Detailed Program

27 September 2010
08:30 – Opening session
09:00 – Modelling in the past, present and future – P. Cobbold (University Rennes)
09:30 – Recent advances in computational geodynamics – B. Kaus (ETH-Zürich)
10:00 – Analytical Modelling – R. Fletcher (PGP-Oslo)
10:30 – Rock Rheology – B. Evans (MIT)

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 – Lithosphere behaviour – Y. Podladchikov (PGP-Oslo)
12:00 – Oceanic lithosphere and continental margins – T. Watts (University Oxford)
12:30 – Hydrocarbon and Mineral Exploration – W. Sassi (IFP, Paris)

POSTER SESSION

Mid-afternoon talks
16:00 – Continental rifting and upper mantle strength – Kenni Petersen (Aarhus University)
16:30 – subduction initiation at passive margins – Ksenya Nikolaeva (ETH-Zurich)

POSTER SESSION

28 September 2010
09:00 – Continental lithosphere and orogeny – S. Schmalholz – (University Lausanne)
09:30 – Subduction and plate tectonics – T. Gerya (ETH-Zürich)
10:00 – Mantle Dynamics –S. Zhong (University Colorado)
10:30 – From rifts to Thrust Systems – Evgueni Burov (University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 – Lithosphere extension and Sedimentary Basins – Ritske Huismans (University Bergen)
12:00 – Surface Processes and Large Scale Tectonics – Frederic Herman (ETH-Zürich)
12:30 – Small scale structures – Marcin Dabrowsky (PGP-Oslo)

POSTER SESSION

Mid-afternoon talks
16:00 – Net rotation of the lithosphere induced by slabs, plate geometry, and keels – Mélanie Gérault (University of Southern California)
16:30 – Salt tectonics in a tank – Nicolas Sellier (University of Lilles)

POSTER SESSION

29 September 2010
09:00 – Natural Hazards – Helene Hebert (CEA, Paris)
09:30 – Fluids and rock deformation – Regis Mourgues (University Le Mans)
10:00 – When are models equal? Comparing numerical and analogue models of brittle thrust wedges– Susanne Buiter (Geological Survey of Norway)
10:30 – Deformation and failure mode of porous rock – Teng-fong Wong (Stony Brook, New York)

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 – Breaking up: Fragmentation processes in faults – Karen Mair (PGP-Oslo)
12:00 – Salt tectonics – Markus Albertz (ExxonMobil)
12:30 – Continuum damage mechanics of geo-materials at high temperature – Ali Karrech (CSIRO, Australia)

POSTER SESSION

Mid-afternoon talks
16:00 – Comparing thin-sheet with fully 3D models for the India-Asia collision – Sarah Lechmann (ETH-Zurich)
16:30 – Influence of salt-related, thin-skinned deformation on basement thrust evolution: physical modelling applied to the Kuqa basin (Southern Tian-shan) - Pengcheng Tang (Zhejiang University, China)

