Stratigraphic and Petrochemical Data Support Subduction Polarity Reversal of the Cretaceous Caribbean Island Arc

1993 ◽  
Vol 101 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. C. Lebron ◽  
Michael R. Perfit
Keyword(s):  
Island Arc ◽  
Polarity Reversal ◽  
Caribbean Island ◽  
Data Support

scholarly journals The Imbert Formation of northern Hispaniola: a tectono-sedimentary record of arc-continent collision and ophiolite emplacement in the northern Caribbean subduction-accretionary prism

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1827-1876 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Escuder-Viruete ◽  
A. Suárez-Rodríguez ◽  
J. Gabites ◽  
A. Pérez-Estaún
Keyword(s):  
Subduction Zone ◽  
Continental Margin ◽  
Middle Eocene ◽  
Accretionary Prism ◽  
Island Arc ◽  
Caribbean Island ◽  
Stratigraphic Sequence ◽  
Oblique Collision ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Ophiolitic Complex

Abstract. In northern Hispaniola, the Imbert Formation (Fm) has been interpreted as an orogenic "mélange" originally deposited as trench-fill sediments, an accretionary (subduction) complex formed above a SW-dipping subduction zone, or the sedimentary result of the early oblique collision of the Caribbean plate with the Bahama Platform in the middle Eocene. However, new stratigraphical, structural, geochemical and geochronological data from northern Hispaniola indicate that the Imbert Fm constitutes a coarsening-upward stratigraphic sequence that records the transition of the sedimentation from a pre-collisional forearc to a syn-collisional piggy-back basin. This piggy-back basin was transported on top of the Puerto Plata ophiolitic complex slab and structurally underlying accreted units of the Rio San Juan complex, as it was emplaced onto the North America continental margin units. The Imbert Fm unconformably overlies different structural levels of the Caribbean subduction-accretionary prism, including a supra-subduction zone ophiolite, and consists of three laterally discontinuous units that record the exhumation of the underlying basement. The distal turbiditic lower unit includes the latest volcanic activity of the Caribbean island arc; the more proximal turbiditic intermediate unit is moderately affected by syn-sedimentary faulting; and the upper unit is a (caotic) olistostromic unit, composed of serpentinite-rich polymictic breccias, conglomerates and sandstones, strongly deformed by syn-sedimentary faulting, slumping and sliding processes. The Imbert Fm is followed by subsidence and turbiditic deposition of the overlying El Mamey Group. The 40Ar / 39Ar plagioclase plateau ages obtained in gabbroic rocks from the Puerto Plata ophiolitic complex indicate its exhumation at ∼ 45–40 Ma (lower-to-middle Eocene), contemporaneously to the sedimentation of the overlying Imbert Fm. These cooling ages imply the uplift to the surface and submarine erosion of the complex to be the source of the ophiolitic fragments in the Imbert Fm, during of shortly after the emplacement of the intra-oceanic Caribbean island-arc onto the continental margin.

scholarly journals Recycling in the subduction factory: Archaean to Permian zircons in the oceanic Cretaceous Caribbean island-arc (Hispaniola)

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 23-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisard Torró ◽  
Joaquín A. Proenza ◽  
Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte ◽  
Antonio Garcia-Casco ◽  
Jin-Hui Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Island Arc ◽  
Caribbean Island

scholarly journals Reconstructing the crustal section of the intra-oceanic Caribbean island arc: contraints from the cumulate layered gabbronorites and pyroxenites of the Rio Boba plutonic sequence, northern Dominican Republic

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Escuder-Viruete ◽  
Mercedes Castillo-Carrión ◽  
Fernando Pérez Valera ◽  
Pablo Valverde-Vaquero ◽  
Álvaro Rubio Ordónez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Island Arc ◽  
Caribbean Island

scholarly journals Reconstructing the crustal section of the intra-oceanic Caribbean island arc: contraints from the cumulate layered gabbronorites and pyroxenites of the Rio Boba plutonic sequence, northern Dominican Republic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Escuder-Viruete ◽  
Mercedes Castillo-Carrión ◽  
Fernando Pérez Valera ◽  
Pablo Valverde-Vaquero ◽  
Álvaro Rubio Ordónez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Island Arc ◽  
Caribbean Island

Magmatic relationships and ages of Caribbean Island arc tholeiites, boninites and related felsic rocks, Dominican Republic

Lithos ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 90 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 161-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Escuder Viruete ◽  
A. Díaz de Neira ◽  
P.P. Hernáiz Huerta ◽  
J. Monthel ◽  
J. García Senz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Island Arc ◽  
Caribbean Island ◽  
Felsic Rocks

scholarly journals The Imbert Formation of northern Hispaniola: a tectono-sedimentary record of arc–continent collision and ophiolite emplacement in the northern Caribbean subduction–accretionary prism

Solid Earth ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Escuder-Viruete ◽  
Á. Suárez-Rodríguez ◽  
J. Gabites ◽  
A. Pérez-Estaún
Keyword(s):  
Subduction Zone ◽  
Continental Margin ◽  
Middle Eocene ◽  
Accretionary Prism ◽  
Island Arc ◽  
Caribbean Island ◽  
Stratigraphic Sequence ◽  
Oblique Collision ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Ophiolitic Complex

Abstract. In northern Hispaniola, the Imbert Formation (Fm) has been interpreted as an orogenic “mélange” originally deposited as trench-fill sediments, an accretionary (subduction) complex formed above a SW-dipping subduction zone, or the sedimentary result of the early oblique collision of the Caribbean plate with the Bahama Platform in the middle Eocene. However, new stratigraphical, structural, geochemical and geochronological data from northern Hispaniola indicate that the Imbert Fm constitutes a coarsening-upward stratigraphic sequence that records the transition of the sedimentation from a pre-collisional forearc to a syn-collisional basin. This basin was transported on top of the Puerto Plata ophiolitic complex slab and structurally underlying accreted units of the Rio San Juan complex, as it was emplaced onto the North America continental margin units.The Imbert Fm unconformably overlies different structural levels of the Caribbean subduction-accretionary prism, including a supra-subduction zone ophiolite, and consists of three laterally discontinuous units that record the exhumation of the underlying basement. The distal turbiditic lower unit includes the latest volcanic activity of the Caribbean island arc; the more proximal turbiditic intermediate unit is moderately affected by syn-sedimentary faulting; and the upper unit is a (chaotic) olistostromic unit, composed of serpentinite-rich polymictic breccias, conglomerates and sandstones, strongly deformed by syn-sedimentary faulting, slumping and sliding processes. The Imbert Fm is followed by subsidence and turbiditic deposition of the overlying El Mamey Group.The 40Ar ∕ 39Ar plagioclase plateau ages obtained in gabbroic rocks from the Puerto Plata ophiolitic complex indicate its exhumation at  ∼  45–40 Ma (lower-to-middle Eocene), contemporaneously to the sedimentation of the overlying Imbert Fm. These cooling ages imply the uplift to the surface and submarine erosion of the complex to be the source of the ophiolitic fragments in the Imbert Fm, during or shortly after the emplacement of the intra-oceanic Caribbean island arc onto the continental margin.

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