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BSRG 2010 Conference Programme BSRG 2010 Conference programme National Oceanography Centre, Southampton 19-21 December 2010 Convenor: Dr Russell Wynn Thanks to the following conference sponsors: BSRG 2010: Outline programme Sunday 19 December 2010 09.00 - 17.00 Fieldtrip to the Isle of Wight 10.00 - 13.00 Core workshop (Sponsored by ExxonMobil) Session 1 14.00 - 17.00 Core workshop (Sponsored by ExxonMobil) Session 2 18.30 – 20.00 Icebreaker reception (drinks and canapés) 20.00 - 21.30 Icebreaker talks Monday 20 December 2010 09.00 - 10.30 Plenary sessions: • Deep-water processes (Lecture theatre) • Carbonates and diagenesis (Seminar Room) 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee and posters 11.00 - 12.30 Plenary sessions: • Glacial processes (Lecture theatre) • Fluvial processes (Seminar Room) 12.30 - 13.30 Lunch 13.30 - 15.00 Plenary sessions: • Tectonic & climatic influences (Lecture theatre) • Oil & gas (Seminar Room) 15.00 - 16.00 Coffee and dedicated poster session 16.00 - 17.00 Plenary sessions: • Tectonic & climatic influences (Lecture theatre) • Deep-water processes (Seminar Room) 17.00 - 18.00 BSRG AGM 19.00 (sharp) Coaches depart for conference dinner 12.00 midnight Coaches return to NOC Tuesday 21 December 2010 09.00 - 10.30 Plenary sessions: • Deep-water processes (Lecture theatre) • Shallow water & coastal processes (Seminar Room) 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee and posters 11.00 - 12.30 Plenary sessions: • Tectonic & climatic influences (Lecture theatre) • Sedimentary processes (Seminar Room) 12.30 - 13.30 Lunch 13.30 - 15.00 Plenary sessions: • Sedimentary processes (Lecture theatre) • Deep-water processes (Seminar Room) 15.00 - 15.30 Coffee and posters session 15.30 - 17.00 Plenary sessions • Shallow water & coastal processes (Lecture theatre) • Deep-water processes (Seminar Room) 17.00 Conference close Monday 20 December 2010 Venue: Lecture Theatre Venue: Seminar Room Session 1A: Deep-water processes Session 1B: Carbonates & Diagenesis Chair: Russell Wynn Chair: Peter Burgess 0900-0920 Stevenson et al. Humphrey, C.F.. Fluid mud generated grain size breaks in turbidites: what can they Criteria for interpreting carbonate platform drowning histories and show us about flow processes? resultant diagenetic fabrics: insights from the actively subsiding platform margins of Hawaii 0920-0940 Patacci et al. Hendry, J. Basal Flow Reversals within Ponded Turbidity Currents Petrography and diagenesis of silicified aragonitic mollusc shells, Lower Cretaceous limestones, Dorset, UK 0940-1000 Talling et al. Alrabib & Taylor New Insights into Submarine Sediment Density Flows and Their Porosity characterization and its destruction by authigenic minerals: Deposits reservoir sandstones, Mamuniyat Formation, Murzuq Basin, SW Libya 1000-1030 Keynote talk: David Piper Keynote talk: Cathy Hollis (Carbonates and diagenesis) Carbonate 70% of all turbidites are hyperpycnal! diagenesis - process, product and predictability 1030-1100 Coffee + posters Coffee + posters Session 2A: Glacial processes Session 2A: Fluvial processes Chair: Doug Masson Chair: Arjan Reesink 1100-1130 Keynote talk: Julian Dowdeswell Keynote talk: Jan Alexander A view from the sea: the marine sedimentary signature of past ice Extreme fluvial events sheets 1130-1150 Stewart et al. Reesink et al. Seven glacial cycles in the Middle-Late Pleistocene of NW Europe: Diversity in bar sedimentology in a single large river: the Rio Parana, geomorphic evidence from buried tunnel valleys Argentina 1150-1210 Langford, H.E. Banham et al. Glacial-lake Deltas or Tunnel-valley deltas? Middle Pleistocene glacial Sedimentary character of pre- and post-vegetation fluvial fan deposits of the Peterborough area, eastern England successions: comparison of the Precambrian Applecross Formation of Torridon with Permian-Triassic examples 1210-1230 Tyrell et al. Wood et al. New constraints on the provenance of Late Quaternary ice-rafted Sedimentary Characterisation and Depositional Mode of the Messak debris, offshore western Ireland. Fm, SW Libya 1230-1330 Lunch Lunch Session 3A: Tectonic & climatic influences Session 3B: Oil & gas Chair: Sarah Davies Chair: Jon Noad 1330-1400 Keynote talk: Niels Hovius Keynote talk: Stuart Haszeldine and Mark Wilkinson Seismic, meteorologic, and geomorphic events, and the patterns of Carbon Capture and Storage - what's it got to do with you? sediment sourcing in an active mountain belt 1400-1420 Robertson & Tasli Gladstone & Woods Sedimentary evidence of the northerly, active margin of the S Oil plumes rising through deep water Neotethys ocean during Late Cretaceous-Early Cenozoic time: evidence from the Kyrenia Range, Cyprus 1420-1440 Nairn et al. Jackson et al. Tectonic-sedimentary development of the Upper Cretaceous-Middle Depositional elements within