Geosur 2010 INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS
ON THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE
MAR DEL PLATA - 22 - 23 NOVEMBER 2010
FIELD TRIPS
CONGRESS FIELD-TRIP
Two field trips are planned for GEOSUR 2010
- Pre congress field trip - 21 November 2010
- Post congress field trip - 24 - 26 November 2010
PRE CONGRESS FIELD-TRIP
21 November 2010
One day trip departing and returning to Mar del Plata
Cost : 60 US$
Your registration includes:
- transport by bus or minibus or 4WD from Mar del Plata and return.
- box lunch;
- field trip guide.
PRELIMINARY GENERAL PROGRAM
A pre-symposium field trip to the cliffs between Mar del Plata and Miramar is planned including a visit to the most important outcrops along the Atlantic coast. It requires a minimum of 15 people, and a maximum of 40.
POST CONGRESS MAIN FIELD-TRIP
24 to 26 November 2010
Three-day trip departing and returning to Mar del Plata
Cost : 350 US$
Your registration includes:
- transport by bus or minibus or 4WD from Mar del Plata and return.
- accommodation in the hotel (***) in double rooms
- all breakfast, lunches, dinners;
- field trip guide.
PRELIMINARY GENERAL PROGRAM
During the field trip we´ll visit the southern exposures of the Rio de la Plata craton, to the north of its boundary with Patagonia. The first day will be devoted to visit several important sites along the Tandili system where a Paleoproterozoic basement is covered by a complex succession of clastic and carbonatic units of Ediacaran to Early Paleozoic age. Visits would include type sections at Olavarria, Barker and other localities and will encompass different platform deposits and glacial(?) diamictite.
In Sierra de la Ventana the field trip will comprise a two day transect through the Permian (Gondwanide) Sierra de la Ventana Fold Belt and the Sauce Grande Basin, the South American counterpart of the Cape Fold Belt and the Karoo Foreland Basin from South Africa. Selected stops will show the lithology and structure of the Precambrian-Cambrian basement and the Palaeozoic to Triassic sedimentary cover. Stops will include exposures of the basement-cover contact, the Cambrian to Devonian platform quartzites (Curamalal and Ventana Groups) with their spectacular similar type folds, the Gondwanan glaciation (Sauce Grande Fm diamictites) and related postglaciation sequences (Piedra Azul and Bonete Fms) as well as the fill of the foreland basin stage (Tunas Fm).
