Seismic structure of the crust and uppermost mantle of South America and surrounding oceanic basins

GS Chulick, S Detweiler, WD Mooney - Journal of South American Earth …, 2013 - Elsevier
We present a new set of contour maps of the seismic structure of South America and the
surrounding ocean basins. These maps include new data, helping to constrain crustal …

Seismotectonics of Shallow-Focus Earthquakes in Venezuela with Links to Gravity Anomalies and Geologic Heterogeneity Mapped by a GMT Scripting Language

P Lemenkova, O Debeir - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a cartographic framework based on algorithms of GMT codes for
mapping seismically active areas in Venezuela. The data included raster grids from GEBCO …

Subduction in the southern Caribbean: Images from finite‐frequency P wave tomography

MJ Bezada, A Levander… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The eastern boundary of the Caribbean plate is marked by subduction of the Atlantic under
the Lesser Antilles. The southeastern plate boundary is characterized by a strike‐slip …

Integrating gravity data for structural investigation of the Youkous-Tebessa and Foussana-Talah transboundary basins (North Africa)

A Hamad, R Hadji, D Boubaya, S Brahmi… - Euro-Mediterranean …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The Algerian–Tunisian border area is affected by active tectonics that have resulted
in the creation of significant collapsed basins. Here, we present a case study in which gravity …

Curie point depth in Venezuela and the Eastern Caribbean

MS Arnaiz-Rodríguez, N Orihuela - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
We estimate the Curie point depth (CPD) variations of Venezuela (continental crust, South
American plate) and the Eastern Caribbean (oceanic crust, Caribbean Plate) by using …

Sedimentary chemofacies characterization by means of multivariate analysis

JC Montero-Serrano, J Palarea-Albaladejo… - Sedimentary …, 2010 - Elsevier
Multivariate statistical analysis is applied to geochemical data from three sections forming
part of the stratigraphic record of the Cerro Pelado Formation (Oligocene–Miocene), in the …

Crustal density structure in northwestern South America derived from analysis and 3-D modeling of gravity and seismicity data

J Sanchez-Rojas, M Palma - Tectonophysics, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents a three-dimensional (3-D) interpretation of new gravity and seismicity
datasets for northern South America. A 3-D forward density model was constructed on the …

Thermochronology and tectonics of the Leeward Antilles: Evolution of the southern Caribbean Plate boundary zone

R Van Der Lelij, RA Spikings, AC Kerr, A Kounov… - …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Tectonic reconstructions of the Caribbean Plate are severely hampered by a paucity of
geochronologic and exhumation constraints from anastomosed basement blocks along its …

[PDF][PDF] Generación del mapa de basamento de la Cuenca de Falcón a partir de datos gravimétricos de modelos combinados

F Linares, N Orihuela, A García… - Geociencias Aplicadas …, 2014 - researchgate.net
This investigation presents a depth basement map and geologic profiles of the Falcon basin,
calculated from the spectral decomposition of gravity anomalies, derived from the global …

Neogene–Quaternary tectonic evolution of the Leeward Antilles islands (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao) from fault kinematic analysis

JC Hippolyte, P Mann - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2011 - Elsevier
Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao are islands aligned along the crest of a 200-km-long segment
of the east–west-trending Leeward Antilles ridge within the broad Caribbean–South America …