Dear Colleagues,
I would like to encourage you to submit an abstract to our EGU session:
GD2.2/GMPV6.5/SM3.7/TS3.8
Crustal Dynamics vs Anisotropy
EGU General Assembly in Vienna: 22 to 27 April 2012
Deadline for abstract submission: 17 January 2012
Information on our session can be found below and on:
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2012/session/9628
Looking forward to see you in Vienna,
Irene Bianchi
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GD2.2/GMPV6.5/SM3.7/TS3.8
Crustal Dynamics vs Anisotropy
Conveners: I. Bianchi, M. Miensopust , B. Grasemann , Y. Gueguen , W. Rabbel
This session is aimed to gather works from different disciplines that
focus on anisotropy within the crust. The main intention is to collect
information from top to bottom of the crust, about how this phenomenon
presents itself to our investigations, about how the presence of
anisotropy can mislead the understanding of the crustal structures, and
about how much of the anisotropy, observed with indirect methods, is
reliable. The analysis of anisotropy provides information on elastic
characteristics of the layers constituting the crust and is linked to the
past and actual stress field. To localize crustal anisotropy, quantify it
and determine its orientation is a topic of extremely high interest since
it leads to a better understanding of the actual dynamics, but can be
tricky since several effects contribute to blur the measurements.
Crustal deformation and flow patterns resulting from tectonic processes
are often constrained by observations on the anisotropic characteristics
of the crust; with the integration between field data and laboratory
experiments, steps towards a better understanding of the physical
processes that can produce anisotropy can be done, and that is what this
session is meant to do.
Possible contributions come from seismic observations, geodynamical
modeling, tectonophysics, tectonics, structural geology, magnetotellurics,
and mineral and rock physics; studies about temporal-variation of crustal
anisotropy are particularly encouraged.
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