News
Central America: Geology, Resources, and Hazards - Editors: Jochen Bundschuh and Guillermo E. Alvarado
All findings and data published in Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program volumes from the Ocean Drilling Program are now available in digital format at http://www.odplegacy.org (click on Samples, data & publications). The second phase of the digitization project, to be completed by this fall, will bring the Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project series (Volumes 1-96) and other printed ODP and Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) reports online. The DSDP publications will be available at http://www.deepseadrilling.org.
News release.
IGCP project 546 on Subduction Zones of the Caribbean been funded. Project leaders are Antonio Garcia-Casco (agcasco@goliat.ugr.es) and Uwe Martens (umartens@stanford.edu).
Website: http://www.ugr.es/~agcasco/igcp546/
Field Trip and associated Workshop to the high-pressure complexes of Guatemala next December 3-9, 2007 -- http://www.ugr.es/~agcasco/igcp546/ (follow the "Activities" link).
New insights into Jurassic record of South America (Andes and Patagonia) - publication
Geological Society of America Special Paper on "Natural Hazards in El Salvador" - http://granite.geosociety.org/bookstore/default.asp?oID=0&catID=8&pID=SPE375
Time series of MODIS images showing oil spill slicks on Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela (cf. article by Chuanmin et al., 2003, EOS, v. 84, on. 33, August 19, 2003.
The International Lithosphere Programs (ILP) Task Group II-2 (Western Hemisphere) is nearing its end with the publication of Quaternary fault maps for ten countries in Central and South America. Reports are available from USGS websites.
The 15th CGC transactions are now available from UWI Press
(reference: Jackson, A.T. (Editor), 2002. Caribbean Geology into the Third Millennium: Transactions of the Fifteenth Caribbean Geological Conference. University of the West Indies Press, Jamaica, 279 pp.)
Table of contents.
"Caribbean Basins" (1999, Mann, P., editor, Sedimentary Basins of the World, Elsevier Science B.V., vol. 4, 699p.) is out of print but can be found through online book sellers.
"Active Strike-Slip and Collisional Tectonics of the Northern Caribbean Plate Boundary Zone" (edited by J.F. Dolan and P. Mann, published by GSA)
Meetings
Venezuelan Congress of Seismology and Seismic Engineering IX Congress
Caracas, Venezuela, 19-22 May, 2009
Third Circular
Program
"V Congreso Internacional de Minería, Petróleo & Energía"
Cartagena, Colombia
17-18 June 2009
V_Congreso_Agenda_Tematica_28-05-2009.pdf
V_Congreso_FORMULARIO_DE_INSCRIPCION_2009.pdf
V Congreso_Reservacion_Hotelera.pdf
"X Simposio Bolivariano - Exploracion Petrolera en las Cuencas Subandinas
Hilton Hotel Convention Center Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
26-29 July 2009
"Circum-Caribbean and North Andean Tectonomagmatic Evolution: Impacts on Palaeoclimate and Resource Formation" workshop
Convened by Andrew C Kerr, Alan Hastie & Iain Neill
Cardiff University, Wales, UK
Final Circular
2-3 September 2009
"Advances in the tectonic evolution of the Caribbean: A Colombian perspective"
XII Colombian Geological Congress.
Part of the activities of IGCP 546 "Subduction Zones of the Caribbean."
Third Circular
September 7-11, 2009
"Out of Africa: 140 years with Kevin Burke and Lewis Ashwal"
We invite you to join your friends and colleagues in celebrating the birthdays of Kevin Burke (80) and Lewis Ashwal (60) in the greatest scientific birthday meeting of all times in Johannesburg (15-19 November 2009)!
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
November 15-18, 2009
Registration form.
XII Congreso Geológico Chileno
Santiago, Chile
November 22-26, 2009
Other Caribbean Web Sites (note: links are blue but not underlined)
Tectonic Analysis - Jim Pindell's website.
