Year 1 (2021)

Meeting plus fieldtrip training for students/academics and young geoscientists

on Palaeozoic carbonate build-ups in Loei-Phetchabun fold belt and regional correlation

Organised by

Mahasarakham University, THAILAND
Department of Mineral Resources, THAILAND
Universiti Teknologi Petronas, MALAYSIA
Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA
Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Frankfurt, GERMANY

Co-organised by

Geological Society of Thailand
Union of Geological Sciences (VUGS), VIETNAM
Department of Geotechnology, Khon Kaen University, THAILAND
Department of Geological Science, Chiang Mai University, THAILAND
Department of Geology, Chulalongkorn University, THAILAND
School of Geotechnology, Suranaree University of Technology, THAILAND
Division of Geosciences, Mahidol University, THAILAND

Scientific committee

Prof. Clive Burrett, THAILAND
Prof. Chen Jitao, CHINA
Assist. Prof. Halay Tsegab Gebretsadik, MALAYSIA
Assist. Prof. Hathaithip Thassanapak, THAILAND
Assoc. Prof. Mongkol Udchachon, THAILAND
Prof. Steve Kershaw, UK
Dr. Peter Königshof, GERMANY
Dr. Pol Chaodumrong, THAILAND
Dr. Pradit Nulay, THAILAND

Technical Session

13th December 2021

MORNING SESSION: Plenary/special talk/workshop

08.20 - 08.45 : Opening session/ Welcome speech/ Inaugural meeting By IGCP-700 project leaders and coordinators
08.45 - 09.30 : Basic carbonate sedimentology, carbonate classification and depositional environments By Clive Burrett, Mongkol Udchachon, Hathaithip Thassanapak and Pradit Nulay
09.30 - 09.55 : The spatial and temporal distribution of the Cambrian maze-like reefs in the North China Platform By Hao Xin and Jitao Chen
09.55 - 10.20 : Paleomagnetism of the Late Paleozoic limestones of Indochina and its implications for the tectonic evolution of Paleo-Tethys By Yonggang Yan, Punya Charusiri, Baochun Huang and Peizhen Zhang

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10.30 - 11.00 : Palaeozoic caves in Thailand By Chaiporn Siripornpibul
11.00-11.25 : Timing of Upper Paleozoic carbonates build-ups along the Indochina margin of Thailand By Thasinee Charoentitirat
11.25 - 11.50 : Reviews of Permian foraminiferal faunas and petrography of carbonate rocks in Kanchanaburi, Western Thailand By Panus Hong
11.50 - 12.15 : A preliminary result on the study of smaller foraminifers and algae from the Middle to Upper Permian (Midian-Dzhulfian) carbonate rocks of the Sai Yok District, Kanchanaburi Province, Western Thailand By Kantanat Trakunweerayut

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+Video presentation "Carbonate platform development of Wang Sa Phung Formation in Loei province, Thailand" by Piyatida Sangtong

AFTERNOON SESSION: Plenary/special talk/workshop

13.00 - 13.50 : Reefs and microbialites By Stephen Kershaw
13.50-14.35 : Initiation and demise of carbonate build-ups from platforms to seamounts – examples from mainland SE Asia and global comparisons By Clive Burrett
14.35-15.05 : Sedimentary records of the highest sea level of the Paleozoic: from the perspective of the middle–late Ordovician carbonates in South China and Sibumasu By Wenjie Li and Jitao Chen
15.05 - 15.35 : Dynamics of Devonian carbonate platform development and evolution in South China: Insights from cycle and sequence stratigraphy By Daizhao Chen
15.35 - 16.00 : The Bayankhoshuu Ruins section in the southern Gobi of Mongolia revisited: new sedimentological/facies data By Ariuntogos Munkhjargal
16.00 - 16.25 : Sedimentology and carbonate δ13C of the late Carboniferous to early Permian carbonate slope successions in South China: insight into icehouse to greenhouse transition By Wenli Yang and Jitao Chen
16.25-16.50 : Permo-Carboniferous sequences from the Shan Plateau, Myanmar in the Sibumasu Blocks and their paleogeographic implications By Kyi Pyar Aung and Than Zaw

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17.00 - 17.30 : Middle Permian brachiopods from central Thailand and western Cambodia and their faunal correlations over the pre-Indosinian carbonate platform of the Indochina Block By Masatoshi Sone
17.30-18.00 : Alatoconchid (Middle Permian) and Lithiotis-type (Early Jurassic) giant bivalves and their palaeoenvironmetal regimes – preliminary comparative stud By Michał Krobicki and Mongkol Udchachon
18.00-18.25 : Records of Permian ostracods from Pha Nok Khao Platform, northeastern Thailand By Anisong Chitnarin, Phattraporn Kulnok, Sataporn Kongsat and Prachya Tepnaron
18.25-18.50 : Origin of huge carbonate accumulated near the orogen-A Cretaceous case study from central Tibet By Yiwei XU and Jitao Chen

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Fieldtrip / Workshop

14th December 2021

MORNING SESSION: Fieldtrip/workshop on geology along the Mekong River and the mid-Palaeozoic stromatoporoid-coral reef

Review on the general geology, stratigraphy and palaentology of the Loei region
Evidence of uplift during the Mississippian (?Visean): Carboniferous sequences along the road next to the Mekong River from Chiang Khan to Pak Chom including the siliciclastic, chert and carbonate sequences indication of deep marine, slope, shallow marine and terrestrials.
Mid-Palaeozoic build-ups of Indochina: Middle Devonian reef with spectacular faunas including corals, stromatoporoids, crinoids and others
Eustatic sea-level change or local tectonics: Late Devonian deep marine chert with siliciclastics and volcanic rocks

AFTERNOON SESSION: Fieldtrip/workshop along the Loei-Phetchabun fold belt visiting Carboniferous-Permian carbonate sections and build-ups in Loei and nearby areas (Pha Nok Khao Platform)

Permian carbonate at the Phu Pha Lom (National) Park and nearby Carboniferous siliciclastic and carbonate sequences with fossil wood fragments, fusulinids, brachiopods and others

15th December 2021

MORNING SESSION: Fieldtrip/workshop along the Loei-Phetchabun fold belt visiting Carboniferous-Permian carbonate platform, slope and basin sections in Loei and nearby areas

Peritidal carbonate sequence (Carboniferous/Permian) with useful structures
Biostrome (Carboniferous/Permian); local build-up with algal stromatolites, crinoids, fusulinids and others

AFTERNOON SESSION: Fieldtrip/workshop along the Loei-Phetchabun fold belt visiting Carboniferous-Permian carbonate sections and buildups in Loei and nearby areas

Permian basin/slope/platform in the Wang Saphung to the Pha Nok Khao areas

16th December 2021

Conclusion of the annual meeting, planning and business meeting