Tenth International Conference on Mars
July 22 – 25 Tenth International Conference on Mars, Pasadena, CA USA and Virtual
July 22 – 25 Tenth International Conference on Mars, Pasadena, CA USA and Virtual
July 28 – August 1 Microscopy & Microanalysis 2024, Cleveland, OH USA
July 28 – August 2 87th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Brussels, Belgium
August 4 – 9 Gordon Research Conference: Capturing Timescales of Rock Deformation, Lewiston, Maine, USA
August 5 – 9 3rd International Training school "Empirical and Ab Initio Thermodynamic Models of Minerals and Melts, Athens, Greece
August 12 – 13 Museums & Mineralogy 10, Cardiff, Wales
August 17 - 18 RiMG (Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry) short course: Exoplanets: Compositions, Mineralogy, Evolution, Chicago IL USA
August 18 – 22 American Chemical Society Fall Meeting, Denver, CO USA
August 18 – 23 European Mineralogical Conference, Dublin, Ireland
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
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.