IGCP 609 - Newsletter 4

IGCP 609

4th Newsletter

November 2015

CONTENT PAGE

Address by project coordinator and secretary 2

1. Announcements 3 1.1. Call for Contributions 3 1.2. Upcoming Meetings and Workshops 4 2. IGCP 609 - 2015 Report - Some Landmarks 5 3. Meeting Reports 6 3.1. 3rd IGCP 609 Workshop, Nanjing, September 5-11 6 4. List of Participants 12

IGCP 609 - Newsletter 4

ADDRESS BY PROJECT COORDINATOR AND SECRETARY

Vienna, 30th of November 2015

Dear Colleagues, we wish you all a very happy, gratifying and successful New Year 2016!

IGCP 609 has developed into a prosperous and well-known project during 2014 and 2015, not least considerably benefiting from your great input and the successful meetings this year, most notably a session (Session 21) within the scope of the 2nd International Congress on - STRATI 2015, July 19–23 in Graz, Austria and the 3rd IGCP 609 Workshop within the Scope of the “International Workshop on Climate and Environmental Evolution in the Mesozoic Greenhouse World & 3rd IGCP 609 Workshop on Sea-Level Change”, September 5–11 Nanjing, China, hosted by Xiumian Hu and his colleagues. A summarizing report of the latter is included in this newsletter.

By November 2015, IGCP 609 has 136 participants from 41 countries (see actual list at the end of this newletter). We again would like to welcome our new participants! The IGCP 609 website (http://www.univie.ac.at/igcp609/) is continuously updated and complemented, especially as to news, participants, projects and publications. Please remem- ber, your contributions to the website and the newsletters are highly welcome! We particularly like to invite you to contribute to the publication list, scientific data and projects sections. Please consider to add IGCP 609 to the ac- knowledgements of your publication.

Resulting from combined efforts of guest editors, authors and reviewers we are delighted to announce the proceedings volume of the joint 2nd IGCP 609 and Earthtime-EU Sequence Stratigraphy Workshop “Advances and perspectives in understanding Cretaceous sea-level change” in press in Palaeo3 (to be Volume 441, Part 3).

We would also like to draw your attention to Session SSP2.6 “Mesozoic palaeoenvironments and greenhouse sea-level changes (IGCP 609)” during the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2016, April 17–22, Vi- enna, Austria and to the 35th International Geological Congress (35th IGC), August 27–September 4, 2016, Cape Town, South Africa, during which the 4th IGCP 609 Workshop will be held within the scope of a joint session of IGCP 609, 608, and ICDP Songliao Basin (see page 4). News will be sent to you as soon as there are details.

We hope and look forward to seeing you in Vienna, Cape Town, or elsewhere this year!

Yours sincerely,

Michael Wagreich (IGCP 609 Coordinator) Benjamin Sames (IGCP 609 Secretary)

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1. ANNOUNCEMENTS

! 1.1. Call for Contributions !

A) As every year, the secretary wants to point out 4. Kinds of outreach and training the project has that the project, the website and the newsletters undertaken. depend on your contribution. Please send relevant information (within the scope of IGCP 609 or in 5. Kinds of public information (media reports the context of its topics) such as publications (also etc.) the project has generated and how we evalu- maps, sections, posters, newspaper articles, popular ate their impact. science activities), reports, meeting announcements and reports, field trip reports, talks given, research Please support us and send information in this activities of yours and your research group, scien- regard to the IGCP 609 secretary Benjamin Sa- tific outreach, running projects of yours etc. to the mes ([email protected]). secretary B. Sames([email protected]). B) We would also like to encourage you to recruit Please also report problems with or mistakes in the new participants for IGCP 609 and further propa- website, to the webmaster under the subject: gate the project on scientific meetings. “IGCP 609 website”. C) Please consider, and don’t forget, to add For the annual report to be submittetd by end of IGCP 609 to the Acknowledgements of related November each year, the quality of which deter- publications of yours (e.g. something like “… re- mines the amount of money we get from the search has been conducted in line with UNESCO/ UNESCO for the next year, we are required to IGCP Project 609” or similar). gather and give information on: D) We would also like to further supplement the 1. Additional funding besides the IGCP seed Projects list and links on the IGCP 609 website. funding the project has obtained thanks to the Please inform us on running or new projects of IGCP label (see item D below also). yours that fit into the context of IGCP 609.