POSTER SESSION

Abstracts accepted as posters

1. Agostini, A., G. Corti, G. Ranalli, S. Cloetingh & D. Sokoutis. Dynamics of the inward migration of tectonic activity during continental rifting: inferences from lithopsheric-scale analogue modelling
2. Agostini, ?., M. Bonini, G. Corti & F. Sani. Comparison between fault architecture and laboratory experiments in the main Ethiopian rift: implications for rift maturity
3. Albert, F. & Kukowski, N.. Effect of wedge geometry and internal friction on subduction erosion processes: Insights from 2D analog models
4. Allgeyer, S., H. Hébert & R. Madariaga. Modelling moderate tsunami on the French coasts
5. Alves Da Silva, F.C., Diogo Fonseca Alves Gaspar & Alex Francisco Antunes. Faults and folds developed in the hangingwall of flat-ramp system: the contribution of the physical modeling
6. Antunes, M. & Teresa Albuquerque. Urban arsenic risk assessment, a Portuguese case study
7. Armann, M. & Taras V. Gerya. 3-D Modelling of Spontaneous Subduction Initiation at Passive Margins
8. Asses, A. & Loumi, K.. Sedimentological and structural analysis of a “tight reservoir” in the Hassi Terfa field (North Algerian Sahara)
9. Babichev, A.V., O. P. Polyansky, S. N. Korobeynikov & V. V. Reverdatto. Finite element approach for simulation of gravity instability in the felsic crust and lithosphere mantle
10. Bodet, L., R. Mourgues, A. Dhemaied & V. Tournat. Laser-Doppler acoustic probing of analogue models with in-depth property gradient and varying pore pressures
11. Bonini, L., Debora Finocchio, Salvatore Barba, Daniela Di Bucci, Giovanni Toscani, Silvio Seno, Gianluca Valensise. Analogue and numerical modeling of fault patterns produced by a blind, seismogenic, low angle normal fault.
12. Botoucharov, N., & Y. Stefanov. Thermal modelling of the cretaceous-neogene history in Dolna Kamchia basin (onshore Bulgaria)
13. Bouissou, S., A. Chemenda & T. Bois. Influence of inherited structural heterogeneities and alteration on gravitational slope failure: Physical and numerical modelling.
14. Bouissou, S., T. Bois & A. Chemenda. Influence of fracture sets and topography on gravitational destabilization of slopes: New insights from 2-D and 3-D physical modelling.
15. Bovy, B., Alain Demoulin & Jean Braun. The influence of climate on hill-slope sediment supply: Insights from numerical modeling
16. Brune, S., & S. V. Sobolev. Numerical experiments on oblique rifting
17. Calcagno, P., V. Bouchot, I. Thinon & B. Bourgine. Combining Onshore and Offshore Geological Knowledge: The Bouillante 3D Structural Model (French West Indies)
18. Cassola, T., S.D. Willett & H. Kopp. Mechanics of Forearc basins
19. Chaouchi, R. & Talamali Salima. Complex Analysis and 3D Modelling of the Triassic Lower Series in the South Part of Hassi R'Mel Field (Algerian Sahara)
20. Chemenda, A.I.  Si-H. Nguyen, J-P. Petit & J. Ambre. Formation of extension fractures as constitutive instabilities: Physical experiment
21. Chemenda, A.I.. Origin of compaction bands: Theory and numerical models
22. Chemia, Z. & Susanne Buiter. The fate of subducted sediments at convergent plate boundaries
23. Crameri, F., Tackley Paul, Meilick Irena, Gerya Taras, Kaus Boris & Keller Tobias. One-sided subduction in self-consistent models of global mantle convection: the importance of a free surface and a weak crustal layer
24. Cunha, T.A., Petersen, K.D. & Nielsen, S.B.. Some Remarks on Lithospheric Extension: Insights from a Self-Consistent Asthenosphere-Lithosphere Numerical Model
25. D’Almeida, L., Filipe Rosas, Hector Perea & Maryline Moulin. Hanging wall strain accommodation during thrust reactivation of basement normal faults: comparative analogue modeling of smooth (convex-concave) and flat-ramp (stair-stepping) fault geometries.
26. Dhar, R. & Nibir Mandal. Modelling of high-strain zones produced by folding in plastically deforming rocks
27. Duarte, J.C., Filipe M. Rosas, Pedro Terrinha, Marc-André Gutscher, Jacques Malavieille, Sónia Silva, Luis Matias. Thrust - wrench interference tectonics in the Gulf of Cadiz (Africa - Iberia plate boundary): insights from (sand-box) analogue modeling experiments.
28. Duretz, T., Schulmann Karel, Kaus Boris & Gapais Denis. Indentation modelling and exhumation of high grade rock in the Eastern Bohemian Massif: Insight from analogue and numerical modeling
