CURICULUM VITAE Dr. Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte Name: Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte Date of Birth: January 6, 1973 Place of Birth: Florencia, Ciego de Avila, Cuba Nationality: Cuban Sex: Female Permanent Address: Linea 1162, entre 16 y 18, Vedado, Havana, Cuba. Current address: Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Mainz, 55099 Mainz Degrees: Geology Engineer (equivalent to M.Sc), University of Pinar del Rio (July 1995), Cuba. Dr. rer. nat., University of Salzburg, Austria (November 2003) Research interest: Geochronology, Geochemistry, Provenance of Sedimentary Rocks and Regional Geology Current Associations: Geology department, Moa University, Holguín, Cuba and Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Mainz, 55099 Mainz Telephone: 06131-3923247, Fax: 06131-3924769, e-mail: [email protected] Mother Tongue: Spanish Other languages:

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Participation in national Projects: 1995-1997 Project No. 203: Geologic actualization and generalization of central Cuba. 1996 Project No. 14624: Application of methodologies of image processing and georeference information to Cuban geology. 1997-1999 Project No. 210: Stratigraphy of eastern Cuba. 1999-2001: Project No. 216: Geologic actualization and generalization of the HavanaMatanzas Province. 2004: Project No. 243: Cartographic implementation of the new tectonic and stratigraphic data in the eastern Cuban region.

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Participation in international Projects: 1999-2003: "Tectonic evolution of the Oriente fault, southeastern Cuba" Project with the Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Salzburg University, Austria. 2000-2005: IGCP-Project 433 (Caribbean Plate Tectonics). 2005-Present: “Acretion tectonic process in Cuba”, Project with Dept. of Geosciences, University of Mainz, Dept. of Geophysics, University of Munich, and Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Salzburg University. 2005-Present: IGCP- Project 480: Tectonic of Central Asia 2007-Present: IGCP 546 Subduction in the Caribbean Participation in Scientific Meetings and Events: 1996: XII Forum of Science and Technology. Geology and Palaeontology Institute, Havana, Cuba. 1997: VIII Municipal Exposition of Junior Research. Havana, Cuba. 1997: VIII Provincial Exposition of Junior Research. Havana, Cuba. 1997: VIII National Exposition of Junior Research. Havana, Cuba. 1998: III. Geological Congress, Cuba. 2000: Geology 2000, International meeting, Vienna, Austria, April 14-17, 2000. 2000: 17. Geowissenschaftliches Lateinamerika-Kolloquium, 11-13 October 2000, Stuttgart, Germany 2001: IV. Geological Congress, Havana, Cuba, March 2001. 2002: National Geoscience meeting “Pangea”, July 2002, Salzburg, Austria 2003: EUG-EGS-AGU joint assembly, April 2003, Nice, France. 2003: 21. Tektonomechanik-Kolloquium, May 2003, Graz, Austria. Joint symposium in cooperation with Research Centre for Urban Safety and Security, Kobe University, Japan. 2004: 20th Colloquium of African Geology, Orleans, France. 2005:

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GeoForschungs Zentrum Potsdam, Germany. 2005: European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2005. 24–29 April 2005 Vienna, Austria.

3 2005: Meeting of the IGCP project 480 in Irkutsk, Russia. Structural and tectonic correlation across the Central Asia Orogenic Collage: North-Eastern segment. Workshop and field excursion July 25- August 5, 2005. 2006: European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2006. 02 – 07 April 2006. Vienna, Austria. Co-conveener of the session: Composition, structure and evolution of the Caribbean lithosphere and surrounding areas. 2006: Asia Oceania Geoscience Society (AOGS) 3rd Annual General Meeting, Singapore July 10-14 2006: Meeting of the IGCP project 480 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Structural and tectonic correlation across the Central Asia Orogenic Collage: Implications for continental growth and intracontinental deformation. Workshop and field excursion July 27-August 7. 2006: GV International conference 2006 and 96th annual meeting of the Geologische Vereinigung e. V. Postdam, Germany. Shaping the Earth surface: Dynamics and changing environments. September 25-29. 2006: Annual convention and International symposium of the International Association for Gondwana Research (IAGR), Hong Kong, China. December 11-12. 2007: II Convención cubana de ciencias de la tierra: VII Congreso de Geología (GEOLOGÍA'2007), Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba. March 19-23.

