President: Cinzia Bottini
(Emailssp@egu.eu)
Deputy President: Marc De Batist
(Email)
ECS Representative: Shradha Menon
(Emailecs-ssp@egu.eu)
The Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology Division (SSP) focuses its activities on all aspects of the sedimentary record. About 70% of the Earth surface is covered by sedimentary deposits, which are eroded and deposited right at the contact between the solid lithosphere and the atmosphere, biosphere and hydrosphere. Sedimentary rocks record the history of our planet since almost 4 billion of years and play a pivotal role for our understanding of the evolution of life. This deep-time archive of Earth history is studied with a wide range of analytical techniques providing ever stunning details on the evolution of our planet. Sedimentary basins host important natural resources like coal, gas, oil, ore deposits and groundwater and therefore a better understanding of the physical, chemical and biological processes controlling the formation and distribution of sediments and sedimentary rocks is of utmost importance for our society.
Latest posts from the SSP blog
Tracing temperatures in tropical Lake Petén Itzá over the last 24,000 years
Past and present global warming: its effect on the tropics According to meteorological data and climate models, global temperatures have increased by up to 1.1 °C since 1960 because of rising atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, including an increase in CO₂ concentrations by up to 200 ppm. In some regions, such as the tropics, home to over 40% of the world’s population, warming has reached up to 2 °C compared to preindustrial values (INSIVUMEH, 2024; Fig. 1). This phenomenon can cause …
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Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Estuarine Deposits
In recent months, I had the opportunity to work on a project analysing subsurface data from a rock sequence previously interpreted as the product of an estuarine depositional environment. The client sought subsurface maps to characterize the spatial distribution of various geobodies associated with sedimentary deposits typically found in modern estuaries. In other words, the goal was to reconstruct the sedimentary architecture of the subsurface beyond seismic resolution, identifying geobodies that cannot be resolved through seismic surveys. This task was …
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Recent awardees
- 2025
- Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal
The 2025 Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal is awarded to
Donald Ross Prothero in recognition of a strong research profile in terrestrial stratigraphy, and unwavering support and education of the next generation.
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- 2024
- Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal
The 2024 Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal is awarded to
Silvia Frisia for her highly significant impact as a sedimentologist researching carbonate-based palaeoclimate science, in particular through her work on carbonate fabrics in cave deposits, or speleothems.
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- 2024
- Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award
The 2024 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to
Miguel Ángel Maté González for his outstanding work in palaeontology and archaeology developing a new methodology for the analysis of 3D cut marks on bones.
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- 2024
- Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award
The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to
Mélinda Martins Deciphering local from global signals in Portimão Bank sedimentary dynamics
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Current issue of the EGU newsletter
In our August issue we find out more about the discovery and research of Sue the T-Rex, 25 years after the skeleton was found, CP Rajendran revisits the devastating 1950 Assam-Tibet earthquake and shares what impact it had and continues to have on the Himalayan region, Zsanett Gréta Papp breaks down the newly published "Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding" to discover tips for academic resistance and Lorne Farovitch, a deaf transdisciplinary biomedical researcher and multilingual signer, explains the impact of climate change on deaf communities to Simon Clark in this month's GeoTalk.
Also now is the time to nominate a candidate for EGU President and other Council roles, by 3 September, and don't forget to submit your EGU26 session proposals by 13:00 CEST 16 September. All this and much more, in this month's Loupe!
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