Please see below for session of interest to the GeoPRISMS community that will take place at the 2015 GSA Meeting, November 1-4, 2015, in Baltimore, MD.
Abstracts deadline is August 11, 2015
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T168. Subduction, fluids, accessory minerals, and trace elements: A Celebration of Sorena Sorensen’s Career
This session will focus on metamorphosed subduction-related rocks including metamorphosed rocks of the subduction channel as well as arc crust, associated fluids, and minerals, cathodoluminescence, and trace elements that provide information about their petrogenesis.
Sorena Sorensen has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of subduction-related metamorphic rocks and the importance of fluid and mass transfer pervasive in these environments. She was one of the first researchers to use state-of-the art cathodoluminescence imaging with trace element analyses to visualize the former presence of fluids and decipher the petrogenesis of these rocks in ancient and modern arcs. Her work is also important because subduction is a major modifier of the continental crust, new methods to extract petrogenetic fingerprints from metamorphosed rocks are continuously being developed. To celebrate her career, this session brings together researchers studying subduction zone processes, metasomatism, metamorphism from low temperature to UHP environments, fluids, whole rock and trace element geochemistry, mineralogy and imaging to highlight advances made in understanding these environments.
In addition to these scientific contributions, as a long time curator at the Smithsonian Institution, she has worked tirelessly to acquire important petrological collections for their preservation and continued use. Her work on the petrology hall showcased our science to millions of visitors.
Sponsored by: Mineralogical Society of America; GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Division; Geochemical Society
Thank you from the session organizers:
Barb Dutrow, Sarah Penniston-Dorland, Virginia Sisson