STRUCTURE OF THE MEETING

Tuesday 15th, June 2010
18:00-20:00	Registration at Parador Conde de Gondomar
20:00-21:30	Baiona Council reception

Wednesday 16th, June 2010
08:15-09:00	Registration & Poster placing
09:00-10:00	CONGRESS OPENING
10:00-11:00	Keynote by: Dr. Jean-Claude Faugères (Univ. Bordeaux, France).
11:00-11:30	Coffee break
	GENERAL SECTION (Oral communications)
11:30-13:30	TOPIC 1. GEOSTROPHIC / THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION, BOTTOM CURRENTS & MODERN CONTOURITE DEPOSITS Click to expand/collapse
11:30-11:45	Bedform-velocity matrix: the estimation of deep bottom current velocity from bedform observations (Dorrik A V Stow, F. Javier Hernández-Molina, Estefania Llave, Miriam Sayago-Gil, Victor Díaz del Río & Adam Branson).
11:45-12:00	Analysis and modeling of contourite drifts and currents off promontories in Southern Italian Seas (Mediterranean Sea) (Federico Falcini, Eleonora Martorelli , Ettore Salusti & Francesco L. Chiocci).
12:00-12:15	Contourite deposits from the Pantelleria offshore (Sicily Channel, Italy): analysis of depositional and erosive features (Eleonora Martorelli, Giorgia Petroni, & Francesco Latino Chiocci).
12:15-12:30	Topographic steering of the Mediterranean Outflow West of Gibraltar (Marc Gasser, José Luis Pelegrí, Mikhail Emelianov, Hartmut Peters, Jonathan Nash & Sam Kelly).
12:30-12:45	Along-slope oceanographic processes and sedimentary products around Iberia (F. Javier Hernández-Molina, Nuno Serra & Dorrik A.V. Stow).
12:45-13:00	The Le Danois Contourite Depositional System (Cantabrian margin): a record of the MOW palaeoceanography (Jorge Iglesias, David Van Rooij, F. Javier Hernández-Molina, Gemma Ercilla, María Gomez-Ballesteros, David Casas & Estefanía Llave).
13:00-14:30	LUNCH
14:30-16:30
14:30-14:45	The Porcupine Contourite Depositional System: 2.6 Ma of competition between cold-water coral mounds and sediment drifts (David Van Rooij, Veerle A.I. Huvenne, Ben De Mol, Bert Lietaert, Bram Van Eetvelt, Dominique Blamart, Isabel Cacho, Nick McCave & Jean-Pierre Henriet).
14:45-15:00	3D seismic imaging of aggradational channels related to geostrophic currents through the Pliocene North Sea basin (Paul C. Knutz).
15:00-15:15	Geological evidence of Norwegian Sea Overflow pathways into the Iceland Basin (Finn Mørk, Tove Nielsen, Francisca Staines-Urias & Antoon Kuijpers).
15:15-15:30	The 'Davis Strait Drift' offshore West Greenland (Tove Nielsen, Claus Andersen, Antoon Kuijpers & Paul C. Knutz).
15:30-15:45	Late Neogene contourites in NE Baffin Bay - West Greenland margin: The signature of a proto-Irminger Current? (Paul C. Knutz, John R. Hopper, Ulrik Gregersen & Tove Nielsen).
15:45-16:00	Sedimentary waves along the Namibian continental slope – Indicators for past deep water current intensity (Hanno Keil & Volkhard Spieß).
16:00-16:15	Contouritic terraces on the northern Argentina middle continental slope (southwestern Atlantic) (Roberto A. Violante, F. Javier Hernández-Molina, C. Marcelo Paterlini, Graziella Bozzano, Sebastian Krastel, Till Hanebuth, Benedict Preu & Cecilia Laprida).
16:15-16:30	The contourite drifts over the Ewing Terrace (NE Argentina, SW Atlantic) (Graziella Bozzano, Roberto Violante, Marcelo Paterlini, F. Javier Hernández-Molina, Till Hanebuth, Tammo Huppertz, Michael Strasser, Sebastian Razik, Maria Julia Orgeira & Sebastian Krastel).
