Dear All,


The next Workshop of Alpine Geological Studies (5th) will be organised by
our Austrian colleagues from the Innsbruck and Wien Universities in  2001
(18-20 September). You can find below the announcement for this
cross-disciplinary meeting that could interest the members of the
geometamorphism list, since the Alpine chain is one of the most reputed
test-laboratory of our models, ideas and working techniques. I received it
this morning by Hugo Ortner  (Dr. Hugo Ortner/Institut fuer Geologie und
Palaeontologie/Universitaet Innsbruck/Innrain 52/6020 Innsbruck/Tel.
0512/507 5597/Fax. 0512/507 2914/email [log in to unmask]). You will
find the firts circular as attached file.

Hoping to meet many of you in  Obergurgl

M.Iole Spalla

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Maria Iole SPALLA
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra
Universita' di Milano
Via Mangiagalli 34, I 20133 MILANO
tel. 39 2 236 98 252
telecopier 39 2 706 38 261
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This information is also available at:
http://geopal.uibk.ac.at/alpshop/index.html
Please forward this information to potentially interested collegues!

General information

The 5th Workshop of Alpine Geological Studies will be held at the village
of Obergurgl in the Ötztal from September, 18-20, 2001. Obergurgl is a
small village
located at an altitude of 1930 m in the centre of the Ötztal Alps. Well
known as ski resort, the surroundings offer a beautiful scenery and
spectacular outcrops
in basement rocks of the Ötztal-Stubai complex. In 1991 a frozen mummy was
found at a glacier pass SW of Obergurgl which soon became famous as the
Stone-Age "Ötzi".

Obergurgl also hosts the "Forschungsinstitut für alpine
Hochgebirgsforschung" (Research Institute of Alpine High-Mountain Studies),
which is affiliated with the
University of Innsbruck.

Weather in the Alps during September is typically cool and sunny, with low
temperatures possibly below freezing point during the nights. Warm and
water-proof
gear is required for all field trips.


Accommodation

Students may be accommodated in double rooms in the
"Universitäts-Sportheim" at Obergurgl at a reduced fee of about 21,8 Euro
(ATS 300.--, DM 43,--,
L. 42.215,--, SFr. 33,--, FFr. 143,--) per day (including breakfast and
dinner). Else, accommodation will be in 3- and 4-star hotels in Obergurgl.


Registration fees

The registration fee will be on the order of 120 Euro (ATS 1.652.--, DM
235,--, L. 232.400,--, SFr. 182,--, FFr. 788,--).
Student registration will be approximately 50% lower. The organising
committee encourages preregistration in order to facilitate budget
planning.


 Deadlines



 February 2001
                                   Distribution of the second circular to
those who have responded to the preregistration
 April 30, 2001
                                   Deadline for submission of abstracts,
payment of registration and field trip fees
 August 2001
                                   Final program will be available on the
website
 September 18-20, 2001
                                   Meeting
Meeting Structure

The organisation committee welcomes contributions to all aspects of the
geology of the Alps. We propose the following symposia:

     1.Kinematics of the Alpine belt
     2.Tectonics and sedimentation
     3.Neotectonics and challenges in Engineering Geology
     4.Dating of deformation
     5.Deep seismic structure of the Alpine belt (TRANSALP)
     6.Changes in the Alpine landscape since the Neogene
     7.How much memory do rocks preserve: The derivation of P-T-t-d paths
and consequences on Alpine geodynamics
     8.Open session

The workshop will be held during a three day period. No parallel sessions
are planned. Poster sessions will not be held during oral presentations and
potential authors are encouraged to present their work as a poster. The
working language of the meeting will be English.





  Field Trips
 (1 day each)

 As the 5th Workshop on Alpine Geological studies takes place in the middle
of the Alps, we plan to offer field trips in the Tyrol region. Especially
areas, where the TRANSALP deep seismic line crosses the Alps will be
visited.

 E1, post-Meeting, September 21, 2001
 Lower Inn Valley (Southern margin of the Northern Calcareous Alps,
TRANSALP Traverse):
 Sedimentation and deformation of Molasse deposits on top of  Alpine nappes
in the Inn Valley
 (H. Ortner, V. Stingl)



 E2, pre-Meeting, September17, 2001
 Rofan mountains (Southern margin of the Northern Calcareous Alps, TRANSALP
Traverse):
 Alpine reactivation of Jurassic basinal structures
 (R. Brandner, Th. Sausgruber)



 E3, post-Meeting, September 21, 2001
 Gader Valley, Col Becchei (Eastern Dolomites, TRANSALP Traverse):
 Polyphase and heteroaxial deformation in the eastern Southern Alps
 (R. Brandner, L. Keim)

 E4, pre-Meeting, September 17, 2001
 Alpine Metamorphism in the Schneeberg complex and neighbouring units
(immediate vicinity of Obergurgl)
 (J. Konzett, G. Hoinkes, P. Tropper)


 E5, pre-Meeting, September 17, 2001
 LowT-highP metamorphism in the Tarntal Mountains (Lower Austroalpine) and
their relation to the surrounding units
 F. Koller

 Would you like to guide a field trip? Further field trips may be organized
depending on interest of the participants.

Organisation Committee
Rainer Brandner, Hugo Ortner, Diethard Sanders, Christoph Spötl
Institute of Geology and Paleontology, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52,
A-6020 Innsbruck
http://geopal.uibk.ac.at/
Peter Mirwald,Peter Tropper, Jürgen Konzett
Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography, University of Innsbruck, Innrain
52, A-6020 Innsbruck
http://minpet.uibk.ac.at/
Friedrich Koller
Institute of Petrology, University of Vienna, Geozentrum, Althanstraße 14,
A-1090 Wien
http://www.univie.ac.at/petrologie/

Preregistration

We strongly encourage you to register via our web site:
http://geopal.uibk.ac.at/alpshop/index.html
otherwise print the circular or respond to this mail ([log in to unmask])


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