Sunday, 29 Oct

17:30

Registration (Conference Site)
Royal Apollonia Beach Hotel

19:00

Welcome Reception (By the pool)

Monday, 30 Oct

08:00

Registration (Conference Site)

08:30

Opening ceremony (Olympus Room)

Welcome address by Liviu Matenco and Fadi Nader: The International Lithosphere Program Task Force VI Sedimentary Basins - an introduction
Welcome address by Panos Papanastasiou (University of Cyprus)

Session 1: Dynamics of landscape evolution and its interaction with deep Earth processes
Chair: Fadi Henri Nader (IFPEN) and Panos Papanastasiou (UCY)

08:50

Keynote session 1. LIPs and cratons: Lithospheric structure of the intracratonic basins in Siberia
Irina M. Artemieva (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

09:20

Magmatic underplating and continental rifting
Hans Thybo, Irina Artemieva

09:40

Styles of active deformation and earthquake behavior of reactivated failed rift: examples from the Toyama trough, the Sea of Japan back-arc basins
Tatsuya Ishiyama, Hiroshi Sato, Naoko Kato, Shin Koshiya, Makoto Matsubara, Susumi Abe

10:00

The origin of seismogenic source faults in the back-arc of the Japanese island arcs and their reactivation
Hiroshi Sato, Tatsuya Ishiyama, Naoko Kato, Susumu Abe, Shinji Kawasaki, Akinori Hashima, Anne Van Horne, Johan Claringbould, Makoto Matsubara

10:20

Coffee Break + Posters

10:50

Subduction initiation at passive margins: insights from analogue modelling
Antoine Auzemery, Ernst Willingshofer, Dimitrios Sokoutis, Jean-Pierre Brun

11:10

Linking orogenic deformation with processes active in forearc and back-arc sedimentary basins: examples from the Mediterranean systems
Liviu Matenco

11:30

Ancient Izanagi Slab found below eastern Asian continent
Shuwen Dong

11:50

Characterizing geothermal potential in Europe with lithosphere-scale 3D thermal and rheological models
Jon Limberger, Jan-Diederik van Wees, Magdala Tesauro, Jeroen Smit, Damien Bonté, Eszter Békési, Maarten Pluymaekers, Maartje Struijk, Mark Vrijlandt, Fred Beekman, Sierd Cloetingh

12:10

Making the lithosphere great again - A Global Geological Framework
Benjamin van Wyk de Vries, Dougal Jerram

12:30

Lunch

14:00

Keynote session 2. Joint application of thermo-mechanical and stratigraphic numerical modeling: the tectono-sedimentary evolution of asymmetric extensional basins
Attila Balazs, Liviu Matenco, Didier Granjeon, Sierd Cloetingh (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)

14:30

Temperature and compositional variations of the Australian upper mantle
Magdala Tesauro, Mikhail Kaban, Alan Aitken

14:50

About the role of isostatic processes in the formation of a sedimentary cover of Greater Caucasus, its folded structure and a mountainous uplift (the factor analysis)
Fedor Yakovlev, Yevgeni Gorbatov

15:10

Petroleum reservoir geomechanics modelling in the eastern Mediterranean basin
Nikolaos Markou, Panos Papanastasiou

15:30

Coffee Break + Posters

16:00

Keynote session 3: Issues And Challenges In Deep Water Drilling
Vassilios Kelessidis (Petroleum Institute, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE)

16:30

Space-time evolution of a volcanic field in an extended region: the example of Campi Flegrei (Italy)
Maurizio Torrente, Pietro Iannace, Alfonsa Milia

16:50

On the fracture propagation direction induced in hydraulic fracturing and CO2 geological storage
Panos Papanastasiou

17:10

Flood Risk Assessment for Lebanon
Chadi Abdallah, Rouya Hdeib

17:30

Platforms and image processing techniques for discriminating landslides in Lebanon
Chadi Abdallah, Elsy Ibrahim, Jacques Harb, Dalia Abdelmassih, Fadi Hage Chehade

17:50

A review of analysis methods of geotechnical problems pertinent to offshore pipelines and the role of numerical simulations
Dimitrios Loukidis

