Workshop "Subduction Zones of the Caribbean". Dedicated to the memory of Professor Wayne Jolly, who passed away on February 9, 2008, and greatly contributed to the Geology and Petrology of volcanic arc rocks of the northeast Antilles.

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The Workshop "Suduction Zones 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. The main aim of the Workshop is the systematic characterization and comparison of 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.

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

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The present Central American and Antillean subduction zones, and remnants of subducted Mesozoic and Tertiary 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 active and ancient subduction zones in the Caribbean area.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

Abstracts (in English or Spanish) shall be submitted ready for publication in electronic format (.rtf .doc). Abstracts should have between 250 and 450 words and may include an inserted figure in gif format optimized for the web. The size of the abstract, including text and/or figure, should not exceed an 8.5 " x 11" (21,59 x 27,94 cm) page. The margins should be one inch. No corrections will be introduced to the abstracts. The text shall be written with font type ARIAL, Size10, justify alignment, single spaced lines. The names of the authors in upper and lower case. Underline the name of the author who will present the paper. The name of the institutions in upper and lower case should include the address and electronic mail. Leave one line blank between the institution list and the main text of the abstract, as well as between the title and the author list.

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Manuel F. Arrizaga
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(1) Instituto de Geofísica y Astronomía, Calle 212 No 2906 esq. Ave 29, La Lisa, La
Habana, Cuba. ZIP 11 600 E-mail: arec@iga.cu; (2) Instituto Superior Politécnico "José
A. Echeverría", 124 s/n, Marianao 15, La Habana, Cuba. E-mail: sss@aaa.uu
 
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REGISTRATION
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DEADLINE
31 December 2008.

DATE
18-19 March

PUBLICATION
Communications presented in the Workshop will be suitable for publication in a Special Issue "Subduction Zones of the Caribbean" of Geologica Acta edited by Antonio García-Casco, Manuel Iturralde-Vinent and Joaquín Proenza. If you are interested in publishing your work in this Special Issue, please send us an email. We shall send you instructions.

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FUNDING
Funds provided by IUGS-UNESCO to IGCP 546 (ca. 4000 USD) 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 March 2009, we will probably not have the chance to support attendance in advance. Anyway, we shall send funds after the meeting. Contact Antonio García-Casco for application.

