Department of Earth Sciences will held Searlefest – in celebration of Mike’s work on the tectonic evolution of mountain belts. Searlefest will be held on Friday, 1st July 2022 in Natural History Museum, University of Oxford.
Chairman: Tony Watts
9.50 – 10.00. Welcome, Tony Watts
10.00 – 10.20. John Dewey (University College, Oxford) – Ordovician ophiolite and oceanic arc obduction and orogeny in Newfoundland and Irish-Scottish Caledonides.
10.20 – 10.40. Rick Law (Virginia Tech, USA) – Changing tectonic transport directions in the Caledonian orogeny, NW Scotland.
10.40 – 11.00. John Platt (Univ. Southern California, USA) – Controls on width, strain rate, stress and rheology in lithosphere scale ductile shear zones.
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 11.50. Simon Lamb (Wellington, New Zealand) – The World’s largest strike-slip fault displacement on land? New Zealand’s Alpine fault.
11.50 – 12.10. John Cottle (UC, Santa Barbara, USA) – Timescales of deformation, metamorphism and melting in the Everest. Himalaya.
12.10 – 12.30. Mary Hubbard (Montana, USA) – Himalayan Geology in Nepal – an evolution of collaborations.
12.30 – 12.50. Victor Guevara (Amherst College, USA) – Quaternary crustal melting and plate velocity exhumation in Nanga Parbat, Pakistan Himalaya.
12.50 – 1.00. Nick Gardiner (St-Andrews) –
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch
Chairman: Richard Palin
2.00 – 2.20. Owen Weller (Cambridge) – Tales from Tibet: insights into the thermal evolution of crustal thickening.
2.20 – 2.40. Mohammed Ali (Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi) – Geology, geophysics, ophiolites and Arabia-Iran collision: my journeys with Mike in UAE and Oman.
2.40 – 3.00. Tobermory MacKay-Champion (Oxford) – Some new Tales for the Lizard (ophiolite).
3.00 – 3.20. Laurence Robb (Oxford) – Evolution of Burma and its Mineral Deposits.
3.20 – 3.40. Chris Morley (PPTE, Bangkok) – Tectonics of Myanmar, and Thailand.
3.40 – 4.10 Tea
Chairman: Mike Searle
4.10 – 4.30. Tom Lamont (Bristol) – Tales from the Aegean – ophiolites, eclogites, core complexes, and the Aegean Orogeny.
4.30 – 4.50. Ben Stephenson (Zanskar) – A passion for Zanskar: the Main Central Thrust, Frozen Rivers, Zanskar Ski School, granite cragging, and environmental protection.
4.50 – 5.10. Tony Rex (SRK, Cardiff) – Early Explorations in the Karakoram, and Garhwal Himalaya: geo-climbing on K2 and new routing on Shivling.
5.10 – 5.30. Michael Pitts – filming with David Attenborough, and other adventures (Everest, Assynt, Cornwall).
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5.30 – 7.00 – Drinks Reception, Upper Common Room, Dept. Earth Sciences, South Parks Road.
7.30 Dinner, Worcester College, Oxford.
For updates on further details, please visit https://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/events/searlefest/
