Dear colleagues,
(Apologies for multiple postings)
We would like to draw your attention to the session
*Dynamics and Structure of the Mediterranean Collisions and Back-arcs
(TS6.1/GD6.5/SM6.17)*
at EGU 2016 (Vienna, Austria, 17-22 April 2016) and hope that you will
consider submitting an abstract to this session. The abstract submission
deadline is Wednesday January 13, 2016 @ 13:00 CET.
/Session description/:
The Mediterranean region, given its peculiar landlocked setting in the
Africa/Arabia and Eurasia convergence zone, its invaluable and
long-lasting geological record of complex interactions among major and
smaller plates, the presence of subduction zones at different
evolutionary stages, has progressively grown as a comprehensive test
site to investigate fundamental plate tectonic and geodynamic processes.
Advances in a variety of geophysical and geological fields provide a
rich and growing set of constraints on the crust-lithosphere and mantle
structure, tectonics and geodynamic evolution of the Mediterranean. We
welcome contributions presenting new insights and observations derived
from different perspectives like geology (stratigraphy, petrology,
geochronology, geochemistry, tectonics and geomorphology), geophysics
(seismicity, seismic imaging, seismic anisotropy, gravity), geodesy
(GPS, InSAR) and modelling (numerical and analogue), as well as from
multi-disciplinary studies.
/Confirmed solicited presentations: /
* Daniel Garcia-Castellanos (ICTJA-CSIC, Barcelona) will review the
state of research on the geodynamics of the Gibraltar Arc with
emphasis on the vertical motions since the Miocene and their
implications for the Messinian disconnection
* Claudio Faccenna (Università Roma TRE, Rome) will give a broad
review of mantle dynamics in the whole Mediterranean
To join you can submit your abstracts here:
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/session/20506
With best regards,
Claudia Piromallo
Alexis Plunder
Jeroen van Hunen
Laurent Jolivet
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Dr Jeroen van Hunen
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Durham
Durham DH1 3LE
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)191 334 2293
Fax: +44 (0)191 334 2301