29. Dymkova, D., Taras Gerya & Yuri Podladchikov. 2D Numerical modelling of a porous flow in a deforming viscoplastic matrix with finite differences and marker-in-cell techniques
30. Exner, U. & Tschegg, Cornelius. Cataclastic grain size reduction in deformation bands under very low burial conditions
31. Fernández-Lozano, J., Sokoutis, D., Willingshofer, E., Muñoz-Martín, A., De Vicente, G. & Cloetingh, S.. New tools for understanding Intra-plate Mountain Building: Insights from analogue modeling in Iberia
32. Frehner, M. & Ulrike Exner. Boundary effects in physical models of simple shear
33. Gérault, M., Boris J.P. Kaus, Thorsten W. Becker, Claudio Faccenna & Louis Moresi. Net Rotation of the Lithosphere Induced by Slabs, Plate Geometry, and Keels.
34. Gerbault, M.. Elastic-brittle models and hydromechanical considerations for the geometry of failure and pressure conditions around a spherical magma chamber
35. Ghazian, R.K. & Susanne Buiter. Styles of deformation in continent-continent collision
36. Ghirardello, B.B. & Taras Gerya. Physical controls of intra-oceanic arc extension and trench migraton: numerical modeling
37. Giorgetti, G., Andrea Brogi & Renzo Regoli. Mg-carpholite bearing assemblages in the exhumed siliciclastic units of the Monticiano-Roccastrada Ridge (inner Northern Apennines): evidences of a HP-LT metamorphic evolution
38. Gomes, C. J. S., J. N.M. Caldeira & Freitas, A. R.. The influence of different colours on the mechanical behaviour of quartz sand – first results
39. Gradmann, S. & Christopher Beaumont. Coupled fluid-mechanical modeling of salt-tectonic deformation
40. Gradmann, S., Jörg Ebbing, Christophe Pascal & Javier Fullea. Integrated modelling investigating the link between topography and lithosphere of the Scandes
41. Gutscher, M-A., F. Gallais, S. Dominguez, J. Malavieille, F. Rosas, J. C. Duarte, N. Chamot-Rooke & A. Polonia. Interference patterns of two orthogonally converging accretionary wedges: analog modeling applied to the Calabrian prism and Western Mediterranean Ridge collision zone (Ionian Sea)
42. Harris, L.B., Chris Yakymchuk & Laurent Godin. Centrifuge modelling of folding and channel flow in orogenic belts and Archaean granite-greenstone terrains
43. Hoechner, A. & S.V. Sobolev. Constraining rheology of the asthenosphere based on postseismic GPS and geoid observations
44. Hofmann, F., Matthias Rosenau & Guido Schreurs. Critical taper in sandbox experiments? Investigations into the differences between pushed and pulled wedge experiments
45. Husson, L. & Clinton P. Conrad. Impact of the Pangean mantle flow on current plate tectonics
46. Jarosi?ski, M.. Compound buckling-swelling mechanism of the earth surface folding: FE modeling study related to the Pannonian Basin
47. Joshi, G.R.. Numerical simulation of state of stress, deformation and displacement measurements associate with the design of circular tunnel in Himalayan brittle rocks
48. Keppler, R., F. Rosas, T. Nagel & A. Blanco. Influence of viscous channel thickness on the development of overlying brittle deformation patterns under extension: new insights from analogue modeling
49. Klinkmüller, M. & Schreurs, Guido. The shear zone geometry of different granular analogue modeling materials under compression: insights from experiments monitored by X-ray Computed Tomography and image analysis software.
50. Koirala, M.P. & D. Hayashi. Preliminary results of parametric test for the deformation related to partially molten middle crust beneath the southern Tibet
51. Landry, W.. Gamr: A Free, Parallel, Adaptive Tectonics and Mantle Convection Code
52. Lechmann, S.M., Stefan M. Schmalholz, Boris J. P. Kaus, David A. May & György Hetényi.  Comparing thin-sheet with fully 3D models for the India-Asia collision
53. Leever, K.A. & Roy H. Gabrielsen. Kinematic evolution of strain partitioning in analogue brittle transpressional wedges
54. Li, Z., Zhang Lu, Zhao Chongbin, Lin Ge, Jin YI & Jiangjian Zhu.  Simulation experiment of the effect of upward throughflow on the thinning of the lithosphere in the South China and the South China Sea
55. Lindsay, M., Mark Jessell, Laurent Ailleres & Eric deKemp. Integrating geological uncertainty into combined geological and potential field inversions
