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
P-T-t record of continent-ocean interactions in the Caribbean region, and tectonic controls on basin development in Proto-Caribbean continental margins
J. Pindell, W. Maresch, L. Kennan, K. Stanek, and G. Draper
Overview of the southeast Caribbean / South American plate boundary zone.
M. Ostos, F. Yoris, and H. G. Avé Lallemant
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.
V. B. Sisson, H. G. Avé Lallemant, M. Ostos, L.R. Guth, P. Copeland, L. W. Snee, R.A. Donelick, A.E. Blythe, and J. E. Wright
Part II: Allochthonous Belts
Tinaquillo peridotite complex, Venezuela: fragment of a Jurassic rift zone
M. Ostos, H. G. Avé Lallemant, and V. B. Sisson
Tectonic setting of igneous rocks in the Caribbean Mountain system, Venezuela,
based on major, minor, and trace elements
M. Ostos and V. B. Sisson
Geochemical evidence for island-arc origin of the Villa de Cura blueschist belt, Venezuela
L. Unger, V.B. Sisson, and H.G. Avé Lallemant
Petrology of the high-pressure / low-temperature metamorphic rocks of the
Cordillera de la Costa belt, Venezuela
I.E. Ertan and V. B. Sisson
Exhumation history of the Cordillera de la Costa belt, northern Venezuela, based
on fluid-inclusions in quartz veins
V. B. Sisson, C. Chaika, and R. Kessler
Geochemical evidence for possible trench provenance and fluid-rock histories, Cordillera de la Costa eclogite belt, Venezuela
S. S. Sorensen, V.B. Sisson, and H.G. Avé Lallemant
Kinematic interpretation of poly-deformational structures in the Cordillera de la
Costa belt, northern Venezuela
H. G. Avé Lallemant
Exhumation history of the eclogite of Margarita Island, Venezuela
L. R. Guth
Part III: (Par)autochthonous Belts
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
J. Pérez de Armas
Thrust belt interpretation of the Maturín subbasin, Eastern Venezuela Basin
E. J. Hung
Thermal evolution of the eastern Serranía del Interior foreland fold and thrust
belt, northeastern Venezuela based on apatite fission track analysis