16:30-17:00	Coffee break
17:00-17:15	A contourite system offshore the Rio de la Plata estuary, Argentina (Tammo Huppertz, Till Hanebuth, Rüdiger Henrich, Benedict Preu, Tilmann Schwenk & Michael Strasser).
17:15-17:30	Seismic images of contourites forming continental slope terraces at the Argentine Margin: implications for past changes in thermohaline circulation (Jens Gruetzner, Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben & Dieter Franke).
17:30-17:45	The contourite drifts of the Pacific Margin of the Antarctic Peninsula: a review (Michele Rebesco & Angelo Camerlenghi)
17:45-18:00	The Contourite System and the Framework of Contour Current Circulation in the South China Sea (HaiRong Wang , ShengQiang Yuan & HongFang Gao).
17:00-18:00
18:00-19:00	Poster section Click to expand/collapse
	TOPIC 1. GEOSTROPHIC / THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION, BOTTOM CURRENTS & MODERN CONTOURITE DEPOSITS Contourite Drifts on canyon heads related to the Mediterranean Outflow Water in the Ortegal Marginal Platform (Northwestern of Iberian Peninsula) (Gloria Jané, Adolfo Maestro, Estefanía Llave, Jerónimo López-Martínez, Francisco J. Hernández-Molina, David Van Rooij, José R. De-Andrés, Daniel González-Aller & Manuel Catalán-Morollón). Detrital input, marine productivity, deep-water currents and sea level alternatively influencing Sedimentation on the Galician continental margin over the past 30 ka BP (Vera B. Bender, Till J.J. Hanebuth & Karl-Heinz Baumann). Contourites in the Galicia Bank region (NW Iberian Atlantic) (Gemma Ercilla, David Casas, Jorge Iglesias, Juan T. Vázquez, Luís Somoza, Ricardo León, Teresa Medialdea, Carmen Juan & Marga García). Bottom current features in the continental slope of the Atlantic Moroccan margin (David Casas, Luis Somoza, Teresa Medialdea, Ricardo León, Gemma Ercilla & MVSEIS Team). Contourites of the Eastern Corsica margin: a record of the palaeocirculation of Levantine Intermediate Water during the last 200,000 yrs (Nicolas Touyet, Emmanuelle Ducassou, Thierry Mulder, Gwenaël Jouet, S. Toucanne & K. Charlier). Contour current influenced sedimentation offshore Cape Yubi and Cape Blanc, NW Africa (Tilmann Schwenk, Sascha Fricke, Lena Steinmann, Sebastian Krastel, Mathias Meyer, Torsten Bickert, Hanno Keil & Volkhard Spieß). Migrating submarine furrows on Gabonese margin (West Africa) from Miocene to present: Influence of bottom currents? (Laurie Biscara, Thierry Mulder, Eliane Gonthier, Michel Cremer, Jean-Claude Faugères & Thierry Garlan). Current Controlled Sedimentation Dominates Wide Areas of the South East African Continental Margin off Mozambique and Madagascar – Preliminary Results of a Multichannel Seismic Survey (Volkhard Spiess, Benedikt Preu, Stefan Wenau, Luisa Palamenghi, Tilmann Schwenk & Ralph Schneider). Reconstruction of the onset and development of the Agulhas Current from contourite deposits in front of Limpopo River, Mozambique margin (Benedict Preu, Volkhard Spieß, Tilmann Schwenk & Ralph Schneider).
20:00-21:30	Free visit to the seawater thermal SPA bath at the Talaso Atlántico Hotel

Thursday 17th, June 2010
08:00-09:30	Keynote by: Craig S. Fulthorpe (University of Texas, USA).
08:30-11:00	GENERAL SECTION (Oral communications)
09:30-10:45	TOPIC 2. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEEP-WATER CIRCULATION, GRAVITY FLOWS & SUBMARINE SLOPE STABILITY Click to expand/collapse
09:30-09:45	Hydrodynamic instabilities in a turbidity current boundary layer as a mechanism for channel incision (Brendon Hall, Eckart Meiburg & Ben Kneller).
09:45-10:00	Hydrodynamic instabilities in a turbidity current boundary layer as a mechanism for sediment wave formation (Lutz Lesshafft, Brendon Hall, Eckart Meiburg & Ben Kneller).
