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Unraveling the nature of crustal growth and mountain building processes across Earth’s dynamic history relies on integrated studies involving the reconstruction of pressure-temperature-time (P-T-t) paths from preserved metamorphic assemblages and their textures. This session aims to deepen our understanding of petrogenetic processes based on the evidence preserved in metamorphic rocks. Part of this session will be dedicated specifically to studies on “petrochronology” that link chronometry to quantitative conditions at which metamorphic processes operate and to deformation in Earth’s lithosphere. To read and interpret the rich archive of such processes as preserved in metamorphic rocks, advances in petrological analysis are combined with high-resolution geochronology.
 
This session welcomes recent advances made in the development of these techniques and their application, with tectonic and petrogenetic implications. Contributions expanding present analytical limitations are encouraged, as are case studies ranging in scale from (sub)grains to orogens.

Invited speakers: Matt Kohn (Boise State University, USA) & Eugene Grosch (Rhodes University, South Africa)

Conveners: P. Lanari (University of Bern, Switzerland), E. Janots (University of Grenoble Alpes, France) & S. Ferrero (University of Potsdam, Germany)

Abstract submission deadline: Jan. 11, 2017 (13:00 CET)


We look forward to seeing you in Vienna!