the Brent Delta (Middle Jurassic) of the Eocene Kirikkale Basin, Central Anatolia, Turkey North Sea Basin visualised using 3D seismic data 1440-1500 Venus et al. Noad, J. The Interaction of Salt Tectonics and Fluvial Sedimentation: A Case The Sedimentology of Resource Plays Study from the Permian Cutler Group, SE Utah, USA 1500-1600 Coffee and dedicated poster session Coffee and dedicated poster session Session 4A: Tectonic & climatic influences Session 4B: Deep-water processes Chair: Gary Nichols Chair: Chris Jackson 1600-1620 Booth, M. Kilhams et al. The Tectono-Sedimentary Evolution of the Darende and Hekimhan Characterising the Paleocene Submarine Fans of the UK Central North Basins, Central Eastern Turkey Sea (Mey Sandstone Member): Observations from Seismic, Petrophysical and Core Analysis 1620-1640 Andrews et al. Pierce et al. Magadi-type chert recorded in East Greenland: evidence for a mid Deep-water fan to base-of-slope transition in the Clare Basin, western Triassic marine ingression Ireland, new constraints from behind-outcrop coring 1640-1700 Le Heron, D.P. Prelat et al. Sea ice-free conditions during the Sturtian glaciation (early Integrating outcrop sections and research boreholes to understand the Cryogenian), South Australia internal organisation submarine lobe deposits 1700-1800 BSRG Annual General Meeting 19.00 sharp Coaches depart NOCS for conference dinner Tuesday 21 December 2010 Venue: Lecture Theatre Venue: Seminar Room Session 5A: Deep-water processes Session 5B: Shallow water & coastal processes Chair: Peter Haughton Chair: Gary Hampson 0900-0920 Elliott et al. Jones et al. Footwall erosion and sediment pathways in a gravity-driven fault Linking The Slope To Shelf; An Example From The Laingsburg system: An example from the Jurassic Bremstein Fault Complex, Depocentre, Karoo Basin, South Africa. Offshore Mid-Norway 0920-0940 Georgiopoulou et al. Legler et al. New insights into emplacement of the Rockall Bank Mass Flow, Facies-belt pinch-out relationships in a distal, mixed-influence shallow- offshore western Ireland marine reservoir analogue: Lower Sego Sandstone Member, western Colorado, U.S.A. 0940-1000 Benetti et al. Howell et al. Geomorphological and sedimentological record of glaciation on the Quantitative Bedform Architecture from Virtual Outcrop Data western Irish continental margin 1000-1030 Keynote talk: Jeff Peakall Keynote talk: Peter Burgess Faith, reason, and enigmas: the troubling case of submarine Measuring and modeling carbonate strata: Patterns and prediction from channels platforms to beds 1030-1100 Coffee and posters Coffee and posters Session 6A: Fluvial processes Session 6B: Sedimentary processes Chair: Adrian Hartley Chair: Jaco Baas 1100-1130 Keynote talk: Paul Carling Keynote talk: Andy Manning Megaflood sedimentation in the Altai Mountains of Siberia: what can Depositional characteristics of natural cohesive sediments we learn about generic processes? 1130-1150 Robinson et al. Sumner et al. Palynomorphs deposited in prodelta rhythmites of the palaeo- As clear as mud Colorado delta in the Fish Creek-Vallecito basin, southern California as indicators of high altitude catchment environments. 1150-1210 McArthur et al. Verhagen et al. Late Jurassic slumping in the J Block region of the UKCS Central Turbidity currents over muddy substrates: Evidence for flow acceleration Graben: temporal and spatial relationship to deep marine turbidite over a horizontal bed reservoirs 1210-1230 Vincent et al. Eggenhuisen et al. Tectonic controls on sediment input into the NE Black Sea - Fluid pressure in turbidity currents: A hidden variable in deepwater implications for hydrocarbon reservoir quality sedimentology. 1230-1330 Lunch Lunch Seesion 7A: Sedimentary processes Session 7B: Deep-water processes Chair: Lotty Gladstone Chair: Jeff Peakall 1330-1400 Keynote talk: Jaco Baas Keynote talk: Peter Haughton Bedforms in mixed sand and mud as narrators of flow history Hybrid event beds in outer fan successions - the greywacke problem revisited 1400-1420 Cartigny et al. Fildes et al. A comparative study of sediment waves and cyclic steps based on Comparing vertical profiles of volcaniclastic sediments from coarse- geometries, internal structures and numerical modeling grained outcrops and fine-grained core data within the Waitemata Basin, New Zealand 1420-1440 Pidduck et al. Morris et al. Marine nutrient dynamics in turbid estuaries - A case study of the Sandy external levees: origin, geometry and implications Seine estuary, France 1440-1500 Graham et al. Kane et al. Marsdenian Mudstone Lithofacies Variability in the Pennine Basin, Growth of long sinuous channels on the sea floor through autogenic flow UK regulation 1500-1530 Coffee and posters Coffee and posters Session 8A: Shallow water & coastal processes Session 8B: Deep-water processes
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