William Smith Meeting 2010 - Landscapes Into Rock

The aim of this meeting was to bring together geoscientists from different sub-disciplines to address the problem of the interactions between erosional and depositional landscapes, sediment routing systems and the building of stratigraphy. By studying these interactions we gain a better understanding of the dynamics of the coupling between exhumation, erosion, transport and deposition of sediment in source to sink systems, and an enhanced ability to invert stratigraphy for forcing mechanisms.

Conference themes

The Erosional Engine
Convenors: Alex Whittaker (Imperial College London) and Andy Carter (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Keynote speakers: Kelin Whipple (Arizona State University) and Niels Hovius (Cambridge University)

The Dynamics of Sediment Routing Systems
Convenors: Alex Densmore (Durham University) and Ruth Robinson (St. Andrew’s University)
Keynote speakers: Jim Syvitski (University of Colorado-Boulder) and Chris Paola (University of Minnesota)

Landscapes into Rock: the Making of Stratigraphy
Convenors: Sébastien Castelltort (ETH-Zürich) and Emma Finch (Manchester University)
Keynote speakers: Mike Leeder (University of East Anglia) William Smith Lecture 2010 and Rudy Slingerland (Pennsylvania State University)

Integrative Studies of Sediment Routing and the Petroleum System
Convenors: Ian Lunt (Statoil) and Mike Blum (ExxonMobil)
Keynote speakers: Ole J. Martinsen (Statoil) and Peter Burgess (Shell)


For further information on the conference and to read the speakers' conference abstracts, please download the PDF abstract book below.

Organisers

Philip Allen (Imperial College London)
Hugh Sinclair (Edinburgh University)
Paul Bishop (Glasgow University)
Robert Gawthorpe (Manchester University)