The International Council for Applied Mineralogy congress (ICAM) is the most important regular gathering of applied mineralogists. The ICAM 2011, to be held at the Radisson BLU Royal Garden Hotel in Trondheim, Norway, on 1-5 August, is our 10th meeting. It has been 30 years since the inaugural meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1981 and this decenary event perhaps heralds a new era for Applied Mineralogy as we tackle a whole new set of challenges facing our world today.

Mechanism of deformation

Netlike and homogeneous plastic flows in the crust and mantle and the flow law

Rheology of ancient middle-lower continental crust in the Qinling Orogenic Belt, central China

Fluidization and rapid injection of crushed fine-grained materials in fault zones during episodes of seismic faulting

Dynamic fault motion under variable normal stress condition with rate and state dependent frinction

The tectonic significance of active middle crust

Basement tectonics in continental China, based on regional geophysical interpretation. Wang Mao-Ji
Deep seismic refraction cross sections of Sakhalin (Russia) on the data of reinterpretation using 2-D inversion method V.B. Piip
Deep structure pattern, anisotropy and continental geodynamics revealed by geophysical profiles and transects in China Ten Jiwen, Xiong Shaobai, Zhang Zhongjie, Liu Hongbing, Yin Zhouxun, Sun Kezhong, Hu Jiafu, Yang Dinghui, Wan Zhichao, Zhang Bingming and Zhang Hui

Chandler, Robert B., Dietze, Volker, Sommer, Volker & Gauthier, Henri Remarks on the Astarte Bed (Upper Bajocian, Middle Jurassic) of Burton Bradstock (Dorset, Southern England)
Fernandez-Lopez, Sixto Rafael Upper Bathonian ammonites of the Catalan Basin (Tivissa and Cap Salou, Spain)
Ga lAcz Andras Frogdenites, the early Sphaeroceratid ammonite from the lower Bajocian of the Bakony and Gerecse Hills, Hungary