The Analysis of Diffuse Triple Junction Zones in Plate Tectonics and the Pirate Model of Western Caribbean Tectonics /
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| Lenguaje: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2014. |
| Colección: | SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences,
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Western Caribbean Tectonics
- Abstract.-Tectonic constraints
- Theoretical analysis of Western Caribbean tectonics
- Western Caribbean Plate corners
- Relative Plate motions
- Western Caribbean arc deformation style
- Review of Western Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico tectonics
- Shortening at the Eastern Caribbean Plate boundary
- Extension conjugate to Eastern Caribbean shortening
- Displacements at the Western Caribbean Plate corners
- Western Caribbean microplates
- Discussion
- Consistency with known data
- Predictive Power
- A new, multi-mode model for Western Caribbean tectonics
- The Chortis Block controversy
- Neo-Caribbean tectonics
- Meeting of the Americas
- Age of Gulf of Mexico opening
- A geodynamic model for the Western Caribbean region
- Conclusions
- References
- Normalization analysis for possibly unstable triple junction zones
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Step 1: Define a doubly-tangent, moving Euclidean tectonic reference frame
- Step 2: Determine compatibility of major plate motions and plate boundary orientations
- Step 3: Determine the stability of the normalized, hypothetical triple junction
- Step 4: Identify end-member nonrigid solutions for an unstable triple junction
- References.