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INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SEDIMENTOLOGISTS 29th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology Sedimentology in the Heart of the Alps

Invitation Dear Colleagues, The International Association of Sedimentologists and the Department of Applied Geosciences and Geophysics/Montanuniversitaet Leoben (Austria) invite you to the 29th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, to be held in Schladming, Austria, on 10th - 13th September 2012 The 29 IAS Meeting of Sedimentology will bring together all facets of sedimentology under the theme Sedimentology in the Heart of the Alps. It will feature a broad interdisciplinary Scientific Programme, an exciting range of Pre- and PostMeeting Field Trips, which are being organized with important contributions from our Austrian partners and input from our Slovenian, Croatian, Hungarian and Slovakian neighbours. Expert training Pre- and Post-Meeting Short Courses, an Exhibition and Leisure Options will be other features. th

One of the most attractive points of the 29th IAS Meeting will be the possibility to join several geological field trips. The region surrounding Schladming encloses a wide spectrum of sedimentary rocks, superbly exposed in the outcrops of the Eastern Alps. For example, the Northern Calcareous Alps are the type area for numerous classical Mesozoic sites including GSSPs. Also, there will be a variety of trips that examine famous outcrops of Palaeozoic and Cenozoic sedimentary rocks in the Eastern Alps, and sedimentary ore deposits. Other field trips will be held in the mountain chains of the Southern Alps, the Carpathians, the Dinarides and the Pannonian Basin. We are looking forward to welcoming you on the 29th IAS Meeting. Yours sincerely, Hans-Juergen Gawlick (Chairperson of 29th IAS Meeting, Leoben) Sigrid Missoni (Vice-Chairperson of 29th IAS Meeting, Leoben)

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Venue Congress-Schladming In the context of the FIS Alpine Ski World Championship 2013 the new Media Centre is currently being built in Schladming. The energetic concept which is defined by several ecological benefits represents the Austrian know-how towards environmental and present climate issues. Wood and local products strongly influence the interior design and create a special atmosphere which is affected by the surprising view on the attractive landscape. The Congress-Schladming will have 7 convention rooms with capacities from 30 up to 1.400 persons. The impressive panorama as well as the inviting construction with its open architecture, equipped with the best available technology guaranties a great experience in the Congress-Schladming. For the participants coming by car free parking at Congress-Schladming is included. For all information about the facilities, infrastructure and services visit the website: www.congress-schladming.com The Kulinarwerk is caterer and home partner of Congress-Schladming: www.kulinarwerk.at

Sporthotel Royer ****Superior Art as a synonym for creativity, inspiration, style and enjoyment is part of the hotel philosophy. The Royer is a world of its own with its service leaving nothing to be desired and its unequalled charm. Regardless whether in cuisine, service, seminar or leisure opportunities the Royer is renowned for its professionalism, friendliness and variety. Modern conference technologies leave nothing to chance; part of the Meeting activities will be in these facilities. Congress-Schladming is only two minutes walk away. For more information visit the website: www.royer.at

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Destination Schladming can be reached Airport Information The closest airport is Salzburg, located 90 km northwest of Schladming. The Salzburg Airport offers an extensive network of national and international flights. The following inexpensive connections are currently available to you: www. schladming-dachstein.at/en/service/flughafentransfer.htm Further details on national and international flight options to Austrian airports are available and can be downloaded here and/or will be given by our advisors of the Schladming-Rohrmoos | Schladming-Dachstein Tourist Office. Public Transportation • Trains Austria has a well developed public transportation system. Schladming can be reached easily by train from the nearby airports: Munich, Vienna, Salzburg, Linz, Klagenfurt, Graz or Innsbruck. Regular connections to international express trains (‘INTERCITY’) exist. Visit www.oebb.at Tickets can be purchased online, at all train stations, and at the national and international airports. • Buses Public bus service is available in all towns of the Schladming-Dachstein region. Tickets can be purchased on buses. Airport Transfer For detailed information and to book convenient round-trip transfers between Salzburg Airport and the SchladmingDachstein region visit: www.schladming-dachstein.at/en/service/flughafentransfer.htm Further information and to book convenient round-trip transfers between Munich, Vienna, Graz or Klagenfurt Airport and Schladming is available and can be downloaded here. Car Schladming can be approached by car on the main road B 320 continuing from the motorway A 10 (north-south direction: Germany - Salzburg - Villach - Italy/Slovenia) or from the A 9 (north-south direction: Germany - Passau - Linz - Graz Slovenia). The Google Map on the Schladming-Dachstein web page gives an overview: www.schladming-dachstein.at/ en/service/anreise.htm

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Between the magnificent southern walls of the Dachstein Massif and the scenic alpine summits of the Schladming Tauern you will find an idyllic landscape, colourful forests, golden light and countless mountain peaks seemingly close enough to touch - many visitors describe the autumn as the most beautiful time of the year in the Alps. We invite you to be our guests: for an epic journey or leisurely hikes surrounded by a glorious scenery, vibrant activities or relaxation for renewed strengths, enjoyable visits to country inns and alpine huts, to enjoy evocative encounters with the nature and culture of the Schladming-Dachstein region. Warmth and hospitality are deeply rooted in our local culture. More information can be found on the websites: www.schladming-dachstein.at | www.schladming.at | www.ramsau.at

The Schladming | Schladming-Dachstein region is known as a popular, pulsating ski hub in winter, in summer the region transforms itself into one of the premier vacation and hiking destinations in entire Austria. It is situated in the heart of the Eastern Alps: 300 km from Vienna, 220 km from Munich, 90 km from Salzburg in the northwest and 180 km from Graz in the southeast. The Google Map on the Schladming-Dachstein web page gives an overview: www.schladmingdachstein.at/en/aktuell/events/detail.htm?id=4642-10.09.2012 00:00-13.09.2012 00:00-0—1340748060-1349042340 The conference venue is near to the centre of Schladming. Here you may find all what you need besides the 29th IAS Meeting: a great deal of entertainment, culture, sporting facilities, shopping and gastronomy fulfil your every desire. Car parking space without extra charge for participants is directly in front of Congress-Schladming and Sporthotel Royer as well as on further public parking lots. For more information you will get a detailed city map.

Climate: The Schladming-Dachstein region has a moderate four-season climate, with variations in temperature between the seasons and from one locale to another. Schladming (47°24’N 13°41’E | 745 metres above sea-level) has pleasant and mild climate in the autumn. Occasionally the weather becomes cool and windy. Note that the northern side of the Eastern Alps can have up to 2.500 millimetres precipitation/year. Because the weather in the autumn can be unpredictable it is a good idea to bring a warm (water-proof) jacket and clothing that can be layered.

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INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SEDIMENTOLOGISTS, ANNUAL MEETING 29th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Schladming September 2012

Organizing Institutions Montanuniversitaet Leoben, Austria Department of Applied Geosciences and Geophysics Congress-Schladming Sporthotel Royer Schladming-Rohrmoos | Schladming-Dachstein Tourist Office

Organizing Committee Hans-Juergen Gawlick, Chairperson, Montanuniversitaet Leoben Sigrid Missoni, Vice-Chairperson, Montanuniversitaet Leoben Fritz Ebner, Montanuniversitaet Leoben Stephan Matthaei, Montanuniversitaet Leoben Karl Millahn, Montanuniversitaet Leoben Johann G. Raith, Montanuniversitaet Leoben Reinhard F. Sachsenhofer, Montanuniversitaet Leoben Tanja Schweiger, Schladming-Rohrmoos Tourist Office

Scientific Committee Daniel Ariztegui (Switzerland) Nenad Banjac (Serbia) Daniela Basso (Italy) Marc De Batist (Belgium) Peter Baumgartner (Switzerland) Poppe de Boer (The Netherlands) Ioan Bucur (Romania) Paul Carling (United Kingdom) Ivan Dulic (Serbia) Hilmar v. Eynatten (Germany) Wolfgang Frisch (Austria) Bruno Granier (France) Juergen Groetsch (The Netherlands) Janos Haas (Hungary) Patric Jacobs (Belgium)

Flavio Jadoul (Italy) Sergey Khafizow (Russia) Adamantios Kilias (Greece) Leopold Krystyn (Austria) Hiroki Matsuda (Japan) Vincenzo Pascucci (Italy) John Reijmer (The Netherlands) Stephen Rice (United Kingdom) Dilce Rosetti (Brazil) Thomas Stevens (United Kingdom) Finn Surlyk (Denmark) Peter Swart (USA) Igor Vlahovic (Croatia) Jiaxin Yan (China)

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Correspondence Montanuniversitaet Leoben Department of Applied Geosciences and Geophysics IAS 2012 - Prof. Dr. Hans-Juergen Gawlick Peter-Tunner Strasse 5 8700 Leoben Austria [email protected]

Calendar 1 June 2011

CALL FOR SESSIONS: Nomination of sessions in the scientific programme

30 September 2011

Sessions submission close

December 2011

2nd Circular: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Abstract submissions open. Standard registrations commence.

30 April 2012

Abstract submissions close. Standard registrations close (meeting, field trips, short courses). Late registrations commence.

July 2012

3rd Circular: PROGRAMME

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Programme timetable The timetable of the 29th IAS Meeting is outlined in the table below. The programme will take place over four days, between the Welcome Reception (Opening Ceremony with Icebreaker Party) in the evening of Monday 10 September and the Closing Ceremony in the late afternoon on Thursday 13 September 2012.

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Meeting

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Short Course

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Field Trip

Welcome Reception (Opening Ceremony with Icebreaker Party): Congress-Schladming Conference Dinner: Sporthotel Royer

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Scientific Programme General Information The scientific programme is outlined in the following pages. This is the basis for the CALL OF ABSTRACTS and for keynote speakers. Plenary lectures, keynote speakers and a public lecture of general interest are planned. In May-June 2012, the number and range of abstracts submitted will be taken into account to design the final programme and time table. The broad ranging scientific programme of the 29th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology includes 40 sessions grouped in 14 themes. Four to six simultaneous sessions will run, depending on the number of oral contributions. All sessions in the scientific programme are expected to include oral and poster presentations. Participants will only be permitted to deliver one oral and one poster presentation as first author, but they may be co-authors of multiple presentation modes. Keynote speakers may deliver a second oral presentation in the session programme.

Language English will be the official language of the meeting. No translation facilities will be available.

Scientific Programme Theme 1: Processes in sedimentation Theme 2: Basin analysis Theme 3: Marine depositional environments Theme 4: Continental depositional environments Theme 5: Diagenesis, fluid flow Theme 6: Applied sedimentology Theme 7: Hydrocarbon systems Theme 8: Hazards, events, climate signatures Theme 9: Modelling and application Theme 10: Sediments in mountain chains Theme 11: Stratigraphy and facies Theme 12: Geophysics/Seismics/Petrophysics Theme 13: Sedimentary ore deposits Open Symposium

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Theme 1: Processes in sedimentation T1 S1 Sediment generation, provenance, and dispersal Conveners: Hilmar v. Eynatten nl (Delft/The Netherlands)

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(Goettingen/Germany), Gert Jan Weltje

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In this session we strive to contribute to a comprehensive understanding of source-sink relations in clastic sedimentary systems. Contributions may include both forward-directed models focussing on sediment generation and dispersal in modern settings, and deductive approaches (i.e. provenance analysis) trying to decipher source-rock characteristics and sediment modifications on transit using the sedimentary record. We specifically invite contributions related to (i) new analytical techniques in sediment characterization, and (ii) quantitative approaches including bulk mass transfer from source to sink. We also invite regional studies highlighting specific geologic problems in modern or ancient settings.

T1 S2 Microbial carbonates Conveners: Stjepko Golubic [email protected] (Boston/USA), Bruno Granier [email protected] (Brest/France) This session is dedicated to the interactions between ‘microbes’, organic matter and calcium carbonate: that is mainly summarized under the name ‘biomineralization’, and it will also deal with bioerosion. Ideally it should be the right place to discuss the nature of the puzzling Bacinella structures at the thin-section scale, but also the larger scale, metric to decametric architecture of microbial geobodies.

T1 S3 Cyclic successions and their controlling factors Conveners: Janos Haas land)

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(Budapest/Hungary), Andre Strasser

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Sedimentary successions made up of regular alternations of beds - cycles - are common in various depositional settings from continental to deep-sea realms. The controlling pseudo-periodic processes cover a wide time-range from platetectonic movements and long-term climate changes (icehouse-greenhouse periods) of tens of million years, through orbitally forced changes of hundreds or tens of kiloyears to the twice-daily tidal cycles. In general several controlling factors determine lateral and vertical changes in facies characteristics. To determine the complexity of the responses in sedimentary systems and its major dictators is difficult. The aim of the session is the presentation and discussion of concepts and methods for recognition and genetic interpretations of various cyclic successions. Case studies on siliciclastic and carbonate successions are invited. Contributions on the still unsolved problems of the high-frequency peritidal-lagoonal carbonate cycles are especially welcome.

T1 S4 Animals, plants and clastic sedimentary processes in modern and ancient settings Conveners: Stephen Rice gium)

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(Loughborough/United Kingdom), Neil Davies

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The impact of animals and plants on sediment transport processes in fluvial, aeolian and marine environments remains

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understudied and largely unquantified. This session will examine the interactions between biota and clastic sediment transport in modern and ancient settings. Contributions are invited that consider how animals and plants affect the production of mobile materials, particle entrainment, clast sorting, transport fluxes and sediment deposition. All scales of enquiry and methodological approaches are welcome including experimental work, field studies and numerical modelling. Papers that link process understanding to larger scale sediment transfers or to evidence of animal and plant impacts in the sedimentary record, are particularly pertinent.

T1 S5 Multidisciplinary approach to understand the Precambrian environments Conveners: Elodie Vernhet [email protected] (Pointe-a-Pitre/France), Hassane El Chellai [email protected] (Marrakech/Morocco) In this session, we invite our colleagues to present their methods and results in every discipline that may highlight the depositional conditions of the Precambrian sedimentary record and lead to a better understanding of the Precambrian world.

T1 S6 Physical, numerical, and analytical modelling of sediment erosion, transport and deposition Conveners: Joris T. Eggenhuisen [email protected] (Utrecht/The Netherlands), Jaco H. Baas [email protected] (Bangor/United Kingdom), Matthieu J.B. Cartigny [email protected] (Utrecht/The Netherlands) Deducing the sediment transport processes active during the formation of a deposit from outcrop and core studies alone is a formidable challenge faced by many sedimentary geologists. Physical, analytical and numerical models have proven to be of great value by providing a means to study the formative sedimentary processes in controlled circumstances. The resulting insights have a high potential of supporting genetic interpretations of deposits in the field. This session welcomes all contributions that present process modelling results that enhance our understanding of the interactions between flow dynamics, sediment transport and bed morphologies. Authors are encouraged to link their modelling work to recent or ancient deposits. No constraints are put on depositional environment (from alluvial fan to deep-marine settings) or scale of the sedimentary process (from individual sediment particles to sedimentary structures and lithofacies, architectural elements, depositional environments and entire stratigraphic systems). It is anticipated that the mix of subjects and modelling approaches will stimulate cross pollination of different scientific disciplines.

T1 S7 Aeolian sediments and environments Conveners: Juan Pedro Rodriguez Lopez Plata/Argentina)

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(Madrid/Spain), Gonzalo Veiga

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Aeolian environments are complex depositional systems that are receiving an increasing attention. Contributions dealing with multidisciplinary approaches on both ancient and modern aeolian systems are welcome, in particular those dealing

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with the following issues: • 3D-modelling and high-resolution seismic studies on aeolian bedforms; • Windblown input and its effects on deep-sea sedimentary environments; • Unusual aeolian deposits (e.g., coarse-grained aeolian sediments); • Aeolian-marine, aeolian-fluvial, aeolian-volcanic systems; • Relative roles of allocyclic and autocyclic processes; • Carbonate aeolianites; • Extraterrestrial aeolian systems and comparative studies with terrestrial counterparts; • Characterization of aeolian reservoirs.

