Large Igneous Provinces Commission

Location: Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK

Web: http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/conservation/conferences/vmsg/

Contact: Rebecca Dolling (rdolling@bournemouth.ac.uk)

Includes the following sessions:

Location: Attacal, County Down and Ballintoy, County Antrim in Northern Ireland, UK

Web: http://www.dur.ac.uk/d.a.jerram/VMSG/meetings.html

In the Footsteps of Giants: Irish Legends and Palaeogene Magmatism

Contact: Carl Stevenson (c.t.stevenson@bham.ac.uk)

Location: Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, USA

Web: http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm10/

Includes the following sessions:

T05: Interaction between magmatic and tectonic processes in continental and incipient oceanic rifts

Location: Colorado Convention Center, Denver, USA

Web: http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2010/

Includes the following sessions:

T124: Proterozoic crustal evolution

Convenors: Paul Mueller (mueller@geology.ufl.edu), Joe Wooden (jwooden@stanford.edu), Marion Bickford (mebickfo@syr.edu)

Location: Rafain Hotel and Convention Center, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil

Web: http://www.agu.org/meetings/ja10/

Includes the following sessions:

P05: Impact cratering on solid planets – shocks on basalts

Convenors: David Baratoux (baratoux@dtp.obs-mip.fr), Masahiko Arakawa (arak@eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp), Alvaro Crosta (alvaro@ige.unicamp.br)

Location: Taipei International Convention Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Web: http://www.agu.org/meetings/wp10/index.php

Includes the following sessions:

V04: Large Igneous Provinces: recent developments and ways forward

Convenors: Gregory Shellnutt (jgshelln@earth.sinica.edu.tw), Kwan-Nang Pang (mailto:knpang@ntu.edu.tw)

Location: Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada

Web: http://11ips.laurentian.ca/Laurentian/Home/Departments/Earth+Sciences/NewsEvents/11IPS/11IPSHome.htm?Laurentian_Lang=en-CA

Includes the following fieldtrips:

PGE mineralisation in the Nipissing and East Bull Lake intrusive suites

Date: 16^th-19^th June

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)

Location: Holiday Inn, International Falls, USA

Web: http://lakesuperiorgeology.org/IF2010/index.html

Chairs: Peter Hollings (pnhollin@lakeheadu.ca), Mark Smyk (mark.smyk@ontario.ca), Mark Jirsa (jirsa001@umn.edu), Terry Boerboom (boerb001@umn.edu)

Location: BMO Centre, Calgary, Canada

Web: http://www.geocanada2010.ca/

Includes the following sessions:

Palaeoproterozoic tectonic assembly of the W. Canadian Shield: new findings and implications for palaeocontinental reconstruction