Papers by Javier Escuder-Viruete
Revista Espanola De Paleontologia, 1996
The Oriental Cordillera of Dominican Republic is a mildly deformed area next to the north-eastern... more The Oriental Cordillera of Dominican Republic is a mildly deformed area next to the north-eastern Caribbean plate boundary. Recent geo- logical mapping of the cordillera reject the older 'terrane' subdivision, showing instead a coherent antiformal structure cored by Early Cretaceous island-arc rocks and covered by Late Cretaceous layered fore-arc sediments. The antiform is cut as a positive flower structure by
The Uralides and the Hispaniola belts present two well-preserved examples of arc-continent collis... more The Uralides and the Hispaniola belts present two well-preserved examples of arc-continent collision orogens formed with different plate convergent angle. Many of the orogenic processes are common to these two orogens, but its consequences are different in some cases. Exhumation of highpressure rocks is far more complicated in small angle convergent collision zones (Hispaniola). These rocks are transported to wrench fault zones and exhumed along them. However, the main differences in these extreme collisonal orogenic examples are evident in the structure of the belt. Lack of cilindricity of structures, irregular topography of the mountains, lack of a clear sequence of structure formation, coeval development of different structures, development of intramontane subromboidal basins, are characteristics of the deformation of the upper plate in the case of plate collision at very low angle.
Boletín Geológico y Minero
Journal of Metamorphic Geology
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Papers by Javier Escuder-Viruete