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1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiv, 699 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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text file rdaft http://rdaregistry.info/termList/fileType/1002. |
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Sedimentary basins of the world ; 4 |
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Sedimentary basins of the world ; 4.
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| Summary |
This 21-chapter 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-1990s. The common tectonic events discussed in the volume including 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. Two introductory chapters (Part A) utilize recent advances in quantitative plate tectonic modeling and satellite-based gravity measurements to place the main phases of Caribbean basin formation into a global plate tectonic framework. Nineteen subsequent chapters are organized geographically and focus on individual or groups of genetically-linked basins. Part B consists of five chapters which mainly focus on basins overlying the North America plate in the Gulf of Mexico, Cuba and the Bahamas that record its rifting from South America in late Jurassic to Cretaceous time. Part C has six chapters that focus on smaller, usually heavily faulted and onshore Cenozoic basins of the northern Caribbean that formed in response to arc collisional and strike-slip activity along the evolving North America-Caribbean plate boundary. The two chapters in Part D focus on Cenozoic basins related to the Lesser Antilles arc system of the eastern Caribbean. Part E is comprised of three chapters on the Jurassic-Recent sedimentary basins of the eastern Venezuela and Trinidad area of the southeastern Caribbean. These basins reflect both the Jurassic-Cretaceous rifting and passive margin history of separation between the North and South America plates as well as a much younger phase of Oligocene to recent transpression between the eastward migrating Lesser Antilles arc and accretionary wedge and the South America continent. The three chapters of Part F contain deep penetration seismic reflection and other geophysical data on the largely submarine Cretaceous Caribbean oceanic plateau that forms the nucleus of the present-day Caribbean plate. |
| Contents |
Part A: Tectonic Setting of Caribbean Basins. Part B: Jurassic-Recent Basins of the Northern Caribbean, The Gulf of Mexico, and Mexico Related to Rifting Between North and South America. Part C: Cenozoic Basins of the Northern Caribbean Related to Arc, Collisional and Strike-Slip Activity. Part D: Cenozoic Basins of the Eastern Caribbean and Lesser Antilles Arc System. Part E: Jurassic-Recent Basins of the Southern Caribbean. Part F: Mesozoic-Recent Igneous Basement and Overlying Basins of the Central Caribbean. |
| Note |
Includes fold-out pages of other illustrations and maps. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Access |
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| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Note |
Print version record. |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Sedimentary basins -- Caribbean Area.
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Bassins sédimentaires -- Caraïbes (Région)
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geology.
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Sedimentary basins
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Caribbean Area
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Becken Geologie
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Meeressediment
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Karibik
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| Added Author |
Mann, Paul, 1956-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Caribbean basins. 1st ed. Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 1999 0444826491 9780444826497 (DLC) 00501859 (OCoLC)43540498 |
| ISBN |
9780444826497 |
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0444826491 |
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9780080528595 (electronic bk.) |
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0080528597 (electronic bk.) |
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1281795852 |
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9781281795854 |
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9786611795856 |
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6611795855 |
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0444430180 (series) |
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9780444430182 (series) |
| Standard No. |
(WaSeSS)ssj0000118160 |
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AU@ 000048130917 |
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DEBBG BV042309093 |
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DEBSZ 367773848 |
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DEBSZ 48243855X |
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GBVCP 878890580 |
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NZ1 12433669 |
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NZ1 15191621 |
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