CANBERRA 2008

ISOTOPES APPLIED TO PETROLOGICAL PROBLEMS

The Australian National University, Canberra (Australia), January 31-February 9, 2008

 
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• One day for student presentations to enable partecipants to present and discuss their own research;
• Four days of formal lectures with world-known experts;
• One day of practical sessions in the laboratory (ion microprobe, MC-ICPMS, chemical labs and TIMS);
• Two days of excursion to the Cooma contact aureole and the granites of the South Coast;
• One day on the European research area and its collaboration with extra-European countries such as Australia.
  
  Topics covered in the Seminar include: Introduction to isotopic systems, isotopic tracers, stable isotopes in granulites and high-pressure rocks, Pb-Pb in basalts, Hf isotopic evolution in mantle and crust, introduction to U-Pb geochronology and its application to high grade rocks, U-Pb and Hf isotopes in zircon to trace crustal growth, geochronology by Sm-Nd and Lu-Hf and its application to high grade rocks, geochronology by Ar-Ar and applications to tectonics.
  
  

Contact Persons

Bernardo Cesare
EURISPET Coordinator
Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Università di Padova
Corso Garibaldi, 37, I-35137 Padova, ITALY
Tel: ++39-49-8272019   Fax: ++39-498272010
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Daniela Rubatto
Research School of Earth Sciences
The Australian National University
Mills Road, Bld. 61, Canberra 0200 ACT, AUSTRALIA
Tel: ++61 2 6125 5157, Fax ++61 2 6125 8345
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