SearleFest (1 July 2022)

24 June 2022

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/