Goldschmidt 2000 Daily Programme

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Goldschmidt 2000

An International Conference for Geochemistry

September 3rd - 8th 2000

Oral Sessions, Friday, 8th September, 09:00 - 12:00



Symposium B

Chemistry and Dynamics of the Earth

Convenors: George Helffrich & Bernie Wood.

Location: Clarendon Lindemann.

09:00 Hanyu T & Nakamura E:

Sr and Nd Isotopic Systematics of HIMU by Analyses of Clinopyroxene Phenocrysts

09:15 Kurz M:

Noble Gas Evidence for Undegassed Terrestrial Mantle

09:30 van Keken P & Ballentine C:

Heat and Helium: A Numerical Investigation of Mantle Heterogeneity Lengthscale

09:45 Davies GF & Mériaux C:

KEYNOTE Possible Causes of Trace-Element Stratification in the Mantle

10:15 Ozima M:

Origin of Mantle He and Implications for Mantle Fluid-flow

10:30 Discussion:

10:45 Marty B & Dauphas N:

Nitrogen Isotope Systematics of the Mantle and the Fate of Organic Matter Through Time

11:00 Bouman C, Elliott TR, Vroon PZ & Pearson DG:

Li Isotope Evolution of the Mantle from Analyses of Mantle Xenoliths

11:15 Lee C, Yin Q, Rudnick R & Jacobsen S:

The Role of Lithospheric Mantle in Continent Stability: Re-Os Isotopic Mapping of the Upper Mantle in Southwestern USA

11:30 Kadik A:

The Oxygen Budget of the Earth and the Oxidation State of the Archean Upper Mantle

11:45 Jacob D, Viljoen F, Grassineau N & Jagoutz E:

Remobilization of Ancient Material within the Subcratonic Lithosphere

Symposium E

Biological Geochemistry

Convenors: Matthew Collins, Derek Lovely & Rob Raiswell.

Location: Oxford University Museum.

09:00 Hornibrook E, Longstaffe F & Fyfe W:

Biogeochemical Processes Governing the Stable Carbon-Isotope Compositions of CH4 and CO2 in Freshwater Wetlands

09:15 Werne JP & Hollander DJ:

Anomalous Carbon Isotope Biogeochemistry in the Cariaco Upwelling System: Balancing the Effects of Biological and Oceanographic Processes

09:30 Dittrich M, Kurz P & Wehrli B:

Calcite Bio-mineralisation by Picoplankton Cultures from Lake Lucerne

09:45 Welch SA, Skatvold AM, Labrenz M, Druschel GK, Thomsen-Ebert T & Banfield JF:

Biogenic Carbonate Precipitation by a Planktonic Microbial Population

10:00 van Lith Y, Vasconcelos C, Warthmann R & McKenzie J:

Role of Sulfate Reducing Bacteria During Microbial Dolomite Precipitation as Deduced from Culture Experiments

10:15 Bailey A & Roberts H:

Controls on Minor Element Compositions of Early Diagenetic Siderites and Dolomites in the Mississippi River Delta Plain

10:30 Schippers A & Jørgensen BB:

Oxidation of FeS2 and FeS by MnO2 in Marine Sediments

10:45 Bottrell S, Parkes J & Raiswell R:

Deep Anoxic Pyrite Oxidation and Stimulation of Bacterial Activity in Marine Sediments

11:00 Brüchert V, Neumann K & Jørgensen BB:

Dynamics of Dissolved Inorganic and Organic Sulfides in Upwelling Sediments off Namibia

11:15 Wortmann UG, Bernasconi SM, Boettcher ME & Hay WW:

Extreme Sulfur Isotope Fractionations During (Single-step?) Bacterial Sulfate Reduction in Hypersulfidic Interstitial Waters of the Great Australian Bight, ODP Leg 182

11:30 Severmann S, Parkes RJ, Cragg BA, Telling J, Rhodes J, Mills RA & Palmer MR:

The Geomicrobiology of a Relict Sulphide Deposit: Extending the Boundaries of the Submarine Hydrothermal Ecosystem

11:45 Grimes S, Butler I, Davies K, Brock F, Edwards D & Rickard D:

Pyritisation of Plant Axes from the London Clay: Pyrite Textures and their Importance to Understanding the Mechanism of Fossilisation

Symposium F

Ocean Circulation: Past and Present

Convenors: Gideon Henderson & Bill Jenkins.