Theme 2: Basin analysis T2 S1 Tectono-sedimentary processes in ancient and modern extensional basins Conveners: Gianreto Manatschal [email protected], Emmanuel Masini [email protected] (both Strasbourg/France) Extensional basins in intracontinental rifts or rifted margins were classically linked to high-angle normal faulting, rift grabens or tilted blocks. However, the discovery of long offset low-angle detachment faults in deep-water rifted margins and post-orogenic extensional basins drastically changed the concepts of tectono-sedimentary processes in extensional settings. At present, neither conceptual nor numerical models exist to predict the stratigraphic architecture and tectonosedimentary evolution of these basins. This is mainly due to the lack of observations and well documented field examples. Understanding the overall stratigraphic architecture and tectono-sedimentary evolution of such basins represents a challenging task, with important implications for the understanding of extensional systems. For this session we invite field geologists, sedimentologists, modellers, exploration geologists and geophysicists interested in discussing the tectonosedimentary evolution of extensional settings, ranging from post-orogenic extensional basins to hyper-extended rift basins, and all other basins within extensional settings.

Theme 3: Marine depositional environments T3 S1 Heterozoan carbonates in non-tropical and tropical settings Conveners: Christian Betzler [email protected] (Hamburg/Germany), Juan Carlos Braga [email protected] (Granada/ Spain), Finn Surlyk [email protected] (Copenhagen/Denmark), John Reijmer [email protected] (Amsterdam/The Netherlands) In this session we seek for contributions focusing on heterozoan/cool-water carbonates. We aim to bring together contributions studying this type of sediments within tropical and non-tropical settings as well as shallow and deep-water environments. Studies on variations in sedimentation patterns and compositional variations through time are welcomed, but also geochemical characterizations and associated variations within these sediments. We are also looking for studies that provide a solid database for the documentation of variations within this type of carbonates throughout time and space, both in the fossil record as well as their present-day distribution.

T3 S2 Carbonate sedimentation in hypersaline environments Conveners: Stephen Lokier [email protected] (Abu Dhabi/United Arab Emirates), Judith McKenzie (Zuerich/ Switzerland), Thomas Steuber [email protected] (Abu Dhabi/United Arab Emirates)

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This session will focus on the formation and deposition of carbonates and associated sediments in both recent and ancient hypersaline environments. We invite contributions that discuss all sedimentary processes in these settings, including, but by no means limited to, the impacts on the biosphere, isotopic constraints and records, geochemistry and sedimentary facies development.

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T3 S3 Coastal environments Conveners: Vincenzo Pascucci [email protected] (Sassari/Italy), I. Peter Martini [email protected] (Guelph/Canada) Climate change and sea-level fluctuations are nowadays one of the crucial topics dealt with many studies on coastal evolution. The climate warming trend and the associated ever increasing melting of glaciers suggest future sea-level rise. However the duration and extent of these events is not known. These processes and events have occurred in the past during glacial and interglacial times and have left clear evidence that could be utilized to understand and surmise what could happen in the future. The principal objectives of the session are: (1) to focus analysis on the morphology, dynamics and sediments of selected past and present coastal environments; (2) to compare and contrast changes in costal environments associated with eustatic and isostatic movements; (3) to examine the impact of human activities on the evolution of coastal areas, including construction of defensive structures, utilization of coastal areas for tourism or other activities, and inland management of water courses and extraction of fluvial deposits.

T3 S4 Geobiology and sedimentology on continental margins Conveners: Hildegard Westphal [email protected] (Bremen/Germany), Wolf-Christian Dullo cdullo@ifm-geomar. de (Kiel/Germany), Andre Freiwald [email protected] (Wilhemshaven/Germany), Dierk Hebbeln [email protected] (Bremen/Germany) Continental margins mediate between the deep sea and the coastal areas and are linked to processes of both areas. The sedimentary record of this realm is the most complete archive of environmental and geological history. Apart from deposition of reworked biogenic and abiogenic sediment, continental margins also are the locus of in situ biogenic sediment formation such as large scale carbonate bodies, presently mainly constructed by azooxanthellate corals. This session aims at discussing the biological, oceanographic and climatic constraints of geobiological structures on continental margins and their role as environmental archives.

T3 S5 Sediment-benthos interaction in recent coastal environments Conveners: Daniela Basso [email protected] (Milano-Bicocca/Italy), Bernhard Riegl [email protected] (Dania Beach/USA) Coastal carbonates are strongly dependent on the distribution and growth rate of the benthic carbonate producers, on their ecological succession from first colonization to mature association, and on post-mortem processes affecting their skeletal remains. On the other hand, substrate texture and sedimentation rate are the primary controlling factors in benthic facies development. The session is intended as a forum for the discussion of all aspects of sediment-benthos interaction, including, among others, the geological and environmental controls on the distribution of biogenic sedimentary facies in shallow-waters, the controls on biogenic build-ups from inception to demise, the response of carbonate producers to environmental perturbations such as the ongoing climate change and the human impact, and the biogenic sediment budgets.

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Theme 4: Continental depositional environments T4 S1 Karst, cave sediments and speleothems Convener: Roman Aubrecht [email protected] (Bratislava/Slovakia) The session will be devoted to the latest research concerning karst formation in carbonate and non-carbonate terrains, comparing its geochemistry, timing and climate influence. Another topic of the session will be cave deposits, with a focus on sedimentation in restricted, tube-like spaces. The third topic will concern speleothems in carbonate and non-carbonate caves, they way of precipitation, geochemistry, climate dependence and eventual organomineralization or biological mediation.

Theme 5: Diagenesis, fluid flow T5 S1 Carbonate diagenesis including dolomitization Conveners: Peter Swart [email protected] (Miami/USA), Kyger Lohmann [email protected] (Michigan/USA) Abstracts are requested on topics associated with carbonate diagenesis. These topics include, but are not limited to, dolomitization, recrystallization, fluid inclusions, associated petrographic, and geochemical changes. In particular we welcome contributions which deal with aspects of clumped isotopes and diagenesis.

Theme 6: Applied sedimentology T6 S1 Exploration and mining of sedimentary mineral deposits Conveners: Peter Moser, Hannes Blaha, Heinrich Mali [email protected] (all Leoben/Austria) The issue of this session is the linking of sedimentology with the exploitation of sedimentary mineral resources. Included are all kinds of sedimentary deposits of clastic sediments like clay, sand, gravel, marl, sandstone, of evaporite-like salts and gypsum, biogenic sedimentary deposits of chalk, limestone, dolomite, magnesite, coal, sedimentary deposits of metalliferous ores like banded iron formation, sedex base metal deposits, heavy mineral sands, rollfront uranium deposits and others. Additionally weathered, diagenetically, metasomatically or hydrothermally altered as well as slightly metamorphosed sedimentary deposits like kaolinite, bentonite, sparry magnesite, talc, siderite, graphite, quartzite, marble and others have to be taken into account. The mineralogic, petrographic, genetic, geometric etc. sedimentary features of the deposits influencing the prospection/exploration strategy and procedure, geostatistics, block modelling, grade distribution and control, 3D deposit modelling, geomechanics, rock mass classification, mine design and mining activities are of interest.

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T6 S2 Development of aquifers in sediments and sedimentary rocks Convener: Giorgio Hoefer-Oellinger [email protected] (Salzburg/Austria) Hydraulic properties of an aquifer depend principally on sedimentological characteristics, e.g., the geometry and grain distribution of the sediment body. All geological strata show an evolution, which can be sedimentation, diagenesis, uplift or erosion. The hydrogeological processes are influenced by this evolution. Even (repeated) climate change affects the aquifer. There are processes lowering or increasing the permeability. In sedimentary rocks, the role of tectonics or karst development, in combination with tectonic uplift or lowering of discharge level, play important roles. The expected changes in geometric properties are important in the chemical environment with serious impact on groundwater properties.

T6 S3 Special clays in Mediterranean area Conveners: Mercedes Suarez [email protected] (Salamanca/Spain), Vladimir Simic [email protected] (Belgrade/Serbia) Special clays (e.g., sepiolite, palygorskite, bentonite, saponite, hectorite) are relatively rare mineral commodities throughout the world, since the economic deposits are restricted to several countries (USA, Spain, Turkey, Senegal, etc). Nevertheless, in SE Europe numerous sedimentary sepiolite/palygorskite occurrences have been discovered in last 15-20 years. Those clays, together with some rare bentonite deposits are of interest for sedimentologists because they can be useful as paleoambiental indicators. Economic geologists are always interested in genetic models of deposits as leading guidance for prospecting new areas. Thus we believe that the proposed session on special clays will help geologists to get a “regional vision” of these types of deposits. The economic importance of special clays is almost endless, particularly in environmental-friendly products (e.g., cat and pet litters, waste treatment, industrial absorbents, animal feedstuffs, household uses).

Theme 7: Hydrocarbon systems T7 S1 Advances in the understanding of mudstones as unconventional hydrocarbon deposits Conveners: Ulrich Bieg [email protected] (Vienna/Austria), Reinhard F. Sachsenhofer (Leoben/Austria), Hans-Martin Schulz [email protected] (Potsdam/Germany)

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Within recent years production technologies of unconventional hydrocarbon deposits (e.g., shale gas and shale oil, oil shale, tight gas) greatly improved. Being able to upscale from micro/pore-scale to field/production scale by integrating various disciplines, is the key to unlock the potential of future unconventional resources. This session invites contributions to discuss why some successions are more prolific than others (e.g., due to internal heterogeneities). For this reason controlling factors in an overall sense concerning the depositional environment (e.g., eustasy, sea-level changes, palaeoceanographic setting) are addressed. Moreover, the evolution over time due to burial, incorporating changes in maturity and diagenetic effects are crucial factors for unconventional hydrocarbon resources.

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T7 S2 Petroleum exploration and sedimentary basin analysis and modelling Conveners: Ivan Dulic [email protected], Radmilo Jovanovic [email protected] (both Novi Sad/Serbia) We invite geoscientists to contribute with their research results on exploration and evaluation of petroleum deposits. This session will be focused on petroleum exploration of extracting the predicted subsurface conditions of source, maturation, reservoir, migration, trap and seal in tectonostratigraphic interactive sedimentary basins and their modelling.

T7 S3 Pre-Messinian strata of the Middle-East and the Near-East (with a special focus on oil and gas reservoirs) Conveners: Bruno Granier [email protected] (Brest/France), Hans-Joachim Kuss [email protected] (Bremen/Germany) We encourage participants with geological and geophysical academic and industry backgrounds to report on projects covering the state of art as well as to focus on defining innovative research directions between industry and academia to explore novel methods for geologic modelling. Case studies will allow to identify areas for future need of extended research.

T7 S4 Oil and gas reservoirs in EurAsia Conveners: Sergey Khafizow Austria)

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(St. Petersburg/Russia), Gabor Tari

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(Vienna/

This session will be devoted to the current state of knowledge in exploration of siliciclastic and carbonate reservoirs. Special emphasis will be placed on depositional environments and their impact on reservoir presence and quality. The session will address these issues by inviting case studies and best practices demonstrating the best possible prognosis of reservoir quality using multidisciplinary studies in mature, emerging and frontier basins of EurAsia.

T7 S5 Linking texture, flow processes and reservoir quality in deep-marine sandstones Conveners: Ian Kane [email protected] (Bergen/Norway), Peter Haughton [email protected] (Dublin/Ireland) Depositional reservoir quality is strongly controlled by both detrital clay content and grain size distribution, which equally control, and are controlled by, flow processes during transport and deposition. It has long been known that turbulent flows are particularly efficient sorters of sediment, and that their deposits, turbidites, can reflect this in their well-sorted nature and often excellent reservoir properties. However, in many deep-water reservoirs, sandstones which are interpreted to have been deposited by flows with transitional rheologies, fluctuating between turbulent and laminar, and flows with discrete rheological boundaries (composite or co-genetic flows), are common. The resultant deposits (banded sandstones and hybrid event beds respectively) have complex spatial and stratigraphic distributions and highly variable reservoir quality and are thus crucial to understand in order to develop predictive sedimentological concepts for deep-marine reservoir quality distribution. Additionally, whilst clay distribution and different clay types influence flow processes and deposits, they also have different effects, both negative and positive, on reservoir quality during deeper burial and diagenesis. This session intends to address these issues by inviting papers which link textural fractionation to sedimentological processes and in turn to reservoir quality of the deep-marine sandstones.

T7 S6 Organofacies and organic geochemistry of European unconventional shale plays Conveners: Axel Emmerich Germany)

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(Karlsruhe/Germany), Hartmut Jaeger

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(Heidelberg/

The success of shale gas exploration in North America - potentially turning North America into a net exporter of gas in coming years - and most recently the emerging shale oil industry has led to the question whether such a story could be replicated in Europe. Many researchers, consulting companies as well as international and national oil companies have come up with different, sometimes controversial answers. As being proved by recent shale and oil gas case studies in the U.S., the devil is - as usually - in the details. Sweet spot detection and the deliberate search for liquid prone plays only a few of those examples directly related to the nature of source rocks in unconventional shale exploration and production. Therefore all geoscientists dealing with source rocks in European oil and shale gas plays are encouraged to submit a

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contribution - either as oral or poster presentations. Since most potential European shale resource plays already have a long lasting record of conventional E&P activities it is expected that the session will address the following of source rock related topics: • Organofacies: Palaeoenvironment and syn-sedimentary processes. • Controls of sequence stratigraphy on organofacies. • Geochemical characterization: initial TOC and kinetics. • Geochemical / petroleum systems modelling: quantification of primary and secondary cracking • Maturation and hydrocarbon expulsion.

Theme 8: Hazards, events, climate signatures T8 S1 Mass-transport deposits, olistostromes and mélange formation in modern and ancient continental margins, and associated natural hazards Conveners: Andrea Festa [email protected] (Torino/Italy), Yildirim Dilek [email protected] (Leoben/Austria)

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(Miami/USA), Sigrid Missoni

Mass-transport deposits, olistostromes and mélanges represent significant components of both modern and ancient continental margins, including active, passive and hybrid margin types. Tectonic forces and processes constitute the most common triggering mechanisms to induce both directly (e.g., faulting, thrusting and related seismicity) and indirectly downslope movement and formation of mass-transport deposits, olistostromes and mélanges. The aim of this session is to bring together geoscientists with different backgrounds (e.g., sedimentologists, structural geologists, geophysicists, hydrologists) to examine recent case studies from modern and ancient continental margins in order to better document: (i) the relations between triggering mechanisms, processes and chaotic products; (ii) the dynamics, mechanical stability and morphology of active and passive margins, and (iii) the formation and artifacts of submarine landslides and the consequences and mitigation of related hazards (e.g., tsunamis). Comparative analyses of modern and ancient examples are particularly important to help us recognize various chaotic deposits in the rock record and the processes of their formation. Field-based sedimentological, stratigraphic, structural, geophysical, deep-ocean drilling, and submersible studies of different active and passive continental margins are welcome contributions.

T8 S2 Tsunami deposits in the historical and geological record: their discrimination and critical contribution to tsunami risk assessment Conveners: Kazuhisa Goto [email protected] (Chiba/Japan), David R. Tappin dom), Witold Szczucinski [email protected] (Poznan/Poland)

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The devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck the northeast coast of Japan on March 11th 2011 demonstrates that probabilistic analysis on the risk from these infrequent events requires empirical validation from field evidence that may be available both locally and globally. However, a robust discrimination of tsunami sediments from other high-energy deposits, such as storms, is still wanting. As an increasing number of recent tsunami deposits are recognized and described, the goal of recognition becomes attainable but is not yet within reach. We seek for this session contributions on recent, historic and pre-historic tsunami deposits and on any related fields that will advance the characterization of these deposits and lead to an improved understanding of their frequency in the historic and geologic record.

