About the Conference
The tenth Hutton Symposium happened in Baveno, Italy, from the 10th to the 15th of September 2023. The conference is now over, but on this page you can still find related material: recording of the talks, field guides, some photos and information about the granite community. The next Hutton will be held in India in […]
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Theme 1: Granites in geodynamic sites, planets and time
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2025-05-22
2023-09-11
2023-09-11 17:00
08:30
17:00
This theme deals with the Big Picture: where and when do granites and related rocks form? What controls their differences between various sites on our planet, or indeed between planets? How did granite magmatism evolve in time, and how does it impact the nature and evolution of the continental crust?
Annie Bauer
Junior Keynote Speaker / University of Madison-Wisconsin
Bernard Bonin
Overview Speaker / Université Paris-Sud
Brad Joliff
Overview speaker / Washington University in St. Louis
Veronica Oliveros
Junior keynote speaker / Departamento Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile
Theme 2: Genesis of granitic magmas: Competing models, competing processes
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2025-05-22
2023-09-12
2023-09-12 17:00
08:30
17:00
This theme is about the processes that lead to the formation of granitic (s.l.) magmas, and in particular aims at discussing the various pathways that may lead to them: melting, fractionation, mixing etc. This is the right place to tackle the old issue of the respective roles of mantle and crust. Information can be gained from a range of sources from experiments, models, geochemical data and more.
Benjamin Klein
Junior keynote speaker / Université de Lausanne (Switzerland)
Bruna Carvalho
Junior keynote speaker / Università degli Studi di Padova
Claire Bucholz
Overview speaker / Caltech
Tom Sisson
Overview speaker / U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Theme 3: Architecture of crustal magmatic systems and rate of magmatic processes
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2025-05-22
2023-09-14
2023-09-14 17:00
08:30
17:00
This theme addresses the physical shape and connectivity of magma networks at all scales, from the crust to the grain boundary and from the source to the volcano, including the plutonic-volcanic connection. We will discuss the rates of processes such as melting, melt extraction, magma motion, pluton accretion, eruption, as well as the mechanical and chemical drivers of them.
Jonathan Delph
Junior Keynote Speaker / Purdue University
Marian Holness
Overview Speaker / University of Cambridge
Sandy Cruden
Overview Speaker / Monash University
Teresa Ubide
Junior keynote speaker / University of Queensland
Urs Schaltegger
Overview Speaker / Université de Genève
Theme 4: Fluids in and around granites
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2025-05-22
2023-09-15
2023-09-15 15:00
08:30
15:00
In this theme, we discuss the role of evolution of melts, supercritical fluids, etc. in particular during final cooling and solidification of plutons. We also address the textural development of granitoids. We welcome contributions on pegmatites, ore deposits, geothermal fluids, etc.
Juliana Troch
Junior Keynote Speaker / RWTH, Aachen
Thomas Driesner
Overview speaker / Department of Earth Science, ETH Zürich
Tobias Keller
Junior Keynote Speaker / Institute for Geochemistry & Petrology, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
Weiran Li
Junior keynote speaker / University of Hong Kong, Department of Earth Sciences
Past and future and general discussion
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2025-05-22
2023-09-15
2023-09-15 18:00
15:30
18:00
This final session offered the opportunity to reflect on the past decades of granite research, and on future directions. We also voted for the next Hutton symposium, that will be held in India.
Keynote speakers
Overview speaker Caltech
Junior Keynote Speaker RWTH, Aachen
Junior Keynote Speaker Institute for Geochemistry & Petrology, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
Junior Keynote Speaker Purdue University
Junior Keynote Speaker University of Madison-Wisconsin
Junior keynote speaker Departamento Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile
Overview Speaker Université Paris-Sud
Junior keynote speaker University of Queensland
Overview Speaker Université de Genève
Overview Speaker Monash University
Overview Speaker University of Cambridge
Overview speaker Washington University in St. Louis
Junior keynote speaker Université de Lausanne (Switzerland)
Junior keynote speaker Università degli Studi di Padova
Overview speaker U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Junior keynote speaker University of Hong Kong, Department of Earth Sciences
Overview speaker Department of Earth Science, ETH Zürich
Field trips
Massif Central
580 € 4 – 9 Sept. 2023
From shallow granites to mid-crustal diatexites in a collapsing orogen
Adamello
450 € 6 – 9 Sept
An Alpine subduction related shallow crustal plutonic complex
Ivrea Zone
17th September 2023
From the moho to volcanoes, a section through the continental crust
Calabria
530 € 16 – 20 Sept. 2023
Calabria coast to coast: a nearly complete cross-section of continental crust (with a 13 km-thick late Variscan batholith)
Elba Island
550 € 17 – 21 Sept. 2023
Mechanisms of granite emplacement: architecture and evolution of a shallow-level magma reservoir
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