Hi Brad
Yes, you did reply before, but it's nice to know you haven't changed
your mind! Hope you're comfortable down there on the carpet....
Cheers
Simon
On 29 Nov 2006, at 19:55, Bradley Hacker 805.893.7952 wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> I don't know if I raised my ugly head off the carpet before, but YES,
> I am interested. I will definitely attend the meeting a am a
> "possible" for the post trip.
>
> Brad
>> Dear Colleagues
>>
>> This is to extend a cordial invitation to attend the International
>> Eclogite Field Symposium in Scotland next summer. This is the next in
>> the biennial series of Eclogite Conferences that have run since 1982.
>> The meeting will run from Friday 29th June - Saturday 7th July, and
>> will be followed by an optional post-conference excursion in Brittany
>> and Vendee, France from Monday 9th - Thursday 13th July. The meeting
>> immediately follows the joint MSA/MinSoc/MAC Frontiers in Mineral
>> Sciences conference in Cambridge, so if you come to the UK for the
>> Frontiers meeting it should be possible to stay on for the Eclogite
>> Symposium.
>>
>> The Symposium will commemorate the life and work of Tony Carswell,
>> who died in June this year. Tony made a huge contribution to studies
>> of eclogite facies terrains during a period of over forty years, and
>> we wish the meeting to celebrate his achievements and reflect the
>> breadth, rigour and insight of his work.
>>
>> The meeting incorporates the next Workshop for the International
>> Lithosphere programme Task Group IV "Ultradeep Continental Crust
>> Subduction". We look forward to welcoming members of the Task Group
>> and all those working on UHP rocks (we haven't found any UHP rocks in
>> Glenelg yet, but we're working on it!).
>>
>> Essential details of the meeting are set out below. If you are
>> interested in attending and have not replied to previous
>> announcements,
>> we would ask at this stage that you indicate your interest in
>> attending both the main meeting in Scotland, and the post conference
>> field trip (please indicate for each "Definite", "Likely" or
>> "Possible"). Full details of costs, registration, financial support
>> and abstract submission will be published shortly on a conference
>> website.
>>
>> The Eclogite Field Symposium will comprise a mix of short conference
>> sessions and field visits. The field work will focus on the
>> Glenelg-Attadale Inlier, that exposes Grenville-age eclogites, garnet
>> peridotites, felsic eclogite-facies rocks and some unusual
>> high-pressure lithologies including Fe-Mn-rich eulysites. This will
>> be a rare opportunity to visit an accessible and well-exposed example
>> of Grenville eclogites, and will be the first of the Eclogite
>> Conferences to visit an area of Precambrian eclogite-facies
>> metamorphic rocks. In addition to being the first place in which
>> eclogite-facies rocks were discovered in Great Britain (by Clough, a
>> colleague of the great duo Peach and Horne), it is also the area in
>> which Ramsay began to develop his seminal work on fold patterns and
>> mechanisms. Set in Glenelg and Loch Duich, among the mountains and
>> sea-lochs of the north-west Highlands of Scotland, the field area is
>> one of outstanding natural beauty, and is of great cultural interest.
>> We have the option to visit further field sites in the Dalradian of
>> the Grampian Highlands terrane en-route to the Symposium base, and a
>> one-day trip to see garnetiferous ultramafic rocks in the sole to the
>> Ballantrae ophiolite to the south of Glasgow. The Symposium will
>> include some social events - suffice it to say at this stage that
>> they will involve drinking a good deal of Scotch Whisky! We
>> anticipate that, depending on the number of delegates and
>> accommodation preferences, the cost for travel, accommodation, meals,
>> publications and administration during the main Symposium will be
>> similar to other, recent Eclogite Field Symposia, i.e. less than £800
>> or Euro1200 (this excludes travel to the meeting and some social
>> activities). Some bursaries will be available to support
>> participation, on application to the organising committee.
>>
>> The base for the Symposium will be the Cuillin Hills Hotel in Portree
>> on the beautiful Isle of Skye, adjacent to the field area. There is a
>> range of accommodation options available in Portree from low cost
>> hostels to luxury hotels, including the conference centre itself. Two
>> days of the Symposium will be set aside for conference sessions.
>> Suggested themes are Proterozoic and Archaean eclogites, micro- and
>> macro-structures associated with eclogite-facies rocks, unusual bulk
>> compositions, kinetics of metamorphism and preservation, novel
>> analytical methods in HP and UHP metamorphic petrology, and
>> high-pressure metamorphism in the British Isles. However, the meeting
>> is open to all subjects relevant to the geology of eclogite and
>> related rocks.
>>
>> The post-conference trip will depart from Glasgow airport on Mon 9th
>> July and will start in Lorient, Brittany. The excursion focuses on
>> the high-pressure rocks of the Armorican Massif, which form part of
>> the Moldanubian Zone in the Variscan orogen. We will visit the
>> spectacular, transitional blueschist-eclogite rocks on the Isle de
>> Groix (led by Michel Ballevre from Rennes). We then move on to the
>> Vendee area near Nantes (led by Gaston Godard and Gisella Rebay),
>> where we also have the opportunity to see a variety of different
>> eclogite types, including a superb 3-dimensional exposure inside a
>> large eclogite pod that is currently being quarried, plus
>> high-pressure schists and cordierite gneisses overprinted by
>> high-pressure kyanite-garnet assemblages. Participants will no doubt
>> enjoy the relaxed atmosphere after the rigours of the Scottish
>> mountains, and the good food and wine of this attractive region. The
>> trip finishes on 13th July in Nantes, which has connections from its
>> airport to several European locations, and a fast rail link to Paris
>> and its airports. The full cost of the post-conference field trip,
>> including flight from Glasgow, accommodation, food and travel in the
>> field area should be about Euro600.
>>
>> Please note that your indication of interest does not imply any
>> financial commitment on your part or that of the University of
>> Paisley
>> or other participating institutions at this stage.
>>
>> If you have any queries about the meeting, please don't hesitate to
>> contact me at this e-mail address.
>>
>> Looking forward to meeting you in Scotland and France in 2007.
>> Sincerely,
>> Simon Cuthbert
>> (on behalf of the Organising Committee)
>
>
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