The tectonics of eastern Hispaniola : an investigation into the formation and episodic uplift of the Beata Ridge and the geologic and velocity structure of the Cibao basin /
and producing uplift along the Beata Ridge. Through this
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | and producing uplift along the Beata Ridge. Through this Beata Ridge. The Cibao basin in the northern Dominican Caribbean plate beneath Hispaniola. This uplift produces the classifying the Caribbean lithosphere as anomalously thick. configurations and Motions, a mechanism for the episodic eastern Caribbean plate corroborates previous work eastern Hispaniola and not the western half of the island is episodic north-south compression reactivating underthrusting events occurring on the northern Caribbean plate boundary. facilitated by motion along a previous zone of weakness. forebulge distal to the point of loading. The bathymetry of is determined. Analysis of the elastic thickness of the Lateral variations in the elastic thickness of the Caribbean long wavelength topography of the Beata Ridge. The timing of modeling process the elastic thickness of the bending plate of the seismic data. This information along with interval of zones of porosity and fracturing within the Cibao basin. on modeling the geodynarriic response of an broken elastic Plate interactions around the island of Hispaniola initiate plate may be responsible for some of the topography of the plate under the influence of an end load. The response to processing of the seismic data is used to infer the location reconnaissance survey. The geologic facies variation and related to the forebulge created by the underthrusting of the Republic is investigated using data obtained from a seismic structure of the basin is determined from the interpretation the bending of an elastic plate is the creation of a the underthrusting of the Caribbean plate in the Muertos the Venezuelan basin and the Muertos trough is investigated Through the analysis of present-day tectonic plate to show that the bulge in the eastern Caribbean is related to trough beneath eastern Hispaniola. Underthrusting beneath Uplift along the eastern side of this zone of weakness is uplift and subsidence of the Beata Ridge is correlated with uplift of the Beata Ridge in the Caribbean is developed based velocity data calculated from the rms velocity data from the |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Geophysics". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | ix, 68 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm. Also available online. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |