INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CORRELATION PROGRAMME PROJECT 396

Continental shelves in the Quaternary
A full description of the programme and its aims is on the WEB
List of Papers Presented at 3rd Meeting in GOA - 25th - 31st October 1999


Session 1: Regional Perspectives

Yim, W.W.S. International Geological Correlation Program Project No. 396 'Continental Shelves in the Quaternary'
Collins, B. Lindsey., Yvonne Bone, Noel James, & Pamela Hallock-Muller Sedimentation on the continental margin of southwestern Australia: subtropical carbonates in a temperate setting
Hantoro, W.S., Gagan, M.K., Mutholib, A., Nganro, N.,Harsono Shofiyah, S., Handayani, L., Sebowo, E., Widoyoko, B., Narulita, I., Indarto, S., Sanyoto, A., Prayudi, D. & Suyanto Porites microtolls from Mentawai Islands, Indonesia: Tectonic and climatic record from the eastern Indian Ocean
Chen, Zhongyuan Late Quaternary evolution of the subaqueous Yangtze Delta, China: Stratigraphy, palynology, sedimentation and deformation
Lericolais, Giles Disappearence of the Gironde and of the English Channel river incisions beyond isobath 70 m westward of France
Chiocci, Francesco Latino Quaternary evolution of Tyrrhenian continental shelves (Italy) in the light of the concept of glacioeustasy base-level
Josenhans, Heiner & Legault, J Fisheries habitat studies in the Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada
G. P. Mohapatra & G. G. Vaz Morphology and surficial sediments of the continental margin off Chennai - Point Calimere Coast, southern part of east coast of India
Katupotha, K.N.J. & Tilak Dharmaratne Palaeo sea-level changes: Evidence from western continental shelf of Sri Lanka

Poster Session 1

Shaw, M.J. Geological aspects of an extremely narrow and shallow upper continental margin, northern Kwazulu-Natal (SE Africa)
Drouchits, V.A. Quaternary sedimentological and chronostratigraphical events of the Russian Far Eastern shelf

Session 2: Palaeoceanography and Dating of Shelf Sequences

Yim, W.W.S. Quaternary sea-level history in 'stable' siliciclastic shelves
Lloyd, Jeremy Improving the links between shallow shelf, marginal marine and freshwater palaeoenvironmental reconstruction using faunal and stable isotope studies from NW Scotland
Hernandez-Molina, F.J., Somoza, L., Fernandez-Salas, L.M., Lobo, F., Llave, E. & Roque, C. Late Holocene infralittoral wedge as a new depositional model in shallow marine environments for clastic coasts dominated by waves
Gvirtzman, Gdaliahu Last Glacial and Holocene non-marine sequences
Singh, A.D. & N.R. Nisha Oceanographic and climatic changes during the last 24 kyr, deduced from pteropod-isotope record from the southwest continental shelf of India
Thamban, M., Rao, V.P.C., R.R. Scneider & G.Wefer Late Quaternary monsoonal variations in the eastern Arabian Sea: Evidence from stable-isotopic and sedimentological records
Manjunatha, B.R., Smith, J.N., P.A. Yeats, R. Shankar, A.C. Narayuna & T.N. Prakash High-resolution dating of continental margin sediments by modelling of radioisotopic data
Rao, V.P.C., K.H. Vora, M. Veerayya, K.M. Rao, F. Almeida & C. Moraes New data on the geomorphology and geology of the western continental margin of India: evidences of late Quaternary neo-tectonic activity
Seralathan, P., K.P. Shajan & Sheela Kusumgar Holocene sea level changes and sedimentation in the Kodungallur region, central Kerala, India
Borole, D.V. Sedimentation patterns along the western continental margin of India

