Meeting Program

PROGRAMME

Sunday 8th July

10:00 Optional touristic tour by bus in Barcelona. Price: 24 €. Meeting point: Bus stop of “Bus Turístic”, Red Line (Línia Vermella) at Plaça Catalunya, in front of “El Corte Inglés” (East side of the square)

12:00 Free time. Possibility to visit the FC Barcelona Musem and Stadium at the Camp Nou, taking bus n. 54 from Gran Via-Pau Claris (300 m from Plaça Catalunya). Reservations and tickets: http://www.fcbarcelona.com/camp-nou/camp-nou-experience/detail/card/prices-for-camp-nou-experience)

17:30 Registration of participants at Institut d’Estudis Catalans. Carrer del Carme 47; 08001 Barcelona. (http://www.iec.cat)

18:00-19:00 Opening session

Prof. Dr. Salvador Giner, Chair of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC)

Prof. Dr. Josep M Vives, Chair of the Institució Catalana d’Estudis Agraris (ICEA-IEC)

Prof. Dr. Jaume Porta, Chair, Spanish Society of Soil Science

Prof. Dr. Rosa M Poch, Chair, Organising Committee 14th IWMSM

Prof. Dr. Karl Stahr, Chair, Scientific Committee 14th IWMSM

Welcome speeches by Salvador Giner, Jaume Porta and Rosa M Poch

Plenary paper:

“The ‘fabric’ of soil micromorphological research in the 20th century - A bibliometric analysis", by Em. Prof. Dr. Georges Stoops. Universiteit Gent (Belgium)

19:00-20:00 Reception

20:00 Bus to Lleida at (for those who attend the scientific sessions Monday and Tuesday). Arrival in Lleida at 22:00 (approx.). The bus will drop the participants at the hotels.

Monday 9th July

Auditori Centre de Cultures i Cooperació Transfronterera, Campus de Cappont, C. Jaume II, 67 bis, Lleida

9:00-9:15 Reception

9:15-9:20 Welcome and practical information

9:20-9:25 Presentation by conveners: Karl Stahr, Albert Solé-Benet

Session II. Interpreting soil quality, interactions between organisms and minerals, and agro-environment sustainability.

9:25-9:50-9:55 2.1.K

Olga Khokhlova: Micromorphological evidences of carbonate accumulation in agrogenic soils in the Central Russian forest-steppe

9:55-10:10-10:15 2.1.O

Iñigo Virto, Oihane Fernández-Ugalde, Pierre Barré, María José Imaz, Alberto Enrique, Paloma Bescansa, Rosa M. Poch: Influence of the soil mineral composition on short-term aggregation in semi-arid Mediterranean soils as observed in aggregate thin sections.

10:15-10:30-10:35 2.2.O

Victor Belobrov, Marina Lebedeva (Verba), Mikhail Lebedev, Alexander Kulenkamp, Vasiliy Deryugin, Igor Zamotaev: Micromorphological properties of soils under vineyard

10:35-10:50-10:55 2.3.O

Selma Simões De Castro, Adriana Aparecida Silva, Geórgia Ribeiro Silveira De Sant´Ana, Richard John Heck: Changes in a distroferric Red Latosol, cultivated with sugar cane in southern Cerrado, Brazil: Part 1 - macro and microstructural changes.

10:55-11:00 Closing remarks / global discussion

11:00-11:30 Tea/coffee break

11:30-11:35 Presentation by conveners: Maja Kooistra, Iñigo Virto

Session II. Interpreting soil quality, interactions between organisms and minerals, and agro-environment sustainability.

11:35-12:00-12:05 2.2.K

Curtis Monger, Yanhua Feng, Farhad Khormali: Soil carbonate: how biological and how important for carbon sequestration?

12:05-12:20-12:25 2.4.O

Héctor J. M. Morrás, Beatriz Bonel, Patricia Fernández, Filipe B. Kraemer, Carina Álvarez: Topsoil microstructural models in no-till Pampean Mollisols of Argentina. Morphology and development.

