Under the joint auspices of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of Earth's Interior (IAVCEI), CAS, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and local government and organizations, an IAVCEI meeting on Continental Volcanism (IAVCEI 2006) was held from May 15 to 18 in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province. Chaired by Prof. XU Gangyi from the CAS Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, the meeting brought together more than 180 scholars from 30 or so countries and regions.
Under the central theme of the conference is continental volcanism and magmatism, this meeting offered an important forum in which geologists, petrologists, geochemists and geophysicists with diverse approaches and methodologies met and discussed and change ideas on a wide range of topics related to the origin and evolution of continental magmatism, relationships to tectonics and implications for environmental impact.
This was the first time for China to organize an IAVCEI meeting. Volcanology, igneous geochemistry and igneous petrology are growing rapidly in China and many igneous provinces just begin to reveal their secrets. I am sure we will hear a lot on those. China has a lot to offer on this topic, says IAVCEI President Oded Navon.
