Dear colleagues,
we would like to draw your attention to the following session at EGU
2007 in Vienna, Austria and encourage you to submit an abstract:
CL 16/GD 14 East African geodynamics, climate and evolution (co-listed
in TS & SSP)
session description:
Recent investigations of both terrestrial and marine paleoclimate
archives have led to a concerted debate regarding the nature of Late
Cenozoic environmental changes in East Africa, and its influence on
mammalian and hominin evolution. Since terrestrial records of East
African environmental change are typically rare, geographically
dispersed and incomplete, Indian and Atlantic Ocean sediment records
were used to reconstruct climatic changes in the region. However,
because of the unique tectonic and magmatic evolution of the East
African Rift System (EARS) and resulting changes in topography and
drainage patterns, marine sediment records may not necessarily reflect
contemporaneous environmental changes in East Africa. It is, therefore,
important to reach a better understanding of the processes changing the
habitat of mammals and hominins before suggesting possible links between
climate and faunal changes. This session brings together structural
geologists, paleoclimatologists, climate modellers and
paleoanthropologists to discuss tectonics-climate-evolution interactions
in a complex geologic setting. The session will also include
presentations of the German-Ugandan Rift-Link research group.
EGU General Assembly, 15-20 April 2007, Vienna, Austria
http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2007
Abstract deadline: 15th January 2007
Hope to see you in Vienna !
Trauth, M.; Christensen, B.; Glasmacher, U.; Koehn, D.; Maslin, M.;
Rümpker, G.; Strecker, M.
Daniel Koehn
Tectonophysics
Inst. fuer Geowissenschaften
University of Mainz
Becherweg 21
55099 Mainz,
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)6131 3924531
Fax.: +49 (0)6131 3923863
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