International Meeting of Sedimentology 201733rd IAS & 16th ASF Joint Meeting

Toulouse FRANCEOctober 10-12, 2017

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Invitation

Call for Sessions Call for Field-Trips

Main topics 1. Carbonates and Bioconstructions 2. Clastic Sedimentary Processes 3. Paleo-Environments and Paleo-Climates 4. Reading time in sediments 5. Sedimentary Basins 6. Sources and Sinks 7. Sedimentology and Resources 8. Fluids/Sediments interactions & Diagenesis

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Congress VenueCentre de Congrès Pierre Baudis11, esplanade Compans-CaffarelliToulouse, FRANCE

Congress dates10-12 October 2017

Web sitehttp://ims2017.sciencesconf.org

Exhibition venueCentre de Congrès Pierre BaudisToulouse, FRANCE

Exhibition dates10-12 October 2017

Invitation

We invite proposal for sessions and excursions for the International Meeting of Sedimentology 2017.

The scope of the meeting is to bring together all the aspects of sedimentary basin geo-logy with a particular interest in sedimentology whether in terms of processes, methods or depositional environments. This exceptional event will gather the sedimentological and as-sociated geological research communities to share experiences, discuss about new challen-ges, and stimulate future rewarding collaborations.

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Call for Sessions

Call for Field-Trips

The call for Sessions is organized following the main topics detailed next pages. We en-courage sessions highlighting state-of-the-art results from geological archives, modeling and/or data analyses. Please suggest: • the title of the session, • the names, affiliations and emails addresses of the proposed convenors (from more than one institution, preferably 3 to 5 conveners with a spread in age, gender and country), • a short description of the session scope, • the number of the main topic it should be related to for scientific program.

The call for Field-Trips covers the highlight of the geology of France and Iberia. Dates are October 7th to 9th 2016 for pre-meeting Field-Trips and October 13th to 15th 2016 for post-mee-ting Field-Trips. The cost of the Field-Trip should be entirely supported by the participant fees including guide books printing, participant transportation and housing. Please suggest: • the title of the excursion, • the names, affiliations and emails addresses of the field-trip leaders, • a short description of the field-trip scope, • the departure place, • the dates and duration, • the minimum number of participants for the field-trip cost to be covered by participant fees, • the maximum number of participants.

The deadline for proposal submission is November 25th 2016. Please send proposal to ims2017@sciencesconf.org

Main topics

1. Carbonates and Bioconstructions

Coordinators: Markus Aretz (University of Toulouse III, France), Nicolas Olivier (University of Cler-mont-Ferrand, France), Giovanna Della’Porta (University of Milan, Italy).

Carbonates and bioconstructions formed in various marine and non-marine sedimentary systems in Precambrian and Phanerozoic times. The control and influence of skeletal biota and microbial mats into the processes that lead to the precipitation and formation of carbonates make carbonate rocks fundamental archives of past ecological, environmental, oceanographic and climatic conditions. The objectives of this theme are to gather a broad scientific community dealing with carbonates and bioconstructions in the widest sense through sessions aiming to document and better understand the processes and products of carbonate and bioconstruction accumulation, including their diagenetic history, and their implications for the understanding of sedimentary systems, sedimentary basins and palaeoen-vironmental reconstructions and evolutions, climate change and sea-level oscillations. All time scales and geological periods and sedimentary and depositional environments are concerned. We highly encourage to propose multidisciplinary sessions combining different techniques and (multi)disciplinary approaches to study carbonates and bioconstructions.

2. Clastic Sedimentary Processes

Coordinators: Frédéric Christophoul (University of Toulouse III, France), Cédric Bonnel (University of Pau, France), Thierry Mulder (University of Bordeaux, France), Janrik van den Berg (University of Utrecht, Netherland).

Clastic sediments represent the major part of sediments preserved in the sedimentary record. They represent a great variety of sedimentary systems ranging from deep marine, such as turbidites and contou-rites, shallow marine, coastal, including deltaic and estuarine and continental systems such as fluvial, la-custrine, eolian and coastal (including deltas and estuaries). In geological time scales, these systems record autocyclic processes as well as external forcing. The expression of these processes can be evidenced by the study of modern system and/or modeling and is deduced from the sedimentary record in ancient systems. This theme involves a huge community of sedimentologists working with a great variety of ap-proaches (field, geophysical data interpretation, borehole data, cores and modeling. This theme is broad and we encourage sessions dealing with case studies in modern and ancient as well as analog and numerical modeling of processes in marine and non-marine aquatic systems in any relevant time scale.