12:25-12:40-12:45 2.6.O

Farhad Khormali, Curtis Monger, Yanhua Feng: Experimental micromorphological evidence for calcite biomineralization along an ecological gradient in Southern New Mexico State, USA

12:45-13:00-13:05 2.5.O

Joselito Arocena: Evolution of potassium, magnesium and iron contents during biotite alterations in rhizosphere soils of Glomus-inoculated crops

13:05-13:10 Closing remarks / global discussion

13:10-13:30 In Memoriam Prof. Ulrick Babel

By Prof. Karl Stahr

13:30-15:00 Lunch break

15:00-16:00 Poster sessions with short (5’) explanations. Conveners: Fabio Terribile, Przemyslaw Mroczek

16:00-16:05 Presentation by conveners: Farhad Khormali, Thilo Eickhorst

Session III. Soils in extreme environments and under extreme events; micromorphological methods and analyses

16:05-16:30-16:35 3.1.K

Marie-Agnès Courty, Roland. Benoit, Sylvie Bonnamy, Michel M. Vaillant: Unusual soil microfacies with exceptional debris assemblage tracing cosmic events.

16:35-17:00- 17:05 3.2.K

Irina Kovda, Marina Lebedeva: Morphological and micromorphological identification of soil forming processes in clayey cryogenic soil, Trans-Baikal region, Russia

17:05- 17:20-17:25 3.1.O

Hannes Schmidt, Thilo Eickhorst, Rolf Tippkoetter: Comparative micromorphological and biogeochemical investigations of the soil-root interface in paddy soils

17:25-17:40-17:45 3.2.O

Giacomo Mele, Marcella Matrecano, Fabio Terribile, Julie Dee Bell: Pore characterization of oil sands by X-ray Micro-CT and 3D image analysis

17:45-18:00 18:05 3.3. O

Maria Bronnikova, Il’ya Shorkunov, Irina Turova, Vasilij Shishkov: Layered coatings of soils in extreme cryo-arid conditions as a compartment of soil memory

18:05-18:10 Closing remarks / global discussion

The last 5’ of every Oral Communication will be devoted to open discussion.

Tuesday 10th July

9:00-9:05 Presentation by conveners: Irina Kovda, Octavio Artieda

Session I. Soil genesis and mineral weathering

9:05-9:30-9:35 1.1.K

Nicolas Fedoroff, Marie-Agnès Courty: Textural features and microfacies expressing temporary and permanent soil water saturation

9:35-9:50-9:55 1.12.O

Héctor Cabadas, Elizabeth Solleiro, Sergey Sedov, Birgit Terhorst, Teresa Pi, Federico Landa, Bodo Damm, Christina Wiesbeck: Micromorphology of calcretes in the northeast cost of Yucatan Peninsula: an evidence of soil development in karstic geosystems

9:55-10:10-10:15 1.6.O

Daniela Sauer, Isabelle Schülli-Maurer, Ragnhild Sperstad, Rolf Sørensen, Karl Stahr: Processes of Albeluvisol formation in two soil chronosequences in S Norway

10:15-10:30-10:35 1.1.O

Wojciech Szymanski , Volodymir A. Nikorych: Similarity of micromorphological properties of the fragipan horizon in Albeluvisols of the Carpathian Foothills in Poland and the Precarpathian in the Ukraine

10:35-10:50-10:55 1.8.O

Peter Kühn, Dana Pietsch: Response of pedogenesis to Holocene climate change in south-western Arabia

10:55-11:00 Closing remarks / global discussion

11:00-11:30 Tea/coffee break

11:30-11:35 Presentation by conveners: Curtis Monger, Dian Fiantis

Session I. Soil genesis and mineral weathering

11:35-12:00-12:05 1.2.K

Rosa M Poch, Iolanda Simó, Jaume Boixadera: Benchmark soils on fluvial and fluvio-glacial formations of the upper-Segre valley

12:05-12:20-12:25 1.3.O

Georges Stoops: Soil development and evolution on Isla Santa Cruz (the Galápagos Islands). A micromorphological approach

12:25-12:40-12:45 1.7.O

Michal Jankowski, Piotr Kittel: Evidences of soil-forming processes in red coloured Ochre soils (Rubic Arenosols) at the Szynkielew archaeological site, Central Poland

