This message is to remind you about Session GD08 at the EGU General Assembly, Vienna, April 15-20, 2007: http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2007/

SESSION TITLE

Modelling and Monitoring the Deformation and State of Stress of the Lithosphere (http://www.cosis.net/members/meetings/sessions/information.php?p_id=242&s_id=3997)

The session is co-sponsored by the International Lithosphere Program and co-listed in the Seismology section (SM) 
and in the Geodesy (G).


INVITED SPEAKERS

Kevin Furlong (Penn State University) and Todd Williams (UNAVCO)
Linking Geodetics and Geodynamics along the northern San Andreas system: Deformational constraints on triple junction tectonics

Andreas Eckert, Thies Buchmann (University of Karlsruhe), Peter Connolly (Chevron Texaco)
Sources of the San Andreas Fault stress field - Insights from 3D numerical models

Cecile Lasserre (CNRS, Paris)
Interseismic deformation across major strike-slip faults in China measured by InSAR: a comparative study of the Altyn Tagh and Haiyuan faults

Thomas Walter (GFZ Potsdam)
InSAR ground deformation, data inversion and stress transfer in volcanoes

Shinichi Miyazaki (University of Tokyo)
Postseismic deformation over 3 years following the 2003 Tokachi-oki earthquake

Andrea Hampel (University of Bochum) 
Response of active faults to glacial-interglacial changes in surface loads



SESSION DESCRIPTION

The main goal of this session is to bring together researchers with a focus on monitoring and 
modelling of the deformation and stress field of the lithosphere. The emphasis will be on 
interdisciplinary synthesis rather than technical advances in modelling techniques and data 
analysis. Numerical and analogue modelling provide new insights into geodynamic processes such 
as earthquake cycles, plate tectonics, basin evolution, and mantle convection. To constrain 
such models, GPS data from continuously observing networks and campaign surveys as well as 
InSAR measurements are increasingly being used. These geodetic observations monitor the recent 
crustal deformation with high accuracy and thus, provide the possibility to resolve details of 
post-, co- and interseismic deformation signals. Additionally, GPS and InSAR data are used to 
derive complex earthquake related information such as co-seismic slip distribution, 
post-seismic stress relaxation, poroelastic rebound, afterslip, and silent earthquakes. 
The geodetic observations can be related to the physical and rheological properties of the 
lithosphere by means of modelling. Particular interest is on research which compares and/or 
combines geodetic observations with data from other sources (e.g. seismology, paleoseismology, 
structural geology). Contributions may regard, but are not limited to, studies of: 
1.) Integrated interdisciplinary interpretation and modelling of stress and strain observations; 
2.) Finite geologic strain versus geodetic strain; 
3.) Relationship between crustal deformation and heat flow; 
4.) Mechanical anisotropy of the lithosphere; 
5.) Correlation between plate motions, mantle flow, seismic anisotropy, stress directions and plate boundary forces.
 

CONVENER

Oliver Heidbach
Kasper Fischer
Anke Friedrich
Sigurjon Jonsson

All information about the General Assembly and guidelines regarding the abstract format, submission and oral/poster 
presentations are available on the Assembly Web Site (http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2007/)

Please, go through the menu to "Programme" and "Call for Paper", the Session GD08 is listed in the Geodynamics 
programme section.


IMPORTANT DEADLINES

Deadline for receipt of abstracts: 15th January 2007
Deadline for Letters of Invitation for Visas & Travel Funds: 28th February 2007 Deadline for pre-registration: 31st March 2007


Please, don't hesitate to contact us for any information.

We look forward to seeing you in Vienna,


Oliver Heidbach
Karlsruhe University
Geophysical Institute
Hertzstr.16
76187 Karlsruhe
Germany
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Kasper Fischer
Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics
Ruhr-University Bochum
Universitätsstr. 150
44780 Bochum
Germany
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Anke Friedrich
Institut für Geologie
Universität Hannover
Appelstraße 11A
D-30167 Hannover
Germany
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Sigurjon Jonsson
Institute of Geophysics
ETH Zurich
ETH Hoenggerberg (HPP)
CH-8093 Zurich
Switzerland
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