Black vertical/horizontal hatched = ophiolites
Cyan limestone/brick pattern = Jurassic-Cretaceous continental/platformal carbonates overlain by Late Cretaceous - Eocene olistostromal deposits.
Yellow horizontal pattern = Northern Cretaceous volcanics and fore-arc or foreland sediments, structurally intercalated with the Northern Ophiolites.
Red V pattern = Southern Cretaceous arc volcanics; Paeleogene Sierra Maestra arc in the very south-east of Cuba.
Magenta honeycomb pattern - Mabujina amphibolite complex occurs at the top of the Escambray inverted metamorphic complex.
Most recent reference:
Kerr, A.C.,
Iturralde-Vinent, Saudners, A.D., Babbs, T.L., and Tarney, J., 1999,
A new plate tectonic model of the Caribbean: implications from a geochemical
reconnaissance of Cuban Mesozoic volcanic rocks. BGSA, 111, 11, 1581-1599.
Lidiak, E.G. and Larue, D.K., 1998
Tectonics and geochemistry of the northeastern Caribbean: Geol. Soc. America
Special Paper 322, 1-215.
Comment-
Papers in:
Iturralde-Vinent,
M.A., ed., 1996, Ofiolitas y Arcos Volcanicos de Cuba, IUGS Project
364: Caribbean Ophiolites and Volcanic Arcs,
Special Contribution
No. 1.
Iturralde-Vinent, A., 1996. Introduction to Cuban Geology and Geophysics, p. 3-35.
Rosencrantz, E., Basement Structures and Tectonics in the Yucatan Basin, p. 36-47.
Iturralde-Vinent, M., Millan, G., Korpas, L., Nagy, E., and Pajon, J., 1996. Geological interpretation of the Cuban K-Ar database, p. 48-69.
Echarte, M.P., 1996. Zonacion Gravimagnetica y modelo fisico-geologico conceptual del Cinturion Plegado Cubano, p. 70-82.
Iturralde-Vinent, M.A., 1996. Geologia de las Ofiolitas de Cuba, p. 83-120.
Iturralde-Vinent, M.A., 1996. Magmatismo de margen continental de Cuba, p. 121-130.
Trujillo, G.M., Geologia del Complejo Mabujina, p. 147-153.
Ando, J., Harangi, S., Szkmany, B., and Dosztaly, L. 1996. Petrologia de la asociacion ofiolitica de Holguin, p. 154-178.
Iturralde-Vinent, M.A., 1996. Cuba: El arco de Islas volcanicas del Cretacico, p. 179-189.
Iturralde-Vinent, M.A., 1996. Estratigrafia
del arco volcanico Cretacico en Cuba: Vulcanitas de Bahia Honda, La Habana
y Matanzas, p. 190-196.
(Fig 1 shows distribution of granitoids;
basement to the arc is thought to be Felicidades, Mabujina, Guira de Jauco,
Sierra de Rompe; epiclastic sediments include Bahia Honda, Pina, north
of Camaguey, Holguin, and Baraco; effusives occur mostly between Santa
Clara and Camaguey- Las Tunas-Holguin; pyroclastic sediments occur at Turquino
on the south east coast; Purial is shown as a special case.)
Iturralde-Vinent, M.A., 1996. Estratigrafia del arco volcanico Cretacico en Cuba: Region de San Juan y Martinez, p. 197.
Iturralde-Vinent, M.A., 1996. Estratigrafia del arco volcanico Cretacico en Cuba: Vulcanitas de Sabana Grande, p; 197.
Falcon, C. P., 1996. Estratigrafia del arco volcanico Cretacico en Cuba: Vulcanitas de la Region de Pina, Ciego de Avila, p. 200.
Iturralde-Vinent, M.A., 1996. Estratigrafia del arco volcanico Cretacico en Cuba: Region Ciego-Camaguey-Las Tunas, p. 201-210.
