Call For Abstracts

The Black Sea and Caspian Region: Historical Past, Promising Future

Industry and academia professionals and students are invited to submit abstracts for the AAPG Europe Region Annual Conference & Exhibition. The technical program committee encourages abstracts that relate to any of the topics listed below but with special emphasis on the Black Sea and Caspian region. The planned sessions and formats (oral or poster) may be modified depending on actual submittals. Planned technical sessions for the AAPG Europe Region 2010 Annual Conference Technical Program include:

• Ukrainian Black Sea — Regional and Petroleum Geology
• Romanian and Bulgarian Black Sea — Regional and Petroleum Geology
• Turkish Black Sea — Regional and Petroleum Geology
• Georgian and Russian Black Sea — Regional and Petroleum Geology
• The Pre-Caspian Basin of Russia and Kazakhstan — Regional and Petroleum Geology
• The North Caspian of Azerbaijan, Russia and Kazakhstan — Regional and Petroleum Geology
• The South Caspian of Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan — Regional and Petroleum Geology
• The South Caspian of Iran — Regional and Petroleum Geology
• Formation of the Black Sea and Caspian Basins and the Paleogeography of Pre-, Syn- and Post-Rift Stages
• Paratethyan Correlation Challenges and Sequence Stratigraphy
• Source-to-Sink Project: Quantification of Mass Transfer from Mountain Ranges to Sedimentary Basins in the Danube — Black Sea System
• Basin Modelling — Models and Applications in the Circum-Black Sea/Caspian Region
• Game-changing Discoveries in the Black Sea and Caspian Region

  Abstracts due 31 March 2010. Send your abstract via e-mail to kievabstracts@aapg.org See guidelines for submitting your abstract here.

• Geophysics of the Black Sea and Caspian Region
• Resource Assessment — Theory and Practice in the Broader Black Sea and Caspian Region
• Unconventional Exploration
• Geochemistry — Constraints on Source, Generation and Expulsion
• Traditional, Evolving and Untested Plays in the Black Sea and Caspian Region
• The DARIUS Project in the Broader Black Sea and Caspian Region
• Mud Volcanoes and Gas Hydrates — Implications for Exploration
• Non-seismic Exploration Methods — How New Technology Could Help?
• Structural Geology from Outcrops to Regional Transects
• Folded Belts and Forelands in the Black Sea and Caspian Region
• The Challenge of Exploration in Carbonates — Models and Applications in the Black Sea and Caspian Region
• Student Poster Session with Black Sea and Caspian Region Topics

Contact Information:

Mr. Jeremy Richardson, Director AAPG - Europe  
Phone: + 44 207 434 13 99, fax: +44 207 434 13 86,
E-mail: jrichardson@aapg.org and refer to web: www.aapg.org/kiev

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