International Lithosphere Program joint Task Force meetings Clermont Ferrand, France October 5-9, 2009 Dear Colleagues, it is a pleasure to invite you to submit abstracts (oral/poster presentations) for the International Lithosphere Program (ILP) joint Task Force meetings that will be held in Clermont Ferrand, France, under the aegis of the ILP, the International Year of Planet Earth, and the NATO Science for Peace Programme. The sessions are: 1) Volcanism and tectonics; 2) From core to sky - origin and evolution of magmas and volcanoes; 3) Multiphase sheet intrusions in plutonic and sub-volcanic systems; 4) Nuclear power plants and natural hazards; 5) Tracking instabilities and heterogeneities in the upper mantle: constraints from geophysics, geochemistry, and numerical modelling; 6) From atomic scale to continent movements: mantle petrology, rheology and deep geophysics; 7) Geodynamic constraints on the occurrence of intraplate seismicity; 8) Exploration and assessment of gas-hydrates: Potential future energy resource. The conference will be held at the Laboratory of Magma and Volcanoes, University Blaise Pascal, Auvergne region. We foresee 3 days of meeting, plus a 2 days post-conference field trip. Normal registration fee = 40 Euro, student registration fee = 20 Euro. Conveners: Prof. Alessandro Tibaldi, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy (alessandro.tibaldi@xxxxxxxxx) Prof. Benjamin Van Wyk de Vries, Universitè Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand, France (B.Vanwyk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) Important dates: May 30, 2009: Deadline for abstract submission and pre-registration; July 30, 2009: Second Circular will be mailed to registered persons. Abstract format, pre-registration and all details in the attached FIRST CIRCULAR or at: http://wwwobs.univ-bpclermont.fr/lmv/actu.html Alessandro Tibaldi Benjamin Van Wyk de Vries ============================================================== To unsubscribe from the volcano list, send the message: signoff volcano to: listserv@xxxxxxx, or write to: volcano-request@xxxxxxxx To contribute to the volcano list, send your message to: volcano@xxxxxxxx Please do not send attachments. ==============================================================
