Opportunity to attend two field trips running in September 2014, co-funded by the Tectonics Study Group. Places are available for structural geology postgraduate students and non-students. Both trips will cost between £280 - £300 (for accommodation, flights, ferries and transport). For students, the costs of one of these trips will be covered by TSG (bar £30 deposit, non-refundable, to validate attendance). The costs to attendees will be your travel to London (road, rail or air) and your food. All accommodations have cooking facilities and a shop or local places to eat within walking distance. Field Trip to Elba (Tuscany Archipelago, Italy) The first trip will be on Elba (Italy), from the 1st to the 6th September. Elba represents the westernmost outcrop of the northern Apennines. Its long-living geological history has given the island particular structural complexity, characterised by a strong relationship between magmatism and tectonic, and structural features formed during brittle and ductile deformations in a number of lithologies. Key localities include: the Metamorphic units and the Fe-ores deposits between Porto Azzurro and Rio Marina, Eastern Elba (in this part of the field trip we can visit the best outcrop of the lowermost units to recognise their tectonic relationships and the setting of the hosted Fe-ore bodies), the Monte Capanne monzogranitic body, Western island (with its characteristic euhedral K-feldspar megacrysts, and its mixing and mingling features), and the associated metamorphic aureole. More information on the field trip localities can be found in the pdf attached. The cost for participants without a subsidy is about £ 292 per person based on 20 participants, plus food (the price includes flight from London to Pisa, return with EasyJet); £ 193.75, without the flight. If you are interested in joining this trip or would like more information on logistics, please email Roberto Emanuele Rizzo at [email protected]. Field Trip to the Betic Cordillera and the Carboneras Fault Zone (SE Spain) The second trip will be to the South-eastern coast of Spain, with base in the town of Carboneras, from the 7th – 11th of September. This field trip will bring you across and around Carboneras Fault Zone (part of the famous Trans-Alborán Shear Zone, a complex of strike-slip stretching transform faults that extends for 450 km between Alicante and Morocco) and its relationship with the Cabo de Gata volcanic complex that dominate the region to the south of the CFZ. Moving northwest we cross the Sierra Cabrera rise, part of the Alborán Domain metamorphic core complex, where spectacular polyphase deformation structures can be observed. Adjacent to it, we descend into the Sorbas Basin to observe the tectono-stratigraphic aspects of the Miocene syn-deformational sedimentation, as well as follow the history of a very rapid uplift, on the spectacularly well exposed formations of this semi-arid region. More information on this field trip can be found in the attached pdf. The cost for participants without a subsidy is of £ 275.85 per person based on 20 participants, plus food (including flight from London to Almeria with Iberia; £ 113.85, without the flight). If you are interested in joining this trip or would like more information on logistics, please email Lorenzo Valetti at [email protected]. Subsidies available We are glad to announce that the TSG is providing a funding subsidy for each field trip. Therefore, we would like to encourage students to apply for a subsidy that will cover the full cost of the trip (food and personal expenses not included, plus £30 non-refundable deposit). In order to be eligible for the subsidy the TSG committee has also asked that each applicant send a half page of A4 with a description of their geological background and why they think the chosen field trip would be useful to them. For example: • your motivation for participating in one of the field trips (it is of course possible to attend both the trips, but the subsidy will only be given for one of the two); • what connection do the topics covered in the trip have with your current or future research; • what, if any, scientific contribute have you brought to the related themes and if it has been presented at previous TSG Conferences. Please send your application by email to the relative contact for each field trip (see above) and we will collect them together, to pass on to the committee. Places on both these trips are limited due to transport, so if you would like to attend please confirm ASAP. The deadline for signing up for either trip is Wednesday 12th March when we will finalise bookings on accommodation and transport.
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