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3rd Circular

INTERNATIONAL TECTONIC SYMPOSIA
Moscow -- St. Petersburg, Russia

7-th ZONENSHAIN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON PLATE TECTONICS

GENERAL PROBLEMS OF TECTONICS

October 30-31, 2001

Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)
Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation (MNR RF)
Ministry of Industry, Science and Technology of the Russian Federation (MIST RF)
Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR)
P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS
Institute of the Lithosphere of Marginal Seas RAS
All-Russia Research Institute for Geology and Mineral Resources of the World Ocean "VNIIOkeangeologia"
Tectonic Society of Russia (TSR)
Interdepartmental Tectonic Committee (ITC)
Moscow State University (MSU)
State Scientific Centre of Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (SSC AARI)
Alfred Wegener Institute
GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences
EUROPROBE -- European Science Foundation

Dear colleagues!
The Organizing Committee invites you to take part in the
7-th Zonenshain International Conference on Plate Tectonics

THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Chairman -         V.E. Khain (ILRAN)
Co-chairman -     I.S. Gramberg (VNIIOceangeology) (чоййпЛЕБОЗЕПМПЗЙС)
Co-chairman -     J. Thiede (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany)
Vice-chairman -   N.A. Bogdanov (ILRAN)
Vice-chairman -   L.I. Lobkovsky (IORAN)
Vice-chairman -   G.A. Cherkashev (VNIIOceangeology)

Members of the Organizing Committee:
G.E. Grikurov (VNIIOceangeology)
L.V. Dmitriev (GEOCHI)
W.-C. Dullo (GEOMAR, Germany)
H. Kassens (Schmidt Laboratory)
A.L. Knipper (GIN)
N.V. Koronovsky (MSU)
M.I. Kuzmin (Inst. of Geochemistry Siberian Branch RAS)
A.P. Lisitsin (IORAN)
E.G. Mirlin (Vernadsky State Museum RAS)
A.M. Nikishin (MSU)
S.M. Pryamikov (AANII)
D.K. Futterer (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany)
E.V. Shipilov (Res. Inst. of Marine Geophysics)
Executive Secretary - V.E. Verzhbitsky (ILRAN)

The Conference will consist of the following sections:

1. Mid-Ocean Ridges. Interdisciplinary Approach.
2. Ophiolites. Contemporary view
3. Plate Tectonics and Deep Earth Dynamics.
4. Plumes (their role in the tectonics and magmatism) and Intraplate Tectonics.
5. Tethys and Peritethys: Interaction of Two Systems. Paleogeodynamic Reconstructions.
6. Active and Passive Margins.
7. Collisional Belts.
8. Transform Faults and Triple Junctions.

Workshop 1: Radiolaria: from High Latitudes to Equator, Paleoreconstructions.

Workshop 2: Tectonics of the Sea of Okhotsk Region and Kamchatka

GENERAL INFORMATION

THE 7th INTERNATIONAL ZONENSHAIN CONFERENCE ON PLATE TECTONICS

will be held in the

Vernadsky State Geological Museum

Address: 103009, Moscow, Mokhovaya street 11, Build. 2,
"Okhotny Ryad" or "Alexandrovsky Sad" metro stations

The conference will embrace one plenary meeting, eight sectional (thematic) meetings, and two workshops. The plenary meeting will take place on October 30, in the morning, in the White Hall of the Vernadsky State Geological Museum RAS (SGM RAS). Sectional meetings with oral contributions will be held onOctober 30 and 31, simultaneously in several rooms of the SGM RAS. The poster session will be held on October 30in the Conference Hall. Please note that Workshop 2 (Tectonics of the Okhotsk Sea Region and Kamchatka) will be carried out on October 29 in the Video-hall of the SGM RAS. More detailed information on the Conference Agenda is given in the enclosed Program.

The conference will take place both in Russian and English. Oral presentations will be accompanied by simultaneous translation.

Participants from other cities, who need hotel accommodations, are asked to inform the Secretariat about it at an earliest possible time (indicating dates and duration of the stay in hotel). There is opportunity to accomodate participants in the "Tsentral'nyi dom turista" (Tourist Central Hotel), where the cost of a single room is about 24 US$ per day, double room is about 34 US$, including breakfast. The Organizing Committee kindly requests to send URGENTLY applications for hotel reservations.

REGISTRATION FEE

Registration fees (200 US$ for full members, 60 US$ for accompanying persons, 50 US$ for student members) are to be paid on-site during the registration. The fee payment covers the volume of abstracts, a participant card, cold drinks during breaks between sessions. The registration payment embraces the participation in both Moscow and St. Petersburg sessions..

TRAVEL TO St.PETERSBURG

Participants of the conference "POLAR REGIONS OF THE EARTH - GEOLOGY, TECTONICS, RESOURCE SIGNIFICANCE, NATURAL ENVIRONMENT" will leave for St.Petersburg on October 31 by the evening train "Avrora" (departure at 17-20, arrival at 23-09). Return to Moscow is planned for November 3 (departure at 16-00, arrival at 21-41). The Organizing Committee would ask the participants to inform urgently the Secretariat, if they need to book tickets to the above-mentioned trains.

Those who received the Third Circular are kindly requested to confirm their participation in the conference (or inform of their refusal), and answer the points concerning hotel reservation, and booking train tickets to the following address:

E-mail: verba@ilran.ru, office@ilran.ru
Verzhbitsky Vladimir Evgen'evich

Institute of the Lithosphere of Marginal Seas RAS,
22, Staromonetny per. Moscow 109180

Tel.: (095) 951-28-24; (095) 953-55-88
Fax: (095) 953-55-90 Web-site:
http://www.nsu.ru/science/rsgsgt/tsr.htm
http://students.web.ru/~sgt/tsr.htm

With all scientific questions related to the

EUROPROBE Workshop

VARISCIDES-CRATON-URALIDES:
LINKAGE BETWEEN OROGENIC AND INTRAPLATE PROCESSES (October 28-29, 2001, Moscow)

please contact project leaders
R.A. Stephenson (andres@ija.csic.es),
A. Perez-Estaun (andres@ija.csic.es),
T. Pharaoh (tcp@bgs.ac.uk). Accommodation in Moscow - Moscow EUROPROBE Centre

( mrs Nadja Timofeva nadjatim@dol.ru )

Any questions pertaining to the work of the International уonference

ST. PETERSBURG CONFERENCE

POLAR REGIONS OF THE EARTH - GEOLOGY, TECTONICS,
RESOURCE SIGNIFICANCE, NATURAL ENVIRONMENT (1-3 November, 2001)

are to be forwarded to the Secretariat using the following contact addresses:
Elena Miloradovskaya
E-mail miloradovskaya@mail.ru

VNIIOKEANGEOLOGIA
1, Angliysky av., St. Petersburg
190121, RUSSIA
Tel. 7 (812) 114 8218
Fax: 7 (812) 114 1470

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