EARTH SCIENCE SEMINARS
University of Genova
February 25, 2011
 

 M.A.N.T.L.E.
 Multidisciplinar Approach to Natural Triggers of Lithosphere Evolution

OCEANIC RIDGES & MANTLE PLUMES

9.00 - 9.15 : Welcome

OCEANIC RIDGES

9.15 - 10.00 (+15') : Javier Escartin – CNRS & Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France
Different modes of accretion along slow spreading ridges: causes and consequences for lithospheric construction

10.15 - 11.00 (+15') : Benoit Ildefonse – University of Montpellier, France
 Internal structure, composition and evolution of slow-spreading oceanic lithosphere

11.15 : Coffee break

11.45 - 12.30 (+15') : Daniele Brunelli - Università di Modena, Italia
Inherited and melting-induced asthenospheric heterogeneities along the slow and ultraslow spreading ridges

12.45 - 14.15 : Lunch

MANTLE PLUMES AND MORE

14.15 - 15.00 (+15') : Luigi Beccaluva - Università di Ferrara, Italia
Continental Flood Basalts and Mantle Plumes: a Case Study of the Northern
Ethiopian Plateau

15.15 - 16.00 (+15') : Martin Menzies - Royal Holloway, University of
London, UK
Icelandic explosive volcanism (ridge & plume ?) : laser-based fingerprinting of
fall footprints across Europe and the North Atlantic

16.15 : Coffee Break

16.45 - 17.30 (+15') : Massimo Coltorti - Università di Ferrara
Subcontinental mantle fragments within the oceanic lithosphere: the Cape Verde case study

17.45 - 18.30 (+15') : Giorgio Ranalli - Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Melt percolation and softening of the continental lithospheric mantle: a prelude to sea-floor spreading

Organization: Giovanni B. Piccardo [piccardo@dipteris.unige.it]
Alessandra Montanini [alessandra.montanini@unipr.it]

Location:
Aula Perrier, Dipartimento per lo Studio del Territorio e delle sue Risorse
Università di Genova, Corso Europa 26, Genova