IGCP PROJECT 381 - FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE

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                      INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN THE
                  FIRST 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 Márcio R. Mello).
        S 13 - Tectonic, Depositional and Evolutionary Aspects of Rift Type
        Basins (Chairman Hércules Tadeu F. da Silva).
        S 14 - Tectonics and Sedimentation in South American Basins (Chairman
        Peter Szatmari).

IMPORTANT NOTE - FIELD TRIPS:   The field trips offered by the XXXIX
Brazilian Geological Congress are all post-conference, leaving Salvador on
7th September. There will be a SAMC I pre-conference field trip (28-31
August) to the Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of the Recôncavo-Tucano basin