Conference Programme
Programme and Abstract Book Available: BSRG2011_Programme_and_Abstract_Book.pdf
| Sunday 18th December 2011 | |
| 09.00 - 17.00 | Core Interpretation Workshop (Room 1.51) |
| 09.00 - 17.00 | Seismic Interpretation Workshop (Room 1.49/1.50) |
| 18.30 - 20.00 | Icebreaker reception (Room 3.53) |
| Monday 19th December 2011 | |
| 09.00 - 10.30 | Plenary Session and Poster Introductions (Room 1.31) |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee and posters (Room 3.35) |
| 11.00 - 12.30 |
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| 12.30 - 13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 - 15.00 |
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| 15.00 - 15.30 | Coffee and posters (Room 3.35) |
| 15.30 - 17:00 | BSRG AGM and Awards Presentation (Room 1.31) |
| 17:00 - 19.00 | Dedicated poster session and reception (Room 3.35) |
| 19.00 | Coaches depart for conference dinner |
| 12.00 midnight | Coaches return to IC |
| Tuesday 20th December 2011 | |
| 09.00 - 10.30 |
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| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee and posters (Room 3.35) |
| 11.00 - 12.30 |
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| 12.30 - 13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 - 15.00 |
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| Wednesday 21st December 2011 | |
| 09.00 - 17.00 | Fieldtrip to Greensand (Meet outside RSM on Prince Consort Road) |
| Session: Plenary | |
| Welcome to Imperial College and the 50th AGM of the British Sedimentological Research Group. This plenary session highlights the diverse range of sedimentological studies being conducted in British academic, government and industrial institutes. | |
| Session: Deep-water Sediments I & II | |
| This session focuses on the processes associated with the transport of submarine sediment gravity flows and the sedimentology of their associated deposits. Furthermore, this session explores the intrinsic and extrinsic controls on the stratigraphic architecture of deep-marine gravity flow deposits. This session presents examples from a range of depositional systems and highlights the implications of deep-water stratigraphic architecture for hydrocarbon exploration and production. | |
| Session: Biological and Chemical Sediments I & II | |
| Biological and chemical sediments are among the most enigmatic and poorly understood on Earth. In this session the importance of these deposits is examined from the grain-scale to the basin-scale. | |
| Session: Styles and Controls on Coastal Stratigraphic Architecture I & II | |
| The stratigraphic architecture of coastal deposit is complex due to the interaction of various processes (waves, tides, rivers) and external controls (e.g. sea-level, climate, basin bathymetry). This session presents examples of coastal stratigraphic architecture from around the world and highlights the resultant complexity of these deposits. The role of numerical modelling and modern analogues in understanding these systems is also presented. | |
| Session: Styles and Controls on Fluvial and Aeolian Stratigraphic Architecture | |
| Fluvial and aeolian deposits form major reservoirs in many sedimentary basins in the world, although they represent some of the most challenging reservoirs to characterise. The talks in this session use modern analogues and outcrop data, and highlight why these deposits are so complex. | |
| Session: The Answer Lies in the Shales | |
| This session, which is held jointly with the Clay Minerals Group (CMG), focuses on the sedimentological, geochemical, petrophysical and geomechanical importance of shales. The talks emphasise the importance of 'unconventional' shale resources in the future of energy production and demonstrate how shales are sensitive geological 'archives' of climatic and oceanographic changes. | |
| Session: Sediment Routing Systems | |
