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January 10, 2006: Mantle Day of the Ecole Doctorale de Sciences des Minéraux

9h00 Salle 102
Alan Woodland: Introduction to the Earth's mantle

9h15 Salle 102
Alan Woodland: Phase transitions in the mantle

10h15 Coffee break

10h45 Salle 102
Don Francis: Primitive mantle - A Proterozoic feature of the Earth?

11h45 Salle 102
Françoise Boudier: Mantle flow and plate tectonics as deduced from ophiolites

14h30 Salle 102
Hilary Downes: The mantle underneath Europe as deduced from xenoliths

15h30 Salle 102
Peter Ulmer: Petrologic and geochemical aspects of mass transfer in subduction zones

17h15 Salle 102
Don Francis: Major-element composition of kimberlites and ultramafic lamprophyres: implications for their origin in the mantle and diamond potential

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