Tuesday 18th December

Field Trip: A Mississippian basin margin on the North Dublin Coast (Leader: Prof. John Graham, Trinity College Dublin) 8.30

Participants will meet in the City Centre, adjacent to Trinity College Dublin. Lunch will be provided. The field excursion is expected to finish at 16.00

Core Workshop: Behind-Outcrop Cores from the Ross Formation, western Ireland 9.30

The workshop takes place in the School of Geological Sciences. Tea/coffee and lunch will be provided during the day. The workshop will finish at 16.00

Registration desk opens in the concourse area, Health Sciences Building 16.00 - onwards Posters can be affixed and talks uploaded during this time

Joint BSRG - PalAss Guest lecture: "Systems Paleobiology: Physiology as the link between biological and environmental history”

18.15 Prof. Andy Knoll (Fisher Professor of Natural History, Harvard University) Supported by the UCD Earth Institute, the Geological Survey of Ireland and the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland.

Room B004 in the Health Sciences Building.

Icebreaker reception 19.15 - 22.00 Students Union Concourse Wednesday 19th December AM

Registration desk open from 8.00, Concourse Area, Health Sciences Building

Room B004; Health Sciences Building

08:50-09:00 Welcome address

09:00-09:15 KEYNOTE: Extreme sedimentology: Emplacement of the Stac Fada impact ejecta deposit in the Mesoproterozoic of NW Scotland (Simms)

09:15-09:30

09:30-09:45 Global distribution of modern sedimentary basins (Nyberg et al.) Plenary

09:45-10:00 Avalanche! The sedimentology of snow and ice (Noad) (Chair: P. Shannon) P. Shannon) (Chair:

10:00-10:15 Rise of the machines: novel insights into marine sedimentary processes using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (Wynn)

10:15-10:30 The Chalk Sea: a dynamic environment! (Gale et al.)

10:30-10:45 coffee & posters 10:45-11:00

Room C004; Health Sciences Building Room C005; Health Sciences Building

The ‘glass ramp’: sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of the Kapp Starostin Formation 11:00-11:15 in Bellsund, Spitsberg (Collins et al.) KEYNOTE: Experimental turbidity currents as guides for process interpretation from turbidites in the geological record (Eggenhuisen) Comparative facies analysis of the sigmoidal and oblique foreset deposits of Gilbert-type deltas: 11:15-11:30 implications for the recognition of short-term relative sea-level changes (Gobo et al.)

Sedimentary process dynamics in the West Bengal Sundarbans: Holocene facies in a peri-marine 11:30-11:45 Dewatering of argillaceous sands (Kane et al.) environment (Flood R. et al.)

Driven around the bend: spatial evolution and controls on the orientation of helical bend flow in a Estimation of progradation rates in ancient shallow-marine clinoform sets: a new method and its 11:45-12:00 natural submarine gravity current (Sumner et al.) application to the Upper Sognefjord Formation, Troll Field, offshore Norway (Patruno et al.) (Chair: J.Baas) (Chair: (Chair: C. Jackson) C. (Chair: Shoreline to Shelf I Shelf to Shoreline Lateral and stratigraphic variability in depositional architecture of stacked exhumed shelf-edge 12:00-12:15 Turbidity current flow equilibration to a sinuous channel form (Hunter et al) clinothems (Jones et al.) Insights into the composition and architecture of seismically-imaged clinoforms constrained by Morphodynamics and sedimentary structures of bedforms under supercritical flow conditions: new 12:15-12:30 forward seismic modelling of outcrop analogues in the Western Interior Seaway, USA

Experimental and Process Sedimentology Process and Experimental insights from flume experiments (Cartigny et al.) (Holgate et al.)

12:30-12:45

12:45-13:00 lunch

13:00-13:15

13:15-13:30 Wednesday 19th December PM

Room C004; Health Sciences Building Room C005; Health Sciences Building

Transitional and composite flow deposits: character and distribution in the Springar Fm, 13:30-13:45 Voring Basin, Norwegian Sea (Southern et al.) KEYNOTE: Exceptional preservation of aeolian successions (Mountney) Is there a common distribution for the recurrence intervals of landslide-generated turbidites in distal 13:45-14:00 basin plains, and what are the implications of this distribution for geohazard (Clare & Talling)

Stretch, slide, bend, and confine: formation of a lobe complex behind mass transport complex relief, Geometries of sedimentary structures in the fluvial Prados Sandstone, Spain (Martinez de 14:00-14:15 Neuquén Basin, Argentina (Hodgson et al.) Alvaro & Alexander)

