Seminars given by international scholars, July - December 2018

Updatetime: 2019-02-04

Robert A. Gastaldo: 1. Time, space, sedimentary systems and some thoughts on geochemistry of why, or not, we have a fossil plant record.  2. Trust but verify do Karoo Basin rocks record the continental expression of the Mother of Mass Extinction?

2018-07-12

Dr. Colin SPROAT: Late Ordovician brachiopod fauna from the Hadabulaktag Formation in Northwest China

2018-08-23

Prof. Aharon OREN: 1. Microbiology of the Dead Sea  2. Diversity of life at high salt and adaptation of microorganisms to life at high salt concentrations

2018-08-24

Dr. Michael HOWE: BGS Digital Data: a bright future for 200 years of information

2018-09-13

Dr Robert NEWTON: Low ocean sulfate and a high benthic methane flux at the end of the Cretaceous: Records from Seymour Island, Antarctica

2018-09-19

Prof. MATSUOKA: Fruits of the InterRad 15 in Niigata 2017 and future directions of radiolarian research

2018-09-21

Prof. Paul D. TAYLOR: The Beringer fossil fraud

2018-09-21

Prof. Nickolas ZOUROS: Global Geoparks: a new tool for the protection, conservation and rational management of outstanding geological and paleontological heritage sites-The Lesvos Petrified Forest in Greece, as a case study

2018-10-09

Dr. Peep MANNIK:  The early Telychian Valgu Event

2018-10-12

Prof. Dong-Jin LEE:

1. “Lichenaria” in China

2. Corallite increase in Agetolites, and its taxonomic implications

 

2018-10-23

2018-11-23

Prof. Christopher BERRY: Devonian plants, forests, atmospheres and climates

2018-11-06

Dr. Riccardo CESTARI: Rudist Facies of the Mediterranean Area

2018-11-06

Prof. Peter CRANE:

1. The Greening of Earth: The Origin and Early Diversification of Plants on Land

2. The Early Evolution of Seed Plants: Structural Diversification and Ecological Consequences

3. The Emergence of Modern Seed Plants

4. The Origin and Early Evolution of Flowering Plants

5. The Cretaceous Diversification of Angiosperms and Its Ecological Consequences

 

2018-11-12

2018-11-13

 

2018-11-14

2018-11-15

2018-11-15

Prof. Josef PSENICKA: Liana-form callistophytalean pteridosperm as interesting element of the Permian peat forming forest (Inner Mongolia, China)

2018-11-13

Prof. Franz FURSICH: Analysis of a Cretaceous (late Aptian) high-stress ecosystem from northeastern Brazil

2018-11-14

Prof. Wolfram M. KüRSCHNER:

1. Introduction to Palynology and organic facies/palynofacies

2. Stratigraphic ranges of Permian and Triassic palynofloras

3. Peculiarities of the Triassic pollen and spore morphologies

Case studies: Palynological records of major environmental crises:

4. Part 1: The end-Permian mass extinction

Case studies: Palynological records of major environmental crises:

5. Part 2: The Carnian and Norian biotic turnovers

6. Part 3: The end-Triassic mass extinction

 

2018-12-06

 

2018-12-07

 

Dr. Micha RUHL:

1. Integrated stratigraphy, with a special focus on Chemostratigraphy

2. Introduction to astrochronology and cyclostratigraphy

3. The end-Triassic mass extinction, climate/environmental change, and the link to Central Atlantic Magmatic Province volcanism

4. Early Jurassic climatic/environmental change and changes in the depositional environment: A case study from the Cardigan Bay Basin (UK)

5. Timing of the Early Jurassic Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event, and its expression in continental basins in China (Sichuan Basin)

 

2018-12-10

 

2018-12-11

 

2018-12-12


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