The year 2009
August 15-22, 2009:
Field trip to the classic Kola alkaline province, and Paleoproterozoic A-type granites of the Finnish Lapland and adjacent Russia. The trip will be led by Tapani Rämö (University of Helsinki; tapani.ramo@helsinki.fi) and Jaana Halla (Finnish Museum of Natural History; jaana.halla@helsinki.fi) in collaboration with the Kola Science Centre (Russian Academy of Sciences; Yury L. Voytekhovsky, Director), and it will be a joint venture with the Eurogranites. Field targets will include the world-famous Khibiny and Lovozero alkaline massifs of the Kola Peninsula (Russia), the Nattanen granite fells in central Finnish Lapland, and the Lapland gold-rush territory. Deadline for final registration will be March 1, 2009. Further information at http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/english/geology/research/eurogranites/
September 26 - October 3, 2009:
The fifth Annual Meeting of the project will be held in central Turkey, hosted by Tunceli University and Mugla University.
The meeting begins at Tunceli University on Saturday evening, September 26 with registration and reception. A pre-meeting touristic excursion to ancient ruins of Cappacocia takes place September 27-28. The symposium (September 29-30) will focus on A-type granites and related mineralization with emphasis on the Tethyan Belt. The post-meeting excursion (October 1-3) will visit Cretaceous alkaline intrusions and associated mineralization and the central Anatolian ophiolite. The meeting is coordinated by Dr. Prof. Durmus Boztug, President of Tunceli University (durmus.boztug@gmail.com) and by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ilkay Kuscu of Mugla University (ikuscu@eos.ubc.ca)
The agenda and information on registration, travel and accommodation are available in the meeting brochure, which can be downloaded by clicking the link below. The deadline for abstract submission and the last day for cancellation is August 31, 2009.
Click here to download the 5th IGCP-510 Meeting Brochure.
The year 2010
The final Annual Meeting will be held in Helsinki, Finland in July 2010 with field trips to the Paleo- and Mesoproterozoic A-type granites and related rocks of Finland (possibly also adjacent Russia and Sweden). The meeting will conclude the project and solicit papers for a final project publication.
