The Tectonics Division of the Geological Society of South Africa (TDOGS)
will be hosting a SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM to celebrate its 20th
Anniversary, entitled
THE BIRTH AND GROWTH
OF CONTINENTS – GEODYNAMICS THROUGH
TIME
as
part of the 2004 Congress of the Geological Society of South Africa, to be held
in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 12-16 July, 2004
This 4-day symposium aims to bring together structural geologists, igneous and metamorphic petrologists, geodynamicists and geophysicists to examine the processes responsible for the formation and growth of continents, and their subsequent modification. Siting of this meeting on the Kaapvaal craton will provide participants with the opportunity to evaluate at close quarters the large database available for one of the largest fragments of ancient continental crust, including the deep lithospheric and mantle geophysical results from the recently completed Kaapvaal Craton Project. Delegates will have the opportunity to participate in a variety of other symposia during the conference, which is expected to attract ~500 delegates (see www.wits.ac.za/geoscienceafrica/ for details).
Contributions
are invited on the following specialist
themes:
Confirmed keynote
speakers: John Dewey (UC Davis), Simon Harley (Edinburgh), Neil
Mancktelow (ETH Zurich), Tracy Rushmer (Vermont), Ed Sawyer (Quebec) and
Mark Schmitz (Carnegie), Trond Torsvik (Geological Survey Norway), Richard White
(Melbourne).
The
symposium will be followed by a seven-day post-conference
excursion (17-23 July, 2004) through the Early Archaean supracrustal
sequences of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, the mid-crustal TTG-suite
batholiths, and the deep-crustal granulites of the Archaean-Palaeoproterozoic
Limpopo Belt. Numbers will be limited to ~30, on a first-come-first-served
basis. The excursion itinerary will be posted on the website in February. Other
excursions that may be of interest to delegates are listed on the
website.
Convenors:
Roger Gibson (University of the Witwatersrand, [log in to unmask]), Hassina Mouri
(University of Pretoria, [log in to unmask]), Mike
Brown (University of Maryland,
[log in to unmask])
Deadlines
are:
Registration and
abstract submission: 31 March, 2004
Notification of acceptance of abstracts: 14 April, 2004
For any further queries, please contact Roger Gibson.