IGCP project 524 on Arc-Continent Collision - http://wija.ija.csic.es/gt/IGCP524/. Project leaders are Denis Brown (dbrown@ija.csic.es) and Chi-Yue Huang (huangcy@mail.ncku.edu.tw).
http://www.iocaribegoos.org - The Global Ocean Observing System Regional Alliance for the IOCARIBE Region
Caribmap - A Cartographic History of the West Indies
Dominican Republic Project - investigating marine biodiversity change in the Caribbean region
Southeast Caribbean Continental Dynamics Project: Bolivar - Rice University
http://www.carmabi.org/ - Caribbean Research & Management of Biodiversity
Geologists Association (London)
Caribbean Plate Origin discussion group and postings
Caribbean Research Group at Leicester University
Open File Map/Database for Active Faults near Managua, Nicaragua (by Hugh Cowan, et. al.)
U.S. National Geodetic Survey's GPS Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS)
U.S. National Geodetic Survey's GPS data sheets
Seismic and tsunami hazards in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, electronic open-file report 99-353 (by ten Brink, Dillon, Frankel, Rodriguez, and Mueller, 1999.) http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/puertoricoworkshop)
Northeastern Institute of Geology, Hermosillo, Mexico - UNAM
New Constraints on Caribbean Plate Tectonic Evolution
Instito Nicaraguense de Estudios Territoriales cartographic products
Earthquake hazard studies for Puerto Rico
Central American Seismological Center Costa Rica
Central American School of Geology Costa Rica
Red Sismologica Nacional Costa Rica
Department of Geology Campus de Fouillole, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane
Landscape hazard maps for the Kingston, Jamaica area
Fundacion Venezolano de Investigaciones Sismologicas (FUNVISIS)
Caribbean Disaster Mitigation Project. Full list of publications related to this project available on "Papers and Publications" page.
Information on Central American volcanoes including a Virtual Field Trip: http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~carr/index.html
Integrated Coastal Fisheries Management - Trinidad and Tobago
Unit for Disaster Studies, Dept. of Geography and Geology, University of the West Indies
"The Evolution of West Indian Diversity," sponsored by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), July 5-9, 2006, Dominican Republic
http://www.geody.com/geo_equakes.php earthquakes
The University of Texas at Austin List of Caribbean/Gulf of Mexico theses
General Caribbean bibliography (from the PLATES Project)
Gren Draper's contents listing of the Caribbean Geological Conference Series
Field Guide Bibliography for the Caribbean
"Bibliography of Trinidad Petroleum Geology" (http://www.gstt.org/Geology/bibliography.htm)
Bibliographies on natural hazards in the Caribbean from Unit for Disaster Studies, UWI, Mona Jamaica
Present-day
Some Images of the Caribbean
Plate Boundaries (from the PLATES Project data compilation)
Free-air Gravity (after Smith and Sandwell 1995)
Predicted Topography (after Smith and Sandwell 1997)
Earthquakes (Engdahl et al., 1998) and Holocene Volcanoes (Smithsonian Global Volcanism Project, 1999)
Geologic map of Trinidad (Geological Society of Trinidad & Tobago)
Geologic map of Tobago (Geological Society of Trinidad & Tobago)
"Mineral Deposits and Geology of the Caribbean Basin and Northern South America" - Map by Carl Nelson (March 2008), http://www.cbmap.net.
Products Recently submitted papers and an animation by Jim Pindell and others available on-line. "How Resilient is Your Coastal Community to Tsunamis?" - A Guide for Evaluating Coastal Community Resilence to Tsunamis and Other Hazards. "Mineral Deposits and Geology of the Caribbean Basin and Northern South America" - Map by Carl Nelson (March 2008), http://www.cbmap.net. "Map Showing Geology, Oil and Gas Fields, and Geologic Provinces of
the Caribbean Region," 2004, compiled by C.D. French and C.J. Schenk, U.S.G.S. Open File Report 97-470-K. The International Lithosphere Programs (ILP) Task Group II-2 (Western
Hemisphere) is nearing its end with the publication of Quaternary fault
maps for ten countries in Central and South America. Reports are available from USGS websites.
