Dear all,
We would like to draw your attention to the following interdisciplinary 
session at the EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 19– 24 April 2009

GM4.2 Landscape evolution: advances in reconstructing rates and processes
Invited talk by Jim Kirchner (University of California, Berkeley)

Physical interactions between tectonics, climate and surface erosion 
processes govern how the landscape is sculpted through time. These 
connections and feedbacks that occur during the evolution of the 
landscape are varied and occur on a variety of scales, both temporal and 
spatial. Recent advances in analytical techniques (for measuring rates 
and processes e.g., fission tracks, (U-Th)/He, stable isotopes and 
cosmogenic radionuclides) promise to open the black box that connects 
tectonics, climate and erosion. For example, use of multiple tracers in 
erosion studies has the potential to constrain erosion rates and 
processes in both time and space, allowing comparisons of erosion with 
detailed records of climatic and tectonic records. We actively encourage 
contributions that investigate the coupling of physical weathering and 
erosion, sediment generation and transport, and feedbacks between 
climate and tectonics at scales from soil particles to continental. 
Especially encouraged are multidisciplinary approaches that incorporate 
isotope studies and/or modelling in order to understand how the 
landscape evolves through time on all scales from nano to macro.


All necessary information for the meeting can be found under
http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2009/

The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is *13 January 2009*

Hope to see you in Vienna.
Kind regards,
Simon Mudd & Linda Kirstein

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