Dear colleagues,
Apologies for any cross postings! We warmly invite you to submit an abstract to our session at EGU 2015 in Vienna (12-17 April):
Polar continental margins and fjords – climate, oceanography, tectonics and geohazards (CL1.7/TS5.6)
In this interdisciplinary session we now build on very successful and varied talks and posters over the last four years. We welcome talks from researchers working on reconstructing past environments or present-day processes and encourage contributions from both Polar Regions. In this vein, we are delighted to announce that we have two invited talks from:
Karsten Gohl (AWI), Gerhard Kuhn (AWI), Tim Freudenthal (MARUM), Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand (BAS), and Expedition PS90 Science Party Provisional title: MeBo seabed drilling operation in the Amundsen Sea Embayment and early results on West Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics
Colm Ó Cofaigh (Durham)
Provisional title: Reconstructing the last British-Irish Ice Sheet from continental shelf records: initial results from Britice-Chrono
To submit an abstract, please follow the instructions at this link: (http://www.egu2015.eu/abstract_management/how_to_submit_an_abstract.html).
The abstract submission deadline is 07 Jan, 2015.
Further information about EGU 2015 can be found at: http://www.egu2015.eu/.
We look forward to seeing you in Vienna!
Matthias and Kelly (on behalf of the convenors)
Converors: Matthias Forwick (University of Tromsø, Norway), Jan Sverre Laberg (University of Tromsø, Norway), Kelly Hogan (BAS, UK), Michele Rebesco (OGS, Italy), Berit Hjelstuen (University of Bergen, Norway), H. Christian Hass (AWI, Germany)
Polar continental margins and fjords – climate, oceanography, tectonics and geohazards (CL1.7/TS5.6)
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 us to study 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.
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2015/session/17032
