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Please take note of an IODP/ICDP related session at the International Sedimentological Congress 2014
S7: Scientific Drilling for unraveling the sedimentary records of past tectonic, climatic and environmental processes
Conveners: Michael Strasser, Flavio S. Anselmetti, Gregory F. Moore, Bernd Wagner
Exploring the subsurface through scientific drilling deepens our understanding on Earth-system geodynamics, long-term climate and environmental changes, evolution of life, and about the mechanisms causing geo-hazards. By monitoring, drilling, sampling, and analyzing subseafloor environments, the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program and its successor International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) are the key for advances in the understanding of our “blue planet”. At the same time similar efforts on the continents, coordinated within the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP), provide new means to tackle challenging geoscientific themes of socio-economic relevance such as paleoclimate, earthquakes and volcanism, or unconventional energy resources.
The principal goal of this joint IODP/ICDP special symposium is to summarize and review recent scientific achievements in ocean and continental drilling of sedimentary systems and discuss how these records shed new light on tectonic, climatic and environmental processes. We invited presentations of recent, ongoing and future IODP/ICDP projects and seek contributions investigating the sedimentary record recovered by scientific drilling, and particularly welcome presentations focusing on sedimentological research frontiers or on new interdisciplinary approaches to interpret deep and hidden sedimentary archives accessible only by drilling.