| A range of extrabasinal and intrabasinal processes control the erosion, transport and deposition of sediment within linked sediment routing systems. In this session the relative roles of tectonics, climate and sediment source area are investigated, and the need for an integrated, holistic approach to basin analysis is demonstrated. | |
| Session: Characterisation of Hydrocarbon and CO2 Reservoirs | |
| This session highlights the roles that basic sedimentology and stratigraphic analysis play in the characterisation of hydrocarbon and CO2 reservoirs. Talks from both carbonate and clastic reservoirs, or reservoir analogues, are presented, and the relative roles of small- and large-scale heterogeneities are investigated using subsurface, outcrop and analytical techniques. | |
| Session: Tectonic Controls on Stratigraphic Architecture | |
| Tectonic setting is the first-order control on uplift and subsidence in sedimentary basins. As a result, tectonics controls the generation and growth of sediment source areas and sedimentary basins, as well as the evolution of sediment supply pathways. A range of talks from around the globe use outcrop or subsurface data to document the roles that crustal extension, compression and salt tectonics can have on sediment deposition and stratigraphic architecture. | |
| Monday 19th December 2011 | |
| Session: Plenary - (Room 1.31) | |
| 9:00-9:30 | KEYNOTE: Carbon capture and storage: have our coal and burn it? (Stephenson) |
| 9:30-9:45 | The influence of climate variation on deltaic architecture: implications from analogue modelling (Bijkerk et al.) |
| 9:45-10:00 | Giant intrusions: facies, architecture and flow processes (Ross et al.) |
| 10:00-10:15 | Sedimentology of the Neoproterozoic Chuos Formation, northern Namibia: implications for Cryogenian glaciation (Busfield & Le Heron) |
| 10:15-10:30 | The continuing value of original outcrop studies within the hydrocarbon industry (Hirst et al.) |
| Session: The answer lies in the shale I (CMG/BSRG) - (Room 1.31) | |
| 11:00-11:30 | KEYNOTE: Multi-scale analysis of mudstone successions and shale-gas reservoirs (Taylor et al.) |
| 11:30-11:45 | Insights into provenance, transport history, depositional processes and diagenesis from high resolution geochemical studies of turbidite mudcaps (Hunt et al.) |
| 11:45-12:00 | Investigation of the distribution and composition of organic matter in the Namurian upper Bowland Shale - a potential UK gas Shale (Koenitzer et al.) |
| 12:00-12:15 | Squeezing oil from shale: the sedimentology of the "Alberta Bakken" (Noad) |
| 12:15-12:30 | Impact of clay mineral diagenesis and burial history on shale gas prospectivity, producibility and reserves: a Golden Zone perspective (Nadeau & Hurst) |
| Biological and chemical sediments I - (Room 1.47) | |
| 11:00-11:30 | KEYNOTE: Carbonate clumped isotopes applied to sedimentary systems: promises and challenges (John et al.) |
| 11:30-11:45 | The Messinian Evaporite Complex in the Eastern Mediterranean - A natural laboratory for studying evaporite sedimentation patterns and salt tectonics in a youthful saline giant (Allen et al.) |
| 11:45-12:00 | Sedimentological clues to fluid-assisted brecciation: the brecciated limestones of the Messinian Salinity Crisis re-interpreted as seep limestones (Iadanza et al.) |
| 12:00-12:15 | Facies distribution in the Zechstein Supergroup in the Norwegian Sector of the northern North Sea Basin (Evrard et al. ) |
| 12:15-12:30 | Carbonate mud production by marine fish: more questions than answers (Salter et al.) |
| Session: Deep-water sedimentation: processes and products I (CMG/BSRG) - (Room 1.31) | |
| 13:30-14:00 | KEYNOTE: Geometrical modelling of turbidite channel systems - implication on reservoir characterisation (Labourdette) |
| 14:00-14:15 | Meander-wavelength / flow-dimension ratios in freely meandering experimental sandy turbidity currents (Eggenhuisen et al.) |
| 14:15-14:30 | Development of a confined turbidite system prone to hybrid event beds, Carboniferous, U.K. (Southern et al.) |
| 14:30-14:45 | A subsurface assessment of post-rift bathymetric control on deepwater sedimentary architecture (Duller et al.) |
