. Depending on the number of submitted oral presentations, each talk will be 15-20 minutes, includ-ing time for questions and discussion. Exact allocated time for talk will be given in the third circular. Your presentation should be prepared in a 4:3 dimension.

Each session room will be equipped with a computer with MS PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat Reader (.ppt, .pptx or .pdf format files), a digital projector, a laser pointer, and microphone. You will not be able to use your own compu-ter. If you wish to show a film as part of your presentation then it needs to be in the file format WMV (Window Media Video).

Poster PresentationThe poster board usable space will be 230 cm high and

95 mm wide (suitable for A0). A wide room will be available for poster presentations and several poster sessions will be programmed. Each session will be scheduled on a specific days. Posters will be displayed all day. Authors are kindly asked to put up their posters on the day where the specif-ic session is scheduled as soon as possible. Material (e.g., double-faced adhesive tape) for mounting the poster on the boards will be provided at the registration desk.


Field trips

A wide range of field excursions are offered to the registered participants who make also a pre-payment, with 8 pre-meeting (A) and 9 post-meeting excursions (B). The trips require a minimum of 8–25 participants and can accommodate up to a maximum of 15–49 participants.

Except for field excursions A3, A8, B3 and B4, all the other excursions will start and end in Kraków.

The A3 field trip will start in Szczecin (NW Poland, western Pomerania) and end in Gdańsk (N Poland, central Pomerania). The city of Szczecin has a broad international connection via planes, trains, buses and motorway E28 (from Germany). If traveling by train, please check connections of the Polish State Railways (PKP) (http://www.rozklad-pkp.pl/en) or German Rail-ways (DB) http://www.bahn.de/i/view/GBR/en/in-dex.shtml). The Szczecin airport, located about 50 km from the city centre, is hosting Ryanair, Norwegian, WizzAir and LOT (http://www.airport.com.pl/en/). For additional tourist information, see http://www.szczecin.eu/en. The travel from Gdańsk to Kraków af-ter trip A3 can be by bus/car via motorways A1 and A4, as well as by train or airplane. For detailsm, see railways PKP connections (as above), Gdańsk airport website (http://www.airport.gdansk.pl/) or ask field-trip leaders.

The A8 field trip will start in Brno (SE Czech Republic, Moravia) and end in Kraków. The city of Brno can be eas-ily accessed by car or bus from Bratislava (Slovakia), Vienna (Austria) or Prague by motorway E65. To get to Brno by train, please see the Czech Railways (ČD) webpage http://www.cd.cz/en/. The Brno airport is hosting Ryanair, WizzAir, UTair Aviation, BulgariaAir and other airlines (http://www.brno-airport.cz/en/).

The B3 field trip will start in Kraków and end in Wrocław (SW Poland, Lower Silesia). The city of Wrocław has a direct connection with Kraków and all other main cities in Poland and the neighbours countries via motorways E40 (Germany) and E67 (Czech Republic). Many trains to Kraków are avail-able (see http://www.rozklad-pkp.pl/en/) and the Wrocław Airport is hosting LOT, Lufthansa, Ryanair, WizzAir, EnterAir and other airlines (see http://airport.wroclaw.pl/en/).

The B4 field trip will start in Kraków and end in Bratislava (SW Slovakia). Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and is eas-ily accessible by car via motorways E75, E58 or E65 from the neighbouring countries. For Slovak railway connections, see http://www.slovakrail.sk/en.html and for the Bratislava air-port (Ryanair, Czech Airlines and other airlines) see http://www.bts.aero/en/passengers/.

The participants of excursions A3, A8, B3 and B4 are expected to arrange themselves all inter-city travel beyond the excursion route.

Please note that some of the field excursions include travel to countries other than Poland, such as Slovakia or the Czech Republic. All these countries belong to the Schen-gen Convention, and thus no other permits than for enter-

ing Poland will be required. Nevertheless, participants from outside Europe should check if in their case there is any spe-cial visa requirement for these countries.

Important notes regarding field trips:• The capacity of field trips is limited and will be filled on

a first-come first-served basis. Registrations must be ac-companied by full payment. (A waiting list will possibly be made, and the organizers will inform you if space be-comes available.)

• Trips may be cancelled if under-subscribed. Before pur-chasing non-refundable travel tickets, please ask the or-ganizers for confirmation that the trip will actually take place.

• In some of the hotels used for excursions, single-bed rooms may be few or unavailable. Please specify your preference in the registration form, as shared dou-ble- or triple-bed rooms are always much less expen-sive.

• Several weeks prior to the excursion, you will receive in-formation with details of the meeting points, transpor-tation during the trip, phone number and email address of excursion leaders.

• Proper clothing and usual accessories are needed for the excursions, many held in mountainous areas (i.e., moun-tain boots, hat, umbrella, sunscreen, rucksack, insect repellent).

• Trips will be held in various areas, from the seashore to the mountains, and the participantsare advised to check the local weather forecasts (e.g., http://www.meteo.pl/index_en.php).

• Neither the organizers nor the field excursion leaders can offer insurance covering illness or injury for individuals.

http://www.szczecin.eu/en


Field trip A1

Sedimentation on the Serravalian forebulge shelf of the Polish Carpathian Foredeep

Schedule: pre-meeting

Leaders: ● Stanisław Leszczyński (Jagiellonian University, Poland) ● Wojciech Nemec (University of Bergen, Norway)

Duration: 2 days.

Departure: Kraków centre, 21st June 2015 (Sunday), 08:30.

Return: Kraków centre, 22nd June 2015 (Monday), ~17:30.

Transportation: Minibus or bus (depending on the number of participants).

Accommodation: 2-star agro-touristic hotel in Śladków Mały (stop 4), with single- and double-bedrooms; a quiet place on lake shore with an evening bonfire/grill possibility.

Conditions: Outcrops easily accessible, with walking distances of 5–15 minutes.

Personal insurance: Not included in the fee; participants should have their own travel insurance.

Description: The trip focuses on the mid-Serravalian Chmielnik Formation – a prominent clasticwedge formed on the basinward forebulge flank of the Polish Carpathian Foredeep. This coarse-grained regressive wedge, up to 30 m thick and spanning ~1.1 Ma in biozone NN6, consists of fluvio-deltaic, foreshore and shoreface deposits with both shoal-water and Gilbert-type deltas and a range oflarge littoral sand bars. The basic principles of sequence stratigraphy are used to correlate isolatedoutcrop sections and to reconstruct the forebulge shelf sea-level and palaeogeographic history.

Itinerary:

Stop 1 – Late Serravalian regressive shoreline at its early-stage northern location: upper-shoreface toforeshore facies succession near Osówka.

Stop 2 – Fault scarp-attached large littoral bar with giant-scale foreset stratification and listricrotational slide detachments in Szydłów.

Stop 3 – Foreset and bottomset deposits of an early-stage coarse-grained spit platform built inrelatively deep (≥7 m) shoreface water near Sędziejowice.

Stop 4 – The regressive upper shoreface and foreshore at a later southward location in Śladków Mały.

Stops 5 & 6 – Deposits of the eastwards-extended late-stage spit bar seen at stop 3, with shallower-water shoreface platform and foreshore ridge facies, exposed near Suskrajowice and Bożykowa.

Stop 7 – Regressive upper-shoreface and foreshore deposits overlain by a transgressive lag andregressive shoreface deposits in Młyny.

Stop 8 – Fluvial palaeovalley incised in shoal-water delta and shoreface deposits, and filled by aGilbert-type bayhead delta that was eventually drowned by marine transgression; outcrop in Młyny.

Stop 9 – Regressive foreshore deposits at the southernmost reach of the mid-Serravalian regressiveshoreline, overlain by a transgressive lag and transgressive shoreface deposits near Schodnia.

Stop 10 – Deposits of an early-stage different spit bar, dominated by tidal currents, in Szaniec.

