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Dear colleagues,
The Goldschmidt meeting 2013 (http://goldschmidt.info/2013/) will be
held in Florence, Italy this summer and we would like to draw your
attention to the session 22i:
"Decoding Mechanisms, Rates and Timescales of Transport Processes in
the Earth by Mineralogy and Geochemistry"
The spatial variations of minerals along with the mobility of elements
and isotopes in Earth systems are fundamental factors in understanding
geochemical cycles at all scales. Today, the rates and contributions of
atmospheric, sedimentary and volcanic processes can be accurately
measured, but knowledge of rates and timescales of mid-crustal to mantle
processes, where transport of matter is mainly coupled to fluid flow,
diffusion and mineral reactions are still elusive. The general focus is
on efforts to quantitatively describe and interpret all aspects of rock
alteration on various scales based on mineral occurrences and/or on the
chemical and isotopic compositions of solids. This session aims to shed
light on diffusional and advective transport-controlled processes of
texture formation and metasomatism/rock alteration to understand the
underlying mechanisms and to deduce rates and timescales of geological
phenomena and events. Contributions from the field, experiments, as well
as theoretical and modeling studies, are welcome.
Keynote speaker: Oliver Pluemper (Univ Utrecht, NL)
Invited: Veronika Homolova (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Abstract Deadline: April 12, 2013
Please submit your abstract to:
http://goldschmidt.info/2013/signupUser?nextPage=abstracts/abstractSubmit
We hope to see you in Florence for an exciting session!
Timm John, Thomas Mueller, Ralf Milke & John Ferry
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Dr. Thomas Mueller
Juniorprofessor / Assistant Professor
Institute of Geology, Mineralogy& Geophysics
Ruhr-University Bochum
Universitätsstr. 150; Gebäude NA 03/586
D-44801 Bochum
Phone: +49 (234) 322-3522
Fax: +49 (234) 321-4433
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Web: http://www.gmg.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/petrologie/thomas_mueller.html.de
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