12:45-13:00-13:05 1.4.O

Marina Lebedeva (Verba), Vasilii Shishkov, Mikhail Lebedev: Fabric of topsoil horizons in arid soils of Central Asia

13:05-13:20-13:25 1.2.O

Maria Gerasimova, Natalia Chizhikova, Ilya Gurov: Zheltozems of Russia: micromorphology, clay minerals, and genetic problems

13:25-13:30 Closing remarks / global discussion

13:30-15:00 Lunch break

15:00-16:00 Poster sessions with short (5’) explanations. Conveners: Joselito Arocena, Rafael Rodríguez

16:00-16:05 Presentation by conveners: Georges Stoops, Martine Gerard

Session I. Soil genesis and mineral weathering

16:05-16:30-16:35 1.3.K

Łukasz Uzarowicz: SEM–EDS studies of iron sulfide weathering in technogenic soils (Technosols) developed on mine spoils

16:35-16:50-16:55 1.9.O

Martine Gerard: Intrabasaltic palaeosols and sediments in continental flood basalt traps: recording weathering

16:55-17:10-17:15 1.10.O

Zeng-Yei Hseu , Yoshiyuki Iizuka: Chromite weathering as being a source of Cr in paddy soils on serpentinites

17:15-17:30-17:35 1.11.O

Dian Fiantis, Malik Nelson, Jusop Shamshuddin, Siti Zauyah, Georges Stoops, Eric Van Ranst: Micromorphology and submicroscopy of reconstructed tephra layer of Mt. Talang, Sumatra, Indonesia

17:35-17:50-17:55 1.5.O

Rafael Rodríguez Ochoa, José Ramón Olarieta, Carmen Castañeda: Micromorphology of salt accumulations in soils of North Monegros, Spain: optical microscopy and SEM

17:55-18:00 Closing remarks / global discussion

The last 5’ of every Oral Communication will be devoted to open discussion

For the participants to the microscope workshops in Barcelona: 18:30 Bus to Lleida

Wednesday 11th July

8:30 Depart from the main entrance of the conference hall (Lleida)

8:30-9:00 Bus from Lleida to Arbeca

9:00-11:00 Visit to Els Vilars d’Arbeca (Iberian Fortress)

Excursion Guides: Emili Junyent, Ares Vidal, Joan López, J Carles Balasch, Rosa M Poch

11:00-11:30 Bus from Arbeca to Les Borges Blanques

11:30-13:00 Visit to the Olive Oil Museum

13:00-14:30 Lunch in Les Borges Blanques

14:30-15:15 Bus to El Soleràs: Bench Terraces of Les Garrigues.

Excursion Guides: Jaume Boixadera, J Carles Balasch, Rosa M Poch

15:15-15:45 Bench Terraces or Les Garrigues – 1st stop

15:45-16:05 bus

16:05-16:45 Bench Terraces or Les Garrigues – 2nd stop

16:45-17:00 bus

17:00-17:40 Bench Terraces or Les Garrigues – 3rd stop

17:40-18:30 Back to Lleida

Thursday 12th July

9:00-9:05 Presentation by conveners: Héctor Morrás, Peter Kühn

Session IV. Micromorphology for paleopedology, sediments and loess-paleosol sequences

9:05-9:30-9:35 4.2.K

Roger Langohr, Vera Marcelino, Johan Yans, Laurent Bock, Patrick Engels: Micromorphological characterization of clay migration features and their relation to soil structure in a 3 m deep plateau soil at Transinne, Belgian Ardennes

9:35-9:50-9:55 4.1.O

Elvira Roquero, Pablo G. Silva, Cari Zazo, Jose L. Goy, Francisco Borja: Micromorphological features of soils developed in fluvio-marine sediments during the Last Interglacial in the Gulf of Cadiz (Atlantic South Spain)

9:55-10:10-10:15 4.2.O

Tobias Sprafke, Birgit Terhorst: Micromorphological investigation of the polygenetic paleosol development in the classic loess outcrop of Paudorf (Lower Austria)

