Charlie
All young orogens are essentially "hot" if erosion is happening
faster than the geothermal gradient requires to establish a new
equilibrium. Geothermal gradient data from the Zagros will answer
your question.
Malcolm.
On 12 Nov 2007, at 20:58, Charlie Verdel wrote:
> Do you think a paper on the Iranian arc might be appropriate for
> this EGU
> session/special issue?
>
> Charlie
>
>
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> Subject: Hot Orogens
>
> Dear colleagues
>
>
> We are planning to put together a Tectonophysics special issue on the
> theme of "Hot Orogens". This is in association with a session at the
> 2008 EGU meeting in Vienna devoted to this topic (see description
> below) for which we encourage you to submit a presentation.
>
> We would like to have a list of possible publications for the
> Tectonophysics editors by the end of January 2008. Please consider
> submitting a paper to this special issue and if you are interested
> please send a title and a short summary to [log in to unmask]
> mip.fr, or [log in to unmask]
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> Sincerely,
>
> Patrice Rey, Dominique Chardon, Christian Teyssier, Donna Whitney
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> ______________________________________________________________________
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>
> EGU 2008 General Assembly - Tectonics and Structural geology
> programme group
>
> Session TS12 - Structure, deformation, and flow of hot orogens
>
> This session welcomes contributions from all fields of geosciences
> that contribute to understanding the tectonothermal evolution of hot
> orogens and/or weak lithosphere. Key topics include, but are not
> restricted to, the relations among structure, deformation,
> topography, flow, magmatism and metamorphism of transpressional,
> transtensional and mature collisional orogens through geological
> time. Emphasis will be put on multi-scale studies of magmatic arc
> systems, transpressive/transtensive crustal-scale shear zones,
> Precambrian orogens and mobile belts, Cordilleran orogens, high
> plateaus, and/or modern convergent orogenic belts in their late-
> orogenic stages. We encourage comparisons of these deformation
> systems and analysis at various structural levels. The session aims
> at gathering structural geologists, tectonicists, geophysicists,
> petrologists and modelers interested in 3D crustal / lithospheric
> deformation processes in relation to crustal / lithospheric mass
> balance.
>
> All necessary information can be found under http://
> meetings.copernicus.org/egu2008.
> The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is 14 January 2008.
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