Sunday, 5 October 2008: 8:00 AM

George R. Brown Convention Center, 322AB

Presiding:

Sandra J. Wyld and James E. Wright

8:00 AM

128-1

Mantle Reference Frame and Generation of Detached- and Flat-Slab Subduction Geometries In Caribbean Evolution

James Pindell, Rice University

8:15 AM

128-2

Lithospheric Deformation, Rebound, and Orogenesis along Southeastern Caribbean Plate Boundary

Alan Levander, Rice University; Meghan S. Miller, Rice University; Fenglin Niu, Rice University; Colin A. Zelt; Maximiliano J. Bezada, Rice University; Stephen Clark, University of Oslo; Maria Beatrice Magnani, University of Memphis

8:35 AM

128-3

3D Lithospheric Structure beneath the Caribbean – South American Plate Boundary from Surface Wave Tomography

Meghan S. Miller, Rice University; Fenglin Niu, Rice University; Alan Levander, Rice University

8:55 AM

128-4

Late Cretaceous Subduction Initiation Leeward Antilles/Aves Ridge: Implications for Caribbean Geodynamic Models

J.E. Wright, Univ of Georgia; S.J. Wyld, Univ of Georgia; Franco Urbani, UCV

9:15 AM

128-5

Cenozoic Exhumation of the Sierra Nevada De Santa Marta, Colombia: Implications on the Interactions Between the Carribean and South American Plate

Agustin Cardona, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Victor Valencia, Univ of Arizona; Peter Reiners, University of Arizona; Jose Duque, Universidad Autónoma de México; Camilo Montes, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Stefan Nicolescu, Univ of Arizona; German Ojeda, Instituto Colombiano del Petroleo; Joaquin Ruiz, Univ of Arizona

9:30 AM

128-6

A Cretaceous Subduction Zone in Northern Colombia (southern Caribbean plate)?

Carlos A. Zuluaga, Universidad Nacional de Colombia; Paula A. Medina, Universidad Nacional de Colombia; Lina F. Martinez, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

9:45 AM

128-7

Extreme Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf Isotopic Compositions Exhibited by the Tinaquillo Peridotite Massif, Northern Venezuela: Implications for Geodynamic Setting

Samuel Mukasa, University of Michigan; Sung Hi Choi, Korea Polar Research Institute; Alexandre Andronikov, Univ Michigan - Ann Arbor; Maria C. Marcano, The Univ of Michigan

10:00 AM

128-8

Geologic Constrains on the Timing and Magnitude of Neotectonic Transpressional Deformation in the Central Range Fault Zone, Trinidad

Scott Giorgis, SUNY Geneseo; Jenna Hojnowski, SUNY Geneseo; Kathleen Sharman, SUNY Geneseo

10:15 AM

Break

10:30 AM

128-9

Mesozoic Plate Tectonics in the proto-Caribbean zone of Interfering North Atlantic - South Atlantic Mantle Stress Fields

Richard H. Fillon, Earth Studies Group

10:45 AM

128-10

Biostratigraphy and Its Implications for the Early Tectonic Evolution of the Great Arc of the Caribbean

Simon F. Mitchell, University of the West Indies, Mona

11:00 AM

128-11

Aptian Thrusting Event in the Hispaniola Island Arc

Grenville Draper, Florida International University

11:15 AM

128-12

Geochemical and Tectonic Evolution of Albian to Eocene Volcanic Strata In the Virgin Islands and Eastern and Central Puerto Rico

Edward G. Lidiak, Univ of Pittsburgh; Wayne T. Jolly, Brock University; Alan P. Dickin, McMaster University

11:30 AM

128-13

Cenozoic Evolution of the Panama Isthmus. the Panama Geology Project

Camilo Montes, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Sara Moron, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Germán Bayona, Corporación Geológica ARES; Agustin Cardona, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; David Farris, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Carlos Jaramillo, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

11:45 AM

Discussion

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