The 2009 Annual Meeting of the Mineralogical Society of Great
Britain and Ireland has the title 'Micro-Analysis, Processes, Time
MAPT)'. The conference will be held in Edinburgh from 31st August
to the 2nd September, with workshops and field trips immediately
before and after these dates.
The meeting is being organised in conjunction with: the Deutsche
Mineralogishe Gesellschaft, the Société Francaise de Mineralogie et
de Cristallographie, and the International Association of
Geoanalysts. The lead convenor is Professor Simon Harley of
Edinburgh University and chair of the Metamorphic Studies Group of the
Mineralogical and Geological Societies.
Micro-analytical and micro-textural information is now central to
many new observations in the Earth sciences, and it is critical to
the testing and development of hypotheses related to Earth processes
and behaviour on all time and length scales. MAPT will provide a
forum for the presentation and discussion of the many recent
advances in Micro-Analytical techniques (including both chemical and
textural analysis). MAPT will focus also on how these advances
impact on our understanding of mineralogical-geochemical Processes,
their timescales of development, and the consequences for the
measurement of Time in the Earth Sciences.
MAPT will address both the actual development of new
micro-analytical instrumentation and techniques, and the new
information and ideas that are arising from application of these
techniques and older techniques of microscopic observation and
analysis.
Go to http://www.minersoc.org/pages/meetings/MAPT/MAPT.html for a
copy of the first circular (including a proposed list of sessions).
Proposals for other sessions are welcome.
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Kevin Murphy
Mineralogical Society of Great Britain & Ireland
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