International workshop and field excursions 
under IGCP-480 auspices 
Second Circular

July 25 – August 5
 2005

PROJECT TITLE
Structural and Tectonic Correlation across the Central Asia Orogenic Collage: Implications for Continental Growth and Intracontinental Deformation

Field Excursions

(1)  Pre-Olkhon area, Irkutsk; (2)  Dzhida zone, Ulan-Ude 
East Siberia, Russia
Background
The Workshop will be held in Irkutsk on July 25-26, 2005. It continues the long history of IGCP supported workshops and field trips. Among others there were field trips to the Altay Mountains in Russia and over Eastern China. This workshop is the first among subsequent four that are proposed be organized during the 5-year project period.  This meeting will be focused at the tectonic evolution of the Siberian Craton and its surroundings as well as orogenic structures of Eastern Siberia.  
The workshop will bring together prominent scientists, teaching professors and post-graduate students whose interests lie in the research of major tectonic units and tectonic boundaries across the whole Northern and Central Asia. 

Scope & Main Topics
Phanerozoic continental growth in Central Asia 
Tectonic evolution of the Siberian craton 
Orogenic processes and continental evolution 
Anatomy of collisional zones: magmatism, metamorphism, and tectonics 
Tectonic evolution of orogenic belts in southern Siberia 
International Program Committee

Mikhail I. Kuzmin, Institute of Geochemistry SB RAS, Irkutsk , Russia

Boris Natal’in, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey 

Eugene V. Sklyarov, Institute of the Earth Crust, SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia 

Dmitri P. Gladkochub, Institute of the Earth Crust, SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia 
Alfred Kroner, Institut fur Geowissenschaften University of Mainz, Germany

Ivan V. Gordienko, Geological Institute SB RAS, Ulan-Ude, Russia 

Celal A. M. Sengor, Istanbul Tehnical University, Istanbul, Turkey 

An Yin, UCLA, Los Angeles, the USA 

Local Organizing Committee
Prof. M.I. Kuzmin, Prof. E.V.Sklyarov, Prof. I.V. Gordienko I.V., Prof. V.S. Fedorovsky, 
Prof. A.G. Vladimirov, Prof. A.M. Mazukabzov
Executive Secretary Group
Secretary General for Correspondence & Invitations
Tatiana Bunaeva, e-mail: tabun@igc.irk.ru, Tel: +7(3952) 429 964, Fax: +7(3952) 427 050

Scientific Program & Excursion to Pre-Olkhon area
Dmitry Gladkochub, e-mail: dima@crust.irk.ru  Tel: +7(3952) 42 71 17, Fax: +7(3952) 427000

Excursion to Dzhida
Andrey Filimonov, e-mail: fil@gin.bsc.buryatia.ru Tel: +7(3012) 433955, Fax: +7(3012) 433024

Publications
Tatiana Donskaya,  e-mail: tanlen@crust.irk.ru Tel: +7(3952) 427117, Fax: +7(3952) 427000

General information is placed at site: www.crust.irk.ru/igcp.htm

GENERAL INFORMATION
Location
The workshop will be held on 25-26 July, 2005 at the conference halls of the Institute of Geochemistry, and Institute of the Earth’s crust, Irkutsk Science Center, Irkutsk, Russia 

Travel
The workshop attendees can reach Irkutsk via Moscow or Novosibirsk by direct daily flights, Aeroflot Company is advised to be preferred, OR Trans-Siberian railway. 

Visa 
To have official invitations needed for a visa application to the Russian Embassy or Consulate in your countries you are requested to send clearly scanned or faxed copy of your passport and fill in the registration form to provide information for an invitation letter. 
Please send materials well in advance to Tatiana Bunaeva by e-mail or fax.

Accommodation 
The Organizing Committee suggests all participants be lodged at the “Akademicheskaya” hotel at the Irkutsk Science Center and in three-room apartments close to the hotel.
Accommodation payment should be made in rubles at the hotel upon your arrival. 
At the hotel you may use cashing machine for “Visa” credit cards.

Tentative costs:
Single room with a shower: about  $33 or $40 (breakfast included)
Bed in a double room: $35 (breakfast included)
Bed in apartment:     $28 
During excursions participants will be accommodated in wooden houses at tourist camps, payment is included in the registration fee.

Important Dates
Final registration:         April 1, 2005
Abstract submission:     May 1, 2005

Registration Fee
The registration fees listed below cover conference materials (Program, Abstracts and Guidebook Volume, Participants List, etc.), welcome receptions, coffee breaks, sightseeing tour, lunch and dinner during the workshop. The fee does NOT include payment for accommodation at the hotel in Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude.
Workshop registration fee        $ 150.00 
Student registration fee             $ 100.00
Companion’s           fee             $ 100.00
Fee for Olkhon area excursion: $ 500.00  (from July 27 to Aug.1) 
Fee for Dzhida area excursion:  $ 400.00 (from Aug. 2 to Aug. 5)
The registration fees for excursions include: accommodation, meals, guide services, transportation, guidebook, train tickets from Irkutsk to Ulan-Ude.

Please pay in cash in time of registration at the conference hall of the Institute of the Earth’s crust. 

