Conference Agenda

Session
01.03 Chaotic rocks - characteristics, formation and geodynamic significance
Time:
Tuesday, 16/Sept/2025:
8:30am - 10:00am

Session Chair: Carl-Heinz Gerd Friedel, private
Session Chair: Maren Zweig
Session Chair: Bernd Leiss, Georg-August-University of Göttingen
 Location: ZHG 007

170 PAX

Presentations
8:30am - 9:00am
Invited Session Keynote
Topics: 01.03 Chaotic rocks – characteristics, formation and geodynamic significance

Mélanges and their significance in the evolution of subduction-accretionary complexes and orogenic belts

Andrea Festa

University of Torino, Italy


9:00am - 9:15am
Topics: 01.03 Chaotic rocks – characteristics, formation and geodynamic significance

Signatures of changing deformation rate dynamics in deforming rocks: Examples from the exhumed Slow Earthquake Zone of New Caledonia

Sandra Piazolo1, Manon Carpenter1, Timothy Chapman2, Geoffrey Clarke3, Lars Hansen4, Jessica Hawthorne5

1University of Leeds, United Kingdom; 2University of New England, Australia; 3Sydney University, Australia; 4University of Minnesota, USA; 5Oxford University, United Kingdom


9:15am - 9:30am
Topics: 01.03 Chaotic rocks – characteristics, formation and geodynamic significance

Blocks of fault-bounded imbricate stacks of Devonian limestones, a diagnostic feature for a tectonic origin of chaotic rock fabrics in the Harz Mountains (Eastern Rhenohercynian Belt, Germany).

Carl-Heinz Gerd Friedel1,4, Edmund Lars Cunäus2, Julia Riegel3, Bernd Leiss4, Michael Stipp5

1Karl-Marx-Str. 56, Leipzig; 2Buchholz & Partner GmbH, Schkeuditz; 3Smart Asphalt Solutions GmbH, Bovenden; 4Geowissenschaftliches Zentrum der Universität Göttingen, Strukturgeologie und Geothermik, Göttingen; 5Institut für Geowissenschaften und Geographie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle