By D. Fraser Keppie
Modern researchers in plate tectonics should be serious about the research of dispensed deformation throughout diffuse plate obstacles and triple junction zones. This publication extends vintage tools of kinematic research first built within the Nineteen Sixties to the extra normal eventualities of diffuse deformation zones among plates. The analytic equipment provided in particular objective the non-rigid deformation implied through risky triple junction configurations. those equipment are then utilized to the tectonic evolution of western Caribbean quarter which supplies new how you can attempt and problem the proven Pacific version of Caribbean tectonics. attainable merits of the recent Pirate version of Caribbean tectonics are mentioned by way of paleo-geography and paleo-ocean connections, in addition to mineral and hydrocarbon capability and seismic hazards around the region.
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