XVII International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian

PROGRAMME

Overview

Tuesday 28 June – Saturday 2 July:
Pre-Congress Excursion

Sunday 3 July:
Ice-Breaker (17:00)
Registration (17:00)

Monday 4 July – Tuesday 5 July:
Symposia (09:00)
Registration (08:30 Monday)

Wednesday 6 July:
Mid-Congress excursions

Thursday 7 July – Friday 8 July:
Symposia (09:00)

Thursday 7 July:
Congress Dinner (19:00)

Friday 8 July:
Sponsored Luncheon (13:00)

Sunday 10 – Saturday 16 July:
Post-Congress excursion

Plenary Sessions:

Barry Richards: The Carboniferous world: assembly of Pangea and onset of Late Paleozoic glaciations
Charles Henderson: The Permian world — ice house to extinction and everything in between
Mike Benton: Impact of the End-Permian Mass Extinction on Land
Thomas Algeo: The Early Triassic Cesspool: Marine Conditions Following the End-Permian Mass Extinction
Peter McCabe: Coal and Petroleum Resouces in Gondwanan Basins

Technical Sessions:

S1: SPS session: Permian Stage Boundaries and Correlation
(Chairs: Charles Henderson, Shuzhong Shen, Vladimir Davydov);

S2: SCS session: Carboniferous Stage Boundaries: the Present State and Future
(Chairs: Barry Richards, Xiangdong Wang, Katsumi Ueno);

S3: IGCP572 session: Latest Permian mass extinction: causes and impact on ecosystems
(Chairs: Kliti Grice, Thomas Algeo);

S4: IGCP572 session: Ecosystem rebuilding from the Permian-Triassic mass extinction
(Chairs: Jinnan Tong and Margaret Fraiser);

S5: Palaeozoic-Mesozoic Palynology session in honour of Prof. Basil Balme
(Chairs: John Backhouse, Clinton Foster and Wolfram Kuerschner);

S6: Gondwana and Peri-Gondwana: biotas, stratigraphy, palaeoclimate and palaeogeography
(Chairs: Shuzhong Shen and G.R. Shi);

S7: Eustatic variations during Carboniferous and Permian
(Chairs: Poty Edouard, Markus Aretz and Horng-Sheng Mii);

S8: Palaeotemperature, Palaeocirculation, and Chemistry of Carboniferous and Permian Oceans
(Chairs: Ethan Grossman, Mike Joachimski and Isabel Montanez);

S9: Middle Permian Events and Palaeobiology
(Chairs: Xulong Lai and Yukio Isozaki);

S10: Carboniferous and Permian basins: Biostratigraphy, radiometric dating, palaeogeography, and resources
(Chairs: Eric Tohver, Xiaochi Jin, Matt Dixon);

S11: Coal and Petroleum Resources
(Chairs: Annette George and Simon Lang);

S12: Reef complex and Carbonate Platforms in Late Palaeozoic
(Chairs: Gregg Webb and Ian Somerville);

S13: Palaeozoic Foraminifera: Systematics, biostratigraphy, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography
(Chair: David Haig);

S14: Carboniferous and Permian terrestrial ecosystems, stratigraphy and palaeontology
(Session Chairs: Wan Yang and Gerhard Bachmann);

S15: Late Palaeozoic marine invertebrate systematic, biostratigraphy, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography
(Session Chair: Eckart Håkansson)

Download the Congress Programme