Trujillo, G.M., 1996. Estratigrafia del arco volcanico Cretacico en Cuba: Anfibolitas Sierra de Rompe, p. 211. (amphibolites considered to be equivalent to those of the Mabujina amphibolite complex of Escambray to the west of the Sierra de Rompe.)
Kozak, M., 1996. Estratigrafia del arco volcanico Cretacico en Cuba: Vulcanitas de la region de Holguin, p. 212-217.
Trujillo, G.M., 1996. Estratigrafia
del arco volcanico Cretacico en Cuba: Metavulcanitas del Purial, p. 218-221.
( Most easterly Cretaceous arc rocks in Cuba)
Iturralde-Vinent, M.A., 1996. Estratigrafia del arco volcanico Cretacico en Cuba: Vulcanitas Cretacicas del Turquino (Sierrra Maestra), p. 222-224. (exposures of Cretaceous arc rocks south of the Paleogene Sierra Maestra arc.)
Iturralde-Vinent, M.A., 1996. Estratigrafia del arco volcanico Cretacico en Cuba: Region de Mayari-Baracoa, p. 225-226.
Iturralde-Vinent, M.A., 1996. Estratigrafia del arco volcanico Cretacico en Cuba: Evidencias de un arco primitivo (Cretacio Inferior) en Cuba, p. 227-230. (description of localities displaying evidence of early Cretaceous arc activity.)
Iturralde-Vinent, M.A., 1996. Estratigrafia
del arco volcanico Cretacico en Cuba: Cuba: el archipielago volcanico Paleocene-Eoceno,
p. 231-246. (Fig. 6 illustrates the postulate that the late Paleocene Sierra
Maestra arc of eastern Cuba formed above a north dipping subduction zone.
Axial zone of the arc to the south includes Eocene intrusions; to the north
the axial zone is flanked by volcanogenic sediments separating the arc
from arc basement to the north. Further North in the area of Holguin rocks
of this age (Danian-Lower Eocene) also include carbonates.)
Notes from the above references:
Fig. 8, p. 15. The Bahama platform
carbonate facies is represented by the Canal Viejo de Bahamas, Cayo Coco,
and Remedios belts (lower to middle Jurassic siliciclastics, Late Jurassic
evaporites, shallow water Cretaceous carbonates (deep water in the
case of the Cayo Coco, a Paleocoene hiatus, and Eocene calcareous shaly
flysch), the slope by the Camajuani Belt (Cretaceous pelagic limstones,
shales and cherts, a hiatus, and Paleocene olistostromes), and the deep
water basin by the Placetas belt (Grenville basement overlain by Jurassic
siliciclastic rocks and Nueva Maria basalts, Cretaceous carbonates, a hiatus,
and Paleocene olistostromes. Units of the Guaniguanico also have Jurassic
siliciclastic units and basaltic units (El Sabalo rift Fm) but lack the
Late Jurassic evaporites of the Bahamas platform rocks.
The late Jurassic - Cretaceous
age units of the Guaniguanico are largely composed of pelagic limestones,
separated by a hiatus from sandy-shale flysch, another hiatus, and south
to north transgressive olistostromes containing serpentinite debris.
Some coarse grained debris from the Cretaceous arc is present only in the
olistostromes of the most southerly located Quninones and Felicidade belts.
The Guaniguanico units are dominantly deep water carbonates and correspond
most closely to the Placetas belt of the Bahamas Platform. They were originally
arranged from south to north in the order: Felicidades mafic volcanic rocks
overlain by sediments similar to those of the Rosario belt, the Quinones
belt , Rosario South belt , the Rosario North belts, and the Los Organos
belt, originally the most northerly located belt. The highest structural
unit, the Felicidades belt, is composed of Aptian-Albian rift and plume
Encrucijada basalts overlain by pyroclastic sedimentary rocks. The
highest structural unit in western Cuba are the Bahia Honda and Havana/Matanzas
allochthons composed of high-Sr rift and plume Encrucijada basalts, overlain
by the late Cretaceous Orozco/Margot Fm volcanics and volcanogenic
sedimentary rocks. These are the most southerly derived units.