10:15-10:30-10:35 4.3.O

Seema Singh, B. Parkash, A. K. Awasthi: Micromorphology as a tool in evaluating basin depositional environment

10:35-10:50-10:55 4.6.O

Ana M. Alonso-Zarza, J. Genise, A. Meléndez, M. Verde: A comparison between calcretes and insect traces micromorphology. Examples from the Canary Islands

10:55-11:00 Closing remarks / global discussion

11:00-11:30 Tea/coffee break

Group photo

11:30-11:35 Presentation by conveners: Daniela Sauer, Sergey Sedov

Session IV. Micromorphology for paleopedology, sediments and loess-paleosol sequences

11:35-12:00-12:05 4.1.K

Fabio Scarciglia, Veronica Zumpano, Roberto Sulpizio, Fabio Terribile: Late Pleistocene-Holocene paleoclimatic changes in the Vesuvius volcano area, southern Italy: a micromorphological study of volcanic soils and primary tephra

12:05-12:20-12:25 4.5.O

Héctor José María Morrás, Lucas M. Moretti: Controversy on the origin of the ferrallitic pedological mantle in Misiones. Micromorphological evidences of autochthony.

12:25-12:40-12:45 4.4.O

Peter Kühn, Andrej Sinitisn, Sergey Lisistyn, Dana Pietsch, Sergey Sedov: Micromorphogenesis of MIS2-3 paleosols in Kostiënki 14 and Borshchevo 5

12:45-13:00-13:05 4.7.O

Claudio Zucca, Stefano Andreucci , İhsan Akșit, Y.K. Koca, Sameh Shaddad, Salvatore Madrau, Vincenzo Pascucci, Franco Previtali, Selim Kapur: Genesis and palaeoenvironmental implications of upper Pleistocene palaeosols on the NW Sardinian coast.

13:05-13:20-13:25 4.8.O

Clara Martí, David Badia, Rosa M. Poch, M.Teresa Garcia: Genesis and characterization of a recarbonated argic palaeosol in Monegros Desert (NE Spain)

13:25-13:30 Closing remarks / global discussion

13:30-15:00 Lunch break

15:00-15:05 Presentation by conveners: Marie-Agnès Courty, Luca Trombino

Session V. Site-formation processes in archaeology and cultural landscapes, archaeometry and geoarchaeology

15:05-15:30-15:35 5.3.K

Richard Macphail, F. Berna, J. Crowther, J. Linderholm: Integrated microstratigraphic investigations and the potential of coastal archaeological soils and sediments to record past land use and cultural activities in Norway and the UK.

15:35-15:50-15:55 5.7.O

Carolina Mallol, C. Hernández: Experimental Data on Flat Combustion Structures

15:55-16:10-16:15 5.2.O

Hendrik J. Bruins, Antoine G. Jongmans: Micromorphology of ancient agricultural Terraces in the Negev Desert, Horvat Haluqim (Israel)

16:15-16:30-16:35 5.12.O

Stephania Ern, Luca Trombino, Cristina Cattaneo: Micromorphological aspects of forensic geoarchaeology: ultramicroscopic characterization of phosphatic impregnations on soil particles in experimental burials - preliminary results.

16:35-16:50-16:55 5.4.O

Ivano Rellini, Marco Firpo, Gabriele Martino, Giovanni Boschian, Julien Riel-Salvatore, Roberto Maggi: Climate and environmental changes recognized by micromorphology in Paleolithic deposits at Arene Candide (Liguria, Italy).

16:55-17:00 Closing remarks / global discussion

17:00-17:30 Coffee/tea break

17:30-18:30 Business Meeting, Commission 1.1. Soil Morphology and Micromorphology

18:30-19:00 Depart from the conference building to the Seu Vella

19:00-20:15 Guided visit to La Seu Vella

20:30-21:30 Meeting dinner

21:30 Concert

23:00 Back to the hotels

The last 5’ of every Oral Communication will be devoted to open discussion

Friday 13th July

9:00-9:05 Presentation by conveners: Richard MacPhail, M Mercè Bergadà

Session V. Site-formation processes in archaeology and cultural landscapes, archaeometry and geoarchaeology