ORAL SESSION I. March 18, 2009, ROOM #8
INTRODUCTION TO SESSION	Antonio García Casco	Universidad de Granada	Spain	9:00	9:20
MINERALOGY AND MINERAL CHEMISTRY OF THE MONTE DEL ESTADO AND RIO GUANAJIBO PERIDOTITES, SW PUERTO RICO	Wayne Jolly (by John Lewis)	University of Washington	USA	9:20	9:40
FROM THE “HISPANIC CORRIDOR” TO THE CARIBBEAN SEAWAY: PLATE TECTONICS AND PALEOCEANOGRAPHY OF THE MESOZOIC TETHYS – PROTO-CARIBBEAN CONNECTION	Peter O. Baumgartner	Université Lausanne	Switzerland	9:40	10:00
MESOZOIC TO EOCENE PLATE TECTONIC OF THE CIRCUM PACIFIC AREA: NEW CONSTRAINTS ON FAR TRAVEL EXOTIC TERRANES, SUBDUCTION ZONE MELANGES AND ARC-ARC COLLISIONS	Kennet Reyes Flores	Université Lausanne	Switzerland	10:00	10:20
PALAEOMAGNETISM OF THE CENTRAL CUBAN CRETACEOUS ARC SEQUENCES AND GEODYNAMIC IMPLICATIONS	Jennifer Tait	University of Edinburgh	UK	10:20	10:40
TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION OF THE PANAMA-NW COLOMBIA MARGIN: NEW CONSTRAINTS FROM GEOLOGICAL MAPPING, GEOCHRONOLOGY, GEOCHEMISTRY AND PALEOMAGNETISM	Camilo Montes	Smithsonian Institution	Panama	10:40	11:00
FORMATION OF GRANITOID CRUST IN ISLAND ARC SETTINGS: INSIGHTS FROM CENTRAL-WESTERN PANAMA	Agustín Cardona	Smithsonian Institution	Panama	11:00	11:20
THE SANTA MARTA BATHOLITH: A COMBINED RECORD OF PALEOGENE COLLISION AND ONSET OF THE CARIBBEAN PLATE SUBDUCTION BENEATH THE NORTHERN MARGIN OF THE SOUTH AMERICAN PLATE	Jose Fernando Duque Trujillo	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Mexico	11:20	11:40
RIFT BASINS IN JAMAICA: SEDIMENTARY ARCHITECTURE AND BASIN DEVELOPMENT	Ryan Ramsook	University of the West Indies	Jamaica	11:40	12:00
Granitoids with a continental affinity from the NW wall of the Cayman Trench: Implications for Subduction Zone magmatism in the Cayman, Sierra Maestra, N Chortis Block and Nicaraguan Rise	John Lewis	University of Washington.	USA	12:00	12:20
GEOCHEMISTRY AND SHRIMP ZIRCON AGES OF GRANITOID ROCKS FROM THE NORTHERN OPHIOLITE MÉLANGE OF CENTRAL CUBA	Yamirka Rojas Agramonte	Instituto Superior Minero Metalúrgico	Cuba	12:20	12:40
PLUME MAGMATISM INDUCED BY SLAB ROLLBACK: TRACE ELEMENT AND ISOTOPIC INSIGHTS FROM THE LATEST CRETACEOUS CARIBBEAN ISLAND-ARC IN HISPANIOLA	Javier Escuder Viruete	Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME)	Spain	12:40	13:00
CORTEZA TERRESTRE PROFUNDA EN EL CARIBE OCCIDENTAL (I): REGIONALIZACIÓN DE LOS CAMPOS GRAVIMÉTRICO, ISOSTÁTICO Y MAGNÉTICO EN CUBA	José L. Cuevas Ojeda	IGA	Cuba	13:00	13:20
GENERAL SCIENTIFIC DEBATE				13:20	14:00
ORAL SESSION II. March 19, 2009, ROOM #8
LATE CRETACEOUS TECTONIC INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE SOUTH AMERICAN PLATE AND THE CARIBBEAN ARC: INSIGHTS FROM THE MAGMATIC AND METAMORPHIC RECORD OF THE GUAJIRA REGION, NORTHERN COLOMBIA	Marion Weber	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Colombia	9:00	9:20
PRESSURE-TEMPERATURE AND TIME CONSTRAINS FOR HIGH PRESSURE METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS FROM NORTHERNMOST COLOMBIA – CARIBBEAN REGION	Mónica Janeth Tobón Mazo	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Colombia	9:20	9:40
COASTAL CRETACEOUS METAMORPHIC COMPLEXES OF THE SIERRA NEVADA DE SANTA MARTA: A RECCORD OF COLLISION AND SUBDUCTION	Agustín Cardona	Smithsonian Institution	Panama	9:40	10:00
BLUESCHIST AND ASSOCIATED GRAPHITE-SCHIST BLOCKS IN THE FRANCISCAN MELANGE, SAN SIMEON, CALIFORNIA	Estibalitz Ukar	University of Texas	USA	10:00	10:20
LATE CRETACEOUS CONTINENTAL SUBDUCTION OF NORTH AMERICA'S SOUTHERNMOST BASEMENT	Uwe Martens	University of Stanford	USA	10:20	10:40
