16th CARIBBEAN GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE - BARBADOS 2002 
160 CONFERENCIA GEOLOGICA DEL CARIBE - BARBADOS 2002
16me CONFERENCE GEOLOGIQUE DES CARAIBES - BARBADOS 2002

 

16th Caribbean Geological Conference

16 - 21 June, 2002

First Circular

July 2001

 

The Sixteenth Caribbean Geological Conference will be held in Bridgetown, Barbados in June 2002 under the auspices of the Energy and Natural Resources Division of the Ministry of Environment, Energy and Natural Resources.

The Conference is dedicated to the exchange of information on all aspects of Caribbean Geology including Central America and northern South America.

 

CORRESPONDENCE

All communications should be addressed to:

 

Leslie Barker

General Coordinator
16th Caribbean Geological Conference
Energy and Natural Resources Division
c/o National Petroleum Corporation Building
Wildey, St. Michael
BARBADOS

e-mail: cgc16th@hotmail.com

 

REGISTRATION FEES

Participating Members: US $150.00

Participating Students      US $80.00

Non-participating Members    US $65.00

 

These fees are payable before March 30, 2002. A late registration fee of US $20.00 will be payable for registration after this date. Refunds of pre-registration fees will be made for cancellations done before May 15, 2002. Participants, non-participants and students will receive transactions. Registration fees cover the costs of field trip guide books, programmes, book of abstracts, and the final transactions.

PAPERS

Papers may be submitted in English, Spanish or French, but should includean English summary. All abstracts (300 words maximum) should be presented in English and should be submitted before January 20, 2021. Abstracts should be submitted as a Microsoft Word file or text file as either an e-mail attachment or on a PC formatted diskette.

 

It is hoped that the Conference will be conducted as a series of symposia. The symposia might include, but will not be limited to, the following:

 

Caribbean and Central American Tectonics
Accretionary Complexes
IGCP Project 433 Caribbean Plate Tectonics
Hydrocarbons in the Caribbean
Recent Carbonates
Pleistocene and other Tertiary Reefs
Volcanology
Igneous and metamorphic petrology
Caribbean / Central Amnerican Stratigraphy
Industrial Minerals
Metallic Minerals
Geological application to modern cultural problems. (Speleology:Hydrogeology; Coastal conservation, etc.)

Participants wishing to organize these or other symposia should contact the General Coordinator

 

REGISTRATION FORMS

Please fill out and return the attached form before October 15, 2001. It is important to indicate which field trips you would be interested in as their organization will will depend on there being a sufficient level of interest.

 

PRELIMINARY REGISTRATION FORM


I wish to receive your 2nd Circular with registration form.

 

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Field trips (please indicate interest):

Pre conference:

Scotland district (accretionary complex) - 1day

Neogene Carbonates - 1day

Post conference :

Scotland district (accretionary complex) - 1day

Neogene Carbonates - 1day

St. Vincent - 2-3 days