Caribbean Plate Tectonics Site

In support of IUGS/UNESCO IGCP Project 433 (2000-2005) and preserved as a forum for information exchange about the Caribbean Geology and Plate Tectonics

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Seek here for important issues concerning the plate tectonic models of the Caribbean!!
Send your own material to Lisa, to be posted as well. Text as MS Word or HTML documents and graphics saved as GIF files.

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• Arguments for and against the Pacific origin of the Caribbean Plate: discussion, finding for an inter-American origin by K.H. JAMES. Vol. 4 (2006), issue 1-2, 279-302

• Pindell, J. and L. Kennan, Plate Model for the Caribbean

• Emmet, P., "Structure and Stratigraphy of the Gracias a Dios Platform and Mosquitia Basin, Offshore Eastern Honduras, and Implications for the Tectonic History of the Chortis Block", an extended abstract and Powerpoint presentation of Pete Emmet's talk at the Caribbean Workshop in Austin, TX, Sept. 20, 2002.

• James, K. H., "A Simple Synthesis of Caribbean Geology," PDF of Keith James' Caribbean plate model.

• Giunta, G. and Dilek, Y., "Multi-phase Evolution of the Caribbean Plate Through Plume, Accretionary, and Collisional Tectonics," Powerpoint presentation for 16th International Caribbean Geological Conference, Barbados, June 2002. (Large file)

• Iturralde-Vinent, Powerpoint presentation for "WG/IGCP 433 and 2nd Italian-LatinAmerican Meeting and field trip on the Motagua Suture Zone of Guatemala", Jan. 2002. "Western-Caribbean Tectonic Deformations as Recorded in the Cuban Foldbelt"

• Iturralde-Vinent, Powerpoint presentation to the GSA meeting in Boston, Nov. 4-9, 2001: Section: Focus on IGCP: Modern and ancient plate boundaries and orogens I. "Phanerozoic tectonic evolution of the North American Plate Boundary in Cuba" (Nov. 2, 2001)

• Iturralde-Vinent, Haiti Powerpoint presentation - Some preliminary geological observations from recent field work in Haiti (Oct. 8, 2001)

• Iturralde-Vinent, "Jurassic paleogeography and biogeography of west-central Pangaea: Some preliminary notes" (June 2001)

• Iturralde-Vinent & Gahagan IGC presentation, "Caribbean Plate Tectonics: Discrepancies and Similarities Among Tectonic Models" (July 11, 2000)