3. Paleo-Environments and Paleo-Climates

Coordinators: Guillaume Dera (University of Toulouse III, France), Emmanuel Chapron (University of Toulouse II, France), Pierre Pellenard (University of Bourgogne, France), Michael Joachimski (Geo-Zentrum Nordbayern, Germany).

From Precambrian to modern times, climate and environmental changes have markedly paced the history of the Earth at different time scales. This includes shifts from greenhouse to icehouse modes, hyper-thermal or snowball events, sea-level fluctuations, or disturbances in the carbon cycle and redox conditions, as well as abrupt climate changes during glacial or interglacial intervals and catastrophic events with large regional impacts. These changes are mirrored by profound modifications in the dynamics of marine and continental ecosystems documented in the sedimentary record. The objectives of this theme are to gather sessions involving a broad scientific community to docu-ment and discuss the dynamic, timing and origin of environmental and climate changes at different time scales in order to better understand the driving forces of sedimentary processes on Earth. We encourage multidisciplinary sessions for various geological periods combining sedimentary geology, stratigraphical methods, elemental, organic or isotope geochemistry, paleoecology, paleoceanography, as well as mode-ling. Sessions devoted to new methodological perspectives in paleoenvironmental reconstructions (e.g., proxies for seawater temperature, pH, redox conditions, paleo-circulation, productivity, atmospheric pCO2) are welcome. Sessions focusing on well-dated paleohydrological changes using flood records and glacier or lake level fluctuations are appreciated. This will be also an opportunity to discuss, exchange, and debate sedimentary records and processes specific to the Anthropocene and ongoing global warming.

4. Reading time in sediments

Coordinators: Carine Lézin (University of Toulouse III, France), Elise Nardin and Marc de Rafélis (University of Toulouse III, France), Mathieu Martinez (University of Bremen, Germany), Luis Vitor Duarte (University of Coimbra, Portugal).

Time is a fundamental dimension in Earth Sciences and Planetary Sciences because dating and dura-tion estimation are the bases of the reconstruction of the history of Earth and other planets. Time is a com-plex concept gathering punctual numerical age, duration of events, life, …, and rhythm of processes. Time is fossilized in sedimentary archives and decryption is still a challenge due to the discontinuous recording. The theme ‘Reading time in sediments’ will gather sessions illustrating the various approaches and disciplines allowing to determine the age of sedimentary rocks, chronology and durations of events using paleontological, mineralogical, and chemical data, facies contents, rock physical properties, and sequence and cyclic stratigraphy. The improvement of the chronostratigraphic scale is an objective of this theme, as well as the estimation of duration of events. A session on the sedimentary recording of the time on other planets can be envisaged. Integrated and innovative approaches will be particularly appreciated.

5. Sedimentary Basins

Coordinators: Martin Roddaz (University of Toulouse III, France), Cécile Robin (University of Rennes, France), Jaume Verges (Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera ICTJA - CSIC in Barcelona, Spain), Eric Lasseur (BRGM, France).

Sedimentary basin deposits contain the archives of the interactions between surface and deep pro-cesses. Plate Tectonics is the most appropriate scale to establish the geodynamic framework of sedimen-tary basins that form in a great variety of contexts: both on continental and oceanic crust and within diver-gent, convergent, transform settings (or any combination of those). These basins can also be associated to salt processes complicating the overall basin analysis. The geometry of the sedimentary basin, of its boun-daries and tectonic surroundings, as well as its internal structure and its sedimentary record allows defining the tectonic scenario in which the basin formed and can be imaged using 2D and 3D seismic. Moreover, the huge amount of information contained in the sedimentary record allows for the analysis of a wide range of parameters required to define the tectonic and climatic histories depending on the quality its outcrop or/and subsurface data. However the intimate relationships between surface and deep processes (tecto-nics, sedimentary, climatic, or surficial) ultimately defining the geometry, the stratigraphic and depositional structure of the basin requires multidisciplinary studies. This theme therefore seeks sessions with approaches integrating different geoscience fields at any time scales (from the Precambrian to the Present) as well as those focused on more specific processes.

6. Sources and Sinks

Coordinators: Stéphane Bonnet (University of Toulouse III, France), François Baudin (University of Paris VI, France), Sébastien Castelltort (University of Genève, Switzerland), Daniel Garcia-Castellanos (Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera ICTJA - CSIC in Barcelona, Spain).

