The conference takes up 24th – 28th September.
Nikolai Golovkinsky (1834 - 1897), a prominent Russian geologist and founder of Paleozoic studies in Russia, spent some of his career at Kazan University. He was one of the first to elaborate on such categories as facies and geological horizon. He made major breakthroughs in this science and laid foundation for further discussions.
“The key issues to be discussed are correlations of sedimentary basins and catastrophic events. We’ll try to explain what they entail and what we can expect from the future,” said Senior Research Associate of the Stratigraphy of Oil and Gas Bearing Basins Lab Vladimir Silantyev.
Kazan University has historically contributed to the studies of Permian and Triassic sediments and continues to do so. This is the basis for our ongoing cooperation with Freiberg Mining Academy.
Jorg Schneider, an employee of both universities, commented, “I’d like to point out the significant results of our laboratory in studying oil and gas bearing reservoirs. It gave way to opening a new master program. Of course, this conference is an important event for us because it touches on global warming. Our planet’s climate has always been prone to change. However, the changes happened gradually, unlike today, when the weather changes too swiftly, and we can feel that. We have to establish unequivocal ties of this phenomenon with the global warming.”
The conference is conducted in Russian and English languages. Some of the topics are stratigraphy, radiometric geochronology, geochemistry and paleogeography of the early Paleozoic. A number of workshops are also being held, as well as a meeting of the international workgroup on the stratigraphy of oil and gas basins of the late Paleozoic.
Source text: Adelya Shemelova
Translation: Yury Nurmeev