Geoevents, Geological Heritage, and the Role of the IGCP

Caravaca de la Cruz (Spain), September 15-18, 2010

A preliminary programme

September 15^th
• Pre-conference Field Trips (early in the morning, see field-trips, please)
• 19h, Registration
• 20h, Welcome Party
• 21:15h: Renaissance Music Concert, by the Ensamble La Danserye

September 16th^th
• 9h - 10h, Registration
• 10h - 11:30h, General Keynotes
  • The rise of animals in the Neoproterozoic oceans: paleobiological and stratigraphic implications
    by Mikhail Fedonkin.
  • Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (OAE-2) in Cretaceous northeastern Mexico and the effects of paleophysiography on the sediment record
    by Florentin J-M.R. Maurrasse, Fabián Duque-Botero and Alberto Blanco-Piñón.
  • Abrupt climatic changes during the Pleistocene: the microfossil contribution to environmental reconstructions
    by José A. Flores and Francisco J. Sierro.
• 11:30h - 12h, Coffee break and Poster session
• 12h - 13h, Opening address
  • UNESCO Earth Science programmes in the service of Sustainable Development
    by Robert Missotten, IGCP General Secretary.
    
  • IGCP- challenges and visions for the future
    by Vivi Vajda, Chairperson of the IGCP Scientific Board.
• 13h - 13:40h, General Keynote
  • European Geopark Network and the Spanish Geoparks
    by Milagros Pérez Villalba, Luis Alcalá, Pablo Rivas Palomo and Alicia Serna Barquero.
• 13:40h - 15:30h, Lunch
• 15:30h - 17h, Geoevents Keynotes
  • Paleoclimates in Asia during the Cretaceous, IGCP Project 507
    by Yong Il Lee.
  • Cretaceous scientific drilling and lacustrine environmental change of the Songliao Basin, NE China
    by Xiao Qiao Wan, Dangpen Xi and Weimin Si.
  • IGCP 555 - Rapid Environmental/Climate Change in the Cretaceous Greenhouse World: Ocean-Land interactions
    by Michael Wagreich, Chengshan Wang, Robert W. Scott, Hugh Jenkyns, William Hay and Yuri D. Zakharov.
• 17h - 18h, Coffee break and Poster session
• 18h - 19h, IGCP European Regional Meeting
  • The Role of the IGCP in the past and future perspectives - an insight view
    by Peter Koenigshof.
  • Round table on Impact of national working group achievements on national and international research
    coord. by Daria Ivanova.
• 18h - 19h, Geoevents Symposium, oral contributions
  • Bryozoan carbonates in the Upper Oligocene-Lower Miocene deposits of the External Subbetic: Paleoenvironmental implications (Sierra de Cabra, Córdoba Province).
    by José M. Molina and Alicia Serna.
  • Origin and evolution of the Hantkeninidae in the middle Eocene from the Contessa highway section (Gubbio, Italy): magneto-bio-chronostratigraphic, chronologic, and paleoenvironmental implications.
    by Rodolfo Coccioni and Giuseppe Bancalà.
  • An integrated stratigraphy record from the Paleocene to middle Eocene of the Contessa sections (Gubbio, Italy): magneto-, bio-, chrono- and stable isotope stratigraphic reassessment and implications for the study of the early Paleogene hyperthermal events and middle Eocene climatic optimum .
    by Rodolfo Coccioni, Giuseppe Bancalà, Rita Catanzariti, Favio Florindo, Eliana Fornaciari, Fabrizio Frontalini, Elisa Guasti, Luca Giusberti, Luigi Jovane, Valeria Luciani, Simonetta Monechi and Mario Sprovieri.
  • The Selandian-Thanetian transition event (STTE): an abrupt environmental change at Contessa Road (Gubbio, Italy)
    by Rodolfo Coccioni, Giuseppe Bancalà, Rita Catanzariti, Fabrizio Frontalini, Luigi Jovane and Mario Sprovieri.
• 18h - 18:45h, Open Lecture
  • Contingencias en la salida del hombre de África
    by Pascual Rivas.
• 19h - 20:45h, Visit to Caravaca old town, the Castle, and the Sanctuary of the Vera Cruz
  by Diego Marín.

