> GONDWANA 12- NEWS
>
> May 2005

> - Registration deadlines:
>
> Until June 30, 2005
> After June 30, 2005
>
> Conference Members (1)
> USD 160,00
> USD 250,00
>
> Student Members
> USD 80,00
> USD 100,00
>
> Accompanying Members
> USD 50,00
> USD 80,00
>
>
> All payments must be made in US dollars (USD) or Argentinean Pesos (ARS).
> Exchange rate: 1 USD = 2.95 ARS
>
> (1) Financial assistance for Latin American participants
>
> Argentinean government agencies have made funds available to partially support
> participation in Gondwana 12 of geoscientists from Latin American countries
who request
> it, provided that they have also submitted abstracts. This aid consists of
60.00 U$, to
> be reimbursed at the beginning of the conference to those participants as a
discount on
> the regular registration fees (160.00 U$). The reduced rate fee (100.00 U$;
300.00
> Argentinean pesos) will include registration, the abstract volume, four
mid-day
> lunches, and the icebreaker.
>
>
>
> - Abstract submission and registration for field trips
>
> a.. Deadline: June 30, 2005
> See the web page of the congress for details and cost of the pre- and
post-conference
> field trips (http://cig.museo.unlp.edu.ar/gondwana/)
>
>
> - Abstract format and presentations
>
> The abstract should be single-spaced, on a single A4 page, with the text
fitting within
> a 16 x 23 cm box, including references. Figures cannot be included. Lettering
format is
> described on the web page.
>
> Symposium conveners are responsible for abstract reviewing and decisions about
oral or
> poster presentations will be made in conjunction with the volume editors. Oral
> presentations (Power Point will be accepted but there are no facilities for
> photographic slides) are restricted no more than 7 per symposium, in two
parallel
> sessions.
>
> - Intra-Conference field trips
>
> Two one-day mid-conference field excursions have been organized (November 9,
2005).
> Both include travel along the international route across the Andes, between
Mendoza and
> Chile. For reasons of safety and security the number of participants in each
excursion
> is restricted a maximum of 50 (one large bus for each one). As we anticipate a
large
> number of conference participants, preference will be given to non-Argentinean
and
> non-Chilean geoscientists, who have less opportunity to visit the Andes.
>
> I1. Geology of the Andes: Precordillera, Frontal Cordillera and Main
Cordillera (32º
> SL)
>
> This excursion will reach the foot of Aconcagua (c. 7000 m), with views of the
> Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic geological components of the Andes.
>
> Leader: Víctor Ramos (Laboratorio de Tectónica Andina, Universidad de Buenos
Aires)
>
> Cost: 70 USD. Includes: ground transportation, snacks, lunch and guidebook.
> Minimum 15, maximum 50 participants.
>
> I2. Triassic of the Cuyo basin (32º SL)
>
> Leaders: Eduardo M. Morel, Analía E. Artabe (Museo de La Plata, Universidad
Nacional de
> La Plata).
>
> This field trip is an invitation to see two in situ petrified forests
preserved in Late
> Middle Triassic and Latest Triassic sequences of the Cuyo basin. Of particular
> relevance is the exciting Darwin forest, first described by Darwin (1835)
during his
> historic travel around the world. Initially this fossil forest was dated as
Tertiary
> but new data now available assigns it to the Triassic. The excursion will also
visit
> the La Elcha forest and the most important continental Triassic sequences of
> southwestern Gondwana in the classic localities of Cerro Bayo and Cerro
Cocodrilo.
>
> Cost: 70 USD. Includes: ground transportation, snacks, lunch and guidebook.
> Minimum 15, maximum 50 participants.
>
> --------------------
>
> Several tourist excursions, ranging from the high adrenaline variety, such as
"Rafting
> the Río Mendoza Canyon" to more sedate ones, such as "Wine Routes" will be
also
> available from the Official Agency of the Congress.



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