56. Liu, L., Ailiang Cai & Zhoushun Zheng. Computational modeling of intrusion contact’s control on orebodies in the Anqing orefield, China
57. Loiselet, C., L. Guillou-Frottier, G. Bertrand, M. Billa, E. Pelleter, F. Maldan & D. Cassard. Spatial distribution of mineral deposit along eastern Mediterranean subduction zone: a link with 3d mantle flow associated with slab “rollback”?
58. Lopes, S., M.C. Neves & A. Afilhado. Small-scale fracture characterization in the gulf of Cadiz
59. Loumi, K.  & M. Kelkouli.  Analysis and modeling of the fracturing of the oil field area 4 of Hassi Messaoud (Algeria).
60. Luth, S., Ernst Willingshofer, Dimitrios Sokoutis & Sierd Cloetingh. Modelling Surface Expression of Subduction Polarity Change: The Eastern Alps as Transition Zone?
61. Lymer, G., B. C. Vendeville, V. Gaullier &  J. Déverchère. Influence of regional tectonic stresses on the evolution of gravity spreading structures above salt: the example of the Algerian continental margin tested by physical experiments
62. Machadinho, A. , R. J. L. Cruz, C. G. Correia, F. P. Figueiredo & L. Gama Pereira. Gravimetric and TEM prospection applied to the Quiaios Fault Structure (Serra da Boa Viagem, Central Portugal)
63. Medvedev, S., Stephanie C. Werner, Bernhard Steinberger & "The African Plate" working group. Estimating the stresses within the lithosphere: parameter check with applications to the African Plate
64. Mériaux, C.A., John A. Mansour, Louis N. Moresi, Ross C. Kerr & David A. May. The growth of gravitational instabilities developed by a buoyant horizontal cylindrical fluid region
65. Midtkandal, I., Roy H. Gabrielsen, Jean-Pierre Brun & Ritske Huismans. Compressing a sheared and extended plate boundary: Modeling subduction in the Pyrenees
66. Mourgues, R., D. Bureau, L. Bodet & J.B. Gressier. Vertical and conical hydrofractures induced by pore fluid pressure in sedimentary basins
67. Mourgues, R., J.B. Gressier, L. Bodet, D. Bureau & A. Gay. "Basin scale" versus "localized" pore pressure stress coupling – implications for trap integrity evaluation
68. Neves, M.C.. Relating stress and earthquakes in the gulf of cadiz: 3d finite element models combining local and regional loading
69. Nikolaeva, K., Taras Gerya & Fernando Marques. Factors controlling subduction initiation at passive margins: numerical modelling
70. Nilfouroushan, F., Russell Pysklywec & Alexander Cruden. Comparison of analogue and numerical models: Sensitivity of numerical "sandbox" models of fold-thrust belts to material cohesion
71. Nogueira, C.R.. Basin inversion by orthogonal compression: analogue experiments with weak faults
72. Ouzgaït, M., O. Averbuch, B. C. Vendeville, X. Zuo & B. Minguely. The negative tectonic inversion of thrust faults: insights from seismic sections along the northern France Variscan thrust front and analogue modelling experiments
73. Pastor-Galán, D., Gernold Zulauf, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Carlo Dietl & Friedhelm Zanella. Analogue modeling of lithospheric orocline bending. Implications on the development of the Ibero-Armorican Arc.
74. Petersen, K.D., Nielsen, S.B., Stephenson, R. & Gerya, T.V.. Continental rifting and upper mantle strength
75. Petrunin, A.G., Ernesto Meneses-Rioseco & Stephan V. Sobolev. Thermomechanical evolution of the Dead Sea Transform region: 1-to-3D modeling approach.
76. Philippon, M., Jean-Pierre Brun, Dimitrios Sokoutis & Frédéric Gueydan. Laboratory modelling of South Aegean extension since Miocene
77. Polyansky, O.P., A. V. Babichev, S. N. Korobeynikov & V. V. Reverdatto. Computer modeling of melting induced diapirism in the continental crust: plastic vs. creep rheology
78. Popov, A.A.. Using algebraic multigrid for lithospheric-scale numerical modeling
79. Poulet, T., A. Karrech, K. Regenaur-Lieb, L. Gross, J.S. Cleverley & D. Georgiev. Thermal-Mechanical-Hydrological-Chemical simulations using escript, Abaqus and WinGibbs
80. Quinteros, J. & S. V. Sobolev. Constraining viscosity in transition zone and shallow lower mantle from numerical models of subduction
81. Rauch, M.. Various scenarios of Alcapa block indentation in the Carpathian realm (polish western outer Carpathians).
