The origin and evolution of the Caribbean plate
By: edited by K.H. James, M.A. Lorente and J.L. Pindell
Contributors: Geological Society of London; Origin of the Caribbean Plate Conference
Series: Geological Society special publication -- no. 328; Geological Society special publication -- no. 328.
Publisher: Geological Society
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 858
ISBN-13: 9781862392885
Subjects: Plate tectonics; Geology
Notes: Proceedings of a conference on aspects of the geology of the area between North and South America, held in Sigüenza, Spain, in 2006, with some additional papers. Cf. pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tectonic evolution of the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean and northern South America in the mantle reference frame : an update / J.L. Pindell & L. Kennan; title: Some remarks on the Caribbean plate kinematics : facts and remaining problems / G. Giunta & E. Oliveri; title: In situ origin of the Caribbean : discussion of data / K.H. James; title: Evolution of Middle America and the in situ Caribbean plate model / K.H. James; title: The Caribbean : an oroclinal basin? / J. Milsom; title: Present-day strain field on the South American slab underneath the Sandwich plate (southern Atlantic Ocean) : a kinematic model / J.L. Giner-Robles ... [et al.]; title: Synchronous 29-19Ma arc hiatus, exhumation and subduction of forearc in southwestern Mexico / J.D. Keppie ... [et al.]; title: Analogue models of an early Cenozoic transpressive regime in southern Mexico : implications on the evolution of the Xolapa complex and the North American-Caribbean plate boundary / M. Cerca ... [et al.]; title: A seismotectonic model for the Chortís block / M. Guzmán-Speziale; title: Geological evolution of the NW corner of the Caribbean plate / R.A. Valls Alvarez; title: The North American-Caribbean plate boundary in Mexico-Guatemala-Honduras / L. Ratschbacher ... [et al.]; title: U-Pb zircon geochronology of Palaeozoic units in western and central Guatemala : insights into the tectonic evolution of Middle America / L.A. Solari ... [et al.]; title: Emplacement of the northern ophiolites of Cuba and the Campanian-Eocene geological history of the northwestern Caribbean-SE Gulf of Mexico region / J.L. Cobiella-Reguera; title: Geochemistry and tectonomagmatic significance of Lower Cretaceous island arc lavas from the Devil's Racecourse Formation, eastern Jamaica / A.R. Hastie ... [et al.]; title: The geotectonic story of the northwestern branch of the Caribbean Arc : implications from structural and geochronological data of Cuba / K.P. Stanek, W.V. Maresch & J.L. Pindell; title: Is the Cretaceous primitive island arc series in the circum-Caribbean region geochemically analogous to the modern island arc tholeiite series? / A.R. Hastie; title: Late Cretaceous to Miocene seamount accretion and mélange formation in the Osa and Burica peninsulas (southern Costa Rica) : episodic growth of a convergent margin / D.M. Buchs ... [et al.]; title: Rethinking the origins of the red chert at La Désirade, French West Indies / H. Montgomery & A.C. Kerr; title: Accreted oceanic terranes in Ecuador : southern edge of the Caribbean plate? / E. Jaillard ... [et al.]; title: Dextral shear, terrane accretion and basin formation in the northern Andes : best explained by interaction with a Pacific-derived Caribbean plate? / L. Kennan & J.L. Pindell; title: Presence of high-grade rocks in NW Venezuela of possible Grenvillian affinity / S. Grande & F. Urbani; title: The Cabo de la Vela mafic-ultramafic complex, northeastern Colombian Caribbean region : a record of multistage evolution of a late Cretaceous intra-oceanic arc / M.B.I. Weber ... [et al.]; title: Key issues on the post-Mesozoic southern Caribbean plate boundary / F.A. Audemard; title: Polyphase development of the Falcón Basin in northwestern Venezuela : implications for oil generation / M. Baquero ... [et al.]; title: Caribbean-South America oblique collision model revised / R. Higgs; title: The vanishing Carib Halite Formation (Neocomian), Colombia-Venezuela-Trinidad prolific petroleum province / R. Higgs; title: A structuring event of Campanian age in western Venezuela, interpreted from seismic and palaeontological data / P.M. Cooney & M.A. Lorente; title: The occurrence and timing of high-pressure metamorphism on Margarita Island, Venezuela : a constraint on Caribbean-South America interaction / W.V. Maresch ... [et al.]; title: Clastic domains of sandstones in central/eastern Venezuela, Trinidad, and Barbados : heavy mineral and tectonic constraints on provenance and palaeogeography / J.L. Pindell ... [et al.]; title: Submarine volcanic stratigraphy and the Caribbean LIP's formational environment / J. Diebold; title: Magma source evolution beneath the Caribbean oceanic plateau : new insights from elemental and Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf isotopic studies of ODP Leg 165 Site 1001 basalts / A.C. Kerr, D.G. Pearson & G.M. Nowell.