Dear Colleagues,
Deadline is coming soon, so we would like to draw your attention to the EGU General Assembly session TS8.3/GD6.5/GMPV57 to take place between April 27 - May 2, 2014 in Vienna (Austria) titled: "Basement-cover relationships in Orogenic Belts from Greenland to Svalbard: The Arctic gateway".
Convener: Pierpaolo Guarnieri
Co-convener: Jaroslaw Majka
Session Description:
Fragments of Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic orogenic belts were spread around the Arctic during opening of the northeast Atlantic and Arctic basins. Late Paleozoic Ellesmerian and the Cenozoic Eurekan deformations are recognized in Canada, north Greenland and Svalbard; Caledonian granites and migmatites are distributed all over northeast Greenland up to Svalbard and there is evidence of, at least, late Grenvillean-Sveconorwegian Orogeny throughout the high Arctic, from northern Canada to east Greenland, Svalbard, Novaya Zemlya, Taimyr and Severnaya Zemlya, in the Urals and the Scandinavian Caledonides. Since the Late Paleozoic, huge unconformities separate deformed and/or metamorphic basement, from deep and wide sedimentary basins, in turn affected by younger tectonic events leading to Mesozoic rifting and later drifting. Cenozoic large scale fracture zones and strike-slip faults reactivated in many cases old tectonic lineaments causing intra-plate deformation with the resulting uplift and exhumation of Mesozoic basins around Canada, Greenland and the Barents Sea.
The aim of the session is to invite scientists to discuss and present new results and ideas about the tectonic evolution of the region around the Arctic gateway, from the assembling and break-up of Rodinia, through the assembly of Pangea and the opening of the Eurasian Basin.
We welcome oral and poster presentations. Regular abstract deadline is January 16, 2014. Financial support application deadline is November 29, 2013.
You can submit your abstract at: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2014/session/14799
Everybody interested in the Arctic geology is very welcome. Do not hesitate to contact us for further information. We hope to see you in Vienna!
Best,
Pierpaolo and Jarek
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