<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Dear Colleagues & Friends,</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a name="_Hlk130395052"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">How
are you?  </span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Now that we are mostly in a
post-COVID world, I am pleased to send you information about the Joint
International Dyke Conference (IDC 8)-Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs-8)-Rodinia-2023
Conference to be held in Marrakesh (Morocco, Northwest Africa) during this
summer. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Joint
IDC-8, LIPs-8, & Rodinia 2023 Conference</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">conference
website: </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/AAEjCjZ1N7iYjDEJ9SWLOmg?domain=marrakech.sciencesconf.org/" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">https://marrakech.sciencesconf.org/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">(dates</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"> <span style="background:yellow">29^th May to 16^th June <b>2023</b></span> in
Morocco</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">(</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background:lime">timing includes both pre- mid- and post-conference field trips</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Lead organizer: Prof. Nasrrddine YOUBI</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> Co-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Lead organizer: Prof. Hassan
IBOUH</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">JOIN
US IN A GEOSCIENCE PARADISE: A VOYAGE THROUGH EARTH HISTORY IN THE KINGDOM OF
MOROCCO.</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Please
also find the attached the 2^nd circular. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Contacts
and Correspondence for scientific information:</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">-Nasrrddine
YOUBI, (</span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:youbi@uca.ac.ma" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">youbi@uca.ac.ma</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"> ) Director of DLGR Lab Cadi Ayyad
University, Faculty of Sciences-Semlalia, Department of Geology, P.O. Box 2390,
Marrakech 40000, Morocco. Phone: + 212 - (524) 43 46 49. Extension 516. GSM
(Office): + 212 (0654) 477 796. Fax: + 212- (524) - 43 67 69.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">-Hassan
IBOUH, (</span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:h.ibouh@uca.ac.ma" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">h.ibouh@uca.ac.ma</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"> ) L3G Lab, Cadi Ayyad University,
Faculty of Sciences & Technoloques, Guéliz Bd.  A. Khattabi, BP 549, Marrakech 40 000 Phone: +
212 (524) 43 31 63 (poste 424) Fax: + 212 (524) 43 31 70.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">-Richard
E., ERNST (</span><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:Richard.Ernst@ernstgeosciences.com">Richard.Ernst@ernstgeosciences.com</a></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"> ), Phone: + 1-613-295-7955) Scientist in Residence,
Dept. of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Herzberg Building 1125 Colonel By
Drive, Ottawa, Canada K1S 5B6.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">- David EVANS, (</span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:david.evans@yale.edu" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">david.evans@yale.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">), Phone: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">+ 1 (203) 640-5726</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Yale University, 210 Whitney
Ave, New Haven CT 06511, USA.  </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">- Zheng-Xiang LI (</span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:Z.Li@exchange.curtin.edu.au" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Z.Li@exchange.curtin.edu.au</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">), Phone : </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">+ 61 8 9266 2453</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS), Faculty
of Science and Engineering, Curtin University, Australia.  </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">I look forward to see you all here. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Best
regards,</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Nasser </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Nasrrddine Youbi, Full Professor</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Director of DLGR Lab, Vice President for Northern
Africa of The Geological Society of Africa (GSAf)  </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Cadi Ayyad University, </span>Faculty of Sciences-Semlalia, Department of
Geology,</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">P.O. Box 2390, Marrakech 40000, Morocco.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Phone : + 212 - (524) 43 46 49. Extension 516</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">GSM (Home): + 212 (0654) 477 796.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Fax:
+ 212- (524) - 43 67 69</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">E-Mail: <span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:youbi@uca.ac.ma" target="_blank" style="color:blue">youbi@uca.ac.ma</a></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ldZkCk81N9tknAl0NtVJKWR?domain=researchgate.net/" target="_blank" style="color:blue">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nasrrddine_Youbi/</a></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/UUg7Clx1Nji1omGK7UyV3Rv?domain=scholar.google.com" target="_blank" style="color:blue">https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=ZNcoZLoAAAAJ</a></span></p>

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