18:10

Posters

18:40

End of Session - Dinner on your own

Tuesday, 31 Oct

08:30

Keynote session 4. Crustal structure and tectonic evolution along the African-Anatolian plate boundary offshore southern Cyprus.
Sönke Reiche (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

09:00

The Sediment Story of Miocene Sands in the Levant Basin
M.K. Davis, J. Ortega, S. Fenton, B. Gergurich

09:20

Crustal modeling in the northern Levant basin based on seismic interpretation
Lama Inati, Fadi Henri Nader, Mathilde Adelinet, Jean-Claude Lecomte, Hermann Zeyen, Muhsen Elie Rahhal, Alexandre Sursock

09:40

Structural evolution of the SW Cyprus Belt compiled from onshore field observations and offshore seismic reflection profiles
Vasilis Symeou, Catherine Homberg, Fadi Henri Nader, Romain Darnault

10:00

Source rocks, thermal history, and petroleum systems of the east Mediterranean, onshore-offshore Lebanon
Samer Bou Daher, Ralf Littke, Fadi Henri Nader

10:20

Coffee Break + Posters

11:00

Geochemical and Petrographical Characterization of Potential Source Rock Intervals of Late Mesozoic to Cenozoic Age in the On- and Offshore Area of Cyprus
Sebastian Grohmann, Susanne Fietz, Fadi Henri Nader, Maria Fernanda Romero-Sarmiento, Ralf Littke, Francois Baudin

11:20

An experimental and modeling approach for the effectiveness of the hypersaline solutions' physical properties on the settling velocity of sands.
Konstantinos Albanakis, Angelos Mousouliotis

11:40

Consequences of the Messinian Salinity Crisis in clastics deposition in the Eastern Mediterranean Basin
Angelos Mousouliotis, Konstantinos Albanakis

12:00

Tectonic control on sedimentation: inferences from the Sorbas Basin (SE Spain)
Nevena Andrić, Liviu Matenco, Frits Hilgen, Hans de Bresser

12:20

Deformation bands in sedimentary basins: their role in structural analysis, depth-temperature-time determinations
Laszlo Fodor, B. Beke, J. Csizmeg, L. Millar, A. Petrik, E. Szőcs, K. Hips

12:40

Sedimentary evolution of the siliciclastic-calciturbidite Middle Eocene Gercus Formation, NE-Iraq; Active tectonism and igneous activity approach
Sa'ad Zeki Kader Al-Mashaikie

13:00

Lunch

14:00

Late Miocene ("post-rift") deformation patterns in the Pannonian basin: the mechanisms of kilometre-scale differential vertical movements
Laszlo Fodor, A. Balázs, F. Horváth, L. Matenco

14:20

Internal wave controlled slope angle and seafloor morphology at the Israel continental slope
Sönke Reiche, Christian Hübscher, Steve Brenner, Christian Betzler, John K Hall

14:40

The tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the Levant margin offshore Lebanon
Ramadan Ghalayini

15:00

Latest Edition of the Lebanese Lower Cretaceous Stratigraphy
Sibelle Maksoud, Bruno Granier, Raymond Gèze, Dany Azar

15:20

Coffee Break + Posters

16:00

Geodynamics of and synchronous infill of flexural basins: The Northern margin of the Levant Basin, onshore Southern Cyprus
Remy Deschamps, Nickolaos Papadimitriou, Christine Souque, Romain Darnault, Fadi Henri Nader, Christian Gorini, Vasilis Symeou, Catherine Homberg, Jean-Claude Lecomte

16:20

The Eratosthenes Carbonate Platform: An Explorationist's perspective
Efthymios Efthymiou

16:40

Seismic structure of the Maranhão-Barreirinhas-Ceará margin, NW Brazil, from the MAGIC wide-angle seismic experiment
Daniel Aslanian, Maryline Moulin, Philippe Schnürle, Alexandra Afilhado, Nuno Afonso Diaz, José Soares, Adriano Viana

17:00

Posters

18:30

Departure for Walking Tour to Limassol old center

20:00

Gala Banquet

Wednesday, 01 Nov

Session 6. Rock-fluids interactions in sedimentary basins
Chairs: Marta Gasparrini (IFPEN) and Katie M. Davis (Noble Energy, USA)

