RE: multi-disciplinary geodynamics session at EGU 2006
Dear Colleagues
A multi-disciplinary session at the EGU 2006 meeting, April 2-7, here in
Vienna will focus on crust and mantle processes in the Central - Eastern
Mediterranean region. This region is characterised by high seismicity,
rapid (micro)plate motions and young stretched crust. This is the expression
of a complex spatio-temporal interplay of convergence, extension, retreating
slabs, variable plate motions and plate-escape.
Special session TS5.4, Active and Recent Tectonics and Geodynamics of the
Central - Eastern Mediterranean (co-listed in Geodynamics=GD & Seismology=SM)
MAIN INFO:
An exciting advance in data and understanding for the Central - Eastern
Mediterranean region is emerging from a variety of geoscience campaigns in
the last years (e.g. RETREAT, CAT-SCAN, CYC/NET, MEDUSA, ACCEL see-below)
and we feel EGU can provide an excellent platform for cross-fertilisation of
new insight drawing from the results from workers in different disciplines
and different parts of the Central - Eastern Mediterranean region. Key
topics will include: subducting plate instabilities, contribution of mantle
processes, increase / migration / switching of plate rates, roles of slab
melting and upper / lower crustal failure. These phenomena are becoming
better understood through a range of modern geoscience studies that are
constraining crust & mantle architecture, temperatures, rates. We look
forward to contributions that address these issues, in particular those
combining disciplines such as seismology (e.g. on-/off-shore seismic
recordings, tomography) seismotectonics / seismogenesis, brittle tectonics,
crustal flow & failure study, geodesy, volcanology and petrology. We
anticipate a lively session series.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION:
!! Important. Abstract deadline is 13 January 2006 !!
Steps are explained here:
http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2006/how_to_submit_an_abstract.html
Once you are registered with COSIS, (scroll down to part 2 “Submission via
COSIS”) simply access the Geodynamics Programme Section:
http://www.cosis.net/members/meetings/programme/view.php?m_id=29&p_id=193
and scroll down to (or using “find” within the page) session TS5.4 and click
the link titled “Abstract Submission” (our session, TS5.4 can also, of
course, be found in the Seismology and the Tectonics and Structural Geology
Programme Sections). Other information
(http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2006/). Also please feel free to contact
any of us for any further information.
Please pass this along to any of your colleagues who may be interested. We
look forward to welcoming you to Vienna / Vienne / Wien!
The convenors:
Michael Edwards, Marco Bohnhoff, Lucia Margheriti, Vadim Levin, and
Arthur Lerner-Lam
Dr. Michael Edwards ([log in to unmask])
Structural Processes Group
Dept. of Geological Sciences
University of Vienna
Althanstrasse 14
Vienna A-1090
Austria
office +43-1-4277-53446
lab +43-6991-196-2805
fax +43-1-4277-9534
Dr. Marco Bohnhoff ([log in to unmask])
GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam
Section ’Rheology and Deformation’
Telegrafenberg D424
14473 Potsdam/Germany
phone: ++49 331 288 1327
fax: ++49 331 288 1328
Dr. Lucia Margheriti ([log in to unmask])
INGV Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
Centro Nazionale Terremoti
Via di Vigna Murata 605
00143Roma
Tel: (0039) 0651860519
Fax: (0039) 0651860507
Vadim Levin
Department of Geological Sciences
Rutgers University
610 Taylor Road,
Piscataway, NJ, USA
phone: (732) 445-5415
fax: (732) 445-3374
email: [log in to unmask]
Dr. Arthur Lerner-Lam
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Columbia. University
Palisades, NY, USA
phone (845) 365-8356
fax (845) 365-8150
[log in to unmask]
and....
Those project acronyms in full:
ACCEL (Aegean Core Complexes in Extended Lithosphere)
CYC-NET (A Temporary Seismic Network on the Cyclades)
CAT/SCAN (Calabria-Apennine-Tyrrhenian/Subduction-Collision-Accretion Network)
MEDUSA (Multidisciplinary Experiment for Dynamic Understanding of Subduction
under the Aegean)
RETREAT (Retreating-Trench, Extension and Accretion Tectonics [Northern
Apennines])
