Geological Society of America

8:00 AM

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

James Pindell, Tectonic Analysis Ltd, Duncton, West Sussex, N/A

146508 (Technical Sessions)

8:15 AM

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

Alan Levander, Rice University, Houston, TX and Meghan S. Miller, Rice University, Houston, TX and Fenglin Niu, Rice University, Houston, TX and Colin A. Zelt, Rice University, Houston, TX and Maximiliano J. Bezada, Rice University, Houston, TX and Stephen Clark, University of Oslo, Oslo, N/A and Maria Beatrice Magnani, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

149690 (Technical Sessions)

8:35 AM

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

Meghan S. Miller, Rice University, Houston, TX and Fenglin Niu, Rice University, Houston, TX and Alan Levander, Rice University, Houston, TX

147898 (Technical Sessions)

8:55 AM

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

J.E. Wright, Univ of Georgia, Athens, GA and S.J. Wyld, Univ of Georgia, Athens, GA and Franco Urbani, UCV, Caracas, N/A

146081 (Technical Sessions)

9:15 AM

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, Balboa, Ancon, Panama, N/A and Victor Valencia, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Peter Reiners, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Jose Duque, Universidad Autónoma de México, Querétaro, N/A and Camilo Montes, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Panama, N/A and Stefan Nicolescu, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and German Ojeda, Instituto Colombiano del Petroleo, Bucaramanga, N/A and Joaquin Ruiz, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

151658 (Technical Sessions)

9:30 AM

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

Carlos A. Zuluaga, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, N/A and Paula A. Medina, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, N/A and Lina F. Martinez, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, N/A

151712 (Technical Sessions)

9:45 AM

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

Samuel Mukasa, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and Sung Hi Choi, Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, N/A and Alexandre Andronikov, Univ Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI and Maria C. Marcano, The Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

151182 (Technical Sessions)

10:00 AM

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

Scott Giorgis, SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo, NY and Jenna Hojnowski, Kent State University, Kent, OH and Kathleen Sharman, SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo, NY

149523 (Technical Sessions)

10:30 AM

Mesozoic Plate Tectonics in the Proto-Caribbean Zone of Interfering North Atlantic - South Atlantic Mantle Stress Fields

Richard H. Fillon, Earth Studies Group, Punta Gorda, FL

144471 (Technical Sessions)

10:45 AM

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, Kingston

149767 (Technical Sessions)

11:00 AM

Aptian Thrusting Event in the Hispaniola Island Arc

Grenville Draper, Florida International University, Miami, FL

149888 (Technical Sessions)

11:15 AM

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, Pittsburgh, PA and Wayne T. Jolly, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON and Alan P. Dickin, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON

147686 (Technical Sessions)

11:30 AM

Cenozoic Evolution of the Panama Isthmus. the Panama Geology Project

Camilo Montes, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Panama, N/A and Sara Moron, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Panama, N/A and Germán Bayona, Corporación Geológica ARES, Bogotá, N/A and Agustin Cardona, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Panama, N/A and David Farris, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, N/A and Carlos Jaramillo, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Panama, N/A

150722 (Technical Sessions)

T128 Late Jurassic to Recent Geodynamic Evolution of the Caribbean Region

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