1996-97 Publications

Abbot, R.N. Jackson, T.A. and McSween, H.Y., 1996, Metamorphic conditions in the Westphalia Schists of the Blue Mountain Inlier: tectonic implications, International Geology Review, p.1143-1154

Alvarado, G.E., Denyer, P. and Sinton, Sinton, C.W., The 89 Ma Tortugal komatiitic suite, Costa Rica: implications for a common geologial origin of the Caribbean and eastern Pacific region from a mantle plume: Geology, v. 25, p.439-442.

Ave Lallement, H.G., 1997, Transpression, displacement partitioning and exhumation in the eastern Caribbean/South American plate boundary zone: Tectonics, v. 16, (2), p. 272-289.

Blanchon, P. Jones, B. and Kalbfleisch, W., Anatomy of a fringing reef around Grand Cayman: storm rubble not coral framework; J. of Sedimentary Research, v67, p.1-16

Blanchon P. and Jones, B. Hurricane control on shelf edge reef architecture around Grand Cayman: Sedimentology, v. 44, 479-506

Bralower, T., and Iturralde-Vinent, M., 1997, Micropaleontological dating of the collision between the North American plate and the Greater Antilles island arc in western Cuba: Palaois, v. 12, p. 133-150.

Collins, L.S., Coates, A.G., Berggren, W.A., Aubry, M-P. and Zhang, J., 1996, The late Miocene Panama isthmian strait, Geology, v. 24(8), p. 687-690.

Collins, L.S., 1996, Environmental changes in the Caribbean shallow waters rel;ative to the closing Tropical American seaway, p. 130-167, in Jackson, J.B.C. et al(eds) Evolution and Environment in Tropical America: University of Chicago Press, Chicago

Collins. L.S., Budd, A., and Coates, A.G., Earliest evolution assoiated with closure of the Tropical American seaway: Proc. National Academy of Sci, U.S.A., v. 93, 6069-6072.

Donovan, S.K. and Pickerill, R.K., 1997, Drpostones: their origin and significance: A comment, Paleogeography, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, v. 131 p. 175-178 Discusses some occurences in the Eocene of Jamaica

Dolan, J. and Wald, D., 1997, Comment on "The 1946 Hispaniola earthquakes and the tectonics of the North America-Caribbean plate boundary zone, northeastern Hispaniola" by R.M. Russo and Villasenor: J. of Geophysical Research, v. 102, p. 785-792

Draper, G. Guitierrez, G. and Lewis, J.F., Thrust emplacement of the Hispaniola peridotite belt: orogenic expression of the mid Cretaceous Caribbean arc polarity reversal?: Geology, v. 24, (12), 1143-1146.

Gordon, M.B., Mann, P., Cáceres, D. and Flores, R., 1997, Cenozoic tectonic history of the North American-Caribbean plate boundary zone in western Cuba: Journal of Geophysical Research, v.102, no B5, p.10,055-10,082.

Gischler, E. and Lomando, A.J., 1997, Holocene cemented beach deposits in Belize, Sedimentary Geology, v. 110, p.277-297

Hauff, F., Hoernle, K., Schminke, H.-U. and Werner,R., 1997, A Mid Cretaceous origin for the Galapagos hotspot: volcanological, perological and geochemical evidence from Costa Rican oceanic crustal segments: Geologische Rundschau, v. 141-155

Johnston, S.T. and Thorkelson, D.J., 1997, Cocos-Nazca slab window beneath Central America, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 146, p.465-474

Keller, G., Lopez-Oliva, J.G., Stinnesbrook, W., and Adatte, T., 1997, Age, stratigraphy and deposition of near-K/T siliciclastic deposits in Mexico: Relation to bolide impact? Bull, Geological Society of America, v. 109, p.410-428

Lapierre, H., Dupuis, V., Mercier de Lepinay, B., Tardy, M., Ruiz, J., Maury., R.C., Hernandez, J. and Loubet, M., 1997, Is the lower Duarte Igneous Complex (Hispaniola) a remnant of the Caribbean plume generated oceanic plateau? Journal of Geology, v. 105, p. 111-120.

Li, C., Jones, B. and Balanchon, P., 1997, Lagoon-shelf sediment exchange by stormes-evidence from foraminiferal assembalges, east coast of Grand Cayman, Brotish West Indies, J. Sedimentary Research, v. 67, p.17-25

Lidiak, E.G. and Jolly. W.T., 1996 Circum-Caribbean Granitoids: characteristics and origin, International Geology Review, v.38, p.1098-1133

Mann, P., 1997, Model for the formation of large transtensional basins in zones of tectonic escape: Geology, v.25 (3) p. 211-214. Uses the Caribbean to illustrate a proposed mechanism for development of transtensional basins.

Meschede, M., Frische, W. Hermann, U.R. and Ratschbacher, L., 1997, Stress transmission across a consuming plate margin: correlation between convergence vector and paleostress tensor directions in southern Mexico, Tectonophysics, v. 266, p. 81-100.

Mercier de Lepinay, B. and 5 others, 1997, Large Neogene subsidence event along the Middle America Trench off Mexico (18-19 N): evidence from submersible observations: Geology, v. 25, p. 387-390.

McNight, S.B. and Williams, S.N., 1997, Old cinder cone or new composite volcano?: the nature of Cerro Negro: Geology, v. 25 (4), p. 339-342.

Saito, S. and Goldberg, D., 1997, Evolution of tectonic compaction in the Barbados accretionary prism: estimates from loggiong-while-drilling: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 148-423-432

Sillitoe, R. 1997, Characteristics and controls of the largest porphyry copper-gold and epithermal deposits in the circum-Pacific region: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 44, p. 373-388 Makes somecomparisons of the tectonic setting of Pueblo Viejo, Dominican Rep., to other Pacific mines.

Sisson, V.B., Ertan, I.E., and Ave Lallement, 1997, High pressure(~200 MPa) Kyanite- and Glaucophane-bearing schist and eclogite from the Cordillera de la Cost Belt, Venezuela: Jornal of Petrology, v. 38 (1) p. 65-83.

Sorenson, S.S., Grossman, J.N., and Perfit, M.R., 1997, Phengite hosted LILE enrichment in eclogite and related rocks: implications for fluid related mass transfer in subduction zones and arc magma genesis: Journal of Petrology, v. 38 (1), p. 3-34. Use analyses from the Samana Metamorphic Complex in Hispaniola.

Speed, R.C., Burmester, R.F and Beck, M.E., 1997, Paleomagnetism of Eocene Basalts of Mayreau. West Indies: implications for contrasts in tectonic rotation in the southeastern Caribbean: International Geology Review, v. 39, p. 82-95