Dr. Horne,

I am not aware of a specific symposium on Central America at the IGC.
However, there will be a symposium on Caribbean Plate Tectonics, Origin
and Evolution that may be appropriate for CA basement geology. Below is
the relevant portion of an email from Manuel Iturralde-Vinent about the
Caribbean symposium. Also, at the 15th Caribbean Geological Conference
in July 1998 in Kingston Jamaica, Martin Meschede and I discussed
restarting the Central American Geology Conferences with the idea of
linking it to the 16th Caribbean Conference (2001) if it were to be held
in Costa Rica. Meschede volunteered to investigate organizing the
conference in Costa Rica, but I do not know where this stands at
present.

Rob Rogers
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>The organizing committee of the 31 IGC to be held in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, August 6 to 17 of the year 2000, has scheduled
>one special symposium dedicated to our subject of interest. You will
find it in the Second Circular under the heading
>General Symposium 17. GEOTECTONICS, PLATE MOTIONS AND REGIONAL
GEOPHYSICS Special Symposium 17-6. Caribbean Plate Tectonics, >Origin
and Evolution Conveners: Grenville Draper (FIU) and M. Iturralde-Vinent
(MNHNC)

>For more information and important details on this issue please contact
our web page
>http://wolfenet.com/~krautara/cariborigin.html

>Manuel Iturralde-Vinent
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Gregory Horne wrote:
>
> Have you, or anyone in our network heard anything about the International
> Geological Congress scheduled for Rio in 2000? I hope they plan a
> symposium on the bedrock geology of CA. I would have expected preliminary
> inquiries by this time. I'd appreciate any info on this. Thanks.

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