Pelagic carbonate platform (PCP)/Basin systems in the Jurassic of Northern Apennines: Field geometries, stratigraphy, facies, and paleotectonic evolution

Field Trip leaders/co-leaders: M. Santantonio, S. Fabbi, A. Cipriani, G. Innamorati
Duration: 3 days, 6^th-9^th July
Meeting point/time: Rome, 9:30
Ending point/date/time: Rome, 9^th July, 12.30
Quote included:  3 night hotel/ 3 packed lunch / 2 dinner / Insurance/ 3 day bus
Quote not included: flight
Price: 620€
Minimum number of participants: 20

Tethyan PCP/Basin systems are the typical product of rift-related fragmentation of vast peritidal carbonate platforms, where structural highs became the sites of condensed pelagic sedimentation while basins received a mix of pelagic sediment and redeposited material, megablocks to assorted gravity flows. This field trip will address, through a genuine hands-on approach in world-class natural outcrops, topics including: tectonic architecture of the local rift system; spacing of synsedimentary faults: size and shape of intrabasinal highs, slip rates;  syn- and post-drowning deposits, their diachroneity, and causes of drowning of the Early Jurassic benthic carbonate factories; geometries of PCP-top deposits, interior vs. edge; ammonite biostratigraphy of condensed deposits: paraconformities and nested unconformities; distinction between paleofault and paleoescarpment; paleoescarpment analysis: diagenesis (silicification), preserved paleomorphology, condensed epi-escarpment deposits, onlap of basin-fill units; differential compaction at basin margins.

Difficulty and additional notes: medium; short to medium-length hiking on up-hill on easy trails.Hiking boots, safety googles and rain coat required. Be aware that summer temperature may be particularity hot in Italy and you may need to protect your eyes and skin from the sun.
 

 Bedding patterns and facies in Middle Triassic carbonates (Dolomites): assessing the impact of seawater chemistry and subsidence changes within a high-resolution stratigraphic framework .

Field Trip leaders/co-leaders: P. Brack (ETH Zurich, Switzerland); P. Gianolla (University of Ferrara, Italy); N. Preto (University of Padua, Italy)
Duration: 4 days, 6^th-9^th July
Meeting point/time: Milan, 7:30
Ending point/time: Milan, 20:00
Quote included:  4 night alpine refuge/ 5 packed lunch / 3 dinner / Insurance/ 5 day bus
Price: 780€
Minimum number of participants: 25

In this field trip bedding patterns in Triassic basinal and coeval platform carbonates (Seceda, Passo Feudo and Latemar) will be examined within a setting with exceptional (bio- and chrono-) stratigraphic constraints. Facies stacking patterns of the microbial carbonate platform will be discussed in a context where syn-sedimentary tectonics exerted a strong and direct control on platform geometries.

Difficulty and additional notes: medium; hiking along medium difficulty mountain trails at elevation in the range 1500-2700 m a.s.l.
Hiking boots, safety googles and rain coat required. Be aware that summer temperature may be particularity hot in Italy and you may need to protect your eyes and skin from the sun.

A journey from shallow to deep water facies in a Triassic carbonate platform: sedimentological expression of the demise of a carbonate system

Field Trip leaders/co-leaders: F. Berra and F. Jadoul (University of Milan)
Duration: 1 day, 6^th July
Meeting point/time: Milan, Centrale railway station, 8:00
Ending point/time: Milan, Centrale railway station, 19:00
Quote included: 1 lunch/1 day bus/Insurance
Price: 120€
Minimum number of participants: 23

Exploration of a Ladinian-Carnian (Triassic) carbonate system from the basinal setting to the slope to the platform top. The effects of a major sea-level fall are recorded in the different sections by different facies changes, that seal the architecture of a more than 800 m thick carbonate platform. The exposure conditions allow the observation of a seismic scale geological panorama before the outcrop observations.

Difficulty and additional notes: medium; c. 2 h hiking on a low difficulty path with a total elevation difference of c. 350 m.
Hiking boots, safety googles and rain coat required. Be aware that summer temperature may be particularity hot in Italy and you may need to protect your eyes and skin from the sun.