The ophiolites are of boninitic to low-K island arc tholeiite
type and are therefore similar to Appalachian-Caledonian ophiolites.
The late Cretaceous-Eocene
age of the flysch (distal foreland facies) and olistostromes (proximal
foreland facies) indicates that obduction of the overlaying ophiolites
began in late Cretaceous time, with imbrication of the carbonate platform,
foreland basin sediments, and ophiolites taking place in the Middle Eocene.
The Pinos terrane includes Jurassic-Cretaceous
metasilicicalstics with marbles and a few amphibolites mostly at the top
of the sectionCompared with the Organos belt and the Escambray it has a
higher proportion of clastics. It underwent late Cretaceous mid-P/Mid-T
Barrovian metamorphism and displays a cupular structure with a granite
core. To the NW the Sabana Grande is an allochthonous unit of Cretaceous
volcanic arc rocks.
At Escambray the structural
succession is Placetas carbonate platform overthust by the Northern ophiolite
belt, including the Sagua la Chica pillow lavas, overthrust to the south
by a structural succession with polyphase deformed rocks which includestructurally
intercalated units of siliciclastics, carbonates, metaophiolites, metaflysch
and metavolcanic rocks at the base passing up into the Mabujina amphibolites
followed by Cretaceous arc rocks. Both latter units are intruded by Cretaceous
arc granitoids (Fig. 1, p. 149). The polydeformed siliciclastic units are
undergone pre- and syn-metamorphism. Thrust structures appear to be directed
southwards, but this not proven, and metamorphism is pre-Maastrichtian.
The structureof the Escambray Mountains is shown in Fig. 9, p. 16 of Iturralde-Vinente.
Main question is whether the lateCretaceous arc rocks are allochthonous
relative to the Mabujina/Escambray.
At Camaguey the sequence
(Fig. 13, p. 105) is shown as platform overlain by ophiolite, olistostrome
and then Cretaceous volcanics to the south. Figure 12 (p. 21) shows
the presence of a Santonian-Campanian klippe of arc volcanic rocks, the
youngest arc volcanics in the sequence. This relationship is similar to
that of the Bahia Honda and the northern ophiolites of the western region.
In the
Holguin region ( Fig 1, 9, p. 155, 212) the autochthonous platformal carbonates
are overlain by Paleocene-Eocene sediments, supposedly olistostromes laid
down during Middle Eocene thrusting. They are overthrust by Paleogene tectonic
breccias made up of Upper Cretaceous 'accretionary prism' rocks, followed
to the south by imbricated middle to late Cretaceous volcanics and ophiolites.
The Imbricate unit is overlain to the south by Campanian to Maastrichtian
sediments, followed by Middle to upper Paleocene olistostromes overlain
by Lower to Middle Eocene volcanogenic sediments, interpreted as back-arc
sediments of the Sierra Maestra Paleogene arc to the south. The assembly
of the intercalated ophiolite and arc allochthon and its emplacment is
pre-Paleocene.
According to
Kozak the Holguin region is composed of a melange of slices and blocks
of ophiolite, cretaceous arc, and late Cretaceous - Eocene sedimentary
rocks. Between the components of the melange are found late Campanian
to Maastrichtian clastic rocks containing fragments of arc rocks.
Volcanism therefore terminated
prior to late Campanian.
In the Baracoa
Purial region however, the sequence appears to be (Fig 14, p. 107; Fig.
3a,3b, p. 139) platform rocks, melange (tipo Asuncion-Guira de Jauco) overlain
by Cretaceous volcanics followed by olistostrome, with ophiolite at the
top. Figure 5c (p. 243) of Iturralde-Vinent shows Lower Eocene (Paleogene
volcanics) thrust from the south over ophiolite, itself thrust over
a sequence of south facing and dipping Cretaceous and L-U Eocene sediments.
This can be reconciled as out of sequence thrusting of ophiolite over the
younger units as in the Fig 14 (p. 107) A-B section.
