The Upper Jurassic-Upper Cretaceous magmatic sequence of the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic

J. Escuder Viruete; F. Contreras; M. Joubert; P. Urien; G. Stein; E. Lopera; D. Weis; T. Ullrich; A. Pérez-Estaún

doi:10.21701/bolgeomin.118.2.005

Authors

J. Escuder Viruete Instituto Geológico y Minero de España
F. Contreras INYPSA, Informes y Proyectos S.A.
M. Joubert BRGM
P. Urien BRGM
G. Stein BRGM
E. Lopera Instituto Geológico y Minero de España
D. Weis Pacific Centre for Isotopic and Geochemical Research. University of British Columbia
T. Ullrich Pacific Centre for Isotopic and Geochemical Research. University of British Columbia
A. Pérez-Estaún I.C.T. Jaume Almera-CSIC

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21701/bolgeomin.118.2.005

Keywords:

Caribbean island-arc, Dominican Republic, magmatic sequence, mantle sources, subduction

Abstract

the Cordillera Central domain, located southern of the Hispaniola Fault Zone, an Upper Jurassic-Upper Cretaceous magmatic sequence is recognized, which includes eight lithostratigraphic-geochemical units formed by a great variety of plutonic, volcanic, volcaniclastic and sedimentary rocks. The three lowermost units have an ophiolitic character, since it is considered oceanic lithosphere with its typical pseudostratigraphy though incomplete: upper mantle rocks are represented by the Loma Caribe serpentinized peridotite; gabbros, dolerites and volcanic MORB-rocks by the oceanic volcano-plutonic assemblage of the Loma La Monja; and the pelagic sediments by the El Aguacate Chert, lacking the crustal terms of layered cumulate gabbros and part of the dyke-complex. Over this Late Jurassic proto- Caribbean oceanic sustrate, an event of Caribbean oceanic plateau formation during the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) is superposed and represented by the picrites and high-Mg basalts of the Duarte Complex. The overlying volcanic and subvolcanic rocks of the Tireo Group are related to subduction processes under the oceanic plateau in the Late Cretaceous. Subduction-zone formation in the Albian gave rise a typical island arc tholeiitic magmas, that compositionally shift to an association of adakites, high-Mg andesites and Nb-enriched basalts in the Turonian-Santonian interval. The tholeiitic, transitional and alkaline basalts of the Peña Blanca, Pelona-Pico Duarte and Magua Fms, represent new plume-related intraplate magmatism in the Late Campanian-Maastrichtian. The Caribbean island arc inactivity is recorded in this area with the subsequent carbonate sedimentation of the Bois de Lawrence Fm during the Maastrichtian.

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