Dr. Leon Claessens leon.claessens@maastrichtuniversity.nl Maastricht University Saturday, 30th of November 2019 (10:45-11:00) at the international symposium on Chalk & Flint Maastricht University shares its name with the last geological age of the Cretaceous time period, the Maastrichtian, which was defined based on the rock sequence preserved in the Sint-Pietersberg region. With the recent establishment of […]
Dr. Andy Gale
Professor Andy Gale is a specialist on the Cretaceous. Since 2007 he is a full Professor in Geology, at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He has published over 200 articles relating to chalk stratigraphy, sedimentology and palaeontology. Andy has a particular interest in the chalk successions of northwestern Europe. He has also worked on establishing […]
The Chalk Sea – sedimentation and diagenesis
Dr. Andy Gale andy.gale@port.ac.uk University of Portsmouth Saturday, 30th of November 2019 (16:00-16:45) at the international symposium on Chalk & Flint The epicontinental Chalk Sea occupied a vast region, extending from western Europe to central Asia, and lasted for approximately 40 million years, from the Cenomanian (Cretaceous, 100 Ma) to the end of the Danian […]
Dr. Leon Claessens
Dr. Leon Claessens is Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution at Maastricht University, and Dean of the Maastricht Science Programme. He is an expert on the evolution of archosaurs and the recently extinct dodo. Claessens has been appointed in Maastricht since January 2019, prior to which he worked in North America, where he spent more […]
Characterization of flint from Hainaut and its significance for archaeological research
Géraldine Fiers Geraldine.Fiers@UGent.be Universiteit Gent Saturday, 30th of November 2019 (15:30-16:00) at the international symposium on Chalk & Flint In the Hainaut province (Belgium), flint is present in Upper Cretaceous chalk formations outcropping in the Mons Basin and in the vicinity of the cities of Lille and Tournai. This rock type was used as a raw […]
Géraldine Fiers
Géraldine Fiers is a PhD student at the Department of Geology at Ghent University. Her project, in collaboration with the Department of Archaeology, concerns flint characterization and its post-depositional alteration in a context of the preservation of prehistoric use-wear traces on stone tools. For her PhD dissertation, she is working under the supervision of Prof. […]
The Chalk of NW Europe: from the birth of the chalk to the end of an era
Dr. Nicolas Thibault nt@ign.ku.dk University of Copenhagen Saturday, 30th of November 2019 (14:15-15:00) at the international symposium on Chalk & Flint In presentation at the International Symposium on Chalk & Flint, Nicolas Thibault will give an up-to-date though non-exhaustive history tour of the NW European Chalk through well-documented examples. He will start with the definition of […]
Dr. Nicolas Thibault
Dr. Nicolas Thibault, associate professor (lektor) in paleontology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, is expert on Late Cretaceous calcareous nannofossils. His research focusses on paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatological reconstructions, using micropaleontology, cyclostratigraphy, stable isotopes, integrated stratigraphy and carbonate sedimentology. Nicolas has received his PhD in Earth Sciences in December 2005 at the Université Pierre et […]