国際堆積学会議は，国際堆積学協会(International Association of Sedimentologists)が中心となって開催される国際会議で，4年に1回、500名から1000名の参加者で世界各地において開催されています．日本および東アジア地域で初めてとなる第17回国際堆積学会議（ISC2006）が2006年8月27日-9月1日に福岡において開催されることが決まりました．
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ISC2006　プログラム委員会　保柳康一（e-mail：hoya101＠gipac.shinshu-u.ac.jp）

現在検討中のSpecial Symposium
1) Tectonics, climate, and sedimentation
　　Tectonics, volcanism, and sedimentation across island arcs
　　Monsoons and Himalaya : tectonics, climate and land-ocean linkages
2) Environmental sedimentology and human society
　　Coastal environment and human activity
　　Catastrophic sedimentary processes: mechanism and hazard mitigation
3) New target and innovation in resource sedimentology
　　Gas Hydrates: Origin, explorations, and resource potential.
　　3D seismic technology for exploration and sedimentary body analysis
4) Evolution of biosphere and geosphere
　　Microbial processes and products in sedimentary system
　　Boundary events and global changes
5) Frontier in sedimentology
　　Boundary events and global changes
　　Role of sedimentology in earth drilling projects (IODP & ICDP)
　　Extraterrestrial sedimentology
　　Integrated strata formation analysis

現在検討中のTECHNICAL SESSION の案
Theme 1: Siliciclastic depositional systems and sequence stratigraphy
　　Lacustrine sediment and environmental record
　　Glacial sediments
　　Estuarine and deltaic systems
　　Fluvial systems
　　Eolian sediments
　　Fan deltas
　　Resedimentation in deep-water systems
　　Deep-sea fan sedimentation
　　Sea-level changes and sequence architecture

Theme 2: Carbonate and evaporite
　　Carbonate sediments: environment and processes
　　Carbonate diagenesis, geochemistry and hydrogeochemistry
　　Ultra high resolution analysis of coral skeletons
　　Evaporites
　　Spelothem and cave deposits

Theme 3: Sedimentary processes and experimental sedimentology
　　Experimental sedimentology
　　Sedimentary processes
　　Shallow marine processes and sedimentation

Theme 4: Basin analysis and Numerical modeling
　　Tectonics and sedimentation
　　Sedimentation in rift basins
　　Basin analysis and stratigraphic modeling

Theme 5: Sedimentary petrology, clay mineralogy and inorganic geochemistry
　　Sandstone petrology and diagenesis
　　Clay mineralogy
　　Inorganic geochemistry and chemostratigraphy

Theme 6: Volcaniclastic sedimentology
　　Volcaniclastic sediments
　　Hydrothermal systems: modern and ancient

Theme 7: Marine geology and Paleoceanography

Theme 8: Paleontology and sedimentation
　　Biostratigraphy and sedimentology
　　Ichnofacies
　　Taphonomy

Theme 9: Environmental and applied sedimentology
　　Geohazard: landslide, liquifaction and gravity flow
　　Environmental sedimentology

Theme 10: Resource sedimentology
　　Hydrocarbon deposits: coal, petroleum and gasses
　　Organic sedimentology and geochemistry

Theme 11: Miscellaneous
　　Paleoclimate, pedology and weathering
　　New technology for sediment analysis