Late Jurassic Oceanic Crust and Upper Cretaceous Caribbean Plateau Picritic Basalts Exposed in the Duarte Igneous Complex, Hispaniola: A Reply

The southern margin of the Caribbean Plate in Venezuela: tectono-magmatic setting of the ophiolitic units and kinematic evolution

“…Whatever the mode of plateau accretion, the huge amounts of basaltic, picritic and OIB lavas erupted are consistent with the proposal that the Caribbean Plateau was formed by melting of a mantle plume. This oceanic plateau played a fundamental role in the Cretaceous evolution of the entire region (Donnelly et al, 1990;Kerr et al, 1996Kerr et al, , 1997bKerr et al, , 1999Sinton et al, 1998;Beccaluva et al, 1999;Lapierre et al, 1999Lapierre et al, , 2000.…”