Stops 11 & 12 – Deposits of a wave-dominated late stage of the same spit bar, with its regressiveupper-shoreface to foreshore facies overlain by a transgressive lag and transgressive shorefacedeposits; outcrops in Skorzów.

Stop 13 – Steeply inclined (18°) regressive lower-shoreface deposits at the southern flank of the samespit platform; outcrop near Zwierzyniec.

Number of participants: Minimum 10, maximum 20.

Price: 650 PLN (including transport, food, accomodation and field guidebook).

Pre-meeting field trips


Field trip A2

The Badenian evaporative stage of the PolishCarpathian Foredeep: sedimentary facies anddepositional environment of the selenitic Nida Gypsum succession


Leaders:● Maciej Bąbel (University of Warsaw, Poland)● Danuta Olszewska-Nejbert (University of Warsaw,

Poland)Duration: 2 days.




Accommodation: 3-star hotel in the vicinity of Busko Zdrój (with single/double-bed rooms).

Conditions: The quarries and other outcrops are easily accessible by short uphill walks.


Description: This trip focuses on thick gypsum deposits, known as the Krzyżanowice Formation inPoland and as the Tiras Formation in the neighbouring Ukraine, which represent the Badenian(Wielician) salinity crisis in the Central Paratethys – a most dramatic event in the geological history ofthe Carpathian Foredeep. These gypsum deposits were never deeply buried and subject to diageneticdehydration, and hence their primary features are spectacularly well-preserved.

Itinerary:

Stop 1 – The pre-evaporate Badenian marls and basal part of the Nida Gypsum succession, showinggiant gypsum intergrowths with selenite crystals up to 3.5 m long, sabre gypsum structures, selenitenucleation cones and evidence of post-Badenian tectonics; an abandoned quarry in Gacki.

Stop 2 – The typical facies range of Nida Gypsum succession, with giant intergrowths, grassy andsabre gypsum, dissolution surfaces, selenite crystal debris, clastic microcrystalline gypsum, andgypsum breccias and megabreccias; gypsum quarry in Leszcze.

Stop 3 – A reduced section of the Nida Gypsum succession, showing the base and massive (non-skeletal) subfacies of giant gypsum crystal intergrowths; roadcut outcrop in Wola Zagojska.

Stop 4 – The pre-evaporite Badenian marls and the thickest complete exposed section of the NidaGypsum succession, showing its selenite-dominated lower autochthonous unit and the uppermicrocrystalline clastic allochthonous unit; gypsum quarry in Borków gypsum.

Stop 5 – Sabre gypsum deposits in the abandoned quarries in Siesławice.

Stop 6 – Gypsum karst valley and Skorocicka Cave, showing the lower part of the Nida Gypsumsuccession with its typical selenite facies, grassy gypsum, alabaster beds, sabre gypsum withnucleation cones, and primary selenite domes; the Skorocice nature reserve.

Stop 7 – Giant gypsum intergrowth structures, selenite debritic facies and grassy gypsum withchannel-fill features in an abandoned quarry in Gorysławice.

Stop 8 – Giant selenite dome composed of sabre gypsum in the wall of an early medieval fortifiedsettlement in Wiślica-Grodzisko.


Price: 800 PLN (including transport, food, accommodation and field guidebook).


Field trip A3

Modern processes in the Baltic Sea coastalzone: sandy beaches, coastal dunes, cliffcoasts and impact of extreme events


Leaders: ● Joanna Rotnicka (University of Poznań, Poland)● Ryszard K. Borówka (University of Szczecin, Poland)● Andrzej Piotrowski (Polish Geological Institute)● Witold Szczuciński (University of Poznań, Poland)

Duration: 3 days.

Departure: Szczecin, the parking lot of Ibis Hotel, 19th June (Friday), 08:00.

Return: Gdańsk, 21st June (Sunday), 18:00.

Transportation: Field transport by bus or minibus (depending on the number of participants).

Accommodation: Hotels for the night June 18/19 in Szczecin will be suggested for the registeredpersons; hotel on the Wolin Island for June 19/20 and guest house in Smołdzino for June 20/21.

Conditions: Short uphill and downhill walking distances of up 30 minutes.


Description: The trip focuses on the geomorphic and sedimentological evolution of the Polish BalticSea coast, with examples of cliff coasts, wave-dominated sandy beaches, coastal barriers/lagoons,spectacular coastal aeolian dunes, lowland river mouths and impact of extreme events. Pleistoceneglacial deposits of a retreating Scandinavian ice-sheet will be also shown and discussed.

Itinerary:

Stop 1 – The Dziwna valley-fill deposits as the record of a palaeoecological impact of Holoceneclimatic changes and Baltic Sea evolution on the local swampy-lacustrine ecosystem; vicinity of theearly medieval harbour in Wolin.

Stop 2 – The Świna River former delta, the northern part of the Szczecin lagoon and late Holoceneaeolian dunes; view from an early medieval hill stronghold in Lubin (with remnants of probably theoldest Christian church in Poland).

Stop 3 – A walk along the Wolin morainic coast (ca. 3 hours), where the cliff shows glacial, glacifluvialand aeolian deposits, glacitectonic deformation and palaeosols.

Stop 4 – A viewpoint in Gosań at the top of Wolin cliff (optional, if the weather and visibility permit).

Stop 5 – A retreating cliff and coastal protection structures in Trzęsacz, with remnants of a localmedieval Christian church.

Stop 6 – Palaeostorm and/or palaeotsunami deposits spread landwards over 2 km in Mrzeżyno.

Stop 7 – Holocene and modern deposits of the coastal Jamno Lake in Mielno.

Stop 8 – Modern beach and cliff coast with evidence of anthropogenic influences in Ustka-Orzechowo.

Stop 9 – The formation and evolution of the Łeba Barrier; morainic hill of Rowokół.

Stop 10 – Aeolian dune development and beach processes along the barrier coast in Czołpino.

Stop 11 – Environmental conditions and processes of the development of modern aeolian dunes and coastal spit in the Słowiński National Park in Łeba.


Price: 1500/1600 PLN (double/single room). The price includes excursion guidebook, field transport, food, accommodation for 2 nights.


Field trip A4

Evolution of a Devonian carbonate platform in the Holy Cross Mountains


Leaders:● Stanisław Skompski (University of Warsaw, Poland)● Piotr Łuczyński (University of Warsaw, Poland)● Anna Żylińska (University of Warsaw, Poland)

Duration: 2 days.




Accommodation: 3-star hotel in the vicinity of Kielce (with single/double-bed rooms).

Conditions: The quarries and outcrops are easily accessible by short uphill walks.


Description: The Holy Cross Mountains of southern Poland form the crestal ridge of the peripheral bulge ofthe Polish Carpathian Foredeep, where a nearly complete Palaeozoic rock succession is uniquely exposed.The most complete and also most interesting is its Devonian part. The post-Caledonian depositionalmegacycle commenced here at the end of the Early Devonian with terrigenous clastic sedimentation, whichwas replaced at the beginning of Eifelian by carbonate sedimentation that persisted until nearly the end ofFrasnian. The resulting carbonate succession consists of dolomitic and lime-mud peritidal deposits in thelower part and thick stromatoporoid-coral complexes in the upper one. The initial biostromal sedimentationin the upper part was gradually replaced by bioherms with flanking detrital deposits. Concurrently with ageneral deepening of the marine sedimentary environment, some fault-bounded swells were tectonicallyuplifted and locally emerged, to become then gradually inundated and covered with extremely condensedmarine deposits. These and related other interesting aspects of the Devonian carbonate sedimentation insouthern Poland are meant to be addressed by this field trip.

Itinerary:

Stop 1 – Topographic landscape and geological overview of the Holy Cross Mountains from aviewpoint at the Zamkowa Hill in Chęciny.

Stop 2 – Late Devonian stromatoporoid mounds and the drowning of carbonate platform, withevidence of neptunian dykes and stratigraphic condensation; outcrops in the Kadzielnia quarry.