Location: Physical Chemistry.

09:00 Marotzke J:

KEYNOTE Understanding Large-Scale Oceanic Transport Processes

09:30 Rodgers K, Dutay J, Orr J, Monfray P, Madec G, Peacock S & Key R:

Transient Tracers and Interannual Variability in the Pacific Subtropical Cell

09:45 Hillaire-Marcel C, Ghaleb B, Simonetti A & Griepy C:

Western Boundary Undercurrent Control of Th-isotope Fluxes in the Labrador Sea Based on MC-ICP-MS Measurements of Total 230Th and 232Th in 5-Litre Water Samples

10:00 Hamelin B, Alleman L, Veron A & Nicolas E:

Transient Isotopic Variations of Pollutant Lead in the Mediterranean Sea

10:15 Discussion:

10:30 Rickaby REM, Schrag DP, Flugge A, Riebesell U & Zondervan I:

Cultural Perspectives on Sr/Ca in Coccolithophorids

10:45 Vance D, Henderson GM, Burton KW & Slowey NC:

Neodymium in Sedimentary Foraminifera Records the Isotopic Composition of Surface Seawater

11:00 Reynolds B, Henderson G & Burton K:

Tracing Holocene Sources of North Atlantic Deep-waters Using Nd-isotopes in Bahamas Slope Sediments

11:15 Staubwasser M & Henderson GM:

Investigation of 226Ra/Ba Dating of Marine Carbonate by TIMS

11:30 Eisenhauer A, Liebetrau V, Gussone N, Wörner G & Hansen BT:

The Application of 226Raexc./Ba-Ratios for Dating of Baltic Ferromanganese Concretions

Symposium I

Mineral Surfaces and Reactions

Convenors: Andrew Putnis & Vala Ragnarsdottir.

Location: Zoology A.

09:00 Eggleston C, Samson S, Higgins S, Stack A & Pribyl R:

KEYNOTE A New Look at an Old Idea: The Structure of Oxide Mineral Surfaces and the Role of Metal Centers in Intermediate Co-ordination Environments as Adsorbed Ions

09:30 Sturchio NC, Fenter P & Teng HH:

New Evidence of Orthoclase Dissolution Mechanisms by In Situ X-Ray Reflectivity and Atomic Force Microscopy

09:45 Nagy K, Schlegel M, Cheng L, Fenter P & Sturchio N:

Alteration of Muscovite to a Mg-Clay

10:00 Samson SD & Eggleston CM:

Nonsteady State Hematite Dissolution: HAFM and STM Observations

10:15 Oelkers EH, Gauthier J & Schott J:

An Experimental Study of the Dissolution Mechanism and Rates of Muscovite

10:30 Petit J, Angeli F, Boscarino D, Della Mea G & Boizot B:

Influence of Calcium on the Dissolution Behaviour of Sodium Aluminosilicate Glasses

10:45 Wogelius RA, Dysthe DK, Tang CC & Nield AA:

Pressure Solution Studied In Situ via X-ray Reflectivity

11:00 Stipp S:

Toward a Conceptual Model of the Calcite Surface

11:15 Pina CM, Becker U & Fernández-Díaz L:

Epitaxial Growth of Gypsum on Anhydrite: In Situ AFM Observations and Computer Calculations

11:30 Le Guern C, Baranger P, Conil P, Negrel P, Brach M, Bodenan F & Crouzet C:

Arsenic and Rare Earth Elements Trapping by Carbonates and Hydrous Iron Oxides Precipitates Generated by Degassing and Oxidation of Mineralised Waters

11:45 Higgins S, Bosbach D, Eggleston C & Knauss K:

Experimental Measurements and Modelling of Fundamental Attachment and Detachment Reactions on Barium Sulphate (001) Using Hydrothermal Scanning Probe Microscopy

Symposium J

Mantle Dynamics and Melting

Convenors: Tim Elliott & Erik Hauri.