| 14:45-15:00 | An integrated characterisation of the Paleocene submarine fans of the Lista and Maureen formations, UK Central Graben (Kilhams et al.) |
| Styles and controls on coastal stratigraphic architecture I- (Room 1.47) | |
| 13:30-13:45 | Modelling falling stage topset aggradation: Implications for distinguishing forced and unforced regressions in the ancient record (Prince & Burgess) |
| 13:45-14:00 | Use of modern analogues in correlation and palaeogeographic analysis of an evolving coal-bearing paralic succession, Paleocene, Svalbard, Arctic Norway (Lüthje & Nichols) |
| 14:00-14:15 | Anatomy of an incised valley-fill at an evolving rift margin: Pleistocene of the Gulf of Corinth, Greece (Gobo et al.) |
| 14:15-14:30 | The role of inherited bathymetry on the architecture of wave-dominated deposits: Book Cliffs and Wasatch Plateau, Utah, USA (Eide et al.) |
| 14:30-14:45 | Facies, architecture and sequence stratigraphy of an ancient tide-dominated delta: lower Dir Abu Lifa Member (Eocene), Western Desert, Egypt (Legler et al.) |
| 14:45-15:00 | Tidal signatures from an intracratonic playa lake (Ainsworth et al.) |
| Tuesday 20th December 2011 | |
| Styles and controls on fluvial and aeolian stratigraphic architecture - (Room 1.47) | |
| 9:00-9:15 | Use of a relational database for the classification of fluvial sedimentary systems and the interpretation and prediction of fluvial architecture (Colombera et al.) |
| 9:15-9:30 | Sandstone body architecture of distributive fluvial systems (DFS): examples from Spain (Miocene) and USA (Jurassic) (Kulikova et al.) |
| 9:30-9:45 | Large-scale fluvial architecture of the Blackhawk Formation, Utah, USA (Rittersbacher et al.) |
| 9:45-10:00 | Evolution of a distributive fluvial system on the Colorado Plateau, USA (Owen et al.) |
| 10:00-10:15 | Fluvial architecture and geometry of the lower Abrahamskraal Formation, lower Beaufort Group, Karoo Basin, South Africa (Gulliford et al.) |
| 10:15-10:30 | The point bar to counter point bar transition: insights from modern meandering rivers and implications for the rock record (Hubbard & Smith) |
| Deep-water sedimentation: processes and products II - (Room 1.47) | |
| 9:00-9:15 | Cyclic step arrays: the critical jump in understanding submarine flows (Sumner et al.) |
| 9:15-9:30 | The flows that left no trace: very large-volume turbidity currents that bypassed sediment through submarine channels without eroding the seafloor (Stevenson et al.) |
| 9:30-9:45 | Sedimentological character of an event bed produced by a high density turbidity current deposition, Buzzard field, UKCS (McKinnon & Kneller)/td> |
| 9:45-10:00 | Characterisation of terminations of hybrid turbidites against confining slopes using natural gamma-ray profiling (Patacci et al.) |
| 10:00-10:15 | Spilling into confinement: processes in internal levees to submarine channels (Morris et al.) |
| 10:15-10:30 | Emplacement dynamics of landslides around volcanic islands and implications for tsunami hazards; insights from the most detailed geophyical mapping yet of such landslide deposits (Talling & Watt) |
| Session: Sediment routing systems - (Room 1.31) | |
| 11:00-11:30 | KEYNOTE: Source-to-sink analysis of modern and ancient sedimentary systems (Sřmme) |
| 11:30-11:45 | Quantifying the relative role of multiple source areas on the budget, calibre and composition of sediment of an ancient routing system: field examples from the Spanish Pyrenees (Michael et al.) |
| 11:45-12:00 | Climate change as a controlling parameter in sediment supply: the Nile Province (Palacios & Kneller) |
| 12:00-12:15 | Provenance and distribution of Upper Jurassic mass flow sandstones and MTCs, Quad 30, Central Graben, UKCS (McArthur et al.) |
| 12:15-12:30 | Orbital pacing of the Ainsa Basin's upper Hecho Group submarine fan deposits, Spanish Pyrenees (Scotchman et al.) |
| The answer lies in the shale II (CMG/BSRG) - (Room 1.47) | |
| 11:00-11:15 | Identifying lithofacies in Carboniferous mudstones (Graham et al.) |
| 11:15-11:30 | Dynamic deposition of fine-grained intervals from the Namurian of the Edale sub-basin (Davies & Sherwin) |
