IGCP 433 Reports

Caribbean Plate Tectonics
Meetings and Field Trips for IGCP-433
2004 2003 2002 2001 2000

Year 2004

  • March 1-7, 2004, Field workshop in Costa Rica - Geology of the Pacific Margin of the Caribbean Plate.
    Workshop report is available as PDF or MS Word file. Photos are coming soon.
    Field trip guide is available.
    Announcement.
    Monday 1st, March: We will meet at 10: a.m in the auditory of the School of Geology, University of Costa Rica in San Pedro de Montes de Oca, Tels: (506) 2257941, (506) 2075625, (506) 2074230 , Fax (506) 2342347.

  • August, 2004, Florence, Italy
    Report on the Symposium G20.11 "Caribbean Plate Tectonics" in Florence, August 20-28, 2004
    ANNOUNCEMENT - September 10, 2003
    Announcement -June 16, 2003
    Session information (March 10, 2003)
    The Final Scientific and Business Meeting of the IGCP Project 433 will be held in Florence (Italy 2004) during the celebration of the 32° International Geological Congress as General Symposium G.20.11-Regional Geology: "Caribbean Plate Tectonic origin and evolution". Conveners: Manuel Iturralde-Vinent and Giuseppe Giunta. For additional information about the congress please visit: http://www.32igc.org.
    As usual, your abstracts are to be sent to the scientific committee of the Congress, indicating your intention to participate in the General Symposium G20.8.
    The scientific committee of the congress would like to start the preparation of the program, so we are kindly requested to fill the congress' questionnaire TO BE FOUND AT http://www.32igc.org The deadline to fill the questionaire was August 31, 2002 , so please, reply as soon as possible, to avoid that the symposium to be cancelled. The First circular of the Congress can be visit at THE SAME WEB SITE

Year 2003

Year 2002

  • 2002 January: WG/IGCP 433 and 2nd Italian-LatinAmerican Meeting and field trip on the Motagua Suture Zone of Guatemala, with the collaboration of the Sociedad de Geologos de Guatemala, etc. Contact Giuseppe Giunta of the Italian CaribPT group for more information.
    Report.

  • 16-21 June, 2002: The 16 Caribbean Geological Conference, Barbados.
    Report. Contact Manuel Iturralde-Vinent (iturralde@mnhnc.inf.cu) for more information.

  • September 20, 2002. AUSTIN, TEXAS, USA.
    IGCP P433: Contributions of the University of Texas to the understanding of the Caribbean Plate Tectonics. IGCP Project 433 Scientific Meeting at Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin. Report.

Year 2001

  • 4th Cuban geological and Mining Congress, La Habana, March 19-23
    Field workshop of IGCP Project 433
    The Northern Boundary of the Caribbean Realm (Report)
    A symposium and field workshop on the Northern Caribbean Boundary was held in Havana, Cuba, on March 19-27, 2001, as part of the 4th Cuban Geological and Mining Congress.
    A. Scientific meeting with oral/poster presentations March 22-23
    B. Field trip the central Cuba: Transect of the northern Caribbean boundary zone - March 24-27.

  • Report for the Workshop on the Geochemistry of the Caribbean Plateau and Cretaceous Island Arc Terranes, and Their Implications for the Geodynamics of the Caribbean
    An informal workshop hosted by the Caribbean Research Group at Leicester University on 23-24 April 2001.

  • 7th North American Paleontological Convention, June 26-July 1, 2001 at Univ. of California, Berkeley's Clark Kerr Campus
    Workshop of the UNESCO/IUGS IGCP Project 433
    Caribbean Mesozoic Biogeography: Paleontological Constraints to the Formation and Early Evolution of the Caribbean Seaway
    Iturralde, "Jurassic paleogeography and biogeography of west-central Pangaea: Some preliminary notes"

  • 2001 September: Field trip of the Italian Ofioliti Group on the Betic (Spain) and Rif (Maroc), to discuss the westward ending of the Tethys toward the Caribbean. (Contact Giuseppe Giunta of the Italian CaribPT group for more information.)

  • Topical Session 3: "Focus on IGCP: Modern and Ancient Plate Boundaries and Orogens," Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America in Boston, Nov 4 to 8, 2001. IGCP Project 433 report

Year 2000

  • 31st IGC, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, August 7 and 8.
    First scientific and business meeting of IGCP Project 433.
    State of the Art of the Caribbean Plate Tectonic Modeling
    Visit the report of the conference at 31stIGC IGCP-433 meeting.

  • Geology of Latin America, Stuttgart, October 11-13
    Scientific session of the IGCP Project 433
    Geology and Tectonics of the Caribbean Plate
    For information, please visit www.geologie.uni-stuttgart.de/LAK
    Visit the report of the conference at IGCP-433 meeting in Stuttgart.

Join the Caribbean Plate Origin discussion group and read past postings at http://www.eGroups.com/list/carib/
Manuel Iturralde-Vinent
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (http://www.cuba.cu/ciencia/citma/ama/museo/index_ma.htm)
Obispo No. 61, Plaza de Armas CH 10100
La Habana Vieja
Cuba
Fax (537) 862-0353
Email: iturralde@mnhnc.inf.cu
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