AnnualMeeting_Announcement 2015

Invitation to the 2015 Review Meeting and Field Trip
The annual review meeting of the CSL – Center for Carbonate Research will be
held September 14-15, 2015 in Miami at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and
Atmospheric Science on Virginia Key. During the annual review, we will report
the results of the ongoing projects and discuss the planned projects for the
coming year. A list of the projects covered during the meeting is listed below and
on the website: www.cslmiami.info
This year’s fieldtrip (September 15-19, 2015) will be to Eleuthera in the Bahamas
with a focus on three topics. The first is the complexity of marginal grainstone
belt, which will be examined at the spectacular Pleistocene outcrops of the last
interglacial period (MIS 5e) at Glass Window and Boiling Hole area in northern
Eleuthera. The second theme is karst that we will inspect in karst holes and in
caves where we currently study rates and composition of speleothems. The third
topic is the modern ooid shoal formation at Schooners Cay. The cost of the
fieldtrip is $4200.-. It includes all transportation in the Bahamas, lodging, meals,
field guidebook and gear.
Logistics
Annual Review Meeting - September 14-15, 2015
The meeting will begin at 8:30 AM on Monday, September 14th in the seminar
room at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric
Science (RSMAS), 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway. The seminar room is in the
Science/Administration Bldg., Rm. 103 (follow signs). We will not be providing
transportation to the meeting. The taxi ride from the hotel to RSMAS is about 15
minutes. The review meeting will end by 1:00 PM on Tuesday, September 15th.
Please arrive in Miami by the evening of September 13th. We are reserving a
block of rooms for the nights of September 13th & 14th at the University of Miami
rate of $139.00 (plus tax) per night for single/double occupancy at the Sonesta
Bayfront Hotel Coconut Grove, 2889 McFarlane Rd, Coconut Grove, FL 33133.
We have only reserved a block of rooms – you must make your own
reservation. You may make your reservation online using the group code:
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To book online reservations please go to:
https://gc.synxis.com/rez.aspx?Hotel=12604&Chain=5157&arrive=9/13/20
15&depart=9/15/2015&adult=1&child=0&group=0913CSLANN
The ‘Group’ code is already entered for you
Click ‘check availability’ and choose room/suite type and rates.
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If you prefer to call in your reservation; you may do so by calling 1-800SONESTA and: Make reference to the UM - RSMAS - CSL - Annual
Review Meeting
Guests must let the reservations agent know the Group Code:
0913CSLANN
The deadline for making your reservation is Friday, August 28, 2015 before 5:00 PM.
After that time, all rooms that have not been reserved will be returned to the hotel’s
general inventory and will be accepted on a space and rate available basis. There will
be a daily service fee of $5.00 per person, per night, which includes hotel housekeeping
and bellman services. This fee is separate and distinct from the room rate and taxes.
Accommodations will be available at 3:00 pm on arrival day and reserved until 12:00 pm
on departure day.
The field trip participants will fly to Eleuthera, Tuesday afternoon, September
15th. A detailed itinerary is given below.
Registration
Please register for the meeting and the fieldtrip by e-mail or phone as soon as
possible with Karen Neher. Her email address is kneher@rsmas.miami.edu and
her phone number is (305) 421-4684. By registering for the field trip you agree to
pay the field trip fee. It is especially important to make the field trip reservation
as soon as possible for our planning purposes.
Registration deadline for the fieldtrip is Thursday, July 30, 2015.
Registration and hotel deadline for the meeting is Friday, August 28, 2015.
We hope to see many of you at the meeting.
Best regards,
ANNUAL REVIEW TOPICS
Unconventional Reservoirs
The Vaca Muerta Research Initiative – Neuquén Basin, Argentina
Gregor P. Eberli
Distal Expression of Source Rock Intervals in the Vaca Muerta
Formation
Max Tenaglia, Leticia Rodriguez Blanco, Laura E. Rueda, Gregor P. Eberli, and
Peter K. Swart
Tracing Los Catutos Carbonates within the Vaca Muerta Formation
Leticia Rodriguez Blanco, Max Tenaglia, Laura E. Rueda, Gregor P. Eberli, Ralf
J. Weger, and Jose L. Massaferro
Geochemical and Petrophysical Calibration of Cycles in the Vaca
Muerta Formation
Laura E. Rueda, Gregor P. Eberli, Max Tenaglia, Leticia Rodriguez Blanco, and
Ralf J. Weger
Acoustic Properties of Shale-TOC-Limestone Mixtures in the Vaca
Muerta Formation
Ralf J. Weger, Ergin Karaca, Jan H. Norbisrath, and Gregor P. Eberli
Formation and Stratigraphic Position of Marine Concretions in
Miocene and Jurassic Mudstone Cycles
Donald F. McNeill, Max Tenaglia, Peter K. Swart, Ralf J. Weger, Gregor P.
