VOLCANO: EGU 2014. Process-to-product

[Chelsea Allison <cmalliso@xxxxxxx>]

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EGU 2014. Process-to-product

From: "Duller, Rob" <Robert.Duller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Dear colleagues,

Apologies for yet another EGU session announcement. Before you manoeuvre your index finger over your mouse and make for the delete button - consider what it is your science can offer to a  fundamental Earth Science problem. I would like to draw your attention to the following session at EGU 2014:

 

GM1.6/SSP2.4

Process-to-product: transfer functions for the stratigraphic record (co-organized)

Convener: Rob Duller

Co-Convener: Andreas Lang

Session outline: The transfer of clastic and particulate material from the Earth's surface to the sedimentary record is not straightforward; specifically, there is an inherent bias towards the deposition and preservation of certain sizes, shapes and proportions of physical sedimentary elements. This bias can operate at the particle-scale (millimetres) through to depositional system scale (100s metres) and determining the main controls on this bias at those scales, and then attempting to quantify them, is one of the key outstanding issues in understanding what the sedimentary record is really telling us about the original transport system. This session invites contributions from areas of sedimentology, hydrology, geomorphology, ecology, geochemistry and geostatistics.

 

For physical volcanology focus could be on (but certainly not limited to):

 

• Particle transport, segregation and sedimentation
• Bedform activity and subsequent deposit architecture
• Flow processes at bed-surface interface and deposit sedimentology
• Flow frequency and magnitude, linked to known stratigraphy 

Physical scale and dominant process is irrelevant. Avalanches to lahars, experiments to real-time monitoring of flows and associated deposits. The session is open to attract interest from a number of scientific fields in the hope of achieving trans-discliplinary communication and collaboration on the topic.

 

Please consider submitting an abstract. ***********NOTE: Abstract submission deadline is 16 January 2014*************
Best wishes, Rob

 

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Dr Rob Duller

Lecturer in Earth Sciences

Department of Earth, Ocean & Ecological Sciences

School of Environmental Sciences

University of Liverpool
4 Brownlow Street
Liverpool, L69 3GP
Telephone: +44 (0)151 795 45179

 

http://www.liv.ac.uk/environmental-sciences/staff/robert-duller/

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