Geology of the Dominican Republic: from island arcs to arc-continent collision
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https://doi.org/10.21701/bolgeomin.118.2.001Keywords:
arc-continent collision, Caribbean tectonics, island arc, transpressionAbstract
The Geology of Hispaniola Island results from the oblique-convergence to final collision of the North American Plate, underthrusted beneath the Cretaceous Caribbean island-arc since the Eocene times. Located in the northern edge of the Caribbean Plate, Hispaniola consists of a tectonic collage of fault bounded igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks of Late Jurassic to Cretaceous age, accreted in an intra-oceanic island-arc setting. These rocks are regionally overlain by a cover of Eocene/Oligocene to present time siliciclastic and carbonate sediments, that post-date island-arc activity and record the period of dominant left-lateral strike-slip motion between the North America and Caribbean plates. During collision, deformation took place under a transpressive tectonic regime. Magmatic island arc rocks, forearc and backarc basins, together with exhumed HP rock complexes and other collisional units are recognized in the Hispaniola Island. The high-P complexes with eclogites, blueschists facies metamorphic rocks and ophiolitic mélanges that outcrop in the Cordillera Septentrional of Hispaniola, and in the Samaná Peninsula form part of the accretionary wedge related to the collision between the North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate.
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