Basement Tectonics 11 Europe and Other Regions, 1996
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Basement Tectonics, held in Potsdam, Germany, July 1994
Proceedings of the International Conferences on Basement Tectonics Series, Vol. 5

The Eleventh International Conference on Basement Tectonics was held at the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam in Germany 25-29 July 1994. It was the first time that a meeting of this series took place in the centre of Europe and the first such meeting in this area after the recent political changes in eastern Europe. Consequently, the main theme of the meeting focussed on the structure and history of the entire European continent. Further themes were grouped around topics of current interest. Keynote lectures on these topics were given by A. Berthelsen, St. Mueller, A. Green, and D. Fountain. The technical sessions were arranged with support of the Scientific Committee on the following topics: 1. Continental scale features of basement rocks of phanerozoic cratons - with emphasis on Europe 2. Extrapolation and correlation of geological and geophysical data from basement rocks: an assessment 3. Mechanisms of basement exhumation in the evolution of orogenic belts 4. Structure and intraplate deformation of the North-American craton Papers submitted to this volume have however all been collected in one part since all of them deal with different aspects of deformation of the continental basement. A second part contains a complete list of all papers and posters presented at the meeting. Field trips to study some of the above mentioned aspects in the Harz mountains, the Granulite Massif, and the Erzgebirge were organized by P. Bankwitz, P. Frischbutter, 1. Rotzler, K. Rotzler, and B. Mingram. Their assistance is gratefully acknowledged.

I Selected Proceedings Papers.- Late-orogenic burial and exhumation at a major Variscan suture zone.- Mylonitic foliation development by heterogeneous pure shear under high-grade conditions in quartzofeldspathic rocks (Chímparra gneiss formation, Cabo Ortegal complex, NW Spain).- Country rock displacement during emplacement of the Joshua Flat pluton, White-Inyo Mountains, California.- Superimposed compressional and extensional tectonics in the Karkonosze-Izera Block, NE Bohemian Massif.- Lower continental crust exhumed: granulite grade terranes and amphibolite grade shear zones in the Anabar Shield, Polar Siberia.- Structural setting of the Paleozoic crystalline basement of the Northern Apennines (Italy).- Remarks on a deep crustal section across the Northern Apennines, Italy.- Multifractal analysis of fault structures in basement rocks.- Large-scale geometry of migmatites — implications for the seismic properties of continental crust.- Seismic data of the Carpathian foredeep basement (Romania).- Pre-Paleozoic crustal tectonics controlling Paleozoic and Tertiary metallogenies in the central region of Argentina.- Precambrian basement control on ‘plains-type folds’ (compactional features) in the midcontinent region, USA.- II Titles of Papers and Posters presented at Conference.- Oral contributions.- Poster Session.