Lyell Meeting 2006: Millennial-scale events

Dates: 15th February 2006

Venue: The Geological Society, Burlington House, London

Convenors: Maurice Tucker and Howard Armstrong

Overview:
The 2006 Geological Society of London, Lyell Meeting, sponsored by the Joint Committee for Palaeontology, is to be organised by the Geological Society (joint convenors Maurice Tucker and Howard Armstrong). This prestigious one day meeting, to be held at Burlington House, London is currently being planned for the 15th February 2006.

Millennial-scale events and cycles are being increasingly recognised in the Quaternary stratigraphical record and in much older strata. Repetitions of beds, horizons, particular facies, fossil/microfossil occurrences etc on the scale of many hundreds to several 1000 years record millennial-scale changes in the environment. In many cases these can be linked to changes in the climate and in the Quaternary this is often related to changes in ice-cap volume or dynamics, which have knock on effects on global temperature, wind regimes, oceanic circulation and sediment influx. Millennial-scale events are also recorded in strata deposited during greenhouse times and here subtle changes in climate are again implicated.

This meeting is aimed at bringing together palaeoclimatologists, palaeontologists, Earth System scientists, modellers, sedimentologists, physical geographers, etc to discuss the evidence, the mechanisms and the processes involved in the recording of short-term climatic events in the sedimentary succession.

Proposed titles and abstracts should be sent to Howard Armstrong at the address below, as soon as possible so that a scientific programme can be drawn up. Posters can be displayed during the meeting.

Further details will be posted on www.geolsoc.org.uk and www.palass.org once the scientific programme has been finalized.

Further details:
Howard A. Armstrong (h.a.armstrong@durham.ac.uk)
University of Durham
Department of Earth Sciences,
South Road, Durham DH1 3LE