Because of its strict review process for IGCP pro- jects, your project proposals can benefit if they Thank you very much in advance! are conducted in context of a certain IGCP pro- ject and under the IGCP label. Here, we would need: total sum of project funding raised (in US Dollar), funding body or organisation, name of project leader, university/research institute, pe- riod the project is running (date, years only), title of project.

2. Activities involving other IGCP projects, UNESCO, IUGS or others,

3. List of relevant meetings with approximate attendace and number of countries.

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1. ANNOUNCEMENTS Save the date: Meetings and Workshops 2015

1.2. Upcoming Meetings and Workshops

EGU 2016 - SESSION SSP2.6 35th International Geological Congress “Mesozoic palaeoenvironments and greenhouse sea-level changes (IGCP 609)” Joint Session: “Cretaceous sea-level changes and Asia-Pacific Cretaceous Ecosystems (IGCP 609, Conveners: B. Sames, X. Hu, E. Wolfgring, S. Iqbal IGCP 608, ICDP Songliao Basin)” Location & date: Vienna, Austria, April 17–22, 2016 (incl. “4th IGCP 609 Workshop”) Deadline of Abstract submission: 13 Jan., 2016 Conveners: Michael Wagreich (Austria), Web addresses: Hisao Ando (Japan), Chengshan Wang (China) Session: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/ Location & date: August 27–September 4, 2016 session/20817 EGU 2016: http://egu2016.eu/home.html Web address: http://www.35igc.org/ Abstract submission: http://www.egu2016.eu/ abstract_management/how_to_submit_an_abstract.html Deadline of Abstract submission: 31 Jan., 2016

The Mesozoic is believed to have differed from our Under the core topic “Fundamental Geoscience”, present world in multiple respects, such as climatic theme “Phanerozoic Earth History, Stratigraphy conditions of prolonged greenhouse phases, rapid and the Geologic Time Scale”, the above session palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironmental changes has been proposed by the conveners (http:// and patterns, unique palaeoceanographic condi- www.35igc.org/Themes/52/Phanerozoic-Earth- tions, and significant palaeoenvironmental and History-Stratigraphy-and-the-Geologic-Time- ecosystem changes. IGCP 609 addresses correla- Scale). It includes the 4th IGCP 609 workshop tion, causes and consequences of significant short- that will be conducted within the scope of the term climate-environmental deteriorations and sea- 35th IGC, as this is an IUGS and UNESCO sup- level changes during greenhouse climate phases of ported event. All participant will receive news and Earth history. Predictions of future sea-level rise deadline reminder e-mails. due to ongoing global change need a better under- standing of the geological record, and the causes The conveners kindly invite you to contribute to, and feedback processes of past climate events and and participate in, this session and meeting! sea-level changes, especially during greenhouse and hothouse climate episodes.

We are looking forward to your con- tributions and participation!

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2. IGCP 609 – 2015 REPORT Some Landmarks