08:00

Keynote session 6. Innovative approaches of carbonate diagenesis quantification (Δ47 thermometry - U/Pb chronometry) - towards appraisal in geological modeling
Xavier Mangenot (IFPEN, France) Gasparrini, M., Montano, D., Bonifacie, M., Gerdes, A., Rouchon, V., Della Porta, G

08:30

A new workflow for assessing quantitative diagenesis and dynamic porosity/permeability evolution in reservoir rocks
Steven Claes, Fadi Henri Nader, Souhail Youssef

08:50

Natural sealed fractures from the Montney-Doig unconventional reservoirs tied to burial and tectonic history of the Western Canada foreland basin
Moh Belkacemi, Marta Gasparrini, Olivier Lacombe, Sébastien Rohais, Daniel Pillot, William Sassi, Tristan Euzen

09:10

MVT mineralization and associated hydrothermal dolomite in the upper Carboniferous - lower Permian Kinta Limestone (Perak, Malaysia): Field/microscopic observations, isotopic signatures and fluid inclusion studies
Mumtaz Muhammad Shah, Michael Poppelreiter, Askury Abd Kadir, Choong Chee-Meng

09:30

New insights on closed system dolomite recrystallization processes from clumped isotope (Δ47) thermometry and Laser Ablation U-Pb chronometry - Arab Fm. reservoirs (UAE)
Daniel Morad, Marta Gasparrini, Xavier Mangenot, Axel Gerdes, Magali Bonifacie, Sadoon Morad, Helge Hellevang, Fadi Henri Nader, Fatima Al Darmaki

09:50

Coffee Break

Session 7. New concepts and results on the East-Mediterranean geology
Chairs: Catherine Homberg (UPMC), Stelios Nicolaides (Ministry of Energy, Cyprus)

10:15

Keynote session 7. Integrated approach for tectono-sedimentary basin analysis of the Levant (East-Mediterranean region): Implications on petroleum potentials and exploration de-risking of frontier basins
Fadi Henri Nader (IFPEN, France)

10:45

Mesozoic clastics in Cyprus : an exhaustive sedimentologic and petrographic study may lead to refine proposed eastern mediterranean paleogeographic reconstructions
Christian Blanpied, Ludovic Mocochain, S. Revillon, JM Kluska, and E. Deloule 

11:05

Eratosthenes Seamount; The evolution of an isolated carbonate platform at a major plate boundary (offshore Cyprus)
Nikolas Papadimitriou, Gorini Christian, Fadi Henri Nader, Remy Deschamps, Aurelie Tassy

11:25

Crustal structure across the Cyprus arc plate boundary from the Eratosthenes Seamount to south Turkey from an amphibian wide-angle seismic profile
James Mechie, Christian Feld, Christian Hübscher, Jeremy Hall, Stelios Nicolaides, Cemil Gurbuz, Klaus Bauer, Keith Louden, Michael Weber

11:45

Deformation and metamorphism on the Northern Sporades: a field study from Skopelos and Alonnisos (Aegean Domain)
Kristof Porkolab, Ernst Willingshofer, Dimitrios Sokoutis, Iverna Creton, Dimitrios Kostopoulos

12:05

A geochemical study of siliceous ferromanganese rocks of the Mamonia Complex, SW Cyprus
Dimitrios Loukidis, Nikos Pasadakis, Eva Sotiropoulou, Kimon Christanis, Nikoletta Koulermou, Georgios Alevizos, Nikolaos Kallithrakas-Kontos

12:25

New deep seismic data in the Eastern Mediterranean / Levant province is paramount
Philippe Schnürle, Daniel Aslanian, Maryline Moulin, Marina Rabineau

12:45

Announcement of the IFP Energies Nouvelles Prize Winners for best presentations

13:00

Lunch

13:30

Departure for Kourion and Paphos archaeological sites

20:30

Back to Limassol

Thursday, 02 Nov

08:30

Geological Field Trip

Departure from Limassol

Episkopi (MTD and Miocene Reefs)
Petra Trou Romiou (Mamonia Complex)
Hapotami (Agios Fotios Group)
Souskiou (Fasoula Formation)

Lunch – Archimandrita

Mount Olympus (Troodos)
Troodos National Forest Park

Return to Limassol

Poster presentations