Coordinación del 1st Workshop of the Sam-GeoQuat IFG-South American Project towards an integration and improvement of Quaternary geological data"

KRÖHLING, DANIELA

Sao Paulo

Workshop; 1st Workshop of the Sam-GeoQuat IFG: South American Project towards an integration and improvement of Quaternary geological data; 2013

SAm-GeoQuat International Group (TERPRO Commission, International Union for Quaternary Research INQUA)

The hosting of the workshop at this important Latin American Congress provided a good opportunity to present the Group within the wide community of Brazilian geologists mainly working in the field of Quaternary stratigraphy and sedimentology, seeking to increase the interaction between them and the community of the initial list of specialists of the Group, and to the future participation in INQUA activities. Also, the meeting will allow researchers with different backgrounds to meet, to interact and exchange data and interpretations and also discuss common approaches for studying geological processes along a variety of tectonic settings. The aim of the meeting was to discuss the exchange of information and different proposals in order to enhance ongoing initiatives as the involvement of more Quaternary researchers working in South America, the training of young scientists in fieldworks runs, the promotion of the attendance and active participation of young researchers to the future meetings of the Group, the integration of advances related to the role of the neotectonics and the climatic changes on representative regions of tropical and subtropical eastern South America and specially spanning the last interglacial-glacial cycle, between others. The objective is to promote innovative contributions on the application of new and established methodological approaches to advance on the sedimentological, stratigraphical (sequence stratigraphy and event stratigraphy), geomorphological, geochronological and paleoenvironmental assessment. We specially target paleaoenvironmental records retrieved from selected geological settings and covering the last interglacial-glacial cycle in order to analyse the correlation between them.