Some geological
terms in Spanish:
Cuenca antepais - foreland basin;
calizas - carbonates; calciruditas - calcirudites; retroarco - back-arc;
tobas - pyroclastic; margas - marls?; tufitas - tuffs; conglomerados -
conglomerates;
olistostromas - olistostromes;
grauvacas - greywackes; escamas - (scales) slices; corrimiento - thrust;
planos - planes;
a menudo metamorfizado - often
metamorphosed; epiclastico sedimentarias - epiclastic sediments;
dichas - said; ambos - both; mismo
- same; decansan - rest (on); sin embargo - however, nevertheless;
mezclar - mix; veces - intercalated;
cortes - sections; alto - pronounced; en almohadillas - pillowed;
desarollada - displayed; pobre
- poor;llegan - reach; edad - age; a fin de - in order to; fall - fault;triturar
- crush; raices (raiz) - roots;
Miscellaneous Papers (arranged chronologically 1989-1995)
1995
The effect of nickel mining and metallurgical
activities on the distribution distribution of heavy metals in Levisa Bay,
Cuba. Gonzalez-Humberto; Ramirez-Marta In: Heavy metal aspects of mining
pollution and its remediation. Allan-Rod-J (editor); Salomons-Wim (editor)
Journal of Geochemical Exploration.52; 1-2, Pages 183-192. 1995.
Comment- The distribution
of Ni, Co, Fe, Mn, Cu, Pb and Zn was investigated in surface and core sediment
samples and in the leaves of the red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) from
Levisa Bay, an area affected by nickel mining and metallurgical activities.
The results revealed that these activities have seriously polluted the
sediments, especially by Ni, Fe, Co and Mn, with concentrations decreasing
with increasing distance from discharge sources. The concentrations of
Fe(0.64-22.66%) and Co, Mn and Ni (7.7-324, 125-2957 and 69- 4764 mu g/g,
respectively) were up to two orders of magnitude greater than those of
non-polluted coastal areas in Cuba. Rhizophora mangle was shown to be a
useful useful bioindicator of heavy metal pollution in the studied ecosystem.
Actively evolving microplate formation
by oblique collision and sideways motion along strike-slip faults; an example
from the northeastern Caribbean Plate margin. Mann-Paul; Taylor-F-W; Edwards-R-Lawrence;
Ku-Teh-Lung Tectonophysics, 246; 1-3, Pages 1-69. 1995.
Comment- The pattern
of folding, faulting, and late Quaternary coral-reef uplift rates in western
and central Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican Republic) suggest that the
elongate Gonave microplate, a 190,000-km (super 2) area of the northeastern
Caribbean plate, is in the process of shearing off the Caribbean plate
and accreting to the North American plate. Late Cenozoic transpression
between the southeastern Bahama Platform and the Caribbean plate in Hispaniola
has inhibited the eastward motion of the northeastern corner of the plate.
Transpression is manifested in western and central Hispaniola by the formation
of regional scale folds that correspond to present-day, anticlinal topographic
topographic mountain chains continuous with offshore anticlinal ridges.
Areas of most rapid Quaternary uplift determined from onland coral reefs
125 ka and younger, coincide with the axial traces of these folds. Offshore
data suggest recent folding and faulting of the seafloor. Onshore reef
data do not conclusively require late Quaternary folding, but demonstrate
that tectonic uplift rates of the axial areas of the anticlines decrease
from the Northwest Peninsula of Haiti (0.37 mm/yr) to to the central part
of the coast of western Haiti (0.19 mm/yr) to thesouth-central part of
western Haiti (0 mm/yr). Formation of the 1200-km-long Enriquillo-Plantain
Garden-Walton fault zone as a "bypass" strike-slip fault has isolated the
southern edge of the Gonave microplate and is allowing continued, unimpeded
eastward motion of a smaller Caribbean plate past the zone of late Neogene
convergence and Quaternary uplift of coral reefs in Hispaniola. Offshore
seismic reflection data from the Jamaica Passage, the marine strait separating
Jamaica and Haiti, show that the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault zone
forms a narrow but deep, active fault-bounded trough beneath the passage.
