Announcement of SAMC I Meeting (Part 1)

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INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN THE
1ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF IGCP PROJECT 381
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 2-5 September 1996


April 1996

Dear colleague,

We are pleased to invite your participation in the First Annual
Conference of IGCP Project 381 (SAMC I)  to be held next 2-5
September 1996 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, in conjunction
with the XXXIX Brazilian Geological Congress.

The meeting will focus on interdisciplinary presentations of
key topics of research and progress reports of geological
correlations for the South Atlantic Mesozoic, identification
of key areas and research objectives for the organization of
further working groups, and schedule for project meetings
(workshops and general meetings). Oral and poster presentations
will be arranged within the five "umbrella-type" Project
Working Groups:
        (i) Gondwana palaeogeography and stratigraphic correlations.
        (ii) Lower Cretaceous stratigraphic correlations.
        (iii) Lower Cretaceous palaeogeography.
        (iv) Upper Cretaceous stratigraphic correlations.
        (v) Upper Cretaceous palaeogeography and palaeoceanography.

Three SAMC I  related thematic symposia will be run as
parallel events:
        S 11 - Petroleum Systems (Chairman Marcio R. Mello).
        S 13 - Tectonic, Depositional and Evolutionary Aspects
        of Rift Type
        Basins (Chairman Hercules Tadeu F. da Silva).
        S 14 - Tectonics and Sedimentation in South American
        Basins (Chairman Peter Szatmari).

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