Panama 2010. "Subduction Zones and Bent Orogenic Belts of the Caribbean". February 8-11, 2010. Joint meeting of IGCP projects 546 "Subduction Zones of the Caribbean" and 574 "Bending and Bent Orogens, and Continental Ribbons"

Workshop "Subduction Zones and Bent Orogenic Belts of the Caribbean"

GENERAL

The Workshop seeks to unravel the complex geologic evolution of the Caribbean region focusing on deep earth processes taking place at ancient and active convergent plate margins, including orocline formation, and on the role played by continental ribbons. The main aims of the Workshop are to (1) systematically characterize and compare the subduction products, both mechanical and thermal, such as high-pressure belts, tectonic mélanges, accretionary wedges, accreted terranes, volcanic arcs, and fracture zones all along the Caribbean realm, northern South America and Nuclear Central America; (2) assess the role of continental ribbons, such as the Panamanian Isthmus, in the tectonic evolution of the Caribbean region; and (3) investigate the origins and evolution of map-scale bends of orogenic belts, volcanic arcs and continental ribbons within the context of Caribbean paleogeography.

DETAILS

CONVENERS
 Camilo Montes  (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancon, Panama. Email: montesc@si.edu)
Agustín Cardona (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancon, Panama. Email: cardonaa@si.edu)
 Antonio García-Casco (Univ. Granada, Spain. Email: agcasco@ugr.es)
 Stephen T. Johnston (Univ. Victoria, Canada. Email: stj@uvic.ca)

DATE
February 8, 2010.

Conference venue
Tupper auditorium, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. (Ancon through PTJ, Ciudad de Panamá). http://www.stri.org/

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The present Central American and Antillean subduction zones, and remnants of subducted Mesozoic and Tertiary materials accreted in Caribbean suture zones record an unusually broad range in time, rates, thermal regimes, and compositions. Placing these in an actualistic model that accounts for the current configuration of the Caribbean plate is an ongoing effort. We invite contributions from all fields of geophysics, geochemistry and geology applied to convergent tectonics and geodynamics of the Caribbean.  Field-based, geochemical or petrologic studies of sutures and subduction mélanges are welcome. We especially encourage contributions establishing links, contrasts and correlations among active and ancient subduction zones in the Caribbean area.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Abstracts shall be submitted in English ready for publication in this website. Abstracts should have no more than 500 words and may include an inserted figure in gif/png/jpg format optimized for the web. No corrections will be introduced to the abstracts.
Please, download a WORD template file for your abstract: IGCP 546 Panama 2010 Abstracts and send it to: Antonio García-Casco (agcasco@ugr.es).

REGISTRATION

DEADLINE
January 15, 2010.

PUBLICATION
Communications presented in the Workshop will be suitable for publication in a Special Issue "Subduction Zones of the Caribbean" to be arranged with an international publishing house.

SCHEDULE

Under construction.

See Abstract Volume

Name Institution Title Time Start Finish
Antonio García-Casco, Stephen T. Johnston, Camilo Montes IGCP 546 and 574 and event leaders Introduction to session 10 8:20 8:30
Jim Pindell Tectonic Analysis, UK Keynote talk. Two-stage Neogene model for the Panama-Colombia collision. 25+5 8:30 9:00
Jim Wright Univ. Georgia, USA Keynote talk. Late Cretaceous subduction initiation on the southern margin of the Caribbean plateau:  One Great arc of the Caribbean (?) 25+5 9:00 9:30
Peter O. Baumgartner Institut de Géologie et Paléontologie, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland Keynote talk. Jurassic-Cretaceous accretion-subduction records in the Caribbean Plate North of the CLIP (Nicaragua, Costa Rica) 25+5 9:30 10:00
Coffe break     15 10:00 10:15
Camilo Montes Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama Keynote. Tectonic Evolution of Panamá and northern Colombia basins 25+5 10:15 10:45
Isaac Corral Calleja Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Onset and evolution of the western Panamian volcanic arc: Stratigraphy, tectonic and geochemistry 8+2 10:45 10:55
David Farris Florida State University, USA Canal Zone volcanic rocks and the tectonic evolution of the Panama arc 15+5 10:55 11:15
David Buchs Australian National University, Australia Arc initiation and margin development in South Central America 15+5 11:15 11:35
Stewart Redwood Consulting economic geologist, Panama Metallogenesis and arc evolution of Panama and NW Colombia 15+5 11:35 11:55
Lunch     60 11:55 12:55
German Bayona Corporación Ares, Panama Paleomagnetism in Panama : What we have learned and what is next for research. 15+5 12:55 13:15
Cesar Silva Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama Vertical axis rotations and latitudinal translations of the Panama orocline 15+5 13:15 13:35
Luis Santamaría Vallejos Instituto de Geociencias, Panama. An attempt to estimate block rotations and mapping remanent magnetizacion using aeromagnetics data in Panama. 15+5 13:35 13:55
Agustin Cardona Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama Neogene vulcanism in the southwestern South Caribbean deformed belt: preliminary data from the Sinu belt, Colombia 15+5 13:55 14:15
Sergio A. Restrepo-Moreno Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama · University of Florida, USA Low-temperature Thermochronology in Panama and Western Colombia: Tracing Morphotectonic Response to an Arc-Continent Collisional Event. 15+5 14:15 14:35
Carl Nelson Recursos del Caribe S.A., USA A tectono-stratigraphic map of the Greater Antilles 8+2 14:35 14:45
Coffee     15 14:45 15:00
Arlo B. Weil Bryn Mawr College, USA Developing robust kinematic and mechanical models for complex curved orogens using a multidisciplinary approach: an example from the North American Cordilleran 15+5 15:00 15:20
Gabriel Gutierrez-Alonso Univ. Salamanca, Spain Why 307? Absolute age (Ar-Ar and U-Pb) constrains on orocline development and related lithospheric delamination in the Iberian Armorican Arc 15+5 15:20 15:40
Manuel Francisco Colaço de Castro Pereira Departamento de Geociências, Universidade de Évora, Portugal The role of the Ibero-Armorican Arc development in the tectonic inversion of the South-Portuguese Zone (SW Iberian Massif, Variscan Orogeny) 15+5 15:40 16:00
General discussion     60 16:00 17:00
End of session          

We look forward to seeing you in Panama in 2010!

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