VOLCANO: Special Volcanology Session on the XX Congress of Carpathian Balkan Geological Association

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Special Volcanology Session on the XX Congress of Carpathian Balkan Geological Association

From: "Nemeth, Karoly" <K.Nemeth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Special Volcanology Session on the XX Congress of Carpathian Balkan Geological Association

24 - 26 September, 2014

Tirana, Albania

We would like to draw your attention on a Special Session planned during the XX. CBGA Congress such as

Special Session 12 

From magma genesis to volcanic edifice growth and destruction: The Carpathian-Balkan and 

adjacent regions as a natural laboratory to contribute to the source to volcano model

Conveners:   Zoltan Pecskay (HU), Karoly Nemeth (NZ)

Description:

Volcanism in a global scene is considered to be as a complex geological process involving magma genesis, 

transportation, temporal stoppage of magma, eruption, accumulation and remobilization of pyroclasts and 

coherent lava in a great variety of time and space scales. Currently volcanism is increasingly considered to be 

viewed through a so called source-to-surface model that incorporates all the above mentioned processes to be 

able to unlock the formation of volcanic edifices through studies of preserved volcanic rocks of any type, from 

coherent magmatic to various volcaniclastic successions. A complex and holistic view of volcanism has recently 

leaded to some main advances in our understanding of the time-scale as well as the physical processes stand 

behind the formation of a volcanic rock. Analyzing these information from stratigraphy and spatial order allow 

us to reconstruct the evolution of a volcanic edifice regardless of its size and length of formation. The 

Carpathian-Balkan and adjacent regions can be  considered as a true “playground” of various volcanism that 

can provide a geographically compact region to study nearly every possible volcanic processes, volcano types, 

chemical and tectonic settings. This wealth of diversity of volcanism in this region is the key to see some new 

development on understanding volcanism and compare it with other recent and active regions elsewhere on 

Earth. In addition, the older ages, and sometimes the anthropogenic influences on some volcanic regions 

provide excellent outcrops to the deeper level of volcanoes from their crater, conduit or even magma chamber 

zones that are ready to be studied and compared with current models derived from active volcanoes. In this 

session we wish to call contributions primarily derived or based on analogies from the Carpathian-Balkan and 

adjacent regions which utilize the diverse nature of volcanism this region can provide to study. The 

contributions expected to be submitted in this session should demonstrate the complex approach to 

understand volcanism from volcanic petrology, geochemistry, modern age dating techniques, modeling and 

descriptive works on coherent and pyroclastic successions, and volcanic facies analysis including landscape 

evolution and erosion models. Results from combined research efforts to correlate data derived from 

geochronological techniques such as K/Ar, Ar/Ar, surface exposure age etc. with various paleomagnetic studies 

with an aim to establish volcanic stratigraphy are expected to be submitted to this session. Studies that utilize 

specific geological settings where volcanism took place (e.g. subaqueous versus subaerial volcanism in ancient 

settings) to refine our understanding of a complex geological and geoenvironmental evolution of a region in 

comparison with modern analogies are particularly welcomed.

Areas of interest:  Geochronology, Remote sensing, Natural hazards, Sedimentology, Geotopes, Stratigraphy, 

Petrology, Physical geography, Volcanology, Geochemistry. 

Further information on the XX. CBGA Congress and its sessions, scientific programs, registration and travel advice please visit

http://www.cbga2014.org/

Dr Karoly Nemeth (Senior Research Officer)
Massey University, CS-IAE, Volcanic Risk Solutions
PO Box 11 222, Palmerston North, New Zealand
email: k.nemeth@xxxxxxxxxxxx OR knemeth@xxxxxxxxxx
web: http://volcanic.massey.ac.nz/aboutus/staff/
Tel: +64-6-356-9099 ext 7389
Fax: +64-6-350-5632; Mob: +64-27-479-1484
 
Editorial Board Member of the JVGR (Elsevier) - I.F = 2.193 (2012)
Editorial Board Member of the Bulletin of Volcanology (Springer) - I.F = 2.653 (2012)
Editor of Central European Journal of Geosciences (Versita/Springer) - I.F = 0.506 (2012)
Series Editor of Advances in Volcanology book series (Springer) - I.F = N/A
Editor of The Open Geology Journal (Bentham) - I.F = N/A
Editor of The Scientific World Journal (Hindawi) - I.F = 1.730 (2012)
Editor of the Journal of Geological Research (Hindawi) - I.F. - N/A
IAVCEI Commission on Monogenetic Volcanism: https://vhub.org/groups/iavcei_cmv

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