Literature favours a Pacific origin for the Caribbean Plate; few papers argue for an inter-
American origin. This paper, focused on the Caribbean plate region (Fig. 1), examines …

Compiled and synthesized geological data suggest that the Caribbean Plate consists of
dispersed continental basement blocks, wedges of? Triassic–Jurassic clastic rocks, Jurassic …

In the Guaniguanico Mountains of western Cuba, the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous
limestones occur in three stratigraphic successions, which have accumulated along the …

The Placetas belt in north-central Cuba consists of Late Jurassic–Cretaceous rocks that
were highly deformed during the Paleocene to middle Eocene arc-continent collision. The …

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Clastic sediments of the early (?) to late Jurassic (Oxfordian) San Cayetano Formation of
western Cuba are interpreted to reflect syn-rift sedimentation coeval with the breakup of …

Arguments for and against the Pacific origin of the Caribbean Plate and arguments for an in
situ origin Page 1 Transactions of the 16th Caribbean Geological Conference, Barbados …

Descriptions, illustrations and discussions of relationships are provided for two new taxa of
Leptocereus (A. Berger) Britton and Rose collected from the karstic limestone cliffs and …

The tectonic affinity and origins of the Jurassic, siliciclastic San Cayetano and Constancia
formations exposed in western and central Cuba in the Caribbean region remain debated …

A detailed palaeomagnetic study of Cretaceous age volcanic and sedimentary arc rocks
from central Cuba has been carried out. Samples from 32 sites (12 localities) were subjected …