IAS 2011 - Field Trips

Fourteen field trips of two or three days of duration are programmed to be run before and after the conference. These are organized by researchers with broad experience in analysing the superbly exposed sedimentary successions in the several geological units of NE Spain: the Iberian Ranges, the Ebro Basin and the Pyrenees.

The topics of the field trips are covering a wide range of facies, sedimentary environments and ages: from the Paleozoic and Mesozoic rocks of the Iberian Ranges to the marine and continental Tertiary syntectonic units deposited in southern Pyrenees (Aínsa basin) and in the foreland Ebro Basin.

Three of these field trips will visit Quaternary and present-day deposits: fluvial deposits outlining the dissolution-collapse processes operating around the Ebro valley, tufas developed along two river's valleys crossing the Iberian Ranges, and the sedimentary record of three lakes on the southern edge of the Pyrenees.

The field trips are a key point of interest of the IAS 2011 conference, and we anticipate in this first circular the preliminary title and leading persons of the programmed field trips. More detailed information on these trips is on the Web page. Other logistical information (costs, departure and arrival points) will be provided in the Second Circular. If you need additional information, please contact the Organizing Committee.

PRE-MEETING FIELD TRIPS

• A1 Late Ordovician carbonate productivity, iron ore precipitation, and glaciomarine deposits in the Iberian Ranges (J.J. Álvaro, I. Subías & A. López-Ciriano)
• A2 The Aptian carbonate system of the Western Maestrat Basin: a book example of four systems tract-based sequence stratigraphy (T. Bover-Arnal, R. Salas, P.W. Skelton, J.A. Moreno & E. Gili)
• A3 Structurally controlled hydrothermal dolomitization in the Albian of the Ramales carbonate platform (Biscay and Cantabria provinces) (M. López-Horgue & E. Iriarte)
• A4 Carbonate platform models, sea level changes and extreme climatic events during the Paleocene-Early Eocene greenhouse interval: a basin-platform-coastal plain transect across the southern Pyrenean Basin (J.I. Baceta & V. Pujalte, coordinators)
• A5 Integrated analysis of a marine to continental transition in an evolving foreland: advanced case studies in the eastern Ebro Basin (Eocene-Early Miocene) (L. Cabrera, P. Arbués, J.L. Cuevas, M. Garcés, M. López Blanco & M. Marzo)
• A6 Sedimentary record related to the evolution of Quaternary dolines in the central Ebro Basin (A. Luzón, A. Pérez, A. Pocoví & M.A. Soriano)
• A7 Quaternary karstic lakes in the Pre-Pyrenees: The Arreo, Estanya and Montcortés sequences and their depositional evolution and paleoclimate implications (B. Valero-Garcés, P. Corella, M. Morellón, A. Moreno, P. González-Sampériz & A. Pérez)

POST-MEETING FIELD TRIPS

• B1 Permian-Triassic continental rocks of the SE Iberian Ranges: architecture, tectonics and geochemical characteristics in the context of a rift basin (J. López-Gómez, A. Arche, J.F. Barrenechea, R. de la Horra, B. Galán-Abellán)
• B2 The Late Jurassic carbonate ramps of the central Iberian Basin: architecture, facies distribution and cyclostratigraphy (M. Aurell, B. Bádenas, J. Ipas, C. Colombié, L. Pomar & M. Al-Nazghah)
• B3 The record of the OAE1a in a highly subsiding platform setting (Sierra de Aralar) (M. I. Millán, J. García-Mondéjar & K. Fernéndez-Mendiola)
• B4 Evolution of an intra-plate rift basin: the Latest Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Cameros Basin (NW Iberian Ranges) (R. Mas, M.I. Benito, J. Arribas, A. Alonso, M.E. Arribas, L. Gonzélez-Acebrón, J. Hernán, E. Quijada & P. Suárez)
• B5 From back-erg to fore-erg: the mid-Cretaceous Iberian Desert System (Iberian Basin) (J.P. Rodríguez-López, M.N. Meléndez, P.L. de Boer, A.R. Soria & C. Liesa)
• B6 Exploring the relationships between deepwater and shallow-marine deposits in the Aínsa piggy back basin fill (Eocene South-Pyrenean Foreland Basin) (P. Arbués, M. Butillé, M. López-Blanco, M. Marzo, J.A. Muñoz & J. Serra-Kiel)
• B7 Quaternary and present-day tufa systems of the Piedra and Añamaza rivers (Iberian Ranges) (C. Arenas, L.F. Auqué, C. Osácar, G. Pardo, C. Sancho & M. Vázquez-Urbez)