Stop 3 – Middle–Late Devonian carbonate platform to basin sedimentary succession, with calciturbiditeson the platform slope; outcrops in the Kostomłoty-Mogiłki quarry.

Stop 4 – Middle Devonian peritidal cyclicity, selective dolomitization and marine-flooding events asparasequences boundaries; outcrop section in Skały.

Stop 5 – The Upper Devonian to Permian cover of the Middle Devonian shallow-water sedimentarysuccession: stratigraphically condensed goniatite beds, pelagic limestones, calciturbidites andlaminites of marginal Permian sea; Ostrówka–Gałęzice outcrop section.




Field trip A5

Transgressive Callovian succession and Oxfordian microbial-sponge buildups in the Kraków Upland


Leaders: ● Bogusław Kołodziej (Jagiellonian University,

Kraków, Poland)● Jacek Matyszkiewicz (AGH University of

Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland)

Duration: 2 days.

Departure: Kraków centre, 21 & 22 June 2015 (Sunday & Monday), at 08:30. Daily excursionsstarting and finishing in Kraków.

Return: Kraków centre; 21st June ~18:30 and 22nd June ~16:30.


Accommodation: Kraków; to be booked and paid for separately by participants.

Conditions: Outcrops easily accessible, but trekking boots are required.


Description: This trip focuses on the Middle–Late Jurassic marine succession in the southern part ofthe Kraków-Częstochowa (Polish Jura) Upland, an area which in Jurassic time was covered by anepicontinental sea at the northern margin of the Tethys Ocean. The key topics to be discussed are:

transgressive Callovian succession: from siliciclastics to condensed deposits;

condensed section of the Upper Callovian–Lower Oxfordian as a record of the global crisis in

carbonate sedimentation;

Middle–Upper Oxfordian: microbial-sponge facies, including biostromes, bioherms and gravity-flow

limestones;

thin cover of Late Cretaceous pelagic deposits overlying Oxfordian, with an introduction to the

horst and graben tectonics characteristic of the Kraków region.

Itinerary:

Stop 1 – An active quarry of Permian subvolcanic ryodacites exposing uniquely a Calloviansedimentary succession recording gradual marine transgression. The Callovian siliciclastics,limestones, deep-water Fe-rich stromatolites, oncoids and marls are followed by Oxfordian marls andsponge-microbial biostromes and bioherms. The Zalas quarry near Krzeszowice.

Stop 2 – Callovian planar-bedded peloidal limestones (known as the platy limestones) in anabandoned quarry in Młynka.

Stop 3 – Oxfordian microbial bioherm with exceptionally numerous microencruster Crescentiella (=“Tubiphytes”) morronensis and common growth cavities and stromatactis-like cavities. The Oxfordianlimestones are cut by the abrasion platform and covered with thin Late Cretaceous pelagic deposits,including ?Coniacian phosphatic stromatolites on hard ground. Outcrops in Zabierzów.

Stop 4 – Oxfordian succession of massive limestones representing a complex of microbial andmicrobial-sponge carbonate buildups with talus deposits. Outcrops in the valley-wall cliffs of BramaBolechowicka (Bolechowicka Gate).

Stop 5 – Succession of the Late Jurassic calciturbidites with crinoids Saccocoma sp. and chertnodules; its best outcrop in the region, in Ujazd.

Stop 6 – Latest Oxfordian massive limestones with stromatactis-like cavities; outcrop in Wielkanocnear Miechów.

Stop 7 – Oxfordian massive limestones, with their present-day karst topography and monadnocksincluding the famous Hercules Cudgel. Rocky cliffs of the Prądnik river valley in the Ojców NationalPark with a short sightseeing of the Renaissance Pieskowa Skała Castle.


Price: 450 PLN (including transport, two restaurant lunches and field guidebook).

Field trip A6

The inception, growth and demise of aJurassic pelagic carbonate platform: theKrížna unit in the Western TatraMountains


Leaders: ● Renata Jach (Jagiellonian University, Poland)● Andrzej Gaździcki (Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences)● Jacek Grabowski (PGI-NRI, Poland)● Alfred Uchman (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

Duration: 2 days.



Transportation: Minibus.

Accommodation: 3-star guest house near Zakopane (single- and double-bed rooms).

Conditions: The trip includes some fairly demanding hiking at an altitude from 900 to 1300 m; goodhiking boots are required.


Description: The aim of this trip is to show the succession of Early Jurassic–Early Cretaceousdeposits uplifted and exposed in the Tatra Mountains, the highest-standing ridge of the Carpathians.The Mesozoic sedimentation took place in the Krížna Basin on the northern passive margin of theWestern Tethys, where Early Jurassic rifting resulted in basins and structural highs (pelagic carbonateplatforms). As a consequence, the greatest facies variation is observed in the upper Lower Jurassicand Middle Jurassic. The Hettangian–?Sinemurian Kopieniec Formation comprises shallow-marinesiliciclastic and siliciclastic-carbonate tempestites deposited in a photic offshore-transition zone. Theonset of Late Bathonian radiolarite sedimentation recorded deepening of the basin, with the deep-water sedimentation persisting until the Late Kimmeridgian. Carbonate sedimentation resumed withMaiolica-type deposits in the Late Tithonian and continued until the Middle Berriasian. Marlysedimentation prevailed in the Late Berriasian to Aptian, with occasional influx of carbonate andsiliciclastic turbidites. The field trip intends also to demonstrate the effects of syndepositional tectonicsand possible signal of eustatic sea-level changes, and to discuss further such topics as an offset inclimate change, redox variations and δ13C events in the pelagic succession.

Itinerary:

Stop 1 – Transition from shelf depositional setting to a deep-water basin with development of pelagiccarbonate platform: Pliensbachian spiculites and Toarcian crinoidal limestones with uniquehydrothermal manganese deposits and an Adnet-type pelagic red nodular limestone facies; outcropsection from the Chochołowska Valley to Lejowa Valley through Huciański Klin ridge.

Stop 2 – Late Sinemurian–Early Pliensbachian limestones in the Lejowa Valley.

Stop 3 – Hettangian–?Early Sinemurian mixed siliciclastic-carbonate deposits in the Lejowa Valley.

Stop 4 – Bathonian–Late Kimmeridgian deep-marine radiolarites in the Długa Valley.

Stop 5 – Tithonian–Early Valanginian limestones and marlstones in the Kryta Valley: their magneto-stratigraphy, depositional environment and sedimentation rate; Cr-spinel bearing sandstones in theLower Valanginian; and evidence of the Valanginian δ13C Weissert event in hemipelagic marlstones.




Field trip A6

The inception, growth and demise of aJurassic pelagic carbonate platform: theKrížna unit in the Western TatraMountains


Leaders: ● Renata Jach (Jagiellonian University, Poland)● Andrzej Gaździcki (Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences)● Jacek Grabowski (PGI-NRI, Poland)● Alfred Uchman (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

Duration: 2 days.




Accommodation: 3-star guest house near Zakopane (single- and double-bed rooms).

Conditions: The trip includes some fairly demanding hiking at an altitude from 900 to 1300 m; goodhiking boots are required.


Description: The aim of this trip is to show the succession of Early Jurassic–Early Cretaceousdeposits uplifted and exposed in the Tatra Mountains, the highest-standing ridge of the Carpathians.The Mesozoic sedimentation took place in the Krížna Basin on the northern passive margin of theWestern Tethys, where Early Jurassic rifting resulted in basins and structural highs (pelagic carbonateplatforms). As a consequence, the greatest facies variation is observed in the upper Lower Jurassicand Middle Jurassic. The Hettangian–?Sinemurian Kopieniec Formation comprises shallow-marinesiliciclastic and siliciclastic-carbonate tempestites deposited in a photic offshore-transition zone. Theonset of Late Bathonian radiolarite sedimentation recorded deepening of the basin, with the deep-water sedimentation persisting until the Late Kimmeridgian. Carbonate sedimentation resumed withMaiolica-type deposits in the Late Tithonian and continued until the Middle Berriasian. Marlysedimentation prevailed in the Late Berriasian to Aptian, with occasional influx of carbonate andsiliciclastic turbidites. The field trip intends also to demonstrate the effects of syndepositional tectonicsand possible signal of eustatic sea-level changes, and to discuss further such topics as an offset inclimate change, redox variations and δ13C events in the pelagic succession.

