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	Abstracts Oral Session: T11D, MW:3018, Monday. "Caribbean Subduction Zones: Past and Present I", or: Session Information.
	Abstracts Poster Session: T13C, MS:Exh Hall B, Monday. "Caribbean Subduction Zones: Past and Present II", or: Session Information.

Session title and aim

T29 Caribbean subduction zones – Past and Present

This session is devoted to understanding ancient and currently active subduction and collisional processes in the Caribbean realm, and their bearing on convergent-margin processes. The present Central American and Antillean subduction zones, and remnants of subducted 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 subductions mélanges are welcome. We especially encourage contributions establishing links, contrasts and correlations among current and fossil subduction zones in the Caribbean area.

This session will include, but not be limited to, results from IGCP Project 546 “Subduction Zones of the Caribbean”.

Keywords

1031 3613 8170: Subduction Zones processes.

8021 Mélanges

8104 Convergent margins

Call for papers

Our session proposal "Caribbean Subduction Zones - Past and Present" for the upcoming 2007 AGU Fall Meeting, which will take place right after the IGCP546 field trip to Guatemala, was approved by the Fall Meeting Program Committee and is already listed on the AGU Web site:

http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm07/  (follow >> Preplanned Sessions >> Sponsor: Tectonophysics)

or go directly to:

http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm07/?content=search&show=detail&sessid=387

We invite you to present 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 complexes are welcome. We especially encourage contributions establishing links, contrasts and correlations among current and fossil subduction zones in the Caribbean area.

Please, note that the abstract submission deadline is 6 September 2007, 23.59 Universal Time. THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT OUR SESSION WILL BE SCHEDULED AS AN ORAL SESSION, but the higher the number of abstracts submitted, the greater the possibility. So, we are asking you to submit abstracts for our session and promote it to your colleagues and students.

Useful Links

2007 AGU Fall Meeting website

Abstract Submissions

Free abstract submission for 'Low Income' or 'Lower Middle Income' Countries

Registration

Student Travel Grants

Deadlines and schedules

6 September. Abstract Deadline for Electronic Submissions – No Exceptions!

15-16 October. Acceptance letters sent to Presenters and Session Chairs. Program Posted on AGU Web Site.

2 November. Pre-Registration Deadline (after this date registration rates will increase).

9 November. Last Day to Register Before the Meeting and the Housing Deadline.

10-14 December. 2007 Fall Meeting in San Francisco.

Invited talks

Gary Ernst (Metamorphic Petrology) Progress in our Understanding of High- and Ultrahigh-pressure Metamorphism.

Paul Mann (Tectonics) Subduction Along the South Caribbean Deformed Belt: Age of Initiation and Backthrust Origin.

Joerg Geldmacher (Igneous Petrology) Geochemical Constraints on the pre-Cenozoic Subduction History of two Margins of the Chortis Block (Northern Central America).

Abstracts submitted

Oral Session. See: T11D, MW:3018, Monday. "Caribbean Subduction Zones: Past and Present I", or: Session Information.

Poster Session. See: T13C, MS:Exh Hall B, Monday. "Caribbean Subduction Zones: Past and Present II", or: Session Information.

We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco in December!

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