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Dear colleagues, We would like to draw your attention to session T7.1 at next year´s EGU meeting in Vienna, April 7-12: Inversion tectonics – 30 years later The idea that sedimentary basins can be compressed and uplifted – inverted – was born as early as the 1920s. However, the interest in inversion tectonics peaked in the late 1980s as documented, for instance, by a 1987 Tectonophysics special issue and a 1989 Geol. Soc. London book that soon became classics. Today few people will consider inversion tectonics a topic at the forefront of geoscience. This is not to say that nothing new can be learned about this phenomenon. Even the enormous variety of associated structures has probably not been exhaustively described and understood. The kinematics of inversion structures is particularly complex, and their mechanics a matter of debate. For instance, modelling studies have been used to suggest that reverse reactivation of normal faults can only occur in transpression, whereas studies from geologically recent cases with well-constrained stress fields do not necessarily support this observation. Inversion tectonics can coexist with or be superimposed on long-wavelength uplift that may or may not reflect a different set of processes altogether. We invite contributions dealing with all aspects of inversion tectonics from architecture over kinematics to dynamics and from field- or seismics-based case studies to analogue and numerical simulations, including also response of depositional systems to active inversion tectonics. New hypotheses challenging common wisdom are especially welcome. Dr Mark Cooper, co-editor of Geological Society Special Publication No. 44 “Inversion tectonics”, will deliver a keynote talk during this session. The abstract submission deadline is January 10, 2019, 13:00 (!) CET. We are looking forward to meeting you in Vienna and getting a multifaceted view on inversion tectonics today! with our best regards, Piotr Krzywiec Polish Academy of Sciences Jonas Kley University of Göttingen *************************************************************************** Dr Piotr Krzywiec, Associate Professor Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences “SeisSed” Seismic Interpretation & Basin Analysis Research Group 51/55 Twarda street, 00-818 Warsaw, Poland email: [log in to unmask] phone: +48-502-412126 (mobile) <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Piotr_Krzywiec> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Piotr_Krzywiec AAPG Visiting Geoscientist Program Co-chair for Regions <https://www.aapg.org/career/training/in-person/visiting-geoscientists> https://www.aapg.org/career/training/in-person/visiting-geoscientists ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the GEO-TECTONICS list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=GEO-TECTONICS&A=1