[unav_all] AGU Special Session V03: Volcanism in the East African Rift System

[Jaime Magliocca]

Dear Colleagues,

 

Please consider contributing to special session V03 at the AGU Fall 2009
Meeting in San Francisco.

 

The abstract deadline is Thursday, September 3, 2009.
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/program/abstract_submissions.php

 

V03:    Volcanism in the East African Rift System (EARS)

 

The East African Rift System (EARS) is presently the Earth's largest and
most complex active continental extension zone, characterized by abundant
magmatism, seismicity and crustal thinning. The reason for the fracturing of
the African Plate has been subject to much debate but there seems to be
consensus that it is due in part to the presence of rising thermal plume(s)
in the mantle. Volcanism is currently spectacularly active at a number of
locations including Erta Ale, Niragongo and Oldoinyo Lengai. EARS volcanism
is commonly dominated by unusual, silica-deficient compositions including
nephelinites, carbonatites and a host of site-specific rocks such as
ugandite, kamafugite and katungite. This session invites contributions on
all aspects of modern volcanism in the EARS: petrology, geochemistry,
volatiles, xenoliths, shallow magmatic processes and regional
volcanological/geologic studies. We also welcome experimental petrology
studies that relate magma generation processes to the tectonic environment
of the EARS.

 

 

Conveners:

 

Tobias Fischer

University of New Mexico

 <mailto:fischer at unm.edu> fischer at unm.edu

 

Tanya Furman

Pennsylvania State University

 <mailto:furman at geosc.psu.edu> furman at geosc.psu.edu

 

David Hilton

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

 <mailto:drhilton at ucsd.edu> drhilton at ucsd.edu

 

 

 

 

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Tobias Fischer

Associate Professor, Volcanology

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

University of New Mexico

Albuquerque, NM 87131-1116 USA

 

(505) 277 0284 (office)

(505) 277 8843 (fax)

fischer at unm.edu

http://epswww.unm.edu/facstaff/fischer/

 

Address for Postal Mail (U.S. Postal Service ONLY):

 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

 MSCO3-2040

 1 University of New Mexico

 Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131-0001

 

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