Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to invite abstract submissions to our 2016 AGU session (V036) on Volumes, Timescales, and Frequency of Magmatic Processes in Plutons, Chambers, and Reservoirs in the Earth’s Crust :

Link:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session12611https://webaccess.si.edu/owa/redir.aspx?REF=kLDhYvV8zjJGYKiMILpNrc5FJqIWZf5qBxnr-ZKTt7IPeVqF9KnTCAFodHRwczovL3dlYmFjY2Vzcy5zaS5lZHUvb3dhL1VybEJsb2NrZWRFcnJvci5hc3B4

Session description:
When, where, and for how long magmas are transported and stored within Earth’s crust domain in different tectonic settings are key questions in geosciences. Unravelling the internal structure and dynamics of Earth’s crust means investigating the different geochemical, mechanical, and thermal combinations that control the dynamics (i.e. magma transport, emplacement, storage, and fluxes) and internal geometries (i.e. pluton/chamber/reservoir volumes and distributions) within Earth’s crust. We welcome field geologists, geochemists, petrologists, volcanologists, geophysicists, and numerical modellers who utilise field, numerical, and experimental methods to address the following key questions:
(i) How do we detect magmatic bodies? How do we determine their status and volume in Earth's crust?
(ii) How can we quantify the chemical, mechanical, and thermal processes that operate within those volumes?
(iii) How can we determine the frequency of magma injections/pulses in Earth’s crust? What is the architecture of dyke and plumbing systems feeding volcanoes?

Invited Speakers:

Michael Eddy (MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States)

Michael Kendall (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)

Conveners:

Mattia Pistone (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States)

Katherine J. Dobson (Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom)

Olivier Bachmann (ETH-Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)

Benoit Taisne (Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore)

We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco!

Best wishes,

Mattia, Kate, Olivier, Benoit

Dr. Mattia Pistone

• Postdoctoral Fellow - Division of Petrology and Volcanology
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Dear colleagues,

Apologies for cross posting.

We would like to draw your attention to the following session at the AGU2016 Fall meeting (San Francisco, 12-16 December 2016):

Making the Mediterranean: from mantle to surface processes

Session ID#: 12897

We  hope that you will consider submitting an abstract to this session.
The abstract submission deadline is Wednesday 3 August, 11:59 pm EDT.

Session Description:

The Mediterranean area, from Gibraltar to the Caucasus offers an outstanding opportunity to investigate the long-lasting geological record of complex intraplate deformation and plate boundary re-configuration.

Interactions among major and smaller plates and the presence of subduction zones at different evolutionary stages provide opportunity for multi-disciplinary studies of the past and modern Mediterranean system, addressing the connection between deep and surface processes.

Topical questions include long-term evolution of a convergent plate boundary, and the relations between slab and mantle dynamics, magmatic and metamorphic processes, strain partitioning in the lithosphere and surface evolution.

We invite contributions from different and multi-disciplinary perspectives ranging from the surface to the mantle and based on geology (tectonics, petrology, geochronology, geochemistry, paleomagnetism and geomorphology), geophysics (seismicity, seismic imaging and anisotropy), geodesy and modelling (numerical and analogue).

You can submit your abstracts here :
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/start.html https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/start.html

Solicited contribution will be given by:

Valentina Magni (Univ. Oslo): Mantle flow and oceanic crust formation during the opening of the Tyrrhenian back-arc basin
Laurent Jolivet (Univ. Orléans): Mantle flow and deforming continents, from the Mediterranean to the India-Asia collision and the Pacific margin

With best regards,

Alexis Plunder
Derya Gürer
Donna L. Whitney
Claudia Piromallo

Dr. Alexis Plunder | Postdoc researcher @ Dept. of Earth Sciences | Utrecht University | Heidelberglaan 2, Room 8.11 | 3584CS Utrecht | The Netherlands | a.v.plunder@uu.nl mailto:a.v.plunder@uu.nl

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