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Bibliography of Caribbean Geology and Geophysics (PLATES project, UTIG, Texas)

Bibliography of Field Guides for the Caribbean (PLATES project, UTIG, Texas)

Some recent articles about Central American Geology (William I. Rose, Michigan Tech)

17th Caribbean Geological Conference, San Juan de Puerto Rico, 2006 (Abstracts)

CENTRAL AMERICA. Geology, Resources and Hazards. Edited by Jochen Bundschuh and Guillermo E. Alvarado. (http://www.lak2007.uni-kiel.de/lak-book.pdf, http://www.lak2007.uni-kiel.de/flyer_bundschuh_cropped-29-jan.pdf)

Mann, P., Rogers, R. D., and Gahagan, L. Overview of plate tectonic history and its unresolved tectonic problems. In Jochen Bundschuh and Guillermo E. Alvarado (Eds.) CENTRAL AMERICA. Geology, Resources and Hazards.

Müller, R. D., Royer, J.-Y., Cande, S. C., Roest, W. R., and Maschenkov, S. (1999). New Constraints on Late Cretaceous/Tertiary Plate Tectonic Evolution of the Caribbean. In P. Mann (Ed.) Caribbean Basins. Sedimentary Basins of the World, 4, 33-59. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam. (also: http://www.geosci.usyd.edu.au/users/dietmar/Pdf/Muller_etal_CaribTect_WorldSedBas_Elsevier1999.pdf).

Pindell, J.L. Kennan, L., 2001. Kinematic Evolution of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean. In: Fillon, R., Rosen, N.,Weimer, P., Lowrie, A., Pettingill, H., Phair, R., Roberts, H., van Hoorn, B. (eds.). Transactions of the Gulf Coast Section Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists (GCSSEPM) 21st Annual Bob F. Perkins Research Conference, Petroleum Systems of Deep-Water Basins, Houston, Texas, 193-220.

Leckie, R.M., Sigurdsson, H., Acton, G.D., and Draper, G. (Eds.), 2000. Caribbean Ocean History and the Cretaceous / Tertiary Boundary Event. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, Vol. 165.

SUBDUCTION TO STRIKE-SLIP TRANSITIONS ON PLATE BOUNDARIES. Penrose Conference. Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic January 18-24, 1999. ABSTRACT VOLUME. Conveners: Paul Mann, Nancy Grindlay and James Dolan.

Mann, P., E. Calais, J.-C. Ruegg, C. DeMets, P. E. Jansma, and G. S. Mattioli, Oblique collision in the northeastern Caribbean from GPS measurements and geological observations, Tectonics, 21(6), 1057, doi:10.1029/2001TC001304, 2002

Hans Gerhard Avé Lallemant, Virginia Baker Sisson (Eds) 2005. Caribbean-South American Plate Interactions, Venezuela. Geological Society of America. SPE394. 331 pages. Partial contents of the book: click here

Ana María Correa M., Uwe Martens, Jorge Julián Restrepo A., Oswaldo Ordóñez-Carmona & Marcio Martins Pimentel. (2005). Subdivisión de las metamorfitas básicas de los alrededores de Medellín - Cordillera Central de Colombia / Subdivision of Basic Metamorphic rocks from Medellin -- Central Andean Cordillera of Colombia. No. 112, 325—344.

Cardona, A., Weber, M., Bayona, G., Jaramillo, C., Montes, C., Ojeda, G., Duque, J.F., Salazar, C.A. (2007). Tectonic growth of a Cretaceous-Eocene accretionary orogen formed at the southern margin of the Caribbean Plate: integrated geological insights from northernmost Colombia. Eos Trans. AGU, 88 (23), Jt. Assem. Suppl., Abstract U53A-05.

Cardona, A., Weber, M., Wilson, R., Cordani, U., Muñoz, C. M., Paniagua, F., 2007. Evolución tectono-magmática de las rocas maficas-ultramáficas del Cabo de La Vela y el Stock de Parashi, Península de la Guajira: registro de la evolución orogénica Cretácica-Eocena del norte de Suramérica y el Caribe. XI Congreso Colombiano de Geologia, Bucaramanga, Agosto 14-17.