Eberli, and James S. Klaus
Carbonate Systems and Reservoir Characterization
Accommodation Space on an Isolated Carbonate Platform – Patterns
and Implications
Sam J. Purkis and Paul M. (Mitch) Harris
Timing of the Pleistocene MIS 5e Sea-Level Oscillation and the
Holocene Transgression: Evidence from the Bahamas
Kelly L. Jackson, Gregor P. Eberli, Paul M. (Mitch) Harris, and Donald F.
McNeill, and Ali Pourmand
Deciphering the Amplitude of Sea-Level Oscillations and Quantifying
the Resultant Heterogeneity of Grainstone Bodies
Kelly L. Jackson, Gregor P. Eberli, Paul M. (Mitch) Harris, and Donald F.
McNeill
Depositional and Diagenetic Evolution of a Fringing Reef during PlioPleistocene Sea-Level Cycles
Viviana D. Díaz, James S. Klaus, Donald F. McNeill, Peter K. Swart, and Ali
Pourmand
Deposition and Early Burial of Holocene Freshwater Carbonates
Chelsea L. Pederson, James S. Klaus, Donald F. McNeill, and Peter K. Swart
Deep-Water Carbonates off Great Bahama Bank - A MultiInstitutional Research Effort
Gregor P. Eberli, Jara S. D. Schnyder, Anna H. Ling, and Kimberly C. Galvez,
and Christian Betzler, Thomas Lüdmann, Marco Palaut, and colleagues, and
Dierk Hebbeln, Paul Wintersteller, and colleagues, and Thierry Mulder and
colleagues
Event Stratigraphy in the Straits of Florida
Jara S. D. Schnyder, Gregor P. Eberli, Deniz Kula, Christian Betzler, Thomas
Lüdmann, Marco Palaut, Sebastian Lindhorst
Current Influence on Basin Sedimentation and the Adjacent
Carbonate Platforms, Bahamas (year 2)
Marco Palaut, Thomas Lüdman, Christian Betzler, Gregor P. Eberli, and Linda
Schiebel
Timing of Pulses of Cold-water Coral Growth in the Straits of Florida
Kimberly C. Galvez, Rani Sianipar, Gregor P. Eberli, Jürgen Titschack, and
Dierk Hebbeln
Deposition and Erosion at the Florida Shelf Edge
Anna Ling, Gregor P. Eberli, Dierk Hebbeln, Claudia Wienberg, Paul
Wintersteller, Nicholas Nowald, Götz Ruhland, and Ralf Schiebel
Petrophysics and Near-Surface Geophysics
Regional GPR & GPS Survey of Downstepping Pleistocene (MIS 5e)
Beach Deposits: New Providence Platform, Bahamas
Kelly L. Jackson, Mark Grasmueck, Pierpaolo Marchesini, and Gregor P. Eberli
Complex Resistivity Spectra in Carbonates and Shales to Estimate
Specific Surface Area and Permeability
Jan H. Norbisrath, Ralf J. Weger, Gregor P. Eberli, and G. Michael Grammer
Rheological Properties of Carbonates in the Context of Depositional
Lithology
Jara S. D. Schnyder and Ralf J. Weger
Geobiology and Microbialites
Geo-Microbial Processes in the Fresh-Water–Saltwater Transition
Zone of a Reefal Margin
James S. Klaus, Donald F. McNeill, Viviana D. Díaz, and Peter K. Swart
Challenging the Default Notion of Ooid Formation
Mara R Díaz, Peter K. Swart, and Gregor P. Eberli
Geochemistry and Diagenesis of Carbonates
Clumped Isotopes of Bahamian Dolomites
Sean Murray and Peter K. Swart
Using Clumped Isotopes to Constrain Diagenetic Temperatures in
Oceanic and Periplatform Carbonates
Philip T. Staudigel and Peter K. Swart
The Changing Mg/Ca Ratio in the Oceans and its Record in Coral
Skeletons
Sharmila Giri and Peter K. Swart
Understanding the Clumped Isotopic Systematics during Meteoric
Diagenesis using Speleothem Analogs
Sevag S. Mehterian and Peter K. Swart
Post Meeting Field Trip: Eleuthera Island, Bahamas
September 15/16–19, 2015
Leaders
Gregor P. Eberli, Peter K. Swart, Kelly Jackson, Paul M. (Mitch) Harris
Rationale and Overview
The lateral and vertical heterogeneity in marginal grainstone complexes and ooid
shoals is the result of a repeated interplay between physical, chemical and
stratigraphic processes. In northern Eleuthera all these processes can be
examined in close proximity.
