From: François Bussy 
To: GRANITE-RESEARCH@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU 
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 1:39 PM
Subject: [GRANITE-RESEARCH] Goldschmidt 2011 Session on magmatic processes

Dear friends and colleagues,

We kindly invite you to participate in a session focussed on the temporal quantification of magmatic processes in the crust during the next Goldschmidt Conference in Prague:

05g: Duration, Tempo and Rates of Magmatic Processes in the Crust

Convenors: Urs Schaltegger and Othmar Müntener 
Keynote:  Catherine Annen 
 
The understanding of the timing of magmatic processes has strongly developed with the advent of high-precision dating and high-resolution elemental and isotopic analysis of magmatic minerals. Crucial for accurate interpretation of temporal data is the understanding of accessory mineral behaviour during the evolution of a magmatic system. This session should provide a forum, where new results can be presented and discussed that shed light on the duration, the periodicity and the rates, how plutons and batholiths are built within the crust. 
One of the aims of our session is to bring together different approaches to resolve time issues, such as numerical and thermal models, and high precision dating to advance the understanding of rates of processes in young and ancient magmatic systems.

Abstract submission was opened on February 15, deadline is on April 15., 2011.
We intend to put together an exciting selection of talks that highlight the fact that the temporal understanding of magmatic processes has made tremendous advances in the past few years. We sollicit contributions that cover all geological settings from subrecent to ancient. 

With best regards,
The conveners

Prof. U. Schaltegger
Section des Sciences de la Terre et de l’Environnement
Université de Genève
rue des Maraîchers 13
CH-1205 Genève
urs.schaltegger@unige.ch
http://www.unige.ch/sciences/terre/mineral/

Prof. O. Müntener
Institute of Mineralogy and Geochemistry
University of Lausanne
Anthropole
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
othmar.muntener@unil.ch
http://www.unil.ch/img