AGU Chapman Conference: The Great Plume Debate

Conveners:

Ian Campbell (ANU)
Gillian R. Foulger (Univ. Durham)
James H. Natland (Univ. Miami)
W. Jason Morgan (Princeton Univ.)

Program will include:

DISCUSSION
Plume theory, alternatives theory & predictions
Field evidence: uplift, sedimentology, tectonics, geochronology
Mantle physics & dynamics
Seismology
Temperature
Petrology and Geochemistry
Planetary

Logistics:

Dates: 28th August – 1st September, 2005
Location: Ben Nevis Hotel, Fort William, Scotland
Size: 100 participants

Fieldtrips:
Fieldtrip co-ordinator:

Godfrey Fitton (Univ. Edinburgh)

Rum Will be run before the conference, August 22nd - 26th, 2005. Leader: Henry Emeleus (Univ. Durham) Will involve staggeringly impressive, world-class layered intrusion, including picrite dikes. For full details of the Rum fieldtrip, click here.
Mull Will be run after the conference, in parallel with the Skye trip, September 2nd-6th, 2005. Leader: Godfrey Fitton (Univ. Edinburgh) Will visit Precambrian basement, Devonian granite pluton, central volcano complex, classic ring dyke, and layered intrusion. For full details of the Mull fieldtrip, click here.
Skye Will be run after conference, in parallel with the Mull trip, September 2nd-6th, 2005. Leader: Brian Bell (Univ. Glasgow) Will visit layered intrusion, central volcano complex, basement rocks. For full details of the Skye fieldtrip, click here.

Further Information:

For further information, please email one of the conveners or fieldtrip leaders.
For details of train times between Glasgow and Fort William, visit http://www.thetrainline.com/
For monstrous buffoonery, click here

GRF, 1st April 2005