Other Meetings

INQUA2023 in Rome!
Rome, 14-20 July 2023

Not only z-corals: Quaternary reefs across the latitudinal and depth gradients
Biogenic reefs, build-ups and mounds are represented in the Quaternary record by a variety of morphologies, external architectures, and components. Most of them grew by in situ repeated superposition of a mixture of skeletal and microbial carbonate, deposited on the shelves during the Holocene sea-level rise; others developed in aphotic marine environments. Their inception and growth, on a secular to millennial scale, responded to a complex interplay of available substrate, sedimentary regime, geological and oceanographic controls acting on their physical environment and food/nutrient supply. The local combined effects of sea level change and vertical land motion generated a diverse suite of geomorphologies, with different types of bioconstruction occurring across the latitudinal and depth gradients. The main framework builders were organisms with a multidecadal to centennial life span, such as calcareous algae, bivalves, bryozoans, corals that recorded many biogeochemical paleoceanographic proxies with high definition and were variably associated in distinctive paleo-benthic assemblages. They hosted a high diversity of micro-dwellers, such as foraminifera, responding rapidly to the environmental changes and heralding major crisis and demise. We invite contributions about reefs as natural multiscale and multi-proxy archives of climatic, oceanographic, and local changes for the Quaternary.
Convenors:
Daniela Basso, University of Milano-Bicocca
Christian Betzler, University of Hamburg
Silvia Spezzaferri, University of Fribourg
Elias Samankassou, University of Geneva

Postponed to 2021!!!
14th International Coral reef Symposium

For the first time in its history, an ICRS will be held in Europe, in the cosmopolitan and historic city of Bremen, Northern Germany, 18 - 23 July 2021.