Visit to foreign institutions: 1997-1998: One year post-graduate course at the International Training Center (ITC), Enschede, The Netherlands (NFP Scholarship). 1999-2000: Research fellow at Salzburg University (ÖAD scholarship). 2001–2003: PhD student at Salzburg University, Austria. Title of Dissertation: “Tectonic evolution of the Sierra Maestra mountain range, Cuba; from subduction to arc-continent collision and transform motion”. Supervisor: Prof. F. Neubauer (ÖAD scholarship) November 2004-March 2005: Research visit to the Tectonic Special Research Centre (TSRC), The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia. April 2005-September 2005: Research fellow at Mainz University February 2006- November 2006: Georg Forster Research Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) at Mainz University. April 2007- June 2008: Research fellow at Mainz University. Landesexcellenzcluster. Geocycles: Time and Space in the Earth Sciences

4 April 2007- June 2007: Research visit to the Chinese academy of Science, Beijing. China August 2007- September 2007: Georg Forster Research Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) at Mainz University. November 2007: Research visit to the Department of Geology, University of Edinburgh. December 2007: Research visit to the Department of Earth Science, the University of Hong Kong. January 2008- February 2008: Research visit to the Department of applied geology, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia April 2008- June 2008: Research visit to the Department of Geology, the University of Namibia (UNAM) July 2008-December 2008: Georg Forster Research Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) at Mainz University. Manuscripts accepted for publication in international journals: Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Neubauer, F., Kröner, A., Wan, Y. S., Liu, D. Y., García-Delgado, D. E., Handler, R., 2004. Geochemistry and age of late orogenic island arc granitoids in the Sierra Maestra, Cuba: evidence for subduction magmatism in the early Palaeogene. Chemical Geology, v. 213, p. 307-324. Y. Rojas-Agramonte, F. Neubauer, R. Handler, D. E. García-Delgado, G. Friedl, R. Delgado-Damas, 2005. Variation of palaeostress patterns along the Oriente Transform Fault, Cuba: Significance for Neogene-Quaternary tectonics of the Caribbean Realm. Tectonophysics, v. 396, p. 161-180. Y. Rojas-Agramonte, F. Neubauer, A.V. Bojar, E. Hejl, R. Handler, D. E. GarcíaDelgado, 2006. Geology, age and tectonic evolution of the Sierra Maestra Mountains, southeastern Cuba: a review. In: E. Lidiak & M. Iturralde-Vinent (eds.) Geodynamic evolution of the Caribbean region. Geologica Acta: Spec. Vol. 4, Nº1-2, p. 123-150. A. Garcia-Casco, C. Lázaro, Y. Rojas-Agramonte, A. Kröner, R. Luis Torres-Roldan, K. Nunez, F. Neubauer, G. Millan, I. Blanco-Quintero. 2007. Partial Melting and Counterclockwise P/T Path of Subducted Oceanic Crust (Sierra del Convento Melange, Cuba). Journal of Petrology. doi:10.1093/petrology/egm074 Y. Rojas-Agramonte, A. Kröner, J. Pindell, A. García-Casco, D. García-Delgado, D. Liu, Y. Wang, 2008. Detrital zircon geochronology of Jurassic sandstones of western Cuba (San Cayetano Formation): Implications for the Jurassic paleogeography of the NW

5 Proto-Caribbean. American Journal of Science. Vol. 308, p. 639-656, DOI 10.2475/04.2008.09. Y. Rojas-Agramonte, F. Neubauer, D.E. Garcia-Delgado, R. Handler, G. Friedl, R. Delgado-Damas, 2008. Tectonic evolution of the Sierra Maestra Mountains, SE Cuba, during Tertiary times: From arc-continent collision to transform motion. Journal of South American Earth Science. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2008.05.005.

