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SSP2.7
Secrets of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age: new approaches to one of Earth's greatest glacial epochs
Co-organized as CL1.04/CR1.6
Convener: Pierre Dietrich | Co-conveners: Christopher Fielding, Daniel Le Heron

In terms of major climatic changes in the Earth system, the Late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA) ranks as one of the most famous, widespread and important glaciations in our planet's history. Our understanding of this ice age has recently profited from the advent and rise of innovative concepts and dating methods. Pioneering perspectives have thus emerged and have drastically changed our understanding of the longest of the glacial period our planet experienced in Phanerozoic times (successive phases of growth and decay of 'small' ice sheets over Gondwana , importance of edification of mountain belts on ice nucleation sites and carbon cycle...). Uncertainties however remain, such as the precise timing and spatial extension of discrete glacial events over southern Gondwana terrains, the tempo and style of ice sheet growth and recession phases, the precise relationship between glacial processes and relative sea level change, sedimentation patterns, basins physiography and evolution through this unique epoch. This session hence seeks to bring together contributions and outcomes from sedimentological, stratigraphic, geomorphological, geochemical, ichnological, paleoclimatic and paleontological studies, among others, in order to propose an integrated approach and a complete characterization of the LPIA.