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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Analysis of Diffuse Triple Junction Zones in Plate Tectonics and the Pirate Model of Western Caribbean Tectonics
  name:
    name part: Keppie, D. Fraser.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: IX, 75 p. 35 illus., 12 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Modern researchers in plate tectonics may be concerned with the analysis of distributed deformation across diffuse plate boundaries and triple junction zones. This book extends classic methods of kinematic analysis first developed in the 1960s to the more general scenarios of diffuse deformation zones between plates. The analytic methods presented specifically target the non-rigid deformation implied by unstable triple junction configurations. These methods are then applied to the tectonic evolution of western Caribbean region which provides new ways to test and challenge the established Pacific model of Caribbean tectonics. Possible advantages of the new Pirate model of Caribbean tectonics are discussed in terms of paleo-geography and paleo-ocean connections, as well as mineral and hydrocarbon potential and seismic risks across the region.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Western Caribbean Tectonics -- Abstract.-Tectonic constraints -- Theoretical analysis of Western Caribbean tectonics -- Western Caribbean Plate corners -- Relative Plate motions -- Western Caribbean arc deformation style -- Review of Western Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico tectonics -- Shortening at the Eastern Caribbean Plate boundary -- Extension conjugate to Eastern Caribbean shortening -- Displacements at the Western Caribbean Plate corners -- Western Caribbean microplates -- Discussion -- Consistency with known data -- Predictive Power -- A new, multi-mode model for Western Caribbean tectonics -- The Chortis Block controversy -- Neo-Caribbean tectonics -- Meeting of the Americas -- Age of Gulf of Mexico opening -- A geodynamic model for the Western Caribbean region -- Conclusions -- References -- Normalization analysis for possibly unstable triple junction zones -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Step 1: Define a doubly-tangent, moving Euclidean tectonic reference frame -- Step 2: Determine compatibility of major plate motions and plate boundary orientations -- Step 3: Determine the stability of the normalized, hypothetical triple junction -- Step 4: Identify end-member nonrigid solutions for an unstable triple junction -- References.
  note: by D. Fraser Keppie.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geology
  subject:
    topic: Structural geology
  subject:
    topic: Geophysics
  subject:
    topic: Oceanography
  subject:
    topic: Geomorphology
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Structural Geology
  subject:
    topic: Geophysics/Geodesy
  subject:
    topic: Geomorphology
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences, general
  subject:
    topic: Geology
  subject:
    topic: Oceanography
  classification: QE601-613.5
  classification: QE500-639.5
  classification: 551.8
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences
  identifier: 9781461496168
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9616-8
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    record creation date: 140217
    record change date: 20151030111406.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4614-9616-8