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Caribbean Basins

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ISBN 0-444-82649-1.

Reference: Mann, P., editor, 1999, Caribbean Basins, series: Sedimentary Basins of the World, Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, vol. 4, 699p.

This volume provides a regionally-comprehensive collection of original studies of Caribbean basins, conducted by academic and petroleum geologists and geophysicists in the early and mid- 199Os. The common tectonic events discussed in the volume include the rifting and passive margin history of North and South America that led to the formation of the Caribbean region; the entry of an exotic, Pacific-derived Great Arc of the Caribbean at the leading edge of the Caribbean oceanic plateau; the terminal collision of the arc and plateau with the passive margins fringing North and South America; and subsequent strike-slip and accretionary tectonics that affected the arc-continent collision zone.

Contents:

Introduction (K. J. Hsu)
Dedication to W. A. Van den Bold (P. P. McLaughlin, Jr., and B. Sen Gupta)
Preface (P. Mann)

Part A: Tectonic Setting of Caribbean Basins
1: Caribbean Sedimentary Basins: Classification and Tectonic Setting from Jurassic to Present (by P. Mann)
2: New Constraints on the Late Cretaceous/Tertiary Plate Tectonic Evolution of the Caribbean (by R. D. Müller, J-Y. Royer, S. C. Cande, W. R. Roest, and S. Maschenkov)

Part B: Jurassic-Recent Basins of the Northern Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and Mexico Related to Rifting between North and South America
3: Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Tectono-Paleogeographic Evolution of the Southeastern Gulf of Mexico ( by G. L. Marton and R. T. Buffler)
4: The Exposed Passive Margin of North America in Western Cuba ( by A. Pszczolkowski)
5: Stratigraphic Evidence for Northwest to Southeast Tectonic Transport of Jurassic Terranes in Central Mexico and the Caribbean [Western Cuba] (by E. A. Pessagno, Jr., D. M. Hull, M. Kelldorf, J. F. Longoria, C. Martin, X. Meng, H. Montgomery, J. Urrutia Fucugauchi, and J. G. Ogg)
6: Cretaceous Carbonate Biostratigraphy and Environments in Honduras ( by R. W. Scott and R. C. Finch)
7: The Structural Evolution of the Southern Great Bahama Bank, Southern Bahamas (by J. L. Masaferro and G. P. Eberli)

Part C: Cenozoic Basins of the Northern Caribbean Related to Arc, Collisional and Strike-slip Activity
8: Deformational History of Roatan Island: Implications for the Origin of the Tela Basin (by H.G. Ave Lallemant and M. B. Gordon)
9: The Southern Flank of the Tela Basin, Republic of Honduras ( by W. I. Manton and R. S. Manton)
10: Cretaceous Microfaunas of the Blue Mountains, Jamaica, and of the Northren and Central Basement Complexes of Hispaniola ( by H. Montgomery, and E. A. Pessagno, Jr.)
11: Cenowic el Mamey Belt of Northern Hispaniola: A Sedimentary Record of Subduction, Collisional, and Strike-Slip Events within the North America-Caribbean Plate Boundary Zone ( by R. de Zoeten and P.Mann)
12: Tectonic and Eustatic Controls on Neogene Clastic and Evaporitic Deposition in the Enriquillo Basin, Dominican Republic (by P. Mann, P. P. McLaughlin, Jr., W. A. van den Bold, S. R. Lawrence, M. E. Lamar)
13: Evolution of the Neogene Kingshill Basin of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (by I. Gill, P. P. McLaughlin, Jr., and Dennis K. Hubbard)

Part D: Cenozoic Basins of the Eastern Caribbean and Lesser Antilles Arc System
14: Review of the Tectonic Controls and Sedimentary Patterns in Late Neogene Piggyback Basins on the Barbados Ridge Complex ( by P. Huyghe, J-L. Mugnier, R. Griboulard, Y. Deniaud, E. Gonthier,J-C. Faugeres)
15: Tectonic Evolution of the Granada Basin ( by D. E. Bird, S. A. Hall, J. F. Casey, and P. S. Millegan)

Part E: Jurassic-Recent Basins of the Southern Caribbean
16: Sequence Stratigraphy of the Eastern Venezuelan Basin ( by J. Di Croce, A. W. Bally, and P. Vail)
17: Structure of the Gulf of Paria Pull-Apert Basin (Eastern Venezuela -Trinidad) (by J.F. Flinch, V. Rambaran, W. Ali, V. De Lisa, G. Hernandez, K. Rodrigues, and R. Sams)
18: Structural and Sedimentary Development of a Neogene Transpressional Plate Boundary between the Caribbean and South America Plates in Trinidad and the Gulf of Paria (by S. E. Babb and P. Mann)

PART F: Mesozoic-Recent Igneous Basement and Overlying Basins of the Central Caribbean
19: New Insights on the Formation of the Caribbean Basalt Province Revealed by Multichannel Seismic Images of Volcanic Structures in the Venezuelan Basin (by J. Diebold and N. Driscoll)
20: Tectonic and Stratigraphic Development of the Eastern Caribbean: New Constraints from Multichannel Seismic Data (by N. Driscoll and J. Diebold)
21: Neogene Intraplate Deformation ofteh Caribbean Plate at the Beata Ridge ( by A. Mauffret and S. Leroy)