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Kaiserstuhl workshop and EUG session, April 2001

The role of mantle carbon in the global carbon cycle

Convenors: A.P. Jones, J. Keller, Iain Gilmour, F.Wall

Workshop

A 2 day workshop was held on 6-8 April 2001, before EUG consisting of fieldwork at the Kaiserstuhl carbonatite complex and informal presentations as part of panel and round table discussions, based in a hotel at Breisach, near Freiburg, Germany.

This workshop started the EUROCARB Network at one of the best known mantle carbon localities in Europe, the Kaiserstuhl carbonatite complex, near Freiburg, Germany. The locality provided an opportunity to see classic intrusive carbonatite and much more recently discovered extrusive carbonatite, as well as to see and discuss the relationships between contemporaneous igneous carbonate and silicate rocks.

Objectives: To define all of the means by which carbon is brought from the mantle to the crust and surface of the Earth.

There were about 40 participants.

Contact:  

Professor Joerg Keller
Institut fuer Mineralogie, Petrologie und Geochemie, Universitaet Freiburg, 
Albertstr. 23b
D-79104 Freiburg
Germany. 
E-mail: Joerg.Keller@minpet.uni-freiburg.de  
Telefon: 0049-761-2036396 
Fax: 0049-761-2036407
 

Session at EUG conference, Strasbourg, France, 8-12. April 2001.

Session MS10 The role of mantle carbon in the global carbon cycle (a session of the EuroCarb ESF Network).

Conference Abstracts (still available)

Posters: listed here by first author.

Talks: (In order of the presentations (first author only is listed here) )

  1. Adrian Jones (adrian.jones@ucl.ac.uk) Mantle carbon and global carbon fluxes: a planetary review.
  2. D.K. Bailey (Ken.Bailey@bristol.ac.uk) Carbon flux through time
  3. Oded Navon (oded@vms.huji.ac.il) The formation of mantle diamonds
  4. Marjorie Wilson (M.Wilson@earth.leeds.ac.uk) Carbonatite Magmatism: Constraints on the History of Carbonate Sediment Recycling in the Upper Mantle since the Archaean
  5. Pierre Cartigny (cartigny@ipgp.jussieu.fr ) Fibrous diamonds in an eclogite xenolith from the Mbuji Mayi kimberlites (Congo).
  6. Jesper Øksne Jørgensen (jesperj@geo.geol.ku.dk ) Linking HIMU Subducted Slabs with Oceanic Carbonatites: the High Nb/Ta Cape Verde Carbonatites
  7. Francesco Stoppa/ Professor Keith Bell (fstoppa@unich.it ) Isotopic Regional Zoning versus Tectonic Polarity in Pleistocene Leucitites, Melilitites and Carbonatites of the Italian Peninsula.
  8. Tahar Hammouda (taharh@opgc.univ-bpclermont.fr ) Wall-rock Reaction, Decarbonation, and Carbonatite Eruption from the Upper Mantle
  9. Joerg Keller (jkeller@uni-freiburg.de) Transport of Mantle Carbon to the Crust and Surface by Carbonatitic Magmatism: Report of the ESF Workshop in the Kaiserstuhl Carbonatite Complex
  10. Andrew Fleet (A.Fleet@nhm.ac.uk) Mantle carbon flux as tested by petroleum reservoirs
  11. Françoise Pineau (fpi@ipgp.jussieu.fr) Magma Degassing and Mixing in Oceanic Basaltic Volcanism: Carbon and Water Behaviour.
  12. Anatoly N. Zaitsev (zaitsev@uni-freiburg.de) Origin of REE Mineralization in the Khibina and Vuoriyarvi Carbonatites (Kola, Russia) - Evidence from a C-O and Sr-Nd Isotope Study