10:00-10:15	Formation of a basin-wide bottom nepheloid layer in the western Mediterranean after the winter 2005 dense shelf water cascading event (Pere Puig, Xavier Durrieu de Madron, Katrin Schroeder, Jordi Salat, José L. López-Jurado, Gian P. Gasparini, Albert Palanques & Mikhail Emelianov).
10:15-10:30	Seismic patterns of the interactions between gravity processes and regional hydrodynamics on Algarve Margin (Gulf of Cadiz, Eastern Atlantic) (Elodie Marchès, Thierry Mulder, Eliane Gonthier, Michel Cremer & Thierry Garlan).
10:30-10:45	Capture of a deep-sea contour current by a canyon on the Algarve Margin (Gulf of Cadiz, Eastern Atlantic) (Elodie Marchès, Thierry Mulder, Eliane Gonthier, Michel Cremer & Thierry Garlan).
10:45-11:15	Coffee break
11:15-11:30	Interaction between a Contourite Depositional System and the Mar de Plata Canyon off Argentina and Uruguay (Benedict Preu, Tilmann Schwenk, F. Javier Hernández-Molina, Michael Strasser, Tammo Huppertz, Till Hanebuth, Roberto Violante, Sebastian Krastel-Gudegast, Rüdiger Henrich, Katja Lindhorst, Mathias Meyer, Volkhard Spieß & M78/3 shipboard scientific party).
11:30-11:45	Slide and canyon deposits on the Lofoten-Vesterålen margin, North Norway (Valérie Bellec, Leif Rise, Reidulv Bøe, Margaret Dolan & Terje Thorsnes).
11:45-12:00	Geohazard assessment using 3D seismic attributes (Valencia Trough, offshore Spain) (Hugo C. Matias & Jose J. Martin Bañon)
12:00-12:15	Clues on Antarctic and Arctic Deep-Water Circulation and Seafloor Processes from Multibeam Mapping and Subbottom Profiling (Martin Jakobsson, Matthew O'Regan, John B. Anderson, Benjamin Hell, Göran Björk & SO0910 Shipboard Scientific Party).
11:15-12:15
12:15-12:45	TOPIC 3. DRIVER OF DEEP-WATER ECOSYSTEMS Click to expand/collapse
12:15-12:30	Influence of the Mediterranean Outflow Water on benthic ecosystems: answers and questions after a decade of observations (David Van Rooij, Lies De Mol, Erwan Le Guilloux, Julie Réveillaud, F° Javier Hernández-Molina, Estefania Llave, Ricardo Léon, Ferran Estrada, Furu Mienis, Raphaele Moeremans, Dominique Blamart, Ann Vanreusel & Jean-Pierre Henriet).
12:30-12:45	Pleistocene carbonate sediment waves, Great Australian Bight - influence of dense water currents and the benthic fauna (Kresten Anderskouv, Finn Surlyk, Mads Huuse, Holger Lykke-Andersen, Morten Bjerager & Cecilie Dybbroe Tang).
12:45-14:30	LUNCH
14:30-15:30	WORKSHOP: Contourites & Climate (TOPIC 4. PALAEOCEANOGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE) Keynote by: Dr. M. Sarnthein (Univ. Kiel, Germany). Click to expand/collapse
15:30-16:00	Oral communications
15:30-15:45	What Mechanisms Underlie Palaeoceanographic Changes in the Mediterranean Outflow? (Mike Rogerson, Eelco Rohling, Grant Bigg & Jorge Ramirez).
15:45-16:00	Rapid Deep Water Changes during Abrupt Climate Transitions in Glacial and Interglacial Periods (Joan O. Grimalt, Belen Martrat, Isabel Cacho & Miquel Canals).
16:00-16:30	Coffee break
16:30-16:45	Millennial-scale changes in deep water properties at the mid-depth western Iberian margin linked to Mediterranean Outflow Water activity (Antje H. L. Voelker & Susana Lebreiro).
