CALL FOR ABSTRACTSNancy Ross and I would like to bring to your attention a session we are organizing on Applications of neutron scattering in geochemistry and mineralogy at this year's V.M. Goldschmidt Conference™ held in Vancouver, BC. July 13-18. Session 20i: Applications of neutron scattering in geochemistry and mineralogy
Convenors: David Cole, Nancy Ross In recent years, there has been a small but growing community of earth scientists engaged in applying neutron scattering to assess the structure and dynamics of geological materials and interactions among geo-fluids and solids. Important applications have been in crystallography (e.g. atomic positions of hydrogen and Al-Si ordering in feldspars and zeolites, Mn-Fe-Ti distribution in oxides), magnetic structures, mineral physics at non-ambient conditions, investigations of anisotropy and residual strain in structural geology and rock mechanics, properties of melts and fluids, and interactions among fluids and a wide variety of earth materials from ambient to extreme conditions. The goal of this session is to provide a forum to acquaint the geochemical community to this field by encouraging talks on a wide variety of applications. While focus of this session is on scientific applications, issues of instrumental availabilities and methods of data processing may also be covered to help scientists from such diverse fields as crystallography, mineral physics, geochemistry, rock mechanics, materials science, and biogeochemistry become familiar with neutron scattering.
We encourage you to submit an abstract to this meeting on your work involving neutron scattering. Abstracts may be submitted online at http://www.goldschmidt2008.org/abstracts/instructions
The deadline for abstract is 1 March 2008 Our session is organized under Theme 20 - Techniques. Thanks, Dave Cole (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Nancy Ross (Virginia Tech)
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