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SIXTH INTERNATIONAL GRAPTOLITE CONFERENCE
(Graptolite Working Group, International Palaeontological Association)
MADRID (SPAIN), June 19th-22nd, 1998
As was indicated in some preliminary announcements (Graptolite News No.8
and mailing of last January to GWG members), the Sixth Graptolite
Conference will be held in Madrid, Spain. The final programme includes
two days of formal talks (June 19-20th), a mid-Conference trip (Silurian
Graptolites of the Central Iberian Zone: Sunday 21th), a fourth day
(Monday 22th) for workshops, demonstrations, the business meeting of the
GWG and the Conference Dinner, and a post-Conference field trip to the
Iberian Cordillera (June 23-24th, ending in Madrid late in the evening
of Wednesday 24th). As the Conference is being coordinated with the 1998
FIELD MEETING OF THE SILURIAN SUBCOMMISSION, it is offered as a joint
pre-Conference trip to study graptolite localities of mainly Silurian,
Ordovician and Lower Devonian ages, within the Ossa Morena Zone (Spain
and Portugal). This field trip will depart from Madrid in the early
evening of Monday, June 15th, returning the night previous to the
aperture of the Graptolite Conference (Thursday 18th).
Since the election in 1995 of Madrid, Spain, as the site for
the Sixth International Graptolite Conference, the following Organizing
Committee of the Graptolite Working Group has been constituted:
J.C. Gutierrez-Marco (Madrid), Chairman
S.C. Finney (Long Beach), Vice-Chairman (Past Chairman)
C.E. Mitchell (Buffalo, U.S.A.), Secretary of the GWG and newsletter editor
I. Rabano (Madrid), Secretary of the Conference
G.F. Acen~olaza (Tucuman, Argentina)
B.-D. Erdtmann (Berlin, Germany)
T.N. Koren' (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Ph. Legrand (Grandignan, France)
A.C. Lenz (London, Canada)
J.M. Pic,arra (Beja, Portugal)
R.B. Rickards (Cambridge, U.K.)
P. Storch (Prague, Czech Republic)
Y-d. Zhang (Nanjing, China)
CONFERENCE THEME
The conference theme is GRAPTOLITE EVOLUTION AND EXTINCTION, with
particular emphasis on two sub-themes: 1. relationships with other
Palaeozoic biotic and environmental crises, and 2. biochronology and
chronostratigraphic applications for high-resolution stratigraphy.
Submission of voluntereed contributions other than those
related with the main conference theme, are also encouraged for
papers across the broad spectrum of the graptolite research.
CONFERENCE VENUE
All formal talks programmed on Friday and Saturday, June 19th and
20th will take place in the main building of the Spanish Research
Council (CSIC), 117 Serrano Street. Workshops and demostrations, as
well as the business meeting of the Graptolite Working Group, will
be held on Monday 22th in the Geominero Museum, 23 Rios Rosas Street.
REGISTRATION AND COSTS
A single fee of 25.000 Spanish pesetas (approximately equivalent to
165 US$, according to the official currency exchange rate at the end
of August, 1997) is obligatory even for those attending to their own
accommodation, and covers registrations for both the Graptolite
Conference and the Silurian Field Meeting. This fee will include the
official publication of a Special Volume with the extended abstracts
and field trip guides, the morning and afternoon coffee/tea breaks
during the scientific sessions, the full cost of the mid-Conference
field trip (train ticket, coach travel, meals), as well as the
Conference Dinner.
Fees for the pre- and post-Conference field trips will
include transports, lodging, meals and festivities, but exact prices
will be establised later in the Second Circular. A provisional
estimate of the full cost for the pre-Conference field trip
(including the technical sessions of the Silurian meeting and
lodgement in Madrid the night before) is estimated to range between
275-325 US$. The full cost for the post-Conference field trip (July
23-24th) will be approximately 15.000 pts. (about 100 US$). Price
estimates are calculated on the basis of 50 potential field trip
participants. Depending on the final number of participants, as well
as on subsidies obtained, final prices for both trips might be
somewhat less.
ACCOMMODATION
Depending on the number of registrants answering the first circular,
we propose that lodgement for all of us in Madrid during the
Graptolite Conference will be in the very exclusive setting of the
"Residencia de Estudiantes", an historical College situated in the
central complex of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC), and with
special significance because it was a creative redoubt for
intellectuals, artists and scientists up 1915. Several Spanish Nobel
laureates, and for instance Garcia Lorca, Dali and Bun~uel, lived
there. The main Residence advantage is that it lies in the site of
the technical sessions, and all the meals are included, at reasonable
price (s).
