Caribbean-South American plate interactions, Venezuela / edited by Hans G. Avé Lallemant, Virginia B. Sisson.

Other author Avé Lallemant, Hans G.
Other author Sisson, Virginia Baker.
Format Book
Publication InfoBoulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2005.
Descriptioniv, 346 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Geology, Structural--Caribbean Area.
Geology, Structural--Venezuela.
Plate tectonics--Caribbean Area.
Plate tectonics--Venezuela.
Orogenic belts--Caribbean Area.

SeriesSpecial paper ; 394
Special papers (Geological Society of America) 394. ^A20279
Contents Plate-kinematics and crustal dynamics of cirum-Caribbean arc-continent interactions / J. Pindell ... [et al.] -- Overview of the southeast Caribbean, South American plate boundary zone / M. Ostos, F. Yoris, and H.G. Avé Lallemant -- Overview of radiometric ages in three allochthonous belts of northern Venezuela / V.B. Sisson ... [et al.] -- Geochemistry and tectonic setting of igneous and metaigneous rocks of northern Venezuela / M. Ostos and V.B. Sisson -- Exhumation history of two high-pressure belts, northern Venezuela, based on fluid inclusions in quartz and calcite veins / V.B. Sisson ... [et al.] -- 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 -- Exhumation of eclogites and blueschists in northern Venezuela / H.G. Avé Lallemant and V.B. Sisson -- Alpine-type Tinaquillo peridotite complex, Venezuela / M. Ostos, H.G. Avé Lallemant, and V.B. Sisson -- Geochemical evidence for island-arc origin of the Villa de Cura blueschist belt, Venezuela / L.M. Unger, V.B. Sisson, and H.G. Avé Lallemant -- Thrust belt interpretation of the Serranía del Interior and Maturin subbasin, eastern Venezuela / E. J. Hung -- Tectonic and thermal history of the western Serranía del Interior foreland fold and thrust belt and Guárico basin, north-central Venezuela / J. Perez de Armas -- Thermal evolution of the eastern Serranía del Interior foreland fold and thrust belt, northeastern Venezuela, based on apatite fission-track analyses / B.D. Locke and J.I. Garver.
General noteThree folded plates in pocket.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2005049456
ISBN0813723949 (pbk.)

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