The Torridonian Succession at Stoer Peninsula, Northwestern Scottish Seaboard:
A unique window into a Precambrian fluvial landscape

Leaders:

Alessandro Ielpi (Laurentian University), Massimiliano Ghinassi (University of Padua), Dario Ventra (University of Géneve)

Description:

The fieldtrip will focus on the world-class exposures of fluvial and associated scree-slope, lacustrine, and aeolian deposits part of the ~1.2 Ga Stoer and ~1.0 Ga Torridon groups at Stoer Peninsula. The main thematic of the fieldtrip will be the appreciation of depositional morphodynamics that characterised a world devoid of evolved, complex life. The field trip leaders will present reconstructions of fluvial style based on the observation of facies trends, depositional architecture, and palaeoflow trends on three-dimensional outcrops. Aspects of regional geology related to basin development and sediment dispersal in relation to amalgamation, tenure, and breakup of Proterozoic supercontinents will also be discussed. 

Logistics/recommendations: 

Participants are recommended to book their flights to Inverness is order to arrive in town no later than the afternoon/night of July 7th, and to leave on the day of July 11th. Participants will be responsible for their own accommodation in Inverness on the nights of July 7th and 11th. Participants will also be required to be at ease with rough terrain and inclement weather. The flights to and from Inverness are to be arranged by single participant.