[Geoqus] EGU conference 2008 Session GD8: Modelling and Observation of Stress and Strain

[oliver.heidbach at gpi.uni-karlsruhe.de]

This message is to remind you about Session GD8 at the EGU General Assembly, Vienna, April 13-18, 2008: http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2008/

SESSION TITLE

Modelling and Monitoring the Deformation and State of Stress of the Lithosphere (http://www.cosis.net/members/meetings/sessions/information.php?p_id=303&s_id=5179)

The session is co-sponsored by the International Lithosphere Program Task Force VII.


SESSION DESCRIPTION

The main goal of this session is to bring together researchers with a focus on monitoring and modelling of the deformation and stress field of the lithosphere. The emphasis will be on interdisciplinary synthesis rather than technical advances in modelling techniques and data analysis. Numerical and analogue modelling provide new insights into geodynamic processes such as earthquake cycles, plate tectonics, basin evolution, and mantle convection. To constrain such models, GPS data from continuously observing networks and campaign surveys as well as InSAR measurements are increasingly being used. These geodetic observations monitor the recent crustal deformation with high accuracy and thus, provide the possibility to resolve details of post-, co- and interseismic deformation signals. Additionally, GPS and InSAR data are used to derive complex earthquake related information such as co-seismic slip distribution, post-seismic stress relaxation, poroelastic rebound, afterslip, and silent earthquakes. The geodetic observations can be related to the physical and rheological properties of the lithosphere by means of modelling. Particular interest is on research which compares and/or combines geodetic observations with data from other sources (e.g. seismology, paleoseismology, structural geology). Contributions may regard, but are not limited to, studies of: 
1.) Integrated interdisciplinary interpretation and modelling of stress and strain observations; 
2.) Finite geologic strain versus geodetic strain; 
3.) Relationship between crustal deformation and heat flow; 
4.) Mechanical anisotropy of the lithosphere; 
5.) Correlation between plate motions, mantle flow, seismic anisotropy, stress directions and plate boundary forces.
 

CONVENER

Oliver Heidbach
Kasper Fischer
Anke Friedrich
Sigurjon Jonsson

All information about the General Assembly and guidelines regarding the abstract format, submission and oral/poster 
presentations are available on the Assembly Web Site (http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2008/)

Please, go through the menu to "Programme" and "Call for Paper", the Session GD8 is listed in the Geodynamics 
programme section.


IMPORTANT DEADLINES

Deadline for receipt of abstracts: 14th January 2008


Please, don't hesitate to contact us for any information.

We look forward to seeing you in Vienna,


Oliver Heidbach
Geophysical Institute
Karlsruhe University
Germany
E-mail: oliver.heidbach at gpi.uni-karlsruhe.de

Kasper Fischer
Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics
Ruhr-University Bochum
Germany
E-mail: kasper.fischer at ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Anke Friedrich
Faculty of Earth Sciences
LMU Muenchen
Germany
E-mail: friedrich at lmu.de

Sigurjon Jonsson
Institute of Geophysics
ETH Zurich
Switzerland
E-mail: sj at erdw.ethz.ch