2nd EDSM meeting

21.11.2006

Programme

09h20 Welcome and general information

09h40 Licia Costantini: Understanding basaltic explosive volcanism"

10h00 James Allibon: Geochemical and Petrologic attributes of the PX1 Miocene pyroxenitic layered intrusion, root-zone of an ocean-island volcano, Fuerteventura (Canary Islands)

10h20 Anne-Lise Jourdan: Trace element and delta18O distributions in natural quartz crystals"

10h40 Coffee break

11h00 Honza Catchpole: Mineralization styles in the Miocene polymetallic Morococha District, Central Peru

11h20 Aldo Bendezu: Geology and structural setting of the Miocene polymetallic Morococha District, Peru

11h40 Christina Glunk: Alternating calcium carbonate horizons in hypersaline microbiobial mats: the role of sulfate reduction and EPS degradation in early diagenesis

12h00 Katia Ferro: Implication of plants, fungi, and bacteria in the oxalate-carbonate pathway in non calcareous soil

12h20 Lunch (organised, free for registered participants)

14h00 Karine Gauchat: Garnet growth in meta-marls of the Nufenen area (Swiss Alps)

14h20 Susanne Skora: Lu volume diffusion in eclogite garnets: implications for the Lu/Hf closure temperture

14h40 Pierre Vonlanthen: EBSD investigations of upper mantle xenoliths, snowball garnets and advanced ceramics

15h00 Benjamin Kaeser: Mantle Xenoliths from the Marsabit Volcanic Field: A Case Study on the Evolution of the Lithopsheric Mantle in a Continental Rift Environment

15h20 Sébastien Perret: Technological characterization and quantification of a large scale iron smelting site in Fiko, Mali

16h00 Committee meeting

University of Neuchâtel, UNIMAIL, room E003

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oral presentation of project

please contact Angelika Kalt

see website 'courses', go to 'practical information, then download the form; reimbursements are made twice a year

Via the web. In addition, EDSM members who would like to present their projects are kindly asked to announce themselves by sending an email to Angelika Kalt. This meeting is open to public

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