The active fault is continuous with active faults mapped onshore in western
Haiti and eastern Jamaica; the bathymetric deep is present because the
Jamaica Passage fault segment represents a 50-km-wide, transtensional left-step
of the fault trace between Haiti and Jamaica. Onshore satellite imagery
and field observations suggest that the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault
forms a continuous trace extending from central Hispaniola east of Lake
Enriquillo, Dominican Republic, to the westernmost end of the southern
peninsula of Haiti. The regional lineament corresponds to a recent fault
scarp in Quaternary alluvium of the Clonard pull-apart basin in the central
part of the southern peninsula of Haiti and suggests that at least this
part of the lineament has undergone recent slip. Calmus (1983) has suggested
a total offset of 30-50 km of the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault zone
in the southern peninsula of Haiti using the apparent offset of lithologic
units. Seismic reflection data from Lake Enriquillo document recent deformation
of Quaternary lake sediments where the lineament crosses the lake. Leveling
of the crest of a late Holocene coral reef and associated algal tufa around
Lake Enriquillo demonstrate late Holocene vertical movement and tilting
in a 1500-m-wide zone parallel to the fault trend. Lateral offset is difficult
to show in the Enriquillo Valley area because of rapid recent sedimentation
into the valley. The pattern of inactive strike-slip faults and fold belts
of Cenozoic age in Cuba and the Yucatan basin suggest that two elongate
microplates were sheared off the proto-Caribbean plate and accreted to
the North American plate by a similar process in Paleocene and Eocene times.
Age of terminal deformation in western, central and eastern Cuba is consistent
with southeastward younging and migration of arc collision. The similarity
of the size and sequence of events in Cuba suggests that the process of
oblique collision and sideways motion of the plate along a new strike-slip
fault towards a free face may be an important process of microplate formation
and interplate transfer in other areas.: Tectonophysics.
1994
Cuba-Bahamas arc/ margin collision;
constraints on timing of suturing. Hempton-Mark Bulletin - Houston Geological
Society. 36; 8, Pages 13. 1994.
Comment-
Petrochemistry and tectonic significance
of Cretaceous island-arc rocks, Cordillera Oriental, Dominican Republic.
Lebron-Maria-Cristina; Perfit-Michael-R Tectonophysics.229; 1-2, Pages
69-100. 1994.
Comment-
Cretaceous island-arc rocks of the Caribbean island-arc system have been
exposed by Cenozoic faulting in the Cordillera Oriental in eastern Hispaniola.
High-K (sub 2) O intermediate to felsic volcanic rocks (Loma la Veg volcanics)
are interbedded with marine epiclastic sedimentary rocks and tuffs (Las
Guajabas tuffs) and unconformably overlie pre-Aptian sedimentary rocks,
low- K (sub 2) O volcanic rocks (Guamira volcanics) and a granodioritic
to tonalitic intrusion (El Valle pluton). The petrology and geochemistry
of these units, in in conjunction with regional stratigraphic data, are
used to speculate on the the tectonics of the newly developing Caribbean
island-arc system during Early and Late Cretaceous time. The Loma la Vega
volcanics are characterized by the presence of large phenocrysts of sanidine,
and minor amounts of clinopyroxene, opaque oxides, and rare leucite in
a devitrified matrix of chlorite and clay. Although the volcanic rocks
have undergone some low-temperature alteration/metamorphism, which redistributed
some major elements and large-ion-lithophile trace elements, the high-field-strength
elements, rare-earth elements, and radiogenic isotopes appear to have been
minimally affected. Based on abundances of the relatively immobile elements,
trace-element enrichment patterns and isotopic compositions, the Loma la
Vega volcanics are considered part of the high-K, calc-alkaline (CA) or
shoshonitic island-arc volcanic series. In contrast, pre- Aptian (Early
Cretaceous?) volcanic and plutonic rocks of the underlying Los Ranchos
Formation have chemical characteristics similar to rocks in the island-
arc tholeiitic or "primitive island-arc" (PIA) series that form coeval
and along-strike sections of the Early Cretaceous Caribbean island arc
in other parts of present-day Hispaniola, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Virgin
Islands. An abrupt and regional change in composition from island-arc tholeiites
to high-K, calc-alkaline rocks is coincident with a hypothesized reversal
in subduction polarity in pre-Aptian time. As inferred from previously
published tectonic models, polarity reversal may have been triggered by
attempted subduction of the Caribbean oceanic plateau beneath this segment
of the Caribbean island arc. The observed magmatic and tectonic effects
of the proposed Cretaceous Caribbean arc reversal are similar to the better
documented Neogene subduction subduction reversal event in the Solomon
Islands arc in the southwest Pacific.
Comment-
Cuban geology; a new plate-tectonic
synthesis. Iturralde-Vinent-M-A Journal of Petroleum Geology.17; 1, Pages
39-69. 1994.
Comment-
Eclogitic rocks from ophiolitic melange
in the Holguin area (Oriente, eastern-Cuba). Szakmany-G; Ando-J; Kubovics-I
Abstracts of the ...General Meeting of the International Mineralogical
Association. 16; Pages 401. 1994.
Comment-
1993
Controles de la mineralizacion en la
Mina Cobriza Translated Title: Mineralization controls in the Cobriza Mine.
Castro-Carlos-Cuba Geomimet.21; 191, Pages 24-26, 28-30, 32. 1994.
Comment-
Interrelationship of the terranes
in western central Cuba. Piotrowska-Krystyna Tectonophysics.219; 4, Pages
273-282. 1993. .: , , , .
Comment-
Tectonics of oblique arc-continent
collision in western Cuba; 2, Structural constraints. Caceres-D; Gordon-M-B;
Mann-Paul; Flores-R Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union.74; 43,
Suppl., Pages 546. 1993.
Comment-
El complejo volcano-sedimentario Cretacico
de Cuba central (unificacion litoestratiggrafica y ambiente paleogeodunamico)
Translated Title: The Cretaceous volcano-sedimentary complex of central
Cuba, lithostratigraphic synthesis and paleogeodynamic context. Ianev-S-N;
Tchounev-D-L; Tzankov-T-V In: Paleontologie et stratigraphie d'Amerique
latine; table ronde europeenne Translated Title: Paleontology and stratigraphy
of Latin America; European Gayet-M (editor) Documents des Laboratoires
de Geologie, Lyon.125; Pages 223-240. 1993.
Comment-
Caracteristicas y perspectivas del
cuarzo filoneano en la region oriental de de Cuba Translated Title: Characteristics
and perspectives of quartz veins from the eastern region of Cuba. Rodriguez-Carlos-A-Leyva;
Kulachkov-Leonid-V; Garcia-Roberto-Vargas Mineria y Geologia.3:
Comment-
1992
A short note on the Cuban late Maastrichtian
megaturbidite (an impact-derived deposit?). Iturralde-Vinent-Manuel-A Earth
and Planetary Science Letters.109; 1-2, Pages 225-228. 1992.
Comment-
Tectono-magmatic development of central
Cuba. Stanek-K-P; Cabrera-R In: 12th symposium on Latin-American geosciences.
Miller-H (editor); Rosenfeld-U (editor); Weber-Diefenbach-K (editor) Zentralblatt
fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie, Teil I: Allgemeine, Angewandte, Regionale
und Historische Geologie.1991; 6, Pages 1571-1580. 1992.
Comment-
Age and tectonic significance of high-pressure
metamorphic rocks of Cuba. Somin-M-L; Arakelyants-M-M; Kolesnikov-E-M-(Kolesnikov-Ye-M)
International Geology Review.34; 2, Pages 105-118. 1992.
Comment-
Seismic stratigraphy and geologic history
of Mid-Cretaceous through Cenozoic Cenozoic rocks, southern Straits of
Florida. Denny-Walter-M III 1992.