The yearly report for IGCP 609 has been sent to 6. “Calcareous nannoplankton assemblage changes linked to the representatives of the UNESCO and IUGS by paleoenvironmental deterioration and recovery across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary in the Betic Cordillera 30th of November 2015. (Agost, Spain)” by Lamolda et al. (Link) As per November 2015, IGCP 609 has 7. “Stable isotopes and geochemistry of a Campanian– 136 participants from 41 countries, many of which pelagic succession, Mudurnu–Göynük Basin, have been actively contributing to the project last NW Turkey: Implications for palaeoceanography, palaeocli- year (please find the list of participants and their E- mate and sea-level fluctuations” by Açıkalın et al. (Link) 8. “Assessing pelagic palaeoenvironments using foraminiferal mail at the end of this newsletter. More than 60 assemblages — A case study from the late Campanian new participants were recruited in 2014, including Radotruncana calcarata Zone (Upper Cretaceous, Austrian many young scientists. Alps)” by Wolfgring et al. (Link) We had a very successful IGCP 609 session 9. “Cenomanian–Campanian () planktonic (Session 21) within the scope of the 2nd Interna- assemblages of the Crimea–Caucasus area: Palaeoceanogra- phy, palaeoclimate and sea level changes” by Kopaevich and tional Congress on Stratigraphy - STRATI 2015, Vishnevskaya (Link) July 19–23 in Graz, Austria (8 talks, 3 posters) and 10. “Late Cretaceous biostratigraphy and sea-level change in the 3rd IGCP 609 Workshop within the Scope of the southwest Tarim Basin” by Xi et al. (Link) the “International Workshop on Climate and En- 11. “Sea-level reconstruction for Turonian sediments from vironmental Evolution in the Mesozoic Green- Tanzania based on integration of sedimentology, microfacies, geochemistry and micropaleontology” by Wendler, I. et al house World & 3rd IGCP 609 Workshop on Cre- (Link) taceous Sea-Level Change”, September 5–11 Nan- 12. “The influence of regional factors in the expression of jing, China, the report of which you can find on oceanic anoxic event 1a (OAE1a) in the semi-restricted Or- page 6 ff. of this newsletter. ganyà Basin, south-central Pyrenees, Spain” by Sanchez- The proceedings volume of the 2nd Hernandez and Maurrasse (Link) 13. “The Kapanboğazı formation: A key unit for under- “Advances and perspectives in understanding Cre- standing Late Cretaceous evolution of the Pontides, N Tur- taceous climate and sea-level change” edited by key” by Tüysüz et al. (Link) Michael Wagreich (managing editor), B.U. Haq, 14. “Sea-level and climatic controls on Aptian depositional M. Melinte-Dobrinescu, B. Sames, and İ.Ö. Yıl- environments of the Eastern Russian Platform” by S. Zorina maz, has been published in Palaeogeography, Pa- (Link) laeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 441, Part 3 Please remember that you can contact Benjamin (2016), see IGCP 609s Website Bibliography for Sames ([email protected]) to get PDFs details. It comprises a preface by the editors, 3 re- of the publications in case you do not have access views (items 2–4 below), and 10 case studies (items to some of these or a link does not work. 5–14 below): The IGCP 609 website has spread out and

is continuously updated. The Bibliography is 1. Editorial/Preface 2. “Review: Short-term sea-level changes in a greenhouse growing continuously, particularly with respect to world — A view from the Cretaceous” by Sames et al. (Link) puclications directly emerging from IGCP 609 3. “What drove sea-level fluctuations during the mid- (and mentioning it in the acknowledgements) Cretaceous greenhouse climate?” by Wendler and Wendler Publications prior to 2014 have been merged into (Link) a list in a separate file (Download). 4. “The Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary: Foraminifera, sea grasses, sea level change and sequence stratigraphy” by Hart Benjamin Sames continued his work as et al. (Link) secretary and webmaster of IGCP 609 in 2015 and 5. “Link between cyclic eustatic sea-level change and conti- will do so in 2016 and beyond. nental weathering: Evidence for aquifer-eustasy in the Creta- ceous” by Wendler, J. et al. (Link)

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3. MEETING REPORTS 2015

3.1. “International Workshop on Clima- ceived 38 abstracts; Among them 28 were given as te and Environmental Evolution in the oral presentation (including 3 IGCP project talks Mesozoic Greenhouse World and 3rd and 3 invited scientifical talks) and 4 were poster presentations. The workshop was followed by a 4- IGCP 609 Workshop on Cretaceous Sea- day field trip. The meeting programme, abstract Level Change” volume and field trip guidebook can be downloaded from the Bibliography of the IGCP Nanjing, China, September 5–11, 2015 609 website (Link). The workshop was co- sponsored by the UNESCO/IUGS IGCP 609 Pro- Report by Juan Li and Xiumian Hu, ject, as well as by the State Key Laboratory of Min- School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University eral Deposits Research, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, and by the The International Workshop “Climate and Envi- 973 Project - Ministry of Science and Technology ronmental Evolution in the Mesozoic Greenhouse of the People’s Republic of China. World” and 3rd IGCP 609 Workshop “Cretaceous The objective of this workshop was to re- Sea-Level Change” were jointly held at Nanjing view the progress and new data on studies of Cre- University in Nanjing, China during September taceous Sea-Level Change, as well as Climate and 5–11, 2015. Forty one participants from 10 coun- Environmental Evolution in the Mesozoic Green- tries (Austria, China, Egypt, Japan, Nepal, New house World. There are five scientific sessions in- Zealand, Pakistan, Russia, Slovak Republic, USA) clude: 1) IGCP Projects introductions; 2) Creta- participated in the meeting. This workshop re- ceous Sea-Level Change; 3) Mesozoic Climate and

