Goldschmidt 2011: what you will discover along the Prague Sightseeing Tours
Two different 3-hour city tours are offered, with a meeting point outside the Prague Convention Center and an English-speaking licenced tour guide. We recommend that you arrive in Prague on Saturday 13 August in the morning, so that you can combine both tours between Saturday afternoon and Sunday, with half-a-day at leisure. Both the Castle Tour (I), and the Old Town Tour (II) start consecutively 3 times (Saturday 13 August at 2pm, Sunday 14 August at 9am and at 2pm). To register, please go to www.goldschmidt2011.org/socials
Goldschmidt 2011: concert, dinner and banquet
As part of the exciting social program of the Goldschmidt 2011 conference, we invite you to a concert of classical music in the Basilica of St George, a dinner in the Brevnov Abbey and a banquet in the famous Municipal House. To register for any of these events, please go to www.goldschmidt2011.org/socials
Goldschmidt 2011: what you will discover on the Field Trips
Four 3-day trips are offered, two pre-conference, two post-conference. Two tours are low-temperature geochemistry/biogeochemistry oriented, the other two are mineralogy/petrogenesis oriented. The photos presented in the field trips albums only reflect a selection of the stops you will make. For full details and for registration, please go to www.goldschmidt2011.org/fieldTrips
Photos from homepage banner (current)
Courtesy of Liane Benning (University of Leeds, UK), Andreas Kappler (University of Tübingen, Germany), Bernard Marty (CNRS Nancy, France), Anders Meibom (National History Museum, France) and Nikolaos Nikolaidis (Technical University of Crete)
Field trip: Alpine Geomicrobiology (Switzerland 2007)
Courtesy of Andreas Kappler (University of Tübingen, Germany)
Expedition to the icesheet of North East Greenland
Following discoveries of blue ice areas in Greenland resembling meteorite-bearing blue ice fields in Antarctica, a surface search of several of the most promising sites was carried out in August 2003. The ice fields are located in Kong Christian X Land, in northeastern Greenland around 74°N at elevations between 2100 and 2400 m. No meteorites were found in any of the localities that were searched. Evidence of occasional significant melting (filled crevasses and melt sheets) suggest that summer temperatures are sometimes high enough that dark rocks, like meteorites, can melt through the upper layers of ice. Small terrestrial rocks and cryogenite were found down to 50 cm below the ice surface. Meter-sized terrestrial rocks were found on top of the ice downstream from nunataks. These rocks shade the ice below, and since they were apparently too massive to warm up during warm days, they remained at the surface as the surrounding ice ablated away. Our findings strongly suggest that Greenland is currently unlikely to harbor significant meteorite concentrations on blue ice fields, but we had a fantastic trip! Participants in the expedition were: Henning Haack (Geological Museum, Copenhagen), John Scutt (professional mountaineer/meteorite hunter with 30 years of experience from Antartica), Ralph Harvey (Case Western Reserve University, leader of the annual ANSMET expeditions to search for meteorites in Antarctica) and Anders Meibom (Museum of Natural History, Paris). The expedition and the preparatory data-gathering is documented in Haack et al. MAPS 42, 1727-1733 (2007)
Field Trip: Alpine Geomicrobiology (Switzerland 2009)
Courtesy of Andreas Kappler (University of Tübingen, Germany)
Photos from homepage banner (fall 2010)
Courtesy of Liane Benning (University of Leeds, UK), Andreas Kappler (University of Tübingen, Germany) and Bernard Marty (CNRS Nancy, France)