T8 S3 From the Late Permian to the Middle Triassic: perturbations around the Permian/Triassic boundary Conveners: Micha Horacek [email protected] (Tulln/Austria), Rainer Brandner [email protected] (Innsbruck/Austria), Dunja Aljinovic [email protected] (Zagreb/Croatia) The period from the Late Permian to the beginning of the Middle Triassic was a time of major perturbations in global ocean chemistry, biostratigraphy and even in sedimentary successions spanning this interval. This session is dedicated to this period, especially to bio- and chemostratigraphical, geochemical and sedimentological investigations of the global cycles, extinction and recovery, ocean circulation and climate. The session is also a platform for scientists involved in IGCP

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Project 572: ‘Restoration of Marine Ecosystems following the Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction: lessons for the present’.

T8 S4 Late and End-Triassic events, a multidisciplinary approach Conveners: Sylvain Richoz [email protected] (Graz/Austria), Leopold Krystyn [email protected] (Vienna/Austria), Spela Gorican [email protected] (Ljubljana/Slovenia) The inauguration of the Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the Triassic/Jurassic Boundary in Austria is an opportunity to take a closer look on the Late and End-Triassic events and their interplay and their signals in the sedimentary record. The Late Triassic is a time of strong disturbance in the marine environment and biodiversity with repeated events and crises - at the Early Carnian/Late Carnian boundary, the Early Norian/Middle Norian boundary, the Norian/Rhaetian boundary, likely within the Rhaetian and finally at the Triassic/Jurassic boundary. The overall impression is that despite new originations, concomitant biodiversity decline may be punctuated by a series of accelerated steps between the Carnian to Rhaetian, while the T-J boundary event may have been the final strike. This session focuses on the recent developments on these different events and crises from a multidisciplinary point of view (e.g., palaeontology, sedimentology, geochemistry, modelling). Papers discussing the Early Jurassic recovery of ecosystems are also welcome.

T8 S5 Mesozoic oceans and climate - sedimentary archives on land and under the sea Convener: Helmut Weissert [email protected] (Zuerich/Switzerland) The aim of this session is to provide a platform for discussion among sedimentologists interested in Mesozoic ocean and climate history. We encourage contributions that contribute to a better understanding how orogenesis, erosional history and climate are linked, how ocean anoxia left its signature in marine sediments, how changes in climate had an impact on oceanography, how changing ocean chemistry affected marine life or how the orbital pulse is monitored in sedimentary records.

T8 S6 Sedimentology of the crisis intervals in the Earth history Conveners: Geza Csaszar [email protected] (Budapest/Hungary), Finn Surlyk [email protected] (Copenhagen/Denmark) There were several crisis situations in Earth history. Some of them are well known as extinction periods when many species, genera and even families became extinct. The majority of them is also known as turning points of the Earth history from other aspects. These affairs can be caused by a substantial decrease or increase of temperature on the surface of the Earth. Causes can be intra-terrestrial and extraterrestrial and the reason cannot be identified in many cases. The results of temperature decrease are often manifested in glaciations over large parts of the globe. The glacial intervals have also caused changes in the type of sedimentation. Almost nothing is known about short-term increases of temperature. In addition to the special type of sedimentation of glacial periods it is high time to pay more attention to short-term changes of temperature which possibly can be recognised in sediments. The session invites contributions which discuss signals in sediments caused by radical increases or decreases of temperature, the occurrence of extra radiation, or changes in mineral or element composition to distinguish the various causes in the frequent but not systematic changes in the Earth history.

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T8 S7 Climate-environmental deteriorations during greenhouse phases: Causes and consequences of short-term Cretaceous sea-level changes Conveners: Michael Wagreich [email protected] (Vienna/Austria), Xiumian Hu [email protected] (Nanjing/China), Ismail Omer Yilmaz [email protected] (Ankara/Turkey) The recent rise in sea-level in response to rising levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases is a primary concern for society. Evidence from Earth’s history indicates that Cretaceous sea-level changes occurred at rates an order of magnitude or more higher than observed at present. The session aims to bring together scientists working on topics like Cretaceous sequence stratigraphy, cyclostratigraphy, paleoclimatology and paleoceanography to discuss causes and consequences of sea-level changes during Cretaceous times.

Theme 9: Modelling and application T9 S1 Sedimentology in 3D subsurface modelling - working towards integrated workflows Conveners: Juergen Groetsch [email protected] (Rijswijk/The Netherlands), Maria Mutti [email protected] (Potsdam/Germany) Subsurface reservoir modelling is a technology which is used in a variety of different areas in industry like water resource management, fluid and gas storage and containment or the hydrocarbon industry. In all these efforts sedimentologist provide crucial input on modelling the respective reservoirs including inherent uncertainties. In industry, the standards for clastic reservoirs modelling workflows are relatively well established while those for carbonate reservoirs are still considered less mature. The purpose of this session is to provide a forum for the global sedimentology community to share approaches and workflows on clastic and carbonate reservoir modelling aiming towards further improving the links between sedimentology and subsurface modelling and, hence, towards improving subsurface workflows.

Theme 10: Sediments in mountain chains T10 S1 Cherty sediments from oceans to mountains Conveners: Peter Baumgartner [email protected] (Lausanne/Switzerland), Patrick De Wever France)

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Cherts in shallow- and deep-water sediments have usually a biogenic origin. While siliceous sponges have been a benthic biogenic silica source for the whole Phanerozoic, the plankton source shifted form radiolarians in the PalaeozoicMesozoic to diatoms in the Cenozoic. Is the presence of chert in sediments indicative of high nutrient levels? What are the palaeoenvironmental and diagenetic controls of the formation of chert? How does the abundance of chert through time relate to the global silica and carbon cycles?

T10 S2 Tectonics and sedimentary evolution of the Palaeogene/Neogene basins in the Alps-Carpathians-Dinarides-Hellenides Conveners: Adamantios Kilias [email protected] (Thessaloniki/Greece), Wolfgang Frisch [email protected] (Vienna/Austria) The proposed session aims to bring together geoscientists studying the tectonic and sedimentary history of Tertiary basins in the Alps and Southeastern Europe. Some of these basins, apart from their scientific interests are also of great economical significance (e.g., gold bearing strata, hydrocarbon or lignite reservoirs). Basins analysis is a very important part of geological research to highlight orogenic processes and their alternations, as well as the overall geodynamic setting (extension vs. compression), and the architecture of an orogen. The detailed documentation of the strata geometries of basins fills, the sedimentary facies and chronostratigraphy, combined with structural studies and faults-slip data to determine principal strain axes, will provide significant information on the palaeogeographic evolution of orogenic belts, the history of uplift and subsidence and possible propagation patterns of the basins due to subduction-related processes (e.g., rollback of the subduction zone). Furthermore, younger basins of Pleistocene up to

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recent give in combination with other morphotectonic data, important information about active fault zones.

Theme 11: Stratigraphy and facies T11 S1 Calcareous algae and carbonate platforms Conveners: Ioan Bucur [email protected] (Cluj-Napoca/Romania), Elias Samankassou [email protected] (Geneva/ Switzerland), James Nebelsick [email protected] (Tuebingen/Germany) Calcareous algae are important components of geological and present-day forming shallow-water carbonate deposits (carbonate platforms). Their systematic investigation, as well as information on their space and time distribution may significantly contribute to understanding local paleoecological relationships and reconstructing depositional environments. Based on presentations and related debates, the session aims to propel new arguments for the significance of calcareous algae in the interpretation of shallow-water carbonate facies, starting from the following main themes: • Algae as carbonate producers; • Carbonate diagenesis and its relationship to paleoecology and taphonomy of calcareous algae; • Algal biodiversity and sedimentary evolution of carbonate platforms; • Algae and sequence stratigraphy: posibility to use calcareous algae assemblages, and other algal-related microorganisms to identify sequence stratigraphic events; • Algae in reefs and organic build-ups; • Using the palaeoecology of algae to help reconstruct platform and ramp morphologies.

T11 S2 Advances in chemostratigraphy Conveners: Adrian Immenhauser [email protected] (Bochum/Germany), Volker Vahrenkamp vvahrenkamp@ adco.ae (Abu Dhabi/United Arab Emirates) This session will focus on the application and advances in the field of chemostratigraphy of marine and terrestrial sediments and sedimentary rocks including laboratory precipitation experiments. We welcome contributions dealing with traditional and non-traditional (stable and radiogenic) isotope systems, trace and major elements as well as the numerical modelling of geochemical data sets. An important aspect includes the field of diagenesis affecting and potentially limiting the application and dating of geological archives by means of their geochemical record.

Theme 12: Geophysics/Seismics/Petrophysics T12 S1 Carbonate facies and petrophysical properties Conveners: Philippe Leonide [email protected] (Marseille/France), Anneleen Foubert [email protected]. be (Leuven/Belgium), Francois Fournier (Marseille/France), Rudy Swennen [email protected] (Leuven/Belgium), John Reijmer [email protected] (Amsterdam/The Netherlands) The session ‘Petrophysical properties and seismic expression of carbonates’ aims to bring together studies concerning the petrophysical behaviour of carbonate sediments and rocks in all its aspects. We invite presentations dealing with the impact of diagenesis on porosity, permeability and elastic properties at different scales, emphasizing up-scaling and heterogeneity. Particularly, new approaches to study petrophysical parameters in three dimensions and comparative approaches between 3D studies and other petrophysical characterization techniques are welcomed. The session has a broad scope as petrophysical properties of complex carbonates can only be understood if studies are performed at different scales and from different viewpoints (from microporous till fracture-controlled reservoir characteristics). Topics: • 3D imaging and characterization of pore network in carbonates; • Impact of depositional and diagenetic processes on porosity, permeability and elastic properties; • Depositional, diagenetic and stratigraphic architecture of carbonate reservoirs: origin, heterogeneity and reservoir properties upscaling; • Seismic expression of depositional and diagenetic features in carbonates;

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• Electrical properties and georadar imaging of carbonate rocks; • Petrophysical properties and reservoir architecture of fractured carbonates.

Theme 13: Sedimentary ore deposits T13 S1 Sedimentary hosted lithium deposits: depositional setting and genesis Convener: Nenad Grubin [email protected] (Belgrade/Serbia) Lithium is a relatively rare element: it ranks 27th in the suite of elemental abundance, but its importance increases rapidly. The average amount in the earth’s upper crust has been estimated at about 20 ppm. There are about 145 minerals containing lithium as a major component (>200 with >0.002% Li2O), and about 25 contain over 2% Li2O. Large-scale borate deposits in the USA and Turkey are hosted within Neogene lake sediments associated with contemporaneous faulting and volcanism. Borates within the lake sediments appear to be chemical precipitates that formed as the concentration of boron in the lake waters reached temporary saturation levels, either as a result of changes in evaporation rates, or because of influxes from nearby hot springs. On the other hand, all previously known major lithium deposits with commercial potential such as brine deposits and pegmatites, have been formed because of lithium’s higher solubility than most other cations, so it sometimes has concentrated in flowing and cooling magma and/or its accompanying aqueous fluids, as well as in evaporating brines. All contributions dealing with depositional setting and the genesis as well as case studies are welcome.

T13 S2 Black shales and ore deposits Conveners: Jan Pasava [email protected] (Prague/Czech Republic), Bernd Lehmann [email protected] (ClausthalZellerfeld/Germany) Black shales host a wide spectrum of mineral deposits (Au, PGE, U, Mo, Ni, Mn, P, V, Hg, Sb, W, Ba, and minor elements). Our session will focus on various ore forming processes and the role of black shales in the formation of economically important metal enrichment.

T13 S3 Sediment-hosted Pb-Zn deposits Conveners: Johann G. Raith [email protected] (Leoben/Austria), Henryk Kucha [email protected] (Krakow/Poland) Adrian Boyce (Glasgow/Scotland) Siliciclastic and carbonate rocks are the major host rocks of various types of Pb-Zn deposits, which are not only major resources for these base metals but may also contain some rare high-tech metals or elements of environmental concern (e.g., Ge, Cd). This session invites contributions dealing with ore forming processes in these environments on various scales ranging from the study of large scale geotectonics and fluid flow, the study of trace elements and isotopes in minerals, the dating of these ore deposits to the role of microbes in the formation of these ore deposits.

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Field Trips 5 Pre-Meeting and 6 Post-Meeting field trips will be organized within the context of 29th IAS Meeting. All field trips require a minimum participation of 20-25 and can accommodate up to a maximum of 25-50 persons. All field trips will start and end in Schladming. General Information Note that field trips involve travel in other countries than Austria: Bosnia/Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia and Slovenia. Participants to the field trips requiring any visa or special passports should make the necessary arrangements by themselves well in advance. • Participants of field trips must also register for the 29th IAS Meeting. • Attendees, who wish to book a field trip should indicate this in the registration form. • Field trips are limited in size and are reserved on a first-come, first-served basis and must be accompanied 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, be sure that the trip will take place, as trips may be cancelled if under-subscribed. • In some cases a booking of a single room is not possible or single rooms are limited. If you wish a single room, please note this on the registration form. A single room booking must be also accompanied by full payment. • Several weeks prior to the trip, you will receive information with details of meeting points, transportation during the trip, phone and email addresses of trip leaders. • Proper clothing and supplies are needed for the outdoors, mostly in mountainous areas (e.g., mountain boots, hat, wind breaker, umbrella, sunscreen, rucksack and insect repellent). Notify that it can be cold. Most trips include hiking in mountainous areas. Participants are advised to check local weather forecasts. • Neither the organizers nor the field trip leaders are responsible for insurance covering illness or injury for individuals. Pre-Meeting Field Trips A1 End-Triassic crisis events recorded in platforms and basins of the Austrian Alps. The Triassic/Jurassic and Norian/ Rhaetian GSSPs (Austria) (for details) A2 Marine to continental depositional systems of Outer Dinarides foreland and intra-montane basins (Eocene-Miocene, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina) (for details) A3 From Late Triassic passive to Early Cretaceous active continental margin with dominantly carbonate sediments in the Transdanubian Range, Western Tethys (Hungary) (for details) A4 The Rannach Facies of the Graz Palaeozoic (Eastern Alps, Austria) (for details) A5 Siderite and magnesite mineralizations in Palaeozoic strata of the Eastern Alps (Austria) (for details) Post-Meeting Field Trips B1 Middle Triassic platform/basin transition along the Alpine passive continental margin facing the Tethys Ocean (Gamsstein; Styria, Austria) (for details) B2 Jurassic active continental margin deep-water basin and carbonate platform formation in the north-western Tethyan realm (Austria, Germany) (for details) B3 Mesozoic deep-water basins of the eastern Southern Alps (Slovenia) (for details) B4 Paleokarst, neptunian dykes, collapse breccias, mud-mounds and sedimentary unconformities (Western Carpathians, Slovakia) (for details) B5 Neogene pull-apart basins in the Eastern Alps (Austria) (for details) B6 Permian/Triassic boundary and Lower Triassic in the Dolomites, Southern Alps (Italy) (for details)

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A1 End-Triassic crisis events recorded in platforms and basins of the Austrian Alps. The Triassic/ Jurassic and Norian/Rhaetian GSSPs (Austria) Sylvain Richoz [email protected] (Graz/Austria), Leopold Krystyn (Vienna/Austria), Axel von Hillebrandt (Berlin/Germany) Duration: 4 days: 07-10 September 2012 Includes: field trip guidebook, transportation, lunch packets, accommodation with breakfast, dinner. Price: double room 440 EURO/person | single room 500 EURO/person. Participants: Minimum 21, Maximum 42. This field trip is a unique opportunity to visit (i) both Norian/Rhaetian and Triassic/Jurassic GSSPs (Global Stratotype Section and Point), (ii) to see how Late Triassic biotic crisis events are recorded in basinal and platform settings of this classical carbonate sedimentology study area, and (iii) to understand the sedimentary interactions between platform and basin during this time of multiple crisis. The Austrian Northern Calcareous Alps built during the Late Triassic a huge carbonate platform with large lagoons and fringing reefs (Dachstein Formation) bordered by intra-platform basins and a transition to the open ocean where pelagic offshore facies has been deposited. The Norian inshore platform sedimentation with typical peritidal Lofer cycles, the barrier reef facies and the offshore Hallstatt type facies (red condensed pelagic limestone) will all be visited in their type areas. We will have the opportunity to observe the influence of the Late Triassic crisis intervals on the sedimentary record of various settings (lagoon, reefs, intra-platform basin, slope, pelagic plateau). Reefs were still flourishing during the Lower Rhaetian despite the pelagic fauna has already started decreasing. We will look at the final bloom of the reefs and their stepwise drowning/extinction history, and will see the ultimate breakdown of the carbonate factory on the platform and its response in the basin during the End-Triassic crisis.