The workshop participants in front of the of the School of Earth Science and Engineering, Nanjing University

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Environmental Changes; 4) Mesozoic Terrestrial processes operating on decadal to multimillion- Environments and Geobiological Evolution; and year time scales are all responsible for retaining 5) Mesozoic Abrupt Palaeoenvionmental Change lithospheric memory and its surface expression. and Major Geological Events. The workshop was Dr. Elena Iakovishina from Russia presented the chaired by project leaders Michael Wagreich eustatic events and sedimentation model Terminal (Austria) and Xiumian Hu (China), and Cheng- Maastrichtian of the Crimea. Mr. Shahid Iqbal shan Wang (China), and Florentin J. Maurrasse (Pakistan) presented marine regression and terres- (USA), and Yongdong Wang (China), and Greg trial onset at the - boundary: south- Ludvigson (USA) respectively. western margin of the Neotethys in the Salt Range, Pakistan. Abrupt emergence, erosion and facies Meeting - Overview dislocation, from the Triassic dolomites (Kingriali Formation) to Lower Jurassic fluvial/continental On the two-day’s workshop, 28 participants pre- quartzose conglomerates/pebbly sandstones (Datta sented results of their current research on Creta- Formation) occur in the Tethyan Salt Range of ceous Sea-Level Change, as well as Climate and Pakistan. These features indicate marine regression Environmental Evolution in the Mesozoic Green- and emergence under tropical conditions, and rep- house World. At the beginning of workshop, Prof. resent the Triassic-Jurassic boundary in the area. Zhemin Tan, vice-president of the Nanjing Uni- Prof. Michael Wagreich (Austria) presented strati- versity, gave a warm address and welcomed the graphy and sea-level change around the Santonian- participants on the behalf of Nanjing University. Campanian boundary interval. The Gosau Group The first session of IGCP Projects intro- successions in the Northern Calcareous Alps of ductions consisted of 3 invited talks. Prof. Michael Austria and Germany provide sections that allow Wagreich (Vienna, Austria) gave a brief introduc- the integration of various stratigraphic signals from tion to IGCP 609, which addressed correlation, macro- and microfossils to chemostratigraphy and causes, and consequences of significant short-term magnetostratography. Oxygen isotopes show a sea-level changes during the Cretaceous. Then, negative excursion slightly below the Santonian- Prof. Jingeng Sha (Nanjing, China) presented a Campanian boundary, followed by a trend to more brief introduction to IGCP 632 which focused on positive values. Together with the magnetic sus- the study of continental crises of the Jurassic major ceptibility data, sequence stratigraphy interpreta- extinction events and environmental changes. Fi- tions and global correlations a sea-level lowstand nally, Prof. Hisao Ando (Mito, Japan) briefly re- can be inferred to occur just at the boundary, pre- viewed the current status of the IGCP 608 project ceded by a rather short-duration sequence of late which entitled as “Cretaceous Ecosystems and Santonian age, and a longer sequence of early Their Responses to Paleoenvironmental Changes Campanian age. The inferred lowstand at the San- in Asia and the Western Pacific”. tonian-Campanian boundary, at the base of chron The second session “Cretaceous sea level C33r, is also characterized by a significant rudist change” started with the invited speaker Prof. Bilal extinction event. Prof. Jozef Michalik from Slova- Haq from the USA. He presented the issue of kia gave a talk about Early Cretaceous carbonate eustatic and tectonic interactions as exemplified by platform evolution in the Manín pelagic basin the Cretaceous stratigraphic record indicating that (Central Western Carpathians, Slovakia). The plat- sea level can also be modified by changing the con- form growth stopped during mid-Albian collapse, tainer capacity of the ocean through numerous in- when hard rock surface bored by in faunal organ- terconnected solid-Earth processes. The tectonic isms (boring sponges, bivalves) has formed. Hard

