Palaeomagnetism of the Guaniguanico Cordillera, western Cuba: a pilot study

Alva‐Valdivia, Luis M.; Goguitchaichvili, Avto; Cobiella-Reguera, Jorge L.; Urrutia‐Fucugauchi, J.; Fundora-Granda, M.; Grajales-Nishimura, J.M.; Rosales, C.

doi:10.1006/cres.2001.0294

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“…The nappes are composed of formations arranged in stratigraphical successions deposited east to northeast of the Maya block (Iturralde-Vinent, 1994Pszczółkowski, 1999a). This is not obligatory, however, to follow a terrane concept in respect to the whole nappe pile of the Guaniguanico Mountains (CobiellaReguera, 2000;Alva-Valdivia et al, 2001). Recent paleotectonic reconstructions of the Guanigianico nappes (Saura et al, 2008;Cobiella-Reguera, 2008) Remane et al (1986); Pop (1994) Remane ( …”

Section: General Remarks On the Guaniguanico Megaunitmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tithonian–Early Valanginian evolution of deposition along the proto-Caribbean margin of North America recorded in Guaniguanico successions (western Cuba)

Pszczółkowski

Myczyński

2010

Journal of South American Earth Sciences

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Section: General Remarks On the Guaniguanico Megaunitmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tithonian–Early Valanginian evolution of deposition along the proto-Caribbean margin of North America recorded in Guaniguanico successions (western Cuba)

Pszczółkowski

Myczyński

2010

Journal of South American Earth Sciences

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Palaeomagnetism of the central Cuban Cretaceous Arc sequences and geodynamic implications

Tait¹,

Rojas‐Agramonte²,

Garcia-Delgado³

et al. 2009

Tectonophysics

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Insights into Caribbean tectonics from a detrital zircon U-Pb provenance study of siliciclastic strata in western and central Cuba

Ascanio-Pellon,

Stockli,

Ruiz-Arriaga

et al. 2024

Geological Society of America Bulletin

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The tectonic affinity and origins of the Jurassic, siliciclastic San Cayetano and Constancia formations exposed in western and central Cuba in the Caribbean region remain debated. The scarcity of modern geochronologic studies on these Cuban units hampers both sedimentary provenance and palinspastic reconstructions, resulting in Caribbean models that tend to oversimplify the formation of Cuba and correlate the Jurassic strata to various regions such as North America, South America, the Yucatán margin, or the conceptual Caribeana domain. Using laser ablation−inductively coupled plasma−mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS), we conducted a detailed detrital zircon (DZ) U-Pb provenance study of these Cuban siliciclastic strata that provides critical insights into understanding the formation of Cuba during the Early Jurassic rifting stages of Pangea. Results from 19 San Cayetano Formation samples show a dominant Oaxaquia (ca. 1 Ga) and Chiapas batholith (ca. 250 Ma) signature, while six Constancia samples display variable ca. 1 Ga and ca. 250 Ma grains. The Lower Cretaceous Polier Formation and the Paleocene Moncada Formation also display the same ca. 1 Ga and ca. 250 Ma signatures. After comparing these Cuban data with data from other regional DZ studies, we propose that that the San Cayetano and Constancia formations are correlative to the Todos Santos Formation located in the southwestern Yucatán region of Mexico. These Cuban units were predominantly deposited adjacent to the Chiapas batholith during the Early Jurassic in northwest−southeast-trending basins created by Pangean rifting. They were eventually sheared during eastward migration of the Caribbean plate and transported northward until they collided with the North American continent in the Paleogene. This DZ study provides new constraints on the tectonic provenance of western and central Cuba and improves plate tectonic reconstructions of the Caribbean.

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Palaeomagnetism of the Guaniguanico Cordillera, western Cuba: a pilot study

Cited by 7 publications

References 18 publications

Tithonian–Early Valanginian evolution of deposition along the proto-Caribbean margin of North America recorded in Guaniguanico successions (western Cuba)

Tithonian–Early Valanginian evolution of deposition along the proto-Caribbean margin of North America recorded in Guaniguanico successions (western Cuba)

Palaeomagnetism of the central Cuban Cretaceous Arc sequences and geodynamic implications

Insights into Caribbean tectonics from a detrital zircon U-Pb provenance study of siliciclastic strata in western and central Cuba

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