Stratigraphic range: Late Cretaceous (emplaced) ~100–65 Ma
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The Caribbean Terrane is enclosed by the Bucaramanga-Santa Marta Fault (orange), Romeral Fault System (violet) and plate boundaries with Coiba (red) and Malpelo Plates (purple)
Type
Terrane
Unit of
North Andes Plate
Sub-units
Subunits
Overlies
Arquía, Tahamí & Quebradagrande Terranes
Lithology
Primary
Complexes, basins
Other
Volcanoes
Location
Location
Antioquia, Atlántico, Caldas, Cauca, Chocó, Córdoba, Nariño, Quindío, Risaralda, Sucre, Valle del Cauca departments
The Caribbean Terrane (Spanish: Terreno del Caribe, TC) is one of the geological provinces (terranes) of Colombia. The terrane, dating to the Late Cretaceous, is situated on the North Andes Plate and borders the La Guajira, Chibcha and underlying Tahamí Terrane along the regional Bucaramanga-Santa Marta Fault.[1] The terrane overlies the Tahamí, Arquía and Quebradagrande Terranes along the Romeral Fault System.[2][3]
The CaribbeanTerrane (Spanish: Terreno del Caribe, TC) is one of the geological provinces (terranes) of Colombia. The terrane, dating to the Late Cretaceous...
System forms the contact of the terrane with the Tahamí Terrane. The contact with the Caribbean and La Guajira Terranes is formed by the regional Bucaramanga-Santa...
Cretaceous, is situated on the North Andes Plate and borders the Caribbean, Tahamí and Chibcha Terranes along the Bucaramanga-Santa Marta Fault. The southern boundary...
plate, which may or may not have originated as independent microplates: a terrane may not contain the full thickness of the lithosphere. Atlantica – Ancient...
by the collision of the Caribbean Plate with the North American Plate and consist of 12 island arc terranes. These terranes consist of oceanic crust...
Rocky Mountains is composed of such terranes. The southern boundary with the Cocos Plate to the west and the Caribbean Plate to the east is a transform fault...
(up to 20 km (12 mi)) oceanic crust of the Caribbean Plate and the deformed associated magmatic terranes obducted onto the Pacific coasts of northern...
is made up of accretionary complexes. Accretionary wedges and accreted terranes are not equivalent to tectonic plates, but rather are associated with tectonic...
The Maya Block, also known as the Maya Terrane, Yucatan Block, or Yucatan–Chiapas Block, is a physiographic or geomorphic region and tectonic or crustal...
late cretaceous convergence zone where the Mesquito composite oceanic terrane is exposed. The plate’s southern boundary is a subduction zone composed...
The Colombian part of the North Andes Plate is subdivided into several terranes: Subduction of the Coiba Plate underneath the North Andes Plate causes...
to "dock" to continental margins and be preserved as accreted terranes. Such terranes are often better preserved than the exposed parts of continental...
Costa Rica, Panama Middle America Trench Caribbean Plate Cocos Plate Gangdese batholith Tibet, China No longer existent Lhasa terrane Neotethyan ocean...
is the main exposed portion of the Tobago terrane, a fragment of crustal material lying between the Caribbean and South American Plates. Tobago is primarily...
island of Tobago is situated on the Tobago terrane, a section of crust bounded by the South American and Caribbean plates. It is bounded by faults formed...
the north is composed of the Rio de la Plata craton and several accreted terranes comprising the La Pampa province. The underlying basement rocks of the...
Gulf of Guayaquil in Ecuador and Colombia, a series of accreted oceanic terranes (discrete allochthonous fragments) have developed that constitute the Baudo...
it is formed by the combination of a greenstone-granite and a gneiss terrane. The margins of the Canadian Shield have been covered by sedimentary rocks...
neighbouring Oaxaquia Block ie the Juarez, Cuicateco, or Oaxaquia Block, Terrane, or microcontinent (Ross et al. 2021, p. 243, fig. 1). It further borders...
subducting Nazca Plate; and the northerly edge is a boundary with the Caribbean Plate and the oceanic crust of the North American Plate. At the Chile...
Shatsky Rise (North Pacific) Vøring Plateau (North Atlantic) Wrangellia Terrane (Northeast Pacific) Yermak Plateau (Arctic) A mid-ocean ridge is a general...
Paleo-Tethys Ocean existed between the Hunic terranes and Gondwana. Over a period of 400 million years, continental terranes intermittently separated from Gondwana...
ISBN 978-962-593-076-3. Tetreault, J. L.; Buiter, S. J. H. (2014). "Future accreted terranes: a compilation of island arcs, oceanic plateaus, submarine ridges, seamounts...
In the south, the Andes share a long boundary with the former Patagonia Terrane. To the west, the Andes end at the Pacific Ocean, although the Peru-Chile...
Colombia Tectonic plates Caribbean Plate Coiba Plate Malpelo Plate North Andes Plate Panama Plate South American Plate Terranes Chibcha Tahamí Caribe La...
Ocean the Pacific Plate continued to grow; the Arctic Alaska-Chukotka terrane formed the Bering Strait. Continued rifting opened new basins in the Indian...
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