Re: Palass Conference 1994

[Cris Little <Cris.Little@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> I am now free to write something about the conference in Glasgow 
> (note the spelling:)).  
> 
> The conference began on Sunday the 18th December with a splinter 
> group of conodontologists.  I'm afraid I was unable to join them as my 
> car had broken down.  Perhaps the best way to proceed is to provide 
> a list of the talks and people who were at the conference can edit in 
> their own comments on the various talks as I was not able to go to all 
> of them.
> 
> I'll do day 1 tonight and see if I can do the second day tomorrow....
> 
> Monday 19th December
> Session 1:
> 
> 
> (JO Buckman & AH Rufell: _Palaeoecology of giant orthocone 
> hardground substrates from a highstand Leitrim Group, NW Ireland_)
> Some really spectacular images of epizoans on giant orthocones as 
> well as boring stratification within the orthocone shell.  This 
> *Carboniferous* relationship of encrusting and boring organisms 
> developed during a maximum flooding event with associated 
> sediment starvation during the Brigantian.
> 
> Kevin J Tilbrook:_Encrusting bryozoan communities from the 
> Pliocene Coralline Crag of England_)
> Kevin used ecological and sedimentological changes in his study of 
> the three members of the Coralline Crag Formation, to characterise 
> their different depositional environments.
> 
Old Neil must have been asleep because Kevin didn't speak at the
conference! The above talk that was in the abstracts was replaced by
Michael Keen on the role of the microfossils in the interpretation of
basin developments in the Neogene of southern Spain.

Cris Little