[Sasnet] Fwd: Call for Abstracts: African Geodynamics, Climate and Evolution (EGU 2008 Vienna)

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 Subject: Call for Abstracts: African Geodynamics, Climate and Evolution (EGU
2008 Vienna)
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European Geosciences Union
General Assembly 2008
Vienna, Austria, 13 - 18 April 2008

Abstract Submission (Deadline: 14 January 2008)

Session CL41
AFRICAN GEODYNAMICS, CLIMATE AND EVOLUTION

Recent investigations of both terrestrial and marine paleoclimate  
archives have led to a concerted debate regarding the nature of Late  
Cenozoic environmental changes in East Africa, and its influence on  
mammalian and hominin evolution. Since terrestrial records of East  
African environmental change are typically rare, geographically  
dispersed and incomplete, Indian and Atlantic Ocean sediment records  
were used to reconstruct climatic changes in the region. However,  
because of the unique tectonic and magmatic evolution of the East  
African Rift System (EARS) and resulting changes in topography and  
drainage patterns, marine sediment records may not necessarily reflect  
contemporaneous environmental changes in East Africa. It is,  
therefore, important to reach a better understanding of the processes  
changing the habitat of mammals and hominins before suggesting  
possible links between climate and faunal changes. This session brings  
together structural geologists, paleoclimatologists, climate modellers  
and paleoanthropologists to discuss tectonics-climate-evolution  
interactions in a complex geologic setting.

Solicited Speakers:

Jean-Jacques Tiercelin, Université de Rennes 1, Rennes Cedex - France
Gail M. Ashley, Rutgers University, Piscataway NJ - USA
J Ramon Arrowsmith, Arizona State University,Tempe - USA

Conveners:

Martin H. Trauth (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Manfred Strecker (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Mark Maslin (University College London, UK)

Abstract Submission:

http://www.cosis.net/members/meetings/programme/view.php?m_id=49&p_id=298

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