1st NBP Geoscience Symposium: Grand Challenges in Earth System Petrology
08:30 - Structure, composition and dynamics of the lithosphere - asthenosphere system
KEYNOTES (20 mins)
Petrology of Mantle Melting (Eric Brown, AU)
Seismology and Other Geophysical Observables to Constrain the Physical State of the Mantle
(Derek Schutt, CSU)
“Teasers” (? 5 mins)
• Melt depletion controls the thermal evolution of rifted lithosphere (Kenni Petersen, AU)
• Seismological evidence for a fossil subduction zone in the East Greenland Caledonides (Christian
Schiffer, AU)
• Upper mantle seismic velocity anomalies - temperature and/or composition? (Niels Balling, AU)
• Dynamic and stationary topography of the North Atlantic realm (Søren Bom Nielsen, AU)
• Buoyancy forever? (Charles Lesher, AU/UCD)
• The South China Sea rifted margin - a new IODP initiative (Hans-Christian Larsen, TU)
• A new ultra high pressure complex in the 1.8 Ga Nagssugtoqidian Orogen of West Greenland (John
Korstgård/Kaj Sørensen, AU/GEUS
• High Pressure Capabilities at AU (Martin Bremholm, AU)
10:30 - Earth in Crisis
KEYNOTES (20 mins)
Greenland - A chip of Earth's crust (Minik Rosing, KU)
The role of metamorphic and igneous processes in triggering Earth crises and environmental
changes (Henrik Svensen, CEED – OU)
“Teasers” (? 5 mins)
• Gas blasts in the past (Michael Storey, RUC)
• F, Cl, and S concentrations in olivine-hosted melt inclusions from the Etendeka Province, Namibia:
implications for volatile release from LIPs (Jakob Keiding, GFZ)
• How and where can volcanic forcing of the atmosphere-climate system during the early Paleogene
in the North European area be examined? (Pi Suhr Willumsen, AU)
• New evidence for pre-PETM volcanism (Claus Heilmann-Clausen, AU)
• End-Triassic seismites linked to CAMP volcanism (Sofie Lindström, GEUS)
• Role of hardrockers: Atom pirates or atom custodians? (Bo Holm Jacobsen, AU)
• Isotopes in crisis (Gry Barfod, AU)
• TBA (Mads Knudsen, AU)
13:30 - Fluids in the Crust
KEYNOTE (20 mins)
Decoding magmatic histories using non-traditional stable isotopes (Craig Lundstrom, UIUC)
“Teasers” (? 5 mins)
• Magmatic Fe isotope fractionation - who's wagging the tail? (Charles Lesher, AU/UCD)
• Mossbauer spectroscopy of the Skaergaard intrusion (Palle Gunnlaugsson, AU)
• Differentiation of emulsions (Lars Peter Salmonsen, AU)
• FeTi-oxides as tracers for in situ fractionation (Troels Nielsen, GEUS)
• Thy on Mors(e) (Peter Thy, UCD)
• Phenocryst Transport and In-situ Crystallization in Sills within the Franklin Igneous Provence, Canada
(Richard Naslund, SUNY)
• F, Cl, and S concentrations in olivine-hosted melt inclusions from the Etendeka Province, Namibia:
implications for volatile release from LIPs (Jakob Keiding, GFZ)
• Significance of volatiles and metals in crustal fluids (Thomas Ulrich, AU)
• Hydrothermal gold in the deeper crust (Jochen Kolb, GEUS)
• Seiland Igneous Province: a window in to igneous and ore-forming processes at the roots of a giant
magmatic systems (Rune Larsen, NTNU)
• High Arctic volcanism (Christian Tegner, AU)