Dear Colleagues,

If you are planning on attending the upcoming 2004 Gordon
Conference highlighting the "Role of Water in Rock Deformation" and IF YOU
HAVE NOT APPLIED YET, PLEASE DO SO soon!

We have already received 96 applications for this conference and
the growing list of applicants includes a diverse group of outstanding
geoscientists and materials scientists. This is good news of course.
However, this also means that there is a risk of us reaching the GRC
maximum participant limit of 135 before we receive your application.
Remember that you don't have to pay any meeting expenses yet (that happens
when you register), but it is important for you to get your application in
soon.

The program for this GRC conference can be downloaded as pdf document from:

http://www.tectonique.net/grc/2004_GRC_Program.pdf

It will be held at Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, Massachusetts)
August 8-13, 2004 (http://www.tectonique.net/grc/). TO APPLY, please click
on:


http://www.grc.org/scripts/dbml.exe?Template=/Application/apply1.dbm

Scroll down to ROCK DEFORMATION and click on GO.



Field Excursion:

An optional pre-meeting field trip will explore localities in
northern New England organized by faculty at the University of Maine (Scott
Johnson ([log in to unmask]) and Charlie Guidotti) and the University of
Massachusetts at
Amherst (Mike Williams, Michele Cooke). This trip will be limited to GRC
participants and will take 3.5 days, examining classic localities in Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts that show superb examples of:

magmatic breccias
deformation aureoles around plutons
crustal-scale mylonite zones
porphyroblastic migmatites and schists
the intimate interplay of fluids and deformation
     in greenschist-facies schists and slates

Observations made at the field stops should stimulate discussion on a wide
range of issues regarding the role of fluids during deformation and
metamorphism. A number of other New England geologists with exertise in
the various localities will also provide their perspectives on particular
roles of fluids in evidence at the outcrop and current analytical
approaches to their study. Further details about this field excursion will
be available in the near future.


Best Regards,
Andreas Kronenberg and
Mark Jessell
Chairs, 2004 GRC on Rock Deformation

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Mark Jessell
Laboratoire des Mécanismes et Transferts en Géologie
Université Paul-Sabatier, 38 rue des Trente-six Ponts
31400 Toulouse cedex - FRANCE
tel (33) (0)5 61 55 84 04 Fax: (33) (0)5 61 52 05 44

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