Weber, M, Cardona, A., Wilson, R., Gómez-Tapias, J., Zapata, G., 2007. Quimica mineral de las rocas de alta presion - facies eclogita, de la Peninsula de la Guajira, Colombia. XI Congreso Colombiano de Geologia, Bucaramanga, Agosto 14-17.

García-Casco, A., Torres-Roldán, R.L., Millán, G., Monié, P., Haissen, F., 2001. High-grade metamorphism and hydrous melting of metapelites in the Pinos terrane (W Cuba): Evidence for crustal thickening and extension in the northern Caribbean collisional belt. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 19, 699-715.

García-Casco, A., Torres-Roldán, R.L., Millán, G., Monié, P., Schneider, J., 2002. Oscillatory zoning in eclogitic garnet and amphibole, Northern Serpentinite Melange, Cuba: a record of tectonic instability during subduction? Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 20, 581-598.

García-Casco, A., Pérez de Arce, C., Millán, G., Iturralde-Vinent, M.A., Fonseca, E., Torres-Roldán, R.L., Núnez, K., Morata, D., 2003. Metabasites from the northern serpentinite belt (Cuba) and a metamorphic perspective of the plate tectonic models for the Caribbean region. Taller del Proyecto nº 433 del PICG / UNESCO “Tectónica de placas en el Caribe”, La Habana, Memorias GEOMIN 2003,1-9.

Schneider, J., Bosch, D., Monie, P., Guillot, S., García-Casco, A., Lardeaux, J.M., Torres-Roldán, R.L., Millán, G., 2004. Origin and evolution of the Escambray Massif (central Cuba); an example of HP/ LT rocks exhumed during intraoceanic subduction. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 22, 227-247.

García-Casco, A. 2005. Partial melting and counter-clockwise P-T path of subducted oceanic crust: a case study of hot subduction in the northern Caribbean (E Cuba). In: Metamorphic Studies Group Research in Progress and Annual General Meeting, The Geological Society, London, March 2005. Keynote address, 1-2.

García-Casco, A., Torres-Roldán R. L., Iturralde-Vinent, M. A., Millán, G., Núñez Cambra, K., Lázaro, C. & Rodríguez Vega, A., 2006. High pressure metamorphism of ophiolites in Cuba. Geologica Acta 4, 63-88.

Iturralde-Vinent, M.A. 2006. Meso-Cenozoic Caribbean paleogeography: Implications for historical biogeography of the region. International Geology Review 48,791-827.

Stanek, K. P., Maresch, W. V.,  Grafe, F., Grevel, CH. Baumann, A., 2006. Structure, tectonics and metamorphic development of the Sancti Spiritus Dome (eastern Escambray massif, Central Cuba). Geologica Acta 4, 151-170.

Grevel, C.; Maresch, W.V.; Stanek, K.P.; Grafe, F.; Hoernes, S., 2006. Petrology and geodynamic significance of deerite-bearing metaquartzites from the Escambray Massif, Cuba. Mineralogical Magazine, 70, 545-564.

García-Casco, A., 2007. Magmatic paragonite in trondhjemites from the Sierra del Convento mélange, Cuba. American Mineralogist 92, 1232-1237

CRUZ E.M., MARESCH, W.V. CÁCERES D., BALCÁZAR N. (2007) Significado de las paragénesis de anfíboles en metagrabos relacionados con secuencias de margen continental en el NW de Cuba – Rev. Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas, v. 24, 318-327.

GARCÍA-CASCO, A., LÁZARO, C., ROJAS-AGRAMONTE, Y., KRÖNER, A., TORRES ROLDÁN, R. L., NUÑEZ, K., MILLÁN, G., NEUBAURER, F., QUINTERO, I. (2008). Partial melting and counterclockwise P-T path of subducted oceanic crust (Sierra del Convento, E Cuba). Journal of Petrology 49, 129-161. doi:10.1093/petrology/egm074.

