Sedimentary Geology Section (SSG), founded in 2000, is an informal group of Slovenian sedimentologists, stratigraphers and geoscientists working in related disciplines. SSG is an affiliated group of the Slovenian Geological Society (SGD) and has informal links with IAS (International Association of Sedimentologists) through the national correspondent (Dragomir Skaberne).

The aims of SSG are to promote and stimulate sedimentological and stratigraphical research both in Slovenia and internationally.
The principal activity of SSG is organistation of meetings, workshops and field trips. The meetings ("SSG seminar") are held regularly, usually on the first Thursday of each month (except during the summer holidays) at ZRC SAZU in Ljubljana.


SSG Seminar*  - upcoming & past events 2000-2006:        

May 25, 2006: Stalagmites, chemical kinetics of calcite deposition, and climate (Wolfgang Dreybrodt; lecture)

February 17, 2006: Carbonate systems: sequence stratigraphy and diagenesis (Maurice E. Tucker; IAS Special Lecture Tour)

June 9, 2005: Climate change: what do we know about it? (Monica Rotaru; lecture)

June 9, 2005: Earth's time, Man's time (Patrick De Wever; lecture)

May 31, 2005: Island Karst: Evolution of porosity in young, porous limestone by mixing corrosion in freshwater- saltwater mixtures (Wolfgang Dreybrodt; lecture)

March 3, 2005: Distal Effects of Late Devonian Marine Alamo Impact, Western U.S.A.: Tsunamites, Seismites & Ejecta (Jared R. Morrow; lecture)

April 16, 2004: A step from the quaternary stratigraphy towards the neotectonics: the example of the Krško Basin (Tomaž Verbič; field trip)

March 15, 2004: On the controversial nature of paleosols related to shallow marine carbonate depositional environments (Andrea Mindszenty; lecture)

February 12, 2004: Sedimentary petrographic heterogeneity
 of the Velenje lignite (Miloš Markič; lecture)

December 4, 2003: Radiolarian Biostratigraphy of Middle- Upper Jurassic pelagic siliceous successions of western Sicily and Southern Alps (Italy) (Paola Beccaro; lecture)

November 6, 2003: Life and death of a Cretaceous carbonate platform (lecture & video film: Igor Vlahović & Josip Tišljar)

October 16-17, 2003: Uranium ore deposits within the Val Gardena Formation in the Žirovski Vrh Mine (field trip; leaders: Drago Skaberne, Franci Čadež & Ivan Gantar)

June 5, 2003: Jurassic sedimentary evolution of the Julian Alps (Andrej Šmuc; lecture)

May 8, 2003: Ladinian volcano-sedimentary complex in the Kamna Gorica quarry (field trip; leaders: Drago Skaberne, Jože čar & Špela Goričan)

March 13-14, 2003: Stratigraphy of the transition zone between Internal and External Dinarides in the Gorjanci region  (field trip; leaders: Igor Rižnar & Drago Skaberne)

February 6, 2003: Investigations of high-mountain lake sediments in the eastern part of the Julian Alps (Polona Vreča, Gregor Muri & Milijan Šiško; lecture)

January 9, 2003: Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous carbonate platforms of the Northern Calcareous Alps: structure and evolution (Michael W. Rasser; lecture)

December 5, 2002: Collision remnants of African and European plates on Pohorje and Kobansko (Mirka Trajanova; lecture)

November 14-15, 2002: Geology of Kraški Rob (the margin of the Kras Plateau) on the motorway construction sites between Kozina and Srmin (field trip; leaders: Ladislav Placer, Adrijan Košir, Bojan Otoničar & Tom Popit)

May 10-11, 2002: Kobariški Stol and Nadiža Valley (field trip; leaders: Andrej Šmuc, Ladislav Placer & Aleksander Horvat)

April 11, 2002: The Slovenian Basin II. (seminar; convenor: Jože Čar)

March 7, 2002: The Slovenian Basin (seminar; convenor: Jože Čar)

February 7, 2002: Research techniques in sedimentology II. – Modern electronic microscopy and applications in sedimentology (Slavko Žižek)

January 10, 2002: Sedimentary evolution of the Mesozoic Hawasina Basin in Oman (Špela Goričan; lecture)

December 6, 2001: Holocene and Pleistocene carbonates of South Florida and the Bahamas (Adrijan Košir; lecture)

November 21, 2001: Petrology of lithified cave sediments (R.A.L. Osborne; lecture)

November 8, 2001: Research techniques in sedimentology I. (workshop)

October 4, 2001: Upper Pliocene fluvial and volcaniclastic sediments at Grad in Goričko (Polona Kralj, lecture)

April 5, 2001: Geological monitoring on archaeological excavation sites (Tomaž Verbič; lecture)

March 1, 2001: Pliocene sediments of Goričko: fluvial facies and periglacial structures (Mihael Brenčič; lecture)

February 1, 2001: Quaternary sediments of the upper Soča Valley: products of glaciers, landslides and/or mass flows? (Jurij Kunaver, Miloš Bavec, Matjaž Mikoš, Jože Čar & Dragomir Skaberne; symposium)

January 11, 2001: Sedimentology and taphonomy of palaeokarstic sediments with dinosaur remains at Kozina (Adrijan Košir & Bojan Otoničar; lecture)

December 7, 2000: The Mangart landslide (symposium)