The organisation will also provide facilities to book extra
nigths in the city center of Madrid. This, of course, must be
coordinated with the field trip schedule.
The full cost is difficult to estimate at this time. Other
places contacted in Madrid can provide a complete food and
accommodation budget (1998 prices, at special rate) ranging between
6.500 and 8.000 Spanish pesetas by person and day: approximately
43-54 US$. To this amount it will be neccessary to add the
registration fee and field trip costs.
ABSTRACTS AND PUBLICATION
Oral and poster contributions on graptolite research will be
published as extended abstracts together with the field trip guides
in a special volume, which will be distributed to all participants
at the time of the Conference. The abstracts should not exceed four
A4 pages, including references and line drawings, and should be sent
both in diskette and hard copy form, according to the instructions
to be comunicated in the next Circular. If neccessary, a set of
photographic plates could be attached at the end of the volume at no
extra-cost (maximum one plate by short article), but this must be
stipulated in the enclosed registration questionnaire.
The Committee plans to publish only this volume with the
contributions presented at the Conference and at the Silurian Meeting,
and will try to get extra funds from other state agencies in order
to increase the copy edition. It will be then distributed at reduced
price among the non-attending members of the Graptolite Working Group,
the official members of the Ordovician and Silurian subcommissions
(ICS-IUGS) and some important libraries.
Due to imperatives imposed on the organization, participants
intending to present an abstract are ENCOURAGED TO PROVIDE the
provisional title(s) and author(s) before NOVEMBER 15th, 1997. These
are needed to ask the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture for
funds. A provisional programme of the meetings is requested from us
no later than November 30th!
PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE
++ Monday, June 15th, to Thursday, June 18th: Pre-Conference
field trip coordinated with the 1998 Field Meeting of the Silurian
Subcommission. Basal Silurian to early Devonian graptolitic sections
of the Ossa Morena Zone of the Hesperian Massif (SW Iberia) will be
visited, as well as some localities with Upper Ordovician conodonts
and Lower Ordovician (Hunnebergian) graptolites. For detailed contents
of the trip, see the Circular No. 1 for the Silurian meeting.
++ Friday and Saturday, June 19th and 20th: Main technical
sessions of the Sixth International Graptolite Conference, which will
take place in the main building of the Spanish Research Council
(CSIC), 117 Serrano Street. These will include lectures and poster
presentations.
++ Sunday, June 21st: Mid-Conference field trip, to study a
single but remarkable section of black shales with abundant
graptolites, molluscs, brachiopods and rare eurypterids and conodonts
at Corral de Calatrava, where almost complete Telychian and most of
the Sheinwoodian-lower Homerian graptolite biozones are represented.
The trip begins with high speed train travel from Madrid to Ciudad
Real (190 km, 45 min), then by coach (20 km) and the last 4 km with
jeeps and/or trailers towed by tractors.
++ Monday, June 22nd: Graptolite workshops and demonstrations
at the Geominero Museum. During the evening, a business meeting of the
Graptolite Working Group will be held, where the date, place and new
chairperson for the Seventh Graptolite Conference will be chosen. The
Conference Dinner is planned for this night.
Those participants interested in joining the Seventh
International Conodont Symposium held in Europe (ECOS VII)+
International Meeting of the IGCP Project 421, can travel by plane the
next day (June 23rd) to Bologna (Italy), where scientific sessions
will start on Wednesday, June 24th (Information reported on Web page
<http://www.geomin.unibo.it/ecos98.htm> or by request to the fax No.
+39 +51 -35 45 22).
++ Tuesday and Wednesday, June 23rd and 24th: Post-Conference
field trip, mainly devoted to the study of Silurian graptolite
sections in the Castilian Branch of the Iberian Cordillera (provinces
of Guadalajara and Teruel). Exposures around the O/S boundary include
Hirnantian glacigenic diamictites (Orea Shale with dropstones), a
shallow marine sandstone unit with sparse intercalations of shales
with Rhuddanian, Aeronian and basal Telychian graptolites, and a
formation of typical black shales with a complete Telychian sucession,
sometimes preserved in nodules with other shelly fossils (Checa, El
Pobo de Duen~as and Orihuela sections). On the same trip, diverse
outcrops of Llanvirn ironstones and sandstones with abundant pendent
didymograptids, as well as early Ludlow black graptolite shales, will
be also visited.
