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G'day all In regard to the Tectonophysics special issue and EGU session on "Hot Orogen" these include weak lithosphere as well, and "Hot Orogenous Zones" is fine too. "Hot" means hot enough for gravity driven flow to play a significant role on the tectonic and thermal evolutions. Cheers Patrice On 13/11/2007, at 7:58 AM, Charlie Verdel wrote: > Do you think a paper on the Iranian arc might be appropriate for > this EGU > session/special issue? > > Charlie > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tectonics & structural geology discussion list > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Patrice Rey > Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 9:53 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Hot Orogens > > Dear colleagues > > > We are planning to put together a Tectonophysics special issue on the > theme of "Hot Orogens". This is in association with a session at the > 2008 EGU meeting in Vienna devoted to this topic (see description > below) for which we encourage you to submit a presentation. > > We would like to have a list of possible publications for the > Tectonophysics editors by the end of January 2008. Please consider > submitting a paper to this special issue and if you are interested > please send a title and a short summary to [log in to unmask] > mip.fr, or [log in to unmask] > > Sincerely, > > Patrice Rey, Dominique Chardon, Christian Teyssier, Donna Whitney > > ______________________________________________________________________ > _ > > EGU 2008 General Assembly - Tectonics and Structural geology > programme group > > Session TS12 - Structure, deformation, and flow of hot orogens > > This session welcomes contributions from all fields of geosciences > that contribute to understanding the tectonothermal evolution of hot > orogens and/or weak lithosphere. Key topics include, but are not > restricted to, the relations among structure, deformation, > topography, flow, magmatism and metamorphism of transpressional, > transtensional and mature collisional orogens through geological > time. Emphasis will be put on multi-scale studies of magmatic arc > systems, transpressive/transtensive crustal-scale shear zones, > Precambrian orogens and mobile belts, Cordilleran orogens, high > plateaus, and/or modern convergent orogenic belts in their late- > orogenic stages. We encourage comparisons of these deformation > systems and analysis at various structural levels. The session aims > at gathering structural geologists, tectonicists, geophysicists, > petrologists and modelers interested in 3D crustal / lithospheric > deformation processes in relation to crustal / lithospheric mass > balance. > > All necessary information can be found under http:// > meetings.copernicus.org/egu2008. > The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is 14 January 2008. > > -- > ____________ > > Dr P. F. Rey > Earthbyte Research Group / www.earthbyte.org > Structural Geology, Tectonics, Geodynamics > The School of Geosciences > The University of Sydney > Sydney > NSW 2006 > Tel: +61 2 9351 2067 > Fx: +61 2 9351 0184 > URL: http://www.geosci.usyd.edu.au/users/prey >