September 17th^th
• 9h - 10h, Geoevents Symposium, oral contributions
  • Global terrestrial vegetation dieback at the K-Pg boundary ­ cause for dinosaur extinction.
    by Vivi Vajda.
  • Calcareous nannofloral fluctuation across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the Agost section , southeastern Spain.
    by Marcos A. Lamolda, Mihaela C. Melinte-Dobrinescu and Kunio Kaiho.
  • Planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy of the Campanian-Maastrichtian transition interval at the Oued Necham (on) section (Kalaat Senan, central Tunisia).
    by Ezzedine Saïdi and Dalila Zaghbib-Turki.
  • Calcareous nannofloral fluctuations and peaks of Thoracosphaera spp. across the Cenomanian-Turonian transition (Arobes, NW Spain) related to the OAE2.
    by Marcos A. Lamolda, Mihaela C. Melinte-Dobrinescu, Enrique Bernárdez and Kunio Kaiho.
• 10h - 11h, Geoevents Keynotes
  • Sea-level variability during warm intervals: the coastal record
    by Cari Zazo, Alejandro Cearreta, José L. Goy, Cristino J. Dabrio, Javier Lario, Joaquín Rodríguez-Vidal, Eduardo Leorri, Teresa Bardají, Francisco Borja, J. Angel González-Delgado, Ana Cabero and Ane García-Artola.
  • Sea-level change, biotic and human adaptations since the last 7,000 years in the NW Black Sea, Romanian shelf (IGCP 521)
    by Mihaela C. Melinte-Dobrinescu, Gheorghe Oaie, Radu Dimitriu, and Andrei Briceag.
• 11h - 11:30h, Geoevents Symposium, oral contributions
  • Correlation of stable Carbon isotope and ammonite biostratigraphy at Madoz (Aralar, Spain): implications for the timing of its oxygen-depleted facies to OAE1a.
    by Tatiana Gaona-Narváez, Josep A. Moreno-Bédmar, Florentin J-M.R. Maurrasse and Miguel Company.
  • Orbital calibration of the Hauterivian-Barremian boundary: new duration of Ohmi and Hugii biozones.
    by Mathieu Martinez, Pierre Pellenard, Jean-François Deconinck, Laurent Riquier, Fabrice Monna, Miguel Company and Slah Boulila..
• 11:30h - 12:30h, Coffee break and Poster session
• 12:30h - 13h, Geoevents Symposium, oral contributions
  • Correlations of the endogenic processes in the active continental margins of the Eurasia-Pacific transition zone.
    by Alexander G. Rodnikov, Natalia A. Sergeyeva and Ludmila P. Zabarinskaya.
  • The Triassic was a period between two big geoevents: conodonts and bivalves paleontological implications.
    by Ana Márquez-Aliaga, Pablo Plasencia and Sonia Ros.
• 13h - 14h, Geoevents Keynotes
  • Climatic changes in the Mediterranean during the Neogene deduced from temperate and tropical carbonates
    by José M. Martín, Juan C. Braga, Isabel M. Sánchez-Almazo and Julio Aguirre.
  • An ecological scenario for the first human dispersal out of Africa: inferences on the early Pleistocene large mammal communities from Western Europe
    by Paul Palmqvist.
• 14h - 15:30h, Lunch
• 15:30h - 16:30h, IGCP European Regional Meeting - Round tables
  • Promotion and development of high quality common proposals to the IGCP
    coord. by Mikhail Fedonkin.
  • Ways to increase collaboration between European geoscientists
    coord. by Anna Vymazalová.
• 15:30h - 16:30h, Geoevents Symposium, oral contributions
  • Givetian (Middle Devonian) geoevents at the Villech section (Spanish Central Pyrenees).
    by Jau-Chyn Liao, José I. Valenzuela-Ríos and Sofie Gouwy.
  • Lower Devonian geoevents in the Spanish Central Pyrenees.
    by José I. Valenzuela-Ríos, Jau-Chyn Liao and Carlos Martínez-Pérez.
  • Cool-water conodont fauna related to the Hirnantian event in the Betic Cordillera (Malaguide Complex, southern Spain).
    by Rosario Rodríguez-Cañero, Agustín Martín-Algarra, Pilar Navas-Parejo and Graciela N. Sarmiento.
  • The Valdemiedes extinction event (VEE): Biotic crisis and recovery at the Lower/Middle Cambrian boundary.
    by Eladio Liñán, María E. Dies Alvares, José A. Gámez Vintaned, Rodolfo Gozalo, Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev, Ignacio Subías and Blanca Bauluz.
• 16:30h - 17h, Geoevent keynote
  • On marine and non-marine Jurassic correlation: a case study in China
    by Jingeng Sha.
• 17h - 17:30h, Coffee break
• 17:30h - 19h, Poster session
• 19h - 19:45h, Open Lecture
  • Riesgos geológicos en la Cordillera Bética
    by José Chacón.
• 20:45h Farewell Party (optional)

September 18^th - 19^th
• Post-Conference Field Trips (early in the morning, see field-trips, please)