9:05-9:30-9:35 5.1.K

Jan van Mourik, B. Jansen: The added value of biomarker analysis in paleopedology

9:35-9:50-9:55 5.5.O

Alexandra Golyeva, Veronica Murashova: On the experience of using biomorphic analysis for archaeological interpretation: the example of the floodplain part of Gnezdovo archaeological complex

9:55-10:10-10:15 5.6.O

Martin Kehl, Peter Fischer, Renate Gerlach: Solifluction deposits, reworked loess, colluvia and archaeological features at the Early Neolithic site of Düren-Arnoldsweiler, Lower Rhine area, Germany – a micromorphological approach

10:15-10:30-10:35 5.9.O

Marie-Agnès Courty: Ancestral processing of exceptional organo-mineral materials: microfacies and multi-analytical study

10:35-10:50-10:55 5.8.O

M. Lourdes González-Arqueros, Lorenzo Vázquez-Selem, Jorge E. Gama-Castro, Emily Mcclung De Tapia: Dynamics of erosion and sedimentation in the Valley of Teotihuacan (central Mexico): insights from pedostratigraphy

10:55-11:00 Closing remarks / global discussion

11:00-11:30 Tea/coffee break

11:30-11:35 Presentation by conveners: Selim Kapur, Nicolas Fedoroff

Session V. Site-formation processes in archaeology and cultural landscapes, archaeometry and geoarchaeology

11:35-12:00-12:05 5.2.K

Sergey Sedov, Serafín Sánchez, Elizabeth Solleiro, Alexandra Golyeva: Polygenetic soils and pedosediments of Teotihuacan (Mexico): micromorphological effects of landscape evolution and human impact during pre-hispanic occupation.

12:05-12:20-12:25 5.10.O

Selim Kapur, Erhan Akça, Mahmut Dingil: Micromorphological Characteristics of the Tell Kurdu Archaeological Excavation Site, S. Anatolia

12:25-12:40-12:45 5.3.O

Carlos E.R. Schaefer, Kleberson Worslley Souza, Guilherme Resende Correa: Micromorphological studies of archaeo-anthrosols from the Amazon floodplain (Amazonian Dark Earths) and shell middens from the Brazilian coast (Sambaquis)

12:45-13:00-13:05 5.11.O

Héctor Cabadas, Sergey Sedov, Socorro Jiménez, Becket Lailson, Iliana Ancona, Álan E. Méndez, Lizeth Hernández: Petrography analysis in Maya ceramics of Mexico: a micromorphology proxy

13:05-13:20-13:25 5.1.O

Marta Mateu, Mercè Bergadà, D. Garcia i Rubert: Different techniques on the earth construction at the protohistoric site of Sant Jaume (Alcanar, Tarragona, Spain): construction elements and furniture elements

13:25-13:30 Closing remarks / global discussion

13:30-14:00 Closing session and farewell

Jaume Porta

Chair – Spanish Society of Soil Science

The last 5’ of every Oral Communication will be devoted to open discussion

POSTERS

Session I. Soil genesis and mineral weathering

1.1.P Octavio Artieda, Rafael Rodríguez-Ochoa, Juan Herrero Calcite pseudomorphs after lenticular gypsum crystals in Aridisols of the central Ebro Valley, Spain

1.2.P Javier M. Aznar, Rosa M. Poch, David Badia Micromorphological features and physical properties of gypseous soils in the Middle Ebro Basin.

1.3.P Carmen Castañeda, R. Romeo-Gamarra, R. Rodríguez-Ochoa Soil macro and microfeatures at the southern margin of the saline Gallocanta Lake (NE Spain)

1.4.P Shih-Hao Jien, Yoshiyuki Iizuka, Zueng-Sang Chen The formation of different kinds of ferromanganiferous nodules in plinthitic soils

1.5.P Rafael Rodríguez-Ochoa, Asier Santana, José Ramón Olarieta Relictic Periglacial Soils in the Middle Ebro Valley (Spain): Macromorphology and Micromorphology

1.6.P Juan Carlos Loaiza, Alba Bustamante, Rosa M Poch Periglacial features in the Santa Rosa de Osos high plateau deposits.