Itinerary:

Stop 1 – Transition from shelf depositional setting to a deep-water basin with development of pelagiccarbonate platform: Pliensbachian spiculites and Toarcian crinoidal limestones with uniquehydrothermal manganese deposits and an Adnet-type pelagic red nodular limestone facies; outcropsection from the Chochołowska Valley to Lejowa Valley through Huciański Klin ridge.

Stop 2 – Late Sinemurian–Early Pliensbachian limestones in the Lejowa Valley.

Stop 3 – Hettangian–?Early Sinemurian mixed siliciclastic-carbonate deposits in the Lejowa Valley.

Stop 4 – Bathonian–Late Kimmeridgian deep-marine radiolarites in the Długa Valley.

Stop 5 – Tithonian–Early Valanginian limestones and marlstones in the Kryta Valley: their magneto-stratigraphy, depositional environment and sedimentation rate; Cr-spinel bearing sandstones in theLower Valanginian; and evidence of the Valanginian δ13C Weissert event in hemipelagic marlstones.




Field trip A7

Geology and wines of the Kraków area –regional rebirth of vineyards as a result ofclimate change


Leader: ● Joachim Szulc (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

Duration: 1 day.

Departure: Kraków centre, 22nd June 2015 (Monday), 08:00.

Return: Kraków centre, same day, ~17:00.


Conditions: Short walks.


Description: The aim of this semi-touristic field trip is to address the issue of an unexpected recentbloom of vineyards and wine production in the Kraków region, combined with a rich tasting of the localproducts. The link between this boom in grapes-growing and the ongoing climate change and theregion’s soils on Quaternary loess and Oxfordian limestones will be discussed.

Itinerary:

Stop 1 – The cliffs and karst topography of Oxfordian massive limestones: the Prądnik river valley inthe Ojców National Park, the Krakowska Gate in Ojców and the Hercules Cudgel limestonemonadnock in Pieskowa Skała.

Stop 2 – Visit to the Maszycka limestone cave (optional).

Stop 3 – Visit to the Krokoszówka Górska vineyard near the town of Skała: tasting of the white andred wines made of grapes growing in the Skała region and produced by the Amonit, Kresy andKrokoszówka Górska vineyards; a rare opportunity to taste wines made of the new robust varieties ofgrapes, such as Solaris, Rondo and Regent, as well as the older hybrids Leon Millot and Seyval Blanc.

Stop 4 – The Oxfordian bedded limestones with cherts in Piekary.

Stop 5 – Visit to the Srebrna Góra vineyard in the Kraków district of Bielany, on the south-facing slopeof the Srebrna (Silver) Mountain hosting a late-Baroque monastery of the Camaldolite Brothers. Thisvineyard is the second largest in Poland. The Bielany region itself has a tradition of wine-making thatdates back to a thousand years ago.


Price: 350 PLN (including transport, lunch, wine-tasting and field guidebook).


Field trip A8

Sedimentary evolution and trace fossils ofCarboniferous turbiditic systems in theVariscan foreland, Czech Republic


Leaders:● Ondřej Bábek (Palacký University, Czech Republic)● Radek Mikuláš (Geological Institute, Czech Academy

of Science)● Daniel Šimíček (Palacký University, Czech Republic)

Duration: 3 days.

Departure: Brno centre, 20th June, 2015 (Saturday), 08:30.



Accommodation: 3-star hotel Akademie in Hrubá Voda near Olomouc, Czech Republic; en-suitesingle/double rooms.

Conditions: All outcrops are within 10-minute walks from the bus.Three large quarries will be visited,where helmets and safety vests will be provided at the entrance.


Description: The Early Carboniferous Moravo-Silesian Culm Basin is a Variscan peripheral forelandbasin with axial trough topography, well-defined proximal-to-distal facies gradient and predominantlyNE-directed sediment dispersal. The basin-fill succession, with a wide range of deep-marine faciesand trace-fossil assemblages, shows a marked cyclicity attributed to the switching of clastic sourcesand axial vs. lateral sediment supply. The pattern of sediment delivery reflects the late phases of theVariscan thrusting and orogen erosional unroofing. Large outcrops, on a scale of hundreds of metres.

Itinerary:

Stop 1 – The basal deposits of an early-stage foreland basin; the Rostání Formation in Mokrá quarry.

Stop 2 – Fan-delta and related turbiditic channel-fill facies in the Myslejovice Formation; Luleč quarry.

Stop 3 – Thick amalgamated sandy facies with erosional features (large submarine channel-fill?); theMoravice Formation in Bělkovice quarry.

Stop 4 – Basal parts of fining-upwards turbiditic cyclothems, with conglomeratic facies, erosionalfeatures and trace fossils; the Moravice Formation in Malý Rabštejn outcrops.

Stop 5 – A fining-upwards succession of channel-fill, depositional lobe and basin-plain turbidites; theMoravice Formation in Skoky roadcut section.

Stop 6 – Deep-marine trace-fossil assemblages, sedimentary facies and their gamma-ray logsignatures; the Moravice Formation in Olšovec quarry and in Boňkov.

Stop 7 – Coarse-grained facies and trace fossils of a submarine channel-fill complex; the Moravice,Hradec and Kyjovice formations in Hrabůvka quarry.

Stop 8 – Fine-grained turbidites with loading ball structures; Slezská Harta.

Stop 9 – Slope-apron deposits and their gamma-ray log pattern; the Moravice Formation in KružberkValley.

Stop 10 – Proximal turbiditic facies of the Hradec–Kyjovice fms. megacycle; Vítkov–Anina Dolinaoutcrop section.




Field trip B1

Bedded chalk marls in the Opole Trough:epicratonic deposits of the Late Cretaceous super-greenhouse episode

Schedule: post-meeting

Leaders: ● Mariusz Kędzierski (Jagiellonian University,

Poland)● Alfred Uchman (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

Durations: 1 day.

Departure: Kraków centre, 26th June 2015 (Friday), 08:00.


Transportation: minibus or bus (depending on the number of participants).

Conditions: Both quarries are easily accessible. Helmets and safety jackets indispensable in activequarry will be provided by the field-trip leader.


Description: The field trip focuses on the following aspects of the Late Cretaceous epicontinentalsedimentation in southern Poland:

The depositional conditions of chalk facies in the realm of circum-Sudetic trap basins. Sequence stratigraphy of the chalk succession, with the distinction of genetic sequences. The chalk ichnofabric and its changes during the Mid-Coniacian Oceanic Anoxic Event,

recording an immense bacterial bioelectrical activity.

Itinenary:

Stop 1 – The Middle Turonian to Middle Coniacian open-marine bedded chalk deposits showingorbitally controlled cyclic sedimentation imposed on the record of higher-order sea-level changes, asevidenced by genetic sequences correlative with those in the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin. The upperpart of the stratigraphic section shows a record of the Mid-Coniacian Oceanic Anoxic Event,recognizable from specific ichnofabrics attributed to bacterial bioelectrical activity. Outcrop in theFolwark active quarry, with three levels of excavation and an outcrop section ca. 30 m thick; visitingtime available from 11:00 am till 14:00 pm.

Stop 2 – Large xenoliths of Cenomanian and Turonian carbonates in the crater of Miocene basalticvolcano. Outcrops in an abandoned quarry in the St. Anna protected geopark (visiting time from 15:00till 16:00 pm). The St. Anna Hill (Góra Św. Anny) offers also a broad view of the Opole Troughbordering on the East-Sudetic Island (the crystalline Śnieżnik Massif).


