Call for Papers
Cenozoic Bi-polar Connections Over Millennia
33rd International Geological Congress
6-14 August 2008
Oslo, Norway
Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday, 29 February 2008
For further information, please go to:
http://www.33igc.org
Papers are invited for "Cenozoic Bi-polar Connections Over Millennia"
(session AAB-02) being convened at the 33rd International Geological
Congress on 5-14 August 2008, in Oslo, Norway.
Session description:
Several innovative geological drilling projects (e.g., ACEX, ANDRILL,
BIPOMAC, Lake E, SHALDRIL) in the polar regions are in the process of
recovering long sedimentary records of climate and environmental change
for the past several hundreds to millions of years. The theme of this
session is to assess the initial results of these drilling projects.
Emphasis will be placed on the global nature of Late Cenozoic change
especially the timing and magnitude of past climatic events on orbital
and millennial scales and the interplay of events at both poles.
Contributions offering an assessment of the polars in driving and
amplifying global variability and the evolution of polar regions are
welcome. Other themes include mechanisms and dynamics of
glacial/interglacial and millennial-scale change over the duration of
the 41 ka and 100 ka orbital cycles for comparison with other long
records from the N. Atlantic, N. Pacific, and the Arctic Ocean. Keynote
talks in this session will introduce and summarize each of the major
completed and planned polar drilling projects. The session is a
contribution to the Bipolar Climate Machinery (BIPOMAC) and Antarctic
Climate Evolution (ACE) programs.
Convenors:
Ross Powell (USA): ross [at] geol.niu.edu
Julie Brigham-Grette (USA): juliebg [at] geo.umass.edu
Tim Naish (NZ): Timothy.Naish [at] vuw.ac.nz
Martin Melles (DE): mmelles [at] uni-koeln.de
Kate Moran (USA): kate.moran [at] gso.uri.edu
Jan Bachman (Sweden): backman [at] geo.su.se
Abstracts should be submitted by Friday, 29 February 2008, at:
http://www.33igc.org