Programme

 

Summary timetable

 

Wednesday 29 June, 2022, h. 18.00-19.30

Registration and icebreaker at the University of Catania, Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Botanic Garden, Via A. Longo 19 - 95125 Catania.

Participants should arrange their own accommodation in Catania for that evening. PLEASE, REMEMBER TO BUY LUNCH AND WATER FOR TOMORROW.

 

Thursday 30 June, 2022, h. 08:00

Meeting at Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences Department, Corso Italia, 57 – 95129 Catania and departure.  PLEASE, BRING LUNCH AND WATER FOR TODAY.

Field excursion 1: travel from Catania to Agrigento.

The “post-kinematic” landscape, including the Plio-Quaternary forced regression across Sicily (driven by “flexural rebound” from tectonic unloading in the orogenic hinterland).

 

Friday 1 July, 2022, h. 8:00

Field excursion 2: in and out of Agrigento

Tectonic controls on Messinian evaporite deposition and subsequent deformation of thrust-top basins. INCLUDES MINE VISIT - see critical safety notes. BRING HELMETS.

Evening, h. 20:00  - Social dinner at Trattoria dei Templi (cost 35 euros). PLEASE, MAKE RESERVATION AT REGISTRATION DESK.

 

Saturday 2 July, 2022

Conference presentations in Colleverde Park Hotel, Agrigento. Please, see conference program on the right tab.

 

Sunday 3 July, 2022

Conference presentations in Colleverde Park Hotel, Agrigento. Please, see conference program on the right tab.

 

Monday 4 July, 2022, h. 8:00

Field excursion 3: travel from Agrigento to Catania

Tectonic geomorphology - associated with the front of the “Gela Nappe” and the orogenic foreland of the Hyblean plateau.

 

Arrive back in Catania late afternoon.

END of CONFERENCE. 

Participants should arrange their own accommodation in Catania for the Wednesday night.