Price: 350 PLN (including transport, packed lunch and field guidebook).

Post-meeting field trips


Field trip B2

Miocene sedimentary succession in the Eastern Carpathian Foredeep in relation to the Carpathian orogen evolution


Leaders:● Anna Wysocka (University of Warsaw, Poland)● Marek Jasionowski (Polish Geological Institute)● Tadeusz M. Peryt (Polish Geological Institute)

Duration: 3 days.


Return: Kraków centre, 28th June 2015 (Sunday), ~17:00.


Accommodation: 3-star hotels in Zwierzyniec and Sandomierz (with single/double-bed rooms).

Conditions: The quarries and other outcrops are easily accessible by short uphill walks.


Description: This field trip will be held in south-eastern Poland, where the Polish segment of theCarpathian Foredeep passes into its Ukrainian segment. The trip focuses on the Paratethyan Miocenedeposits representing the northern outer ramp of the foredeep basin. The sedimentary characteristics of theMiocene succession allow recognition of the depositional conditions changing upwards from a high-energy,shallow-water normal marine environment with clastic sedimentation to a high-salinity evaporiticenvironment and further to a carbonate environment with coralline algal and serpulid-microbialite buildups.The selected outcrops show the main palaeoenvironmental turning points in the succession.

Itinerary:

Stop 1 – Badenian chemogenic limestones (the so-called Ratyń Limestone); outcrop in Radruż.

Stop 2 – The Horyniec spa with its sulphide and hydrogen-sulphide salubrious spring waters;discussion of their relation to the Badenian rocks.

Stop 3 – Late Badenian sandy-rhodolithic deposits, with a discussion of their depositional and erosionalsedimentary structures; outcrop in Huta Różaniecka.

Stop 4 – Late Badenian calcarenites, with depositional structures of various scales and channel-likescour-and-fill features; quarry in Józefów.

Stop 5 – Badenian/Sarmatian calcarenites and serpulid-microbialite reefs; quarry in Żelebsko.

Stop 6 – Badenian/Sarmatian serpulid-microbialite reefs; quarry in Łysaków.

Stop 7 – Badenian/Sarmatian carbonate and mixed siliciclastic-carbonate deposits of the Pińczów andChmielnik formations on the south-eastern flank of the Holy Cross Mountains; the Opatówka Valleysection.

Stop 8 – Badenian/Sarmatian calcarenites with giant-scale cross-bedding; Smerdyna quarries.

Stop 9 – The medieval town of Szydłów, built on the Badenian/Sarmatian calcarenites with giant-scalecross-bedding.




Field trip B3

Post-Variscan evolution of the Sudetes in thesedimentary and geomorphic record


Leaders: ● Jurand Wojewoda (University of Wrocław, Poland)● Stanisław Burliga (University of Wrocław, Poland)● Piotr Migoń (University of Wrocław, Poland) ● Artur Sobczyk (University of Wrocław, Poland)

Duration: 3 days.


Return: Wrocław centre, 28th June 2015 (Sunday), ~15:00; or Kraków centre ~19:00.

Transportation: Bus or minibus (depending on the number of participants).

Accommodation: 2-star hotel in Kudowa Zdrój (popular spa), with single- and double-bed rooms.

Conditions: Sites easily accessible, but three of the outcrops require some uphill walking.


Description: This trip focuses on the Carboniferous to Recent tectonism, geomorphic evolution anddynamic stratigraphy of the Sudetes, south-western Poland.

Itinerary:

Stop 1 – Visit to the Geodynamic Laboratory in Książ Castle, monitoring geodynamic activity in theregion; site located on thick Famennian–Tournaisian conglomerates of the Świebodzice Trough.

Stop 2 – The Carbonifereous basin-fill (fan deltas, pelagites, debrites, turbidites, laminites andolistolithes); outcrops in the River Pełcznica Gorge.

Stop 3 – Demonstration of a wide range of palaeo-landforms documenting the denudation history ofthe Sudetes since the Mesozoic; Sokołowsko in the Intrasudetic Trough.

Stop 4 – The Carboniferous–Permian–Tertiary basin-fill of the Intrasudetic Trough, with eventstratigraphy of fluvial, seismites and pedogenic deposits; outcrops in Golińsk.

Stop 5 – Early Permian ephemeral lakes and their supplying systems in the Intrasudetic Trough;outcrops in Hinčice in the Czech Republic.

Stop 6 – The Poříčí-Hronov Fault Zone as a strike-slip normal fault system at a basin margin; outcropsin Svatoňovice in the Czech Republic.

Stop 7 – Variscan post-orogenic granites as a crystalline basement of post-Variscan sedimentary basins; the Kudowa Granite.

Stop 8 – Demonstration of a range of Cretaceous to Recent landscape features induced by geologicalprocesses; the Intrasudetic Trough in Radków Rocky Towers.

Stop 9 – Cretaceous to Recent landscape evolution in the Intrasudetic Trough; Mt. Szczeliniec Wielki.

Stop 10 – Late Cretaceous littoral sandstones with giant-scale tabular cross-bedding, accumulationterraces, subaqueous slumps, soft-sediment deformation and gas-escape features; the White Wallssite in the Intrasudetic Trough.

Stop 11 – Weathered granite and late Stephanian saprolite in the Kudowa Trough; Brzozowie.

Stop 12 – The Intrasudetic Shear Zone as observed in sandstones; outcrops in Studzienno.

Stop 13 – Tectonic and lithological controls on the regional hydrogeology and mineral-water springs;the Intrasudetic Shear Zone in Polanica Zdrój (another popular spa in the Polish Sudetes).




Field trip B4

Palaeokarst, neptunian dykes, collapse breccias, mud mounds and major stratigraphic unconformities in Slovakian Western Carpathians


Leader: ● Roman Aubrecht (Comenius University of

Bratislava, Slovakia)

Duration: 3 days.


Return: Bratislava centre, 28th June 2015 (Sunday), ~18:00*.*A return flight home from Bratislava and a possible post-trip touristic stay in the glorious capital of Slovakia are recommended.


Accommodation: 2- and 3-star hotels, with single/double-bed rooms.

Conditions: Outcrops easily accessible by short uphill walks, but trekking boots are required.


Description: This field trip from Kraków to the neighbouring western Slovakia will focus on thefollowing sedimentological and geomorphic topics:

Miocene palaeokarst with 15 Ma old speleothems, rich in terrestrial fossil fauna found in caves.

Miocene (Late Badenian) marine transgression surfaces.

The Late Cretaceous palaeokarst post-dating the early tectonic phase of Carpathian orogeny.

The Mid-Cretaceous palaeokarst in the Pieniny Klippen Belt of the outer Carpathians.

The Jurassic synrift development in the Pieniny Klippen Belt, including formation of hardgrounds,

cliff- and cave-collapse breccias, neptunian dykes, stromatactis mud mounds (with a locality wheresponge origin of enigmatic stromatactis structures has been proven).

Itinerary:

Stop 1 – Late Cretaceous/Palaeocene karst and bauxites in Mojtin.

Stop 2 – Jurassic neptunian dykes and mid-Cretaceous karst in Vrsatec.

Stop 3 – Middle Jurassic stromatactis mud mound in Slavnicke Podhorie.

Stop 4 – Mid-Cretaceous karst and Jurassic synrift breccias in Horne Srnie.

Stop 5 – Jurassic synrift megabreccias in Dolna Suca–Krasin area.

Stop 6 – Miocene marine transgression surface in Hradiste pod Vratnom.

Stop 7 – Late Cretaceous karst in Solosnica.

Stop 8 – Miocene marine transgression surface in Zahorska Bystrica.

Stop 9 – Miocene karst with fauna in the quarry of former Stockerau Lime Factory.

