Conveners:
Marco Brandano (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Paola Ronchi (Eni)
Tatyana Gabellone (Eni)
Piero Gianolla (Università degli Studi di Ferrara)
This session focuses on carbonate depositional and diagenetic processes from modern environments to deep-time settings, emphasizing the linkage between processes and products across multiple approaches and scales, from facies architecture and stratigraphy to petrographic and geochemical signatures. Carbonate depositional systems result from complex interactions among biological, physical, and chemical processes that are strongly influenced by climatic conditions and preserved in the sedimentary record.
Contributions are invited on carbonate sedimentology, diagenetic processes, petrography and geochemistry, and the influence of environmental, biological, and climatic drivers on carbonate successions. Studies of both marine and continental systems, as well as modern analogues, are welcome. The session also encourages submissions highlighting the applied significance of carbonate systems, including their role as hydrocarbon reservoirs and their relevance to energy transition strategies such as CO₂ storage.