82. Reber, J.E., M. Dabrowski & D. W. Schmid. Sheath folds as late stage flanking structures: analytical models and field observations
83. Reber, J.E., Stefan M. Schmalholz & Jean-Pierre Burg. Stress evolution and fracturing during folding: 2D and 3D numerical simulations and application to chocolate-table structures in folded turbidites, SW Portugal
84. Reiter, K., Nina Kukowski & Lothar Ratschbacher. Two indenter interactions in analogue experiments - a further explanation of curved fold-and-thrust belts
85. Rioseco, E.M. & Sobolev V. Stephan. Thin-shell thermo-mechanical modeling of lithospheric deformation in the Middle-East region
86. Rosenau, M. & Onno Oncken. Shocks in a box 3D: Experimental insights into seismotectonic segmentation and synchronization of megathrust earthquakes in subduction zones
87. Ruh, J.B., Boris J.P. Kaus & Jean-Pierre Burg. Accretionary wedge dynamics: A numerical approach
88. Schaubs, P.M., Y. Zhang, A. Karrech, J.S. Cleverley & Klaus Regenauer-Lieb. Modelling of deformation around a granite intrusion: using continuum damage mechanics at high temperature for simulating au-related structures in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia
89. Schreurs, G., Susanne Buiter & the GeoMod2008 Analogue Team. Quantitative comparisons of analogue models of brittle thrusting                                     
90. Sellier, N. & B. C. Vendeville. Salt tectonics in a tank: a new experimental approach with applications to allochthonous salt-bodies
91. Simon, N.S.C. & Yuri Yu. Podladchikov. Enhanced heat transfer by intermittent porous flow
92. Stolk, W., Mikhail Kaban, Fred Beekman, Magdala Tesauro & Sierd Cloetingh. Asian Crustal Model (ACruM): Methodology and preliminary results
93. Tackley, P. J., H. van Heck, F. Crameri, T. Nakagawa, M. Armann, T. Keller, T. V. Gerya & B. J. P. Kaus. Lithospheric behaviour in global mantle convection models and its influence on mantle structure and evolution in terrestrial planets
94. Tang, P., Bruno. C. Vendeville, Shaoying Huang & Yannick Guillot. Influence of salt-related, thin-skinned deformation on basement thrust evolution : physical modelling applied to the Kuqa basin (southern Tian-shan)
95. Tesauro, M., Mikhail K. Kaban, Sierd A.P.L Cloetingh & Walter Mooney. Global strength and elastic thickness of the lithosphere
96. Tetreault, J. & Susanne Buiter. To accrete or not to accrete? Bridging the gap between thermal-mechanical models of accretionary wedges and subduction dynamics
97. Thielmann, M. & Boris J. P. Kaus. Shear heating and subduction initiation
98. Thieulot, C. & Ritske S. Huismans. FANTOM: a new 2D/3D creeping flow model for the solution of geological problems
99. Tuitz, C., Ulrike Exner, Bernhard Grasemann, Alexander Preh. Effect of overburden on pebble breakage in gravels
100. Tympel, J.G. & Stephan V. Sobolev. 2D Thermo-mechanical modelling of Cenozoic lithospheric deformation in the Himalaya and Pamir-Tien Shan orogen
101. von Tscharner, M.B. & Stefan M. Schmalholz. Finite element simulations of subduction and formation of backarc basins
102. Wang, F-L., Onno Oncken, Nina Kukowski & Charlotte Cederbom. The Role of Multiple Detachments at Orogenic Fronts – First Results from Analogue Modelling
103. Willingshofer, E., Dimitrios Sokoutis & Stefan Luth. Crust-mantle and inter-plate decoupling during continental collision
104. Yamada, Y., Yusuke Ohshima & Toshifumi Matsuoka. A life of a fault: from birth to death
105. Yamato, P. , R. Tartèse, E. Hallot, P. Boulvais, M. Poujol & K. Gallagher. Crystal-melt differential behaviours during magma ascent in dykes: insights from 2-d numerical modelling
106. Zanella, A., P.R. Cobbold & A. Lemrabott. Physical models of chemical compaction, overpressure development and hydraulic fracturing in various tectonic contexts
107. Zellouf, K. & Samira Saifi. Facies and Porosity Distribution Modelling in the R2ab Reservoir Hassi Messaoud Field (Algeria)
108. Zeoli, A., Giacomo Corti, Luigi Folco & Carlo Ossola. Analogue modeling for science outreach: glacier flows at Antarctic National Museum, Italy
109. Zheng, Z.S. & Guanghui Huang. Computation for Jacobi-Gauss Lobatto Quadrature Based on Derivative Relation
110. Zlotnik, S. , L. Moresi, M. Faccenda, & T. Stern. 3D tectonic evolution of the North Island of New Zealand