ICAM 2007: Tromso, Norway

ICAM 2007: Summary Of Conference, Tromso, Norway 

SUMMARY OF CONFERENCE

   (Tromsø, Norway, September 3-5, 2007)

Hosted by the Geological Society of Norway and the European Association of Geoscientist and Engineers.

• More than 300 participants
• 106 Oral presentations
• 86 Posters
• 9 Thematic Sessions
• Sponsored by the Geological Society of Norway (NGF) in cooperation with the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE)

ICAM V was held in conjunction with Arctic Conference Days 2007 which included The Arctic Geology, Resources and Environment Conference (AGReE) and The Shelf Edge and Shoreline Trajectories Conference (SEST).

General Sessions

• Geodynamics and Tectonic Evolution of Arctic Region--Search for past plate boundaries; Megasequences in the Circum Arctic; Magmatism; Palaeogeography
• Circum Arctic Orogens--Uralides; Caledonides/Ellesmerian; Brooks Range
• Sedimentary Basin Development
• Uplift and Erosion of Arctic Margins – Timing and Causes
• Continental Slopes and Deep Basins--Sedimentary processes; Origin and evolution of the Alpha-Mendeleev Ridges
• Arctic Gateways--Tectonics; Palaeo-oceanography
• Glacial History and Processes--Morphological development; Palaeoclimate; Permafrost; Technologies for Arctic Ocean Research
• Technologies for Arctic Ocean Research
• Paleogeographic Reconstructions of Amerasian Arctic Margins

See the Full Technical Program here:

• The ICAM V Proceedings containing 11 invited papers were published by the Norwegian Journal of Geology as ICAM V Special Volume NJG 2008 Volume 88 Nr. 4
• Norweigian Journal of Geology: Arctic Margins

ICAM 2007: Conference Proceedings, Tromso, Norway 

• Special Volume Norwegian Journal of Geology 2008 Volume 88 Nr. 4
• Exploring the Arctic margins and the Central Arctic Ocean: An introduction, Morten Smelror
• Detrital zircon ages and provenance of the Late Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic successions on Severnaya Zemlya, Kara Shelf: a tie to Baltica, Henning Lorenz, David G. Gee & Antonio Simonetti
• Lower and Middle Jurassic foraminiferal and ostracod biostratigraphy of the eastern Barents Sea and correlation with northern Siberia, Valery Basov, Boris Nikitenko & Natalia Kupriyanova
• The South Anyui suture, Northeast Arctic Russia, revealed by offshore seismic data, Dieter Franke, Christian Reichert, Volkmar Damm & Karsten Piepjohn
• Extensive local seabed disturbance, erosion and mass wasting on Alpha Ridge, Central Arctic Ocean: possible evidence for an extra-terrestrial impact?, Yngve Kristoffersen, John K. Hall, Kenneth Hunkins, José Ardai, Bernard J. Coakley, John R. Hopper & Healy 2005 seismic team
• Lower Cretaceous lithostratigraphy across a regional subaerial unconformity in Spitsbergen: the Rurikfjellet and Helvetiafjellet formations, Ivar Midtkandal, Johan Petter Nystuen, Jenö Nagy & Atle Mørk
• Jurassic and Cretaceous foreland basin deposits of the Russian Arctic: Separated by birth of the Makarov Basin?, Elizabeth L. Miller, Alex Soloviev, Alexander Kuzmichev, George Gehrels, Jaime Toro & Marianna Tuchkova
• High resolution stratigraphy of the Lower Jurassic and Aalenian of Arctic regions as the basis for detailed palaeobiogeographic reconstructions, Boris Nikitenko, Boris Shurygin & Michael Mickey
• Lower Cretaceous palynostratigraphy and dinoflagellate cyst palaeoecology in the Siberian palaeobasin, Ekatarina B. Pestchevitskaya
• Palaeozoic and Early Mesozoic evolution of the East Barents and Kara Seas sedimentary basins, Oleg V. Petrov, Nikolai N. Sobolev, Tatyana N. Koren, Viktor E.Vasiliev, Eugeny O. Petrov, Geir Birger Larssen & Morten Smelror
• Climatic transitions in the Arctic as revealed by mineralogical evidence from the Upper Cenozoic sediments in the central Arctic Ocean and the Yermak Plateau, Kari Strand, Juho Junttila, Taija Lahtinen & Saija Turunen