| 11:30-11:45 | Plastic deformation, erosion and acceleration of turbitidy currents moving over soft, cohesive, horizontal substrates (Verhagen et al.) |
| 11:45-12:00 | Genesis and formation of the flutes on cohesive mud beds (Yin et al.) |
| 12:00-12:15 | Bedform development in mixtures of clay and sand: the wave case (Baas et al.) |
| 12:15-12:30 | The application of ichnofacies classification to deepwater geohazard assessment: making the most of core data (Clare & Thomas) |
| Session: Characterisation of hydrocarbon and CO2 reservoirs - (Room 1.31) | |
| 13:30-14:00 | KEYNOTE: Controls on fluvial reservoir performance in dryland terminal fluvial systems (McKie et al.) |
| 14:00-14:15 | Predicting Reservoir-Quality Facies in Low Net-Gross Fluvial Overbank Successions (Stuart et al.) |
| 14:15-14:30 | How do stratigraphic heterogeneities impact on flow in carbonate ramp reservoirs? (Fitch et al.) |
| 14:30-14:45 | Porosity characterisation and permeability: a case study of the normal faulted shallow water carbonates of Malta (Haines et al.) |
| 14:45-15:00 | Reducing the actuarial risk of engineered CO2 leakage - an investigation of residual saturation as a secure geological trapping mechanism (Burnside & Naylor) |
| Tectonic controls on stratigraphic architecture - (Room 1.47) | |
| 13:30-13:45 | Constraints to the timing of India-Eurasia collision as determined from the Indus Basin sedimentary rocks of the Indus-Tsangpo Suture Zone, Ladakh, India (Henderson et al.) |
| 13:45-14:00 | Two-stage development of the Late Cretaceous to Late Eocene Darende Basin: implications for closure of Neotethys in central eastern Anatolia (Turkey) (Booth et al.) |
| 14:00-14:15 | Fault-Propagation Folding and Syn-Rift Sedimentary Response: An Outcrop Case Study from the Hadahid Monocline, Suez Rift, Egypt (Lewis et al.) |
| 14:15-14:30 | Role of salt tectonics in controlling fluvial system evolution in the Salt Anticline Province of SE Utah and SW Colorado (Venus et al.) |
| 14:30-14:45 | Controls on fluvial sedimentary architecture and sediment-fill state in saltwalled mini-basins (Banham et al.) |
| 14:45-15:00 | The interaction between deepwater channel systems and growing thrusts and folds, toe-thrust region of the deepwater Niger Delta (Jolly et al.) |
| Session: Biological and chemical sediments II - (Room 1.31) | |
| 15:30-16:00 | KEYNOTE: Reactive transport modeling as a route to predicting carbonate diagenesis (Whitaker et al.) |
| 16:00-16:15 | Stylolitization of late Eocene to early Miocene carbonate-bearing lithologies from IODP Hole 317-U1352C (Canterbury Basin, New Zealand) (Vandeginste et al.) |
| 16:15-16:30 | Four basins and a burial: reconstructing the burial diagenesis of the Derbyshire Platform using numerical models (Frazer et al.) |
| 16:30-16:45 | Dolomitisation and dedolomitsiation of shallow marine, Upper Albian-Lower Turonian carbonates of the Jeffara Escarpment, southern Tunisia (Newport et al.) |
| 16:45-17:00 | New stratigraphic constraints and depositional model for Lower Cretaceous peritidal deposits of central Oman: implications for facies heterogeneities in carbonate systems (Sena & John) |
| Styles and controls on coastal stratigraphic architecture II - (Room 1.47) | |
| 15:30-15:45 | A late-Holocene record of marine washover events from a coastal lagoon in Jamaica, West Indies (Palmer & Burns) |
| 15:45-16:00 | Preservation of a drowned barrier complex: implications for interpretation of shallow marine facies (Mellett et al.) |
| 16:00-16:15 | Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of the Krossfjord and Fensfjord formations, Troll Field, Norwegian North Sea (Holgate et al.) |
| 16:15-16:30 | Lateral variability of basin margin clinothems from the Karoo Basin, South Africa (Jones et al.) |
| 16:30-16:45 | Sand-prone subaqueous deltas: a subsurface example from the lower Sognefjord Formation, Northern North Sea, offshore Norway (Patruno et al.) |
| 16:45-16:00 | A Neoproterozoic glacial succession with a clear advance-retreat sequence: the Omutirapo Palaeovalley of northern Namibia (Le Heron & Busfield) |