Bed character and high-resolution correlation of sediment gravity flow deposits from the Lago Section 14:15-14:30 Facies relationships of a distributive fluvial system on the Colorado Plateau, USA (Owen et al.) (Cliento flysh, Italy) (Fonnesu et al.) Products I

(Chair: I. Kane) (Chair: Process record at submarine channel mouths: High-resolution stratigraphic analysis of a base-of- Aggradation in internal basins: determining sediment budgets and rates of fluvial depositional

14:30-14:45 S. Davies) (Chair: slope system at outcrop, Karoo Basin, South Africa (Hofstra et al.) processes (Ebro Basin, Spain) (Nichols)

Quaternary sediment characterisation and distribution in the deep Rockall Trough, NE Atlantic 14:45-15:00 Bedforms in bedrock channels: Genesis and evolution using a novel modelling approach (Yin et al.) (Borrego et al.)

Deep-Water Sedimentation: Processes and and Processes Sedimentation: Deep-Water Reconstruction of channel and barform architecture in a Namurrian (Silesian) fluvio-deltaic

15:00-15:15 Sub-aqueous sand extrusion dynamics: Discrete to sheets (Ross et al.) Aeolian, Fluvial and Lacustrine Sedimentation I succession: Brimham Grit, northern England (Soltan et al.)

15:15-15:30 coffee & posters 15:30-15:45

Room C004; Health Sciences Building

15:45-16:00 KEYNOTE: Source to Sink observations for the deep water Miocene of the North-Central Gulf of Mexico (Pulham & Elliott); (Chair: P. Haughton)

16:00-16:15

16:15-16:30 AGM & Awards Presentation

16:30-16:45

16:45-17:00 Poster Session (in concourse)

17:00-17:15

17:15-17:30

Conference dinner at the Old Jameson Distillery 19.00 This will include a brief tour of the distillery. Delegates can use public transport to get to the venue (see detailed instructions on location map B). Finishes 22.30 Thursday 20th December AM

Registration desk open from 8.00, Concourse Area, Health Sciences Building

Room C004; Health Sciences Building Room C005; Health Sciences Building

Basal erosion and mudclast character and distribution in hybrid beds deposited in a ponded Sedimentation in large igneous provinces - the Columbia River Basalt Province (Washington State, 09:00-09:15 minibasin (Castagnola Fm, NW Italy) (Patacci et al.) USA) as a case study (Ebinghaus et al.)

Links between bed type, flow processes and submarine slope channel filling – evidence from a sub- 09:15-09:30 Gold placer dynamics and paleoclimate change in the Yukon (Lowther et al.) surface example (Stokes et al.)

From core to cliff - new insight into the evolution of the Ross Formation from behind-outcrop Characterisation of the zone of interaction between proximal aluvial fan sedimentation and 09:30-09:45 boreholes in the Clare Basin, western Ireland (Pierce et al.) contemporaneous distal deposition in continental basins (Gough et al.)

Influence of subtle bathymetry on flow process and anatomy of submarine lobes: an example from Anatomy of a fluvial avulsion complex: an example from the Lower Beaufort Group, South Africa 09:45-10:00 unit A, Laingsburg Formation, Karoo Basin, South Africa (Spychala et al.) (Gulliford et al.) Products II Influence of large-scale remobilisations on deep-water reservoir architecture: lessons from Britannia Sedimentological characteristics of Upper Shendi Formation outcrops, Musawarat area, Central 10:00-10:15 (Chair: J. Howell) Field, North Sea (Teloni et al.) LeHeron) D. (Chair: Sudan (Bashri)

Channel-like features created by erosive submarine debris flows: Field evidence from the Middle A comparative study for assessing the influence of controls on large-scale fluvial architecture 10:15-10:30 Eocene Ainsa Basin, Spanish Pyrenees (Dakin et al.) (Colombera et al.) Analysis of fine-grained floodplain deposits as a tool to interpret autogenic controls on floodplain Deep-Water Sedimentation: Processes and and Processes Sedimentation: Deep-Water Aeolian, Fluvial and Lacustrine Sediments II 10:30-10:45 sedimentation: Cretaceous Blackhawk Formation, Wasatch Plateau, Utah, U.S.A. (Flood, Y. & Hampson) coffee & posters 10:45-11:00

Carbonates, ammonites and the fate of aragonite: a new perspective from the Lower Jurassic of 11:00-11:15 Lyme Regis (Jordan et al.) KEYNOTE: "Intrabed" turbidity currents: A new type of sediment gravity flow associated with soft muddy substrates (Baas et al.) Development of decimetre-scale clastic intrusions in a shallow marine sedimentary succession; a 11:15-11:30 field-based case study from the Matulla Fm (Upper Cretaceous), Suez Rift, Egypt (Jillings et al.)

