Most paleo-environmental records today are provided by correlative and multi-parameter measurements on sediment cores. Therefore, it is of primordial importance to understand processes governing the formation of sediments, possible geometric deformations through seismic or gravitational events and geochemical/mineralogical transformations.

Detailed studies of such processes on actual/recent sediments will dramatically improve the quality of the information retrieved through core analyses.

This meeting aims at gathering experts working on various aspects of sediment core analyses to come up with a long-term (in order to reveal the changes in the vertical and if possible in their horizontal spreadings by the correlative periodic analysis of future additions with today's sediments) research program to monitor ‘recording’
processes in marine and lacustrine environments. These efforts need to be carried at a variety of geographic locations, through 5 to 10 years repeated sampling with same instrumental standards and procedures, taking into account such details as magnetic orientation, geometric angularities, etc. We are hoping to promote such a collaborative and institutional commitment that the nature of such effort requires by the help of scientific collaboration from this townhall meeting. A few scientific institutions in the EU would be enough to accomplish that project subject, but we need to get integration of experiences from other institutions for catching unobserved events through interpretations. Answers of these questions will be explained with meeting attendants: why are we late and waited for such a scientific work? Who will take responsibilities from meeting attendants? Is the work load of samples heavier than regional projects? What is the ways of understanding to later placed events in sediments as flat elongated limbs of folds which is not given proofs in core sample?