Full Title: The Caribbean-South American Plate Boundary and Regional Tectonics
Editors: William E. Bonini, Robert B. Hargraves, and Reginald Shagam
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The continuing debate on the evolution of the Caribbean plate and its borderlands is a reflection of the complexity of the regional geology. Since the disruption of Pangea, the plates have been opened and closed, rotated and translated; that, combined with obduction and accretion of displaced terranes, has resulted in the highly integrated geology we see today. These 28 papers reflect the complexity of the tectonics of this area and the need for diverse approaches and sources of new data essential for understanding its history. Analytical tools of the 1970s and 1980s and regional plate kinematic syntheses, along with detailed case histories, provide evidence for the radical, large-scale rotations and translations in the heretofore sacrosanct cratonic "autochthon." This evidence indicates that these processes, once thought to have occurred prior to the earliest Cretaceous, are continuing today! Well illustrated, including oversize full-color map showing major geologic provinces of the Caribbean region. No specialist in the Caribbean or in island-arc terranes can afford to be without this book.
Published: 4/01/1984
ISBN Number: 0-8137-1162-2
Pages: 432
Product Category: Memoirs