Facies variations as an insight to depositional mechanisms in fine-grained sedimentary rocks Dimensions, distribution and controls on depositional elements in tide-dominated deposits: The Early 11:30-11:45 (Sherwin et al.) Jurassic Neill Klinter-Group of East Greenland (Eide et al.)

Far-field effects of tidal marine energy converters on sediment distribution in the Pentland Firth 11:45-12:00 What the floc? Enhanced settling with dynamic shear patterns (Macdonald et al.) (Marin-Short et al.) (Chair: D. Wray) D. (Chair: Shoreline to Shelf II Shelf to Shoreline A depositional model for the accumulation of organic-rich Namurian mudstones in central England, a (Chair: G. Hampson) Hydrodynamic modeling of sediment transport and bedform formation on the North Irish Shelf (Evans 12:00-12:15

Glory of Mud (CMG/BSRG) Mud of Glory potential shale gas reservoir (Könitzer et al.) et al.)

Interaction between clinoform trajectory, sedimentary process regime and timing of sediment delivery 12:15-12:30 Sedimentology of Upper Eocene red beds in Northwest China (van Cappelle et al.) of an intrashelf clinothem succession, offshore New Jersey (Poyatos-Moré et al.)

12:30-12:45

12:45-13:00 lunch

13:00-13:15

13:15-13:30 Thursday 20th December PM

Room C004; Health Sciences Building Room C005; Health Sciences Building

Role of Eocene large-scale debris-flows (olistostromes) in the closure of S Neotethys in the E BRITICE-CHRONO and GLANAM: new exciting developments in the study of circum-North Atlantic 13:30-13:45 Mediterranean region (Robertson et al.) ice sheets (Benetti)

Quaternary coastal lithofacies and depositional sequence architecture in an ice marginal setting, NW 13:45-14:00 Basement-controlled slope instability, Rockall Bank Slide Complex, NE Atlantic (Georgiopoulou et al.) Donegal, Ireland (Cullen & Potito)

Seismic stratigraphic investigation of the glacial and inter-glacial evolution of the Northern North Sea 14:00-14:15 External controls on the evolution of a prograding shelf margin: the Craven Basin, UK (Bijkerk et al.) during the Cenozoic (Huuse & Huuse)

Response of fluvial style and preservation of stratigraphic architecture to salt-wall mini-basin 14:15-14:30 A Neoproterozoic trough mouth fan deposit in South Australia? (Le Heron) development and climatic regime (Banham & Mountney)

Sedimentary evidence of the Pliocene-Quaternary uplift of the Kyrenia Range, Northern Cyprus Facies variability in the Sturtian diamictites of South Australia: implications for Neoproterozoic ice

14:30-14:45 G. Nichol) (Chair:

(Palamakumbura et al.) (Chair: S. McCarron) dynamics (Busfield & Le Heron)

Do N12oE deep-crustal lineaments in the north of Ireland play a part in basin siting, preservation and Sourcing ice rafted debris deposited around Antarctica using the Pb isotopic composition of detrital 14:45-15:00 magmatism? (Cooper) feldspar: insights on the sites of Late Holocene subglacial erosion (Flowerdew et al.)

Glacial Environments - Ancient and Modern and Ancient - Glacial Environments The sedimentary record of the late-Pleistocene Cordilleran Ice Sheet in the Purcell Trench and the 15:00-15:15 formation of glacial Lake Purcell (Peters & Brennand) coffee & posters 15:15-15:30

Room C004; Health Sciences Building

15:30-15:45 Investigating Environmental Impacts of Offshore CO 2 Storage (Carruthers et al)

15:45-16:00 CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery – A climate mitigation technology? (Stewart et al.)

16:00-16:15 Use of legacy data from hydrocarbon exploration to appraise a potential CO 2 store (Wilkinson et al.)

16:15-16:30 Influence of silica diagenesis on physical rock properties and seal development: insights from 3D seismic reflection and well data from the Norwegian Margin (Wrona et al.) (Chair: D. Hodgson) D. (Chair: Reservoir CharacterisationReservoir Sedimentation on Controls External 16:30-16:45 Modelling sandstone connectivity in deep-water lobes (Zhang et al.) POSTERS

Fluvial, Aeolian and Lacustrine Sedimentation

P1 Cretaceous sedimentation in the Barmer Basin, India: An ephemeral fluvial system? (Beaumont et al.)

