Program, SEPM Research Conference, Autogenic Dynamics in Sedimentary Systems August 3-6, 2014, Grand Junction, Colorado

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1 Program, SEPM Research Conference, Autogenic Dynamics in Sedimentary Systems August 3-6, 2014, Grand Junction, Colorado August 3 rd Sunday Morning TIME SPEAKER TITLE Welcome 8:30-8:45 Budd, Hajek, Purkis Welcome, introductions, announcements, agenda Perspectives on Autogenesis & Self- Organization in Sedimentary Systems 8:45-9:30 Chris Paola Autogenic dynamics - from experiments to field scales 9:30-10:00 Tom Olszewski Spatial Self-Organization in Biological Systems: Implications for Sedimentary Rocks 10:00-10:25 break 10:25-11:10 Peter Burgess Self-organization & autocyclicity in carbonates 11:10-11:55 Enrique Merino Geochemical self-patterning: occurrences, mechanisms, modeling, testing. Two case studies: karst sinks and towers, and zebra veins in burial dolomites 12:00-1:00 lunch informal discussion and posters Sunday Afternoon Field Perspectives I 1:00-1:45 Laurel Larsen 1:45-2:05 Ellen Chamberlin 2:05-2:20 break Hydroecological feedbacks driving form and function of floodplain and wetland landscapes Channel-belt and basin-scale evidence for random paleoavulsion patterns in the Williams Fork Formation

2 August 4 th Monday Morning Experimental Perspectives 2:20-2:40 Paul Heller External vs Intrinsic controls on bimodal fluvial architecture in the Morrison and Wasatch formations, eastern Utah and western Colorado 2:40--3:00 Jesse Pisel Confined and unconfined fluvial channel belt clusters 3:00-3:20 Hiranya Sahoo Autogenic modulation on allogenically formed incised valley in rock record 3:20-3:40 Diane Kamola Sedimentary Patterns in fluvial strata of the Upper Cretaceous Hunter Canyon/Williams Fork Formations 3:40-4:40 Poster Group I posters will be up all day, this is specific time for presenters to be present at posters 4:40-5:30 group break outs to summarize key messages & emergent issue defined in the 1st day 8:30-9:00 Kyle Staub Signals of relative sea level perturbations: defining the divide between autogenic signal shredding vs. preservation in the stratigraphic record 9:00-9:20 Lucy Clarke The importance of autogenic dynamics in alluvial fan evolution 9:20-9:40 Qi Li 9:40-10:15 break Influence of sediment cohesion on autogenic surface dynamics and resulting stratigraphic architecture Field Perspectives II 10:15-10:35 Sam Purkis 10:35-10:55 Ryan Ewing 10:55-12:00 Poster Group II Can morphometric patterns in carbonate platforms be applied to ancient rock record? Insights from modern Alacranes Reef and Upper Paleozoic carbonate platforms Aeolian dune field pattern dynamics and the development of the aeolian stratigraphic record posters will be up all day, this is specific time for presenters to be present at posters 12:00-1:00 lunch

3 Monday Afternoon Modeling Perspectives 1:00-1:30 Roy Plotnick Lattice and percolation models in ecology, paleontology, and geology 1:30-1:50 Marco Van de Wiel Controls on preservation and shredding of allogenic signal in catchment sediment yield 1:50-2:10 Doug Edmonds Is river avulsion style controlled by floodplain morphodynamics 2:10-2:40 break 2:40:3:00 Christopher Esposito Observing morphology becoming stratigraphy: the statistical imprint of coastal processes in deltaic stratigraphy 3:00-3:20 Zoltan Sylvester Deciphering autogenic and allogenic signals in the stratigraphic record of submarine channels 3:20-3:40 Juan Fedele Bedforms created by gravity flows Constraining paleo-hydrologic flow fields from iron oxide 3:40-4:00 Yifeng Weng cementation patterns group break outs to summarize key messages & emergent issue defined in the 2nd 4:00-5:10 day Monday Evening Banquet 6:30 Johann von de Koppel Spatial patterns in ecosystems August 5 th Tuesday Field Trip 8:30-5:30 Ryan Ewing & Liz Hajek

4 August 6 th Wednesday Morning Field Perspectives II 8:30-9:15 Marty Perlmutter 9:15-9:35 Sheila Trampush 9:35-9:55 David Pyles 9:55-10:15 break Using lacunarity analysis to quantitative characterize delta systems Investigating the stratigraphic filter in river-, wave- and tidedominated deltas Relating degree of compensational stacking in distributive submarine fans to the size of the receiving basin: a geometric model on measurements from outcrops of submarine fans group break outs to summarize key messages & emergent issue defined by the 10:15-11:15 conference 11:15-12:45 report outs by small groups, discussion & comments by entire group Closing remarks & Adjournment 12:45-1:00 Budd, Hajek, Purkis

5 Poster Group 1, Monday, 3:40-4:40 Experimental & Modeling Perspectives Paul Hamilton Angali Fernandes Robert Mahon Jeremy Kerr David Budd Dave Hoyal Liz Hajek Autocyclic properties of supercritical distributive systems: morphodynamic commonalities between alluvia/ and submarine fan experiments Evaluating the influence of relative sea-level change on the autogenic dynamics of coastal rivers Quantifying the completeness of shoreline trajectories in the stratigraphic record Modeling facies transitions in a carbonate stratigraphic forward model Autogenic pattern-forming feedbacks during diagenesis - dolomitization and other possible examples Gradient-based model of submarine fan evolution and stratigraphy based on steady depth averaged flow Exploring the role of avulsion dynamics in floodplain deposition and paleosol formation Poster Group 2, Tuesday, 10:55-12:00 Field Perspectives Thomas De Keyser Wolfgang Schlager Evan Jones James Rine Kerry Riley Intrashelf basins respond to plate tectonic movement and paleogeographic position Reticulate reef patterns - antecedent karst vs self-organization Quantifying the effects of autogenic and allogenic forcing mechanisms on the composition of fluvial sandstones using petrography and digital image analysis in the Wasatch Formation, Unita Basin Mud begets mud, a concept that applies from bedforms to clinoforms Sedimentary archive of mid-late Holocene arroyo cutting-filling in Johnson Wash, southern Utah

6 Wassim Benhallam Janok Bhattacharya Maria Luiza Correa da Camera Rosa. Galen Huling Point pattern analysis of channel organization from the Cretaceous John Henry Member of the Straight Cliffs Formation, Kaiparowits Plateau, Southern Utah Predicting paleodischarge and slope from accommodation change in ancient systems: implications for autogenic controls Contrasting Autogenic vs. Allogenic Processes on River-Dominated Delta Architecture: Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and Coring of Small (~100m) Deltas from Freshwater Lagoons in Southern Brazil Evidence for Clustering of Delta-Lobe Reservoirs within Fluvio-Lacustrine Systems, the Jurassic Kayenta Formation, Utah

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