The Caribbean region can be seen as a kind of natural laboratory in which, over millions of years, plate tectonics resulted in the transfer of a subduction zone from the Pacific to the Atlantic ...

The Caribbean region can be seen as a kind of natural laboratory in which, over millions of years, plate tectonics resulted in the transfer of a subduction zone from the Pacific to the Atlantic.

Geologic and Tectonic Development of the Caribbean Plate Boundary in Northern Central America focuses on the Chortis block of northern Central America (consisting of present-day Guatemala ...

The bathymetric image for today is a perspective view (looking west) of the North American and Caribbean plate boundary focused on the northeast part of the \ ...

Figure 1. Bathymetry of the northeast corner of the Caribbean Plate showing the major faults and plate boundaries; view looking south-west. The main bathymetric features of this area include: the ...

The Caribbean region can be seen as a kind of natural laboratory in which, over millions of years, plate tectonics resulted in the transfer of a subduction zone from the Pacific to the Atlantic.

The January 12, 2010, Haiti earthquake occurred in the boundary region separating the Caribbean plate and the North America plate. This plate boundary is dominated by left-lateral strike slip ...

Tuttle noted that there's evidence of a major earthquake along the Caribbean plate boundary about 800 years ago. "Strain has been accumulating on that fault since then," she said.

An entire series of earthquakes beginning with the Jan. 12 7.0 temblor in Haiti reflects the movement of the Caribbean plate eastward by about a couple of feet. A large number of aftershocks have ...

19.04.2023 14:13 Plate tectonics in the Pacific & Atlantic during the Cretaceous period have shaped the Caribbean region to this day Petra Giegerich Kommunikation und Presse Johannes Gutenberg ...