Location: Clarendon Martin Wood.

09:00 Reisberg L, Lorand J, Bedini RM & Bodinier J:

Os Isotopic and PGE Results from Spinel Peridotites of the East African Rift

09:15 Alard O, Pearson NJ, Reisberg L, Lorand J, Griffin WL & O'Reilly SY:

Os Isotope Systematics of the Massif Central Mantle Lithosphere: In-situ and Whole-rock Studies

09:30 Richardson SH, Shirey SB, Harris JW & Carlson RW:

Re-Os Systematics of Sulphide Inclusion Bearing Diamonds from Continental Mantle Roots

09:45 Brügmann G, Rehkämper M, Mezger K & Hofmann A:

Os Isotopic Composition and Abundance of Highly Siderophile Elements in Mantle Peridotites and Dikes from the Ivrea Zone in Italy

10:00 Discussion:

10:15 Blichert-Toft J, Ionov DA & Albarède F:

The Nature of the Sub-Continental Lithospheric Mantle: Hf Isotope Evidence from Garnet Peridotite Xenoliths from Siberia

10:30 Dowall D, Nowell G, Pearson DG & Kjarsgaard B:

The Nature of Kimberlite Source Regions: A Hf-Nd Isotopic Study of Slave Craton Kimberlites

10:45 Schmidberger S, Simonetti A & Francis D:

Lu-Hf Isotope Systematics for Peridotite Xenoliths from Somerset Island Kimberlites: Evidence for Archean Lithosphere beneath Arctic Canada

11:00 Bizzarro M & Stevenson RK:

Nature of the Sub-Continental Mantle Under the North Atlantic Craton: Evidence from Peridotite Xenoliths of the Safartoq Area, Southwestern Greenland

11:15 McDade P & Harte B:

Roberts Victor Eclogites with a Spinel-Facies Mantle Signature

11:30 Bouikine A, Trieloff M, Hopp J & Altherr R:

Argon: A Tracer of Mantle Metasomatism Recorded by Xenoliths from the Uwayrid Volcanic Field, Saudi Arabia

11:45 Korotchantseva E, Trieloff M & Hopp J:

Tracing Mantle Metasomatism of Zabargad (Red Sea) Peridotites by the 40Ar-39Ar Technique

Symposium N

Low Temperature and Metamorphic Geochemistry and Geochronology

Convenor: Nigel Harris.

Location: Zoology B+C.

09:00 Pearson DG, Bulanova G, Shirey S, Carlson R, Milledge J & Barashkov Y:

Re-Os Isotope Constraints on the age of Siberian Diamonds

09:15 Stein HJ, Markey RJ & Morgan JW:

Robust Re-Os Molybdenite Ages for the Hemlo Au Deposit, Superior Province, Canada

09:30 Villa IM, Ruggieri G & Puxeddu M:

Geochronology of Heterogeneous Minerals: 3. Biotites from the Larderello Geothermal Field

09:45 Whitehouse M:

Combining in Situ Zircon REE and U-Th-Pb Geochronology: A Petrogenetic Dating Tool

10:00 Bacon CR, Lowenstern JB, Persing HM, Wooden JL & Donnelly-Nolan JM:

Late Pleistocene Zircons from Cascades arc Volcanoes Dated by U-Th Analysis with SHRIMP RG

10:15 Corfu F:

U-Pb Geochronology of the Lofoten-Vesteraalen AMCG Suite, Northern Norway

10:30 Scherer E, Münker C & Mezger K:

The Decay Constant of 176Lu Determined by Calibration Against the U-Pb System in the Phalaborwa Carbonatite

10:45 Pidgeon RT, Nemchin AA & Kinny PD:

Fir-tree and Nebulously Zoned Zircons from Granulite Facies Rocks: Evidence for Zircon Growth and Interaction with Metamorphic Fluids

11:00 Poller U, Huth J & Hoppe P:

What Causes the Changes in Cathodoluminescence Intensity in Natural Zircons?

