Sedimentary Basins: Origin, Depositional Histories, and Petroleum Systems

Role of the Offshore Pedro Banks Left-Lateral Strike-Slip Fault Zone in the Plate Tectonic Evolution of the Northern Caribbean
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Published:January 01, 2014
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Bryan Ott, 2014. "Role of the Offshore Pedro Banks Left-Lateral Strike-Slip Fault Zone in the Plate Tectonic Evolution of the Northern Caribbean", Sedimentary Basins: Origin, Depositional Histories, and Petroleum Systems, James Pindell, Brian Horn, Norman Rosen, Paul Weimer, Menno Dinkleman, Allen Lowrie, Richard Fillon, James Granath, Lorcan Kennan
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Abstract
Previous workers, mainly mapping on-land active faults on Caribbean islands, defined the northern Caribbean plate boundary zone as a 200-km-wide and bounded by two active and parallel strike-slip faults: the Oriente fault along the northern edge of the Cayman trough having a GPS rate of 14 mm/yr, and the Enriquillo-Plaintain Garden fault zone (EPGFZ) having a rate of 5-7 mm/yr. In this study, we used 5,000 km of industry and academic data from the Nicaraguan Rise south and southwest of the EPGFZ in the maritime areas of Jamaica, Honduras, and Colombia to define an offshore, 700-km-long, active, left-lateral strike-slip...
- Antilles
- Atlantic Ocean
- biogenic structures
- carbonate banks
- Caribbean Plate
- Caribbean region
- Caribbean Sea
- Cayman Trough
- Central America
- Colombia
- faults
- geophysical methods
- Greater Antilles
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- neotectonics
- Nicaragua Rise
- North Atlantic
- plate boundaries
- plate tectonics
- sedimentary structures
- seismic methods
- South America
- strike-slip faults
- tectonics
- West Indies
- Oriente Fault
- Enriquillo-Plantain Garden Fault
- Pedro Banks fault zone
- San Andres Rift