REMINDER - Call for Session Abstracts
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018
Polar Continental Margins and Fjords - Climate, Oceanography, Tectonics, and Geohazards
8-13 April 2018
Vienna, Austria
Abstract submission deadline: 1:00 p.m. Central European Time, Wednesday, 10 January 2018
For more information about the EGU General Assembly 2018, to go:
https://www.egu2018.eu/
The European Geosciences Union (EGU) is currently accepting abstract submissions for the EGU General Assembly 2018. This meeting will be held 8-13 April 2018 in Vienna, Austria.
Conveners of the following session invite abstract submissions:
SESSION CL1.33: Polar Continental Margins and Fjords – Climate, Oceanography, Tectonics, and Geohazards
Conveners: Kelly Hogan, Matthias Forwick, Jan Sverre Laberg, Berit Oline Hjelstuen, Michele Rebesco, H. Christian Hass, and Gerhard Kuhn.
During the last decade significant advances in our understanding of the development of polar continental margins during the Cenozoic have been made. These include more detailed reconstructions of the climatic, oceanographic, and tectonic evolution of high northern and southern latitudes over various time scales, as well as reconstructions of past ice-sheet dynamics and studies of marine geohazards. Results have been obtained from conventional 2D and high-resolution 2D and 3D seismic surveying, as well as from short sediment cores and longer drill cores (e.g., IODP, MeBo).
Fjords are regarded as "small oceans" that incise high latitude coastlines and link continental margins with the interiors of landmasses. Fjord settings allow the study of a variety of geological processes similar to those that have occurred on glaciated continental margins, but typically at smaller scales. The contribution of several sediment sources (e.g., glacial, fluvioglacial, fluvial, biological) to fjord basins along with relatively high sedimentation rates also provides the potential for high-resolution palaeoclimatic and palaeooceanographic records on decadal to centennial timescales.
The aim of this multi-disciplinary session is to follow on from the success of previous years by bringing together researchers working on northern and southern high-latitude continental margins and fjords, investigating the dynamics of past ice sheets, climate, tectonics, sedimentary processes, physical oceanography, and palaeo-biology/ecology.
The session has two confirmed keynote speakers, one from each hemisphere:
- Monica Winsborrow, University of Tromso (UiT): Ice sheet-gas hydrate interactions: examples from the Barents Sea
- Laura de Santis, National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS): Late Cenozoic ocean-ice sheet interactions and West Antarctic Ice Sheet vulnerability: Initial results from International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 374 in the Ross Sea continental margin
For more information or submit an abstract to this session, go to:
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/session/26414
For questions, contact:
Kelly Hogan
Email: kelgan [at] bas.ac.uk