Manuscripts submitted to international journals: Y. Rojas-Agramonte, A. Kröner, M. Somin, A. García-Casco, J.M. Mattinson, G. Millán Trujillo, K. Sukar, M. Pérez Rodríguez, M.T.D. Wingate. 2008. Timing of Cretaceous Island Arc Granitoid Magmatism in Cuba as Revealed by U-Pb SHRIMP Zircon Dating: Significance for Arc Magmatism in the Caribbean. Journal of Geology J.A. Tait, Y. Rojas-Agramonte, D. García-Delgado, A. Kröner, R. Pérez-Aragón. 2008. Palaeomagnetism of the Central Cuban Cretaceous Arc Sequences and Geodynamic Implications. Tectonophysics. C. Lázaro, A. García-Casco, Y. Rojas-Agramonte, A. Kröner, F. Neubauer, M. IturraldeVinent. 2008. 55-million-year history of oceanic subduction and exhumation in the northern edge of the Caribbean plate (Sierra del Convento mélange, Cuba). Journal of Metamorphic Geology A. García-Casco, A. Rodríguez Vega, J. Cárdenas Párraga, M. Iturralde-Vinent, C. Lázaro, I. Blanco Quintero, Y. Rojas-Agramonte, A. Kröner, K. Núñez, G. Millán, R. L. TorresRoldán. 2008. A new jadeitite jade locality (Sierra del Convento, Cuba): First report and some petrological and archaeological implications. Contribution to Mineralogy.

Reports, National Publications and Meeting Contributions (Abstracts): García Delgado, D., Delgado Damas, R., Millán Trujillo, G., Díaz de Villalvilla, L., Sukar Sastroputro, K., Llanes, I., Bernal, L., Rojas, Y., Pérez Pérez, C., Díaz Otero, D., Furrazola Bermúdez, G., Peñalver, L., García Cádiz, I., Pardo, M., Suárez, V., Rojas, R., 1998. Mapa Geológico de Cuba central (Provincias Cienfuegos, Villa Clara y Sancti Spiritus) a escala 1:100 000. Memorias del III Congreso Cubano de Geología. Vol. I, 263266. Pérez Pérez, C., Rojas, Y., 1998. Interpretación tectónica de imágenes espaciales en Cuba Central. Memorias del III Congreso Cubano de Geología. Vol. II, 156-159.

6 Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Torres, A.I., 1999. Litoestratigrafía, Bioestratigrafía y propuesta de hipoestratotipo de la Formación San Luis, Informe Final Proyecto Estratigrafía de Cuba Oriental. Instituto de Geología y Paleontología. In: Final report, Project 210: Stratigraphy of eastern Cuba, 11 pp. Rojas-Agramonte, Y. , Torres, A.I., 1999. Nuevos datos sobre la Formación Yateras. Informe Final Proyecto Estratigrafía de Cuba Oriental. Instituto de Geología y Paleontología. In: Final report, Project 210: Stratigraphy of eastern Cuba, 6 pp. Torres, A.I., Rojas-Agramonte, Y., 1999. Sedimentos carbonatados del Eoceno MedioSuperior al Este de las provincias orientales. In: Final report, Project 210: Stratigraphy of eastern Cuba, 11 pp. García Delgado, D.E., Delgado Damas, R., Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Duany Venero, E., 1999. Analisis bibliografico de la estratigrafia de las provincias orientales. In: Final report, Project 210: Stratigraphy of eastern Cuba, 6 pp. Rojas-Agramonte, Y., F. Neubauer, R. Handler, D. E. Garcia-Delgado, R. Delgado-Damas, 2000. Tectonic evolution of the Oriente fault seen trough deformation of the Sierra Maestra, Cuba. Oral presentation at Geology 2000, Vienna, Austria Rojas-Agramonte, Y., 2000. Panorama de la geología en Cuba, antecedentes y perspectivas para la investigación. Oral presentation at 17. Geowissenschaftliches LateinamerikaKolloquium, Stuttgart, Germany García D. E., Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Díaz, C., 2000. Estratigrafía del arco volcánico paleógeno en la región occidental de La Sierra Maestra, Cuba. Poster presentation at 17. Geowissenschaftliches Lateinamerika-Kolloquium, Stuttgart, Germany García Delgado, D.E., Díaz Otero, C., Méndez Calderón, I., Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Delgado Damas, R., 2000. Petrología y bioestratigrafía del arco volcánico paleógenico en la región meridional y oriental de la Sierra Maestra, Cuba. Poster presentation, 17. Geowissenschaftliches Lateinamerika-Kolloquium, Stuttgart, Germany Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Neubauer, F., Handler, R., Garcia-Delgado, D.E., Delgado-Damas, R., 2000. Tectonic evolution of the Oriente fault seen trough deformation of the Sierra Maestra, Cuba. Oral presentation, 17. Geowissenschaftliches Lateinamerika-Kolloquium, Stuttgart, Germany. D. E. Garcia Delgado, I. Mendez Calderon, C. Diaz Otero, Y. Rojas Agramonte, G. Furrazola-Bermudez, and R. Delgado Damas: Petrology and biostratigraphy of the

