Plate Tectonic Setting and Cenozoic Deformation of Trinidad: Foldbelt Restoration in a Region of Significant Strike-Slip

Lingrey, Steven

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“…The Vienna Basin is probably the most famous and archetype of this type of basins. In a very similar geodynamic setting the Gulf of Paria developed between Venezuela and Trinidad (Lingrey, 2007). Complex piggyback basins and thrust-top pull-apart basins developed also in the internal parts of Circum-Mediterranean thrust belts in response to local and temporal changes in paleostress regime, and related strain partitioning and lateral block escape.…”

Section: Coupling Versus Decoupling Between Forelands and Orogenic Wementioning

confidence: 96%

New Frontiers in Integrated Solid Earth Sciences

Cloetingh¹,

Negendank²

2010

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Section: Coupling Versus Decoupling Between Forelands and Orogenic Wementioning

confidence: 96%

New Frontiers in Integrated Solid Earth Sciences

Cloetingh¹,

Negendank²

2010

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“…Through the Oligocene, the leading edge of the Caribbean plate advanced eastward imposing a transpressional deformation onto the passive margin of eastern Venezuela and Trinidad. In the late Miocene, Caribbean-South American relative motion became fundamentally translational (Lingrey, 2007). This subprovince is defined here as the Antillean subprovince and it corresponds in the analysis to the co-occurrence and the exclusivity of the group expressed in Fig.…”

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The Neogene tropical America fish assemblage and the paleobiogeography of the Caribbean region

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This first analysis of the marine fish fossil record in the Caribbean region during the Neogene is based on comprehensive new faunal compilation lists at the generic level from basins of nine Central and South American countries during Miocene and Pliocene times. Joint ordination and classification techniques were used to analyze data comprising 236 genera and 346 species. Principal Component Analyses were used to calculate covariance and variance between localities. We identified four subprovinces, representing four different patterns. The subprovince of Venezuela shows distinct and unique features since the Neogene in the diversity of ecosystems represented. The Antillean subprovince has a western orientation and is composed of Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, and the Trinidad islands. The third subprovince combines Panama and Ecuador. It reflects the Pacific faunal influence into the proto-Caribbean and a characteristic benthopelagic fauna. The fourth subprovince is Costarican. Its nektonic fish fauna reflects the overprinting impact over the proto-Caribbean fish fauna mostly due to local paleoenvironmental changes (neritic, estuarine and deep water assemblages), whereby the overall composition of genera is largely not affected (except few lamnids, such as the gianttoothed white sharks and the wide-toothed mako shark). The results of the analyses are concordant with previous ones based on invertebrates and identified regions in need of study (e.g., Colombia, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Brazil).

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“…Examples are the Sant'Arcangelo Basin in the Southern Apennines (Hippolyte et al, 1991(Hippolyte et al, , 1994Di Stefano et al, 2002;Sabato et al, 2005;Monaco et al, 2007) and the Chelif Basin in North Algeria (Neurdin-Trescartes, 1995;Roure, 2008). In a very similar geodynamic setting the Gulf of Paria developed between Venezuela and Trinidad (Lingrey, 2007).…”

Section: Coupling Versus Decoupling Between Forelands and Orogenic Wementioning

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Achievements and Challenges in Sedimentary Basin Dynamics: A Review

Roure

Cloetingh²,

Scheck‐Wenderoth

et al. 2009

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Thanks to a continuous effort for unravelling geological records since the early days of coal and petroleum exploration and water management, the architecture and chrono-litho-stratigraphy of most sedimentary basins has been accurately described by means of conventional geological and geophysical studies, using both surface (outcrops) and subsurface (exploration wells and industry seismic reflection profiles) data. However, the understanding of the early development and long term evolution of sedimentary basins usually requires the integration of even more data on the deep Earth, as well as quantifications by means of kinematic-sedimentological and thermomechanical modelling approaches coupling both surface and deep processes.In the last twenty years, huge national and international efforts, frequently linking academy and industry, have been devoted to the recording of deep seismic profiles in many intracratonic sedimentary basins and offshore passive margins, thus providing a direct control on the structural configuration of the basement and the architecture of the crust. Seemingly, needs for documenting also the current thickness of the mantle lithosphere and the fate of subducted lithospheric slabs have led to the development of more academic and new tomographic techniques. When put together, these various techniques now provide a direct access to the bulk 3D architecture of sedimentary basins, crystalline basement and Moho, as well as underlying mantle lithosphere. Inherited structures, anisotropies in the composition of the sediments, crust and underlying mantle as well as thermicity and phase transitions are now taken into account when predicting the localization of deformation in the lithosphere during compression and extension episodes, and reconstructing the geodynamic evolution of rift basins, passive margins or even foreland fold-and-thrust belts.Source to sink studies also provide accurate estimates of sedimentary budget at basin-scale. Extensive use of low temperature chrono-thermometers and coupled kinematic, sedimentological and thermal models allow a precise control on the amount and timing of erosion and unroofing of source areas, but also the reconstruction of the sedimentary burial, strata architecture and litho-facies distribution in the sink areas.Coupling deep mantle processes with erosion and climate constitutes a new challenge for understanding the present topography, morphology and long term evolution of continents, especially in such sensitive areas as the near shore coastal plains, low lands and intramountain valleys which may be subject to devastating flooding and landslides.In addition to the search for hydrocarbon resources, other societal needs such as CO 2 storage and underground water management will benefit from upgraded basin modelling techniques. New 2D and 3D basin modelling tools are progressively developed, coupling in different ways deep thermo-mechanic processes of the mantle (asthenosphere and lithosphere), geomechanics of the upper crust and sediments (compactio...

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Plate Tectonic Setting and Cenozoic Deformation of Trinidad: Foldbelt Restoration in a Region of Significant Strike-Slip

Cited by 7 publications

References 25 publications

New Frontiers in Integrated Solid Earth Sciences

New Frontiers in Integrated Solid Earth Sciences

The Neogene tropical America fish assemblage and the paleobiogeography of the Caribbean region

Achievements and Challenges in Sedimentary Basin Dynamics: A Review

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