NERC Science and Innovations programme, UK-IODP Industrial Liaison Panel

(21 January 2008)

A WORKSHOP DEDICATED TO UNDERSTANDING OCEAN REDOX AND FORMATION OF CORG-RICH SEDIMENTS DURING EXTREME AND TRANSITIONAL CLIMATE MODES Durham University, Department of Earth Sciences 30th – 31st January 2008 Industrial challenges-what can ODP do for you? 11.30 –12.00 Subtropical Atlantic Black Shale: NW Africa (e.g. Tarfaya, S-Morocco) into the low latitude central N Atlantic; stratigraphical targets may include Cretaceous OAEs, PETM, Eocene-Oligocene transition, Mid-Miocene (Armstrong) 12.00 – 12.30 Boreal Atlantic Black Shale: Mid Norwegian - Greenland Transect; stratigraphical targets may include Palaeozoic and Jurassic (Kimmeridge) (Wagner) 1.15 – 1.45 High latitude Southern Hemisphere Black Shale. Stratigraphical targets might include Jurassic as well as Cretaceous (Grocke) 1.45 – 2.15 Newfoundland Margin Black Shale (preliminary proposal) (Wagner/Norris) 2.15 2.45 Organic rich sediments and geochemical gradients; hot-spots for the deep biosphere and the thermal limit of subsurface microbial life (Head) Coordination: Howard Armstrong (Durham); Darren Grocke (Durham), Ian Head (Newcastle), Tom Wagner (Newcastle), Sasha Leigh (NERC)