1- Zamblach and Schneckenkogel; 2- Steinbergkogel; 3- Gosausee; 4- Eisriesenwelt; 5- Adnet; 6- Steinplatte; 7- Eiberg; 8- Kuhjoch; 3, 6 and A are overnight places.

What you will see • Norian strata in a pelagic off-shore, Hallstatt-type, carbonate facies near its type locality (locality 1). The specific stratigraphic importance of the cephalopod-rich Hallstatt facies of the Salzkammergut is expressed in the fact that all Late Triassic substages, except for the Early Carnian, are defined herein. The Hallstatt facies is of peculiar importance for questions of primary producers (nano-organisms) of this extremely fine-grained pelagic mud as well as of very specific sedimentation features such as early cementation, condensation, synsedimentary tectonics with fissure building and local off- and onlaps - all within in a deep-

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marine setting. The Schneckenkogel section documents within 50 m an overall Norian accumulation rate of 2-3 m per million years.

• The proposed Norian/Rhaetian GSSP in Hallstatt (locality 2). The proposed GSSP section at Steinbergkogel exposes a pelagic basin facies of red and gray Norian to Lower Rhaetian Hallstatt Limestone with a rich ammonoid, bivalve and micro-fauna that allows together with chemo- and magnetostratigraphy a multistratigraphic event correlation of the Norian/Rhaetian boundary.

• Norian platform sequence (Dachstein facies, Peritidal/Lofer cycle) (localities 3 and 4). The huge Dachstein carbonate platform represent a fossil counterpart to the modern Bahamian carbonate system. The bedded Dachstein Limestone together with the Hauptdolomit make up the majority of the extensive carbonate plateaus of the Northern Calcareous Alps, reaching to more than 2000 m in thickness. These units reflect a variety of shallow-water facies (ooid ridges, oolithic facies, grapestone facies, foraminifera and algal facies, mud facies, pellet mud facies changing laterally into muddy tidal flats with the typical “loferites” (first described from the bedded Dachstein limestone: Fischer 1964) and supratidal areas with lateritic palaeosol. The frequently regular vertical arrangement of these deposits led to the formation of the well- known ‘Lofer cyclothem’ (Fischer 1964).

• Rhaetian sequences in off-shore carbonate (Hallstatt), terrigenous (Zlambach) and mixed carbonatic-terrigenous intrashelf basin (Koessen) facies (localities 1, 2 and 7). A comparison of age equivalent off-shore homogeneous carbonatic and terrigenous facies vs. cyclically staked mixed carbonaticterrigenous intraplatform basin facies.

• Rhaetian reefs and their stepwise drowning/extinction history (localities 5 and 6). During the Rhaetian, for the first time in earth history, scleractinian corals dominated the reef framework. The drowning history of these builds-up is superimposed by the End-Triassic mass extinction and makes the story in the Austrian Alps thrilling.

• The Triassic/Jurassic GSSP at the Kuhjoch (carbonate crisis and extinction history in basin) (locality 8). The Triassic/Jurassic GSSP at the Kuhjoch is the most expanded marine T/J section of the world and contains the richest marine fauna with an abundant microflora allowing a cross-correlation with the continental realm. It developed in the Eiberg Basin, a Rhaetian intraplatform depression flanked by carbonate platforms to the north and south, which continuously subsided in Late Rhaetian time reaching 150-200 m water depth. It was less affected by the End-Triassic sea-level drop which led to widespread and longer-lasting emersion of the surrounding shallow-water areas. Instead, marine conditions prevailed in the basin across the system boundary, where a distinct and abrupt lithologic change from basinal carbonates to marls and clayey sediments - now interpreted as the result of the Camp eruption - record the mass-extinction event and, above, the first appearance of Jurassic fauna.

The whole story will be presented in the Northern Calcareous Alps (Salzkammergut region, Salzburg and Tyrol), in a mountainous terrain of scenic beauty. A highlight in one of the classical geological areas of the world.

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A2 Marine to continental depositional systems of Outer Dinarides foreland and intra-montane basins (Eocene-Miocene, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina) Ervin Mrinjek (Zagreb/Croatia), Oleg Mandic (Vienna/Austria), Igor Vlahovic [email protected] (Zagreb/Croatia) Duration: 5 days: 06-10 September 2012 Includes: field trip guidebook, transportation, lunch packets, accommodation with breakfast, dinner. Price: double room 550 EURO/person | single room 630 EURO/person. Participants: Minimum 25, Maximum 50. The excursion focuses on the sedimentation accompanying the development of the Dinaride orogenic belt. The Palaeogene sedimentation in the foreland basin of northern Dalmatia was characterized by a structural collapse and marine drowning of a pre-existing carbonate platform, with a deep-water environment gradually replaced by marginal marine and alluvial environments in a clastic basin-fill succession ~2000 m thick. In the Neogene, a series of longitudinal intramontane basins formed within the orogenic belt, accumulating up to 2000 m of lacustrine carbonates and coal-bearing deposits. The excursion will accordingly consist of two parts, showing both styles of sedimentation, as well as specific and controversial penecontemporaneous carbonate breccia surrounding the Velebit Mt. Days 1-3: Introduction to the excursion, the Eocene-Oligocene Promina Beds succession of the foreland basin in northern Dalmatia and massive Tertiary Velebit carbonate breccia Leaders: Ervin Mrinjek, Wojciech Nemec, Goran Miksa, Vili Pencinger, Jasenka Sremac, Ivo Velic, Igor Vlahovic The Dinaride foreland basin formed by the tectonic deformation and marine drowning of an emerged and denudated Cretaceous carbonate platform as a result of the SW-directed orogenic compression. The field trip will focus on the development of the foreland proximal zone, recorded by an Eocene-Oligocene calciclastic succession known as the Promina Beds. ~2000 m thick and representing an upward transition from deep-neritic to terrestrial deposits in an evolving orogenic wedge-top (‘piggy-back’) basin. The following lithostratigraphic units of the foreland basin-fill succession will be studied: • The Korlat Unit (Middle to Late Eocene) - a calciclastic heterolithic succession of intercalated sandstone and mudstone beds deposited on a deep-neritic lower slope and basin floor, including huge carbonate olistoliths and megabeds spawned by seismic activity along a blind-thrust anticline and showing a classical progressive unconformity. • Bioclastic mud mounds of Middle to Late Eocene age - the local carbonate factories composed of carbonate mud and shell detritus, flanked by steeply inclined marlstone beds and “installed” in the photic zone on topographic ridges (incipient blind-thrust anticlines). • The Benkovac Stone Unit (Late Eocene age) - a thinly bedded succession of alternating calciclastic sandstones and calcareous, with the trace-fossil assemblage including species of the Nereites ichnofacies and representing one of the shallowest known occurrences of a classical ‘flysch’ ichnofauna. • The contrasting deep-water facies successions (Middle to Late Eocene) deposited on the opposite limbs of a growth syncline, one dominated by coarse-grained sediments derived from a steep fan-delta slope and the other dominated by finer-grained sediments deposited on a gentler submarine slope. • The deposits of coalescing alluvial fans (Early Oligocene) that prograded from the basin’s inner margin, comprising conglomerates, subordinate sandstones and pedogenically-modified mudstones.

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As a bonus stop, the excursion will briefly visit the Velebit Mt. area, to see the enigmatic Velebit carbonate breccia (Cenozoic) that covers an area of more than 1000 km2. The breccia is massive, clast-supported, non-bedded and lacking in visible sedimentary structures. Clasts are mostly angular and poorly sorted, ranging in size from less than 1 mm to several centimetres with sporadic cobbles and boulders. Nearly all clasts seem to have been fragmented by tectonic deformation prior to their final burial, and some rare clasts of an older breccia indicate a polyphase origin of this stratigraphic unit. Clasts are derived mostly from the surrounding bedrock. The origin of the breccia is apparently related to the Cenozoic tectonic activity, but remains to be controversial and unclear. Days 3-5: Miocene intra-montane basins (Sinj Basin - Lucane section; Livno Basin - Tusnica & Ploca quarries; Tomislavgrad Basin - Ostrozac section) Leaders: Oleg Mandic, Alan Vranjkovic, Hazim Hrvatovic, Davor Pavelic This part of the excursion will provide an update on the ongoing survey of the Dinaride Lake System (DLS) and its widely distributed Miocene fresh-water deposits filling in numerous intra-montane basins of the Dinaride orogen. Since 2006, the survey involved several international research projects and over 30 participants in an integrated multitask approach, using such methods as the Ar/Ar geochronology, magnetostratigraphy, carbonate microfacies, coal petrology, O and C stable isotope data, gamma and magnetic susceptibility logging, palynology, cyclostratography and astronomical matching. Three different intra-montane basins of the Outer Dinarides will be visited to show the late syn- to post-orogenic sedimentation within the orogenic belt. The Sinj Basin, with a surface area of ~140 km2, is located in the hinterland of Split in SE Croatia. Its sigmoidal planview shape suggests an origin as a strike-slip basin, although the shape can as well be an artefact of post-depositional wrench-fault tectonics related to the formation of the South Adriatic strike-slip basin. The basin-fill succession consists of fresh-water lacustrine limestones and marls, more than 500 m thick, with the lignite intercalations and large mammal remains in the uppermost part marking the ultimate shallowing of the basin. The late depositional phase is characterised by a cyclic architecture attributed to orbitally-forced regional climatic fluctuations. The lake existence duration is estimated at about 3 Ma, between ~18 and ~15 Ma BP, correlating largely with the Miocene Climatic Optimum. This ancient lacustrine basin is well known since the Darwin time for its strictly endemic mollusc fauna, serving as a textbook example of adaptive fauna radiation. The Livno and Tomislavgrad (Duvno) basins are located in the SW Bosnia and Herzegovina. They represent two different, tectonically-disconnected karst poljes developed at about 1000 m a.s.l. During the DLS deposition, they formed a single basin with an area of about 590 km2, the second largest intra-montane basin in the Dinarides after the Sarajevo Basin. The basin-fill succession is more than 2000 m thick, comprising two depositional sequences bounded by an angular unconformity. The lower sequence is ~1700 m thick, composed of Early to Middle Miocene fresh-water deposits that commence with ~10 m thick coal bed bearing elephant remains and pass upwards into a monotonous, limestone-dominated lacustrine succession. At a stratigraphic height of ~850 m the first intercalation of margin-derived debris-flow deposits occurs. The successive coarse-clastic intercalations are thickening and coarsening upwards, including up to 10 m thick volcaniclastic beds. The succession culminates in megabreccia bed, ~26 m thick, near the top, which suggests strongly that active tectonics was the main cause for the cessation of deposition in the large original basin. The basin subsequently became split into two parts and the second cycle of sedimentation followed above an angular unconformity overlain by lacustrine claystones passing upwards into lignite-dominated deposits. The Holocene witnessed an expansion peat deposition. The Livno Basin, with an area of 410 km2, is the largest karst peatland basin of the Dinarides.

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A3 From Late Triassic passive to Early Cretaceous active continental margin with dominantly carbonate sediments in the Transdanubian Range, Western Tethys (Hungary) Geza Csaszar [email protected], Janos Haas, Orsolya Sztano, Tamas Budai, Balazs Szinger (all Budapest/Hungary) Duration: 4 days: 07-10 September 2012 Includes: field trip guidebook, transportation, lunch packets, accommodation with breakfast, dinner. Price: double room 440 EURO/person | single room 500 EURO/person. Participants: Minimum 25, Maximum 50. The field trip area is restricted to the Transdanubian Range, a unique tectonic unit comprising a palaeogeographic position between two oceanic domains. This is expressed in the facies distribution, with affinities either to the Eastern Alps/ Western Carpathians or to the Dinarides/Southern Alps. The affinities to the palaeogeographic units can be followed in both time and space. Geological background of the sequences offered to be seen The Transdanubian Range is part of a huge carbonate platform until the earliest Early Jurassic. The first signal of the Penninic Ocean opening is the break of the carbonate platform system. The result of this process is the sedimentary environments differentiation into highs with comparatively thin, discontinuous and condensed lithofacies, and in deeper-water areas with thicker, continuous successions showing less condensation. Throughout the Liassic nodular, cherty limestones with interbedded Hierlatz Limestone, Ammonitico Rosso-type limestones and marls occur. Pelagic carbonate sedimentation continued up to the Middle Jurassic when it was replaced by cherty limestones and bedded radiolarites in the basin, while on submarine highs there was lacustrine sedimentation. Due to a shallowing tendency in the Bakony Mts. (southern part of the Transdanubian Range), the deposition of Ammonitico Rosso-type limestones with white pelagic cherty limestones and marls were from the Late Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous. In contrast, the Early Cretaceous strata in the Gerecse Mts. (northern part of the Transdanubian Range) represent a siliciclastic deep-water succession including marls, turbiditic sequences and conglomerates with ophiolithic detritus. This event caused by the partial closure of the Neotethys Ocean. In the Late Jurassic, there is no clear evidence for a nappe structure in the Transdanubian Range but there are some hints for it to the north. Fundamental facies changes between the southwestern and the northeastern part caused by compressional deformation during the Early Berriasian. Later, a new sedimentary cycle began with the deposition of freshwater and brackish marlstones, locally with bauxite lenses at the base of the new succession. In late Early Cretaceous these two basins were united again with the Urgonian Limestones deposition. The facies links of the southwestern basin closely relates to the Southern Alps, while the northeastern one show analogues to the Northern Calcareous Alps. What you will see • Lagoonal lofer cyclic Upper Triassic platform and platform margin reef carbonates, slope and basinal Upper Jurassic limestones. • Oncoidic to oolithic lower Lower Jurassic limestones. • Ammonitico Rosso-type Lower Jurassic facies variations reflecting extensional tectonic movements. • Ammonitico Rosso-type nodular and well bedded, condensed basinal Middle Jurassic carbonate and radiolarite formations and highly lacunose limy sediments on submarine highs within the basins.

