Central Belize Mixed Margin: Long-lived Isolated Carbonate Platforms versus Young Barrier Reef and Atolls

Date:: Monday, April 14 – Saturday, April 19 (departs from and returns to Houston Intercontinental Airport; departure times will be determined at a later date. Please do not make any specific travel plans until this trip has been confirmed and flight schedules have been communicated)
Leaders:: André W. Droxler (Rice University, Houston, TX); Eberhard Gischler (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and Gregor P. Eberli (RSMAS-MGG, University of Miami, Miami, FL)
Fee:: Professional: $3,700
Includes:: Round trip flights from Houston to Belize, flight over the main visited areas, five nights lodging based on double/triple occupancy at Pelican Beach Resort on South Water Caye and Dangriga http://www.pelicanbeachbelize.com/, meals, refreshments, chartered boat, field trip guidebook and national preserves park entrance fees
Limit:: 20 persons
Content:: 32 PDH, 3.2 CEU

Belize area overview.

Image courtesy of Andre Droxler

This trip will be beneficial to geologists, geophysicists, engineers and anyone interested in enhancing their understanding of modern mixed shallow carbonate and siliciclastic depositional environments as analogs for subsurface studies and in the context of well-established Plio-Pleistocene sea level fluctuations. The central Belize margin is an ideal field trip destination because of its relatively compact size and scale, the high diversity of reef systems (barrier and back barrier reefs and atolls) thriving in close proximity to a siliciclastic coastal zone and the existence of industry and academic data sets and recent studies upon which the field trip has been organized.

This trip includes boating, swimming, snorkeling and a flight overview, all weather permitting. Individuals should be in good physical condition for these activities. During the four days in the field, transects through the barrier reef and back barrier reef (day 1), Glovers Atoll (day 2), the shelf lagoon Rhomboid Reefs (day 3) and along the siliciclastic coast (day 4) will be examined mostly on boats and by snorkeling.

Observations of mixed carbonate and siliciclastic shallow modern depositional environments will be discussed throughout the field trip in the newly developed context that modern barrier reefs and atolls are relatively “young,” mostly stacked, Brunhes transgressive and early highstand carbonate systems. The barrier reefs were developed during the Brunhes on top of lowstand siliciclastic coastal deposits, whereas the atolls formed over karstified carbonate islands.

Note: International travel documents are required for this trip. Non-US nationals must have a US multiple entry visa to return to the US.

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