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Papers
on Guyana Suriname Basin |
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See
Warren G. Workman, CGX Energy Inc., World Oil May 2000, "Guyana
Basin: A New Exploration Focus" (5.6 MB PDF file) |
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Papers
on Turbidites and South Atlantic Geology |
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See
Henry Pettingill, Repsol Exploracion S.A., Oil and Gas Journal 1998,
"Worldwide Turbidite Exploration and Production": Part I:
Overview of a Globally Immature Play; Part II: Lessons from the World's
45 Turbidite Giants |
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See
Raymond Joyes, Oil and Gas Journal: SOUTH ATLANTIC GEOLOGY-1: Geologic
insights listed into Africa, Brazil deepwater exploration, and April
2, 2001: Deciphering turbidites on seismic key to understanding basins
off Africa, Brazil |
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Websites
on Caribbean Geology |
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The
following is a list of several websites of universities with Caribbean
geology specialties. The focus of these programs tends to be on the
entry of the Caribbean Plate from the Pacific resulting in the exposure
of ocean crust as well as the formation of the various islands. References
to the north slope of Guyana are indirect at best. The date of entry
of the Caribbean Plate (88-91 my) appears to coincide with the date
of the Canje Formation source rocks (90 my), although this does not
appear to be discussed in the articles cited. |
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University
of Texas at Austin, Caribbean Geology, Geophysics and Tectonics |
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University
of Leicester University, Caribbean Research Group |
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Caribbean
Geology and Tectonics Website (Glen Draper, Florida International
University) |
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Geologic
Images of the Caribbean |
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Present-day
Plate
Boundaries (from the PLATES Project data compilation) |
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Free-air
Gravity
(after Smith and Sandwell 1995) |
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Predicted
Topography
(after Smith and Sandwell 1997) |
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Earthquakes
(Engdahl et al., 1998) and Holocene Volcanoes (Smithsonian Global
Volcanism Project, 1999) |
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Geologic
Models |
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Giunta
et al. 1998. presented at the 15 Caribbean Geological
Conference in Kingston Jamaica, July 1998, and to be included in the
volume edited by T. Jackson. |
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Iturralde-Vinent
, M. 1998, Synopsis of the Geological Constitution of
Cuba, Acta Geologica Hispanica (IGCP 433), vol. 33(1-4):9-56. Iturralde-Vinent,
M.A. and Gahagan, L.M., in press, 15th Caribbean Geological Conference
in Kingston Jamaica, July 1998, T. Jackson (editor). |
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Kerr
1999, A.C., Iturralde Vinent, M.A., Saunders, A.D., Babbs,
T.L., and Tarney, J., 1999, A new plate tectonic model of the Caribbean:
Implications from a geochemical reconnaissance of Cuban Mesozoic volcanic
rocks, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 111(11): 1581-1599. |
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Malfait
1972, B. T. and Dinkelman, M. G., 1972, Circum-Caribbean
Tectonic and Igneous Activity and the Evolution of the Caribbean Plate,
Geological Society of America Bulletin, 83 (2), p. 251-271. |
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Mann,
P., 1999, Caribbean sedimentary basins: Classification and tectonic
setting from Jurassic to Present, in Mann, P., editor, Caribbean Basins,
Sedimentary Basins of the World Series, Series Editor: K. Hsu, Elsevier
Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, vol. 4, p. 3-31. |
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Marton,
G., and Buffler, R.T., 1994, Jurassic reconstruction of the Gulf of
Mexico Basin, International Geology Review, 36:545-586. |
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Meschede,
M., and Frisch, W., 1998, A plate-tectonic model for the Mesozoic
and Early Cenozoic history of the Caribbean plate, Tectonophysics,
296(3-4): 269-291. |
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Pindell
1994, J.L., 1994, Evolution of the Gulf of Mexico and
the Caribbean, in S.K. Donovan and T.A. Jackson (eds.), Caribbean
Geology: An Introduction, 13-39, University of the West Indies Publisher's
Association, Kingston, Jamaica. QE 220 C34 1994 |
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Ross,
M.I., and Scotese, C.R., 1988, A hierarchical tectonic model of the
Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean region, Tectonophysics, 155:139-168. |
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Animations |
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Scotese |
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A
brief description of the sequence stratigraphy
offshore Guyana is posted by the University of Southern
California, Sequence Stratigraphy Group |
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There
are numerous re-constructions of plate tectonics. The following reference
has multiple links: University
of Texas at Austin, Institute of Geophysics |
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