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3. MEETING REPORTS 2015 Nanjing Meeting - Continued ground surface is covered by ferrugineous- and stages C4, C5 and C6 of OAE-1a. A gradual re- stromatolite crusts, or by thin calcisphaerulid glau- duction in the total clay content and kaolinite/ conite-bearing limestone layer. The sequence is smectite ratios is evident in the upper part of subu- covered by thick Albian-Cenomanian pelagic nit 2b which is dominated by Orbitolinid-rich shales of the Butkov Formation. Prof. Svetlana Zo- storm beds and shoals. This interval is partially rina from Russia presented Late Cretaceous depo- equivalent to the Highstand System (HS), and sitional environments on the Eastern Russian Plat- spans the terminal part of C5 and the whole C6 form. δ13C stages, attests to the slow return to dry condi- tions at the end of OAE-1a.

Photos of presentations during the workshop: M. Wagreich (left), B. Huber (right) In the third session of Mesozoic Climate and Environ- Mr. Erik Wolfgring from the University of Vienna mental Changes, Dr. Brian Huber (USA) pre- (Austria) presented reconstructing pelagic pa- sented a discussion on the brief cooling events dur- laeoenvironments from the R. calcarata-Zone. Miss ing greenhouse climates and their possible links to Huimin Liang from the China University of Geo- sea-level changes and growth of ice sheets. His talk sciences, Beijing gave a talk about methane-derived focused on the following four parts 1) when was authigenic carbonates of mid-Cretaceous age in the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum?; 2) the evolu- southern Tibet: Types of carbonate concretions, tion of mid-Cretaceous–Paleogene paleotempera- carbon sources, and formation processes. Dr. Gang tures at southern high latitudes; 3) examples of Li (China) presented searching for the non-marine proposed mid-Cretaceous greenhouse ice-sheet J/K boundary in northeastern China. Mr. Jander events; 4) Interpretations of Turonian sea level and Socorro from the Flordia International University climate from the Tanzania Drilling Project bore- (USA) gave a talk about biomarker characterization holes. Prof. Florentin Maurrasse from the USA pre- of the negative carbon isotope shift in segment C2 sented uppermost Barremian–Lower Aptian micro- of the El Pui section, Organyà Basin, Catalunya, facies analysis and paleoenvironments of the semi- Spain. restricted Organyà Basin, Catalunya, Spain. They In the fourth session “Mesozoic Terres- integrated XRD mineralogy, elemental analyses, trial Environments and Geobiological Evolution”, and biomarker evidence to published C-isotope Prof. William W. Hay (USA) focused on Mesozoic data in order to decipher the paleoredox and paleo- plate tectonics and the evolution of life on land. At climate conditions within Subunit 2b of the Mad- the beginning of the Triassic, Pangaea was a huge, otz section (Navarra, Spain), correlative to δ13C high, and dry continent. Rivers were relatively