| Session: Deep-water sedimentation: processes and products | |
| Origin of Cenozoic sedimentation in the North Viking Graben: depositional vs remobilized/injected models (Olobayo & Huuse) | |
| Mass transport deposits: sediment transport and deposition processes in the Mid Eocene deep-marine Ainsa Basin, Spanish Pyrenees (Dakin et al.) | |
| Controls on hybrid flow transformation processes and resulting deposit character and distribution: a study from the Pennine Basin, Carboniferous, U.K (Southern et al.) | |
| The deposition and distribution of organic-rich muds by modern turbidity currents on the northeast Atlantic passive margin (Hunt et al.) | |
| Concentration-dependent flow stratifications in experimental high-density turbidity currents and their relevance to turbidite facies models (Cartigny et al.) | |
| Sedimentology of the A6 core (Ainsa Basin, Mid-Eocene, Spanish Pyrenees) (Cantalejo Lopez et al.) | |
| Architecture and development of mass-transport deposit internal structure: insights from a spectacular outcrop, Cerro Bola, Argentina (Fairweather & Kneller) | |
| Concept of equilibrium in composite submarine channel-levee systems and channel deposit character: new insights from experimental modelling (Hunter et al.) | |
| Attached and detached deepwater units on a prograding base-of-slope clinothem and its implications for reservoir predictions: a regional outcrop study from the Permian age SW Karoo (Van Der Merwe) | |
| Submarine levee crevasse deposits: their stratigraphic and temporal distribution (Brunt et al.) | |
| Session: Styles and controls on coastal stratigraphic architecture | |
| Transgressive development of coal-bearing coastal plain to shallow marine setting, Paleocene, Svalbard, Arctic Norway (Lüthje & Nichols) | |
| The mega-scale interpretation of the Neogene Southern North Sea Delta (Harding & Huuse) | |
| Sea bed geology and environmental characterisation in the central and eastern English Channel (James et al.) | |
| A comment on the glacial deposits of western County Clare, Ireland (Langford) | |
| Primary and reworked tsunami deposits at Agaete, Gran Canaria: evidence for mega-tsunami generation from the lateral collapse of an ocean island volcano (Austin-Giddings et al.) | |
| Flume experiments to test sedimentary bedform development with increasingly limited sediment supply (Van Landeghem & Baas) | |
| Session: Sediment routing systems | |
| Climatic and topographic controls on sand dispersal into NW European Triassic basins (Tyrell et al.) | |
| Clinoform stacking patterns, clinothem depositional architecture, and the process link Between shallow-marine and seep-marine seposits: key initial findings from IODP Expedition 313 (Hodgson et al.) | |
| Depositional architecture and provenance of Miocene submarine fans, northeastern Shikoku Basin, from IODP Expedition 322 results (Pickering et al.) | |
| Sedimentology and micropalaeontology of prodelta deposits in the prograding Early Pliocene Colorado River delta, southern California (Robinson et al.) | |
| Abrupt landscape change post-6 Ma on the central Great Plains, USA (Duller et al.) | |
| Quantifying the controls on grain size export from tectonically perturbed catchments: case studies from Sicily, Calabria and Abruzzo, Italy (Whittaker et al.) | |
| Transition from deep- to shallow-marine deposition: the Craven Basin, UK (Bijkerk et al.) | |
| Determining the palaeodrainage history of the Nile River: investigating rift tectonics and land-ocean-atmosphere interactions (Edwards et al.) | |
| Session: The answer lies in the shale (CMG/BSRG) | |
| Siliciclastic sedimentation and sequence stratigraphic evolution of a storm-dominated fine-grained shelf (Flood et al.) | |
| Petrophysical properties of fine-grained sedimentary rocks (Watts et al.) | |
| Ichnofossils as a tool for understanding contourite deposits (Essex et al.) | |
| Predicting porosity preserving chlorite grain coatings using modern analogues: how hard can it be? (Utley et al.) | |
| [Title T.B.C.] (Taylor students) | |
