Events

Information of and links to conferences, workshops, and other events organized and/or supported by TecTask will be posted here.

11 Nov 2022

We are pleased to inform you that registrations are open for the two-days short course: “Microtectonics of fault rocks” held by Prof. Renée Heilbronner (Basel University). The short course, scheduled for the 12-13 January 2023, will be based in Turin (Italy) at the Earth Sciences Department (University of Turin) – via Valperga Caluso, 35, 10125. The short course is organized by Salvatore Iaccarino (UniTo), Matteo Simonetti (ISPRA), Chiara Montomoli (UniTo) and Carosi Rodolfo (UniTo) and supported by GIGS-Gruppo Italiano Geologia Strutturale, by IGHG-Geologia Himalayana and by the TecTask.

This workshop, mainly addressed to MSc students, PhD students and Early Career Researchers involved in Structural Geology and Tectonics, has the aim of providing a general introduction of the study of fault rocks s.l. with the aid of image analysis tools.  The workshop is designed as two-days lectures, with theoretical parts in the morning and practical exercises in the afternoon. Participants are requested to bring their personal laptop with Image J and/or Fiji installed.

To participate, please express your interest by mail to: salvatore.iaccarino@unito.it (specifying your details, e.g., affiliation and current position). No registration fees are needed; however, please note that a max of 25 participants are allowed (for logistic reasons) and consequently a first-come-first-service policy is applied. Registration deadline: 22 December 2022.

Accommodation: participants need to organise their own accommodation, but note that a certain number of rooms at a discounted price, are available at Hotel Eden.

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UPDATED 15/06/2022

Conference: Deformation Mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics

The next DRT is finally here! This DRT will be held in Catania, Siciliy, directly after the YORSGET meeting (see below). Dates 4 – 10 July 2022 (including pre- and post-confrence field trips; conference itself is 5 – 7 July). The theme of the DRT is “Geo-thinking of the future planet: how innovations are improving traditional geoscience activities”.

For more than three decades, the DRT meeting has been one of the main forums in Europe where these different fields of study are brought together. Since its first edition, 22 DRT conferences have been organized around Europe, designed to provide a rigorous scientific basis for the understanding of rock deformation, tectonics, and microstructures. The 23rd DRT meeting provides a unique opportunity of bringing together specialists of all scales – from field geologists and experimentalists to theoretical modelers – to debate the problems and questions arising from natural structures and microstructures. The dialogue is encouraged on all scales of field, experimental and theoretical studies of rock deformation.

The meeting includes a prize lecture by the TecTask Henk Zwart Award winner for 2022, Renee Heilbronner.

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UPDATED 15/02/2022:

Conference: Young Researchers in Structural Geology and Tectonics (YORSGET) dates confirmed. Abstract deadline will be announced soon!

We are pleased to announce that, subject to any covid restrictions, the third edition of Young researchers in Structural geology and Tectonics (YORSGET) will take place in Catania, Sicily 30 June – 4 July 2022. YORSGET is immediately followed by the DRT meeting which also takes place in Sicily.

There will be some places available for the physical meeting due to some cancellations: Sign up to Yorsget facebook or twitter page to get updates on the meeting, registrations are open now.

https://www.facebook.com/yorsget
Twitter: @yorsget

The seminal Yorsget was organised in Oviedo, Spain in 2008, with the following meeting in Montgenevre, France in 2018. The concept of Yorsget is to provide an immersive and supportive platform for early career scientists studying tectonics and structural geology to get together in an informal setting. The meeting will involve conventional oral and poster presentations together with field excursions designed to stimulate discussion. TecTask is part of the organising team of the meetings and also provides travel bursaries for students.

The island of Sicily straddles the edge of the Maghrebian thrust belt (part of the greater Alpine system) as it runs up against the “foreland” of the African continent. The thrust belt developed through the Neogene as an emergent, largely submarine system that has been elevated by late orogenic “rebound” to reveal exception syn-kinematic stratal successions. We will visit these locations to examine tectono-stratigraphic relationships and the landscape expression of faulting, folding and regional tectonic processes.

Website: http://www.dipbiogeo.unict.it/it/content/about-yorsget

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28/01/2022
Masterclasses in Microtectonics at the University of Mainz, Germany,  March 2022.
These courses should interest students, postdocs and professionals who wish to learn about the deformation of rocks on the microscopic scale.
Part I : 24 – 27 March – Delivered by Prof. Cees Passchier, teaches how deformation mechanisms can be inferred from the microstructures visible in thin sections. It is based on the book “Microtectonics” by Passchier and Trouw (2005), and the superb Microtectonics Collection of 300 selected thin sections that are the source of figures in that book will be examined during the course. The main topics, which are treated through an alternation of lectures and microscopy practicals, are: Principles of microtectonic analysis, overprinting relations, deformation phases and tectonic phases, flow and deformation, intracrystalline deformation, foliations and lineations, shear zones, veins and fringes, porphyroblasts, metamorphic reaction rims.Part II : 28 March – 1 April –  Delivered by Prof. Virginia Toy, which is entitled “Fault Rocks and Fault Mechanisms Revisited” will focus on how fault zone processes can be inferred from their textural record. The class will examine the set of thin sections and samples of fault rocks (mylonites, cataclasites, pseudotachylytes) from the Outer Hebrides Fault Zone (Scotland) that inspired Sibson (1977) to develop his widely-cited classification of fault rocks, and from New Zealand’s Alpine Fault Zone where he next applied this classification. Additionally, a set of exercises will examine microstructural datasets from both Outer Hebrides and Alpine Fault Zone samples acquired using advanced analytical tools, including SEM (EBSD, BSE-imaging), TEM, and synchrotron-CT. These exercises will demonstrate how to quantify the 2D and 3D arrangement and shapes of fault rock grains and particles, their textures, their crystallographic orientations, and the nature of porosity. The implications for fault rheology will be explored.
It is possible to participate in only Part I or Part II of these courses, but we recommend joining both since they are complimentary.  We would request that participants are fully vaccinated (including booster vaccinations) against COVID-19, and that they present negative rapid tests every two days during the course. Also, we recognise there is a chance our University regulations will change so that we cannot accept external participants before March. In that case we reserve the right to cancel your registration and will refund the course fees in full, but we cannot accept responsibility in that case for cancelled travel arrangements or accommodation.
 
Further information about course costs, lodging, and logistics is available here: https://www.geosciences.uni-mainz.de/teaching-in-tektonophysics-group/masterclass-microtectonics/
Please enquire by email to Ms. Nina Au, niau@uni-mainz.de 
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PAST EVENTS

Workshop: Masterclass in Microtectonics at the University of Mainz, Germany (February 10-14 Feb 2020 and 17-20 Feb 2020. More info at https://www.geowiss.uni-mainz.de/lehre-in-der-ag-tektonophysik/masterclass-microtectonics/

34th Himalaya-Karakorum-Tibet Workshop, June 4-7, 2019. Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana.  For more information, please check out the website: https://hkt2019bozeman.com.

DRT 2019, 11-14 June, Tubingen, Germany in honour of two pupils (Cees Passchier and Janos Urai) of the late Henk Zwart who both made significant contributions to structural geology and tectonics and who will both retire in 2019.  More information at https://drt-2019.net/ .

Masterclass in Microtectonics at the University of Mainz, Germany (February 18th to 21st 2019). www.microtectonics.de

Conference: Young Researchers in Structural Geology and Tectonics (YORSGET). 2-6 July 2018. More information: click here.