Stop 10 – Miocene marine transgression surface and marine abrasion caves with fauna in Sandberg.

Stop 11 – Jurassic synrift breccias and Miocene neptunian dykes in the vicinity of Devin Castle.


Price: 1450 PLN (double room; including transport, food, accommodation and field guidebook).


Field trip B5

The Mid-Triassic Muschelkalk in southern Poland: shallow-marine carbonate sedimentation in tectonically active basin


Leaders: ● Joachim Szulc (Jagiellonian University, Poland)● Hans Hagdorn (Muschelkalk Museum, Ingelfingen,

Germany)● Michał Matysik (Copenhagen University, Denmark)

Duration: 2 days.


Return: Kraków centre, 27th June 2015 (Saturday), ~18:00.

Transportation: Bus or minibus (depending on the number of participants).

Accommodation: 2-star hotel in Góra Świętej Anny.

Conditions: Outcrops easily accessible. Active quarries will be visited, with indispensable helmetsand safety jackets provided by the field-trip leaders.


Description: This trip focuses on the Mid-Triassic Muschelkalk open-marine carbonates in southernPoland, deposited at the epicontinental northern margin of the western Tethys Ocean. The depositsabound in Tethyan fauna elements, including some of the oldest scleractinian coral reefs, and thewhole fauna assemblage shows close liaisons with the Mid-Triassic basin of Southern Alps. Numerousquarry outcrops in southern Poland show sedimentological details of the Muschelkalk succession andreveal deformation features diagnostic of syndepositional tectonic and seismic activity alongreactivated Variscan faults. The trip focuses further on the local sequence stratigraphy of theMuschelkalk succession and the distinction between the signal of eustatic sea-level cycles andregional syndepositional tectonism.

Itinerary:

Stop 1 – Middle Triassic transition from restricted sabkhas to open-marine carbonate environment,with seismites indicating synsedimentary tectonic activity; quarry outcrop in Płaza.

Stop 2 – Middle Triassic carbonate depositional processes in a fault-bounded island setting, and asynsedimentary impact of hydrothermal activity; quarry outcrop in Siewierz.

Stop 3 – Spectacular sedimentary record of earthquake-triggered tsunami events in the Muschelkalksuccession; quarry outcrop in Żyglin.

Stop 4 – A complex of outsize-clast intraformational conglomerates as an evidence of Middle Triassicregional synsedimentary seismic activity; abandoned quarry outcrop in Gogolin.

Stop 5 – The oldest dated scleractinian reefs in the world and the regional faunal liaisons in WesternTethys domain; quarry outcrop in Tarnów Opolski.

Stop 6 – Another overview of the sedimentary features of the Muschelkalk succession, with a range ofdeformation structures indicating synsedimentary seismic activity; quarry outcrop in Strzelce Opolskie.


Price: 750 PLN (includes transport, accommodation, dinner and breakfast, packed lunch and field guidebook).


Field trip B6

Controls on the development and faciessuccession of a Mississippian carbonateplatform in the Kraków Upland


Leader: ● Mariusz Paszkowski (Kraków Research Centre of the Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences)

Duration: 1 day.




Conditions: Outcrops accessible by short walks. Helmets and safety jackets indispensable in activequarry will be provided by the field-trip leader.


Description: This field trip focuses on the Devonian–Early Carboniferous sedimentary successiondeposited in the Kraków segment of the extensive Moravian–Małopolska carbonate platform.Spectacular outcrops in large quarries near Kraków allow reconstruction of the platform developmenthistory from a Famennian early lagoonal phase to the final disintegration phase at the end of EarlyCarboniferous. The main topics to be demonstrated and discussed are as follows:

The sedimentary facies, depositional processes and early diagenetic processes of the carbonate

platform in its Kraków segment.

The evidence of high-frequency depositional cycles and their possible origin.

The role of the trans-European Hamburg–Kraków–Dobrogea transversal tectonic zone in the

development of the Devonian–Early Carboniferous platform.

Itinerary:

Stop 1 – Extensive outcrop of the carbonate platform deposits in an active quarry in Czatkowice.

Stop 2 – Outcrops of the carbonate platform deposits in two abandoned quarries in Czerna.


Price: 200 PLN (including transport, lunch food and field guidebook).


Field trip B7

Cenozoic freshwater carbonates of theCentral Carpathians (Slovakia): facies,environments, hydrological control anddepositional history


Leaders: ● Michał Gradziński (Jagiellonian University, Poland)● Wojciech Wróblewski (Jagiellonian University, Poland)● Pavel Bella (Slovak Caves Administration)

Duration: 3 days.


Return: Kraków centre, 28th June 2015 (Sunday), ~20:00.


Accommodation: 2- or 3-star hotels, with single- and double-bed rooms.

Conditions: Outcrops easily accessible. Good shoes and clothes for cave interior temperature(~6.5°C) are needed, but no helmet or rubber boots. The cave corridors are easy to walk and most ofthem have light, but a personal torch or head-lamp is recommended as very useful.


Description: This trip focuses on factors controlling the growth of ancient (mainly Pleistocene) andmodern travertine and tufa, with examples from the Spiš, Liptov and Slovak Karst areas. The originand chemical evolution of the feeding water will be discussed, along with such factors as the localgeological setting, climatic conditions, geomorphic evolution of karst and the impact of seismic activity.The facies distribution of travertine and tufa will be reviewed. Special attention will be given tospeleothems and water chemistry of the spectacular Demänova Cave System, a popular majortouristic attraction (http://www.ssj.sk/en/jaskyna/4-demanovska-cave-of-liberty).

Itinerary:

Stop 1 – Modern carbonates in the discharge zone of deep-circulation water, their depositionalenvironments and morphological forms; Ružbachy.

Stop 2 – An active travertine cascade, growth of modern calcite rafts, morphology of travertine mound,cold geyser spring; Sivá Brada.

Stop 3 – Facies and anatomy of an inactive travertine ridge with a record of palaeoseismic events; anabandoned quarry in Dreveník.

Stop 4 – The facies and depositional history of Holocene fluvial tufa; Háj Valley.

Stop 5 – The deposition of modern fluvial tufa under an influence of various subsurface and surfaceprocesses; Krásnohorská Dlhá Lúka.

Stop 6 – Development of a multi-storey cave system richly decorated with speleothems, withabundant U-series dating and chemical analyses of cave waters; Demänova Cave System.

Stop 7 – A recent travertine cascade, its morphology, evolution of feeding water and depositionalprocesses, including a Pleistocene travertine formed in shallow pond; Bešeňová.

Stop 8 – Tufa fed by a mixture of deep- and shallow-circulating waters: a spectacular active tufacascade and Pleistocene stromatolites and phytoclastic tufa facies in an abandoned quarry in Lúčky.




Field trip B8

Some current sedimentological controversies in the Polish Carpathian flysch


Leaders: ● Stanisław Leszczyński (Jagiellonian University, Poland) ● Krzysztof Starzec (Geokrak, Poland)● Piotr Dziadzio (Oil and Gas Institute, Poland) ● Wojciech Nemec (University of Bergen, Norway)

Duration: an early evening transfer from Kraków to Gorlice and 2 days in the field.

Departure: Kraków centre, 25th June 2015 (Thursday), ~18:00.

Return: Kraków centre, 27th June 2015 (Saturday), ~18:00.


Accommodation: 3-star hotel Margot in the town of Gorlice with en-suite single/double rooms; a quietplace with outdoor grill facility.

Conditions: The outcrops on day 1 (stops 1–3) are easily accessible by short uphill walks. On day 2,the outcrops (stops 4–5) are in stream banks and hence rubber boots are needed. (If you cannot bringsuch, please add 15 Euro to the fee and specify your foot size, and the boots will be waiting for you.)