16:45-17:00	The "GUCADRILL" Contourite IODP Proposal-644: Environmental significance of the Mediterranean outflow water and its global implications (Dorrik A.V. Stow, F. Javier Hernández-Molina, Isabel Cacho, Carlota Escutia, Joan Gardner, Makoto Ito, Susana Lebreiro, Pamela Martin, Thierry Mulder, Michele Rebesco, Andrew Roberts, Joachim Schoenfeld, Francisco Sierro, Luis Somoza, Pedro Terrinha, Antje Voelker & Phil Weaver).
17:00-17:15	Sedimentary evolution of the Galicia Inner Basin during the last 70 kyr (Anxo Mena, Guillermo Francés, Marta Pérez-Arlucea, Till J.J. Hanebuth & Miguel Á. Nombela).
17:15-17:30	Palaeoceanographic changes identified using seismic and radiogenic isotope data from the Mozambique Ridge, SW Indian Ocean (Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben, Michael K. Watkeys, Warren Kretzinger, Martin Frank & Lasse Heuer).
16:30-17:30
17:30-18:30	Poster section Click to expand/collapse
	TOPIC 2. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEEP-WATER CIRCULATION, GRAVITY FLOWS & SUBMARINE SLOPE STABILITY Depositional Features and Evolution Patterns of the Continental Slope System in the Qiongdongnan Basin, northern South China Sea (Cheng Zhang, Junliang Li, Xinong Xie, Yongchao Lu & Tao Jiang). Morphologic and sedimentary characteristics of a deep-water high sinuous channel-levee System in the Niger continental margin (Li Hua, He Youbin & Wang Zhenqi).
	TOPIC 3. DRIVER OF DEEP-WATER ECOSYSTEMS Benthic macrofauna associated to the contourite depositional system of the Gulf of Cádiz: Preliminary results from the MVSEIS08 cruise (Patricia Esquete, Carmen Falagán, Luis Somoza & Jesús S. Troncoso). Mediterranean Outflow Water imprints on the deep cold-water coral reefs ecosystems on the Galicia Bank (Spain) (Ricardo Leon, Gemma Ercilla, Francisco Javier Hernández-Molina, Victoriano Urgorri, Luis Somoza, David Casas, Teresa Medialdea & Francisco Javier Gonzalez). Western slope of Hatton Bank (NE Atlantic Ocean): geo-environmental constrains in relationship to deep sea ecosystems (Miriam Sayago-Gil, Pablo Durán-Muñoz, Juan Tomás Vázquez & Víctor Díaz-del-Río). Ichnological analysis: a useful tool to approach eco-sedimentary parameters in deep-sea environments (Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar & Alfred Uchman).
	WORKSHOP: CONTOURITES & CLIMATE (TOPIC 4. PALAEOCEANOGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE) Revealing climatic cycles in unevenly sampled stratigraphic sequences: The Lomb-Scargle peridodogram (Eulogio Pardo-Iguzquiza & Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar). Holocene changes in deep-water circulation of the Western Mediterranean Basin, links to North Atlantic climate variability (Jaime Frigola, Isabel Cacho, Gemma Herrera, Miquel Canals, Ana Moreno, David Amblàs, Joan O. Grimalt, Pere Masqué & Montse Esparza). Holocene bottom current variability at Feni Drift, NE Atlantic Ocean and wider paleoclimatic implications (Thomas O. Richter, Henk de Haas, Henko C. de Stigter & Tjeerd C.E. van Weering). Antarctic bottom-water dynamics in the Indian sector of the Antarctic Ocean over the last 140 000 years (Ines Voigt, Andreas Borchers, Oliver Esper, Thomas Frederichs, Rainer Gersonde, Gerhard Kuhn, Sven Kretschmer, Gesine Mollenhauer and Bernhard Diekmann). Drift sediments on the West Antarctic continental margin (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program proposal 732): High-resolution palaeoclimate archives for the Neogene and Quaternary (Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand, James E.T. Channell, Robert D. Larter, Maryline Vautravers, David Hodell, F. Javier Hernández-Molina, Karsten Gohl & Michele Rebesco).
