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Dear colleagues, Apologies for cross posting. We would like to draw your attention to the following session at the AGU2016 Fall meeting (San Francisco, 12-16 December 2016): Making the Mediterranean: from mantle to surface processes Session ID#: 12897 We hope that you will consider submitting an abstract to this session. The abstract submission deadline is Wednesday 3 August, 11:59 pm EDT. Session Description: The Mediterranean area, from Gibraltar to the Caucasus offers an outstanding opportunity to investigate the long-lasting geological record of complex intraplate deformation and plate boundary re-configuration. Interactions among major and smaller plates and the presence of subduction zones at different evolutionary stages provide opportunity for multi-disciplinary studies of the past and modern Mediterranean system, addressing the connection between deep and surface processes. Topical questions include long-term evolution of a convergent plate boundary, and the relations between slab and mantle dynamics, magmatic and metamorphic processes, strain partitioning in the lithosphere and surface evolution. We invite contributions from different and multi-disciplinary perspectives ranging from the surface to the mantle and based on geology (tectonics, petrology, geochronology, geochemistry, paleomagnetism and geomorphology), geophysics (seismicity, seismic imaging and anisotropy), geodesy and modelling (numerical and analogue). You can submit your abstracts here : https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/start.html <https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/start.html> Solicited contribution will be given by: Valentina Magni (Univ. Oslo): Mantle flow and oceanic crust formation during the opening of the Tyrrhenian back-arc basin Laurent Jolivet (Univ. Orléans): Mantle flow and deforming continents, from the Mediterranean to the India-Asia collision and the Pacific margin With best regards, Alexis Plunder Derya Gürer Donna L. Whitney Claudia Piromallo ______________________________ Dr. Alexis Plunder | Postdoc researcher @ Dept. of Earth Sciences | Utrecht University | Heidelberglaan 2, Room 8.11 | 3584CS Utrecht | The Netherlands | [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> https://sites.google.com/site/alexisplunder/ <https://sites.google.com/site/alexisplunder/>