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• Giant Middle Jurassic neptunian dykes in the Upper Triassic limestone and dolomite successions with Lower Jurassic limestone fragments. • Scarp breccias composed of Upper Triassic and Lower Jurassic limestones along the slope of submarine highs. • Condensed Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous limestone to marl sequence with calciturbidites, debrites and slump deposits. • Foreland basin type Lower Cretaceous coarse-grained clastics with deep-sea fan lobes, channels and reworked Urgonian-type platform carbonate clasts. In addition to the products of a great variety of sedimentary environments determined by the change from extensional to compressional tectonic movements you will have chance to see in western Hungary the unique landscape south of the river Danube, where the Danube cuts into Miocene sediments and volcanites, and the Balaton Highlands to the north of the Lake Balaton.

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A4 The Rannach Facies of the Graz Palaeozoic (Eastern Alps, Austria) Fritz Ebner [email protected] (Leoben/Austria), Bernhard Hubmann (Graz/Austria) Duration: 3 days: 08-10 September 2012 Includes: field trip guidebook, non hammer guided city tour in Graz, lunch packet, 2 x lunch in restaurant, transportation, accommodation with breakfast, dinner. Price: single rooms only, 360 EURO/person. Participants: Minimum 20, Maximum 30. At the SE margin of the Eastern Alps the Graz Palaeozoic (GP) comprises Silurian to late Carboniferous sediments that occur within a mid-Cretaceous thrust complex capped by Upper Cretaceous ‘Gosau’ sediments. In the west, north and east the GP exhibits tectonic contacts to basal Austroalpine metamorphic complexes. To the south and southeast the GP is covered by Neogene sediments of the ‘Styrian Basin’ marginal to the Pannonian Basin. Internally the GP consists of several facies nappes. The Rannach Facies, in the uppermost tectonic position, indicates a sedimentation area changing from a passive continental margin with intra-plate volcanism to shelf and platform geometries during Silurian to Devonian time. During Early to Middle Devonian time deposition changed from near-shore facies to open platform environments, during the Late Devonian and Carboniferous the carbonate platform was drowned and pelagic limestones were deposited. The basal nappes of the GP are made up of Late Silurian to Early Devonian sequences that were subjected to metamorphic overprint under upper greenschist to exceptionally occurring amphibolite facies metamorphic conditions. Meggentype lead/zinc-barite Sedex mineralizations are remarkable for some Upper Silurian - Lower Devonian volcanisedimentary sequences; thick banded limestones for the Lower/Middle Devonian. Lower Silurian to Late Devonian pelagic limestones, shales and volcaniclastics are in the intermediate tectonic position, summarized as ‘Kalkschiefer facies’. The excursion is focussed on the stratigraphy and facies architecture of the slightly metamorphosed Rannach Facies at the upper structural level of the GP thrust complex, but also some representative outcrops of the deeper nappe systems will be visited. The following aspects of the Rannach Facies will be shown: • Basal pre-Devonian basaltic tuffs. • Silurian initial sedimentary successions (nautiloid dolostones) at the top of a basaltic volcanic island. • Lower Devonian tidal flats. • Lower Devonian massive dolomite (Schlossberg) in the centre of Graz. • Middle Devonian restricted lagoonal Stachyodes-biostromes, coral-stromatoporoid-carpets and initial growth stages of a reef. • Upper Devonian to Moscovian pelagic conodont and cephalopod limestone showing stratigraphic gaps which include mixed conodont faunas due to karstification and resedimentation. • Devonian-Carboniferous section proposed as a candidate for the international boundary stratotype. • Lower Carboniferous radiolarite and phosphorite levels related to the Kellwasser event. • Erosional contact between the Carboniferous cephalopod limestone and the overlying shallow-marine limestones and shales (Bashkirian/?Moscovian).

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A5 Siderite and magnesite mineralizations in Palaeozoic strata of the Eastern Alps (Austria) Walter Prochaska [email protected] (Leoben/Austria) Duration: 1 day: 10 September 2012 Includes: field trip guidebook, lunch packet, transportation. Price: 100 EURO/person. Participants: Minimum 20, Maximum 40. The field trip focuses on the siderite and sparry magnesite mineralizations in Palaeozoic strata of the Eastern Alps. Today slightly metamorphosed Palaeozoic rocks represent originally the sedimentary successions of the Variscan cycle. Opinions concerning the genesis of the siderite mineralizations in these rocks are inconsistent and discussions on this topic have a long-standing tradition. Early geoscientist’s favoured syngenetic models; at the turn of the century epigenetic models for the Erzberg type mineralization were proposed. The impressive Steirischer Erzberg (‘Austrian pyramid’) siderite deposit near Eisenerz presently is the only operating iron mine in Austria and one of the largest siderite mines in the world. Currently the Austrian iron ore production of about 2 Mio. t is exclusively produced from this giant open pit mine. The siderite body of the Erzberg generally is hosted in fine-grained limestones of Devonian age, similar to equivalent siderite deposits in the surroundings. The sparry magnesite mineralizations occur exclusively in Carboniferous host rocks, which belong to the same original sedimentary succession as the siderite deposits. The magnesite mineralizations occur very widespread in these Carboniferous rocks and currently Austria is on of the top 6 in the world of magnesite production. Lens-scaped orebodies with dolomitic alteration rims are characteristic features of these mineralizations. In both mineralizations, siderites as well as magnesites, metasomatic-epigenetic structures of lens-shaped orebodies with dolomitic alteration rims are dominant features. The basic chemical features of the ore forming fluids in these mineralizations are very similar indicating closely related ore forming processes. Both types of mineralizations were formed by the invasion of younger brines representing an unique type of secondary - diagenetic induced - sedimentary ore deposits. Fluid invasion and mineralization structure strictly depend on the original lithology of the host rocks, mainly carbonatic sedimentary rocks. According to their identical fluid characteristics the mineralization were formed during the same minerogenetic event. Recent investigations and data suggest a Permo-Triassic origin of the mineralizing fluids; in the Neotethyan sedimentary cycle, starting in the Late Permian, huge masses of evaporites were deposited in the Late Permian and around the Early/ Middle Triassic boundary. In Late Triassic times, evaporitic brines were mobilized and their circulation led to siderite as well as magnesite formation. Especially the diagenetic reactions under fluid overpressure conditions led to leaching of Fe from the surrounding carbonates. What you will see The convection system caused the formation of irregular mineralizations; but large ore bodies were only formed in the carbonatic rocks of the original sedimentary sequence. We will see and discuss a complex mineralization history by ore forming fluids, which reveal characteristics of residual brines. • Epigenetic models for the origin of these mineralizations will be discussed based on the investigations on the fluid

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chemistry and radiometric age dating. • The ore forming fluids reveal characteristics of residual brines produced during evapo-concentration of seawater for the siderite occurrences, regardless their host-rocks and stratigraphic position. • Arguments and field evidence for a younger metasomatic formation of the mineralizations will be shown and discussed. E.g., we will see the metasomatic fluid front in Permian conglomerates. The field trip will cross an impressive alpine landscape. We will travel along the classical Styrian iron route with its historical villages and their long mining history.

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B1 Middle Triassic platform/basin transition along the Alpine passive continental margin facing the Tethys Ocean (Gamsstein; Styria, Austria) Richard Lein [email protected] (Vienna/Austria), Leopold Krystyn (Vienna/Austria), Sylvain Richoz (Graz/Austria) Duration: 1 day: 14 September 2012 Includes: field trip guidebook, lunch packet, transportation. Price: 100 EURO/person. Participants: Minimum 20, Maximum 30. The field trip will examine the stratigraphic and sedimentary evolution of two superimposed carbonate factories of the Alpine Middle Triassic. They were formed on a shelf area of nearly 1000 km length and more than 100 km width, on a progressively thinning and deepening passive margin. The pre-oceanic phase is characterized by a carbonate ramp (Steinalm Fm., Anisian) of low biogenic diversity. It is followed by a laterally well differentiated platform system (Wetterstein Fm., Ladinian - Carnian) including a diversified barrier reef. Carbonate accumulation is controlled by high rates of precipitation and subsidence. The uniform aggrading geometry of the Steinalm ramp contrasts highly with that of the strongly prograding and steeply sloping Wetterstein platform where progradation is explained by a subsidence slowdown. We will examine the original basin depth and follow from the basin (Reifling Fm.) a transect through the toe of slope (Raming Fm.) to the central reef and to lagoonal environments of varying character. Both carbonate systems have a sudden unconformity-bounded top followed by subsequent drowning. The drowning phenomena will be examined in the geological and sedimentary context with special reference to predisposing and triggering factors which in the case of the Steinalm Fm. acted in a carbonatic and that of the Wetterstein platform in a siliciclastic depositional system. What you will see • Growth and internal architecture of the Steinalm ramp and the Wetterstein plattform. • Ramp vs. platform margin sedimentation and carbonate platform progradational sequences. • Breakdown of the carbonate production and karstification of the Wetterstein plattform in the wake of the Carnian crisis. • Sedimantary evolution and paleodepth reconstruction of the coevally subsiding attached basin (Reifling Fm.). • Middle Triassic platform-basin paleogeographic reconstruction of tectonically isolated platforms. Outline Starting from sedimentary ‘Turning Points’ in the Middle Triassic depositional history of the western Tethys sea the initiation, climax and demise of two contrasting Middle Triassic shallow-water carbonate systems will be presented: • A carbonate ramp formed mostly by cyanobacterial activity and without reefal contribution; • A superimposed carbonate platform with well differentiated facies belts from inner lagoon to a barrier reef with steep

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slope and attached basin; • The end of the two shallow-water carbonate complexes in unconformity-bounded flooding surfaces. Geometry, facies and bathymetry of both platform and basin on field evidence allows discussion of controlling factors on carbonate accumulation processes. Object of the excursion is Mount Gamsstein in the eastern Northern Calcareous Alps (Styria), situated 10 km east of the classical Middle Triassic basinal sequence of Grossreifling.

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B2 Jurassic active continental margin deep-water basin and carbonate platform formation in the north-western Tethyan realm (Austria, Germany) Hans-Juergen Gawlick [email protected] (Leoben/Austria), Sigrid Missoni (Leoben/Austria), Felix Schlagintweit (Munich/Germany), Hisashi Suzuki (Kyoto/Japan) Duration: 4 days: 14-17 September 2012 Includes: field trip guidebook, transportation, lunch packets, accommodation with breakfast, dinner. Price: double room 440 EURO/person | single room 500 EURO/person. Participants: Minimum 25, Maximum 50. The topic of this field trip is to visit and understand the sedimentary succession from rifting/drifting to collision/accretion in one of the most prominent alpine areas: the Austria’s Northern Calcareous Alps as part of the Eastern Alps formed together with the Carpathians, the Southern Alps and the Dinarides an up to 700 km wide and approximately 1500 km long shelf strip at the northwestern Tethys end. The Jurassic sedimentation in this realm is controlled by palaeogeographic position of the depositional area between two oceans: the Neotethys Ocean to the east resp. southeast and the Alpine Atlantic to the west resp. northwest. The opening of the Central Atlantic Ocean with its continuation into the Alpine Atlantic (= Ligurian-Penninic Ocean) leads to a new Mediterranean plate configuration. The “Apulian” plate is formed. Successive spreading of the Alpine Atlantic is mirrored by the closure of parts of the Neotethys Ocean resulting in an early deformation of a former Triassic carbonate shelf since late Early Jurassic time. Deformation and accretion starts in the Neotethys Ocean with intra-oceanic thrusting in the late Early Jurassic. This thrusting process resulted in the obduction of the accreted ophiolites onto the outer shelf in Middle Jurassic times. The former Triassic to Early Jurassic passive continental margin with its huge Triassic carbonate platforms came in a lower plate position and a thin-skinned orogen was formed. Thrusting started therefore in the outer shelf region and propagated to the inner shelf. In the late Middle Jurassic compressional tectonics reached the inner parts of the shelf and affected the Triassic carbonate platforms. Deep-water trench-like basins in front of advancing nappes were formed in sequence, best to study in the central part of the Northern Calcareous Alps. First several trench-like basins formed in the south and later, in the early Late Jurassic, further trench-like basins formed in the north. The trench-like basins accumulated thick successions of gravitatively redeposited sediments derived from the accreted older sedimentary sequences. Some slides and blocks experienced low temperature - high pressure metamorphism before redeposition, indicate deep burial by subduction in Jurassic times. Uplift of the accreted nappes led to the formation of shallow-water carbonate platforms on top of the nappe stack. Due to the formation of this Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous carbonate platforms the trenches and the rises are sealed by hemipelagic and shallow-water carbonates. What you will see • Formation of deep-water radiolaritic trench-like basins due to out-of-sequence thrusting with the deposition of finegrained organic rich sediments intercalated by olistostromes and huge slides. • Large scale mass movements from an accretionary wedge in adjacent trench-like basins; each basin fill is characterized by a coarsening-upward cycle. • Carbonate-clastic radiolaritic deep-water block in matrix structure (radiolaritic wildflysch) and mélanges. • Onset of shallow-water carbonate platforms on an uplifted nappe stack, progradation of shallow-water carbonates over

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older deep-water basins. • Carbonate production and platform configuration in an compressional margin setting. • Formation of starved basins in between carbonate platforms as result of the interplay of tectonics and carbonate production. • Carbonate platform collapse due mountain uplift associated with extensional tectonics. • Siliceous and carbonate sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy in outcrop analogs to classical reservoirs. • Basin formation and evolution. Outline To see a complete, very complex active continental margin evolution from Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous with the interplay of trench formation, mass movements, onset of carbonate platforms, and formation and preservation parameters of organic content: • Early Jurassic condensed carbonates (pelagic platform). • Middle to Late Jurassic trench formation in front of advancing nappes and large scaled mass movements. • Radiolaritic/argilliceous trench-like basin fills with potential source rocks and intercalated potential reservoir rocks. • Onset of Late Jurassic carbonate platforms in an active margin setting. • The interplay of carbonate production and basin formation in an compressional margin setting. • The work of the carbonate factories during uplift of an orogen and the extensional collapse. • Early Cretaceous drowning of carbonate platforms due to siliciclastic input. The whole story is visible in the central Northern Calcareous Alps (Salzkammergut region, Salzburg and Berchtesgaden Calcareous Alps). This area is the type-are in one of the most classical geological areas of the world.

