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During this course, modern and fossil (Holocene, Pleistocene) carbonate environments will be thoroughly studied and compared. Issues related to global environmental changes (i.e., climate, sea level), limestone formation and rock-reservoir properties will further be addressed. |
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Modern and fossil carbonate environments, San Salvador, Bahamas
Organized by Prof.Dr. Pascal Kindler, University of Geneva
Programme
During this course, modern and fossil (Holocene, Pleistocene) carbonate environments will be thoroughly studied and compared. Issues related to global environmental changes (i.e., climate, sea level), limestone formation and rock-reservoir properties will further be addressed.
DAY 1 (5.02.11) : Arrival
Logistical questions, presentation of the Research Center, participant presentations.
DAY 2 (6.02.11) : Introduction to The Bahamas
Lectures (morning): Geology and stratigraphy of the Bahamas: an introduction.
Fieldwork (afternoon): stratigraphic tour of San Salvador and snorkeling practice (Graham's Harbour).
Lecture (evening): Physical and biological controls on tidal-flat sedimentation.
DAY 3 (7.02.11) : Tidal-flat sediments and processes
Fieldwork (morning): Modern tidal channel and tidal delta near Pigeon Creek (in part snorkeling).
Fieldwork (afternoon): Pleistocene tidal delta in Pigeon Creek Quarry.
Lecture (evening): Sediment production in lagoonal environments; carbonate beach and dune sedimentation.
DAY 4 (8.02.11) : Lagoon, beach and eolian sediments
Fieldwork (morning): Modern lagoonal sediments in Graham's Harbor (snorkeling and coring).
Fieldwork (afternoon): Holocene beach and coastal dune sediments at North Point and Hanna Bay.
Lecture (evening): Coral communities and reef zonation.
DAY 5 (9.02.11) : The reef environment
Fieldwork (morning): Modern reef environments near Gun Cay (snorkeling);
Fieldwork (afternoon): Upper Pleistocene fossil reef at Cockburn Town and Sue Point.
Lecture (evening): physical and biological controls on lacustrine sedimentation; dolomite and evaporite formation.
DAY 6 (10.02.11) : Lacustrine sedimentation and evaporites
Fieldwork (morning): modern lacustrine sediments and stromatolites at Storrs Lake (coring)
Fieldwork (afternoon): evaporites at Stouts Lake (coring)
Lecture (evening): marine and fresh-water diagenesis; pedogenesis and calcrete formation.
DAY 7 (11.02.11) : Carbonate diagenesis and pedogenesis
Fieldwork (morning): soils, paleosols and karst features on San Salvador.
Fieldwork (afternoon): Enigmatic carbonate crusts at Singer Bar Point
Lecture (evening): conclusions and closure.
DAY 8 (12.02.11) : Wrapping up and departure
DAILY SCHEDULE (Days 2 to 7)
07h30 Breakfast
08h30 – 12h00 Morning fieldwork
12h30 Lunch
13h30 – 17h30 Afternoon fieldwork
18h00 Dinner
19h00 – 21h00 Lectures
Important notice: Each participant organizes his/her own round trip to and from San Salvador. You have to travel through Nassau and spend a night there. Therefore plan to leave Switzerland on February 4 and to arrive back on February 13.
You pay your flight and get CHF 1000.- reimbursed upon sending the bill to the ESPP : Claudia Baumgartner, Institut de Géologie, UNIL, Anthropole, 1015 Lausanne, before February 28, 2011. The costs on San Salvador (food lodging and transportation) are covered for ESPP student members. Non student members will have to pay CHF 650.-
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