<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt">Dear colleagues,</span></p>

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the session at the IAL-IPA joint meeting Oct. 6-10, 2025 in Aix les Bains,
France. We hope that you will consider submitting an abstract and join us at
the meeting (link is below).</span></p>

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colleagues and reengaging with existing colleagues and old friends. Hope to see
you there!</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Warm regards,</span></p>

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Pla-Pueyo</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:9.6pt 0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Deep-time
carbonate-rich lacustrine systems</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:9.6pt 0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="ES" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Cecilia Andrea Benavente, IANIGLA-CONICET; </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Geology
Department – Universidad Nacional de Cuyo</span><span lang="ES" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Mendoza, Argentina</span><span lang="ES" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, </span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="mailto:cebenavente@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)" target="_blank"><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">cebenavente@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">;
ceciliabenavente@fcen.uncu.edu.a</span><span lang="ES" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:9.6pt 0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Concepción
Arenas-Abad, Stratigraphy, Department of Earth Sciences, University of
Zaragoza, Spain, <a href="mailto:carenas@unizar.es" target="_blank">carenas@unizar.es</a></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:9.6pt 0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sila
Pla-Pueyo, </span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://www.ugr.es/en/about/organization/entities/department-didactics-experimental-sciences" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none">Department of Didactics of Experimental Sciences</span></a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> – Universidad de
Granada, Granada, Spain, </span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="mailto:spla@ugr.es" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">spla@ugr.es</span></a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:9.6pt 0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Lacustrine
carbonates record the interplay of several biological, physical, and chemical
factors acting at different time scales, embracing very different aspects, from
the microbiota crucial role in autochthonous precipitation up to sediment
delivery load to the paleolake. Such interactions make them a robust tool of
reconstruction of ancient lake basins, particularly from deep-time geologic
records. Recent advances include refining the understanding of the role of
groundwater in carbonate-rich paleolakes precipitation and the standardization
of carbonate-rich palustrine facies associated with lacustrine systems; also,
the modelling of paleoclimate trends from geochemistry proxies from continental
carbonates. Detailed characterization of some climate milestones is also
possible through multiproxy approaches. We invite colleagues to share
contributions about any aspects of ancient carbonate-rich lake basins such as
sedimentology, mineralogy, geochemistry, paleontology, and their geodynamic
context, from a variety of facies associations, including those formed in
saline conditions. We encourage contributions focused on the obstacles
encountered too, to bring interesting discussions on how to move forward in the
discipline.</span></p>

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