Global GIS Database: Digital Atlas of Central and South America (by Hearn, Hare, Schruben, Sherrill, LaMar and Tsushima, 2000.). USGS Product: DDS-0062-A. (http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/2001-02/digital.shtml) A CD-ROM is available from the Geological Society of Trinidad & Tobago and Society of Petroleum Engineers Technical Conference (July 2000). It includes abstracts and some papers. Coral Areas of Colombia (Areas Coralinas de Colombia) (book by Diaz M., J.M., Barrios, L.M., Cendales, M., Garzon-Ferreira, J., Geister, J., Parra-Velandia, F., Pinzon, J., Lopez-Vicotria, M., Ospina, G.H., Vargas, B., Zapata, F., and Zea S., S.; 2000, INVEMAR, Sta. Marta, Colombia.)
Contact: J.M. Diaz jmdiaz@invemar.org.co or
L. Rodriguez S. lilianaro@invemar.org.co The Proceedings of the "International Conference on Seismic Risk Reduction in
the Caribbean Region" (July 24-28, 2001) are available on CD-Rom. Contact Jose Lockart
(j.lockhart@codetel.net.do) for more
information. Audemard, F.A., Machette, M.N., Cox, J.W., Dart, R.L. and Haller, K.M., 2000. Map and Database of Quaternary Faults in Venezuela and its Offshore Regions. 00-018, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 78p. http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/pub/open-file-reports/ofr-00-0018/ Costa, C., Machette, M.N., Dart, R.L., Bastias, H.E., Paredes, J.D., Perucca, L.P., Tello, G.E. and Haller, K.M. 2000. Map and Database of Quaternary Faults and Folds in Argentina. 00-0108, U.S. Geological Survey, 81p. http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/pub/open-file-reports/ofr-00-0108/ Cowan, H., Machette, M.N., Amador, X., Morgan, K.S., Dart, R.L. and Bradley, L.-A., 2000. Map and Database of Quaternary Faults in the Vicinity of Managua, Nicaragua. 00-0437, U.S. Geological Survey. 18p. http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/pub/open-file-reports/ofr-00-0437/ Cowan, H., Machette, M.N., Haller, K.M., and Dart, R.L., 1998, Map and Database of Quaternary Faults and Folds in Panama and Its Offshore Regions. U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File report, 98-779. 41 pp. http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/pub/open-file-reports/ofr-98-0779/ofr98-779.pdf Lavenu, A. et al., 2000. Maps and Database of Quaternary Faults in Bolivia and Chile. 00-0283, U.S. Geological Survey, 51p. http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/pub/open-file-reports/ofr-00-0283/ Montero, W., Denyer, P., Barquero, R., Alavarado, G.E., Cowan, H., Machette, M.N., Haller, K.M., and Dart, R.L., 1998, Map and Database of Quaternary Faults and folds in Costa Rica and Its Offshore Regions. U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File report, 98-481. 63 pp. http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/pub/open-file-reports/ofr-98-0481/ Paris, G., Machette, M.N., Dart, R.L. and Haller, K.M., 2000. Map and Database of Quaternary Faults and Folds in Colombia and its Offshore Regions. 00-0284, U.S. Geological Survey, 60p. http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/pub/open-file-reports/ofr-00-0284/
Slide Shows
"Tectonic evolution of the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean and northern South America in the mantle reference frame: An update" - by J. Pindell & L. Kennan.
"Clastic domains of sandstones in central/eastern Venezuela, Trinidad, and Barbados: heavy mineral and tectonic constraints on provenance and palaeogeography" - by J. Pindell, L. Kennan, D. Wright, & J. Erikson.
"Dextral shear, terrane accretion and basin formation in the Northern Andes: best explained by interaction with a Pacific-derived Caribbean Plate" - by L. Kennan & J. Pindell.
"Pacific-origin Model for the Caribbean Plate" - an animation.
