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Welcome

Welcome to the International Eclogite Field Symposium 2007. Here you can find out about all aspects of the meeting including the Scientific Programme, field excursions, abstract submission, registration and fees, travel and accommodation, social events and information about the areas to be visited. The Symposium is the next in a biennial series of meetings of the International Eclogite Conference that has run since 1982, and will incorporate the Workshop for the International Lithosphere Programme Task Group IV "Ultradeep Continental Crust Subduction". We offer a mix of field excursions and lecture/poster meetings based in the Skye and Lochalsh area of the western Highlands of Scotland, followed by an optional post-symposium excursion to Brittany and Vendee in western France.

The Symposium celebrates and commemorates the life and work of Tony Carswell, who made such a profound and significant contribution to research on eclogite-facies rocks, and who died last year. Tony was born and educated in Scotland and worked on the rocks that form the form the main focus of our meeting.

The theme of the main Symposium is the Proterozoic Glenelg-Attadale Inlier, a rare opportunity to visit an accessible and well-exposed example of Grenville-age eclogites, and will be the first of the International Eclogite Conferences to visit an area of Precambrian eclogite-facies rocks. Set in Glenelg and Loch Duich, among the mountains and sea-lochs of the northwest Highlands, the field area is one of outstanding natural beauty, and is of great cultural interest.

The Symposium will be based at the Cuillin Hills Hotel in Portree, Isle of Skye, where we will hold the lecture meetings and hopefully consume a good deal of excellent Scotch Whisky!

The optional post-Symposium excursion focuses on the high-pressure rocks of the Armorican Massif in NW France, part of the Variscan orogen. We visit the spectacular blueschist-eclogite rocks on the Isle de Groix and a variety of different eclogite types around the city of Nantes in the Loire valley of the Vendee region. Participants will no doubt enjoy the relaxed atmosphere and the good food and wine of this attractive area, after the rigours of the Scottish mountains!

Participants of the Symposium will rendezous and depart from Paisley, which lies 12km west of Glasgow and adjacent to Glasgow International Airport. There are good flight connections to London's airports and to hub airports in continental Europe. There is quick access to national and international road, rail and air links.

Click here for a copy of the Second Circular.