Schedule
- Icebreaker Party (Room 3.101, Seminar room Mineralogy/Petrology):
- Monday, 17:00 - 20:00
- Daily Sessions (Tuesday – Friday, Room 0.142, MN01):
- Morning Session: 9:00 - 12:30
- Afternoon Session: 13:30 - 17:00 (Tuesday - Thursday only)
- Poster Session:
- Wednesday, 15:30 - 17:30
- Coffee Breaks (Room 0.131, Faculty Club):
- Morning Break: 10:30 - 11:00
- Afternoon Break: 15:00 - 15:30
- Lunch Break (Room 0.131, Faculty Club):
- 12:30 - 13:30
- Conference Dinner::
- Wednesday, 19:00 (Restaurant Bullerjahn)
Early Earth Evolution
DMG Short course: 25-28 March 2025
Monday, 24.03.
- 17:00 – 20:00 Registration & Icebreaker (Seminarroom Min/Pet, Room 3.101)
Tuesday, 25.03.
- 8:30 – 9:00 Registration
- 9:00 – 9:20 Welcome / Intro
- 9:20 – 10:30 Overview Archean (Thomas Müller & Dominik Sorger)
- 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
- 11:00 – 12:30 Bill Moore: Heat transfer and the Early Earth Geodynamics
- 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
- 13:30 – 14:00 Matthias Willbold: A modern perspective on the chemical and isotopic composition of the Archean mantle
- 14:00 – 14:30 Ari Ganbat: Lithospheric Evolution in Early Earth: Insights into tectonic regimes
- 14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break
- 15:30 – 17:00 Elis Hoffmann: Continental crust in its infancy - formation processes and secular evolution
Wednesday, 26.03.
Structural Geology & Petrochronology
- 9:00 – 9:45 Alex Webb: Early Earth models and terranes
- 9:45 – 10:30 Thomas Müller: Archean metamorphism – Determination of PTXD evolutions
- 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
- 11:00 – 11:20 Dominik Sorger: Dating Archean metamorphism: direct and indirect methods - an example from the Isua supracrustal belt
- 11:20 – 12:00 Thorsten Nagel: Age of metamorphism and deformation in Archean units along the inner Nuup Kangerlua (West Greenland)
- 12:00 – 12:30 Dominik Sorger: Polyphase metamorphism in metasediments from the Isua supracrustal belt: insights from monazites and garnet dating
- 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
- 13:30 – 15:00 Hilmar von Eynatten: The detrital perspective on Early Earth Evolution – inferences from provenance analysis of the sedimentary record.
- 15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
- 15:30 – 17:00 Poster session
- 18:30 – 21:00 Dinner at Bullerjahns (https://www.bullerjahn.de)
Thursday, 27.03.
Geochemistry II
- 9:00 – 9:45 Andreas Pack: Triple oxygen and silicon isotope systematics–application to Precambrian cherts
- 9:45 – 10:30 Daniel Herwartz: Climate extremes on early Earth–a triple-O perspective
- 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
Sedimentology II
- 11:00 – 12:30 Michael Tatzel: Silica diagenesis, paleo-heat flow and thermometry from O and Si isotopes in chert
- 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
Geobiology I
- 13:30 – 15:00 Jan-Peter Duda: Deep time geobiology: From the dawn of life to the biological forces that have shaped the early Earth
- 15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
- 15:30 – 17:00 Open questions / discussions with previous speakers
Friday, 28.03.
Geobiology II
- 9:00 – 10:30 Vanessa Fichtner: Deep time geobiology: Sulfur isotope insights into microbial processes and environmental change on the early Earth
- 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
- 11:00 – 12:30 Breakout sessions future projects; Wrap-up