Thank you for attending the 4th Slope Tectonics Conference!

The meeting and the field trip were successfully completed.
We would like to thank you for your support and cooperation in the conference. Totally 78 presentations contributed to the conference (42 in oral session and 36 by posters), and 91 participants from 14 of countries and regions joined the active discussion. We are proud to have hosted such successful meeting, and hope to meet you again at the next conference!

Program and Abstracts [PDF: 2.7 MB]



Welcome to the 4th Slope Tectonics Conference!

14-18 October 2017, Kyoto, Japan
(14-15 for meeting at Oubaku Plaza, Kyoto University,
16-18 for excursion to Kii Mountain Range)

We are pleased to welcome you to Kyoto to attend the 4th Slope Tectonics Conference at Kyoto University. We will have two days meeting in Kyoto and following three days field trip in the Kii Mountains, a world heritage, in Kii Peninsula, central Japan.

Slope Tectonics is a young geoscience discipline that deals with slope movement processes controlled by various factors, such as geological structures, topography, hydrology, rock weathering, and geotechnical properties of slope materials. The main aim of the conference is to bring together researchers dealing with slope movements from different approaches in order to improve the general understanding of slope processes. The location of the post-conference field trip provides us the perfect setting to view sites related to one of the main topics: rock slope deformation and catastrophic failure in accretionary complexes and granitic rocks.

This conference follows the successful three Slope Tectonics Conferences in Lausanne (2008), Vienna (2011), and Trondheim (2014). The results of the previous conferences have been published as Geological Society of London, Special Publication v. 351, and as a special issue of Tectonophysics v. 605, and another one is in preparation for a special issue of Geomorphology. This conference also aims to produce a special issue in a relevant journal.

Important dates


1 April 2017
Opening of submission of abstracts and on-line registration

31 May 2017
Deadline for abstract submission

30 June 2017
Notification of abstract acceptance and invoicing for registration

20 July 2017
Deadline for payment

14-15 October 2017
Conference at Oubaku Plaza, Uji Campus, Kyoto University

16-18 October 2017
Field trip to the Kii Mountains

News & Info


2017.10.6 The conference program has been updated. See Program.
2017.10.6 The 2nd Circular has been uploaded. See Circulars.
2017.9.18 Conference timetable has been set and opened. See Program.
2017.4.3 The 1st Circular was published.
2017.4.1 Abstract submission and on-line registration were started.
2016.11.06 Timetable was uploaded.

2016.11.05 Conference website has been opened.