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B3 Mesozoic deep-water basins of the eastern Southern Alps (Slovenia) Spela Gorican [email protected], Adrijan Kosir, Duje Kukoc, Luka Gale, Tea Kolar-Jurkovsek, Bostjan Rozic, Andrej Smuc, Dragomir Skaberne, Bogomir Celarc, Ladislav Placer (all Ljubljana/Slovenia) Duration: 3 days: 14-16 September 2012 Includes: field trip guidebook, transportation, lunch packets, accommodation with breakfast, dinner. Price: double room 350 EURO/person | single room 390 EURO/person. Participants: Minimum 20, Maximum 30. This field trip will focus on the Jurassic to Cretaceous palaeogeography of the Adriatic continental margin that is now preserved in the Julian Alps in NW Slovenia. Until the Early Tertiary this area clearly evolved as part of the NW-SE oriented Dinaric system. Only later, in the Neogene, the Dinaric structures were overprinted by southward directed Alpine thrusting. Similarly as elsewhere on the Adriatic continental margin, a well expressed horst-and-graben topography was created during the Latest Triassic to Early Jurassic rifting phase. The following paleogeographic units have been distinguished: the Bovec and Bled basins that formed near the end of the Early Jurassic, the Julian High (comparable to the Trento Plateau of the Southern Alps), and the Tolmin Basin, which existed since the Triassic and was bordered by the large stable Dinaric Carbonate Platform (also known as Friuli or Adriatic Carbonate Platform). Among these basins, the Bled Basin occupied the most distal position on the continental margin. This position is inferred from the age of ‘flysch-type‘ deposits that started to accumulate in the Valanginian-Hauterivian in the Bled Basin but much later, in the CampanianMaastrichtian, in the Tolmin Basin. What you will see Complete Jurassic and Cretaceous successions of different depositional basins will be visited during the excursion. The stratigraphic outline is as follows (field-trip localities are also indicated): • Bled Basin: Lower Jurassic oolitic and echinoderm limestones (Hierlatz facies), Middle and Upper Jurassic radiolarian cherts and shales, Tithonian-Berriasian Biancone limestone capped by carbonate breccia, Lower Cretaceous mixed carbonate-siliciclastic turbidites with ophiolite debris. Two localities near the Bohinj Lake permit to see the entire succession. • Bovec Basin: Pliensbachian platform limestone, Toarcian black shales, Bajocian to Tithonian cherts and calcareous turbidites, Biancone limestone. This succession is visible at Mt. Mangart. • Julian High: Triassic to Lower Jurassic platform limestones overlain by condensed Bajocian to Berriasian sediments. Deep breccia-filled neptunian dykes characterize marginal parts of this isolated intrabasinal plateau. The overlying deposits are Albian to Cenomanian Scaglia variegata, Turonian to Campanian Scaglia rossa and Upper CampanianMaastrichtian flysch. Polyphase neptunian dykes overlain by the Upper Cretaceous Scaglia rossa will be visited at Mt. Mangart. • Tolmin Basin: Upper Triassic carbonates with cherts, Lower Jurassic calcareous turbidites, Toarcian shales, Aalenian cherty limestones, Bajocian to Tithonian radiolarian cherts, Biancone limestone, Albian to Turonian shales and carbonate breccias, Coniacian to Santonian calcareous turbidites, Campanian-Maastrichtian flysch. Norian to Rhaetian

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cherty dolomites and limestones will be examined at Mt. Slatnik south of Bohinjska Bistrica. Lower Jurassic to Cenomanian deposits are well exposed along the road from Tolmin to Tolminske Ravne. Outline The field trip offers a good opportunity to examine facies associations of Mesozoic deep-water settings that can be linked with paleogeographic units of the Dinarides and are also comparable to those of the Southern Alps in northern Italy. Most of the field-trip area lies in the Triglav National Park. Scenic mountains (mostly made of Triassic platform limestones) and well-known tourist sites such as Bled, Bohinj, Kranjska Gora and Bovec will be seen on our way.

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B4 Palaeokarst, neptunian dykes, collapse breccias, mud-mounds and sedimentary unconformities (Western Carpathians, Slovakia) Roman Aubrecht [email protected] (Bratislava/Slovakia) Duration: 3 days: 14-16 September 2012 Includes: field trip guidebook, transportation, lunch packets, accommodation with breakfast, dinner. Price: double room 350 EURO/person | single room 390 EURO/person. Participants: Minimum 25, Maximum 50. The aim of the field trip is to see examples of sedimentary unconformities, mainly those related to emersion. Erosional and karstification phenomena can be studied at several sites. These are best manifested along the former, Miocene eastern shoreline of the Vienna Basin. This pull-apart basin was formed and completely flooded in Badenian (Langhian). The field trip participants will have chance to observe the pre-transgressional surfaces and manifestation of the latest marine transgression in the West Carpathian-Pannonian realm. An older period of emersion was related to the Mid-Cretaceous crustal shortening and nappe stacking in the central Western Carpathians. The nappe stacking resulted in emersion and karstification of the highest nappe surfaces, forming palaeokarst surface depressions filled with bauxites and fossil Terra rossa. In the Pieniny Klippen Belt there was an Early Cretaceous emersion of the so called Czorsztyn Swell which resulted to nice palaeokarst karren surface. The emersion period ended in Albian with sudden flooding (ingression) with deposition of red pelagic marls. Therefore, until recognition of the palaeokarst features, this break in sedimentation was considered to be caused by submarine non-deposition and erosion. The oldest features which can be observed during the field trip are related to the Middle Jurassic rifting and rising of the Czorsztyn Swell. This was again accompanied by breakage (neptunian dykes), emersion and erosion of new lithified sediments and forming the toe-of-slope megabreccias. There is an interesting cave-dwelling fauna of ostracods Pokornyopsis feifeli, descendants of which still inhabit submarine caves in tropical seas. Further deepening of the Czorsztyn Swell led to

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deposition of the Rosso Ammonitico facies, with local occurrences of stromatactis mud-mounds. Stromatactis structures were enigmatic for over a century but at one of the sites the participants will have a chance to see that stromatactis are just casts after collapsed siliceous sponges. What you will see • Miocene palaeokarst with 15 million year old speleothems, rich terrestral fossil fauna found in caves, Miocene (Late Badenian) transgression surfaces. • Late Cretaceous palaeokarst which originated after main tectonic phases in the Central Western Carpathians. • Mid-Cretaceous palaeokarst in the Pieniny Klippen Belt. • Jurassic synrift deposition in the Pieniny Klippen Belt, including hardgrounds, cliff- and cave collapse-breccias, neptunian dykes, stromatactis mud mounds (including a locality where sponge origin of enigmatic stromatactis structures has been proven).

The field trip area is located in the lowlands and hilly areas of western Slovakia. We will cross the capital of Slovakia, Bratislava.

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B5 Neogene pull-apart basins in the Eastern Alps (Austria) Wilfried Gruber (Leoben/Austria), Reinhard F. Sachsenhofer Wagreich (Vienna/Austria)

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Duration: 1 day: 14 September 2012 Includes: field trip guidebook, transportation, lunch packets. Price: 100 EURO/person. Participants: Minimum 20, Maximum 50. Neogene pull-apart basins formed in the Eastern Alps during the final stages of the Alpine orogeny. These basins are a consequence of lateral escape along major strike-slip faults. Along the Mur-Muerz Fault System, one of these large sinistral strike-slip faults, several small basins subsided as pull-apart and half-graben. Although the thickness of the basin fill varies significantly from a few hundred metres (e.g., Leoben Basin) to more than 2 km (e.g., Fohnsdorf Basin), the general stratigraphic succession is largely similar in all basins: Typically, these intramontane basins are filled from bottom to top by alluvial-fluvial sediments, a single thick coal seam, lacustrine and deltaic rocks. The basin fill and the depositional systems reflect the high subsidence rates, which are characteristic for these tectonically controlled basins. Coarse alluvial sediments are typical with alluvial fan depositional systems that are controlled by basin margin faulting and source area composition. Subsidence led, after coal accumulation, to deep lake sedimentary systems that are filled by lacustrine delta systems. Outcrops in the Leoben and Fohnsdorf basins will stimulate discussions on a wide variety of topics including: • Basin formation and basin inversion during continental collision. • Sedimentation in fault-controlled basins. • Depositional systems controlled by faulting, subsidence and source area composition. • Coal accumulation in low-lying and raised mires. • Petroleum source rocks in pull-apart basins. • Natural resources (coal, coal-bed-methane, geothermal energy, bentonite, construction material). • Palaeogeography of the Miocene Alps. What you will see - coarse alluvial-fluvial conglomerates at the base of the basin fill - coal seams and organic-rich mudstones - coarse sediments of debris flow and stream flow origin at basin margin faults - limnic-to-brackish fine-grained lacustrine strata - Miocene lacustrine deltaic rocks Outline To see the typical sequence of basin fill sediments of a Neogene intramontane pull-apart basin in the framework of lateral escape tectonics of the Eastern Alps, and to discuss models for coal sedimentation. The field trip area is located in the lowlands and hilly areas of the Eastern Alps with a beautiful landscape.

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B6 Permian/Triassic boundary and Lower Triassic in the Dolomites, Southern Alps (Italy) Rainer Brandner [email protected], (Innsbruck/Austria), Micha Horacek (Tulln/Austria), Lorenz Keim (Bolzano/Italy) Duration: 3 days: 15-17 September 2012 Includes: field trip guidebook, transportation, lunch packets, accommodation with breakfast, dinner. Price: double room 340 EURO/person | single room 380 EURO/person. Participants: Minimum 25, Maximum 50 The field trip focuses on the sedimentary response of the End-Permian mass extinction and the time of recovery in the whole Lower Triassic. Along two type sections, i.e. the parastratotype section of Bulla/Pufels in the Groeden valley and the Tramin/Termeno section south of Bolzano/Bozen, we will have a good opportunity to study facies developments in the inner and outer ramp position. Detailed magneto- and chemostratigraphy enable correlations of cycles and sequences along the wide ramp. This should provoke a discussion on eustatic sea-level changes and climatic changes. Both sections are located in the beautiful, world famous landscape of the Dolomites (UNESCO World Heritage). The shallow marine sediments of the topmost Bellerophon Fm. and Werfen Fm. were deposited on a very gentle, NW-SE extending ramp with a coastal plain environment of the upper Groeden Fm. in the west and a shallow marine, mid and outer ramp environment of the Bellerophon Fm. in the east. The PTB mass extinction of carbonate producing organisms prevented the evolution of a rimmed shelf area for the whole Lower Triassic. After the exceptionally long lasting recovery period of reefal build-ups in the whole Tethys area, the first appearance of reef building organisms was found in the lower Middle Triassic nearby in the Olang/Valdaora Dolomites. The lack of reefal build-ups and binding organisms may have caused the extreme mobility of loose carbonate and siliciclastic sediment piles, which have been removed repeatedly by storm-dominated high energy events. This generated a storm-dominated stratification pattern that characterises the specific Werfen facies. Applying the concept of proximality of storm effects, i.e. the basinward decrease of storm-waves and storm-induced currents, we tried to interpret relative sea-level changes from the stratigraphic record. Proximal and distal tempestite layers are arranged in shallowing-upward cycles (parasequences) but also in deepening-upward cycles depending on their position within the depositional sequences. However, numbers of cycles and cycle stacking patterns vary from section to section according to the different ramp morphology. Thus the main control seems to be the ratio between accommodation space and sediment supply, which follows the variable position of the base level. Variations of the base level determine the geometry of progradational, aggradational and retrogradational stacking patterns of the cycles. The base level, however, does not automatically correspond to sea-level. Therefore until now it was not possible to prove true eustatic sea-level changes within the Lower Triassic. What you will see • End-Permian / PTB in two different facies realms: shallow marine environment (Pufels) and coastal environment (Tramin)

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• Sections perfectly showing the P-T Event as a change in ocean currents. • Tesero Oolith: evidence for the change of carbonate precipitation on sea-floor, change in ocean chemistry from the Permian to the Triassic (calcite versus aragonite sea?). Instabilities in carbonate precipitation with and after the EndPermian event. • High resolution stratigraphy in the storm dominated stratification pattern in the Lower Triassic along the E-W oriented gentle ramp of the Dolomites. Shifting of facies within cycles and sequences according to sea-level changes and possibly also climatic changes. • Typical sedimentary evolution of the classical Werfen Formation in the Dolomites. • PTB and Lower Triassic sections that are correlatable by Palmag and chemostratigraphy (e.g., C, S) with other sections in the Germanic and Tethys facies realms. Outline Join this exiting field trip to see excellent PTB and Lower Triassic shallow-water sections (shallow marine to coastal environments): • End-Permian shallow-water sediments (Fiammazza and Badiota Facies, Bulla Member), transitional transgressive Tesero Oolite and Lower Triassic impure carbonate succession (Mazzin Member, Andraz Horizon, Seis Member and Campil Member) with variable facies and amounts of siliciclastic content due to climatic and sea-level changes; • Well correlated with other sections from Tethys and Germanic realms; • Evidencing a change in ocean chemistry and ocean currents across the Permian/Triassic boundary event. The Dolomites are a world famous geologic site that has become a UNESCO world heritage with excellent outcrops and a terrific landscape. Since centuries geologists have visit this locality to study the sections and explain the formation of and the evolution of the environmental conditions resulting in this sedimentary succession.

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Short Courses 4 Pre-Meeting and 4 Post-Meeting short courses will be organized within the context of 29th IAS Meeting. All expert training short courses require a minimum participation between 10-20 up to a maximum between 12-40 persons. General Information • Participants of short courses must also register for the 29th IAS Meeting. • Attendees, who wish to book a short course should indicate this in the registration form. • Short courses are limited in size and are reserved on a first-come, first-served basis and must be accompanied 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, be sure that the course will take place, as trips may be cancelled if under-subscribed. • All short courses will take place at the conference locations. Single screen electronic presentations will be the only format available. Each session room will be equipped with the following: computer, high-intensity projector, laser pointer, microphone system, flip chart, Internet access. Additional facilities, e.g., overhead and slide projectors will be available on request in advance. All other requirements must be arranged by the organisers of the short course. A projectionist will not be present in the lecture room. • For short courses with field trip: Field trip starts and ends in Schladming. Proper clothing and supplies are needed for outdoors, mostly in mountainous areas (e.g., mountain boots, hat, wind breaker, umbrella, sunscreen, rucksack and insect repellent). Notify that it can be cold. Participants are advised to check the local weather forecast. Pre-Meeting Short Courses AS1 Fluid inclusions in diagenetic environments (for details) AS2 Geological modelling with Gemcom SurpacTM (for details) AS3 How Petrel can be a powerful tool for sedimentology? (for details) AS4 Petrophysical modelling (for details) Post-Meeting Short Courses BS1 Magnetic stratigraphy (for details) BS2 Tracers in organic geochemistry - biomarkers and stable isotopes (for details) BS3 The multiphase flow behaviour of naturally fractured reservoirs (for details) BS4 Geological modelling for coal/stratified deposits with Gemcom MinexTM (for details)

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AS1 Fluid inclusions in diagenetic environments Ronald J. Bakker [email protected] (Leoben/Austria) Duration: 1 day: 10 September 2012 Includes: course notes, refreshments. Price: 100 EURO/person. Participants: Minimum 15, Maximum 25. Fluid inclusions are fluid-filled vacuoles in minerals, that may contain a vapour, liquid and occasionally an entrapped crystal. Their sizes range from submicroscopic up to several hundred micrometers in diameter, and their masses are typically in the order of nanograms to femtograms. Where they are enclosed by minerals that are transparent to visible or infra-red light, fluid inclusions may be observed in a microscope once the host minerals are cut into thin slices and polished. Observations of this kind reveal that rock samples of the Lithosphere commonly contain billions of fluid inclusions. They are present in almost all rock types, whether derived from the Crust (most commonly) or the Mantle (rarely). Fluid inclusions may represent palaeo-fluids and modern fluids. Microscopic study of specific samples permits inclusions that formed during initial mineral growth (‘primary inclusions’ and ‘pseudosecondary inclusions’) to be discriminated from those that formed some time after mineral growth (‘secondary inclusions’): • Fluid inclusions give information about fluid composition, fluid density, pressure-temperature conditions of fluid entrapment and temporal evolution. Fluid inclusions are the only direct evidence of the presence of fluids in rock in the geological past, which are involved in many geological processes and are a major controlling factor on the chemicalphysical properties of rock. Especially in diagenetic environments, fluid inclusions are considered to remain completely isolated and rigid containers of geological fluids that circulated in the rock during their formation. • The information obtained from fluid inclusions has been used to improve the understanding of diagenetic systems: they provide useful temperature, pressure and fluid chemistry constrains on ancient and diagenetic systems (e.g., dolomitization) that cannot be obtained by other methods. Other applications: improve understanding of subsurface systems; improve understanding of porosity evolution; improve interpretation of petroleum migration history; improve reconstructions of thermal history; improve reconstructions of tectonic or stratigraphic history. • There are several publications available (e.g., Roedder 1984, Shepherd et al. 1985, Goldstein and Reynolds 1994, Samson et al. 2003) which summarize the methods and applications of fluid inclusion research, and which are of great importance to anybody studying fluid inclusions. The course content will cover: The short course will give a brief outline of the petrography of fluid inclusions and their applications in diagenesis and petroleum geology. This course will focus on analytical techniques, the thermodynamics of fluid properties, and the interpretation of fluid inclusion data. In addition, several software packages (see also http://fluids.unileoben.ac.at) are used in exercises to calculate fluid properties and trapping condition from microthermometrical and Raman spectrometric data.

