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Ancient orogen eclogites

Session chairs: C. Möller, C. Mattinson

Keynote speaker: Prof. T. Kusky (China university of geosciences, Wuhan): "Search, discovery, and documentation of the Shanying Archean orogenic eclogite"

Geochronology

Session chairs: D. Rubatto, R. Halama

Keynote speaker: Dr. B. Dragovic (South Carolina university, USA): "Constraining the rates of subduction metamorphism and metasomatism using chronology and chronometry: insights from the Eocene"

Invited speakers: Dr. Renée Tamblyn (Bern University): "In-situ LA-ICP-MS/MS Lu-Hf geochronology of garnet with applications to eclogite-facies rocks"

Geodynamics

Session chairs: G. Godard, L. Labrousse

Keynote speaker: Prof. D. Whitney (Univ. of Minnesota, USA): "Orogenic eclogites as recorders of deep crustal flow"

Invited speakers:

Prof. Sarah Penniston-Dorland (Maryland University, USA): "Constraining the pressure-temperature conditions of fossil subduction plate interfaces: Combining petrology and geodynamics"

Prof. Peter Van Keken (Carnegie, USA): "Thermal models and the exhumed rock record: of apples and oranges?"

Deformation, petro-rheology

Session chairs: T. John, S. Angiboust

Keynote speaker: Prof. H. Stunitz (Tromsø University, Norway & Orleans University, France): "Transient weakening in mafic rocks as a consequence of combined reactions and diffusion creep: localization of deformation in the strong lithosphere"

Invited speaker: Dr. H. Vrijmoed (Berlin Free University): "Thermolab: a thermodynamics laboratory for non-linear transport processes in open systems"

P-T-X thermodynamics and crystal chemical compositions

Session chairs: A. Garcia-Casco, T. Tsujimori

Keynote speaker: Prof. L. Tajcmanova (Heidelberg university): "Quantification of microscale processes in high-pressure rocks"

Invited speaker: Dr. P. Lanari (Bern University): "Beauty and the Beast: phase equilibrium modelling of eclogites"

Geochemistry and fluids

Session chairs: T. Tsujimori, D. Castelli

Keynote speaker: Prof. J. Hermann (Bern University): "Composition of subduction zone fluids: experiments and eclogites"

Extreme metamorphism and mantle eclogites

Session chairs: H-P. Schertl, C. Chopin

Keynote speaker: Dr. S. Aulbach (Frankfurt University): "Physicochemical properties of mantle eclogite, and mass transfer in ancient subduction zones"

Invited speaker: Dr. Lu Wang (Wuhan University): "Partial melting of UHP eclogites, Sulu belt, China: P-T conditions, fluid-melt evolution, deformation and implications for exhumation dynamics"

Open session, historical perspective / prospective for future research

Session chairs: G. Godard, D. Smith

Keynote speaker: Prof. M. Brown (Maryland University): "Some thoughts about eclogites: recent progress and remaining challenges"