Dear Colleagues,
We would like to bring your attention to the Session P21 at the next SIMP-SGI-AIV-SOGEI congress "Geosciences: a tool in a changing world" (Pisa, September 4-6 2017):
"Geochronology and geochemistry of accessory minerals: timing of petrogenetic processes and deformation"
D. Lo Pò (UNIBO), A. LANGONE (IGG-CNR, Pavia), L. CASINI (UNISS), M. MAINO (UNIPV)
The use of the U-Th-Pb systematics in the study of continental crust started at the beginning of the 20th Century as a tool to measure the timescales of geological events. Then, the investigation of the U-Th-Pb system and other trace elements in accessory minerals (e.g. zircon, monazite, rutile) resulted to provide also geochemical information useful for petrogenetic studies. Geochronology and trace element characterization (petro-chronology) as well as thermochronology, have been repeatedly enhanced in the last years, improving our ability of constraining the evolution of the continental crust. This session aims to gather contributions dealing with accessory minerals, discussing the potentialities and limits of the U-Th-Pb geochronology, thermochronology and trace-element geochemistry in the study of the continental crust.
Please remember that abstracts are due before 15th May.
You can find more details and submit your abstract here:
http://www.geosciences.it/pisa
We are looking forward to see you in Pisa,
Deborah, Antonio, Leonardo and Matteo