7 Paleogene volcanic arc in the La Sierra Maestra, Cuba (in Brazil 2000; 31st international geological congress; abstracts volume, G0105009.PDF Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Neubauer, F., Handler, R., Garcia-Delgado, D.E., Delgado-Damas, R., 2001. Evolución tectónica de la falla Oriente vista a través de las deformaciones ocurridas en la Sierra Maestra. Oral presentation, IV Geological Congress, Havana, Cuba. Millán-Trujillo G., Bernal-Rodriguez, L., Perez-Perez, C., García-Delgado, D., RojasAgramonte, Y., Las Villas-Nuevita F., 2001. Importante transcurrencia siniestra en el norte de Cuba Central. Oral presentation, IV Geological Congress, Havana, Cuba. Rojas-Agramonte, Yamirka, Neubauer, Franz, Handler, Robert, Hejl, Ewald, Bojar, AnaVoica, Garcia-Delgado, Dora E., 2002. Thermochronological evolution of the Sierra Maestra, Cuba: Significance for Caribbean tectonics. Oral presentation, Pangeo 2002, Salzburg, Austria. Rojas-Agramonte, Yamirka, Neubauer, Franz, Handler, Robert, Hejl, Ewald, Bojar, AnaVoica, Garcia-Delgado, Dora E., 2002. Thermochronological evolution of the Sierra Maestra, Cuba: Significance for Caribbean tectonics. Abstract, EOS, Trans. Am. Geophys. Union, AGU Fall Meeting 2002. Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Neubauer, F., Handler, R., Garcia-Delgado, D.E., Delgado-Damas, R., 2003. Neogene-quaternary tectonics along the North Caribbean transform fault, Cuba. Poster presentation, EUG-EGS-AGU joint assembly, Nice, France. Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Neubauer, F., Handler, R., Garcia-Delgado, D.E., Delgado-Damas, R., 2003. Neogene to Recent stress and strain variations along the active North Carribean Transform Fault, southeastern Cuba: From transtension to transpression. Oral presentation, 21. Tektonomechanik-Kolloquium, Graz, Austria. Cabrera-Castellanos, M., García-Delgado, D., Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Reyes-Pérez, C., Rivera-Alvarez, Z., 2003. Depósitos Cuaternarios al sur de la Sierra Maestra. Abstract, V Congreso de Geología y Minería, Havana, Cuba, CD-ROM. García-Delgado, D. E., Delgado-Damas, R., Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Millán-Trujillo, G., Peñalver, L. L., Cabrera, M., Padilla, I., Díaz-Otero, C., Torres-Silva, A. I., FurrazolaBermúdez, G., Llanes, A. I., Torres, M., Pérez-Aragón, R., Bernal, L., Morales, R., 2003. Mapa geológico de la región Habana-Matanzas a escala 1:100 000 en base digital. Abstract, V Congreso de Geología y Minería, Havana, Cuba, CD-ROM. Kröner, A., Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Wingate, M., Liu, D.Y., 2004, The Epupa Complex of northwestern Namibia: Late Palaeo-proterozoic to Mesoproterozoic granitoid magmatism

