Transcript Diapositiva 1

Ferrara, Italy, 29-31 August 2007
http://www.geoitalia.org/
Conveners: M. Coltorti, H. Downes,
M. Grégoire, S.Y. O’Reilly
Scientific Commitee: Beccaluva L., Bonadiman C., Piccardo G.B., Rivalenti G., Siena F
Dear colleagues,
we would like to draw your attention to the above mentioned workshop, which aims to
gather the petrological knowledge which has been acquired in recent years on European
lithospheric mantle by several research groups in Europe or abroad. This has been mainly
achieved through the direct study of mantle material or through the inverse approach using
basic magma compositions. The various depletion and enrichment processes which affected
the European mantle since Archaean times will be addressed, as well as their outcome on
the origin of geochemical components and basic magma petrogenesis. Much work has been
carried out on most of the principal outcrops, both peridotite massifs, mantle xenoliths and
basalts. This workshop would create the opportunity to compare the various datasets and
different understanding that each individual or groups have acquired trying to develop an
homogeneous and coherent framework within which the petrological evolution of the
European mantle would be hopefully constrained. Particular emphasis will be dedicated to
the results from in situ trace element and isotope analyses, which has been giving an
outstanding push to geochemistry and petrology in recent years. Technology development
has in fact brought some of these analyses almost to the routine level allowing the
accumulation of a great amount of new data, which started opening a window for a new
understanding of the relationships between lithosphere, asthenosphere and biosphere.
Contributions dealing with the direct investigation of mantle xenoliths, or larger mantle
occurrences such as alpine, abyssal and ophiolitic peridotites which allow a physical
observations of mantle material at various scale, are welcome, as well as those using primary
magma compositions as an inverse approach to constraint the chemical features of the
mantle source on a global scale.
The workshop is part of the 6° FIST Congress GEOITALIA2007.
It will be held in the beautiful medieval city of Ferrara.
Abstracts for oral or poster presentations should be
submitted through the web site http://www.geoitalia.org/
between January 10 and May 14, 2007.
All information regarding inscription fee, accommodation and deadlines
can be found under Workshop at
http://www.geoitalia.org/
or http://web.unife.it/dipartimento/scienze_terra/
We look forward to your participation and contribution!
Massimo, Hilary, Michel & Suzanne
Massimo Coltorti
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra
Università degli Studi di Ferrara
Polo Scientifico-Tecnologico, Blocco B
Via Saragat 1
I-44100 Ferrara (Italy)
Email: [email protected]
Tel.: +39-0532-974721
Fax.: +39-0532-974767
Hilary Downes
School of Earth Sciences
Birkbeck College
University of London
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HX, UK
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel.: +44-020 7679 7712
Fax.:+44-020 7679 2867
Michel Grégoire
UMR 5562-DTP
Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées
Université Toulouse III
Av. E. Belin, 14
31400 Toulouse (France)
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel.: +33-0561-332977
Fax: +33-0561-332900
Suzanne Y. O'Reilly
ARC National Key Centre for Geochemical
Evolution and Metallogeny of Continents
(GEMOC)
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Macquarie University
NSW 2109, Australia
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: +61-2-9850 8362/8953
Fax: +61-2-9850 8943