CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
International Lithosphere Program (ILP) joint Task Forces meeting in Ensenada (Baja California)
September 21-26, 2008
- François Roure, IFP, Rueil-Malmaison, France
Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth, ILP, Potsdam, Germany
Organizing Committee and Venue
Following the successful meetings of the ILP Task Force on Sedimentary Basins held in Paris (2005), Québec (2006) and Morocco (2007), ILP, IMP (Mexican Petroleum Institute) and CICESE (Mexican Research Institute located in Baja-California) organize the 2008 workshop in Ensenada (Baja California, Mexico), from September 21 to 26, involving the Task Force on Sedimentary Basins, together with the other ILP Task Forces dealing with mantle processes, volcanics and paleostress.
Dr. Luis Delgado-Argote, and Dr. Felipe Ortuño-Arzate are coordinating this 2008 event. Luis is the past President of the Mexican Geophysical Union (Union Geofisica Mexicana, UGM), and Felipe in charge of the basin modeling group of IMP.
The conference will be held at the Corall Hotel in Ensenada, facing the Ocean, 200 m away from the Earth Science building of CICESE. At this stage, we have booked the venue, comprising three meeting rooms, and scheduled a two-day preconference field trip (September 22-23).
Task Forces and Call for Abstracts
The first day, a plenary session will join all the Tasks Forces to discuss points of common interest. Then, two or three more thematic meetings will run independently.
Sessions from the Task Force VI on Sedimentary Basins will address the architecture and evolution of the Gulf of Mexico and other Mexican basins, as well as sub-Andean basins and Circum-Pacific margins.
Two sessions from Task Force II (New tectonic causes of volcano failure and possible premonitory signals) will focus on:
- Volcanism and geodynamics: insights from studies of eroded volcanic systems (convenors: Alessandro Tibaldi, Italy, and Derek Rust, UK);
- Long-term evolution of volcanoes and volcanic systems recording lithospheric processes (Convenors: Edgardo Canon-Tapia, Mexico, and Alexandru Szakacs, Romania).
At this stage, other sessions are expected also from Task Force III (Lithosphere-astenosphere interactions), Task Force VII (Temporal and spatial changes of stress and strain), and Task Force VIII on Baby plumes.
More info on the sessions, field trip and on-line abstract submission will be available on line on the web sites of the Mexican Geophysical Union in December, with a deadline for submission of abstract on May 30th. Registration process will also be organized on line via the same UGM website. Abstracts will be edited in the same format as GEOS, the journal of the UGM.