ESTRUCTURA GEOLÓGICA Y FASES DE DEFORMACIÓN EN EL ÁREA LA SIERRITA, CÚPULA DE TRINIDAD, MACIZO ESCAMBRAY, CUBA CENTRAL.	Ana Ibis Despaigne Díaz	Universidad de Pinar del Río	Cuba	10:40	11:00
GEOCHEMISTRY AND AGE OF AMPHIBOLITES AND GRANITIC-GNEISSIC ROCKS OF THE MABUJINA COMPLEX AND OF THE MANICARAGUA BATHOLITH (CENTRAL CUBA)	Sandra Carrasquilla Ortiz	Universidad de Granada	Spain	11:00	11:20
NUEVOS CRITERIOS ACERCA DE LAS CARACTERISTICAS SISMOGEODINAMICAS DEL EXTREMO NORORIENTAL DE CUBA.	Enrique Diego Arango Arias	CENAIS	Cuba	11:20	11:40
P-T PATHS OF AMPHIBOLITE BLOCKS FROM LA COREA MELANGE (EASTERN CUBA)	Idael F Blanco Quintero	Universidad de Granada	Cuba	11:40	12:00
U-Pb CONSTRAINTS ON THE TIMING OF IGNEOUS AND METAMORPHIC EVENTS IN THE RIO SAN JUAN COMPLEX, NORTHERN HISPANIOLA	Javier Escuder Viruete	Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME)	Spain	12:00	12:20
COMPOSITIONAL HETEROGENEITY IN LOMA CARIBE MANTLE PERIDOTITES, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC:  A RESULT OF SUBDUCTION-MANTLE PLUME INTERACTION?	John Lewis	University of Washington.	USA	12:20	12:40
A NEW JADEITITE JADE LOCALITY (SIERRA DEL CONVENTO, CUBA): FIRST REPORT AND SOME PETROLOGICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS	Antonio García Casco	Universidad de Granada	Spain	12:40	13:00
JADEITITES IN THE CARIBBEAN CONTEXT:  RECORDERS OF TECTONIC PROCESS, SUBDUCTION FLUID COMPOSITION AND PRE-COLUMBIAN CULTURAL CONNECTIONS	George E. Harlow	American Museum of Natural History	USA	13:00	13:20
GENERAL SCIENTIFIC DEBATE				13:20	14:00
POSTER SESSION, March 18, 2009, ROOM #12 (AFTERNOON)
LA SUTURA SEPTENTRIONAL EN CUBA CENTRAL	Luís R. Bernal	IGP	Cuba
THERMAL EVOLUTION, AGE AND TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS OF LA COREA MELANGE (EASTERN CUBA)	Idael F Blanco Quintero	Universidad de Granada	Cuba
THE COMPOSITION OF CHROMITE FROM SERPENTINITES IN LA COREA MÉLANGE (EASTERN CUBA): A RECORD OF FORE ARC PERIDOTITES IN THE SUBDUCTION COMPLEX	Idael F Blanco Quintero	Universidad de Granada	Cuba
SIMILITUD Y DIFERENCIAS ENTRE LAS UNIDADES PINO SOLO, MESTANZA, CERRO DE CABRAS Y EL MANTO ALTURAS DE PIZARRAS DEL SUR. CLAVE PARA EL DESCIFRAMIENTO METAMÓRFICO	Dámaso Cáceres Govea	Universidad de Pinar del Río	Cuba
PETROGRAPHIC AND GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF JADEITITE JADE FROM THE SIERRA DEL CONVENTO SUBDUCTION MELANGE (EASTERN CUBA)	Juan Cárdenas Párraga	Universidad de Granada	Spain
PALEOCENE - MIDDLE EOCENE EVENTS IN CUBA. CONSTRAINS FOR THE CARIBBEAN - NORTHAMERICAN PLATES BOUNDARY HISTORY	Jorge L. Cobiella Reguera	Universidad de Pinar del Río	Cuba
METAMORFISMO DE ALTA PRESIÓN DE LAS ROCAS DE FACIE ESQUISTOS VERDES EN EL MACIZO ESCAMBRAY. EVIDENCIAS DE SUBDUCCIÓN Y ACRECIÓN DURANTE EL CRETÁCICO TARDÍO EN LA PLACA CARIBE	Ana Ibis Despaigne Díaz	Universidad de Pinar del Río	Cuba
PROPOSAL FOR THE DECLARATION OF GEOLOGICAL HERITAGE FOR A BLOCK OF ECLOGITE, SANTA CLARA PROVINCE, CUBA	Antonio García Casco	Universidad de Granada	Spain
IDENTIFICACIÓN NO DESTRUCTIVA DE JADE EN OBJETOS ARQUEOLÓGICOS: ESTUDIO DE IDOLILLOS DE ABORÍGENES TAÍNOS	Manuel Iturralde Vinent	MNHN Cuba	Cuba
A TECTONO-STRATIGRAPHIC MAP OF THE CARIBBEAN BASIN – A PROGESS REPORT	Carl Nelson	Recursos del Caribe, S.A.	USA
NUEVOS APORTES A LA ESTRUCTURA TECTÓNICA Y GEODINAMICA DE LA REGION NORORIENTAL DE CUBA	Kenya Núñez Cambra	IGP	Cuba
DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE SAN CAYETANO FORMATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE JURASSIC PALEOGEOGRAPHY OF THE NW PROTO-CARIBBEAN	Yamirka Rojas Agramonte	Instituto Superior Minero Metalúrgico	Cuba

We look forward to seeing you in Cuba in March 2009!

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