8 along the southwestern margin of the Congo craton. Abstract volume, 20th Colloquium of African Geology, Orleans, France, p. 240. Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Kröner, A., Somin, M., Millán Trujillo, G., 2005, Detrital zircon ages from clastic metasediments of the Escambray Massif, Cuba: Is a Mexican origin likely? Abstract Volume 19. Geowissenschaftliches Lateinamerika-Kolloquium: Terra Nostra (05/1), p. 100-101. Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Kröner, A., Sukar, K., Somin, M, Wingate, M.T.D., 2005. Cretaceous island arc magmatism in Cuba as revealed by U-Pb SHRIMP zircon dating. Abstract Volume 19. Geowissenschaftliches Lateinamerika-Kolloquium: Terra Nostra (05/1), p. 101-102. Rojas-Agramonte, Y. ; Kröner, A.; Sukar, K.; Somin, M. ; Wingate, M.T.D. 2005. Timing of Cretaceous island arc magmatism in Cuba as revealed by U-Pb SHRIMP zircon dating: European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2005. 24–29 April 2005 Vienna, Austria. EGU05-A-05965. Rojas-Agramonte, Y. ; Kröner, A.; Sukar, K.; Mattinson, J., Somin, M. ; Wingate, M.T.D. Millan, G., 2005. U-Pb SHRIMP zircon dating in Cretaceous island arc granitoid in central Cuba: implication for arc magmatism in th e greater Antilles 2005: Meeting of the IGCP project 480 in Irkutsk, Russia. Structural and tectonic correlation across the Central Asia Orogenic Collage: North-Eastern segment. Workshop and field excursion July 25- August 5, 2005. p. 247-251 Rojas-Agramonte, Y.; Kröner, A.; García-Casco, A.; Iturralde-Vinent, M.A.; Wingate, M.T.D; Liu, D.Y. 2006. Geodynamic implications of zircon ages from Cuba: Meeting of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, 02 – 07 April 2006. Vienna, Austria. EGU06-A-04943; Co-conveener of the session: Composition, structure and evolution of the Caribbean lithosphere and surrounding areas. Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Kröner, A., Badarch G., Liu, D. Y., Condie, K. C., Donskaya, T., Demoux, A., Wingate, M. T. D. 2006. Detrital and xenocrystic zircon geochronology from the Central Asian Orogenic Belt of Mongolia: Comparison with the Siberian craton and Gondwana. Meeting of the IGCP project 480 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Abstract and excursion guidebook, p. 58-59. Kröner, A., Windley, B. F., Badarch, G., Demoux, A., Rojas-Agramonte, Y., D.Y. Liu, M.T.D. Wingate. 2006. Crustal growth in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. GV International conference 2006 and 96th annual meeting of the Geologische Vereinigung

9 e. V. Postdam, Germany. Shaping the Earth surface: Dynamics and changing environments. September 25-29. p. 60 Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Kröner, A., Badarch G., Liu, D. Y., Condie, K. C., Donskaya, T., Demoux, A., Wingate, M. T. D. 2006. Detrital and xenocrystic zircon geochronology from the Central Asian Orogenic Belt of Mongolia: Comparison with the Siberian craton and Gondwana 2006: Annual convention and International symposium of the International Association for Gondwana Research (IAGR), Hong Kong, China. December 11-12. p-81-82. Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Kröner, A., García-Casco, A., Iturralde-Vinent, M. A., Somin, M., Millán, G., Blanco-Moreno, J., Rodriguez-Vega, A., Blanco-Quintero, I., DiazMartinez, R., Batista Crúz, Y. 2007. Implicaciones geodinámicas sobre las edades existentes de zircones en Cuba. II Convención cubana de ciencias de la tierra: VII Congreso de Geología (GEOLOGÍA'2007), Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba. March 19-23.