MeetingOfInterest:Meeting-214
Chicago Illinois, United States
16 - 16 September 2016
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The presentations will link Earth surface processes to the sedimentary record of times before vegetation developed on Earth. Is the present the key to the past? How different were pre-vegetation landscapes? Join us online to find out more. Please feel free to forward this email & attachment to interested parties.
11:00-11:15
[Introduction] The global importance of understanding pre-vegetation river deposits: Geological Storage of CO2
Jim Best – University of Illinois, USA
11:15-12:00
[Keynote] Rivers before the advent of land plants
Darrel Long – Laurentian University, Canada
12:00-12:15
Processes and products on pre-vegetation wet floodplains
Phil Fralick – Lakehead University, Canada
12:15-12:30
Spatial variability in the depositional architecture of pre-vegetation fluvial systems
Renato Almeida – University of São Paulo, Brazil
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13:15-13:30
Meandering rivers in modern desert basins: implications for the pre-vegetation fluvial rock record
Mauricio G.M. Santos – UFABC, Brazil
13:30-13:45
Towards a morphometric assessment of pre-vegetation fluvial channels: a Proterozoic perspective
Alessandro Ielpi – Laurentian University, Canada
13:45-14:00
River and floodplain dynamics in the Cambrian Illinois basin
Arnold Jan Reesink – University of Illinois, USA & University of Southampton, UK
14:00-14:45
[Keynote] Adapting the global BQART sediment transport model to a world without vegetation: is it possible?
James Syvitski – University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
When: September 16th 2016, 11:00–14:45 CST (Chicago, USA)
URL: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1557520170530898436
Webinar ID: 538-248-523
We hope to see you online!
Dr Arnold Jan H. Reesink
Research Fellow in Geological Storage of CO2, University of Illinois, USA
