“…The formation of such sequences is related to vertical deformation associated with the Great Antillean/Northern Caribbean fault zone (Taber, 1922;Woodring, 1954), at the boundary between the North American and Caribbean plates. Recent studies including absolute dating are rather scarce, for example for Haiti (Dumas et al, 2006;Hearty et al, 2007), for the Dominican Republic (Diaz de Neira et al, 2015Neira et al, , 2017Escuder -Viruelte et al, 2020), and for Cuba (Toscano et al, 1999;Pajon et al, 2006;De Waele et al, 2017Muhs et al, 2018, Schielien et al, 2020.…”