Program

“Carbonate Sediments as Archives of Earth Evolution”

Graduate Field Course

25.06-01.07.2018

 

Monady, 25th of June – arrival of participants

Tuesday, 26th of June – Ordovician carbonate sections of north-central/eastern Estonia:

8:00 –  9:00          Registration at Tallinn University of Technology, Ehitajate tee 5, Tallinn

departure at 9:00 from Tallinn University of Technology 

# Kunda-Aru quarry – Middle Ordovician limestone (Darwillian)

# Ubja quarry – Upper Ordovician oil shale (lower part of Sandbyan)

lunch in Rakvere

# Aluvere quarry – Upper Ordovician (upper part of Sandbyan)

# Porkuni quarry – Upper Ordovician (Hirnantian)

# visit to Estonian Geological Survey drillcore storage in Arbavere

Arbavere

 

Wednesday, 27th of June: Ordovician-Silurian carbonate sections in north and north-west Estonia:

Arbavere, departure 9:15

# Paldiski peninsula – Lower to Middle Ordovician (Tremadocian, Darwillian)

# Vasalemma new quarry – Upper Ordovician (Katian), mudmounds

field lunch in Paldiski area

# Saunja quarry – Upper Ordovician (Katian), tropical carbonate mud

# Orgita quarry – Silurian, Llandovery

Arrival to Särghaua field station, dinner

 

Thursday, 28th of June: participants presentations, lectures, core inspection

8:00 –  9:00          breakfast

9:15 –  9:45          Introduction to the lecture programme and activities

9:45 – 11:00        Tony Prave:  Sedimentary basins and their stratigraphic frameworks

11:00 – 11:30      coffee break

11:30-12:45         John Higgins: Major isotope systems (C, O, Ca, and Mg) in carbonate sediments

13:00 – 14:00      lunch in Särghaua

14:15 – 15:45       Students introduction – “Your thesis/field in 90 seconds” + short discussion

15:45 – 16:00       coffee break

16:00 – 18:30      Drillcore inspection I – carbonate successions of Baltic Paleobasin

19:00                     dinner

Friday, 29th of June: lectures, core inspection

8:00 –  9:00          breakfast

9:15 –  10:15       John Higgins: What do carbonate sediments tell us about the global carbon?

10:15 – 11:15      Catherine Rose:  Sedimentology and isotopes through the Neoproterozoic

11:15 – 11:45      coffee break

11:45-12:45         Patrick McLaughlin: Phanerozoic evolution of carbonate depositional systems: gradualism vs punctuated equilibrium

13:00 – 14:00      lunch

14:15 – 15:15       David Fike: Carbonate-associated sulfate: origins, behavior during diagenesis, and utility for paleoenvironmental reconstructions

15:15 – 16:15      Eva Stüeken: The evolution of nitrogen metabolisms and bioavailability

16:15 – 16:30      coffee break

16:30 – 18:00      Drillcore inspection II – carbonate successions of Baltic Paleobasin 

19:00                     dinner

 

Saturday, 30th of June: lectures

8:00 –  9:00          breakfast

9:15 –  10:15       Patrick McLaughlin: Chemostratigraphic calibration of time-rock correlation: new frontiers in carbonate sequence stratigraphy

10:15 – 11:15      Michael Bau: Trace elements in carbonates – what they can tell us?

11:15 – 11:45      coffee break

11:45-12:45         David Fike:  Depositional controls on sulfur isotopic signals in sedimentary pyrite

13:00 – 14:00      lunch

14:15 – 15:15       Michael Bau: Marine and freshwater mussel shells as carbonate bioarchives.

15:15 – 16:15       Aivo Lepland:  Carbonate precipitation at modern methane-seeps

16:15 – 16:30      coffee break

16:30 – 18:00       to be confirmed – Björn Kröger, University of Helsinki – “Baltic carbonate rocks in thin sections”

19:00                    dinner

 

Sunday, 1st of July:  summary, final excursion, lunch and departure

8:00 – 9:00           breakfast

9:15 – 10:00        Summary of the course, final discussions

10:30 – 15:00      departure from Särghaua and excursion to Silurian outcrops/quarries in Central Estonia – Kalana and Eivere quarries

15:00                   lunch and field course summary

17:00                   departure to Tallinn and Tartu

Monday, 2th of July: departure from Tallinn/Tartu