Field Trip

13-25 March 2009. Workshop "Subduction Zones of the Caribbean", associated Field Trip "Subduction and arc complexes of central Cuba", and pre-Congress Course "Metamorphic Petrology as a Geodynamic Tool".

Field Trip "Subduction and arc complexes of central Cuba".

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General

Sketch, geological, and geographical maps and program

Detailed program

Photographs

Field Trip Guide ( 6.5 Mb)

GENERAL

Because Cuba records the tectonic interactions of the Caribbean and North American plates since the Early Cretaceous until the late Eocene, the study of these processes and materials in Cuba is one of the major targets of IGCP 546. The Field Trip "Subduction and arc complexes of central Cuba" will serve as the basis for the description of the geologic architecture of the Cretaceous plate margin and the latest-Cretaceous Tertiary orogenic belt and associated basins in the region, with special focus on high pressure complexes (tectonic blocks of serpentinite mélanges of the "northern ophiolite belt", Escambray complex), obducted low-P ophiolitic bodies ("northern ophiolite belt"), and the deep metamorphic roots of the Cretaceous volcanic arc (Mabujina amphibolite complex).

Info by Geociencias 2009

DATE
21-25 March 2009. Departure: 8 am 21 March, Hotel Palco, Havana.

LEADERS
Antonio García Casco (Univ. Granada, Spain)
Manuel Iturralde Vinent (Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Cuba)

COST
The cost of the field trip is 210.00 CUC (1 US Dollar, Euro, British Pound = ca. 0.9, 1.3, 1.6 CUC, respectively, but check recent rates: Banco Central de Cuba). This fare includes:

- Bus: 60.00 CUC/person

- Hotel Brisas del Marin, Santa Clara (including breakfast and dinner) 120.00 CUC (3 nights, 21-23 March).

- Hotel Hanabanilla (including breakfast and dinner) 30.00 CUC (1 night, 24 March).

TRAVEL
Organizers will arrange a single small bus for the whole trip (Havana - Santa Clara - Hotel Hanabanilla - Havana). Due to administrative problems, you are not welcome to rent your own car.

ATTENDANCE
30 persons (small bus). Preference will be given to authors of abstracts presented to the associated IGCP 546 Workshop.

PRE-BOOKING
We need an estimation of potential attendees in advance. Please send Antonio García-Casco an email if you plan to attend the field trip.

PRE-BOOKED ATTENDEES (BY 09.28.21)

Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte - Mainz University

John Lewis - University of Washington. jlewis@gwu.edu

Carl Nelson - Recursos del Caribe, S.A. Boulder, Colorado. CNelson945@aol.com

Mary Leech (+student) - Department of Geosciences. San Francisco State University. leech@sfsu.edu.

Esti Ukar - PhD Student. Dept. Geological Sciences, U. Austin, Texas. esti.ukar@gmail.com

Agustín Cardona – Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancon, Panama. cardonaa@si.edu

Kennet Reyes Flores - Institut de Géologie et Paléontologie, Université de Lausanne. kennet.floresreyes@unil.ch

Sandra Carrasquilla Ortiz - PhD Student, Departamento de Mineralogía y Petrología, Universidad de Granada. sandra.carrasquilla@gmail.com

Juan Cárdenas Párraga - Graduate student, Departamento de Mineralogía y Petrología, Universidad de Granada. kiforia@hotmail.com

Idael Francisco Blanco Quintero - PhD Student. Departamento de Mineralogía y Petrología, Universidad de Granada. blanco@ugr.es

Marion Weber - Escuela de Geociencias y Medio Ambiente, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. mweber@unalmed.edu.co

Uwe Martens - Department of Geological & Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, umartens@stanford.edu

George Harlow –Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Division of Physical Sciences, American Museum of Natural History. gharlow@amnh.org

Philippe Bouysse - Commission de la Carte Géologique du Monde. ccgm@club-internet.fr

Javier Escuder Viruete - Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME). j.escuder@igme.es

Mónica Janeth Tobón Mazo - MSc Student, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede de Medellín. monicatobon@gmail.com

Peter O. Baumgartner - Institut de Géologie et Paléontologie, Université de Lausanne. Peter.Baumgartner@unil.ch

Camilo Montes, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá. MontesC@si.edu

Jose Duque - MSc Student, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. jduquetr@gmail.com

Claude Rangin

Martinez Reyes (UNAM)

Rauno Baese - Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie und Geophysik, Ruhr-University Bochum. rauno.baese@rub.de.

Volker Schenk - Institut für Geowissenschaften, Abteilung Mineralogie - Petrologie (Institute of Geosciences, Mineralogy Dept.), Kiel University, Germany, vs@min.uni-kiel.de

REGISTRATION
Send an email to geociencias@igp.gms.minbas.cu (Kenya Nuñez Cambra) to ask for detailed instructions.

