This international meeting aims to bring together palaeobiologists, ecologists and sedimentologists to address questions on how interactions between organisms and environments have generated the variety of carbonate platform facies and geometries seen in the ancient and modern record. All hierarchical levels of interaction are to be considered, ranging from that between organismal growth and ambient conditions, via growth fabric development in response to climate and the provision of accommodation space, to the interplay of global and evolutionary change. Oral and poster presentations addressing these themes are invited.
Papers dealing with patterns and processes, concepts and dynamics are particularly welcome.