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During the last year, a wealth of new data has been collected in Panamá, including new radiometric ages, paleomagnetic investigations, geochemical analysis and field mapping. In this field trip we will put the new information in a regional context where the trailing edge of the Caribbean Plate enjoyed multiple episodes of arc magmatism and transtensional deformation.

IGCP 546 "Subduction Zones of the Caribbean" and IGCP 574 "Bending and Bent Orogens, and Continental Ribbons"  offer three events:

1. February 8, 2010. The Workshop “Subduction Zones and Bent Orogenic Belts of the Caribbean”,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.

2. February 9-11, 2009. The associated Field Trip "From arc growth to orocline formation: The record from the Panama Canal and East Panama".will serve as the basis for the description of the geologic architecture of the plate margin and associated basins in the region, with special focus on volcanic and plutonic products of subduction of the Nazca plate below the Caribbean plate.

As a preliminary budget for the seminar and field trip, the registration is approximately US$ 350 per person. This would cover transportation, lunches and beverages. This registration fee must be paid in cash at the workshop.

We have pre-reserved rooms in the El Panama Hotel (located at: Via España y Via Veneto). We will strongly suggest that all participants stay in this hotel. The Hotel El Panama costs: Single room US$143.00, Double room US$165.00. (Includes daily breakfast, cable internet in room and taxes). We can send a taxi to pick you up if you want. It costs around $25 dollars. [NOTE: Panama carnival starts on March 13th. If you plan to stay longer, please be aware that probably hotels will be busy, as well as some streets and highways. It is a very particular time!].

Funds provided by IUGS-UNESCO to IGCP 546 will be used to help cover the expenses of the attendants to the workshop and associated field trip. However, because we will probably not have had received funding from IUGS-UNESCO by February 2010, we will probably not have the chance to support attendance in advance. We shall send to the attendants the funds after the meeting. Contact project leaders Antonio García-Casco or Uwe Martens for application.

IGCP 574 members should contact project leaders Stephen T. Johnston, Arlo B. Weil and Gabi Gutierrez-Alonso for support.

IMPORTANT. Deadline for registration is 15th of January. Panama 2010 Registration and Hotel Reservation (). Send this form to Antonio García Casco agcasco@ugr.es, Camilo Montes MontesC@si.edu, and Luz Helena Oviedo oviedol@si.edu. This is important to request the permits to access the Canal Area and to confirm hotel reservation.

Contact:
Luz Helena Oviedo Villegas
Research Assistant
507-2128057
oviedol@si.edu
Center for Tropical Paleoecology and Archeology Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Apartado Postal 0843-03092. Balboa, Ancon Panama

Under construction.