ACCOMMODATION
Days 21-23 Santa Clara Libre Hotel (Santa Clara). Day 24: Hanabanailla Hotel (Hanabanilla Damp, west of Manicaragua). Reservations will be made based on your request of double or single room. The price of accommodation in these hotels will be arranged by the organizers. We will keep you posted.

FOOD
Booking will include breakfast in the hotels. All attendants must take care of their own lunch (to be held every day in the field) and dinner. Dinner offered by hotels is more expensive than (and probably not as good as) those of (legal) private restaurants and rent houses. In the latter, a good dinner will cost around 10-15 CUC/person (drinks will certainly increase the cost in any case!).

VISA
Visitors from most countries need a tourist visa to Cuba. But please check with the Ministry of Foreign Relations (MINREX) and/or your local Cuban embassy. Nationals of the USA are subject to the Cuban assets control regulations from US Government. US law enforcement authorities have increased enforcement of these regulations at US airports and pre-clearance facilities in third countries. If you need an official invitation letter, please email Antonio García-Casco or Manuel Iturralde-Vinent.

FUNDING
Our intention is to pay as much as possible of the costs of the field-trip through our IGCP 546 funds. However, and based in our previous experience, IUGS may not have maid payment of the annual assignment by March. These funds will probably amount 4000 USD (as in the last two years) of which 2500 have been allocated to the trip. We are finding out a way to get this money in advance, so that the cost per person will be reduced a bit.

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Detailed PROGRAM

March 21

09.00. Departure from Convention Palace, Havana.

12.30. Arrival to Hotel Santa Clara Libre. Check-in and lunch. We suggest you take your own food from Havana.

14.30. A brief outline of the field-trip and documentation.

15.00. Departure from Hotel Santa Clara Libre.

15.30. Stop 1. Santa Clara-Camajaní road. Lomas de Santa Fe (N 22º 27′ 41.5″ - W 079º 46′ 32.4″). Deep seated Cretaceous sediments (Carmita Fm) of the Placetas belt of the Bahamian borderland. Relative autochtonous of the tectonic mélange of central Cuba. 40 min.

16.20. Stop 2. Santa Clara-Camajaní road. Crucero Carmita (N 22º 27′ 15.7″ - W 079º 47′ 35.7″). Tectonic mélange of central Cuba. Blocks low-pressure ophiolitic diabase and of eclogite and high-pressure mafic schists within serpentinite. 40 min.

17.10. Stop 3. Santa Clara-Camajaní road. Sagua la Chica river (N 22º 27′ 16.9″ - W 079º 47′ 44.2″). Tectonic mélange of central Cuba. Blocks of ophiolitic diabase, microgabbro and basalt within serpentinite. 40 min.

17.50. Departure to Santa Clara.

18.20. Arrival to Hotel Santa Clara Libre.

March 22

09.00. Departure from Hotel Santa Clara Libre.

09.20. Stop 4. Santa Clara-Camajaní road (N 22º 27′ 09.6″ - W 079º 52′ 22.2″). Matrix of the tectonic mélange of central Cuba. Brecciated serpentinite. 30 min.

10.00. Stop 5. Santa Clara-Camajaní road. Sabanas nuevas (N 22º 27′ 09.1″ - W 079º 49′ 33.5″). Tectonic mélange of central Cuba. Blocks of eclogite, retrogressed eclogite ("amphibolite"), and (rinds of) mafic-ultramafic schists within serpentinite. 40 min.

11.00. Stop 6. Santa Clara airport-Minerva road (N 22º 28′ 02.9″ - W 079º 49′ 28.5″). Tectonic mélange of central Cuba. Blocks of ophiolitic diabase within serpentinite. 30 min.

11.40. Stop 7. Santa Clara airport-Minerva road (N 22º 28′ 46.8″ - W 079º 50′ 46.1″). Tectonic mélange of central Cuba. Blocks of veined retrogressed eclogite. 40 min.

12.20. Lunch. 30 min.

13.00. Stop 8. Santa Clara airport-Minerva road (N 22º 29′ 56.4″ - W 079º 52′ 45.7″). Sediments of the Placetas belt of the Bahamian borderland. Relative autochtonous of the tectonic mélange of central Cuba. 20 min.

13.40. Stop 9. Santa Clara-Encrucijada road. Las Delicias (N 22º 32′ 20.3″ - W 079º 54′ 19.3″). Tectonic mélange of central Cuba. Blocks of eclogite, retrogressed eclogite, and veined retrogressed eclogite. 50 min.

14.40. Stop 10. Santa Clara-Encrucijada road. Crucero San Francisco (N 22º 33′ 9.76″ - W 079º 54′ 19.6″). Tectonic mélange of central Cuba. Blocks of retrogressed eclogite, actinolitite, and radiolarite. 50 min.