Iturralde-Vinent, M. A., Millán, G., Korpas, L., Nagy, E., and Pajón, J., 1996, Geological Interpretation of the Cuban K-Ar Database, in Iturralde-Vinent, M., ed., Cuban ophiolites and volcanic arcs: Special Contribution no. 1 to IGCP Project 364, Miami, Florida, 48-69.

Richard N. Abbott, Jr., Grenville Draper, and Bonnie N. Broman 2004. P-T Path for Ultrahigh-Pressure Garnet Ultramafic Rocks of the Cuaba Gneiss, Rio San Juan Complex, Dominican Republic. International Geology Review, Vol. 48, No. 9: 778-790.

Richard N. Abbott, Jr., Grenville Draper, and Shantanu Keshav 2005. UHP Magma Paragenesis, Garnet Peridotite, and Garnet Clinopyroxenite: An Example from the Dominican Republic. International Geology Review, 47, No. 3: 233-247.

Krebs, M., Maresch, W.V., Schertl, H.-P., Baumann, A., Draper, G., Idleman, B., Münker, C., Trapp, E. (2007). The dynamics of intra-oceanic subduction zones: A direct comparison between fossil petrological evidence (Rio San Juan Complex, Dominican Republic) and numerical simulation. Lithos.

Goncalves, P., Guillot, S., Lardeaux, J.-M., Nicolleta, C., Mercier de Lepinay, B. (2000). Thrusting and sinistral wrenching in a pre-Eocene HP-LT Caribbean accretionary wedge (Samaná Peninsula, Dominican Republic). Geodinamica Acta 13, 119–132.

ESCUDER-VIRUETE J., PEREZ-ESTAUN A., CONTRERAS F., JOUBERT M., WEIS D., ULLRICH-T. D., SPADEA P. (2007). Plume mantle source heterogeneity through time; insights from the Duarte Complex, Hispaniola, northeastern Caribbean. Journal of Geophysical Research 112; B4, B04203.

Fernando Ortega-Gutiérrez, Luigi A. Solari, Jesús Solé, Uwe Martens, Arturo Gómez-Tuena, Sergio Morán-Ical, Margarita Reyes-Salas, and Carlos Ortega-Obregón 2004. Polyphase, High-Temperature Eclogite-Facies Metamorphism in the Chuacús Complex, Central Guatemala: Petrology, Geochronology, and Tectonic Implications. International Geology Review,  Vol. 46, No. 5: 445-470.

ORTEGA-OBREGÓN, C. SOLARI, L.A. KEPPIE, J. D. ORTEGA-GUTIÉRRREZ, F. SOLÉ, J. MORÁN. S. Middle - Late Ordovician magmatism and Late Cretaceous collision in the southern Maya block, Rabinal - Salamá area, central Guatemala: implications for North America-Caribbean plate tectonics. Geological Society of America Bulletin (in press).

Solari, L.A., Torres de León, R., Hernández Pineda, G., Solé, J., Solís-Pichardo, G., Hernández-Treviño, T. (2007). Tectonic significance of Cretaceous–Tertiary magmatic and structural evolution of the northern margin of the Xolapa Complex, Tierra Colorada area, southern Mexico. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 119, 1265–1279, DOI: 10.1130/B26023.1

Mann, P., Hippolyte, J.-C., Grindlay, N.R., and Abrams, L.J., 2005. Neotectonics of southern Puerto Rico and its offshore margin. In Mann, P. (Ed.) Active tectonics and seismic hazards of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and offshore areas. Geological Society of America Special Paper 385, p. 173–214.

Michael R. Perfit, Bruce C. Heezen, Michael Rawson and Thomas W. Donnelly, 1980. Chemistry, origin and tectonic significance of metamorphic rocks from the Puerto Rico Trench. Marine Geology, Volume 34, Issues 3-4, 125-156

Rankin, D., 2002. Geology of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. US Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1631, 1-36.

Hans Gerhard Avé Lallemant, Virginia Baker Sisson (Eds) 2005. Caribbean-South American Plate Interactions, Venezuela. Geological Society of America. SPE394. 331 pages. Partial contents of the book: click here

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