Comment - Multifold
and singlefold seismic data, industry wells, and DSDP/ODP sites are used
to study the mid-Cretaceous-Cenozoic history of the southern Straits of
Florida. Since the late Albian(?), the southern Straits of Florida has
evolved evolved from a shallow-water platform to a deep water trough. Persistent
Florida Current flow has existed since the early Paleocene and has produced
a complex history of deposition and erosion. Initiation of Florida Current
flow and evolution of the Straits of Florida is related to the Late Cretaceous-middle
Eocene collision between the North America plate and the Cuban island arc.
During the Early Cretaceous, a shallow-water carbonate platform-complex
extended from the West Florida Shelf across what is now the Straits of
Florida and northern Cuba to the Bahamas. Drowning and breakup of this
broad platform began during the late Albian(?) to middle Cenomanian. During
this drowning event, shallow-water buildups continued to develop at the
Lower Cretaceous platform margin, around Cay Sal Bank, and along the southern
margin of the South Florida basin. The Mid-Cretaceous Sequence Boundary
(MCSB), a regional seismic horizon, is recognized in the southern Straits
of Florida and marks the demise of shallow-water carbonate production at
the Lower Cretaceous platform margin. During the Late Cretaceous to early
Paleocene, a deep-waterseaway, a proto-Straits of Florida, separated carbonate
banks at Cay Sal and along the South Florida basin. As the Cuban island
arc converged on the North American plate during the Late Cretaceous-middle
Eocene, the southern Straits of Florida were downbuckling to the south
in response to loading. Most of the deformation occurred along an east-west
flexure. Regional dip towards the Cuban fold-and-thrust belt indicates
that the southern Straits can be considered an extension of the north Cuban
foreland previously identified in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. Seismic
facies indicate that bottom-currents were active along the northern limb
of this foreland basin during the early Paleocene to middle Eocene, producing
a variety of bedforms and erosion surfaces. These current-deposits are
interpreted to be reworked, distal equivalents of flysch, olistostromes,
and debris flows shed from the island arc complex. After Cuba was welded
to the North American plate during the late Eocene, there was a major change
in depositional regimes from current-produced deposition to drape deposition
in the southern Straits. A major late-middle Eocene seismic unconformity
separates current-deposited sediments from predominantly pelagic and hemipelagic
sediments interbedded with distal turbidites. Since the Late Eocene, the
axis of Florida Current flow appears to have been concentrated above the
east-west trending flexure. During the middle Miocene, shallow-water shallow-water
carbonate sediments were deposited along the Miami and Pourtales terraces.
Since the middle Miocene, sediment drifts have continued to be deposited
basinward of the Miami and Pourtales terraces.
1991
Computerized data processing in regional geochemical
exploration of the Sagua-Baracoa Massif, eastern Cuba. Kovacs-Gabor-P;
Perez-Gisela; Nunez-Esperanza In: International symposium on Computer applications
in geoscience. Huang-Xude (prefacer) Pages 378-380.1991. . Minist. Geol.
and Miner. Resour.. Beijing, China. 1991.
Comment-
1990
La constitucion geologica de macizo
Isla de la Juventud y su metalogenia endogena vinculada al magmatismo acido
Translated Title: Geologic structure of the Isla de la Juventud Massif
and its endogene metallogeny with acidic magmatism. Pardo-Echarte-Manuel-E
Transactions of the 12th Caribbean geological conference. Larue-David-K
(editor); Draper-Grenville (editor) Transactions of the Caribbean Geological
Conference = Memorias - Conferencia Geologica del Caribe. 12; Pages 68-81.
1990.: , , , .
Comment-
Lineaments
of eastern Cuba; experiment in geological interpretation of aerospace images.
Makarov-V-I; Trifonov-V-G; Volchkova-G-I; Formel-F; Brezhnyanskii-K- (Brezhnyanskiy-K);
Oro J; Peres-K Soviet Journal of Remote Sensing.6; 4, Pages 611-627. 1990.
Harwood Academic Publishers. New York-Chur, International. 1990.
