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Other Sedimentological Meetings

If there are any additional meetings you would like to see listed here, please email the details and conference website addresses to .

Steven Lokier's conference website is a useful resource which provides details of forthcoming geological meetings in a range of research areas.

Chemostratigraphy: applications, limitations and implications for global environmental change
University of Trieste, Italy. 7th-10th July 2008    (Added 06/01/08)
Short course, with accompanying field excursion
Flyer      Website & Registration

33rd International Geological Congress (IGC)
Oslo, Norway August 6th to 14th, 2008
Sessions which may interest members of BSRG:
   SES-01 General contributions to sedimentology.
   SES-02 Processes in high-latitude depositional systems and basins.
   SES-03 Intra-basaltic sediments and weathering horizons as monitors of climate change.
   SES-04 Organic geochemical archives of paleoenvironmental conditions in sediments of the deep and coastal ocean, lakes and rivers.
   SES-05 Dynamics of complex intracontinental basins.
   SES-06 Foreland basins: Palaeoecology, climate, and chronostratigraphy.
   SES-07 Dynamics of sedimentary basins.
   BGB-01 General contributions to biogeoscience - a key theme will be sediment-organisms interactions.
   HPQ-03 Holocene and present-day sediment budgets in cold environments
   HPF-17 Trace fossils - ichnological concepts and methods
   GEP-09 Linking petroleum systems and plays to sedimentary basin evolution.
   GEP-06 North Sea Chalk reservoirs. From regional understanding to reservoir level
   GEP-10 Global controls on sequence stratigraphy.
   GEP-18 Compaction processes - porosity, permeability and rock properties evolution in sedimentary basins: A tribute to Knut Bjørlykke.
   GEP-19 Carbonate reservoirs and plays.
   GEP-20 Outcrop studies: Fundamental to petroleum reservoir characterization and modeling.
   Website

Central Atlantic Conjugate Margins
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. August 13th-15th, 2008
This is an international conference sponsored / supported / endorsed by Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board, Dalhousie University, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain, Houston Geological Society, OETRA, EnCana, Husky Energy, Atlantic Geoscience Society, NS Dept of Energy, and the Offshore Energy Technical Research Association. It is designed to attract and bring together representatives of industry, academia, and others interested in the relationships between margin evolution and petroleum systems, particularly those currently or interested in exploring and working in the Central Atlantic and adjacent basins. We believe that the regional focus of the event coupled with access to modern seismic data and new ideas will be a catalyst for a better understanding of the prospectivity of the region.
Flyer
Further Info
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26th International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS) Regional Meeting, Bochum, Germany
Ruhr-University (RUB), Bochum, Germany. September 1- 3, 2008   (Added 07/08/08)
Contributions on all sedimentological and related themes are welcome. Authors are invited to present their work as a poster presentation or as an oral presentation during the three days technical sessions. Oral presentations will be selected by the conveners from among the submissions. Instructions for the presentation of abstracts, posters and oral sessions will be posted on the conference website by December 2007.
THEMES
T1 – Continental depositional environments
T2 – Marine depositional environments
T3 – Special sessions
Website

Subsurface sediment remobilisation and fluid flow in sedimentary basins
Burlington House, The Geological Society, London, UK. 21st-22nd October 2008    (Added 09/01/08)
The conference aims to bring together scientists from a variety of disciplines (geologists, geophysicists, geochemists) from both academic and industrial communities to present and discuss the state- of-the-art understanding of subsurface sediment remobilization and fluid flow in sedimentary basins. Themes include (but not restricted to):
   (i) surface expressions of sediment remobilisation and fluid flow;
   (ii) subsurface imaging of sediment remobilisation and fluid flow;
   (iii) effects of reservoir characteristics of sediment remobilisation and fluid flow;
   (iv) human impacts on catastrophic fluid flow events.
The deadline for abstracts is the 5th of May 2008.
Flyer

Gravitational Collapse at Continental Margins Products and Processes
Burlington House, The Geological Society, London, UK. 28th-29th October 2008    (Added 27/05/08)
Large-scale gravitational collapse is an important but poorly understood mode of deformation and mass transport at continental margins. Often spectacular seismic data acquired over the past 20 years image extensive deformation systems characterised by zones of thin-skin faulting and folding developed at the outer self and continental slope. Driven by body forces within the sedimentary prism, basal detachments kinematically link upslope extensional faulting to downslope thrust belts, with many analogies with smaller subaerial slope failures.
Contributions are invited from academia and industry that use case history and/or modelling-based studies to address the following issues:
   Structural geometry
   Rates and scales of deformation
   Kinematic links between extension and contraction
   Decollement mechanics
   Interplay between faulting, folding and horizontal compaction
   Interactions between deposition and deformation
   Role of gravity sliding vs. gravity spreading
   Implications for geotechnical stability and human hazard
Website

International Conference: Rivers, Estuaries, Deltas & Beaches: Traps for Fossil Fuels
Burlington House, The Geological Society, London, UK. 6th-7th November 2008    (Added 06/04/08)
Themes
Advances in sedimentology, fundamental processes, facies models within stratigraphic context, derived from flume tank studies, numerical modelling, modern analogues and seismic geomorphology.
Application of sedimentology and facies models in paralic environments to exploration abd exploitation of the subsurface
The deadline for abstracts is the 30th of May 2008.
Website

Petroleum Geoscience Research Forum
University of Aberdeen, UK. 11th-12th November 2008    (Added 15/06/08)
This international conference presents state-of-the-art petroleum geoscience research carried out in industry or jointly between industry and academia. The conference aims to attract leading academics and industry researchers alike and to provide an early-stage forum for ongoing post-doctoral and postgraduate research. This conference thus provides an excellent opportunity for industry and academia to meet, get inspired and to develop future collaborative research links. This is also an excellent opportunity for graduates to meet potential future employers and vice versa
Suggested themes include but are not limited to:
   Reservoir geology, petrophysics, and geological modelling
   Clastic and carbonate sedimentology and stratigraphy
   Structural geology and basin evolution
   Applications of seismic interpretation in geological analysis
   Unconventional energy
   Case histories of joint industry-academia research and knowledge transfer
The deadline for abstracts is the 2nd July 2008
Further information about the conference, including workshops (seismic/core) and field trips can be found on the Poster