The modern ooid shoal of Schooners Cay is a very large tidal bar belt whose size
and heterogeneity is largely driven by currents and their interaction with platform
margin morphology, antecedent and newly created topography. Early meteoric
cementation on Holocene islands and marine cements in the shallow subsurface
are the first chemical overprint on these shoals.
Sea-level fluctuations produce stacks of grainstone complexes along the platform
margin. In Eleuthera two vertically stacked shallowing-upward sequences of
oolitic coastal deposits are exposed in spectacular exposures at the windward
margin. These two successions of beach facies and eolian deposits were
deposited during the last interglacial (MIS 5e) and document the higher sea level
compared to today and give further evidence of a sea-level oscillation within MIS
5e.
The large amplitude of the Pleistocene sea-level fluctuations repeatedly exposed
the platform top. Thus, karst features and meteoric diagenesis are ubiquitous in
the Pleistocene strata. The size and dimensions of sinkholes and their
connectivity to horizontal caves are illustrated by visiting two sinkholes. Flank
margin caves are common in carbonate eolian grainstones. A well accessible
cave in Eleuthera is the study site for geochemical experiments by the CSL
where speleothems are used for the study of clumped isotopes and fluid
inclusions. We will visit this site to illustrate the formation and typical size of these
bank margin caves and to demonstrate the ongoing geochemical study.
Logistics
Travel:
Participants fly to Nassau, Bahamas, on Tuesday afternoon, September 15
and stay overnight in Nassau. In the morning we will fly to Eleuthera.
Participants are responsible for booking their own roundtrip ticket from Miami
to Nassau. We recommend the following flights:
Miami to Nassau:
September 15: Bahamas Air #228,
Departs Miami 4:40 PM, in Nassau 5:40 PM
Nassau to Miami:
September 19: Bahamas Air #229
Departs Nassau 7:00 PM, in Miami 7:55 PM
There are limited flights to and from Eleuthera. Returning, we will arrive in
Nassau around 3:00 PM on September 19. You will clear U.S. customs in
Nassau before departing for the U.S.; therefore, please allow time for this
before your outgoing flight.
Cost:
The field trip begins and ends in Nassau. The cost is $4,200.-. This includes
round-trip flights from Nassau to Eleuthera, ground transportation, boat in
Eleuthera, hotel accommodations in Nassau (night of September 15) and
Eleuthera, meals, and course notes. Not included in the fieldtrip costs are the
flights to and from Nassau.
Registration:
Please register as soon as possible but no later than July 30, 2015 by sending an email to kneher@rsmas.miami.edu and a copy to rweger@rsmas.miami.edu
Itinerary and Field Trip Stops
Tuesday, September 15
PM Flight to Nassau
Wednesday, September 16
AM Flight from Nassau to Eleuthera
Transfer from airport to Hotel Sky Beach Club, Eleuthera
Introduction to the field trip and safety briefing
PM Karst: Caves and sinkholes
Main focus: Formation and distribution of sinkholes and flank margin caves.
Stops include:
• Cave in southern Eleuthera
• Ocean Hole, Rock Sound
•
Big Pond: Microbially mediated precipitation in a hypersaline lake
Thursday, September 17
Schooners Cay: Facies and geometries of the tidal bars within the
Schooners Cay ooid shoal
Main focus: Formation, size and distribution of the tidal bars in relation to
platform morphology and tidal energy. Stops include:
• Holocene island with beach rock
• Intertidal bar
• Subtidal channels
Friday, September 18
Stratigraphic complexity of marginal grainstones deposited during the
last interglacial: Glass Window and Boiling Point
Main focus:
1) Stratigraphic heterogeneity of marginal grainstone bodies,
2) Erosional processes at the windward margin,
3) Size and distribution of marginal grainstone complex. Stops include:
• Glass Window: grainstone bodies separated by exposure horizons;
sea ward erosion
• Boiling Point: Examination of the two beach/eolian successions
deposited during the last interglacial and the implication for vertical
heterogeneity and fluid flow units
• Bight of Eleuthera: Cow and Bull boulders erosional remnants of eolian
dunes
Saturday, September 19
AM The Holocene transgression and modern eolian formation
Main focus: Erosional processes along the windward bank margin during
the Holocene sea level rise. Stops include:
• Lighthouse beach
PM
Return to Nassau and Miami