P2 Stratigraphic evolution of a low-gradient, mixed-load fluvial system: Huesca Fluvial Fan, Ebro Basin, Spain (Burnham et al.)

P3 A database approach to fluvial facies models: example results from the Lower Jurassic Kayenta Fm. (SE Utah) (Colombera et al.)

P4 Determining the palaeodrainage of the Nile river from a provenance study of the Nile delta cone sediments: an on-going geochemical study (Edwards et al.)

P5 Source to sink analysis of the Pleistocene Wasatch catchment and eastern Great Basin (Hovda et al.)

Facies architecture of the Triassic Wolfville-Blomidon Transition, Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, Canada: Implications for reservoir characterization and modelling P6 (Jonathan et al.)

P7 Deciphering sedimentary recycling via multiproxy in situ analyses (Lancaster et al.)

P8 High-resolution coal correlation of the Walloon Coal Measures, Surat Basin, eastern Australia (Morris & Martin)

P9 Fluvial point bar architecture produced by ephemeral flows in a semi-arid climate, lower Beaufort Group (Permian), Karoo Basin, South Africa (Wilson et al.)

Shoreline to Shelf

P10 The Permian ‘glass ramp’: New insights from Bellsund, Spitsbergen (Collins et al.)

P11 Process response to Holocene transgression: an integrated dataset from the Dogger Bank, North Sea (Eichenauer et al.)

Controls on intra-parasequence facies development in shallow-marine shoreface systems: Results from a quantitative heli-lidar study in the Book Cliffs and Wasatch P12 Plateau, Utah, USA (Eide et al.) Rhythmic vs episodic: the stratigraphic record of tidal and fluvial interactions in marginal marine, non channelized setting (Lajas Formation, Neuquén Basin, Argentina) P13 (Gugliota et al.)

P14 Linkage between the geometry and evolution of clinoforms, and slope gullies, Dampier Basin, North West Shelf, Australia (Pankhania)

P15 Sedimentology of fluvial and tidally-influenced channel-to-overbank transitions in low- and high-accommodation settings: Neslen Formation, Utah, USA (Shiers et al.)

P16 Some (preliminary) observations and thoughts on the Favignana Calcarenite (Sicily, Italy) (Slootman et al.)

P17 Stratigraphic architecture of a back-filled incised-valley system; Pennsylvanian–Permian lower Cutler beds, Utah, USA (Wakefield & Mountney)

Deep-water sedimentation: processes and products

P18 The sedimentology, stratigraphy and provenance of the Gwna mélange deposits of the Monian Supergroup of north-west Wales and Anglesey, UK (Dartnall et al.)

P19 The CUMECS project, Central Mediterranean Sea: An investigation of canyon formation and processes in sediment-undersupplied margins (Georgiopoulou et al.)

P20 Palaeo-oxicity changes across the Rhuddanian-Aeronian boundary () in the Cwmere Formation, Rheidol Gorge, Wales (Russell et al.)

External Controls on Sedimentation

P21 Triassic Evolution of East Greenland (Andrews)

Upper elemental chemostratigraphy of the Lennard Shelf, Canning Basin, Western Australia – Indications of global-to-local environmental changes & P22 utilization as a correlation tool (Caulfield-Kerney et al.)

P23 Palaeohydrology of a rapid climate change event at the Palaeocene-Eocene boundary (Dawson et al.)

P24 The enigmatic evaporites of the Aptian Ariri Formation, Santos Basin, Offshore Brazil: new insights from 3D seismic and well logs analysis (Rodriguez et al.)

P25 The impact of early land plants on continental sedimentation: the Old Red Sandstone in the Midland Valley (Scotland, UK) (Santos et al.)

Glacial Environments - Ancient and Modern

P26 Seismic images of glaciogenic sedimentation and erosion offshore Norway (Huuse & Huuse)

P27 Pleistocene glaciations of the North Sea using basin wide 3D Seismic data (Lamb et al.)

Reservoir Characterisation

P28 Clastic injection surface features as an indication of emplacement processes and conditions: an outcrop study from the Laingsburg area, South Africa (Cobain et al.)

P29 The use of noble gases as effective early warning tracers of CO2 migration in engineered CO2 storage sites (Kilgallon et al.)

P30 Modelling facies distributions and heterogeneity in aeolian reservoir successions (Romain et al.)

Experimental and Process Sedimentology

P31 Using climatic insights to guide stochastic process-based modelling of a valley filling fluvial sequence in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia (Comunian et al.)

P32 Adaptive finite element simulations of sediment laden density currents (Parkinson et al.)