TOPICS
 

The following topics and subtopics for sessions, symposia and workshops are proposed for the present edition. Move the cursor over the topics in order to see a more detailed description. Additional topics and subtopics can be proposed by the potential attendants.

  1. Lacustrine basins in their tectonic environments
    • Tectonic controls on lacustrine basin evolution and records
    • Geodynamic cyclicity recorded in lacustrine sequences
    • Lacustrine record of Global Tectonics: From super-continent break-up to orogenic assembly
  2. Lacustrine environments and basin fill: Depositional systems, Facies Assemblages and Sequence Stratigraphy
    • Lacustrine terrigenous clastic sequences
    • Carbonate lacustrine sequences
    • Saline lakes and evaporite sequences
    • Wetlands and Lakes through time and space: The Ground Water Connection
    • From springs and rivers to lakes: Tufa and travertine deposits
    • Karstic lakes
    • Volcanic and hydrothermal-related lakes
    • Glacial and subglacial lakes. The Antarctic "new world"
    • Sequence Stratigraphy in lacustrine systems. Unravelling tectonic and climatic forcing
    • Pedogenesis related to wetland and lacustrine environments. From subaqueous soil records to calcretes
    • 3D reconstruction and numerical modelling of lacustrine depositional systems and related deposits
    • Lacustrine biogenic carbonates as paleoenvironmental archives
  3. Integrated views of catchment-lacustrine basin systems
    • Lacustrine records of landscape evolution: Tectonic, Morphologic and Climatic interplay
    • Landscape and downstream lacustrine systems: From weathering-erosion and sediment routing to basin fill deposition
    • Numerical modelling of crustal evolution and related lacustrine basins
  4. Economic resources in lacustrine sequences
    • Lacustrine coals
    • The petroleum play in lacustrine basins
    • Metallic ores in lacustrine basins
    • Salt deposits and brines in lacustrine basins
    • Raw materials in lacustrine basins
    • Water resources and supply from lacustrine systems
  5. Lacustrine paleobiotas. Exceptional fossil assemblage records in lacustrine sequences
    • Evolving lacustrine paleobiotas
    • Endemisms in large, long-lived lacustrine basins
    • Exceptionally preserved continental paleobiotic records in lacustrine sequences
    • Bioturbation and ichnofacies in lacustrine settings: paleoecological and paleoenvironmental significance
  6. Geomicrobiology studies applied to lacustrine systems
    • The role of bacteria in the endogenic lacustrine carbonate formation
    • Early diagenetic processes in lacustrine ecosystems related to bacteria communities
    • Geological impact of microbial transformations in lacustrine ecosystems over geologic time
  7. New proxies and advanced techniques. Lacustrine record dating.
    • Advances in scientific drilling and seismic exploration from ancient to recent lacustrine sequences
    • Geochronology of lacustrine records. New dating techniques and approaches
    • Paleomagnetic studies in lacustrine records
    • Advances in Biochemistry applied to lacustrine records
    • Multi-indicator records of lacustrine environmental changes
  8. Isotope Geochemistry in lacustrine records
    • Isotopic records of paleoclimate, paleoweathering, paleodrainage and paleohydrology
    • Isotopic records of anthropogenic action on lakes
  9. Precambrian to Neogene lacustrine records. Tectonic, climatic and hydrologic significance
    • Pre-Quaternary lacustrine records all over the world
    • Lakes in Early Earth History: Archean-Proterozoic lacustrine records
    • Pre-Quaternary lacustrine records in the peri-Mediterranean regions. From Iberia to the Middle East
    • From Lake to Sea and from Sea to Lake: Pannonian and Lago-Mare-like systems. Paleohydrological and paleoenvironmental frontiers
    • Studies on cyclicity and periodicity. Searching for tectonic and/or climatic forcing
    • Linkages between continental and marine records. An integrated paleoclimatic history
    • Ancient lacustrine records and paleoclimatic modelling
  10. Pleistocene-Holocene lacustrine records of regional and global environmental changes (climatic, tectonic, hydrologic)
    • Paleohydrological evolution: linkage to climatic and morphologic changes
    • Reconstructing climate seasonality in recent lacustrine records
    • Annual and subannual lacustrine records. Paleoenvironmental significance
    • Impact of climate change on recent lakes: latitudinal inter-comparison
    • From Alaska to Patagonia, a transect of Quaternary lacustrine records in the Americas. Environmental,cultural and climatic changes
    • Lacustrine records of Quaternary climatic and cultural changes
    • Inter-hemispheric teleconnections of lacustrine records. Linkage between lacustrine, ice and oceanic records. Records of ENSO and NAO
    • Climate Change during the Glacial-Interglacial Transitions. Lacustrine record and effects
    • Quaternary Lakes. A Mediterranean perpsective
    • Quaternary lacustrine records in the Iberian Peninsula.Environmental,cultural and climatic changes
    • Quaternary lacustrine records and paleoclimatic modelling
  11. Monitoring lacustrine systems as natural laboratories
    • Quantitative calibration of lake proxies: monitoring and experiments
    • Anthropogenic influences on sediment chemistry as a way to evaluate temporal stresses on aquatic ecosystems
  12. Natural hazard record in lacustrine sequences
    • Record of catastrophic events (earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, mass wasting and other natural hazards)
    • Catastrophic lacustrine floods
    • Killing lacustrine gas emissions
  13. Limnogeology in artificial lakes: From ancient dams to the Three Gorges water reservoir
    • Water reservoir management in relation to its geological setting.
    • Contribution of Limnogeology to management of hydrological resources in water reservoirs.
  14. Limnogeology and management of natural heritage (wetlands, lakes and "points of geological interest")
  15. Extraterrestrial lakes: From Europe to Mars
    • Lacustrine systems in Mars and in other planets of the Solar System.

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