Large Igneous Provinces Commission

Location: Kagoshima, Japan
Web: http://www.iavcei2013.com/index.html

Includes the following session:

1-2: Frontiers in large igneous provinces research: a tribute to the life and career of John Mahoney

Convenors: Loyc Vanderkluysen (loyc@asu.edu), Marissa Tejada, Millard Coffin (m.coffin@noc.soton.ac.uk)

Location: Firenze Fiera Congress Centre, Florence, Italy

Web: http://goldschmidt.info/2013/index

Includes the following sessions:

01e: Causes of Phanerozoic mass extinctions: impacts vs. large igneous provinces vs. others?

Convenors: Fred Jourdan (f.jourdan@curtin.edu.au), Andrea Marzoli (andrea.marzoli@unipd.it), Simonetta Cirilli (simocir@unipg.it)

Location: Jinjiang Hotel, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China

Web: http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2013china/

Includes the following session:

A-5: Deep Earth processes through geochemistry

Convenors: Youxue Zhang (youxue@umich.edu), Yigang Xu (yigangxu@gig.ac.cn), Jianping Zheng (jpzheng@cug.edu.cn)

Location: Isle of Skye and Isle of Rum, Inner Hebrides, UK

Web: http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/en/Events/The Great British Tertiary Volcanoes Exploring the Palaeogene centres of Skye and Rum.aspx?ec_trk=followlist&ec_trk_data=Events

Location: Winnipeg Convention Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Web: http://gacmacwinnipeg2013.ca/index.html

Includes the following sessions:

SS-8: Testing links among large igneous provinces, iron formations, and volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits

Location: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Web: http://www.rodinia-2013.ru/

Since the 1.0 Ga supercontinent Rodinia was recognized and mapped, it has become a milestone for understanding of Earth's evolution both in the Precambrian and in the Phanerozoic, and global-scale cyclic geodynamics.

Location: Cancun, Mexico

Web: http://moa.agu.org/2013/

Includes the following session:

GP08: Paleomagnetic studies for the reconstruction of tectonic processes

Convenors: Francesca Cifelli (francesca.cifelli@uniroma3.it), Belen Oliva-Urcia (bolivia@unizar.es), Valerian Bachtadse (b8adse@gmail.com), Juan Jose Villalain (villa@ubu.es)

Location: Houghton, Michigan, USA

Web: http://www.lakesuperiorgeology.org/Houghton2013/index.html

Includes the following fieldtrips:

Geologic overview of the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan

Leaders: Ted Bornhorst (tjb@mtu.edu), Bob Barron (rjbarron@mtu.edu)

Date: 8^th May

Location: Austria Center Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Web: http://www.egu2013.eu/home.html

Includes the following session:

GMPV38: Scientific drilling and geological research in the Barberton Greenstone Belt

Location: Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, USA

Web: http://www.geosociety.org/Sections/ne/2013mtg/index.htm

Includes the following session:

T18: Mesozoic igneous features of northeastern North America: magmatic origins and links to tectonic events