Course "Sedimentary Provenance Analysis and its bearing on subduction and strike-slip tectonics at the southwestern margin of the Caribbean"

 

Details

Date

May 1-18, 2009, Stanford, USA.

 

Contents

The goal of the short course will be to present a summary of the various high-pressure belts and magmatic arcs of Mesozoic and Tertiary age that have been identified along the Caribbean margin of Colombia and Venezuela. A critical review of the literature will be conducted and then summarized to gain a critical perspective of the tectonic evolution of the southwestern margin of the Caribbean plate. Furthermore, the series of lectures and discussions aims at comparing the tectonic evolution of the northern and southern margins of the Caribbean plate.

Provenance analysis of siliciclastic rocks is one among several powerful tools to unravel the tectonic history of subduction, accretion and magmatism in many areas of the world. Therefore, a second goal of this course is to introduce the students to the techniques of provenance analysis: sedimentary petrography, characterization of the heavy fraction, and detrital geochronology. The course will not only cover the theoretical aspects of these techniques, but includes a series of laboratory sections which will cover identification of minerals using energy dispersive spectrometry and geochronology of zircon by laser ablation inductively-coupled-plasma mass spectrometry.

 

Lecturer

Uwe Martens, Stanford

 

Financial support

Financial support for travel of students from South America to the Unites States has been granted by other sources. We have reserved 2000 USD to support boarding and local transportation of IGCP member attendants. Contact Uwe Martens (umartens@stanford.edu) for application.

 

 

 

We look forward to seeing you in Stanford in May 2009!

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