15.40. Departure to Santa Clara.

16.10. Arrival to Hotel Santa Clara Libre.

March 23

09.00. Departure from Hotel Santa Clara Libre.

09.45. Stop 11. Santa Clara-Placetas road. Sitio Potrero, outcrop in the railway close to the road (N 22º 19′ 44.2″ - W 079º 42′ 53.1″). Tectonic mélange of central Cuba. Ophiolitic banded gabbros and related rocks within serpentinite. 60 min.

10.55. Stop 12. Santa Clara-Placetas road (N 22º 23′ 06.7″ - W 079º 50′ 41.7″). Matrix of the tectonic mélange of central Cuba. Brecciated serpentinite. 15 min.

11.20. Stop 13. Santa Clara-Placetas road. Pelo Malo quarry (N 22º 23′ 42.5″ - W 079º 52′ 02.8″) . Tectonic mélange of central Cuba. Megablock of antigoritite. 40 min.

12.10. Lunch in Santa Clara. 30 min.

13.20. Stop 14. Santa Clara-Baez road. Small quarry (N 22º 19′ 55.5″ - W 079º 55′ 25.8″). Tectonic mélange of central Cuba. Blocks of deep-seated metaterrigenous material within serpentinite. 30 min.

13.50. Stop 15. Santa Clara-Baez road (N 22º 19′ 48.0″ - W 079º 55′ 23.6″). Tectonic mélange of central Cuba. Blocks of deep-seated metaterrigenous material within serpentinite. 30 min.

15.00. Stop 16. Santa Clara-Baez road. Boquerones (N 22º 21′ 53.9″ - W 079º 56′ 45.9″) Tectonic mélange of central Cuba. Blocks of metabasalt within serpentinite. 30 min.

15.30. Departure to Santa Clara.

16.10. Arrival to Hotel Santa Clara Libre.

March 24

09.00. Departure from Hotel Santa Clara Libre.

09.30. Stop 17. Santa Clara-Manicaragua road. Upper Cretaceous volcanic arc. La Bruja Formation. 40 min.

10.20. Stop 18. Santa Clara-Manicaragua road. West of Loma Sambumbia (N 22º 12′ 06.4″ - W 079º 59′ 37.2″). Pre-mid Albian primitive volcanic arc. Los Pasos Formation. 30 min.

11.10. Stop 19. Below bridge in Manicaragua (N 22º 09′ 32.3″ - W 079º 58′ 44.4″). Granitic rocks of the Upper Cretaceous Manicaragua batholith. 40 min.

12.00. Lunch in Manicaragua. 30 min.

12.50. Stop 20. Manicaragua-Jibacoa road. Loma Sijú (N 22º 05′ 35.8″ - W 079º 58′ 40.8″). Low-P amphibolite and granitic rocks of the Mabujina complex. 40 min.

13.50. Stop 21. Manicaragua-Jibacoa road (N 22º 01′ 27.4″ - W 079º 59′ 11.7″). HP impure marbles of the Escrabray complex. 40 min.

14.40. Stop 22. Jibacoa-Tope de Collantes road (N 22º 00′ 50.1″ - W 079º 59′ 11.7″). HP impure marbles of the Escambray complex. 20 min.

15.20. Stop 23. Jibacoa-Tope de Collantes road. NW of Loma del Soldado (N 21º 59′ 52.8″ - W 079º 58′ 46.0″). HP graphitic impure marbles of the Escambray complex. 15 min.

15.45. Stop 24. Jibacoa-Tope de Collantes road. SW of Sumidero de Jibacoa valley (N 21º 58′ 48.0″ - W 079º 59′ 00.2″). HP metaterrigenous material of the Escambray complex. 15 min.

17.00. Stop 25. Manicaragua-Hotel Hanabanilla road. Loma del Muerto (22º 07' 18.3'' - 080º 04' 43.0''). Low-P amphibolite and granitic rocks of the Mabujina complex. 30 min.

17.40. Stop 26. Manicaragua-Hotel Hanabanilla road. Hanabanilla Damp (22º 05' 45.1'' - 080º 03' 39.5'') . Low-P amphibolite and gneisses rocks of the Mabujina complex. 20 min.

18.10. Stop 27. Manicaragua-Hotel Hanabanilla road. Hanabanilla Damp (N 22º 05′ 25.6″ - W 080º 04′ 12.0″). Low-P amphibolite of the Mabujina complex. 20 min.

18.40. Stop 28. Hotel Hanabanilla (N 22º 05′ 16.3″ - W 080º 04′ 21.7″). Phyllites of the Escambray complex. 20 min.

19.00. Arrival to Hotel Hanabanilla.

March 25

09.00. Departure from Hotel Hanabanilla.

12.30. Arrival to Convention Palace, Havana.

PHOTOGRAPHS

Santa Clara. View of Santa Clara from Hotel Santa Clara Libre.