1.7.P Hakime Abbaslou, Ali Abtahi, Francisco José Martín Peinado Micromorphology of arid soils developed on evaporites (Hormozgan Province, southern Iran)

1.8.P Tatiana Tursina Micropedology or micromorphology?

1.9.P Shahram Manafi Micromorphic evidences of climate change in some arid and semi arid soils in the west of Urmia Lake, Western Azerbaijan, Iran.

1.10.P Shahram Manafi, Rosa M Poch Micromorphic pedofeatures related to pedogenic calcium carbonate in some arid and semiarid soils in the west of Urmia Lake, Iran

1.11.P Martine Gerard, A Kanzari, T Poquet Weathering of Granitic Waste Rock Piles of former U-mines in the Limousin (France)

1.12.P Fabio Scarciglia, Donatella Barca A novel method for assessing heavy metal distribution in soils coupling laser ablation(LA)-ICP-MS in thin sections with traditional micromorphological and geochemical approaches

1.13.P Roger Langohr, Vera Marcelino Origin of the calcium carbonate of the bog marl deposit of the Moervaart Depression in the cover sand area of NW Belgium. Micromorphological evidences of decarbonation and clay migration under a permanent groundwater table in sand ridges

1.14.P Alireza Raheb, Ahmad Heidari Using micromorphological and chemical approaches for determination of different forms of iron in some paddy soils

Session II. Interpreting soil quality, interactions between organisms and minerals, and agro-environment sustainability

2.1.P Fernanda Coelho Gonçalves Effects of management systems on porosity and water infiltration

2.2.P Mercè Molner, Àngela-D Bosch, Rosa M Poch How organic amendments in dryland soils affect soil structure and organic matter fractions

2.3.P Ma del C. Gutiérrez Castorena, E.V. Gutiérrez Castorena, Luis Pineda Marín, Carlos Ortiz Solorio, Lenom Cajuste Bontemps Micromorphological features and physical properties of different growing media and their relation with lettuce behavior

2.4.P Edgar V. Gutiérrez Castorena, Ma. Del Carmen Gutiérrez Castorena, Carlos A. Ortiz Solorio, Lenom Cajuste Bontemps Modification of edaphic properties by regime change in soil moisture

2.5.P Evan Marks, Xavier Domene, Rosa M Poch Biochar and soil structure: micromorphological identification for image analyses of porosity

Session III. Soils in extreme environments and under extreme events; micromorphological methods and analyses

3.1.P Carlos Ernesto G.R. Schaefer, Thiago T.C. Pereira, João C. Ker, Cecília C. Almeida, Ivan C.C. Almeida Micromorphology of semi-desert phosphatized soils from Hope Bay, Antarctica

3.2.P Laura Gargiulo, Giacomo Mele, Fabio Terribile Soil pore image analysis: methodological issues in 2D image acquisition

3.3.P Ma del Carmen Gutiérrez Castorena, Enrique Suástegui Méndez, Edgar V. Gutiérrez Castorena, Carlos A. Ortiz Solorio Micro-cartography of fungi and spores in soil thin sections in volcanic soils

3.4.P Edgar Vladimir Gutierrez-Castorena, Enrique Suástegui Méndez, Ma. del Carmen Gutiérrez Castorena, Carlos A. Ortiz Solorio Spectral Patterns of Biological Activity In Soil Thin Sections

3.5.P Ahmad Heidari, Alireza Raheb Characterization of puddled layer and its underlying plow pan using image analysis techniques

3.6.P Sylwia Brzychcy, Zbigniew Zagórski, Leszek Sieczko, Danuta Kaczorek Analysis of groundmass colour as a tool for evaluating the advancement of pedogenic processes in Chromic soils

Session IV. Micromorphology for paleopedology, sediments and loess-paleosol sequences

4.1.P Jaime Díaz-Ortega, Elizabeth Solleiro-Rebolledo, Sergey Sedov, Héctor Cabadas-Báez Origin of tepetates in Glacis de Buenavista, Morelos, Mexico: micromorphometric indicators.

