Dear Colleagues, If you are planning on attending the upcoming 2004 Gordon Conference highlighting the "Role of Water in Rock Deformation" and IF YOU HAVE NOT APPLIED YET, PLEASE DO SO soon! We have already received 96 applications for this conference and the growing list of applicants includes a diverse group of outstanding geoscientists and materials scientists. This is good news of course. However, this also means that there is a risk of us reaching the GRC maximum participant limit of 135 before we receive your application. Remember that you don't have to pay any meeting expenses yet (that happens when you register), but it is important for you to get your application in soon. The program for this GRC conference can be downloaded as pdf document from: http://www.tectonique.net/grc/2004_GRC_Program.pdf It will be held at Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, Massachusetts) August 8-13, 2004 (http://www.tectonique.net/grc/). TO APPLY, please click on: http://www.grc.org/scripts/dbml.exe?Template=/Application/apply1.dbm Scroll down to ROCK DEFORMATION and click on GO. Field Excursion: An optional pre-meeting field trip will explore localities in northern New England organized by faculty at the University of Maine (Scott Johnson ([log in to unmask]) and Charlie Guidotti) and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Mike Williams, Michele Cooke). This trip will be limited to GRC participants and will take 3.5 days, examining classic localities in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts that show superb examples of: magmatic breccias deformation aureoles around plutons crustal-scale mylonite zones porphyroblastic migmatites and schists the intimate interplay of fluids and deformation in greenschist-facies schists and slates Observations made at the field stops should stimulate discussion on a wide range of issues regarding the role of fluids during deformation and metamorphism. A number of other New England geologists with exertise in the various localities will also provide their perspectives on particular roles of fluids in evidence at the outcrop and current analytical approaches to their study. Further details about this field excursion will be available in the near future. Best Regards, Andreas Kronenberg and Mark Jessell Chairs, 2004 GRC on Rock Deformation -- Mark Jessell Laboratoire des Mécanismes et Transferts en Géologie Université Paul-Sabatier, 38 rue des Trente-six Ponts 31400 Toulouse cedex - FRANCE tel (33) (0)5 61 55 84 04 Fax: (33) (0)5 61 52 05 44 Home Page http://www.tectonique.net/mark/ Gordon Conference http://www.tectonique.net/grc/