| [Title T.B.C.] (Taylor students) | |
| Session: Styles and controls on fluvial and aeolian stratigraphic architecture | |
| Reconstruction of channel and barform architecture in a Kinderscoutian (Carboniferous) shelf-edge fluvio-deltaic succession (Soltan et al.) | |
| Morphological and stratigraphical complexity at aeolian dune-field margins (Almasrahy et al.) | |
| The architecture of a Triassic fluvial sandstone, Rillo de Gallo, Guadalajara, Spain (Martinez de Alvaro & Alexander) | |
| Where are the crocodiles? A sedimentological analysis of microvertebrate sites in eastern Alberta (Noad) | |
| And did those feet, in ancient times...? Unusual sedimentary structures in coal-bearing successions of the Surat Basin, eastern Australia (Martin) | |
| A pre-vegetation fluvial style controversy (Martinho dos Santos et al.) | |
| An integrated palaeo-environmental re-interpretation of the Triassic Smith Bank Formation, UK Central North Sea (Wilkins & Archer) | |
| Modelling the rvolution of gold placers (Lowther et al.) | |
| Aspects of the Middle to Late Pleistocene fluvial archive of the River Nene, eastern England (Langford) | |
| 3D architecture and internal facies variation of large-scale alluvial fan deposits: implications for the interpretation of the Permian Brockram facies of northern England (Gough et al.) | |
| Is climate change affecting dune migration rates in Antarctica? (Bristow et al.) | |
| The Miocene drainage system within the Columbia River Basalt Province, Washington State, USA (Ebinghaus et al.) | |
| [Title T.B.C.] (Reesink) | |
| Session: Biological and chemical sediments | |
| Palaeoenvironmental significance of lacustrine microbialite forms from the middle Old Red Sandstone of the Orcadian Basin (Andrews) | |
| The Permian 'glass ramp': new insights from Bellsund, Spitsbergen (Collins) | |
| Evolution of a mixed siliciclastic shelf and carbonate platform during the Messinian Salinity Crisis on the tectonically active southern margin of the Sorbas Basin, SE Spain (Grundy & Hodgson) | |
| Session: Characterisation of hydrocarbon and CO2 reservoirs | |
| Seismic modelling and spectral analysis of outcrop data - insights into the sub-seismic world (Zhang & Kneller) | |
| Oil charge preserves exceptional porosity in deep overpressured sandstone (Wilkinson & Haszeldine) | |
| The characterisation of mudstone to sandstone transition zones between Skagerrak Formation members in the Central North Sea using analogue results from onshore East Greenland (Hutchison et al.) | |
| Building a schema for outcrop data - towards a standardised nomenclature for sedimentology (Howell et al.) | |
| Three-dimensional surface-based modeling and flow simulation of heterolithic tidal sandstone reservoirs: examples from the Eocene Dir Abu Lifa Formation reservoir analogue, Western Desert, Egypt (Massart et al.) | |
| A stochastic modelling approach to determine sensitivity of 3D fluvial channel connectivity to changes in channel morphology and density/spacing (Banham et al.) | |
| How much CO2 will be sequestered by mineral reaction during engineered CO2 storage? (Heinemann et al.) | |
| Landform geometry of modern fluvio-deltaic deposits in the Niger Delta: implications for reservoir characterization (George) | |
| Approaches to modelling sand-body gonnectivity in low net-gross fluvial settings (Stuart et al.) | |
| Preliminary study of potential Neoproterozoic petroleum systems in central West Africa (Le Ber et al.) | |
| Session: Tectonic controls on stratigraphic architecture | |
| Sedimentary evidence from the Vardar suture zone in Macedonia (E. Mediterranean) used to test alternative Tethyan tectonic models (Robertson et al.) | |
| Tectono-stratigraphic analysis of hangingwall depositional systems; South Hadahid Block, Suez Rift, Egypt (De Boer et al.) | |
| Quaternary tectonic uplift of the Kyrenia Range, northern Cyprus: preliminary field results and objectives (Palamakumbura et al.) | |
| Distributary fan lobe characteristics influenced by active salt growth structures, offshore Angola (Jones et al.) | |