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(J. Butterlin)
Caribbean Basins et un ouvrage d'une grande qualité, aussi bien dans son contenu que dans sa forme, et bénéficie d'une illustration abondante qui en facilite la lecture et la compréhension. Il sera indispensable à tous les chercheurs intéressés par l'évolution des bassins caraïbes.
Geochronique, No 74,
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Hardbound. 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 su
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The distribution of recorded earthquakes, active calc-alkaline volcanoes, and spreading ridges defines five rigid plates in the Caribbean region: North America, South America, Caribbean, and Nazca (Molnar and Sykes, 1969; Mann et al., 1990) (Fig. 1). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
basal foredeep unconformity, piggyback basins, oceanic plateau crust, reefal foraminifera, sonobuoy records, black radiolarian chert, fracture zone data, hummocky acoustic character, neritic depths, fracture zone identifications, lithospheric trace, onlapping packages, plate flow lines, transpressional reactivation, upper abyssal depths, passive margin phase, micrite nodules, siltstone couplets, tectonic transpression, bladed selenite, passive margin rocks, southeastward propagation, evolving microplate formation, terrane remnants, tethyan ammonites Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, Gulf of Paria, Gulf of Mexico, Warm Springs, Puerto Rico, San Pedro del Gallo, Dominican Republic, Sierra de los Organos, Northern Range, Cordillera Septentrional, Middle Jurassic, Serranía del Interior, Great Arc, Altamira Formation, Sierra del Rosario, Tela Basin, Geological Society of America, Las Lavas Formation, Upper Cretaceous, Loma Sal, Swan Islands, Upper Jurassic, Puerto Plata, Late Pliocene, Los Bajos New!
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The distribution of recorded earthquakes, active calc-alkaline volcanoes, and spreading ridges defines five rigid plates in the Caribbean region: North America, South America, Caribbean, and Nazca (Molnar and Sykes, 1969; Mann et al., 1990) (Fig. 1). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
basal foredeep unconformity, piggyback basins, oceanic plateau crust, reefal foraminifera, sonobuoy records, black radiolarian chert, fracture zone data, hummocky acoustic character, neritic depths, fracture zone identifications, lithospheric trace, onlapping packages, plate flow lines, transpressional reactivation, upper abyssal depths, passive margin phase, micrite nodules, siltstone couplets, tectonic transpression, bladed selenite, passive margin rocks, southeastward propagation, evolving microplate formation, terrane remnants, tethyan ammonites Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, Gulf of Paria, Gulf of Mexico, Warm Springs, Puerto Rico, San Pedro del Gallo, Dominican Republic, Sierra de los Organos, Northern Range, Cordillera Septentrional, Middle Jurassic, Serranía del Interior, Great Arc, Altamira Formation, Sierra del Rosario, Tela Basin, Geological Society of America, Las Lavas Formation, Upper Cretaceous, Loma Sal, Swan Islands, Upper Jurassic, Puerto Plata, Late Pliocene, Los Bajos New!
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- Caribbean Tsunami Hazard by Aurelio Mercado-Irizarry on page 60, and page 61
- Great Waters: An Atlantic Passage by Deborah Cramer in Back Matter
- Great Waters: An Atlantic Passage by Deborah Cramer in Back Matter
- Early Earthquakes of the Americas by Robert L. Kovach in Back Matter
- Caribbean Geology into the Third Millenium: Transactions of the Fifteenth Caribbean Geological Conference by Trevor A. Jackson on page 94
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