Program

Traditionally, the IECs focus on all aspects of research related to eclogite-facies metamorphism. Therefore contributions usually cover a very broad spectrum of subjects (planned sessions see Abstracts), and contributions on nano-, micro-, and macro-scale observations, on thermobarometry, geochemistry, geochronology, fluid and melt evolution, experimental petrology, geodynamic processes and numerical modelling etc. are welcome.

The IEC-2015 conference will take place at the Hotel Bahia Principe near the town of Rio San Juan, northern Dominican Republic, and will focus on a principal block of oral presentations and posters along with a syn-conference field trip. The full registration fee includes accommodation in a double room for 5 nights, all meals (including ice-breaker party and conference dinners), coffee-breaks, abstract volume, and travel costs of the syn-conference field trip. Registration for the conference will be a prerequisite for participation in the pre- and/or post-conference field trips. For the pre- and post-conference field trips the registration fee includes all travel costs from Hotel Bahia Principe, accommodation in double rooms for 2 nights for each trip, lunch, dinner, field guide. For logistical reasons, the number of participants during the pre- and post-conference field trips will have to be limited. Seats will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis (for detailed information see registration form). We will create a waiting list, in case vacancies should arise.

Important: Neither the organizers nor the field-trip leaders can be held responsible for any illness or injury during participation. Please make your own insurance arrangements.

Pre-conference field trip

(January 31 - February 1, 2015; arrival of participants on January 30)

Rio San Juan complex with HP-metamorphic rocks in serpentinite mélanges (glaucophane-lawsonite rocks, blueschists, orthogneisses, jadeitites, jadeite-lawsonite-quartz rocks, eclogites).

Minimum number of participants: 20; maximum number of participants: 55.

Note: Details of the itinerary on Day 2 of the field-trip will depend on road conditions after the winter rains. It is to be expected that strenuous hiking (c. 600 m total elevation difference) and fording of rivers will be necessary.

Conference (February 2 – 5, 2015)

The 4-day conference block (arrival February 1; departure February 6) includes a 1-day syn-conference field trip on February 4. Plans for the the syn-conference field trip include – in addition to further outcrops of the Rio San Juan Complex – the excavation site of a pre-Columbian Taino settlement, where numerous jade artefacts have been found, as well as the famous amber museum in Puerto Plata. The accompanying person registration fee does not include participation in the syn-conference field trip.

Post-conference field trip (February 6 - 7; departure on February 8)

Samaná Peninsula (lawsonite rocks, garnet blueschist, eclogite, marble, pelitic schist, calcsilicate) and the UHP Cuaba Gneiss terrane near San Francisco de Macorís (eclogite, spinel-bearing garnet peridotite, corundum-/spinel-bearing garnet clinopyroxenite, hornblende gneiss etc.).

Minimum number of participants: 20; maximum number of participants: 80.