El ICP, la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, los chicos/as de Aragosaurus (Universidad de Zaragoza) y el Instituto Nazionale de Geofisica e Vulcanologia estamos organizando una interesante reunión para poner en común los descubrimientos de los últimos años sobre los vertebrados del final del Cretácico en Europa, especialmente en los Pirineos.
Toda la información está en la web del congreso: http://tremp2014.icp.cat/
Os adelantamos un poco de los objetivos del congreso para animar a participar
On behalf of the Organizing Committee we cordially invite you to attend the congress entitled “Reconstructing the Terrestrial end-Cretaceous Paleoenvironments in Europe”, from September 16-20th, 2014.
Tremp is located in one
of the most famous areas known for its geology and remarkable outcrops.
Also, the continental Tremp formation contains a unique and continuous
record of the 5 My preceding the K/Pg (Cretaceous/Paleogene) extinction
event. This record hosts important vertebrate, invertebrate and plant
paleontological sites that are key to understanding changes in the
Maastrichtian Paleoenvironments of Europe.
Aims and scope
This
congress is a multidisciplinary meeting devoted to recent
paleontological and geochronological advances, both in the marine and
continental records, which allow envisaging the Maastrichtian and its
boundaries under a global and integrated scope.
The
terrestrial environmental proxies for the European continental record
can now be compared with faunal and floral successions. This is a first
step to understand how paleoenvironmental changes interacted with life
on Earth during the last five million years of the Mesozoic in Europe.
This will also assist to better clarify the role of the K/Pg extinction
event and how the ensuing recovery took place.
In
this context the congress will provide excellent opportunities for
participants to present and share new data, hypothesis and research
directions. The aim of the congress is to generate debate topics between
specialists and discuss correlations schemes (geochronologic,
paleontologic, geochemical) among the various paleogeographic areas. The
organizers outlined various significant topics that hopefully will be
of your interest.
- Geology and geochemistry of the paleoenvironmental changes.
- Biostratigraphy and geochronology. The Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary.
- Marine changes. Correlation with the terrestrial record.
- Successions and paleobiogeography of vertebrate and invertebrate faunas.
- Climatic and vegetation trends.
The
Organizing Committee is planning a comprehensive congress with
multidisciplinary scientific program including plenary conferences and
communications. Participants will also have the opportunity to explore
the geologic and paleontologic record of the Tremp basin by means of two
fieldwork excursions. The field trips will include visits to important
scientific localities of chronostratigraphic and paleontologic interest
such as various continental exposures in the Tremp basin (including
stratigraphic sections with the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary), the Coll
de Nargó area (with multiple nesting horizons of dinosaurs) and the
Fumanya area (with important and large outcrops with dinosaur
footprints).