18:30-19:30	Round table session about Contourites & Climate
21:00	Congress Dinner (Galician sea food)

Friday 18th, June 2010
09:00-10:00	Keynote by: Dr. McCave, I.N. (Cambridge, Univ., UK)
	GENERAL SECTION (Oral communications)
10:00-11:00	TOPIC 5. ENVIRONMENTAL, TECTONIC AND OTHER CONTROLLING FACTORS ON PROCESS AND DEPOSITS Click to expand/collapse
10:00-10:15	CONTOURITES: the multidisciplinary perspective gained from the editing of the book of the series Developments in Sedimentology (Michele Rebesco & Angelo Camerlenghi).
10:15-10:30	Contourites in the deepwater sequence stratigraphic framework (Rachel Brackenridge, Dorrik A.V. Stow & F. Javier Hernández-Molina).
10:30-10:45	Contour current and drift deposition at the Latakia Ridge off Syria in the Eastern Mediterranean (Elias Tahchi, Patricia Cabello & Jean Benkhelil).
10:45-11:00	Pliocene and Quaternary seismic stacking pattern and distribution of contourites in the Algarve margin (Northern Gulf of Cadiz, Spain) (Estefanía Llave, Hugo Matias, F. Javier Hernández-Molina, Gemma Ercilla, Dorrik A.V. Stow and Teresa Medialdea).
11:00-11:30	Coffee break
11:30-13:00
11:30-11:45	Circum-Iberia turbidites and contourites: enhancement of processes by AMOC millennial-scale climate changes (Susana M. Lebreiro).
11:45-12:00	Climate induced sediment dynamics in a canyon system offshore the hyperarid Western Sahara (Mauritania): the Timiris Canyon (Rüdiger Henrich, Yvonne Cherubini & Helge Meggers).
12:00-12:15	Depositional Architecture and Evolution of the Central Canyon in offshore Hainan, northern South China Sea (Xinong Xie, Ming Su, Yuhong Xie, Zhenfeng Wang, Guoqi Song, Yongchao Lu & Jianye Ren).
12:15-12:30	Opening of Drake Passage: contourites development and paleoceanographic implications (Andrés Maldonado, Fernando Bohoyo, Jesús Galindo-Zaldívar, F. Javier Hernández-Molina, Francisco J. Lobo, Yasmina Martos & Anatoly A. Schreider).
12:15-12:30	Amundsen Sea Drifts: Indications for Changing Climate and Oceanographic Conditions (Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben & Karsten Gohl).
12:45-13:00	Furrows and channels in Scan Basin, southern Scotia Sea: tracking the path of the Weddell Sea Deep Water? (Francisco José Lobo, F. Javier Hernández-Molina, Andrés Maldonado, Jesús Galindo-Zaldívar, Fernando Bohoyo, Yasmina Martos-Martín, Lara Pérez, José Rodríguez-Fernández & Juan Tomás Vázquez).
13:00-14:30	LUNCH
14:30-15:30	Keynote by: Dr. Adriano R. Viana (Petrobras, Brazil)
15:30-16:00	TOPIC 6. ANCIENT CONTOURITE EXAMPLES Click to expand/collapse
15:30-15:45	Study of internal-wave and internal-tide deposits in the ancient stratigraphical record from China (Zhenzhong Gao, Youbin He & Xiangdong Li).
15:45-16:00	Internal-wave and internal-tide deposits of Middle Ordovician Xujiajuan Formation of Xiangshan Group in Ningxia, China (Youbin He, Xiangdong Li, Zhenzhong Gao & Jingxiong Luo).
16:00-16:30	Coffee break
16:30-17:15
16:30-16:45	Deep-water Contourite Drifts in the west of North- China platform (Shunshe Luo, Zhenzhong Gao, Youbin He & Qiqi Lv).
16:45-17:00	Contourite drifts, channels and moats in the deep epeiric Late Cretaceous Chalk Sea of NW Europe (Finn Surlyk).
17:00-17:15	Hemipelagites, hemiturbidites or muddy contourites? The contribute of magnetic fabric analysis to discriminate depositional mechanisms in fine-grained sediments (Marnoso Arenacea Fm., Miocene, North Italy) (Eleonora dall’Olio, Fabrizio Felletti & Giovanni Muttoni).
