Primary Convener:
Mingfei Chen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Convener:
Mohammed Hashim, University of Southern California
Miquela Ingalls, Pennsylvania State University
Julia Wilcots, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Chair:
Mingfei Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Julia Wilcots, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Sedimentary carbonate minerals record the history of Earth’s surface conditions and the evolution of various biogeochemical cycles. Numerous chemical, biological, and physical processes are involved in the formation, transportation, and diagenetic alterations of carbonate minerals. This session focuses on process-based approaches to understanding the genesis and diagenesis of carbonate sediments and rocks over geologic time, including, but not limited to, new developments in carbonate sedimentology, biogeochemistry, petrology, stratigraphy, biomineralization, and microbial ecology. We welcome contributions applying field, petrographic, geochemical, experimental, or modeling approaches to interpret the mechanisms, processes, conditions, and environments of deposition and diagenesis of both modern sediments and ancient carbonate rocks. We specifically encourage studies that aim at developing carbonate-based proxies for environmental parameters, investigating carbonates’ roles in natural and geo-engineered carbon sequestration, and studying modern systems to guide interpretations of the rock record and paleoclimate.

Index Terms
0419 Biomineralization
0428 Carbon cycling
1050 Marine geochemistry
1051 Sedimentary geochemistry

Co-Organized Sessions:
Global Environmental Change
Biogeosciences

Cross-Listed:
B - Biogeosciences
EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
GC - Global Environmental Change

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering