Proposed GSA Special Paper

Caribbean / South American plate interactions,
Venezuela

Hans G. Avé Lallemant and Virginia B. Sisson, eds.

Table of Contents
Prologue H. G. Avé Lallemant and V. B. Sisson

Part I: Overview

  1. P-T-t record of continent-ocean interactions in the Caribbean region, and tectonic controls on basin development in Proto-Caribbean continental margins

  2. Overview of the southeast Caribbean / South American plate boundary zone.

  3. Overview of radiometric ages (U/Pb, Rb/Sr, 40Ar/39Ar, zircon and apatite fission-track and 14C) in the allochthonous Belts of northernVenezuela: Old and new ones.

    Part II: Allochthonous Belts

  4. Tinaquillo peridotite complex, Venezuela: fragment of a Jurassic rift zone

  5. Tectonic setting of igneous rocks in the Caribbean Mountain system, Venezuela, based on major, minor, and trace elements

  6. Geochemical evidence for island-arc origin of the Villa de Cura blueschist belt, Venezuela

  7. Petrology of the high-pressure / low-temperature metamorphic rocks of the Cordillera de la Costa belt, Venezuela

  8. Exhumation history of the Cordillera de la Costa belt, northern Venezuela, based on fluid-inclusions in quartz veins

  9. Geochemical evidence for possible trench provenance and fluid-rock histories, Cordillera de la Costa eclogite belt, Venezuela

  10. Kinematic interpretation of poly-deformational structures in the Cordillera de la Costa belt, northern Venezuela

  11. Exhumation history of the eclogite of Margarita Island, Venezuela

    Part III: (Par)autochthonous Belts

  12. Tectonic and thermal history of the western Serranía del Interior foreland fold and thrust belt, north-central Venezuela: New evidence from apatite fission-track analysis and reflection seismology
  13. Thrust belt interpretation of the Maturín subbasin, Eastern Venezuela Basin
  14. Thermal evolution of the eastern Serranía del Interior foreland fold and thrust belt, northeastern Venezuela based on apatite fission track analysis

Epilogue H.G. Avé Lallemant and V.B. Sisson