T1. History of Stratigraphy
ST1.1 History of Stratigraphy in Italian environments (17th – 20th centuries)
Conveners: Ezio Vaccari, Andrea Candela, Marco Pantaloni, Luigina Vezzoli
T2. Stratigraphic tools
ST2.1 Chemo- and biostratigraphy: complementary or antagonistic tools?
Conveners: Stéphane Bodin, Joerg Mutterlose
ST2.2 Conodonts as tools for biostratigraphy, chronostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy and evolution
Conveners: Manuel Rigo, Xulong Lai
ST2.3 Applications of cyclostratigraphy in understanding Earth history
Conveners: Matthias Sinnesael, Christian Zeeden, Frits Hilgen
ST2.4 Ammonoids in stratigraphy
Conveners: Arnaud Brayard, Claude Monnet
ST2.5 Big data in stratigraphy
Conveners: Michael Stephenson, Junxuan Fan
ST2.6 Does the Golden Spike still glitter?
Conveners: David Harper, Philip Gibbard, Brian Huber
ST2.7 Towards a calibrated paleobotanical zonation: from –zoic to –phytic
Conveners: Guido Roghi, Evelyn Kustatscher, Marco Vecoli
ST2.8 Sediment archives from ocean drilling: insight into the development and improvement of Biochronology and Time Scales
Conveners: Jan Backman, Ursula Roehl, Thomas Westerhold
ST2.9 Improved reconstruction of geomagnetic field variations from 10Be and paleomagnetic methods: a stratigraphic tool for global synchronization of paleorecords
Conveners: Quentin Simon, Didier L. Bourlès, Andrew P. Roberts
T3. Erathemes, Systems, Series and Stages
ST3.1 Ediacaran Subdivision
Conveners: Guy Narbonne, Shuhai Xiao, Marc Laflamme, Dima Grazhdankin
ST3.2 Cambrian stratigraphy, events and geochronology
Conveners: Per Ahlberg, Loren E. Babcock
ST3.3 Silurian odyssey towards advanced stratigraphy and correlation
Conveners: Petr Štorch, Carlo Corradini, Zhan Renbin
ST3.4 The Devonian: life, environments and time
Conveners: John Marshall, Ladislav Slavik, Carl Brett
ST3.5 Carboniferous-Permian GSSPs and correlations: state of the art
Conveners: Lucia Angiolini, Xiangdong Wang, Shuzhong Shen
ST3.6 Late Triassic biotic, climatic and environmental events and timescales
Conveners: Mark W. Hounslow, Sylvain Richoz, Christopher A. McRoberts
ST3.7 Towards an Integrated Stratigraphy for the Jurassic
Conveners: Stephen Hesselbo, Grzegorz Pieńkowski, Emanuela Mattioli, Angela Coe
ST3.8 Cretaceous integrated stratigraphy, greenhouse climate change and events
Conveners: Maria Rose Petrizzo, Michael Wagreich, Jim Haggart, Francesca Falzoni
ST3.9 Paleogene stratigraphy, timescales and global change
Conveners: Simonetta Monechi, Laia Alegret, Aitor Payros
ST3.10 Integrated stratigraphy and paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic events in the Neogene
Conveners: Elena Turco, Kenneth G. Miller, Frits J. Hilgen, Isabella Raffi
ST3.11 Quaternary stratigraphy and chronostratigraphy
Conveners: Martin J. Head, Jan A. Zalasiewicz, Colin N. Waters
T4. Stratigraphy of carbonates and carbonate platforms
ST4.1 High-resolution stratigraphy of Carbonate Platforms: unlocking the shallow-water archive of extreme palaeoenvironmental events
Conveners: Mariano Parente, Stephane Bodin, Gianluca Frijia, Thomas Steuber
T5. Stratigraphy of volcanoes and of volcanic areas
ST5.1 Stratigraphy and mapping volcanic areas
Conveners: Gianluca Groppelli, Federico Lucchi, Joan Martí
T6. Antarctic and Arctic
ST6.1 Combining Arctic and Antarctic paleoclimate and paleoceanographic stratigraphic records with models to understand past and future evolution of bi-polar linkages
Conveners: Florence Colleoni, Peter Bjil, Jochen Knies, Laura De Santis
ST6.2 Ice core stratigraphy: regional to global paleoclimatic reconstruction
Conveners: Valter Maggi, Samuel Albani, Robert Moulvaney, Jefferson Cardia Simões
T7. Stratigraphy and geological mapping
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T8. Subsurface stratigraphy
ST8.1 The value of integration between classical seismo-stratigraphic methods and new technologies in subsurface stratigraphy and in the linkage to their outcropping counterparts
Conveners: Laura Alessandra Brioschi, Iunio Alfonso Marini
ST8.2 Integrated bio- and chemo-stratigraphic approaches in a subsurface perspective: industrial and academic applications
Conveners: Andrea Piva, Elena Menichetti
T9. Geochronology and time scales
ST9.1 Natural time subdivisions from latest Permian to the Middle Triassic: the fundamental role of the biotic to abiotic couplings
Conveners: Mark W. Hounslow, Hugo Bucher, Charles Henderson, Spencer G. Lucas
ST9.2 Calibrating rates and dates in stratigraphy
Conveners: Urs Schaltegger, Daniel Condon
T10. Stratigraphy in crystalline rocks
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T11. Open theme
ST11.1 Homo and other mammal dispersals in Europe during the Pleistocene: stratigraphy and biochronology, paleoecology and palaeobiogeography
Conveners: Raffaele Sardella, Saverio Bartolini Lucenti
ST11.2 Stratigraphy and distribution of Mesozoic Oceanic Anoxic Events: recent progresses and new perspectives
Conveners: Gabriele Gambacorta, Helmut Weissert
ST11.3 Archaeological stratigraphies: from the excavation to the laboratory
Conveners: Andrea Zerboni, Giovanni Zanchetta, Kathleen Nicoll
ST11.4 General session on Stratigraphy
Conveners: Valeria Luciani, Claudia Agnini, Appy Sluijs, Edoardo Dallanave