Comment-
Geology and tectonic evolution of the
northern Caribbean margin. Lewis-John-F; Draper-Grenville; Bourdon-C; Bowin-Carl;
Mattson-P-O; Maurrasse-F; Nagle-F; Pardo-G In: The Caribbean region. Dengo-Gabriel
(editor); Case-J-E (editor) The geology of North America. 1990. H;Pages
77-140. 1990. Geol. Soc. Am.. Boulder, CO, United States. 1990.
Comment-
Miocene phosphorites of Cuba. Ilyin-A-V;
Ratnikova-G-I In: Phosphate deposits of the world; Neogene to modern phosphorites.
Burnett-William-C (editor); Riggs-S-R (editor) Burnett-W-C (editor); Riggs-S-R
(editor) Pages 116-121.1990. Cambridge Univ. Press. New York, NY, United
States. 1990.
Comment-
Late Cretaceous volcanic arc in the
Bahia Honda Terrane, western Cuba. Pszczolkowski-Andrzej Geological Society
of America, 1990 annual meeting. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society
of America. 22; 7, Pages 338. 1990.
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Correlacion de las metavulcanitas de
la Sierra del Purial (Cuba Oriental) con las rocas de la asociacion ofiolitica
Translated Title: Correlation of metavolcanic rocks of the Sierra del Purial
(eastern Cuba) with its ophiolite association. Campos-Mario; Hernandez-Margarita
Transactions of the 12th Caribbean geological conference. Larue-David-K
(editor); Draper-Grenville (editor) Transactions of the Caribbean Geological
Conference = Memorias - Conferencia Geologica del Caribe. 12; Pages 95-98.
1990.
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Evolucion de la estructura de Macizo
de Escambray, sur de Cuba Central Translated Title: Structural evolution
of the Escambray Massif, south of central Cuba. Millan-Trujillo-Guillermo
In: Transactions of the 12th Caribbean geological conference. Larue-David-K
(editor); Draper-Grenville (editor) Transactions of the Caribbean Geological
Conference = Memorias - Conferencia Geologica del Caribe. 12; Pages 82-94.
1990.
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El uso del modelaje fisico-geologico
en el pronostico de minerales solidos;, solidos;, un ejemplo, Isla de la
Juventud, Cuba Translated Title: The use of physico-geologic modeling in
the prediction of mineral resources, an example; Isla de la Juventud, Cuba.
Pardo-Echarte-Manuel-E Ciencias de la Tierra y del Espacio.18; Pages 1-17.
1990. . Academia de Ciencias de Cuba. Havana, Cuba. 1990.:
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Geoquimica de la associacion ofiolitica
de Cuba Translated Title: Geochemical association of ophiolites in Cuba.
Fonseca-E; Castillo-F; Uhanov-A; Navarrete-M; Correa-G In: Transactions
of the 12th Caribbean geological conference. Larue-David-K (editor); Draper-Grenville
(editor) Transactions of the Caribbean Geological Conference = Memorias
- Conferencia Geologica del Caribe. 12; Pages 51-58. 1990.
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Interpretacion de los datos geofisicos
con fines de la cartografia geologo-estructural de la Republica de Cuba
Translated Title: Interpretation of the geophysical data with the goal
of the geologic-structural mapping of Cuba. Pardo-Manuel; Bello-Verania;
Amador-Hilda; Taba-Sandor; Sousin-Oleg; Matamoros-y-Irio-de-Moya-Ileana
Transactions of the 12th Caribbean geological conference. Larue-David-K
(editor); Draper-Grenville (editor) Transactions of the Caribbean Geological
Conference = Memorias - Conferencia Geologica del Caribe. Pages 43-50.
1990.
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1989
Chromite in the hyperbasite belt of
Cuba. Murashko-V-I; Lavandero-R-M International Geology Review.31; Pages
90-99. 1989.
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Recognition of oceanic and arc terranes
in Hispaniola and Cuba. Lewis-John-F The Geological Society of America,
South-central Section, 23rd annual meeting. Abstracts with Programs - Geological
Society of America. 21; 1, Pages 33. 1989.
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