Tectonic Studies Group report: 2008
Our primary meeting is the TSG Annual Meeting, which was held in January 2008 in La Roche, Belgium, the first AGM to be held outside the UK since that in Dublin in 1993. It was organised by Manuel Sintubin, Timothy Debacker and Sara Vandycke. The meeting was attended by ~90 delegates.
The Ramsay Medal was presented to Carl T.E. Stevenson (University of Birmingham) with William H. Owens and Donald H.W. Hutton for “Flow lobes in granite: The determination of magma flow direction in the Trawenagh Bay Granite, northwestern Ireland, using anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility. GSA Bulletin, 119, 1368-1386 (2007)”. The Dave Johnston Mapping Prize for best undergraduate dissertation was awarded to John McNeill (University of Edinburgh) and Lorraine Field (University of Durham). The Mike Coward Prize for best post-graduate talk was presented to Steven Smith (University of Durham) for “Signatures of the seismic cylcle along ancient faults: CO2-induced fluidization of brittle cataclasites in the footwall of a sealing low-angle normal fault.” The best postgraduate poster award went to Heijn van Gent (RWTH Aachen) for “The compaction dependent cohesion and tensile strength of gypsum powder - the effect on scaled analogue models”. The Shell Prize for overall best presentation went to Steven Smith (University of Durham) for “Signatures of the seismic cylcle along ancient faults: CO2-induced fluidization of brittle cataclasites in the footwall of a sealing low-angle normal fault”.
TSG members organised a number of meetings at home and abroad, including Fold and Thrust Belt Exploration, Burlington House, May 2008; Visualization and Modelling of Sedimentary Basin Dynamics, Birmingham, May 2008; YORSGET, Oviedo, July 2008; Fault Zones: Structure, Geomechanics and Fluid Flow, Burlington House, Sept 2008; Gravitational Collapse at Continental Margins: Products and Processes, Burlington House, October 2008 and various sessions at the International Geological Congress, Oslo, August 2008; European Geosciences Union meeting, April 2008; Geological Society of America meeting, September 2008 and the American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, December 2008.
Prof. Richard Lisle stood down as Chair after three years’ excellent service on the committee. Prof. John Wheeler (University of Liverpool) has taken over. Dan Faulkner (Secretary) was replaced by Nicola de Paola, John Imber (Treasurer) by Steven Rippington. Jennifer Martin and Rochelle Taylor continue as postgraduate reps, Enrico Tavernelli as European rep and Steve Jolley as industry rep.
Nicola De Paola