Conference Agenda

9:00am - 9:15am

Towards a calibrated and plausible short-term eustatic curve for the mid-Cretaceous

Mike Simmons^1,5, Frans van Buchem², Andrew Davies¹, Mike Bidgood³, David Ray⁴

¹Halliburton, United Kingdom; ²KAUST, Saudi Arabia; ³GSS International, United Kingdom; ⁴University of Birmingham, United Kingdom; ⁵Natural History Museum, United Kingdom

9:15am - 9:30am

Deciphering eustatic signals using high-resolution biostratigraphy and chemostratigraphy: examples from the Albian and Cenomanian Stages.

Andrew Scott Gale

University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

9:30am - 9:45am

Sea-Level Fluctuations during the Cenomanian–Coniacian on the NW Arabian Plate Margin: Insights from a Sequence Stratigraphic Case Study from West-Central Jordan

Tojo Chirakal¹, Jihede Haj Messaoud¹, Ali Alibrahim¹, Carine Grélaud², Amir Kalifi¹, Khalil Ibrahim³, John Powell⁴, Frans van Buchem¹

¹King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia; ²Bordeaux INP, ENSEGID, Bordeaux, France; ³Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan; ⁴British Geological Survey (BGS), United Kingdom

9:45am - 10:00am

Cenomanian fluvial to marine valley backfilling controlled by palaeotopography and eustatic sea-level changes (Saxonian Cretaceous Basin, Germany)

Markus Wilmsen¹, Melanie Melchisedech², Birgit Niebuhr¹

¹Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Germany; ²Dresden, Germany

10:00am - 10:15am

Sea-level changes through OAE2 in a high-resolution, carbon- isotope temporal framework, Western Canada Cretaceous foredeep

Guy Plint¹, Darren Grocke², David Selby², Ireneusz Walaszczyk³, Sandra Kamo⁴, Ian Jarvis⁵, Joao Trabucho-Alexandre⁶, Jessica Flynn⁷, Frederick Longstaffe¹, Alice Du Vivier², David Ulicny⁸

¹University of Western Ontario, Canada; ²Durham University, UK; ³University of Warsaw, Poland; ⁴University of Toronto, Canada; ⁵Kingston University, UK; ⁶Utrecht University, Netherlands; ⁷University of Guelph, Canada; ⁸Institute of Geophysics, Prague, Czech Republic

10:15am - 10:30am

Carbon-isotope stratigraphy and sea level changes in the Turonian of the Western Interior Seaway, North America

David Uličný¹, Bradley B. Sageman², A. Guy Plint³, Matthew M. Jones², Darren R. Gröcke⁴, João P. Trabucho-Alexandre⁵, R. Mark Leckie⁶, Ian Jarvis⁷, Jeffrey G. Eaton⁸, Ireneusz Walaszczyk⁹

¹Institute of Geophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic; ²Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA; ³University of Western Ontario, Canada; ⁴Durham University, UK; ⁵Utrecht University, NL; ⁶University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA; ⁷Kingston University London, UK; ⁸Natural History Museum of Utah, USA; ⁹University of Warsaw, Poland