11:15 Zheng Y, Li S & Wang Z:

Oxygen Isotope Constraints on the Equilibration of Radiogenic Isotope Systems in Minerals: Implications for Metamorphic Geochronology

11:30 Alexandrov P, Ruffet G, Cheilletz A & Féraud G:

Saddle Shaped 40Ar/39Ar Age Spectra and Muscovite Recrystallization

11:45 Kumar A, Gopalan K & Rajagopalan G:

Mesoproterozoic Age of the Vindhyan Sediments, Central India from Glauconite Rb-Sr Systematics

Symposium O

Igneous Geochemistry

Convenor: Nigel Harris.

Location: Inorganic Chemistry.

09:00 Perini G, Tepley III FJ, Davidson JP & Conticelli S:

The Origin of K-Feldspar Megacrysts Hosted in Alkaline Potassic Rocks from post-Orogenic Setting: Constraining the Interaction between high-K calc-Alkaline and Alkaline Magmas

09:15 Nex P, Cawthorn G & Kinnaird J:

Decoupling of Major and Trace Elements During the Intrusion of new Magma: The Main Zone of the Western Bushveld Complex

09:30 Sensarma S, Palme H, Deloule E & Mukhopadhyay D:

Evidence of Silicate Liquid Immiscibility in the Early Proterozoic Andesitic Rock, Dongargarh Supergroup, Central India and Possible Tectonic Implication

09:45 Davidson J, Hassanzadeh J, Berzins R, Pandamouz A, Turrin B & Young A:

Magmagenesis and Evolution at Damavand Volcano, Iran

10:00 Tonarini S, Civetta L, D'Antonio M, Ferrara G, Leeman WP & Necco A:

B/Nb and *11B Systematics in the Phlegrean Volcanic District (PVD) and Aeolian Islands (relationship between Calc-alkaline and Potassic Orogenic Magmatism in Southern Italy)

10:15 Schaltegger U, Zeilinger G, Frank M & Burg J:

Formation of Juvenile Island arc Crust Through Melting of Sub-arc Mantle: Precise U-Pb Ages and Hf Isotopes from a Fossil Crust-mantle Transition in the Kohistan Complex (Northern Pakistan)

10:30 Shaw A, Hilton D, Macpherson C & Sinton J:

Evidence for Nucleogenic Neon in High 3He/4He Lavas from the Manus Back-arc Basin

10:45 Isnard H, Gariepy C & Stevenson RK:

Sm-Nd and Pb-Pb Isotopic Characterization of the Late Archean La Grande Subprovince, Quebec: Significance to the Crustal Development of the Eastern Superior Craton

11:00 Shchekina TI, Gramenitskiy EN, Batanova AM & Kurbyko TA:

Reactionary Phenomena at the Phase Boundary of Granitic Melt and Basic Rocks

11:15 Tiepolo M, Tribuzio R, Bottazzi P & Vannucci R:

Primary Liquid Composition in Continental Collisional Setting: Inferences from the Adamello and Val Masino-Bregaglia Intrusions (Central Alps)

11:30 Andersen T, Andresen A & Sylvester AG:

Nature and Distribution of Deep Crustal Reservoirs in the South-western Part of the Baltic Shield: Evidence from Nd, Sr and Pb Isotope Data on Late Sveconorwegian Granites

11:45 Jung S, Mezger K & Hoernes S:

Geochronology and Isotope Geochemistry of Lower Crustal Melts from the Pan-African Damara Belt

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