Cenozoic Continental Rifting

Start Date: 
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
End Date: 
Saturday, June 5, 2010

Location: Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russia

Web: http://www.mantleplumes.org/Conferences/IrkutskSymp2010.pdf

Organising committee chairmen: Evgeni Sklyarov (skl@gpg.crust.irk.ru), Sergei Rasskazov (rassk@crust.irk.ru)

Contacts: Tat’yana Yasnygina (ty@crust.irk.ru), Sergei Rasskazov (rassk@crust.irk.ru)

Russian Petrography Committee, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Earth’s Crust, Irkutsk State University: symposium dedicated to the memory of academician Nikolay Alekseevich Logatchev in connection with the 80th anniversary of his birth.

Cenozoic rifting is a process well developed in all continents. Intensive studies of rift systems in central and east Asia, west Europe, and North America have shown general similarity in terms of structural development, thinned lithosphere, elevated heat flow and involvement of melting of deep mantle magmatic sources, but have also revealed some features which are specific only for some rifts. New geophysical and geological data obtained recently on the Baikal, East China, Rio Grande and other rifts essentially improve our understanding of deep processes. Researchers and students are invited to present reports on rift-related phenomena in different continents to this special scientific meeting in Irkutsk, Siberia.

The overall objective of the symposium is to highlight results of Russian and international research groups working on different aspects of Cenozoic continental rifting and to discuss data obtained by high-precision geophysical and geochemical techniques. The significant contribution to understanding processes in the Baikal and other continental rift systems was done by the academician N.A. Logatchev – a leader of several international workshops. The symposium is dedicated to his memory in connection with the 80th anniversary of his birth.

Basic topics for discussion: (i) Tectonic, geophysical, and magmatic criteria for rift-related processes; (ii) Stratigraphy, lithology, and geochronology of sedimentary and volcano-sedimentary units in the Baikal and other continental rift systems; (iii) Evolution of rift-related processes; (iv) Comparative analyses of rifting and related processes in inner regions and margins of continents; (v) Relations between continental rifting and processes at convergent plate boundaries; (vi) Recent motions in continental rift regions, geo-hazards; (vii) Geodynamic models.

City: 
Irkutsk, Russia