Dear Colleagues,
The Goldschmidt 2009 conference will take place in Davos, Switzerland (June 21 – 26, 2009)
As co-chairs of one of the sessions, we hope you will consider submitting an abstract to:
Theme 7, Sesssion 07i:
Rates and Mechanisms of Erosion and Weathering Processes: From Experiments to Models
(Keynote: Niels Hovius - University of Cambridge)
The aim of this session is to bring together researchers from different scientific communities working on different aspects of erosion and weathering across a range of temporal and spatial scales. We seek investigators using the full range of experimental and modeling approaches to investigate geomorphologic, geochemical and biological parameters and their coupling on the weathering and erosion processes, in natural as well as experimental environments.We especially encourage contributions focusing on how the rates of weathering and erosion processes and the coupling between soil production and sediment transport are influenced by climate variability, tectonic activity and human disturbance, and how paleo-records can help to recover variations of these parameters over geologic time. This session is open to the study of weathering/erosion systems from the past to the present day. It also includes studies on the geochemistry of intra-basaltic weathering horizons and sediments from the flood basalts as such thermally altered palaeosols are considered as analogues of the Martian surface.
The deadline for submission of abstracts to Goldschmidt 2009 is quickly approaching (February 22, 2009) (see http://www.goldschmidt2009.org)
Please circulate this to your colleagues who may have interest in this session.
We look forward to receiving your contribution.
Sincerely
Susan Brantley, Pennsylvania State University - USA
François Chabaux, University of Strasbourg - France
Yves Godderis,CNRS - University of Toulouse - France
Mohammed Rafi Sayyed - Poona College - India
