Pangea Colloquium in Honour of Professor Dr. Valerian Bachtadse

Oct 18, 2019

Time

14:00 - 16:00

Speaker

Profs Kent, Besse, Pavlov, Channell, Briden

Abstract

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14:00 WELCOMING WORDS --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Ralf Ludwig, Dean of the Geosciences Faculty --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Bunge, Chair of Geophysics --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14:20 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14:20-14:30 Brief overview of Valerian’s career and publications (Dr. Uwe Kirscher) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14:30-15:15 Prof. Dennis Kent (Rutgers / Lamont-Doherty): Latitude-dependent weathering consumption of CO2 across a mobile Pangaea and the demise of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15:15-16:00 Prof. Jean Besse (IPG-Paris): Global plate motion since the Late Paleozoic: Links between mantle structures, volcanism, rifting and true polar wander --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16:15-17:00 Prof. Volodia Pavlov (RAS-Moscow): Late Permian and Early Triassic paleomagnetic poles of Baltica and Siberia: Timing of Pangea amalgamation and implications for the geometry of the Permo-Triassic geomagnetic field --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:00-17:45 Prof. James Channell (Univ. Florida): Re-thinking the Adria/Africa dilemma and the on-going puzzle of Mediterranean paleogeography --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:45 ROASTING THE CELEBRANT --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Heinrich Soffel (Univ. München) + Prof. Giovanni Muttoni (Univ. Milano) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------