Caribbean-South American Plate Interactions, Venezuela 2005
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2394-9.7
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Plate-kinematics and crustal dynamics of circum-Caribbean arc-continent interactions: Tectonic controls on basin development in Proto-Caribbean margins

Abstract: The American margins of the Caribbean comprise basins and accreted terranes recording a polyphase tectonic history. Plate kinematic models and reconstructions back to the Jurassic show that Mesozoic separation of the Americas produced passive margins that were overridden diachronously from west to east by allochthonous Caribbean plate-related arc and oceanic complexes. P-T-t and structural data, sedimentary provenance, and basin-subsidence studies constrain this history. Caribbean lithosphere is Pacifi c-deriv… Show more

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“…One model suggests that the plate has moved eastward very slightly; it is essentially in situ [e.g., Meschede and Frisch, 1998;James, 2006]. The other suggests that the plate formed far to the west and migrated relatively eastward for more than 1000 km [e.g., Pindell and Dewey, 1982;Pindell et al, 1988Pindell et al, , 2005Pindell et al, , 2006. We favor the latter model because of reasons described by Pindell [1994] based on an integration of Caribbean stratigraphy, magmatism, deformation, and regional geometries.…”
Section: Origin Of the Caribbean Platementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…One model suggests that the plate has moved eastward very slightly; it is essentially in situ [e.g., Meschede and Frisch, 1998;James, 2006]. The other suggests that the plate formed far to the west and migrated relatively eastward for more than 1000 km [e.g., Pindell and Dewey, 1982;Pindell et al, 1988Pindell et al, , 2005Pindell et al, , 2006. We favor the latter model because of reasons described by Pindell [1994] based on an integration of Caribbean stratigraphy, magmatism, deformation, and regional geometries.…”
Section: Origin Of the Caribbean Platementioning
confidence: 99%
“…[7] According to Pindell et al [2005Pindell et al [ , 2006, northwestsoutheast rifting between North America and South America began with plate divergence in the Middle Jurassic. With continued rifting, the proto-Caribbean lithosphere formed between the Americas from the Jurassic to the Cretaceous, approximately 160-80 Ma.…”
Section: Origin Of the Caribbean Platementioning
confidence: 99%
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