2024 Goldschmidt Conference
August 18 – 25 2024 Goldschmidt Conference, Chicago IL USA
August 18 – 25 2024 Goldschmidt Conference, Chicago IL USA
August 25 - 31 37th International Geological Congress (IGC). Busan, Republic of Korea
August 26 – 30 European Crystallographic Meeting (ECM-24), Padova, Italy
August 30 – September 2 18th European Powder Diffraction Conference (EPDIC18), Padova, Italy.
September 3 – 6 Granulites & Granulites 2024, Verbania, Italy
September 12 – 14 2024 Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Mineralogical Sciences, Nagoya University, Japan
September 15 – 19 12th International Conference on the Analysis of Geological and Environmental Materials, Geoanalysis 2024, Wuhan, China.
September 16 – 20 13ᵗʰ International Conference on Acid Rock Drainage (ICARD 2024), Halifax NS Canada
September 22 – 25 Geological Society of America National Meeting, Anaheim, CA USA
September 23 – 25 Serpentine Days, Granada, Spain.
September 30 – October 4 7th Orogenic Lherzolite Meeting, Oviedo, Spain
October 6 – 10 ACerS 126th Annual Meeting with Materials Science and Technology 2024, Pittsburgh, PA USA
The Variscan orogen formed between 380 and 300 million years ago through several accretionary and collisional cycles, culminating with the construction of the Pangea supercontinent. This process occurred via sequential opening and closure of oceanic basins, synchronous detachment of Gondwana derived continental ribbons, and their outboard amalgamation onto the Laurussia margin. The Variscan orogen is rather unique compared with other orogenic belts on Earth: its overthickened and dominantly magmatic crust in the central belt, surprisingly minor mantle involvement in the magmatic and geodynamic processes, coherent and pulsed magmatism along the collision suture, and its complex accretionary history. Because its final product, Pangea, is the youngest and best-understood supercontinent on Earth, the Variscan orogeny offers clues for understanding the mechanisms of supercontinent formation.