1	Carl Nelson	Recursos del Caribe, S.A.	USA	CNelson945@aol.com	A tectono-stratigraphic map of the Greater Antilles
2	Marc Sosson	UMR Géoazur, CNRS, Univ. de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, OCA	France	sosson@geoazur.unice.fr
3	Bernard Mercier de Lépinay	CNRS - GéoAzur, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis	France	bmercier@geoazur.unice.fr
4	Flore Barat	CNRS - GéoAzur, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis	France	flore.barat@geoazur.unice.fr
5	Jim Wright	Univ. Georgia	USA	jwright@gly.uga.edu	Keynote talk. Late Cretaceous subduction initiation on the southern margin of the Caribbean plateau:  One Great arc of the Caribbean (?)
6	David Buchs	Australian National University	Switzerland · Australia	david.buchs@anu.edu.au	Arc initiation and margin development in South Central America
7	Jim Pindell	Tectonic Analysis	USA · UK	jim@tectonicanalysis.com	Keynote talk. Two-stage Neogene model for the Panama-Colombia collision.
8	Luis Santamaria Vallejo	Instituto de Geociencias	Panama	luissanta@cwpanama.net	An attempt to estimate block rotations and mapping remanent magnetizacion using aeromagnetics data in Panama.
9	Manuel Francisco Colaço de Castro Pereira	Departamento de Geociências, Universidade de Évora	Portugal	mpereira@uevora.pt	The role of the Ibero-Armorican Arc development in the tectonic inversion of the South-Portuguese Zone (SW Iberian Massif, Variscan Orogeny)
10	Arlo B. Weil	Bryn Mawr College	USA	aweil@brynmawr.edu	Developing robust kinematic and mechanical models for complex curved orogens using a multidisciplinary approach: an example from the North American Cordilleran
11	Gabriel Gutierrez-Alonso	Univ. Salamanca	Spain	gabi@usal.es	Why 307? Absolute age (Ar-Ar and U-Pb) constrains on orocline development and related lithospheric delamination in the Iberian Armorican Arc
12	Isaac Corral Calleja	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	Spain	isaac.corral@uab.cat	Onset and evolution of the western Panamian volcanic arc: Stratigraphy, tectonic and geochemistry
13	Peter Baumgartner	Institut de Géologie et Paléontologie, Université de Lausanne	Switzerland	Peter.Baumgartner@unil.ch	Keynote talk. Jurassic-Cretaceous accretion-subduction records in the Caribbean Plate North of the CLIP (Nicaragua, Costa Rica)
14	Stewart D. Redwood	Consulting economic geologist	Panama (resident)	stewart@sredwood.com	Metallgenesis and arc evolution of Panama and NW Colombia
15	Antonio Garcia-Casco	Univ. Granada	Spain	agcasco@ugr.es
16	Uwe Claus Martens	University of Stanford	Colombia · USA	umartens@stanford.edu
17	David Farris	Florida State University	USA	farris@gly.fsu.edu	Canal Zone volcanic rocks and the tectonic evolution of the Panama arc
18	German Bayona	Corporación Ares	Colombia	gbayona@cgares.org	Paleomagnetism in Panama: What we have learnt and what is next for research.
19	Claudio Gonzalez	Minera Panamá S.A	Costa Rica	Claudio.gonzalezs@minerapanama.com
20	Camilo Montes	Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute	Colombia · Panama	montesc@si.edu	Keynote. Tectonic Evolution of Panamá and northern Colombia basins
21	Sergio A. Restrepo-Moreno	Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama · University of Florida	Colombia · USA	sergiorm@ufl.edu	Low-temperature Thermochronology in Panama and Western Colombia: Tracing Morphotectonic Response to an Arc-Continent Collisional Event.
22	Cesar Silva	Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute	Colombia · Panama	silvac@si.edu	Vertical axis rotations and latitudinal translations of the Panama orocline
23	Agustin Cardona	Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute	Colombia · Panama	cardonaa@si.edu	Neogene vulcanism in the southwestern South Caribbean deformed belt: preliminary data from the Sinu belt, Colombia
24	Rory Mcfadden	Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute	Panama	mcfaddenr@si.edu
25	Diego Ramirez	Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute	Panama	ramirezd2@si.edu
26	Jhon Ortiz	Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute	Panama	ortizj@si.edu
27	Austin Hendy	Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute	Panama	hendya@si.edu
28	Catalina Suarez	Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute	Panama	suarezs@si.edu
29	Antony Coates	Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Scientific Staff emeritus		acoates@biomuseopanama.org
30	Carlos Jaramillo	Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute	Panama	jaramilloc@si.edu
31	Andres Baresch	Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute	Panama	barescha@si.edu
32	Colin Burge	MINERA PANAMA SA. INMET MINING CORP, Vancouver	Canada	Colin.Burge@minerapanama.com
33	Carlos Alberto Borrero	Caldas University	Colombia	Borrero_c@yahoo.com
34	Stephen T. Johnston	Univ. Victoria	Canada	stj@uvic.ca	Keynote talk. Palinspastic restoration of bends of the Panamanian Isthmus: Implications for interpretation of bends of orogenic belts
35	Vladimir Zapata			barescha@si.edu
36	Javier Alfonso Tamara Guevara			javier.tamara@ecopetrol.com.co
37	Pedro David Gómez Gutiérrez			pedroda.gomez@ecopetrol.com.co
38	Freddy Mauricio Niño Rodriguez			freddy.nino@ecopetrol.com.co

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We look forward to seeing you in Panama in 2010!

last modified: 04.22.10 16:06 +0200