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3. MEETING REPORTS 2015 Nanjing Meeting - Continued steep and straight with narrow floodplains. Conti- changes and diversity. Prof. Yongdong Wang nental shelves were narrow. Ecospace variety was (China) introduced fossil wood diversity and ter- minimal. During the Triassic and Jurassic the restrial paleoclimate variation from new data in the highlands were worn down, river gradients less- Mesozoic of China. Prof. Mike Pole (New Zea- ened and floodplains became wider. By Cetaceous land) presented floral and climate change at the time the continents had very low relief and conse- Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in New Zealand. quently very broad coastal plains. Prof. Greg Lud- Dr. Yanhong Pan from Nanjing Institute of Geolo- vigson (USA) presented terrestrial paleoclimatic gy and Palaeontology, China gave a talk about expressions of Aptian-Albian carbon isotope excur- taphonomy of bivalves from Jurassic and Lower sions. The late Aptian C10 positive CIE in the Ce- Cretaceous lakes of NE China. dar Mountain Formation (Utah) was expressed as a In the fifth session “Mesozoic Abrupt Pa- positive δ18O excursion recording an aridification laeoenvionmental Change and Major Geological event, and carbonate clumped isotope paleother- Events”, several presentations focused on the ocea- mometry indicates that the early Aptian C7 positi- nic anoxic events in Gongzha section of Tingri in ve CIE in the Xiagou Formation was expressed as a southern Tibet, China. Dr. Yongxiang Li carried warming event. Several presentations focused on out a high-resolution magnetic and carbon isotope the terrestrial sediments occurring in the Songliao investigation of an expanded Cenomanian- Basin, northern China. Combined with new disco- Turonian boundary. The OAE2 interval in the veries of foraminifera, nannofossils, dinoflagellates, Tibetan section is estimated to last for ~870 kyr, other marine and brackish-water fossils, Dr. Dang- which is in striking similarity to the estimate of peng Xi (China) discussed seawater incursion 847 to 885 kyr from the CTB stratotype section. events in the Songliao Basin. Dr. Yuan Gao Correlation of new high-resolution data with other (China) presented mid-latitude terrestrial stable OAE2 records permits detailed examination of its oxygen and carbon isotopic and clay mineralogical evolution, especially for unravelling the complica- data in the nearly continuous Late Cretaceous age ted feedbacks among sedimentary, biotic, and geo- SK-1 core drilled in the Songliao Basin. Increases chemical processes during this geologically brief in illite content and the quartz/clay ratio, and dec- event. Xi Chen presented the initial results of study reases in illite chemistry index indicate increasing on the Cretaceous OAEs including the identificati- physical weathering and therefore a more arid cli- on of the OAE1a and 1d, and the new findings on mate. Clay mineralogical proxies also indicate inc- the OAE2. Dr. Xiaolin Zhang report high- reasing chemical weathering and a more humid resolution analysis of carbon isotope as well as all climate. Mr. Enxiao Yu from China University of four S-isotopic compositions of pyrites Multiple S- Geosciences, Beijing presented Cretaceous two rai- isotopic results show that the sulfur isotope signal ny seasons and ENSO signals recorded in Nenji- of δ34S and δ33S changed cyclically in time which ang Formation of the Songliao Basin. Prof. Xiang- may reflect the cyclical fluctuations of the Oxygen hui Li (China) gave a talk about geochronology of Minimum Zone (OMZ). The coincidence of mi- single zircon U-Pb isotope in South China: In- nor S-isotopic anomalies with the biotic turnover sights of the Late Mesozoic terrestrial basin and events suggests that the expansion and shrinking of stratigraphy. Mr. Jeffrey Ross from the University of the OMZ may have linked to the extinction and Kansas (USA) presented stable isotope paleohydro- biotic turnover events in continental margin area logy of pedogenic carbonates from the wedge-top in southeastern Tethys. Miss Juan Li from Nanjing depozone of the North American Sevier orogenic University gave a talk about Unraveling the Paleo- belt. Several presentations focused on the fossil cene–Eocene thermal maximum in shallow marine

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Eastern Tethyan environment: the stratigraphic and Pukou Formation (Jiangsu Province); (2) the record in Gamba area (South Tibet). GSSP section of -Triassic boundary in Meishan, Zhejiang Province; (3) Cretaceous conti- At the end of the meeting, potential scientific col- nental deposits in Jiangxi and Zhejiang Province; laboration among IGCP projects, future meetings (4) shallow marine deposits of Xiangshan Forma- and field trips, and future publications were dis- tion (Zhejiang Province). cussed. A proceedings volume of this Nanjing On the first day, the participants left Nan- Workshop was scheduled to be published as a spe- jing, travelling along Jiande, Zhenjiang Province. cial issue in the journal “Global and Planetary On the way, at the Yanziji Park, Upper Cretaceous Change” (Elsevier). Pukou Formation was examined. The field trip continued in the Chishan Mountain, where Upper Overview Field Trip Cretaceous large-scale aeolian sandstones of Chis- han Formation were examined. Large cross- During the 4-day-excursion in southern Jiangsu, beddings can be readily observed, and the set of western Zhejiang and northeastern Jiangxi prov- cross-bedding is astonishingly up to ca. 3 m thick. inces (see Guidebook), we visited rocks and sec- Sandstones are of purple-red, well-sorted; medium tions from mid-Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous. to fine-grained with little suspension load. At the Major stops and attractions included: (1) Late Cre- end of the first day we saw the Meishan P/Tr taceous continental deposits of Chishan Formation GSSP Section. The upper Permian to the lowest