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AS2 Geological modelling with Gemcom Surpac™ Thomas Oberndorfer [email protected] (Mine-IT Sanak-Oberndorfer GmbH, Leoben/Austria) Field trip: Hans-Juergen Gawlick, Sigrid Missoni, Thomas Oberndorfer (all Leoben/Austria) Duration: 1 day field trip: 09 September 2012 | 1 day short course in-house: 10 September 2012 Includes: course notes, refreshments, lunch packet/field trip, transportation. Price: 220 EURO/person. Participants: Minimum 20, Maximum 40. Gemcom SurpacTM is the world’s most popular geology and mine planning software. In this short course the basic concepts and functions for geological modelling are presented, explained and demonstrated. The topics cover both theoretical examples and actual applications for both scientific investigations and implementations at operating mine sites: • Modelling of surfaces and structures, including faults • Utilizing enriched information by integrating images in 3D space for better interpretation • Incorporating drill hole data for modelling, analysis and visualization • Geostatistical methods • Mining applications The goal of the course is to give the participants an overview on the capabilities of geological modelling software and to provide a sound basis for evaluating the advantages of an application of these technologies in their own work. The short course is basically structured by modelling techniques. The topics and examples will commence from easy to use methods to more enhanced applications so that also listeners with less experiences with computer applications will be able to follow the course easily. The presentation will conclude with some practical examples in mining to illustrate the advantages of comprehensive and integrated data handling. As an introduction to geological modelling the first section of the course will thoroughly deal with the generation of surfaces (also known as triangulations or digital terrain models). Surfaces are multipurpose objects in 3D space and can be used for the description of many entities such as topography, geological structures as well as infrastructure, mining pits or caverns. The presentation will cover data basis (surveying, mapping, commercial data), generation and utilization. For comparatively simple structures such as topographic data very efficient mechanisms for the automatic and reliable interpolations between known points are available. Once generated the possibilities of application range from visualization, sectioning, contouring, intersecting, volume calculations, which will be explained in detail. A particularly interesting aspect is the combination of the 3D information of surfaces and the enriched information of images (such as satellite bound images), because they usually incorporate many information which can be easily helpful for the interpretation of topographic or geological features. In the same way any other paperwork such as older maps or sketches from field work can be integrated for reasons of inspection or for digitizing work. With help of some simple but powerful features of Surpac this feature can be as well applied for sections and profiles as illustrated in the image. The rapid surface generation is not applicable in all situations. For more complex structures typically some other methods are applied, which is due to constraints of the algorithms as well as due to the need of human interaction to improve modelling by introducing geological knowledge. Interpretation is commonly related to sections and profiles, and while this still remains an intellectual exercise for the expert the work can be greatly supported by the computer because any

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information needed can be quickly extracted from Surpac. For the modelling of geological structures exploration boreholes are a prime source of information and hence of particular importance for the modelling process itself. Reflecting this importance (and value) these information are stored in databases. Databases are a perfect vehicle to comply with some of the main demands such as data integrity, data safety by access restrictions and efficiency. The focus of using drillhole data in Surpac is in the field of visualization of the geometric aspects for understanding and interpreting the situation. The information to be shown on the screen can be adjusted in wide ranges according to your needs. The required flexibility of selecting information (e.g., restriction to a certain area) is provided both by Surpac and the (almost unlimited) capabilities of databases. By means of several examples it will be illustrated how typical work flows look like in order to generate boundaries of deposit or geological structures. While surfaces are perfect vehicles for representation of clearly defined structural boundaries, different methods are necessary for describing gradual changes of characteristics in space. For these situations, which are of particular importance for mining applications but also for many other situations, geostatistical methods for estimation and block models as representation method are commonly applied. Without going into mathematical details the principles of these methods will be presented, including the essential aspect of estimation reliability. Within Surpac the typical process of extracting data from drillholes, evaluating the characteristics of the deposit and executing the calculations illustrates the advantages of this approach. In combination with the principle modelling techniques some of the particular features of Surpac will be highlighted. Based on the general concept and the very open data structure the application range is hardly limited. This can be for example illustrated by means of structural data (position, dip, strike, formation). There are many conceivable ways how this information can be processed for best possible interpretation, e.g., as standardized symbols for plotting purposes or as 3D squares representing orientation for interactive 3D inspection. Eventually data can be even directly derived from databases allowing enhanced querying options as well as problem-free data sharing with other geological software packages. This is done by the integrated customizable features of Surpac, which are of particular interest for enhanced scientific applications as well as for simplifying routine work. Some examples from mining applications will illustrate the considerable advantages achievable with these capabilities. During the field trip (before the in-house course) to one of the most famous salt deposits in the Eastern Alps (Altaussee, Salzkammergut area, Northern Calcareous Alps) we will visit the Haselgebirge Mélange and discuss how complex a Gemcom Surpac™ model works.

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AS3 How Petrel can be a powerful tool for sedimentology? Nacera Maache [email protected] (NExT, Network of Excellence in Training a Schlumberger Company) Duration: 1 day: 09 September 2012 Includes: course notes, refreshments. Price: 180 EURO/person. Participants: Minimum 10, Maximum 12. Most geologic work begins as a concept in the geologists head - applications like Petrel allow the geologist to easily put that concept down on paper and use Petrel to let the computer generate a proper reservoir model that honours the sedimentological concept. Petrel is a powerful tool for the construction of fully 3D representative, predictive models for different depositional environments: This course covers fundamentals for Petrel model building workflow from stratigraphy, structural to facies modelling based on depositional environment for better reservoir characterization. Examples of reservoir modelling from continental (fluvial) to deep-water (turbidites) depositional environments will be presented. The up to date methods of 3D environment architecture and facies modelling methods will be reviewed and all the available data (cores, outcrops, seismic attributes) are implemented to generate the most realistic model. The workflow of 3D Geocellukar modelling is as follows: • Stratigraphic framework based on the sequence stratigraphic analysis which captures the vertical evolution of the reservoirs and honours the sedimentary cycles. • 3D structural grid where the orientation of the grid is a function of the sand bodies orientation. • Facies modelling offers a range of modelling methods which integrate the available data such as cores, outcrops analogs, seismic attributes. Geological conceptual models based on all data provide a general scheme capturing the depositional process and contribute to the understanding of the reservoir complexity by generating a 3D geological model using different statistical approaches: • 3D facies modelling using object-based modelling can be approached using object-based algorithm modelling, where facies is distributed in a variety of predefined geological shapes, including fluvial channels with levees, turbidite lobes and channels. • Pixel-based algorithm simulation which doesn’t reproduce complex geometries. • Multi-point (MPS) facies simulation is based on training images guided by conceptual models built from cores and analogs data. • The stochastic method (TGS) is very useful for modelling environments where there is a natural transition through a sequence of facies such as carbonate platform and progradational fluvial sequences. Other methods will be reviewed and examples presented.

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AS4 Petrophysical modelling Karl Millahn [email protected] (Leoben/Austria) Duration: 1 day: 10 September 2012 Includes: course notes, refreshments. Price: 100 EURO/person. Participants: Minimum 20, Maximum 30. A (hydrocarbon) reservoir model is represented as a 3D grid where each grid cell contains relevant parameters describing structural detail, rock and fluid properties as well as environmental conditions (like pressure and temperature). Numerical simulation of fluid flow in such a model assists in understanding the static and dynamic properties of the reservoir and predicting its future performance. The reliability of the model depends on the quality of the input data which come from various sources (geophysical measurements, cores, geological data, reservoir engineering tests, etc.) and their integration. Reliable information is available only at a few well locations; other data like reflection seismic sections or volumes carry information indirectly linked to the properties of interest. The measurements “see” the reservoir properties at various scale lengths, and combination of multi-scale data requires additional care and an extra diversion into effective medium theory. A wide range of statistical techniques are employed to combine all sources of geological, geophysical and petrophysical information in a process called ‘Petrophysical Modelling’. This term is somewhat misleading as the result is not one single optimized reservoir model; instead, one explores the interdependence of the data and their inherent uncertainties. Further data conditioning might be necessary depending on the purpose of the model (e.g., simulate fluid flow or generate synthetic seismic sections). In this workshop we will study several approaches employed in the industry or discussed in the scientific community. Relevant background knowledge will be included. This applies also to the mathematical foundations of the statistical methods: sufficient detail will be presented to enable non-expert participants to understand strengths and limitations of these methods. The workshop will be structured in seven sessions (preliminary schedule): • Reservoir parameters • Geophysical measurements and petrophysical parameters • Petrophysics from wireline data (review) • Characterization of spatial data: geostatistics • Estimating uncertainties • Field example #1 • Field example #2: hands-on experience Helpful background: Basic understanding of geophysical techniques, fundamental statistics.

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BS1 Magnetic stratigraphy Robert Scholger [email protected], Elisabeth Schnepp (Leoben/Austria) Duration: 1 day short course in-house: 14 September 2012 | 1 day field trip: 15 September 2012 Includes: course notes, refreshments, lunch packet/field trip, transportation. Price: 220 EURO/person. Participants: Minimum 20, Maximum 40. Basic concepts, fundamentals and applications of magnetic stratigraphy including chronometric calibration of biostratigraphical zones, correlation of marine and terrestrial sequences, and climate records are presented. Changes of the polarity of the Earth’s magnetic field are world wide phenomena, enabling correlation and dating of geological material. The geomagnetic polarity record is central to the construction of geologic time scales, linking biostratigraphies, isotope stratigraphies and absolute ages (Magnetic Polarity Time Scale). In a shorter time range, geomagnetic excursions, representing short-lived deflections of the Earth’s magnetic field, can be observed on broader regional scales and are, thus, also suitable for chronostratigraphic correlations (Relative Palaeointensity, Geomagnetic Instability Time Scale). On top of this, concentration and grain size-dependent magnetic properties of rocks can be powerful indicators of temporal variations in climatically-modulated fluxes of sediment in numerous environments. E.g., variations in pedogenic formation of magnetic phases in interbedded loess/palaeosol sequences are strongly controlled by climate (Rock Magnetic Stratigraphy). Remanent magnetization is durable even for geological times, while viscose components represent relatively young magnetization ages, giving rise for chemical alteration of magnetic phases in the mineral assemblage. Palaeomagnetic laboratory procedures yield information about the magnetic carriers and enable the discrimination between primary magnetization directions and magnetization components from magnetic overprints and chemical alteration and help to identify the magnetic minerals in the rocks. Measurements of the anisotropy of magnetic properties are used to describe the fabric of the sediments so that their origin and evolution can be determined. Sampling techniques and on-site measurements are demonstrated during the field trip. Oriented cores are collected for palaeomagnetic measurements using a portable coring apparatus with diamond hollow drill-bits. Alternatively, samples can be taken by using non-magnetic plastic cylinders, which are penetrated into the sediment surface where sediments cannot be drilled. Only fine grained sediments are considered for routine palaeomagnetic analyses, while palaeoclimate investigations may also include sandy material. On top of this, samples from drill cores can be processed with few limitations. The course content will cover: • The Earth’s Magnetic Field • Magnetic Properties of Rocks and Rock Magnetic Stratigraphy • Magnetic Polarity Stratigraphy and Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale • Relative Palaeointensity and Archaeomagnetic Dating • Excursion: sampling techniques and on-site measurements demonstrated in the Cretaceous/Palaeogene boundary sections at Gams (Austria) Course materials: All diagrams, as well as Internet-links to open access articles and programmes used in the lectures, are made available in the lecture notes.

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BS2 Tracers in organic geochemistry - biomarkers and stable isotopes Achim Bechtel [email protected] (Leoben/Austria), Reinhard Gratzer (Leoben/Austria), Wilhelm Puettmann (Frankfurt a.M./Germany) Duration: 1 day: 14 September 2012 Includes: course notes, refreshments. Price: 100 EURO/person. Participants: Minimum: 15, Maximum: 25. Participants will get an introduction to techniques of biomarker and light stable isotope analyses in hydrocarbon systems. Biomarkers are widely used for the characterization of depositional environments and the reconstruction of climatic changes. They provide valuable information for oil-oil and oil-source rock correlations, and can be used to assess the muturity of sedimentary organic matter. Case-studies will include examples for the use of biomarkers in biogeochemistry, petroleum geochemistry, and ecology. The course will also include topics about how stable isotopes can help to identify the precursors and fate of biomolecules. As biomarkers are often not specific for a single biological source, carbon isotopic composition of individual compounds provides additional information for the differentiation between possible biological precursors. The role of organic geochemistry in palaeoclimate research will be covered. The application of compound-specific isotope data will be a focus of the short course. Changes in vegetation and climate can be effectively revealed by combined biomarker and stable isotope data. Environmental problems caused by hydrocarbon contamination and the possibilities of monitoring in-situ biodegradation of hydrocarbons (natural attenuation) will be another topic. Recent advances in environmental analytical chemistry applied to petroleum hydrocarbons will be shared within the course. The course content will cover: • Principles of biomarker and stable isotope (C, O, H) analyses • Analytical methods (GC, GC-MS, GC-ir(C, H)-MS) • Biological precursor molecules • Biomarkers and C-isotopes in petroleum geochemistry • Palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology • Environmental geochemistry

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BS3 The multiphase flow behaviour of naturally fractured reservoirs Stephan K. Matthaei [email protected] (Leoben/Austria) Duration: 3 days: 14-16 September 2012 Includes: course notes, refreshments. Price: 300 EURO/person. Participants: Minimum: 15, Maximum: 25. Subject is the state-of-the-art in characterization, modelling and simulation of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs (NFRs), their properties including constitutive relationships for matrix and fracture multiphase flow as well as fracture-matrix transfer and the variation of flow properties with scale. Also covered will be flow-based upscaling of permeability and relative permeability in view of emergent flow structures and instabilities such as fracture-assisted viscous fingering. This analysis will be supported by findings from cm- to hm-scale physical experiments and numerical simulations. Observations and dynamic data are used to address NFR behaviour on the field-scale. The information shared in this course underpins a novel NFR characterization and reservoir simulation workflow that begins with statistical fracture characterization in the subsurface, including geomechanical techniques for the prediction of fracture geometrical arrangement, connectivity, and aperture taking into account the in situ stress state. It will be shown how the latter can be inferred from the lithostatic load, borehole breakouts and drilling-induced tensile fractures. The discussed workflow progresses with the computation of grid-block scale fracture – matrix ensemble properties and concludes with field-scale simulation. As an inverse approach, the course also tries to establish what dynamic data reveal about the role of fractures or faults in any particular NFR and how these diagnostics should be used to guide data collection, history matching, and predictive simulations. Many of the conclusions drawn in this course rest on results from Discrete Fracture and (rock)-Matrix (DFM) simulations carried out on unstructured hybrid FEM-FVM scale models. Therefore, the foundations of the DFM and simplifications made/associated assumptions are explained as well. Subsequent, the DFM is compared and contrasted with existing fracture modelling and flow simulation techniques, including an analysis and discussion of the pro’s and con’s of field-scale dual porosity modelling. Course materials: Coloured displays of the simulation results were created with the Visualisation Toolkit (VTK, vtk.org) and the auxiliary public domain software packages MayaVi (code.enthought.com) and Paraview (www.paraview.org). All diagrams used in the lectures are made available in the lecture notes. All articles of the presenter are available from the stephan-matthai.com website in the publications section. All show-cased simulations can be carried out on new datasets of choice using proprietory software. Commercial licenses can be requested from the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, see www.transfer.ethz.ch. An additional license is required for the algebraic multigrid solver SAMG because it is used internally by our simulation tools. This software can be obtained from SCAPOS AG, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Germany: www.scapos.com. We also offer implementation support for the DFMbased NFR modelling and simulation workflow and can carry out pilot studies. PDF files of relevant scientific papers will be made available to participants.