Call for Abstracts
The deadline for abstract submission is May 1, 2005.  Potential authors of papers are invited to submit an extended abstract (up to four pages), which will be included in the Volume of Abstracts and distributed at the workshop.
How to prepare an Abstract for a workshop
Abstracts are limited in length to four pages (figures, tables and references included) of format A4 paper (21.0 x 29.7) with all margins 2.5 cm.  
The recommended style specifications: 
Title: 16-point Times New Roman Bold, centered, one blank line after.
Authors: 12-point Times New Roman, centered, name of the presenting author underlined, one blank line after.
Affiliations: 12-point Times New Roman Italic, centered, one blank line after.
Body text: 12-point Times New Roman, single spacing, with justification, paragraphs separated with a blank line, not indented.
Figure captions: 11point Times New Roman.
References: 11-point Times New Roman. Please use square brackets for reference citation.

Please send your Abstract before May 1, 2005 to 
Tatiana Donskaya,  e-mail: tanlen@crust.irk.ru Tel: +7(3952) 427117, Fax: +7(3952) 427000

Schedule 
Workshop & Field Excursions

July 24  Arrival at Irkutsk, accommodation at the Academic township hotel of Irkutsk Science Center,
July 25-26   Sessions at the Institute of the Earth’s Crust; 
                     Evening:  Welcome reception

Excursion entitled: The anatomy and evolution of the Early Paleozoic Olkhon collision zone of the Central Asian Orogen (high-grade metamorphic complexes, syn- and post-kinematic intrusions, marble melange and suture zones).

Leaders of excursion: Eugene Sklyarov, Valentine Fedorovsky, Dmitry Gladkochub, and Alexey Mekhonoshin

July 27 - Excursion 1: The main units of the Olkhon collision zone, Central Asian Orogen.
Drive about 300 km for 5 hours with stops for lunch and snacks on the way to
               reach the camp in the Olkhon Island area.

July 28 – Excursion 2: Formation of the Olkhon collision zone within the Central Asian Orogen and transition from the Siberian craton to the orogenic belt (part 1).

July 29 – Excursion 3: Formation of the Olkhon collision zone within the Central Asian Orogen (part 2, boat trip around the Olkhon Island).

July 30 – Excursion 4: Syn-orogenic collapse of the Olkhon collision zone.

July 31 – Drive back to Irkutsk, accommodation at Academic township.

August 1 – One day trip to the region of Bolshaya Goloustnaya village at the western coast of Baikal to observe the Early Paleozoic collision-related overprint which affected the craton basement complexes and the sequences of the Neoproterozoic passive continental margin. Picnic lunch on the Baikal coast and return to Irkutsk. 
Evening (8 p.m.) Transfer to Ulan-Ude city by an evening train to proceed to Dzhida excursion. 

Excursion entitled: Dzhida zone of the Paleo-Asian Ocean: main units and tectonic setting 
(Vendian-Lower Paleozoic island arc complexes, paired accretionary wedge, and seamounts).

Leaders of excursion: Ivan Gordienko, Michael Kuzmin, Andrey Filimonov

August 2 -  Excursion 1: Vendian – Early Cambrian sediments of the Siberian craton passive margin: Ordovician overprint through the Paleo-Asian Ocean evolution.
Arrival at Ulan-Ude by train at 6 a.m. Drive for 7-8 hours to Zakamensk (Dzhida) region by bus about 400 km with stops for geological observations and lunch.
Evening: welcome party at a hotel where participants will be accommodated.

August 3 -  Excursion 2: The evolution of the Dzhida island arc of the Paleo-Asian Ocean: from origination to developed stage. 

August 4 - Excursion 3: The models of development: (i) the Dzhida guyot (seamount) on the Paleo-Asian Ocean crust and (ii) Dzhida marginal basin. Discussion of possible scenarios and unsettled issues.

August 5 -  Excursion 4: The final stage of the Dzhida guyot (seamount) evolution.
Return to Ulan-Ude. Accommodation at a hotel. Closing party at the hotel restaurant. 

August 6 - Departure from the airport to Moscow by plane or to Irkutsk by train. 

Please, find the Registration Form below

REGISTRATION FORM
(information for invitation letter is included)

Family Name_____________________________________________________________________ 
Given Name_______________________Sex: M  ________F________
Date of Birth___________________Place of Birth_______________________________________
Citizenship____________________________City to apply for visa_ ________________________ 
Affiliation________________________________________Position_________________________
Address__________________________________________________________________________

City______________________Zip Code_________________Country________________________

Phone _________________      FAX   _______________       E-mail _________________________

Paper Presentation
Oral___________  Poster_____________  No_________________
Author’s Name (s)_________________________________________________________________
Title____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Field Excursions:
Pre-Olkhon area : Yes _________No__________
Dzhida area:        Yes__________No__________

IMPORTANT!!! Because pre-payment for reservations of  tourist camps, transportation vehicles and publishing conference materials is to be made by the Organizing Committee well in advance your payment of fees  should be guaranteed. 

Please return this form before 1 April, 2005 to: 

Tatiana Bunaeva 
E-mail: tabun@igc.irk.ru
Phone  +7 (3952) 42 99 64
Fax      +7 (3952) 42 70 50