The quantification of sediment budget from sedimentary basin analysis offers the unique opportu-nity to constrain the dynamics of mass transfers at the Earth surface, including the denudation and produc-tion of sediments in erosional landscapes where very few direct archives exist, their transfer and storage throughout the fluvial system, and their eventual partitioning within the different segments of the depo-sitional profile. Such analyses are also fundamental to quantify budgets of solute and particulate loads of importance for the chemical composition of sediment as well as organic carbon distribution and burial. Further, source-to-sink perspectives are now widely used in exploration of resources. This holistic approach requires an advanced understanding of all the components of the sediment routing system, and particularly of the modulation of the sediment flux signal as it propagates through the routing system and of its ex-pression in sedimentary basins in term of facies and architectures. This approach must examine siliciclastic, carbonate and organic matter separately and all together to achieve a complete budget of the sedimentary system. We solicit sessions that will address all the facets of source-to-sink analysis, from the study of pro-cesses, multidisciplinary integrated approaches of natural case studies, to numerical and physical model-ling. Sessions dedicated to methodology and/or to innovative techniques for quantifying sediment budgets and transfers are also welcome.

7. Sedimentology and Resources

Coordinators: Julien Bailleul (LaSalle-Beauvais, France), Philippe Joseph (Insitut Français du Pétrole - Energies Nouvelles, France), Patrice Imbert (Total, France), Jean Gérard (Repsol, Spain).

The objective of this theme is to bring together sessions ranging from academic approaches to in-dustrial applications to provide an update and an illustration of the contribution of sedimentological studies to our understanding of petroleum systems, improvement of reservoir characterization through outcrop analogs, development of renewable energy and carbon sequestration, sedimentary-hosted mineralization, continental weathering and ore deposits, environmental impacts of petroleum and mining activities. This can be done notably through presentations of case studies of joint industry-academia research projects that illustrate knowledge transfer.

8. Fluids/Sediments interactions & Diagenesis

Coordinators: Valérie Chavagnac (University of Toulouse III, France), Guilhem Hoareau (University of Pau, France), Benjamin Brigaud (University of Paris Sud, France), Richard Worden (University of Liverpool, UK).

The objective of this theme is to bring together sessions covering an area ranging from academic approaches to industrial applications to provide an update on our understanding of fluids flow, fluids/se-diments interactions and diagenetic processes in carbonate, clastic rocks and their integration in the pre-diction of fluid circulation, reservoir qualities, or oil / gas / metal accumulation, across spatial and temporal scales. We invite sessions combining various datasets (mineralogy, water and sediment geochemistry, seis-mic attributes, heat flux, porosity,…) and employ a wide range of scientific approaches (natural and man-made environments, km to nano scale observation, temporal variability over short to long timescales, expe-rimental to computational studies, geochemical to geophysical datasets,…). This will be an opportunity to discuss, exchange, and debate about new perspectives and challenges in the field combining advanced cha-racterization methods with innovative modeling techniques all applied on modern to fossil environments.

Organisation information

Congress schedule

7-9 oct 2017 Pre-meeting excursions

10-12 oct 2017

Exhibition

Careers forum

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Public lecture

• Carbonates & Bioconstructions• Clastic Sedimentary Processes (continental, coastal & marine)• Paleo-environments & Paleo-climates• Reading times in sediments• Sedimentary Basins & their dynamics (tectonics, climate,

sedimentation & surface processes)• Sources & Sinks (sedimentary budgets and source tracing)• Sedimentology & Ressources• Fluids/sediments interactions and Diagenesis

13-15 oct 2017 Post-meeting excursions

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General planning

Local committee

The local committee is headed by Delphine Rouby, and composed of:

Markus AretzDominique ChardonStéphane BonnetFrédéric ChristophoulGuillaume DeraStéphanie DuchêneCarine LézinMélina MacouinÉlise NardinFrancis OdonneMarc de RafélisVincent RegardMartin RoddazAlexandra RobertEmmanuel Chapron (GEODE, Université Jean Jaurès)Cédric Bonnel (Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour)Guilhem Hoareau (Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour)Michel Lopez (University of Montpellier 2)Michel Séranne (University of Montpellier 2)Marie-Ange Albouy (Cellule Congrès de l’Université Paul Sabatier)

The local committee is composed of members of the Depart-ment of Geosciences (GET) housed in the Observatoire Mi-di-Pyrénées and in the University Paul Sabatier, and of close colleagues from the University of Pau and Montpellier.

Please email information before November, 25th 2016 to

Delphine Rouby Géosciences Environnement Toulouse

email: ims2017@sciencesconf.org; tel. +33 5 61 33 26 23

International Meeting of Sedimentology 201733rd IAS & 16th ASF Joint Meeting

Toulouse FRANCEOctober 10-12, 2017

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IMS2 0 1 7International Meeting of Sedimentology

ims2017.sciencesconf.org