Meeting Themes and Special Sessions
T01 Theme 1: Continental environments and depositional systems – Theme Chair: Daniel Le Heron
Special Sessions
T01-SS01 – Palaeosols: a treasure chest to understand the palaeoenvironmental and sedimentary processes in continental realm
T01-SS02 – Lacustrine Sedimentology: from deep time and climate evolution to modern processes and human impact
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T02 Theme 2: Shallow-marine clastics – Theme Chair: Tadeusz Peryt
Special Sessions
T02-SS01 – Gateways, straits and seaways: their sedimentology and stratigraphy importance to understand basins evolution
T02-SS02 – The waltz of processes in paralic environments – Rock record and modern perspectives (new for 2021)
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T03 Theme 3: Carbonate sedimentology – Theme Chair: Stephen Lokier
Special Sessions
T03-SS01 – Geochemistry of modern and Recent carbonates
T03-SS02 – Resedimented carbonates – generation, transportation, deposition
T03-SS03 – Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy: Review and Update (new for 2021)
T03-SS04 – Open Session on Carbonates (new for 2021)
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T04 Theme 4: Deep-marine depositional systems – Theme Chair: Jeffrey Peakall
Special Sessions
T04-SS01 – Continental slope sedimentary systems: processes, products and controls
T04-SS02 – Submarine canyons and channels: Their role for material transfer and burial from shelf to basin
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T05 Theme 5: Stratigraphic archives of evolution of climate, oceans, and biota – Theme Chair: Tracy Frank
Special Sessions
T05-SS01 – Paleozoic ocean, lands, ecosystems and climate imprinted in sedimentary strata: new insights from high-resolution proxies
T05-SS02 – Climatic, environmental, and biotic crises of the Permo- Triassic: Sedimentary records of the transition to the Mesozoic world
T05-SS03 – Understanding a greenhouse Earth: sedimentation, climate, sea level and biogeochemical cycles in the Cretaceous
T05-SS04 – Black shales: past depositional systems and modern environments
T05-SS05 – Sedimentary environments as the theatres of life and evolution
T05-SS06 – Continent-ocean interactions and their geological records: a tribute to Karl Föllmi
T05-SS07 – Western Tethys meets Eastern Tethys – sedimetological perspective (new for 2021)
T05-SS08 – Diagenetic signals in the sedimentary record of environmental change
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T06 Theme 6: Record of tectonics in sedimentary archives – Theme Chair: Slavomír Nehyba
no special session
T07 Theme 7: Physical sedimentary processes (including volcaniclastics) – Theme Chair: Jaco Baas
Special Sessions
T07-SS01 – Unravelling depositional processes of muddy successions (cancelled)
T07-SS02 – When volcanoes meet the environment
T07-SS03 – An Expansive Perspective of Meandering: Patterns and Processes Across Landscapes and Scales
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T08 Theme 8: Biochemical processes in sedimentology – Theme Chair: Sara Tomás
Special Session
T08-SS01 – Microbial imprint on the sediment record: from organomineralization to global biogeochemical cycling
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T09 Theme 9: Self-organization in sedimentary processes and stratigraphic record (cancelled)
T10 Theme 10: Sediment routing – from source to sink – Theme Chair: Jasper Knight
no special session
T11 Theme 11: Applied sedimentology – Theme Chair: Matthieu Cartigny
Special Sessions
T11-SS01 – Sedimentary evolution of coastal and alluvial plains: a key to understand subsidence and aquifer hazards
T11-SS02 – From Holocene to Anthropocene: human impact on sedimentary environment
T11-SS03 – Reservoir systems: Subaerial and subaqueous processes, morphologies and significance for sediment distribution
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T12 Theme 12: Techniques and technologies in sedimentary research – state of the art and perspectives – Theme Chair: Hongliu Zeng
Special Session
T12-SS01 – Seismic sedimentology of thin beds
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T13 Theme 13: Open Theme – Theme Chair: Xiaoneng Luo
no special session