Earth Sciences (UNESCO)

International Year of Planet Earth (UNESCO)

International Geoscience Programme (IGCP): Geoscience in the service of society

IGCP projects 2007 (PDF)

Commission for the Geological Map of the World (created in 1881 during the 2nd IGC in Bologna. Non-Governmental Organization governed by French law).

Spanish Committee IGCP

USGS CMG InfoBank Atlas: Caribbean Sea regions

Caribbean Plate Tectonics site (IUGS/UNESCO IGCP Project 433; 2000-2005)

The Caribbean Geology & Tectonics Website (Florida International University: by Gren Draper)

Caribbean Geology, Geophysics and Tectonics  (UTIG, Texas)

The PLATES project (UTIG, Texas)

The BOLIVAR project (UTIG, Texas)

The SE Caribbean Margin project (UTIG-Rice)

Origin and evolution of terrestrial and marine biota of the Caribbean (by M. Iturralde; in Spanish)

Marine Geology Data Center

Geologic Map of North America (USGS)

CBMap (Critical tools for mineral exploration in Central America and the Caribbean Basin, by Recursos del Caribe)

Geologic mosaic of the Caribbean (by Recursos del Caribe)

Material offeredby Jim Pindell (at http://www.tectonicanalysis.com, but also offered here).

Papers. Geological Society of London, Special Paper series (the papers are all reviewed and accepted for publication as they are, although minor text editing is still to come. If you wish to cite them publicly, please contact Jim and he will try to tell you at that time if any more citation information is known. The full reference should be known by the time any new papers might wish to use ideas herein):

http://www.tectonicanalysis.com/site/download/Pindell_Kennan_2009_Caribbean_GoM_update_PREPRINT.pdf

http://www.tectonicanalysis.com/site/download/Pindell_Kennan_2009_heavy_minerals_Ven_Trin_Barb_PREPRINT.pdf

http://www.tectonicanalysis.com/site/download/Kennan_Pindell_2009_Northern_Andes_PREPRINT.pdf

Animation. There is also a link to a "flip chart animation". This is a series of  reconstructions that can be moved through to show the net plate  motions. The series is plotted in the mantle reference frame, so the Americas move west to achieve Caribbean-American relative motion, while the Caribbean moves very little, especially in the Tertiary. This model is essentially the culmination of refinements Jim has continued to make to my Pacific origin model since 1984. See the Caribbean “movie” of Pindell and Kennan, in press, above, and its preface, at the Tectonic Analysis Site:

http://www.tectonicanalysis.com/site/caribbean/default.htm

and the link to the Caribbean animation only is:

http://www.tectonicanalysis.com/site/caribbean/Carib_HSRF_animation.avi

The Geological Society on-line debate on the controversy surrounding the origin of the Caribbean Plate.

Naturaleza Geológica de Cuba (in Spanish)

Honduras Geology (by Rob Robers)

Geologic Shaded Relief Map of Venezuela. U.S. Geological Survey, Open File Report 2005-1038 (English)

Geologic Shaded Relief Map of Venezuela. U.S. Geological Survey, Open File Report 2005-1038 (Spanish)

Digital Geologic Map and GIS Database of Venezuela

Digital shaded relief map of Venezuela. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1322

Field Guides and other material from Venezuela, including
- Autopista y Carretera Vieja Caracas - La Guaira. Vargas-DC
- Rio Miguelena, Camuri Grande. Vargas
- Gran Roque. Dep. Federales
- Siquisique. Lara
- Serrania del Interior. Miranda - Aragua - Guarico
- Recursos geotermicos de la Zona de El Pilar - Casanay, Sucre. (con P. Varela y Freddy Chiquito)
- Historia de los mapas geologicos de Venezuela (1850-2005) (PowerPoint)
- Menes de Perija. (PowerPoint)
- Fuentes termales de Venezuela. (PowerPoint)

GulfBase (database of resources about the Gulf of Mexico).

Map library of Cuba (free)

Paleontología de Cuba (Spanish)

Sociedad Cubana de Geología Instituto de Geología y Paleontología (Cuba) Sociedad Dominicana de Geología Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofísicos del Petroleo Colegio de Geólogos de Costa Rica Sociedad Geologica Mexicana Unión Geofísica Mexicana Asociacion Mexicana de Geólogos Petroleros Asociacion Mexicana de Geofisícos de Exploración Sociedad Venezolana de Ingenieros Geofísicos Geological Society of Trinidad & Tobago Geological Society of Jamaica Asociación Centroamericana de Estudiantes de Geología

Geological Society of America Seismological Society of America American Association of Petroleum Geologists American Geophysical Union US Geological Survey The Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Austin Geological Society Corpus Christi Geological Society Houston Geological Society Lafayette Geological Society New Orleans Geological Society South Texas Geological Society

Manuel Iturralde (mostly, in Spanish)

Robert D. Rogers

Escuela Centroamericana de Geología

Tectonic Analysis Ltd (by Jim Pindell)

Caribbean Plate Evolution email Group (administrator Rob Rogers)

Central America Geology email Group (administrator Rob Rogers)

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