The field trip participants in front of the Upper Cretaceous large-scale aeolian sandstones of the Chishan Formation in Chishan Mountains

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Triassic sequences at the Meishan Geopark are rocks with horizontal lamination suggest it could composed of the uppermost part of the Lungtan be accumulated in a lake environment. Formation, the Changhsing Formation and the On the last day of the field trip, we ob- Yinkeng Formation in ascending order. served Shipu limestones which are mainly com- The aim of the second day of the field trip posed of stromatolite algal-bonded, oolitic, bioclas- was to present large-scale aeolian facies from Tang- tic, and micritic limestones and marl. These lime- bian Formation of Guifeng Group and Intermoun- stone units are separated by tuffaceous clastic beds. taine mollase facies from Hekou Formation of All three yield representative marine fossils, such as Guifeng Group (Upper Cretaceous). The Tang- Sinoditrupa conica, Acerrotrupa aggregata, Spirorbis bian Formation is characterized by reddish sand- (Dexiospira) jiangsuensis, Coccolithophyceae and stones. Though it was ever thought to be deposited Rhaphoneis cf. surirella, indicating a marine origin in braided river and alluvial plain, but it was actu- for the limestones. ally accumulated under wind. The Hekou Forma- tion is dominated by conglomerates, and was formed in the fluvial fan environment. During the third day of the field trip, the participants travelled from the Quzhou, Longyou, Jiande to the Xiangshan to see lacustrine facies of Fangyan Formation of Quzhou Group (Upper Cretaceous) and volcanic-sedimentary successions and paleosol facies of the Lower Cretaceous Jiande Group. Four formations comprise the Jiande Group, upward being the Laocun, Huangjian, Shouchang, and Hengshan formations in past. The third-fourth member of former Fanyan Formation comprised grayish purple and red silty mudrock and siltstone. Horizontal lamination can be ob- served. Convolute structures are developed be- tween mudrocks and siltstones/fine sandstones, indicating compacted dehydroration. The fine

Discussions during the first and third day of the field trip

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4. LIST OF PARTICIPANTS As per end of November 2015

Abdou Douaa Fathy Hussein [email protected] Egypt Ahmed Mohammed [email protected] Iraq Adatte Thierry [email protected] Switzerland Adhikari Basanta Raj [email protected] Nepal Ahmed Gomaa Abdallah Ali [email protected] Egypt Altiner Demir [email protected] Turkey Ando Hisao [email protected] Japan Atangana Jaqueline Ntsama [email protected] Cameroon Attree Kevin [email protected] UK Aubrecht Roman [email protected] Slovakia Azami Seyed Hamidreza [email protected] Iran Bak Krzysztof [email protected] Poland Bak Marta [email protected] Poland Banjac Nenad [email protected] Serbia Bengtson Peter [email protected] Germany Benyamovskiy Vladimir [email protected] Russia Brovina Ekaterina [email protected] Russia Cao Haiyang [email protected] China Chellai El Hassane [email protected] Morocco Chen Xi [email protected] China Cojocariu Elena-Juliana [email protected] Romania Conrad Clint [email protected] USA Crampton James [email protected] New Zealand Csaszar Geza [email protected] Hungary Davies Andrew [email protected] UK Dinares-Turell Jaume [email protected] Italy Drobne Katica [email protected] Slovenia Egger Johann [email protected] Austria Fauth Gerson [email protected] Brasil Föllmi Karl [email protected] Switzerland Forshaw Joline [email protected] UK Fözy Istvan [email protected] Hungary Gallemí Jaume [email protected] Spain Gavrilov Yuri O. [email protected] Russia Gebhardt Holger [email protected] Austria Gharaie M. Hosein [email protected] Iran Golonka Jan [email protected] Poland Göncüoglu Cemal [email protected] Turkey Goolaerts Stijn [email protected] Belgium Gorican Spela [email protected] Slovenia Grabowski Jacek [email protected] Poland Granier Bruno [email protected] France Gréselle Benjamin [email protected] UK Grigorescu Dan [email protected] Romania Haq Bilal [email protected] USA

