June 27 - July 5, 2009

HIGH-PRESSURE METAMORPHISM AND SUBDUCTION ZONES

PROGRAM

Saturday 27 June

• Arrival.
• Welcome: opening the EURISPET SEMINAR.
• Student Presentations.
  

Sunday 28 June

• Student Presentations.
• Exhumation of high and ultrahigh-pressure rocks: insights from numerical models I (Taras Gerya, Zurich).
• Exhumation of high and ultrahigh-pressure rocks: insights from numerical models II (Taras Gerya, Zurich).
• Open discussion.
  

Monday 29 June

• Hydration of incoming oceanic plates and dehydration of slabs: implications for intraslab seismicity and arc volcanism (Cesar Ranero, Barcelona).
• Rheology of subduction zone: experimental constraints (Shun-Ichiro Karato, Yale).
• Seismic anisotropy and mineral LPO in subduction zones (Andrea Tommasi, Montpellier).
• Diamonds from ultra high-pressure terrains (Larissa Dobrzhinetskaya, Riverside).
• Thermal evolution of slabs (from the onset to the demise of subduction): a metamorphic perspective with examples (Antonio García-Casco, Granada).
• Open discussion.
  

Tuesday 30 June

• Slab-mantle interactions and subduction zones dynamics (Serge Lallemand, Montpellier).
• Experimental constraints on subduction-related magmatism I (Peter Ulmer, Zurich).
• Experimental constraints on subduction-related magmatism II (Peter Ulmer, Zurich).
• Subduction magmatism and continental crustal growth (Richard Arculus, Canberra).
• Experimental constraints on subduction zone fluids in the slab and mantle wedge (Craig Manning, UCLA).
• Experimental constraints on trace element recycling in subduction zones (Joerg Hermann, Canberra).
• Tracers of the slab: radiogenic and Li isotopes (Host Marschall, Bristol).
• Open discussion.
• Introduction to the field trip to the Almirez Ultramafic Massif (Vicente López Sánchez-Vizcaíno, Jaén, and José Alberto Padrón-Navarta, Granada).
  

Wednesday 1 July

• Field trip to Cerro del Almirez.

Thursday 2 July

• High-pressure phase relationships in ultramafic and mafic rocks (Patrizia Fumagalli, Milan).
• High-pressure experiments on crustal rock (Joerg Hermann, Canberra).
• The effect of water on the crystallography of high-pressure minerals (Fabrizio Nestola, Padua).
• Metamorphic records of subduction-zone devolatilization, element mobility, and chemical/isotopic hybridization (Gray Bebout, Lehigh).
• Fluids and elements recycling from slabs to mantle wedges: views from high and ultrahigh-pressure rocks (Marco Scambelluri, Genoa).
• Nitrogen storage in ultrahigh-pressure rocks (Larissa Dobrzhinetskaya, Riverside).
• Geochronology of HP and UHP rocks and inferences on the rates of subduction and exhumation processes (Daniela Rubatto, Canberra).
• Open discussion.
  

Friday 3 July

• Building a Researcher Career - European Perspectives.
• Introduction to the field trip to the Ronda Peridotite (Carlos Garrido, Granada).
  

Saturday 4 July

• Field trip to the Ronda Peridotite.
  

Sunday 5 July

• Laboratories: Petrographic laboratory and Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) in the CIC.