4.2.P Marcin Switoniak, Przemyslaw Mroczek Application of micromorphological method to estimate influence of accelerated erosion on soil cover in young glacial landscapes, North-Eastern Poland

4.3.P Ivano Rellini, Luca Trombino, Pietro Mario Rossi, Marco Firpo Frost activity and ice segregation in loess deposits and paleosols of the Ligurian Alps (Beigua Massif, Italy). Evidences of past permafrost?

4.4.P Francisco Sergio Bernardes Ladeira, Selma Simões De Castro, Marcilene Dos Santos Micromorphological characteristics of silicified paleosol of Itaqueri Formation-Paleogene (Sao Paulo - Brazil)

4.5.P Rosa E. Tovar, Sergey Sedov Micromorphological l evidences from alluvial paleosols for reconstructing Pleistocene landscapes in Axamilpa, Pue., México

4.6.P J Carles Balasch , Rosa M Poch, Josep Lluís Ruiz-Bellet, Jaume Boixadera Particle size and micromorphology of loess deposits in the Lower Ebro river valley

4.7.P Alexandre Trindade Nieuwendam, Gonçalo Vieira, Carlos Schaefer Micromorphology analysis of relict slope deposits of Serra da Estrela (Portugal): Preliminary results

4.8.P Jan M Van Mourik, J Wallinga Geochronology of initial soils in Late-Holocene polycyclic drift-sand deposits (Weerterbergen, S.E. Netherlands)

Session V. Site-formation processes in archaeology and cultural landscapes, archaeometry and geoarchaeology

5.1.P M. Mercè Bergadà, Valentín Villaverde, Dídac Román Microstratigraphy of the Magdalenian at the Cendres Cave (Teulada-Moraira, Alacant, Spain): formation and diagenesis processes

5.2.P Yijie Zhuang Neolithisation Process in North China: Geoarchaeological Investigation at two Early Neolithic Sites

5.3.P Yannick Devos, Luc Vrydaghs Unravelling urban stratigraphy: integrating soil micromorphology and phytolith studies to understand the early urban development of Brussels (Belgium).

5.4.P Luisa Straulino, Sergey Sedov Weathering of carbonate materials in ancient maya constructions (río bec and dzibanché): limestone and stucco deterioration patterns.

5.5.P Ximena Suarez Villagran, Carlos EGR Schaefer The geoarchaeology of the first human settlements in Antarctica

5.6.P Barbara Maria Sageidet, Maria Petersson Soil micromorphological evidence from Iron Age land use at Tornby and Mörtlösa, in Linköping, Sweden

5.7.P Mathieu Lejay Taphonomy and Function of Aurignacian Fireplaces at Régismont-le-Haut (France).

5.8.P Ximena Suarez Villagran, Paulo CF Giannini Mounded landscapes of the Brazilian coast: shell, sand and fish mounds from the macro- to the micro-scale

5.9.P Quentin Borderie Some quantitative aspects of thin section analysis for archaeological research

5.10.P Alvise Barbieri, Massimo Botto, Giovanni Leonardi, Vittorio Rioda Micromorphological study at the Punic settlement of Pani Loriga (Cl, Sardinia).

5.11.P Hanifi Binici, Selim Kapur, Mehmet Kara Thaumasite/ettringite development and durability in blended cement mortars exposed to magnesium sulphate and lime water for 10 years

5.12.P Heather F Green, Ian A Simpson Landscapes of Norse-Indigenous Interaction: The cultural record of the indigenous Sámi population & settling Europeans in Northern Sweden

5.13.P Diego E Angelucci, Daniela Anesin, Davide Susini, João Zilhão First geoarcheological and micromorphological data on the Middle Paleolithic site of Cueva Antón (Murcia, Spain)

5.14.P K. Ismail-Meyer, Ph. Rentzel, C. Schucany Micromorphology of a Roman water mill in Cham-Hagendorn, Switzerland

5.15.P Barbora Wouters, Yannick Devos, Dries Tys A micromorphological study of the origins of an early medieval trading centre: the case of Antwerp, Belgium

Programme of 14th IWMSM (pdf file)