Scientific Programme

PROPOSED THEMES AND SESSIONS

Theme A. Principles and methods

Session 1: Methods, technology and new trends
Session 2: Events Stratigraphy
Session 3: Cyclostratigraphy and recent developments in the astronomical calibration of the Geological Time Scale
Session 4: GSSP and stratotypes
Session 5: Advances in isotopic geochronology
Session 6: Teaching of stratigraphy and geological heritage
Session 7: Planetary Stratigraphy
Session 8: Phylogeny, Paleobiodiversity and Paleogeography

Theme B. Regional Stratigraphy

Session 9: Regional Stratigraphy s. l.
Session 10: Stratigraphy of Iberian and Mediterranean Basins
Session 11: Rodinia and Gondwana Stratigraphy and geochronology
Session 12: Assemblage and break-up of Pangea

Theme C. Applied Stratigraphy

Session 13: Sequence stratigraphy, seismic stratigraphy and seismic geomorphology
Session 14: Chemostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, chronology, paleoenvironments and correlations
Session 15: Stratigraphy applied to oil industry
Session 16: Quaternary Stratigraphy and Archaeology
Session 17: Fossil vertebrates in Stratigraphy
Session 18: Fossil invertebrates in Stratigraphy
Session 19: Microfossils in Stratigraphy
Session 20: Terrestrial Mesozoic Stratigraphy
Session 21: Volcanic Stratigraphy
Session 22: Stratigraphy – The basis for any climate reconstruction