Description: This trip focuses on the following contentious issues in the Polish Carpathian flysch:

How do the classic ‘fluxoturbidites’ compare with the latest turbiditic models? (Stops 1–3)

Is some thick mud deposited fast and other thin deposited slowly in deep-sea settings? (Stop 4)

The Lower Oligocene: still deep-water turbidites or rather shallow-marine deposits? (Stop 5)

Itinerary:

Stop 1 – The Early Eocene Ciężkowice Sandstone of the Silesian nappe in the picturesque StoneTown nature reserve in the village of Ciężkowice: gravelly to sandy deposits of single- to multiple-surge high-density turbidity currents with current-spawned debris flows and abundant evidence ofsyndepositional sediment remobilization by loading, shearing, scouring and lateral sliding/slumping.

Stop 2 – The Ciężkowice Sandstone near the Kamieniec Castle in Odrzykoń: another look at theclassic fluxoturbidites, with a broader view and details of syndepositional sediment remobilization anddeformation features.

Stop 3 – The Ciężkowice Sandstone in the village of Czarnorzeki: a last look at the classicfluxoturbidites, with a particular focus on the distinction between depositional traction-carpet layeringand early post-depositional shear banding.

Stop 4 – The Glauconitic Magura Beds (Late Eocene–Early Oligocene) of the Magura nappe inRopica Górna: shelf-derived glauconitic sandstone turbidites overlain by thick, non-bioturbated dark-grey mudshales (inferred rapidly emplaced dense turbiditic fluid mud) capped with relatively thin,bioturbated greenish-grey mudshales (inferred hemipelagic background fallout mud), and with the mudthickness possibly controlled by slope-apron depositional topography.

Stop 5 – The Early Oligocene Magdalena Sandstone of the Silesian nappe near Gorlice: acoarsening-upwards succession with occasional hummocky-like and wave-ripple-like structures and amouth bar-type bedding architecture at the top – can this be an evidence of relatively shallow waterand a prograding delta?

In case of a rainy weather and high stage of the mountain streams, stops 4 & 5 will be replaced witheasily-accessible other sedimentologically attractive outcrops.




Field Trip B9

Sedimentation of the Late Lutetian–Priabonian carbonates in the Tatra Mountains and its controlling factors


Leaders: ● Elżbieta Machaniec (Jagiellonian University, Poland)● Renata Jach (Jagiellonian University, Poland)● Vlasta Ćosović (University of Zagreb, Croatia)

Duration: an early evening transfer from Kraków to Zakopane and 1 day in the field.

Departure: Kraków centre, 25th June 2015 (Thursday), ~18:00.

Return: 26th June 2015 (Friday), ~19:00.


Accommodation: The 4-star Belveder Hotel in Zakopane.

Conditions: Outcrops easily accessible by short uphill walks.


Description: The Tatra Mountains are the highest-standing ridge of the Carpathians at thePolish/Slovakian border, and its picturesque scenery has long been attracting crowds of tourists. Thismost elevated part of the Polish Carpathians exposes a wide range of rocks, mainly Mesozoicsedimentary deposits. This field trip focuses on the depositional history of an Eocene (Lutetian–Priabonian) carbonate ramp and associated Oligocene deep-water sediments. The key issues to bediscussed are:

Morphotype variation of large benthic foraminifers as a reflection of hydraulic energy variation

in the host shallow-marine sedimentary environment.

The record of Eocene–Oligocene climatic changes in the carbonate ramp succession.

Itinerary:

Stop 1 – Outcrops of the Late Eocene (Priabonian) transgressive-lag conglomerates in the OlczyskaValley.

Stop 2 – Outcrop sections of a full transgressive succession commencing with basal conglomerates(composed of Mesozoic bedrock clasts) overlain by littoral detritic dolomites with abundantredeposited tests of large foraminifera, a nummulitic bank composed exclusively of Nummulitesperforates, and further by Discocyclina rudstones and glauconitic marls. The origin of thesesedimentary facies and their spatial distribution will be discussed in the quarry Pod Capkami.

Stop 3 – Outcrops of the Oligocene deep-water deposits in the Białego Valley (optional).

Stop 4 – Outcrops of the carbonate-platform basal conglomerates and organodetritic limestonescomposed of large benthic foraminifera and red algae, with trace fossils featuring Nummiperaeocenica; the area of Hruby Regiel.


Price: 850/1000 PLN (double/single room; including transport, food, accommodation and field

guidebook).


Short courses4 Pre-Meeting and 2 Post-Meeting short courses will be

organized within the context of 31st lAS Meeting. All expert training short courses require a minimum participation be-tween 7–15 up to a maximum between 20–35 people.Important notes regarding Short Courses• Short courses are limited in size and are reserved on

a first-come, first-served basis and must be accompa-nied by full payment. A waiting list will be created and the organizers will notify you if space becomes available. We make every effort that those who wish can participate.

• Before purchasing non-refundable travel tickets, con-firm that the short course will take place, as courses may be cancelled if under-subscribed.

• Several weeks prior to the short course, you will receive details of your course location. Please indicate your phone and fax numbers and email address on your reg-istration.

Pre-meeting short courses

S1. Sedimentary facies analysis: from sedimentology to sequence stratigraphyLeader: Wojciech Nemec (University of Bergen, Norway)

This concentrated 2-day short course is for researchers studying sedimentary successions of clastic deposits. Its aim is to provide a comprehensive methodology for facies analysis of sedimentary successions – from the sedimento-logical logging of such successions and the distinction and interpretation of facies, to the recognition of facies asso-ciations and the analysis of their stratigraphic organization as the basis for sequence-stratigraphic interpretation. Lec-tures are combined with instructive classroom exercises. Some basic sedimentological knowledge is required.Date: 19th‒20th June 2015.Time: 09:00 till 16:00.Number of places available: Minimum 10, maximum 35.Location: Kraków centre, Institute of Geological Sciences of the Jagiellonian University, Oleandry 2a, (a short walking distance from your hotel in the city centre).Price: 100 PLN (includes printed lecture notes and coffee-break service, but not lunches).

S2. Heavy minerals a key tool in provenance studies of silt and sand size sedimentsLeaders: Sergio Andò, Mara Limonta, Alberto Resentini (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Univer-sity of Milano-Bicocca, Italy); Dorota Salata (Institute of Geological Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)

The purpose of this short course is to demonstrate how some of the long-standing problems in sediment prove-nance studies can be resolved with the use of heavy-min-eral analysis and Raman spectroscopy. Practical examples of case studies from various sedimentary environments and geological settings will be presented using petrographic mi-croscopy. The course will improve a researcher’s capability to extract crucial information from detrital silt- to sand-sized sediments, including collection of quantitative petrographic and mineralogical data and taking into account the role of

such factors as hydraulic grain sorting, chemical weathering in hot humid climates and diagenetic processes. The impor-tance of sediment grain size, bulk petrography and sampling pattern will be highlighted, with instructive remarks on how to perform statistical analysis of a complex multivariate da-taset. It will also be shown as to how the Raman spectros-copy allows minerals to be correctly identified in a sediment sample. This innovative technique allows the chemical vari-ability of different minerals to be assessed and their Raman signatures to be correlated with possible source rocks.Date: 21st–22nd June 2015.Time: 09:00–16:00 on both days, including short coffee breaks and a lunch break.Number of places available: Minimum 10, maximum 15.Location: Institute of Geological Sciences of the Jagiellonian University, Kraków centre, street Oleandry 2a (a short walk-ing distance from your hotel in the city centre).Price: 250 PLN (includes printed compendium and coffee breaks, but not lunches).

