Programme

 

Working Group on Sediment Generation - 2nd Workshop


Geoscience Center of the University of Göttingen (GZG), June 25-27, 2014

 

Day 1 (Wednesday, June 25):

15:00 - 15:30..........Registration

15:30 - 16:00..........Introduction

Introductory Workshop Lectures

16:00 - 17:00. ........Eduardo Garzanti (Milano)
.................................Waving the flag of sand/stone petrography......

17:00 - 18:00. ........Friedhelm von Blanckenburg (Potsdam)
.................................Global erosion and weathering: when, where, and how much?

18:00 - 21:00..........Ice-Breaker Party, GZG

 

Day 2 (Thursday, June 26):

Session 1: Sediment Generation and Provenance (chairs: Schlunegger, Garzanti)

09:00 - 09:30. ........Salvatore Critelli (Cosenza) keynote
.................................Sourceland controls and dispersal pathways as reflected in arenite composition ....

09:30 - 10:00. ........Carita Augustsson (Stavanger) keynote
.................................Quartz in quantitative provenance research: cathodoluminescence spectra

10:00 - 10:30. ........Sergio Andò (Milano) keynote
.................................To each heavy mineral its proper name

10:30 - 11:00..........Coffee

11:00 - 11:30. ........David Chew (Dublin) keynote
.................................LA-ICPMS detrital U-Pb geochronology of common-Pb bearing accessory minerals

11:30 - 11:50. ........Aoife Blowick (Dublin)
.................................Provenance of modern sands using common Pb isotopes in detrital K-feldspar: A case study from North America

11:50 - 12:10. ........Heinrich Bahlburg (Münster)
.................................Granitoid sediment sources: Zircon age distributions in granitoids shed light on the nature of an unexposed basement

12:10 - 12:30. ........Penny Lancaster (Portsmouth)
.................................The effect of recycling on provenance determinations

12:30 - 14:00..........Lunch

Session 2: Sediment Budget and Process Rates (chairs: Weltje)

14:00 - 14:30. ........Matthias Hinderer (Darmstadt) keynote
.................................Orogenic sediment fluxes and climate: insights from the Tibet-Himalayan System....

14:30 - 15:00. ........Fritz Schlunegger (Bern) keynote
.................................Erosion-sedimentation patterns - when sediment point sources complicate the interpretation

15:00 - 15:20. ........Laura Stutenbecker (Bern)
.................................Spatial and temporal variability of sediment sources in the Rhône catchment, central Swiss Alps

15:20 - 15:40. ........Chris Mark (Dublin)
.................................Linking Oligo-Miocene drainage divide migration to orogenic wedge state in the European Alps: a multi-proxy provenance approach

15:40 - 16:10..........Coffee

16:10 - 17:00. ........Introduction to the Poster Session (short oral statements 2-3 min, N=19)

17:00 - 18:30. ........Posters & Drinks

19:30 - 18:30. ........Workshop Dinner (downtown)

 

Day 3 (Friday, June 27):

Session 3: Data handling, Automatisation, Statistics, and Modelling (chairs: Hinderer, Critelli)

09:00 - 09:30. ........Pieter Vermeesch (London) keynote
.................................Making sense of 'Big data' in provenance studies...

09:30 - 10:00. ........Gert-Jan Weltje (Delft) keynote
.................................Process-based compositional analysis of clastic sediments: provenance fingerprinting using bulk properties

10:00 - 11:00..........Posters & Coffee

11:00 - 11:20. ........Menno Bloemsma (Delft)
.................................Partial least squares in a compositional framework: a powerful tool for process-based statistical analysis of sediment properties

11:20 - 11:40. ........Jenny Omma (Oxford)
.................................Digital rocks: numerical techniques in applied mineralogy

11:40 - 12:00. ........Martin Rittner (London)
.................................Visualising multi-proxy provenance data - a case study

12:00 - 13:30..........Lunch

Round Table Discussion (chair: von Eynatten)

13:30 - 12:00. ........Points to discuss include:
13:30 - 12:00. ........- future avenues of research in the broad field of sediment generation
13:30 - 12:00. ........- potential case studies for joint research projects (e.g., Calabrian Arc)
13:30 - 12:00. ........- funding possibilities (ESF, etc.)
13:30 - 12:00. ........- next Workshop: place, time, organizers
13:30 - 12:00. ........- etc.

approx. 16:00 - 12:Official Closing