Abstract: From Caribbean to South and North American Cordilleras

Jean Aubouin

The Caribbean area developed to the detriment of the North and South American Cordilleran systems. A succession of axial terminations of these Cordilleras is situated along the Huancabamba and Barquikimeto transverse structures in the Andes and along the Parras and Guatemala transverse structures in the Mexican Sierra Madres. The Caribbean belt, which has alpine features, thus was situated in an intercontinental position at the western end of the Tethys Sea as a result of the opening of the Atlantic.

AAPG Search and Discovery Article #90962©1978 AAPG 2nd Circum-Pacific Energy and Minerals Resource Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii