Strasbourg hosts Europe's biggest biennial geoscience gathering

The European Union of Geosciences (EUG) will hold its tenth meeting, Europe's largest biennial gathering of earth scientists, in Strasbourg, France, between 28 March and 1 April 1999.

Over 3000 scientists will spend five days discussing the latest research findings in their fields, spanning topics from planetary evolution and climate change, to the deep-sea-floor biosphere and the origins of life.

The interdisciplinary symposia to be held at the event will include:

- Orogeny and crustal evolution through time;
- Climate - past and present;
- Life on Earth- origin and evolution;
- Sedimentary basins the record of tectonic and magmatic processes;
- Mineral deposits - geology and genesis;
- Magma and fluids in the mantle;
- Continental ocean transition zones and oceanic lithosphere;
- Lithospheric properties and processes;
- Mineral deposits - geology and genesis;
- Geosciences, environment and society;
- Polar Earth sciences.

The EUG started in 1980 as a Study Group of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Its aim is to develop cooperation among scientists in different fields of Earth and planetary sciences. Its membership is strictly individual and no-one may represent any national organization, institution or laboratory.
For further information, please contact:

Roland Schlich
Conference organiser
EUG Office
Tel. +33-3-88450191; Fax +33-3-88416393
E-mail: eug@eost.u-strasbg.fr
URL: http://eost.u-strasbg.fr/EUG(opens in new window)