Important Dates
| Opening for call papers | Closed |
| Deadline for Extended Abstract Submission | Closed |
| Conference | 3,4 Oct |
| Gala Dinner | 4 Oct |
| Short courses | 5 Oct |
| Ice Breaker Ceremony | 2 Oct |
| Field trips | 5 Oct |
| Seminar & workshop for students | 1, 6 Oct |
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Field Trips
Field trips to Kirmaky Valley, Mud volcanoes. Registration fees for each field trip 50 €.
Sequence stratigraphy of the productive series in the outcrop - the Kirmaky Valley
This will take participants to the Lower and Middle parts of the Late Miocene/Pliocene Productive Series outcrops on the floor and walls of the Kirmaky Valley, a 30 minute drive north of Baku. The trip will traverse the Kirmaky Suite, the NKP, NKG, Pereriva, and lower parts of the Balakhany Formation, along a transect across this valley that has been measured, sampled, and gamma-logged in great detail. The trip will focus on facies, depositional systems, and the sequence stratigraphic architecture, and how these combine into a predictive model for elements of reservoir architecture. Particular attention will be paid to how the late Miocene and Pliocene climatic cycles in the Caspian Basin controlled the repetitive changes from fluvial ‘flash flood’ deposits to lacustrine strata.
Mud volcanoes and outcrops in the Perikishkul area (folding and source rocks)
The excursion will visit onshore volcanoes in the Perikishkul area, 42 km from Baku, distinctive for the presence of plenty of gryphon and hills. It is on over-crumpled rocks of the Koun suite and is timed to fracturing complicating the Gultamin Fold. The main group of acting volcanoes and springs Seasis located at a height of 321.6 m, covered by mud volcano breccia. Keyraki and Kechaldag, in the central part of Apsheron peninsula, erupted recently. Another geologically interesting feature of the trip is along the Sumgait river, where Paleocene to Oligocene strata are exposed including Maykop shale formation which is an important source rocks for the hydrocarbon system of the South Caspian Basin. The majority of the volcanoes and springs discharge gas, turbidity water, and mud with various intensity. The geotectonics context of this area is a large tectonic complex, i.e. Western Apsheron anticlinoria. It consists of a number of parallel anticline folds of the Great Caucasus southern lope. This is graphically protrayed on a geological map as a triangle, composed of chalk, Paleogene, and Pontic rocks. In the middle part of the Western Absheron anticlinoria there is a distinct longitudinal caving in Janusdag anticline fold consisting of rocks of Santonian and Campanian of Junisdag Suite, with the flank formed by Maastricht and Danish beds corresponding to the Agburun and Ilkidag suites. Beds from Paleocene to Oligocene inclusively are exposed on the southeastern end of the fold, along Sumgaitchay river bed.