Conveners: Laura Tomassetti (ISPRA), Marcello Caggiati (Università di Padova), Gianluca Frijia (Università di Ferrara), Lorenzo Consorti (ISMAR-CNR, Trieste)
laura.tomassetti@isprambiente.it
laura.tomassetti@isprambiente.it
Carbonates are among the main actors influencing the geological history of our planet. Their evolution through time strongly affected the environmental conditions and sedimentological/stratigraphic architecture of marine areas and associated deposits but also severely impacted terrestrial realms. The evolution, production and preservation of carbonate systems and deposits are linked to the complex interplay of local and global environmental factors and diagenetic changes. Studying carbonate's producing-biota, their controlling dynamics the palaeoecological signals and post-depositional processes is the key to comprehending the past and future evolution of these complex systems. and to understand past climate variability on Earth. The session aims to receive contributions involving process-product, innovative and cross-disciplinary approaches (e.g. geochemistry, 3D carbonate modelling to biostratigraphy), work-in-progress and of course classical studies on carbonate systems. The session also wants to be a warm tribute to Luis Pomar, for his scientific career and for his innovative and distinctive approach to understanding carbonates, based on the process-product type mechanics. His methodology, rooted in process-product mechanics, introduced a fundamental distinction in carbonate sedimentology between physical accommodation and ecological accommodation. These concepts have transformed the study and analysis of carbonate systems, shifting the focus from purely descriptive perspectives to a more genetic understanding.