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GSA 2016 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION

Zone”), such as Pluto, and former members, such as Triton, Association of Earth Science Editors
widely viewed as an icy dwarf planet captured by Neptune.
Saturn’s midsize satellite Phoebe and the largest asteroid, Ceres, 50th Annual Meeting
have also been hypothesized to come from the Kuiper belt. This
symposium will address, and a panel will discuss, the geological September 28–October 1, 2016
commonalities between these worlds and the future exploration of
the Third Zone. Hotel Boulderado, Boulder, Colorado, USA

50th Anniversary

Wednesday, 28 Sept. Early Registration: September 1 Photo courtesy of www.colorado.edu
Abstracts still being accepted
P4. Geologic Evolution of Cuba www.aese.org
Information:
When/Where: 8 a.m.–noon, CCC, Mile High Ballroom 2A/3A
Conveners: Robert Stern, Manuel Antonio Iturralde-Vinent, John Keith, Technical Program Chair (jkeith@usgs.gov)
Antonio Garcia-Casco, Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte, J. Brendan Sara Pratt, Host Chair (sepratt@earthmagazine.org)
Murphy, Darrel S. Cowan
Cosponsors: GSA International/International Interdisciplinary Fifty years of excellence in earth science communications
Interest Group; Cuban Geological Society
Visit the AESE booth #714
Cuba, the largest island in the Greater Antilles, has a complex at GSA2016 Denver
geology that is key for understanding North American and
Caribbean plate interactions, including Mesozoic passive margin
sediments, Mesozoic ophiolites, volcanic-arc rocks, subduction/
collision metamorphic complexes, and Cenozoic synorogenic
basins related to collision with North America. This session will
bring together geoscientists from Cuba, the U.S., and Europe to
better constrain and understand the geologic evolution of Cuba
and its surroundings. This is a joint event between the geological
societies of the two nations, the first one in many years and a new
start to what we hope will become a strong relationship.

Penrose Conference—Snake River, Twin Falls, Idaho, USA. 9–13 September 2009. Photo by Kea Giles. The Next Step for Your Annual Meeting Science: March 2012 Penrose Conference location: Castelvecchio Pascoli, Lucca, Italy.

PENROSE CONFERENCES
and THOMPSON FIELD FORUMS

You’ll be networking with 7,000+ colleagues in Denver, and this can Thompson Field Forums are designed to capture the essence of GSA TODAY | www.geosociety.org/gsatoday
be a great catalyst for generating intriguing scientific discussions and exciting discoveries or controversial topics via forays into the field for
field study ideas. That’s what GSA’s Penrose Conferences and on-the-spot discussions of a particular geologic feature or area. This is
Thompson Field Forums are for. both an opportunity to get out into the field and to bring together
experts on the topic at hand to exchange current knowledge, ideas,
Penrose Conferences have a long history of bringing together multi- and theories.
disciplinary groups of geoscientists to facilitate open and frank discus-
sions of ideas in an intimate, informal atmosphere and to inspire Learn more at:
individual and collaborative research. www.geosociety.org/meetings/

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bsundeen@geosociety.org.

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