[iris-bulk] AGU Joint Assembly Call For Abstracts: Intraplate Volcanoes

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Dear Colleagues,

We would like to call to your attention to a session at the upcoming  
AGU Joint Assembly in Toronto, Canada this May. The session entitled  
"Intraplate Volcanic Fields: From Source to Eruption and Techniques  
for Identifying Patterns of Behavior" will present current research  
from a variety of interdisciplinary scientists. Please read our  
description below and consider submitting your research to our  
session. Abstracts may be submitted now until March 4th.

Session Description:

Continental intraplate volcanic fields are characterized by a wide  
array of eruptive styles and products that are widely distributed  
across the continents in a variety of tectonic regimes. These volcanic  
fields occur in virtually all tectonic environments, from extensional  
(Black Rock Volcanic Field, Utah, USA) to compressional (Michoacan- 
Guanajuato Volcanic Field, Mexico) and strike-slip (San Quinta  
Volcanic Field, Baja, Mexico). A field may span from several hundred  
square kilometers to more than several thousand square kilometers and  
may include anywhere from several volcanic vents to hundreds. This  
session is dedicated to increasing the fundamental understanding of  
the patterns of behavior in intraplate volcanic fields through field- 
based geophysical, geologic, and geochemical investigations. Also of  
interest are the development of analogue and mathematical models of  
magmatic, tectonic, and eruption processes, as well as the application  
of statistics and pattern recognition techniques to volcanic data  
processing. We hope that the contributions made to this session will  
aid in our understanding of intraplate source regions and augment our  
ability to forecast eruptive behavior to mitigate hazards.

AGU Joint Assembly Website: http://www.agu.org/meetings/ja09/

Regards,
Sara Hanson-Hedgecock
seh5 at buffalo.edu

Amanda Hintz
arl6 at buffalo.edu

University at Buffalo


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