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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Publication News

New Publications about Caribbean Geology and Plate Tectonics

Books, memoirs, transactions, etc.

• The Caribbean Journal of Sciences December 2005 issue has several contributions about Caribbean Paleontology (http://www.caribjsci.org/). PDF versions of the papers will be available on line in a near future. Table of Contents (pdf)

• The Transactions of the 16th Caribbean Geological Conference, held in Barbados, 2002, are available as a Special Volume of the Caribbean Journal of Earth Sciences, published by the Geological Society of Jamaica, Dept. of Geography and Geology, University of West Indies at Mona, Kingston 7, JAMAICA, W.I.

• The book, Proceedings of the International Symposium "Insular Vertebrate Evolution: The Paleontological Approach", is now available.

• From Greenhouse to Icehouse: The Marine Eocene-Oligocene Transition
  Edited by Donald R. Prothero, Linda C. Ivany, and Elizabeth Nesbitt
  Columbia University Press

• AAPG Memoir 79, "The Circum-Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean," is published. You can visit the index at http://www2.aapg.org/eseries/source/orders/index.cfm

• Caribbean Geology: An Introduction (S.K.Donovan & T.A. Jackson, editors) is now available on CD for US$45 (including postage). The book was first published in 1994 but went out-of-print in 2001 with the sale of over 1000 copies. Contact Trevor Jackson at tjackson@uwimona.edu.jm for more information.

• New insights into Jurassic record of South America (Andes and Patagonia) - publication

Papers

• 2006

  • Iturralde-Vinent, M. A., 2006, Meso-Cenozoic Caribbean Paleogeography: Implications for the Historical Biogeography of the Region, International Geology Review, Vol. 48, 2006, p. 791-827.

  • Schweitzer, C.E., Iturralde-Vinent, M., Hetler, J.L., and Velez-Juarbe, J., 2006, Oligocene and Miocene decapods (Thalassinidea and Brachyura) from the Caribbean, Annals of Carnegie Museum, vol. 75(2), p. 111-136.

• 2005

  • Myczyñski, R. and Iturralde-Vinent, M., 2005, Late Lower Albian Invertebrate Fauna of the Rio Hatillo Formation of Pueblo Viejo, Dominican Republic, Caribbean Journal of Sciences, 41(4):782-796.

  • Cobiella-Reguera, Jorge L., 2005, Emplacement of Cuban Ophiolites, Geologica Acta, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 273-294.