Cuba 2007 21-27 March. Field Workshop "Caribbean Geology": Heating up the engine.

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Intro

The event, Field Workshop "Caribbean Geology", took place few days after the IGCP project 546 was approved. It was planned by mid-2006, well in advance of the submission of the project to the IGCP. However, we considered it appropriate to include it as the first activity of the project as much as it was devoted to the geological correlation between Cuba and Central America.

The event was part of the "Second Cuban Convention of Earth Sciences" (Segunda Convención Cubana de Ciencas de la Tierra, SCCCT), which embraced a number of congresses including the VII Cuban Geological Congress. It was held in the Convention Palace, Havana.

Workshop

The workshop consisted in two parts:

Part one. Session GEO10 of the SCCCT, held on March 21 (poster) and 23 (oral) 2007 was convened by M.A. Iturralde-Vinent and A. García-Casco, and K. Núñez Cambra (oral) and Y. Rojas-Agramonte (poster) acted as secretaries. About 60 persons attended the session. The following contributions were presented to the session:

ORAL

  • 09:00 GEO10-O1 PRINCIPALES EVENTOS TECTÓNICOS DE LA PLACA DEL CARIBE Y SU ENTORNO. Manuel A. Iturralde-Vinent. Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Cuba

  • 09:20 GEO10-O2 CARIBEANA, A POSSIBLE SOLUTION TO A LONG STANDING PUZZLE: THE CARIBBEAN LATEST CRETACEOUS TECTONIC EVENTS. Antonio García Casco. Universidad de Granada. Spain

  • 09:40 GEO10-O3 IMPLICACIONES GEODINÁMICAS SOBRE LAS EDADES EXISTENTES DE ZIRCONES EN CUBA. Yamirka Rojas Agramonte. Instituto Superior Minero Metalúrgico. Cuba-Germany

  • 10:00 GEO10-O4 THE LA COREA MÉLANGE (EASTERN CUBA) REVISITED: NEW PETROLOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND GEODYNAMIC SIGNIFICANCE. Idael Blanco Quintero. Instituto Superior Minero Metalúrgico. Cuba-Spain

  • 10:20 GEO10-O5 ASSEMBLAGES OF PLATINUM GROUP MINERALS IN THE SAGUA DE TÁNAMO CHROMITE DISTRICT (EASTERN CUBA): GENETIC AND TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS. J. M. González Jiménez. Universidad de Granada. Spain

  • 10:40 GEO10-O6 CARIBBEAN BASEMENT ROCKS AND PLATE TECTONICS. James Pindell, Tectonic Analisys, UK.

  • 11:00 GEO10-O7 LARAMIDIC-AGE PLUTONISM IN THE GUERRERO TERRANE, SOUTHERN MEXICO: SOME TECTONIC AND METALLOGENIC IMPLICATIONS. P. Corona-Chávez, Univ. Michoacán, Mexico

  • 11:20 GEO10-O8 IMPORTANCIA DEL COMPORTAMIENTO VISCOSO DE LA CAPA DE DECOLLEMENT EN EL DESARROLLO DE ESTRUCTURAS DURANTE ACORTAMIENTO INTENSO Y MODERADO. Mariano Cerca. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Mexico

POSTER

  • GEO10-P10 THE INVOLVEMENT OF NORTH-AMERICAN AND ATLANTIC SEDIMENTS IN THE SOURCES OF CRETACEOUS ISLAND ARC VOLCANICS FROM NORTHEASTERN CUBA: TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS. Joaquín .A. Proenza. Universidad de Barcelona. Spain

  • GEO10-P11 EVOLUCIÓN DE LA CUENCA DEL MARGEN CONTINENTAL PARA LA REGIÓN QUE OCUPA LA SIERRA DEL ROSARIO. Carlos Sosa Meizoso. CEINPET. Cuba.

  • GEO10-P12 MODELO ESTUCTURAL PARA EL EMPLAZAMIENTO DE LAS ROCAS OFIOLITICAS EN CUBA ORIENTAL. Kenya Nuñez Cambra. IGP. Cuba.

  • GEO10-P13 REINTERPRETACIÓN DE LA FORMACIÓN ARROYO CANGRE A LA LUZ DEL ANÁLISIS ESTRUCTURAL. Dámaso Cáceres Govea. Universidad de Pinar del Río. Cuba.

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Part two. Field trip to Western Cuba, held on March 24-27 2007, leaded by M.A. Iturralde-Vinent. The programe included:

  • Day 1. From Havana to Varadero, Herradura Hotel. Localities of the Cretaceous arc and ophiolites along the road from Habana to Matanzas.

  • Day 2. Matanzas to Pinar del Río Hotel. Localities of the Cretaceous arc and ophiolites along the road from Mariel to Pinar del Río.

  • Day 3. Pinar del Río Hotel. Localities of the Jurassic-Cretaceous passive margin and Paleogene foreland sections near Viñales.

  • Day 4. From Pinar to Havana along the Carretera de Montaña. Visit to the contact between the Mesozoic continental margin and the allochthonous Cajalbana ophiolites. ProtoCaribbean and Paleogene foreland sections in Sierra del Rosario.

The following persons attended the field trip:

Manuel Iturralde Vinent (Cuba), Antonio Garcia Casco (Spain), José María González Jiménez (Spain), Pedro Corona Chavez (Mexico), Juan Carlos Salinas (Mexico), Mariano Cerca (Mexico), Dora Correon (Mexico), James Pindel (UK), Claudia Ruiz-Graham  (Colombia-England), Miguel Guerrero Muñoz (Malaysia-Mexico), and Othman Ali B Mahmud (Malaysia).

Download field trip guide to Western Cuba (by M. Iturralde)

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