Caribbean Geology into the Third Millenium
Subtitle: Transactions of the Fifteenth Caribbean Geological Conference
Publisher: University Press of the West Indies
Published: September 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9789766401009
Subjects: Earth Sciences; Regional Geology; Science; Science/Mathematics; Earth Sciences - Geology; Research & Methodology
First sentence: Caribbean crust is composed of four different types: (1) continental crustal blocks with a pre-Mesozoic basement, (2) continental crust formed during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic, (3) oceanic crust thickened by a mid-Cretaceous flood basalt event, and (4) normal oceanic crust formed during the Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous by seafloor spreading between North and South America (e.g., Pindell and Barrett 1990 and references therein).