We will spend the night at Albarracin, a very picturesque town
with walls, narrow streets and an Arabian castle, built between the XI
and XVII centuries.
The post-Conference field trip will end in Madrid late in the
evening of Wednesday 24th.
TRAVEL GRANTS
We encourage all the participants to take advantage of the
possibilities afforded by the current cooperation and exchange
programmes that the Spanish Research Council (Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Cientificas, CSIC) has with comparable institutions
or National Academies of Sciences, specially those countries belonging
to the former Soviet Union, Central Europe, Latin America, North
Africa and Asia. These potential grants, which brings full support
both for travel and accommodation expenses (but not for registration
fees), should be requested simultaneously by both institutions. Those
wishing to try this way, must first ask their own institution, and
then contact us in order to get an official and personalized invitation
letter.
SPANISH WEATHER AND MANNERS
The second half of June is usually very pleasant and sunny in Iberia.
Spanish timetable is slightly different from other countries: for
instance, we have a light breakfast at normal time (8-8.30 am.), but
the lunch time and daily dinner are delayed, respectively, until
14-15,30 h, and 21,30-23 h (even later on weekends!). Nobody in Spain
go to bed before midnight!
CORRESPONDENCE
Please send all correspondence to: Sixth International Graptolite
Conference + SSS Field Meeting 1998, UEI Paleontologia, Instituto de
Geologia Economica, Facultad de Ciencias Geologicas, 28040 Madrid,
Spain; Tel: 34(1) 3495819 (Isabel); Fax: 34(1) 3944849; E-mail:
jcgrapto@eucmax.sim.ucm.es
IMPORTANT DATES
- Return of the questionnaire with suggested title(s) of your
contribution(s)(Circular No. 1). DEADLINE FOR: NOVEMBER 15th, 1997.
- Production and distribution of Circular No. 2, with programme of
suggested titles of workshops and demostrations, definitive prices
and lodgings, registration statement and detailed instructions for
abstracts presentation: January 15th, 1998.
- Deadline for abstracts, formal registration and payment: April
15th, 1998.
- Production and distribution of Circular No. 3 with programme and
final arrangements: May 15th, 1998 (The programme will be accesible
up the 2nd of May through the Graptolite home page).
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QUESTIONNAIRE AND PROVISIONAL REGISTRATION FORM
(To be returned before November 15th, 1997. Please retain one copy)
QUESTIONNAIRE: please, indicate to the questions no. 1-4
"A"= most probably, "B"= probably or "C"= surely not.
1. I will attend the indoor sessions of the Silurian
Subcommission Field Meeting (Monday morning, June 15th in Madrid): --
2. I will take part in the SW Iberia Field Trip
(June 15-18th); = Pre-Graptolite Conference field trip: --
3. I will attend the Technical Sessions of the Graptolite
Conference and the mid-Conference field trip (June 19th-22nd): --
4. I will take part in the post-Conference field trip
(June 23rd-24th): --
5. I plan to submit an abstract to the Graptolite Conference
and/or the Silurian Meeting (please indicate: a. author/s,
b. provisional title/s, c. appropiate meeting -GC or SM-, and
d. preferred delivery -ORAL or POSTER-):
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6. I intend to publish a photographic plate of fossils or
microfabrics (A4 format) together with the extended abstract (up
to 4 A4 pages): write YES or NO ------
7. I am a member of the ISSS ---, GWG --- (please, indicate
YES or NO).
PERSONAL DATA:
Surname, title and initial(s):
Address:
Fax and e-mail address:
Place and date:
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Your response to the following questionnaire must be sent
by post (see address in the Circular), faxback (+34 +1-394 48 49)
or as an e-mail message (either in its electronic form or as a
personal message addressed to jcgrapto@eucmax.sim.ucm.es, using
in the last alternative a system of coordinates for reply the
questions -e.g. 1B, 2A, 6 YES, etc.).
This mailing has gone out to all members of the Graptolite
Working Group (IPA), the Silurian Subcommission (ICS-IUGS) and
people subscribing to Silurian Times. Also will be distributed
through the electronic lists PALEONET and IBERPAL. A second circular
will be mailed only to those returning the present questionnaire.
Informations regarding the Graptolite Conference will be
periodically produced in the Web home page of the Graptolite Working
Group: <http:/wings.buffalo.edu/geology/gwg/>
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