Conveners: Anna Maria Marotta (Università degli Studi di Milano), Barbara Orecchio (Università degli Studi di Messina), Mimmo Palano (Università degli Studi di Palermo), Giorgio Spada (Università degli Studi di Bologna)
anna.maria.marotta@unimi.it
The present-day configuration of the Earth is the result of its intermediate- to long-term evolution. All geodynamic processes lead to both shallow and deep deformation and changes in the gravity field.
Understanding the complex interplay between shallow evidences and mantle dynamics requires an interdisciplinary approach that integrate observational data from field studies and laboratory and physical modelling of the processes. The vertical and horizontal displacements induced at the surface can be monitored by both geodetic and geologic observations, which can be also used to constrain geodynamic forward and inverse models. Geodynamic processes produce also a redistribution of masses and temperatures that convert into density variations and slow changes in the Earth's gravitational field. These, in turn, can be monitored by the upcoming gravitational missions, expected to achieve very high spatial and temporal resolution.
This session welcomes contributions on:
- numerical and analytical, either direct and inverse, modelling of intermediate- to long-term geodynamic processes, from the surface to the deep mantle, such as Glacial Isostatic Adjustment
intra-plate deformation, rifting, subduction, mantle convection;
- analysis of the signatures of the geodynamic processes at the Earth surface, on the various spatial and temporal scales;
- analysis of geological, geophysical and geodetic data, aimed at disclosing the physics of the geodynamic processes;
- multidisciplinary approaches that integrate observational data from field studies and laboratory and physical modelling.
We particularly welcome contributions that discuss the strengths and the weaknesses of the model approach and the benefit coming from the most recent advancements in the techniques of measurement of data in constraining geodynamical simulations and advancing the knowledge of the physical processes that govern our Planet. We also welcome contributes that try to reconcile short-time/small-scale and long-time/large-scale processes.
anna.maria.marotta@unimi.it
The present-day configuration of the Earth is the result of its intermediate- to long-term evolution. All geodynamic processes lead to both shallow and deep deformation and changes in the gravity field.
Understanding the complex interplay between shallow evidences and mantle dynamics requires an interdisciplinary approach that integrate observational data from field studies and laboratory and physical modelling of the processes. The vertical and horizontal displacements induced at the surface can be monitored by both geodetic and geologic observations, which can be also used to constrain geodynamic forward and inverse models. Geodynamic processes produce also a redistribution of masses and temperatures that convert into density variations and slow changes in the Earth's gravitational field. These, in turn, can be monitored by the upcoming gravitational missions, expected to achieve very high spatial and temporal resolution.
This session welcomes contributions on:
- numerical and analytical, either direct and inverse, modelling of intermediate- to long-term geodynamic processes, from the surface to the deep mantle, such as Glacial Isostatic Adjustment
intra-plate deformation, rifting, subduction, mantle convection;
- analysis of the signatures of the geodynamic processes at the Earth surface, on the various spatial and temporal scales;
- analysis of geological, geophysical and geodetic data, aimed at disclosing the physics of the geodynamic processes;
- multidisciplinary approaches that integrate observational data from field studies and laboratory and physical modelling.
We particularly welcome contributions that discuss the strengths and the weaknesses of the model approach and the benefit coming from the most recent advancements in the techniques of measurement of data in constraining geodynamical simulations and advancing the knowledge of the physical processes that govern our Planet. We also welcome contributes that try to reconcile short-time/small-scale and long-time/large-scale processes.