17:15-17:30	TOPIC 7. ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE Click to expand/collapse
17:15-17:30	The role of giant drifts as gas hydrate reservoirs on the Argentine contourite depositional system (F. Javier Hernández-Molina, Luis Somoza, C. Marcelo Paterlini, Roberto Violante, Michele Rebesco, Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben, M. Alejandra Arecco & Martin de Isasi).
17:30-18:30	Poster section Click to expand/collapse
	TOPIC 5. ENVIRONMENTAL, TECTONIC AND OTHER CONTROLLING FACTORS ON PROCESS AND DEPOSITS Impact of Atlantic Waters in the Alboran Basin at the end of the Messinian Salinity Crisis: the Zanclean Flooding (Ferran Estrada, Gemma Ercilla, Christian Gorini, Belén Alonso, Juan Tomás Vázquez, Andrés Maldonado & Abdellah Ammar). Influence of water masses on the seabed morphology around the Seamounts of the Motril Marginal Shelf (Alboran Sea, Western Mediterranean) (Desirée Palomino, Juan-Tomás Vázquez, Gemma Ercilla, Belén Alonso, Nieves López-González, Víctor Díaz del Río & Luis Miguel Fernández-Salas). Influence of sea-level and climate on deposits in the Gulf of Cadiz (Eliane Gonthier, Michel Cremer, Elodie Marchés, Rim Hassan, Emmanuelle Ducassou, Vincent Hanquiez, Thierry Mulder and Sébastien Zaragosi). Characteristics and Origin of Sediment Waves in the Qiongdongnan Basin, northern South China Sea (Tao Jiang, Yingzhao Zhang, Xinong Xie, Jianye Ren & Cheng Zhang). Gaps and currents in the Scotia Arc (Antarctica): the tectonic role (Fernando Bohoyo, F. Javier Hernández-Molina, Jesús Galindo-Zaldívar, Andrés Maldonado, Francisco José Lobo, José Rodríguez-Fernández, Anatoly Schreider, Emma Suriñach & J. Tomás Vázquez). Shallow crustal structure and evidences of bottom current flows imprinted on contourite deposits of the SW Scotia Sea basin (Antarctica) (Yasmina Martos-Martín, Fernando Bohoyo, Jesús Galindo-Zaldívar, F. Javier Hernández-Molina, Francisco Lobo, Andrés Maldonado & Lara F. Pérez). Contourite deposits in Protector Basin (Antarctica) (Lara F. Pérez, F. Javier Hernández-Molina, Fernando Bohoyo, Andrés Maldonado, Juan-Tomás Vázquez, Jesús Galindo-Zaldívar & F. José Lobo).
	TOPIC 6. ANCIENT CONTOURITE EXAMPLES Characteristics and Genesis of Deep-water Combined Flow Ripples (Li Hua, He Youbin,Li Xiangdong & Luo Jinxiong). Internal-wave and internal-tide deposits of the third member of lower Cambrian Balang Formation at Yangjiaping, Shimen, Hunan Province, China (Youbin He, Zhenzhong Gao & Jingxiong Luo). Original Depositional Slope Estimation of Subaqueous Clinoforms in Cenozoic Deposits (Guoqi Song, Xinong Xie, Xuebin Du & Shanshan Tian). Sedimentary sequence from internal-waves influenced turbidity currents: A case study from Xujiajuan Formation, Xiangshan Group, Ningxia, China (Xiangdong Li, Youbin He, Jinxiong Luo & Zhaochang Zheng). Discriminating bottom current and gravity flow deposits in a Middle and Upper Jurassic carbonate slope of the Majorca Island (Antonio Barnolas). Fundamental Controls on the preservation of organic matter in fine-grained sediments: an example from Lower Jurassic Cleveland Basin, North Yorkshire Coast, England (Samer Ghadeer & Joe H. S. Macquaker).
	TOPIC 7. ECONOMIC IMPORTANCES Ferromanganese deposits associated to the Cadiz Contourite Channel: imprints of the Mediterranean Outflow Water (Francisco Javier González, Luis Somoza, Ricardo León & Teresa Medialdea).
18:30-19:00	CONGRESS CLOSURE
18:30-19:00	Free touristic visit round the Baiona Village

Saturday 19th, June 2010
09:00-10:00	Free trip to the Cíes Islands (if weather permitting).