Caribbean Geophysical, Tectonic, and Petrologic Studies
Author: Thomas W. Donnelly
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 1971-01-01
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0813711304
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Thomas W. Donnelly
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 1971-01-01
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0813711304
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Caribbean Geological Conference Staff
Publisher:
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780608139562
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: P. Mann
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 1999-12-15
Total Pages: 696
ISBN-13: 9780080528595
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This 21-chapter volume provides a regionally-comprehensive collection of original studies of Caribbean basins conducted by academic and petroleum geologists and geophysicists in the early and mid-1990s. The common tectonic events discussed in the volume including the rifting and passive margin history of North and South America that led to the formation of the Caribbean region; the entry of an exotic, Pacific-derived Great Arc of the Caribbean at the leading edge of the Caribbean oceanic plateau; the terminal collision of the arc and plateau with the passive margins fringing North and South America; and subsequent strike-slip and accretionary tectonics that affected the arc-continent collision zone. Two introductory chapters (Part A) utilize recent advances in quantitative plate tectonic modeling and satellite-based gravity measurements to place the main phases of Caribbean basin formation into a global plate tectonic framework. Nineteen subsequent chapters are organized geographically and focus on individual or groups of genetically-linked basins. Part B consists of five chapters which mainly focus on basins overlying the North America plate in the Gulf of Mexico, Cuba and the Bahamas that record its rifting from South America in late Jurassic to Cretaceous time. Part C has six chapters that focus on smaller, usually heavily faulted and onshore Cenozoic basins of the northern Caribbean that formed in response to arc collisional and strike-slip activity along the evolving North America-Caribbean plate boundary. The two chapters in Part D focus on Cenozoic basins related to the Lesser Antilles arc system of the eastern Caribbean. Part E is comprised of three chapters on the Jurassic-Recent sedimentary basins of the eastern Venezuela and Trinidad area of the southeastern Caribbean. These basins reflect both the Jurassic-Cretaceous rifting and passive margin history of separation between the North and South America plates as well as a much younger phase of Oligocene to recent transpression between the eastward migrating Lesser Antilles arc and accretionary wedge and the South America continent. The three chapters of Part F contain deep penetration seismic reflection and other geophysical data on the largely submarine Cretaceous Caribbean oceanic plateau that forms the nucleus of the present-day Caribbean plate.
Author: William Emory Bonini
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 0813711622
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alan Nairn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-04-17
Total Pages: 722
ISBN-13: 1468485350
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Hans G. Avé Lallemant
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 0813723949
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bruce R. Doe
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 0813711355
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Claudio Bartolini
Publisher: AAPG
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 977
ISBN-13: 0891813608
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"AAPG Memoir 79, The Circum-Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, is the first volume in more than a decade to document such a wide range of research on the geology of this vast area. Of the total 44 papers, roughly two-thirds pertain to the Gulf of Mexico, with an emphasis on the Mexican portion of the basin, and to the petroliferous areas of the southern Caribbean, including Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba, and Trinidad and Tobago. The remaining papers relate to the Antilles and Central America, as well as a series of papers that address region-wide topics such as plate tectonic evolution. A significant number of papers were contributed by authors from national oil companies and universities from within the region." --AAPG.
Author: Denny N. Bearce
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 0813721911
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