Workshop of BOHEMA Working Group on

GEODYNAMICS OF THE WESTERN BOHEMIAN MASSIF

Geophysical Institute, Czech Acad. Sci., Praha, 4-5 May 2006

 

Programme

Thursday 4 May

Chair: R. Kind

9:00 - 9:10       Vladislav Babuška – Welcome Address

9:10 – 9:30       Barbara Heuer, Wolfram Geissler and Rainer Kind

Upper mantle structure beneath the western Bohemian Massif derived from P and S receiver function analysis.

9:30 – 9:50      Jiří Málek and Josef Horálek

SP converted waves and Moho reflections from local earthquakes in western Bohemia

9:50 – 10:10    Jaroslava Plomerová, Ulrich Achauer, Vladislav Babuška and Luděk Vecsey

Upper mantle beneath the Ohře (Eger) Rift: plume or asthenosphere upwelling?

10:10 – 10:30  Luděk Vecsey, Jaroslava Plomerová and Vladislav Babuška

Shear-wave splitting in the mantle of the western Bohemian Massif

 

10:30 – 11:00  COFFEE BREAK

Chair: J. Plomerová

11:00 - 11:20   Jan Švancara

Gravity images of the western Bohemian Massif: structural implications based on regional and high-resolution data analysis

11:20 – 11:40  Bohuslav Růžek

3-D seismic tomography of the upper crust utilizing database of travel times across the Bohemian Massif

11:40 – 12:00   Josef Horálek, Tomáš Fischer and Alena Boušková

West Bohemian earthquake swarms from viewpoint of the location, source mechanisms and space-time energy release

12:00 – 12:20  Tomáš Pačes

Relationship between geodynamics and movement and composition of deep fluids

12:20 – 12:40  Karin Braeuer and Horst Kaempf

Indications of progressive magmatic activity beneath the Cheb basin

 

12:40 – 14:00  LUNCH BREAK

Chair: T. Pačes

14:00 – 14:20  Vladimír Schenk, František Mantlík and Zdenka Schenková   

GPS-monitored geodynamic motion trends in the Bohemian Massif from a view of its western part

14:20 – 14:40  Horst Kaempf, Wolfram H. Geissler and Wolfgang Siebel

Mantle Xenoliths from the Quaternary tephra deposit Mýtina (Western Eger Rift): Petrography, geochemistry and isotope (Sr, Nd, Pb) geochemistry

14:40 – 15:00  Wolfram H. Geissler and Horst Kaempf

Mantle Xenoliths from the Quaternary tephra deposit Mýtina (western Eger Rift): Mineral chemistry and geothermobarometry.

 

15:00 – 15:30  COFFEE BREAK                                                                

 

Chair: P. Bankwitz

15:30 – 15:50  Samuel Niedermann, Horst Kaempf and Wolfram H. Geissler

Mantle Xenoliths from the Quaternary tephra deposit Mýtina (western Eger Rift): Noble Gas Isotopic Composition

15:50 – 16:10  Bedřich Mlčoch

Character of the contact between the Saxothuringian and Teplá-Barrandian

16:10 – 16:30  Vladislav Babuška, Jaroslava Plomerová and Tomáš Fischer

Variscan boundaries of blocks of mantle lithosphere predestined locations of earthquake swarms and other Cenozoic geodynamic phenomena

16:30 – 16:50  F.H. Weinlich, A. Boušková, E. Faber, J. Horálek, M. Teschner, J. Poggenburg

Seismically induced variations in Mariánské Lázně fault gas composition in the NW Bohemian swarm quake region, Czech Republic - a continuous gas monitoring

 

Friday 5 May

Chair: V. Babuška

9:00 – 12:00    Discussion:

What we have achieved and what else is needed. Please, prepare information about projects and ideas for future research.