Session 3: Seismic Stratigraphy and Shelf Processes

Ramaswamy, V., Sarin, M.M. & R. Rengarajan Measuring export fluxes of carbon in the Arabian Sea using drifting sediment traps
Narayana, A.C., Tatavarti, R. & P. Manoj Kumar Mudbanks of southwestern continental shelf of India: Processes and dynamics
Zhao Quanhong Tropical Sunda shelf since the glacial: Sedimentological and micropaleontological approaches
Tovey, K. Potential of image analyses in stratigraphic reconstruction from bore hole cores
Karisiddaiah, S.M., Veerayya, M. & Vora, K.H. Late Quaternary surficial geology of the central western continental shelf of India, in relation to sea level changes
Rao, P.S. A new coral bank on the western continental shelf of India
Mohana Rao, K., Murthy, K.S.R., Rao, V.P.C., Reddy, N.P.C. & Subrahmanyam, A. Quaternary stratigraphy over the central eastern continental shelf of India
Chivas, A.R., Garcia, A., Pearson, G., Edger, T. & De Dekkar, P. The Late Quaternary history of the Gulf of Carpentaria

Poster Sessions 2 & 3

Matin-Alfageme, S., Barnola, A., Somoza, L. & Maestro, A. Influence of the Holocene Ebro Delta on the Iberian Mediterranean shelf
Lobo, F.J. & Hernandez-Molina, F.J. Well preserved Flandrian transgressive deposits in the Gulf of Cadiz continental shelf (southwestern Spain)
Alekseev, M.N. The new Quaternary chronostratigraphical scale for Russia: Correlation with Quaternary records of the southeastern and southern Asia
Vora, K.H. & Gauer, A.R. Shorelines of Gujarat during the Indus Valley Civilization (4500-3500 Yrs B.P.)
Chauhan, Onkar S. Influence of Indus sedimentation off Gulf of Kachchh, India
Jayappa, K.S. Inner shelf processes and formation of beach cusps along the southern part of Dakshina Kannada Coast, India
Kunte, P.D. & Wagle, B.G. Remote sensing approach to determine net shore drift
Lericolais, Gilles., Panin, Nicolae., Irina Popescu, Serge Berne, Grabriel Ion & The BLASON Scientific Crew Danube and Dniepr paleovalleys: New discoveries during Blason survey on the northwestern Black Sea shelf
Hantoro, W.S., Gagan, M.K., Shofiyah, S., Lynch, H., Cali, J., Sebowo, E. & Sanyoto, A. Record of sea-surface temperatures in porites sp. from Seribu Island, Java Sea, Indonesia
Vaquez, Juan-Tomás, Lobo, Francisco-José., MaCarmen Fernandez-Puga, F. Javier, Hernandez-Molina, Luis Somoza & Victor, Diaz Del Rio Diapirism and tectonics on the north-eastern continental shelf of the Gulf of Cadiz (Spain). Influences on the development of the Quaternary depositional sequences

Session 4: Geochemistry and Mineralogy of sediments

Paropkari, Anil L. & Suresh Raj, M. Relative importance of oxygen minimum zone for enhanced preservation of total organic carbon in surficial sediments of the Bay of Bengal
Parkash Babu, C., Brumsack, H.J., B. Schnetger & M.E. Böttcher Behaviour of barium and biogenic elements in surface sediments along the eastern Arabian Sea

Session 5: Non-Living Resources

Shaw, M.J. Diamonds on the continental shelf of western southern Africa
Ramana, M.V., Gujar, A.R. & G.V. Rajamanickam An appraisal of offshore ilmenite placer deposits along the northern Konkan coast, west coast of India

Session 6: Modeling

Max, W.I.M. Van Heijst & George, Postma Shelf evolution according to experimental models
Chakraborty, B., Kodagali V.N. & Schenke, H.W. Application of multibeam echosounder for bottom roughness classification
Alekseev, M.N. & V.A. Drouchits Atlas "Geology and mineral resources of the shelf regions of Russia"

Poster Sessions 4, 5 & 6

Postma, George Time and space scaling in experimental landscape models and its importance to shelf studies
Tristam Hardman & Tovey, Keith Microfabric of Halimeda segments from Holocene Halimeda segment reefs, northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Gujar, A.R., Nagender Nath, B., R. Bannerjee & B. Ramalingeswara Rao Marine minerals in Exclusive Economic Zone of India: A Review
Yanshina, F.T. The ideas of Academician V.I. Vernadsky and study of Quaternary deposits


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