Conveners:
Andrea Di Giulio (Università di Pavia)
Marco Patacci (Università dell'Aquila)
Mattia Marini (Università di Milano)
Chiara Barbieri (Eni Spa)
Clastic sediments cover most of the Earth's surface depositional regions; however, processes that produce, transport, and accumulate them in depositional basins and their controlling factors are still not fully understood, which limit prediction of associated heterogeneity. This session is open to contributions regarding studies on clastic systems, from continental to deep-water, at any scale, from grain to basin scale, focussing on processes, products, and applications. Contributions involving innovative methodologies, interdisciplinary approaches, and application to mapping, modelling and predicting sedimentary heterogeneities are particularly welcome, including studies based on both outcrop and subsurface data. This session will provide an opportunity to discuss new research pathways in clastic sedimentology and to showcase the tremendous contribution that sedimentology can make to natural resources management and, ultimately, a sustainable development through applications including, but not limited to, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), geothermal energy and the exploration of critical elements.