Dear Peter,
We haven't seen each other for some time since the HKT workshop in India. Nice to hear you moved to the U.S. and are going to organize a session on Asian monsoon for tectonics. I am quite interested in it, and have registered for your session with abstract submitted (see attached file). I have also forwarded your session to Prof. Chenglin Liu and Dr. Wenxia Han asking them to attend the session as well. I am now in the SE Tibet for field work. Our institute has moved into a new building in Beijing, and welcome you to visit it. I hope to see you soon in Hamburg.
Best regards,
Xiaomin Fang
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> 发件人: "Peter D Clift" <[log in to unmask]>
> 发送时间: 2012年3月22日 星期四
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> 主题: Special session at Hamburg meeting
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> Dear Colleagues,
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> I wanted to draw your attention to the "GV and Sediment Meeting" to be held in Hamburg, Germany on September 23-28, 2012. You can see the main sessions and themes at the following website
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> http://www.gv-hamburg2012.de/
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> In particular I wanted to encourage people interested in climate, all climate tectonic interactions to submit an abstract to the following special session that we are organizing at this event. We encourage submissions from him number of disciplines, sedimentologists, paleoceanography, climatologists, climate modelers and all those interested in the geological evolution of the Asian continent.
> best regards
> Peter Clift
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> 5.3 Evolution of the Asia monsoon
> Conveners: Peter Clift, V. Ramaswamy
> Summary: The Asian monsoon system is one of the most intense climatic phenomenon on Earth, yet its development is not well understood. On million-year scales and longer its intensity has been linked variously to the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau, to northward drift of India and to the retreat of shallow seas in central Asia. On shorter timescales it is clear that the monsoon is partly coupled with Milankovitch cyclicity but it is unclear how this is modulated, whether there are large lags or leads between the orbital forcing and the peak monsoon, and whether the East and South Asian monsoons are closely coupled or even anti-phased. Monsoon activity may be a primary control on the evolution of mountain exhumation in Asia and in controlling the flux of sediment and dissolved material to the oceans via some of the largest rivers on Earth. In this respect the monsoon is not just controlled by the geological evolution of Asia but also feeds back on that same process. In more recent times the monsoon has had a close link to the development of human societies in Asia and the extent to which monsoon intensity has caused major changes in human settlement since the Neolithic in south and East Asia continues to be debated. Right up to the flooding in Pakistan and China in 2010 it is clear that the monsoon has a major influence on the prosperity of human society.
> In this session we welcome all contributions related to the evolution of winter and summer monsoon intensity over a range of timescale, as well as the proposed impacts on environment and geology.
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> Peter D. Clift
> Charles T. McCord Professor of Petroleum Geology,
> Department of Geology and Geophysics,
> E235 Howe-Russell-Kniffen Geoscience Complex
> Louisiana State University,
> Baton Rouge, LA 70803,
> USA
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> Tel: +1 225-578-2153
> Fax: +1 225-578-2302
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> http://www.geol.lsu.edu/pclift/
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