S3. Application of Sr isotopes to marine environment studiesLeaders: Robert Anczkiewicz (Institute of Geological Sci-ences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków Research Cen-tre, Poland); Wolfgang Müller (Department of Earth Sci-ences, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Great Britain); Helena Hercman (Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw Research Centre, Po-land); Hubert Wierzbowski (Polish Geological Institute-Na-tional Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland)

The Sr isotopic record in marine sediments has a wide range of applications for chemostratigraphic dating and cor-relation of sedimentary strata. Besides traditional solution-based analytical techniques, current analytical advances allow significant improvement also in spatially and time-re-solved Sr isotope ratio analyses. The aim of the course is to demonstrate the present-day potential of the available tech-niques focusing on the applications to Sr stratigraphy and high resolution Sr isotopic record in biogenic carbonates. We will review sample preparation techniques, mass spectrom-etry protocols, standardization, data reduction schemes and statistical data treatment used for high precision Sr isotopic ratios measurements by thermal ionization mass spectrom-etry (TIMS) and (laser-ablation) multi-collector inductively-coupled-plasma mass spectrometry (LA)-MC-ICPMS. Par-ticular attention will be given to in-situ, high-resolution Sr isotopic analyses of biogenic carbonates by laser ablation MC-ICPMS. Besides discussing the relative merits of solution vs. in-situ analytical approaches in Sr isotope analyses, we will showcase applications where in situ Sr isotopic measure-ments of biogenic carbonates by LA MC ICPMS help to clarify anomalous results derived from solution-based approaches.Date: 22nd June 2015.Time: 09:00 till 17:00.Number of places available: Minimum 10, maximum 25.Location: Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow Research Centre, Senacka 1 (a short walking distance from your hotel in the city centre).


Price: 200 PLN (includes lunch, coffee breaks and printed compendium).

S4. Modern techniques for rock-structure imagingLeaders: Marek Dohnalik (Oil and Gas Institute, National Research Institute, Poland); Lars-Oliver Kautschor (ZEISS, Germany); Sylwia Kowalska (Oil and Gas Institute, National Research Institute, Poland); Maja Mroczkowska-Szerszen (Oil and Gas Institute, National Research Institute, Poland)

This course is recommended to researchers interested in the principles of tomography and its applications for the structural analysis of drilled rock succession, which is a topic of particular interest to structural geologists, petrologists/mineralogists, sedimentologists, palaeontologists as well as petrophysists and well-site geophysists. The course provides practical overview of the methods of X-rayComputed Tom-ography (CT) and Focused Ion Beam-Scanning Electron Mi-croscopy (FIB-SEM), and their various practical applications. The CT technique allows imaging of the internal structure of a rock object from the differences in the X-ray absorption of its component sediment layers differing in their mineral compo-sition and/or texture. The resolution scale ranges from centi-metres (simple CT) to millimetres (micro-CT) and nanometres (nano-CT). Because of the recent interest in shale successions in connections with a potential recovery of shale gas/oil, the usefulness of the FIB-SEM imaging method will be demon-strated at a nanometre resolution.Date: 22nd June 2015.Time: 08:30 till 15:00.Number of places available: Minimum 7, maximum 20.Location: Kraków, Bagrowa 1, Oil and Gas Institute, National Research Institute.Price: 200 PLN (includes transport, lunch and a printed set of the presentations).

Post-meeting short courses

S5. Magnetic susceptibility, climatic proxies and cy-clostratigraphy in rythmic carbonate rocksLeaders: Anne-Christine Da Silva (Dept. Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands; Dept. Geology, Liege University, Belgium); David De Vleeschouwer (Free Uni-versity, Brussels, Belgium; MARUM, Bremen University, Germany); Jacek Grabowski (Polish Geological Institute-Na-tional Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland); Axel Munecke (GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Erlangen, Germany).

Understanding past climatic changes is a major scientific challenge of present research. In this short course focused on carbonate rock successions, we will consider two main proxies of climatic changes ‒ magnetic susceptibility and limestone-marl alternations ‒ and will further propose in-sights into cyclostratigraphic methodology.

Magnetic susceptibility (MS) of sedimentary rocks can be a proxy for climatic changes if the magnetic signal derives mainly from detrital components. However, the signal may be complex if related to a mixture of magnetic minerals of various origins (such as detrital, bacterial and/or diagenet-ic). In this course we will consider: (a) the nature and origin of the magnetic minerals in sedimentary rocks; (b) how we can test if the MS signal is suitable as a climatic proxy; and

(c) how the MS signal from detrital components can indicate their distribution in carbonate platform profiles.

Limestone-marl alternations involve two lithologies that have undergone very different diagenetic pathways, affect-ing the primary carbonate as well as the fossil content, po-rosity and permeability. These post-depositional alterations play a major role by either enhancing primary differences or obliterating them, or possibly by creating new diagenetic rhythms. The aim of this course is to (a) show microscopic and geochemical evidence documenting the differential dia-genesis of limestones and marls; (b) present mass-balance calculations that can be used to reconstruct the composi-tion of primary sediments; and (c) provide the stratigrapher studying orbital cycles with tools for a straightforward and systematic assessment of such sedimentary successions.

Cyclostratigraphy and astrochronology offer the oppor-tunity to estimate the duration of a particular (sub)stage, biozone or geological event. Therefore, this approach offers a useful geochronometer additional to chrono-, magneto- and biostratigraphy. Notably, the use of cyclostratigraphic methods has aided construction of the most precise, high-resolution Cenozoic time scale. Great efforts are currently being made to extend the astronomically-calibrated part of the geological time scale to its older intervals. In this course, we will discuss the tools that are needed to understand, evaluate and contribute to this key topic in geoscience.Date: 26th June 2015.Time: 09:00 till 17:00.Number of places available: Minimum 15, maximum 25.Location: Kraków centre, Oleandry 2a, Institute of Geo-logical Sciences, Jagiellonian University (a short walking dis-tance from your hotel in the city centre).Price: 250 PLN (includes lunch and printed compendium). Participants are expected to bring their own laptops.

S6. Shelf marginsLeaders: Cornel Olariu (Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, USA); Ronald J. Steel (Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, USA)

The short course will focus on how rivers and deltas sup-ply sediment to shorelines and shelves; how shelf margins prograde and aggrade through time as the delivery system transits back and forth across the shelf with varying supply and sea level; and how sediment can be moved from the shelf out on to the deepwater slope and basin floor, vari-ably by river currents, tides, waves and shelf-edge collapse. Evidence that submarine fans develop both by sea-level fall and by high sediment flux from the shelf edge will be dis-cussed. The course will emphasize a source-to-sink frame-work.Date: 26th June 2015.Time: 08:00 till 16:00.Number of places available: Minimum 10, maximum 35.Location: Kraków centre, Oleandry 2a, Institute of Geo-logical Sciences, Jagiellonian University (a short walking dis-tance from your hotel in the city centre).Price: 250 PLN (includes printed compendium, coffee-break service and packed lunch).


Correspondence

For registration please contact:

Dr. Mariusz Kędzierski (Organizing Committee’s Secretary)ul. Oleandry 2aInstitute of Geological SciencesJagiellonian University30-063 Kraków, Polande-mail: [email protected]

For field-trip and short courses information please contact:

Dr. Renata Jachul. Oleandry 2aInstitute of Geological SciencesJagiellonian University30-063 Kraków, Polande-mail: [email protected]

For scientific programme suggestions and abstract submission please contact:

Dr. Bogusław Kołodziejul. Oleandry 2aInstitute of Geological SciencesJagiellonian University30-063 Kraków, Polande-mail: [email protected]

For sponsorship opportunities please contact:

Ewa Niesiołowskaul. Oleandry 2aInstitute of Geological SciencesJagiellonian University30-063 Kraków, Polande-mail: [email protected]

For information concerning accommodation and social programme organized by the Jordan Group /without Dinner at Wieliczka Salt Mine/, please contact:

Agnieszka GrzesiakJordan Group, Congress Bureauul. Sobieskiego 22/231-136 Kraków, PolandTel. number: +48 12 341 61 64Fax number: +48 12 341 61 63e-mail: [email protected]

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31st IAS Meeting of Sedimentology · PDF file31st IAS Meeting of Sedimentology • June 22–25, 2015 • Kraków, Poland 3 Invitation We are most honoured to invite you cordially