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BS4 Geological modelling for coal/stratified deposits with Gemcom Minex™ Gemcom Technical Presenter, TBC Corresponding author: Katie Bowley [email protected] (Leicestershire/United Kingdom) Duration: 1 day: 14 September 2012 Includes: course notes, refreshments. Price: 125 EURO/person. Participants: Minimum: 20, Maximum: 40. Gemcom Minex™ provides the unique and specialised geology and mine planning tools for coal and other stratified deposits, ensuring resources are evaluated accurately and mined efficiently. This short course will highlight the main features, as well as a demonstration of the product with real-life case study information. The course will show you the benefits of Minex, which include: • Geological database and seam correlation. • Geological modelling of faulted multiseam coal deposits. • Open pit optimization. • Mine planning/open pit and underground applications. • Reporting resources and plans. This course is designed as a strong introduction to Minex for those without prior experience of the software. Course content will include: • Minex interface and tools • View control 3D graphical environment • Geometry file concept and geometry data saving • Queries in 3D graphical environment • Strung data and digitising • Importing external data • Plans and sections • Seam cross-section • Girds and gridding concepts • Triangle files • Volume calculation with triangle files Before taking this course, you require the following: • Knowledge of Windows® 2000, XP, Vista® or Windows 7 Operating System • Knowledge of file management • Knowledge of ASCII format files and Microsoft® Excel® Course materials: All participants will receive a copy of the course material after the event.

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Cancellation Cancellations must be made timely and in writing by email, postal mail or fax to: Montanuniversitaet Leoben Department of Applied Geosciences and Geophysics IAS 2012 - Prof. Dr. Hans-Juergen Gawlick Peter-Tunner Strasse 5 8700 Leoben Austria Fax +43 3842 402 6302 [email protected]

Registration fee: In case you cancel your participation full refund will be given until 15 April 2012 and 50% until 15 May 2012 (50% of registration fee and fees for field trips/short courses/conference dinner (minus transfer expenses) will be refunded). After 15 May 2012 no refunding of any payment is possible. Please note, that there will be no exception to this rule. Field-Trip | Short Course: In case of cancellation of under-subscribed field trips/short courses full refund will be given. Refund of the field trip | short course fee will be issued if it is cancelled. We cannot accept responsibility for costs associated with any cancellation of under-subscribed field trips or short courses (e.g., airline or train tickets, accommodation rates). You will be informed about cancellation of field trips/short courses in May 2012.

Personal Insurance and Visa Personal insurance is not included in the registration fee. All participants are advised to make their own arrangements. Participants are advised to check on visa requirements. Participants to the field trips (several field trips will cross the Austrian border) requiring any visa or special passports should make the necessary arrangements by themselves well in advance. For acquiring of advice about travel visas contact our advisors of the Schladming-Rohrmoos | Schladming-Dachstein Tourist Office: Ms. Tanja Schweiger: [email protected] | Mr. Johannes Baltl: [email protected]

Letter of Invitation Participants from some countries will need an official Letter of Invitation to be provided with their visa application. These official letters will be sent to delegates of the 29th IAS Meeting only after clearance of registration fee payment. Letters of Invitation do not represent a commitment to provide any financial support.

No-Smoking Policy Smoking is prohibited in the conference centre. Special smoking areas are arranged.

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Information for Presenters Authors are invited to submit abstracts for the 29th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology in December 2011. The programme themes are listed on the following pages. To submit an abstract visit www.sedimentologists.org/ims-2012 and click on abstract submissions, then follow the instructions. To keep in mind: • Please note that your registration and abstract submission without payment of the registration fee will not be considered. • Maximum extent size of the abstracts is 4.000 characters. • The title of the abstract and the name, post and email address of the corresponding author are to be entered into the fields when completing the submission form online. All correspondence regarding the abstract will be restricted to the corresponding author. • Do not submit an abstract unless the first author is certain to attend the 29th IAS Meeting. • Participants will be able to choose their preference (oral or poster mode) in the application form, but the definite mode of presentation will be decided by the Scientific Committee and the Conveners, based on space/time restrictions. • Please note that participants will only be permitted to deliver one oral and one poster presentation as first author (unless they are a plenary or invited keynote speaker), but they may be co-author of multiple presentations. • Student submissions are encouraged to all themes. • Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection in May-June 2012. • All accepted abstracts will be compiled and edited in pdf format. The electronic version of these abstracts and the final programme will be available on the website. Oral and poster presentations will be scheduled in the final programme.

Oral Presentations There will be 20 minutes for oral presentations. Simultaneous sessions will be run. We strongly encourage presentations of no more than 15 minutes to allow at least 5 minutes for discussion and to answer questions from the audience. Single screen electronic presentations will be the only format available. Each session room will be equipped with the following: Computer, high-intensity projector, laser pointer, microphone system, flip chart, Internet access. Additional facilities, e.g., overhead and slide projectors will be available on request in advance. One projectionist will be present in the lecture room. Presenters will not be able to use their own computer for presentation.

Poster Presentations Dimension of the posters will be no larger than 85 cm wide and 120 cm high (DIN A0 format). A wide room will be available for poster presentations and several poster sessions will be programmed. Each session will be scheduled on a specific day. Posters will be displayed all day. Authors are kindly asked to put up their posters the day in which the specific session is scheduled as early as possible (8:00 - 8:45 h). Material (double-faced adhesive tape) for mounting the posters on the boards will be provided at the registration desk.

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Submission of Abstracts December 2011

Abstract submissions open

30 April 2012

Abstract submissions close

The 29th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology will accept contributions from any field of sedimentology and related sciences. Presenting authors of abstracts at the 29th IAS Meeting must register for this meeting and pay their registration fee not later than 30 April 2012. The fees due correspond to the date of payment, not the date of abstract submission. Presenting authors not registered and paid by this date will have their abstracts removed from the programme and abstract book. Guidelines for abstract preparation Abstracts must comply with the guidelines which are given below. Abstracts will be reviewed before final acceptance. Every abstract following not the instructions, will be sent back to the authors. Re-submit the corrections within two weeks. If your corrections are not received in time, the abstract will be rejected. Heading (Times New Roman, 12 pt., bold) Name, Prename (Times New Roman, 12 pt., regular) (e.g., Badenas, B.1, Pomar, L.2, Aurell, M.1, Morsilli, M.3) Address: post address, email address (Times New Roman, 12 pt., regular) (e.g., 1: Institution, postal code-city, country) (e@mail) • Maximum extent size of the abstract is 4.000 characters including spaces, heading, names, address, text and acknowledgements. • The English language will not be corrected. • The abstract should include a brief introduction followed by a summary of methods, results and conclusions. • Use Times or Arial standard font throughout. Font size 12 pt., regular. • Only pure Latin letters are accepted. No additional characters are allowed, also not in the given names. • References, tables, figures or any other graphics are not permitted. Equations and symbols (e.g., Greek symbols) must be typed. Please, use metric measurements and symbols. • Fossil names should be indicated in italics. • Authors are advised to prepare their abstracts using a Word or Word-compatible text editor. Upload the entire abstract in the format outlined below. Acknowledgements: A brief sentence(s) in Times New Roman, 12 pt., regular. To submit an abstract follow these steps: Indications the scientific theme and scientific session for which your abstract is to be considered. Submit your abstract online following the instructions given on the website. For identification of your abstract: Name your file by the first author, proposed theme and session, proposed presentation mode: name-T3S3-poster. Any questions or requests for further information should be addressed to the chairpersons ([email protected]) or session conveners, whose email addresses are listed in the scientific programme below.

Submit Abstracts

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Exhibition & Sponsorship The 29th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology provides an ideal opportunity for industry, scientific publishers, geological surveys, research organisations, professional societies and others to engage with the global sedimentological community. A range of sponsorship and exhibition opportunities, to suit varying needs and budgets, have been designed to facilitate optimal access to this meeting: • Place for exhibition. • Offer your new technologies, products and services. • Advertisements in the Programme/Abstract and/or Field Trip volumes. • Place your logo on the IAS Meeting website, in subsequent circulars, and in the Programme/Abstract and Field Trip volumes. • Organize special meetings within the context of the meeting. • To participate with own contributions. • To take part in the organized field trips and short courses. • And other things more.

Exhibitor staff registration package The featured interdisciplinary exhibition will occupy the foyer of the ground floor and a certain part of the plenary hall (red convention room) of Congress-Schladming, the heart of this Meeting. The exhibition space will be built around a central meeting and eating area. The price for each exhibition is 2.000+ EURO. Every exhibition includes: Exhibition space is available as raw space. Each space has around 10 m2 and comes equipped with one table, two chairs and basic power. This package is for staff whose primary role is working at your exhibition space during the congress. Name badge, Meeting satchel, Internet access, Welcome Reception, access to the scientific programme and refreshments during the meeting for one person (1 person) is included. All other representatives are required to register as full 29th IAS Meeting participant. This package does not include access to any of the short courses and field trips without full payment. If you need more space or want to build up your own equipment feel free to contact the organizers. We try to make it possible. Further details are available and can be downloaded here.

Sponsorship Sponsorship of such a conference is very rewarding. Apart from the immediate effects to meet friends and other people for discussion or to exchange data, and to present yourself, the long-term effects for a sponsor are equally important. Such a big conference will stimulate common and interdisciplinary research, give the chance to start new collaborations, and will make the sponsors potential better known to the international community. A variety of excellent sponsorship and advertising opportunities are available at the 29th IAS Meeting. Details are available by contacting the organizers: [email protected] or can be downloaded here.

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Accommodation Schladming and the Schladming-Dachstein region offer a diverse range of stylish hotels, comfortable vacation apartments, guest houses, bed and breakfast guest beds, camping or for an exceptionally authentic experience a farm holiday. Prices for suitable accommodations start at 25 EURO/night (incl. breakfast and tax). Schladming-Rohrmoos Tourist Office 29th IAS Meeting participants will be offered a wide range of accommodation options, most of them in walking distance to the venue. Several have been reserved for this meeting and will be offered at special rates. The selection of hotels, room types and rates are shown in the tables, which can be downloaded here. After the 15 May 2012 these rooms will revert to standard rates and conditions (see the hotel websites for standard rates). Schladming-Rohrmoos Tourist Office helps to organize inexpensive and exclusive one-way and round-trip opportunities between the airports and Schladming. Transfer service and all reservation facilities will be arranged by our advisors of the Schladming-Rohrmoos Tourist Office Ms. Tanja Schweiger: [email protected] Mr. Johannes Baltl: [email protected] Feel free to contact them. Sporthotel Royer ****Superior The Sporthotel Royer offers for participants of the 29th IAS Meeting special rates (download for details): € 85,- price per person and day for single room use, € 70,- price per person and day for double room use; breakfast buffet and taxes are included. Reservations for this highly recommended way of accommodation will be arranged by the participants, which will directly contact to the Sporthotel Royer (contact: [email protected] indicating that you are attending the IAS 2012 Meeting). Posthotel Schladming **** Posthotel Schladming, the most central 4-star hotel in Schladming, offers for participants of the 29th IAS Meeting also special rates (download for details): €68,- price per person and day in a single room, €63,- price per person and day in a double room, €98,- price per person and day in a double room single usage; breakfast buffet and taxes are included. Reservations will be arranged by the participants, which will directly contact to the Posthotel Schladming (contact: info@ posthotel-schladming.at indicating that you are attending the IAS 2012 Meeting). We also suggest that you visit for accommodations the official tourism website of the region www.schladming.at | www. schladming-dachstein.at | www.ramsau.at

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Leisure Options Schladming is very alive and has many interesting places in its surroundings to visit (for ideas of what to do in SchladmingRohrmoos | Schladming-Dachstein log on here or on the websites: www.schladming.at | www.schladming-dachstein.at). Our advisors of the Tourist Office will arrange a wide selection of culture and site-seeing spots, but there will be abundant of local offers for each individual. Nearby and easy to reach are: e.g., the cities of Salzburg, Vienna, the charming small town Bad Ischl as cultural centre of the Salzkammergut, conquer for yourself the historical jewels of castles and fortress in the nearby vicinity, or explore the Salzkammergut area with its crystal-clear lakes, the subsurface salt-mines, the glaciated Mount Grossglockner as highest mountain of Austria, or discover the Hallstatt Dachstein Salzkammergut UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

... Everything on one card When you arrive at one of the outstanding “Card Partners” lodging establishments of the Schladming-Dachstein region, you receive your own Sommercard - it’s free of charge and valid for the full duration of your stay, even on your arrival and departure days. You will get to enjoy the vast majority of the regions recreational opportunities without having to pay one cent extra: • public buses & hiking shuttles • toll roads • museums • Dachstein glacier lift (one round-trip ride for each guest within a 7-day period) • mountain lifts • indoor pools • outdoor pools & lakes • gorge trails For further information: www.sommercard.info

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Appendix About the Montanuniversitaet Leoben The Montanuniversitaet Leoben has defined its central fields of research as Mineral Resources, High Performance Materials and Substainable Production and Technology. Their respective focal points are as follows: • Mining and extraction, deposit modelling, system dynamics of geogenic resources, stone and building materials (Mineral Resources). • Nano-structured materials, nano-composites, electro-ceramics, surface technology (High Performance Materials). • Production and manufacturing, metallurgical processes, greenhouse-gas-neutral processes, reuse of contaminated sites, recycling (Substainable Production and Technology). Find out more. Visit www.unileoben.ac.at

Bus company credit Bus Company for all field trips of the 29th IAS Meeting will be the Planai-Hochwurzen-Bahnen GmbH. Find out more. Visit www.planaibus.at/bus/en/Home.html Logo credit Concept, Design and Text: Chairpersons/Montanuniversitaet Leoben, Barbara Schrempf/Schladming-Dachstein Tourist Office in cooperation with the Agency Lemon/www.lemon.co.at. Photo credits The organizers of the 29th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology wish to thank the following persons and organizations for providing the photographs used throughout this website: Wolfgang and Herta Frisch, Hans-Juergen Gawlick, Heinz Mali, Sigrid Missoni, Herbert Raffalt, Sporthotel Royer, Congress-Schladming Field Trips: A1: Sylvain Richoz, Leopold Krystyn | A2: Igor Vlahovic | A3: Geza Csaszar, Janos Haas | A4: Fritz Ebner, Bernhard Hubmann | A5: Walter Prochaska, Heinz Mali | B1: Richard Lein | B2: Chairpersons | B3: Franc Cimerman, Spela Gorican, Luka Gale, Bostjan Rozic | B4: Roman Aubrecht | B5: Ruedi Homberger, Michael Wagreich | B6: Rainer Brandner, Micha Horacek Short Courses: AS1: Ronald J. Bakker/fluids.unileoben.ac.at | AS2: Thomas Oberndorfer/www.mine-it.at, Gemcom/www.gemcomsoftware.com, Chairpersons | AS3: NExT/www.nexttraining.net | BS1: Robert Scholger | BS2: Achim Bechtel | BS3: Stephan K. Matthaei/stephan-matthai.com | BS4: Gemcom/www.gemcomsoftware.com Exhibition & Sponsorship Prospectus: Wolfgang and Herta Frisch, Chairpersons 2nd Circular: Call for Abstracts: Wolfgang and Herta Frisch, Chairpersons

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Supporting Sponsors The 29th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology is pleased to acknowledge the sponsorship and support.

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