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Gabi
> Dear Cees,
>
> Unfortunately I will not be able to attend the meeting and the field trip,
> which I was really looking forward to. I have a field camp with the
> students on the same exact dates.
>
> Hope to see you soon
>
> Cheers
>
> Gabi
>
>>
>> Dear colleagues and friends,
>>
>> At the upcoming Geological Association of Canada (GAC) conference, to be
>> held in St. John's, Nfld. we are convening a symposium (and associated
>> field trip) called: Collision Tectonics and Terranes: The
>> Appalachian-Caledonian Symposium: a Celebration of the Career of Hank
>> Williams, which will provide a venue for the presentation of new
>> research concerning the opening and closing of the Iapetus and Rheic
>> oceans, which gave rise to the Appalachian-Caledonian - Variscan
>> mountain belts; the assembly of Laurussia and Pangea; the provenance and
>> evolution of the various terranes caught-up in these oceans, and the
>> origin and development of bends of the Pangean orogenic belts. In
>> addition, we encourage talks on other mountain belts so as to stimulate
>> discussions of comparative orogenesis and particularly on how and why
>> orogens differ.
>> Conveners: Cees van Staal, Stephen Johnson, Dennis Brown & John Waldron
>> The chairs invite accepted presenters to submit a manuscript for
>> inclusion in a forthcoming special volume of Canadian Journal of Earth
>> Sciences in honour of Hank Williams.
>> Keynote and invited speakers:
>> John Dewey (emeritus Universities of Oxford and UC Davis), Mike Brown
>> (University of Maryland)
>>
>> We hope you will be interested in participating in this Symposium and
>> submit an abstract for a talk or poster. Also, please share this email
>> with others (colleagues, students, fellow students) that may be
>> interested in attending.
>>
>> The Structural Geology and Tectonics Division of GAC may sponsor a
>> student to go on the fieldtrip. If you'd like to know the details,
>> please contact John Waldron at the University of Alberta
>> ([log in to unmask]).
>>
>> Associated fieldtrip
>> ACCRETED TERRANES OF THE APPALACHIAN OROGEN IN NEWFOUNDLAND: IN THE
>> FOOTSTEPS OF HANK WILLIAMS
>> Dates: Tuesday May 22nd - Saturday May 26th
>> Leaders: Cees van Staal and Alexandre Zagorevski, Geological Survey of
>> Canada.
>> Summary: Due to its extensive and magnificent coastal exposures and
>> numerous multi-disciplinary investigations over the last thirty years,
>> Newfoundland has become the type area for the northeastern Appalachian
>> Orogen, and was a critical natural laboratory in the application of the
>> plate tectonic theory to ancient mountain belts. This excursion provides
>> a cross-section through the Appalachian Orogen, focused largely upon
>> the accreted terranes derived from island-arcs of the Iapetus Ocean, and
>> microcontinental blocks of both Laurentian and Gondwanan affinities. The
>> excursion will explore how ideas on the tectonic evolution of the
>> Appalachian Orogen have changed with our growing knowledge of modern
>> analogues, and with the advent of high-precision geochronology. The
>> excursion is focused on volcanic and sedimentary rocks and their
>> structural evolution, but will also include aspects of magmatic
>> evolution, and the linkages between lithotectonic terranes and economic
>> mineralization. Last, but not least, it will highlight the prescient and
>> enduring contributions of the late Harold (Hank) Williams to our
>> understanding of this classic and important region.
>> Other Information: Trip commences the morning of Tuesday May 22nd in
>> Stephenville, NL and ends Saturday afternoon/evening in St. John's;
>> participants must make their own travel arrangements to Deer Lake or
>> Stephenville, where they will be picked up. Most locations are easily
>> accessible roadside or coastal outcrops.
>>
>> Time flies and the formal abstract deadline is coming up shortly (Jan.
>> 27). For on-line submission and other conference details, please see the
>> website at: http://stjohns2012.ca/
>>
>>
>> Kind regards and we hope to see you there,
>>
>> Cees van Staal on behalf of the conveners
>>
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