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Caribbean Research by Region

• General
• Bahama Platform
• Cuba
• Hispaniola and Puerto Rico
• Barbados
• Lesser Antilles
• Venezulea and Trinidad
• Gulf of Mexico
• Mexico
• Honduras
• Panama and Costa Rica
• South America

This list includes theses, UTIG research projects, publications, and other websites.

• General Caribbean
  • "Caribbean Sedimentary Basins" (edited by P. Mann, published by Elsevier Science)
  • "The Caribbean-South American Plate Boundary and Regional Tectonics" (edited by Bonini et al., GSA Special Paper 162).
  • "GPS-derived Velocities in the Northeastern Caribbean: Implications for Caribbean-North America Motion and the NUVEL-1A Model" (DeMets et al., Fall 1996 AGU abstract).
  • plate reconstructions - PLATES Project
• Bahama Platform
  • To Jamie Austin's homepage
  • "MR1 Sidescan Reveals Aftermath Effects of Late Neogene Oblique Collision of the Bahama Platform on the Puerto Rico Trench" (Mann et al., Fall 1996 AGU abstract).
• Cuba
  • Origin of the Caribbean Plate
  • "Investigations Into the Geology of Cuba" - UTIG atlas (E. Rosencrantz and G. Pardo)
  • "Active Strike-Slip and Collisional Tectonics of the Northern Caribbean Plate Boundary Zone" (edited by J.F. Dolan and P. Mann, GSA Special Paper 326)
  • "Cenozoic tectonic history of the North America-Caribbean plate boundary zone in western Cuba" (Gordon et al., 1997, JGR)
  • "⁴⁰AR/³⁹Ar dating of single muscovite grains in Jurassic siliciclastic rocks (San Cayetano Formation): Constraints on the paleoposition of western Cuba" (Hutson et al, 1998, Geology)
• Hispaniola and Puerto Rico
  • Island Fault Blocks in the Northeastern Caribbean
  • "Subduction to Strike-slip Transitions on Plate Boundaries" - GSA Penrose Conference
  • Time-Transgressive Deformational Effects of Oblique Underthrusting of Aseismic Ridges on the Puerto Rico Trench and Island Margin: Sidescan, Seismic Reflection, Gravity and Magnetic Studies
  • Puerto Rico research cruise
  • A GPS Study of Caribbean Plate Kinematics and Distributed Deformation Between the Caribbean and North American Plates
  • Research on September 22, 200 3, M6.4 Dominican earthquake and its aftershocks
  • Research of Jean-Paul van Gestel, UT Ph.D candidate
  • "Active Strike-Slip and Collisional Tectonics of the Northern Caribbean Plate Boundary Zone" (edited by J.F. Dolan and P. Mann, published by GSA)
  • "Geologic and Tectonic Development of the North America-Caribbean Plate Boundary in Hispaniola" (edited by Mann, Draper and Lewis, GSA Special Paper No. 262)
  • "Microplate Tectonics Along the North American-Caribbean Plate Boundary: GPS Geodetic Constraints on Rigidity of the Puerto Rico-Northern Virgin Islands (PRVI) Block, Convergence Across the Muertos Trough, and Extension in the Mona Canyon" (Lopez et al., Spring AGU)
  • "Structure and tectonics of the upper Cenozoic Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands carbonate platform as determined from seismic reflection studies" (van Gestel et al., 1998, JGR).
  • "Relative motion between the Caribbean and North American plates and related boundary zone deformation from a decade of GPS observations" (Dixon et al., 1998, JGR).
  • "Actively evolving microplate formation by oblique collision and sideways motion along strike-slip faults: An example from the northeastern Caribbean plate margin" (Mann et al., 1995, Tectonophysics).
  • "Regional Pattern of Neotectonic Deformation of the Late Tertiary Carbonate Platform of the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic" (van Gestel et al., Fall 1996 AGU abstract).
  • "MR1 Sidescan Reveals Aftermath Effects of Late Neogene Oblique Collision of the Bahama Platform on the Puerto Rico Trench" (Mann et al., Fall 1996 AGU abstract).
  • "Structure and Tectonics of the Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands Platform and Multi-configuration Ground Penetrating Radar Data" (van Gestel, 2000, PhD. dissertation abstract)
• Lesser Antilles
  • Structure, Tectonics, and Sediment Flow into the Lesser Antilles Subduction Zone
  • "The Nature and Causes of Backstop Deformation in the Northern Lesser Antilles Subduction Zone" (Stachowiak, 2000, M.S. thesis abstract)
• Barbados
  • Barbados Ridge Accretionary Prism, Ocean Drilling Program, Leg 156
  • Three-Dimensional Seismic Reflection Investigation of Fluid Flow and Structural Evolution:Northern Barbados Ridge
• Venezuela and Trinidad
  • Stratigraphy, Structure & Depositional Processes, Offshore Eastern Trinidad & Venezuela (joint BEG/UTIG consortium project)
  • Crust mantle Interactions During Continental Growth and High Pressure Rock Exhumation at an Oblique Arc Continent Collision Zone: SE Caribbean Margin
  • Towards an integrated understanding of regional seismic stratigraphy, age of deformation, basin subsidence, and petroleum systems of the northern offshore margin of Venezuela (VENMAR)
  • "Caribbean Sedimentary Basins" (edited by P. Mann, published by Elsevier)
  • Lugo and Mann 1995 paper and map
  • "Tectonics and Sedimentation of the Gulf of Paria and Northern Basin, Trinidad" (Babb, 1997, Ph.D. dissertation abstract)
  • "Cretaceous to Neogene Tectonic Control on Sedimentary: Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela" (Lugo, 1991, Ph.D. dissertation abstract)
  • "Regional tectonics, sequence stratigraphy and reservoir properties of Eocene clastic sedimentation, Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela" (Escalona, 2003, PhD dissertation abstract)
  • "Paleogene to Recent tectonic and paleogeographic evolution of the Cariaco basin, Venezuela" (Jaimes, 2003, M.S. thesis)
  • "Structural Analysis of Cenozoic Fault Systems Using 3D Seismic Reflection Data in the Southern Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela" (Castillo, 2001, Ph.D. dissertation abstract)
  • Luis Rodriguez PhD map area
• Gulf of Mexico
  • GBDS:Gulf of Mexico Basin Depositional Synthesis
• Mexico
  • Sierra Madre Oriental work of Randall Marrett
  • Sierra Madre Occidental work of Fred McDowell
• Honduras
  • Tectonic Origin & History of the Chortis Block: Integration of Onshore Geological and Offshore Well and Seismic Data from Eastern Honduras
  • Honduras Geology
  • Paleomagnetism work of Wulf Gose
• Panama and Costa Rica
  • Investigation of Upper Plate Response to Subducting Plate Morphology and Seamounts at Subduction Zone Asperities: Cooperative German, Costa Rican and United States Project
  • Accretionary Prism Plumbing in 3D: Fluid Pathways and Fluid-Structure Interaction Using the Costa Rica 3D Seismic Volume
  • "Geologic and Tectonic Development of the Caribbean Plate Boundary in Southern Central America" (edited by Mann, GSA Special Paper No. 295)
• Panama and Costa Rica
  • "Petroleum Basins of South America" (edited by Tankard et al., 1995, AAPG Memoir 62. ISBN: 0-89181-341).