The list may be interested in this. I've also forwarded to caribbean
plate tectonic group.

Yildirim Dilek wrote:
>
> Dear Robert:
>
> Greetings! I hope all is well with you. Martin Flower (Univ. of Illinois -
Chicago) and I are convening an AGU Tectonophysics Session (T-2) for the Fall
Meeting in San Francisco on "Ophiolites and Continental Margins of the Pacific
Rim and the Caribbean Region", and we would like to include contributions from
our colleagues working on the tectonic, petrological, and geophysical aspects of
the Central and Latin American geology. To this effect, I would like to ask you
if you could please send an announcement to your server group to inform the
researchers about this event and to urge them to submit abstracts. I have
included below a brief description of the session for your information. Those
people who are interested in submitting an abstract can contact me for further
information.
>
> I appreciate your help and consideration in this matter. Please let me know
should you have any questions.
>
> All the best,
>
> Yildirim
>
> AGU Fall Meeting, 2001, San Francisco
> T02: Ophiolites and Continental Margins of the Pacific Rim and the
> Caribbean Region
>
> Yildirim Dilek
> Department of Geology, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056
> Phone: (513) 529-2212
> Fax: (513) 529-1542
> E-mail: dileky@...
>
> Martin F.J. Flower
> Department of Earth & Environmental Geological Sciences,
> University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607
> Phone: (312) 996-9662
> Fax: (312) 413-2279
> E-mail: flower@...
>
> Phanerozoic ophiolites in the circum-Pacific orogenic belts and the Caribbean
region record significant evidence for tectonic and magmatic processes from
rift-drift through accretionary stages of continental margin evolution and
seafloor spreading in various tectonic settings. Structural, petrological, and
geochemical features of these ophiolites and associated tectonic units (i.e.,
volcanic arcs, oceanic plateaus, high-P metamorphic belts) provide essential
information on mantle flow field effects, including plume activities,
collision-induced asthenosphere extrusion, crustal growth via magmatism and
tectonic accretion in subduction-accretion cycles, and changes in the structure
and composition of the crust and mantle reservoirs through time.
Collision-induced mantle flow appears to have played a major role in trench
rollback, arc extension, and backarc basin opening and hence in ocean crust
generation and ophiolite emplacement in active margins of the Tertiary Western
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fic and
> similarly might have affected the Mesozoic through Cenozoic tectonics of the
North American Cordillera and the Caribbean region. This session will provide a
forum for discussing plate tectonic and mantle processes and their interplay
during the evolution of the Phanerozoic ophiolites and their continental margins
around the Pacific Rim and the Caribbean region (including northern South
America). Discussions will include the mode and nature of crustal growth in the
accretionary orogens in these areas.
> ____________________________
> Dr. Yildirim Dilek
> Department of Geology
> 114 Shideler Hall
> Miami University
> Oxford, OH 45056, U.S.A.
> Phone: +1 (513) 529-2212
> Fax: +1 (513) 529-1542
> E-mail: dileky@...
> ____________________________

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University of Texas Institute for Geophysics
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