Earth and Planets Origin and Evolution Workshop
May 13 – 17 Earth and Planets Origin and Evolution Workshop
May 13 – 17 Earth and Planets Origin and Evolution Workshop
May 19 – 22 Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Meeting and 10th International Symposium on Granitic Pegmatites, Brandon, Canada
May 23 - 24 10th International Geosciences Conference of Young Researchers, Kyiv, Ukraine
June 3 – 6 61st Clay Minerals Society Meeting, Honolulu, HI USA
June 23 – 27 American Conference on Neutron Scattering (ACNS 2024), Knoxville, TN USA
June 23 – 28 Gordon Research Conference: Geochemistry of Ore Deposits for a Low Carbon Society, Newry, Maine USA
July 7 – 12 74th American Crystallographic Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO USA
July 8 – 12 Eighth International Conference on Mars Polar Science and Exploration, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
July 8 – 12 12th International Kimberlite Conference, Yellowknife NT Canada
July 14 – 18 International Congress on Ceramics, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
July 14 – 18 Gordon Research Conference: Research at High Pressure: Exploring Matter Beyond Equilibrium, Holderness, NH USA
July 15 – 19 Tenth Annual Earth Educators' Rendezvous, Philadelphia, 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.