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LIST OF PARTICIPANTS—CONTINUED

Hart Malcolm B. [email protected] UK Hay William W. [email protected] USA Hazegawa Takashi [email protected] Japan Herrle Jens [email protected] Germany Hosgor Izzet [email protected] Turkey Hu Xiumian [email protected] China Huber Brian [email protected] USA Iqbal Shahid [email protected] Pakistan Ivanonva Daria [email protected] Bulgaria Jansa Lubomir [email protected] Canada Jarvis Ian [email protected] UK Jenkyns Hugh [email protected] UK Jin Siding [email protected] China Jipa Dan [email protected] Romania Karpuk Maria [email protected] Russia Keller Gerta [email protected] USA Khavari Khorassani M. Parvin [email protected] Iran Kopaevich Ludmila [email protected] Russia Krobicki Michal [email protected] Poland Lakova Iskra [email protected] Bulgaria Lee Yong Il [email protected] South Korea Li Guobiao [email protected] China Li Xianghui [email protected] China Lintnerová Otília [email protected] Slovakia Linzer Hans-Gert [email protected] Austria Ludvigson Greg A. [email protected] USA Lukeneder Alexander [email protected] Austria Lygina Ekaterina [email protected] Russia Malata Ewa [email protected] Poland März Christian [email protected] UK Maurasse Florentin J.-M.R. [email protected] USA Maurer Florian [email protected] Denmark Melinte-Dobrinescu Mihaela [email protected] Romania Menabde Ana [email protected] Georgia Michalik Jozef [email protected] Slovakia Mikadze Khatuna [email protected] Georgia Miller Ken [email protected] USA Mindszenty Andrea [email protected] Hungary Mkuu Doreen [email protected] Tanzania Mousavi Nasim [email protected] Iran Mohamed Omar [email protected] Egypt Mulayim Oguz [email protected] Turkey Müller R. Dietmar [email protected] Australia Mweneinda K. Amina [email protected] Tanzania Niebuhr Birgit [email protected] Germany Olde Kate [email protected] UK

13 IGCP 609 - Newsletter 4

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS—CONTINUED

Ősi Attila [email protected] Hungary Ostrovsky Andrey [email protected] Austria Păunescu Teodora Alexandra [email protected] Romania Pavlishina Polina [email protected] Bulgaria Petrizzo Maria Rose [email protected] Italy Petrova Silviya [email protected] Bulgaria Popa Adrian [email protected] Romania Price Gregory [email protected] UK Radan Silviu [email protected] Romania Rahiminejad Ranjbar Amir Hossein [email protected] Iran Rahman Julleh Jalalur [email protected] Bangladesh Rehakova Daniela [email protected] Slovakia Rich Thomas [email protected] Australia Roban Relu-Dumitru [email protected] Romania Ruban Dimitry A. [email protected] Russia Sames Benjamin [email protected] Austria Scott Robert W. [email protected] USA Scupien Petr [email protected] Czech Republic Shcherbinina Ekaterina [email protected] Russia Simmons Michael [email protected] UK Simo Vladimir [email protected] Slovakia Sinha Sinjini [email protected] India Sotak Jan [email protected] Slovakia Sprovieri Mario [email protected] Italy Stoica Marius [email protected] Romania Stoykova Kristalina [email protected] Bulgaria Svobodova Marcela [email protected] Czech Republic Tüysüz Okan [email protected] Turkey Vajda Vivi [email protected] Sweden Voigt Silke [email protected] Germany Wagner Thomas [email protected] UK Wagreich Michael [email protected] Austria Wan Xiaoqiao [email protected] China Wang Chengshan [email protected] China Weissert Helmut [email protected] Switzerland Wendler Ines [email protected] Germany Wendler Jens [email protected] Germany Wiese Frank [email protected] Germany Wilmsen Markus [email protected] Germany Wolfgring Erik [email protected] Austria Wood Christopher J. [email protected] UK Yakovishina Elena [email protected] Russia Yilmaz Ismail Ömer [email protected] Turkey Young Tom [email protected] UK Zakharov Yuri D. [email protected] Russia Zorina Svetlana [email protected] Russia

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