 | | Report (chapter) | | evaluation of local provenance from the Río San Juan Complex HANS-PETER SCHERTL1,2*, WALTER V. MARESCH1...Edificio Naco 2000, Suite 804, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 6 Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de...Playa Grande on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic is particularly significant because it yielded...area of serpentinite mélanges in the nearby Río San Juan Complex (RSJC). A suite of nine artefacts was chosen...containing minor amounts of diopside (CaMg [Si2O6]), hedenbergite (CaFe2+[Si2O6]) and aegirine (NaFe3+[Si2O6]) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the northern Caribbean subduction–accretionary complex: Insights from the structural geology, microtextures...Caribbean plate a b s t r a c t The Río San Juan metamorphic complex exposes a segment of a high-pressure...high-pressure subduction–accretionary complex built during convergence between the Caribbean island arc and the...the structural evolution. In all units of the complex, three major stages (M1 to M3) in the tectonothermal...metamorphism in the lower structural units of the complex during a consistent D2 top-to-the-NE/ENE tectonic |  | Torró, L., Garcia-Casco, A., Proenza, J.A., Blanco-Quintero, I.F., Gutiérrez-Alonso, G., Lewis, J.F. (2016) High-pressure greenschist to blueschist facies transition in the Maimón Formation (Dominican Republic) suggests mid-Cretaceous subduction of the Early Cretaceous Caribbean arc. Lithos, 266. 309-331 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2016.10.026 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | facies transition in the Maimón Formation (Dominican Republic) suggests mid-Cretaceous subduction of the...facies transition in the Maimón Formation (Dominican Republic) suggests midCretaceous subduction of the...facies transition in the Maimón Formation (Dominican Republic) suggests mid-Cretaceous subduction of the...The Maimón Formation (Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic) is formed of metamorphosed bi- T modal...blueschist; HP/LT metamorphism; Maimón Formation; Dominican Republic; Caribbean; volcanic arc. 2 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT |  | Lázaro, Concepción, Blanco-Quintero, Idael F., Proenza, Joaquin A., Rojas-Agramonte, Yamirka, Neubauer, Franz, Núñez-Cambra, Kenya, Garcia-Casco, Antonio (2016) Petrogenesis and 40Ar/39Ar dating of proto-forearc crust in the Early Cretaceous Caribbean arc: The La Tinta mélange (eastern Cuba) and its easterly correlation in Hispaniola. International Geology Review, 58 (8) 1020-1040 doi:10.1080/00206814.2015.1118647 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Tinta mélange (based on the Geologic Map of the Republic of Cuba, scale 1:100000, sheet 5376, Instituto...2011a; 2013a, 2013b; for similar findings in the Río San Juan mélange, Hispaniola). However, Early Cretaceous...of the latter, the Güira de Jauco Amphibolite Complex, GJAC), Early to Late Cretaceous volcanic arc sequences...2015). Lázaro et al. (2015) suggested that this complex formed during the inception of a new SW-dipping...volcanic arc of the Caribbean (Figure 1; the Purial complex) underwent HP metamorphism (Boiteau et al. 1972; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | manner, the Rı́o San Juan complex jadeitites led to the sourcing of many Dominican Republic jades (Knippenberg...have been tracked to the Monviso metaophiolite complex, western Italian Alps, Italy (e.g., Compagnoni...binary toward diopside (CaMgSi2 O6 ), with lesser hedenbergite (CaFe2+ Si2 O6 ) and aegirine (NaFe3+ Si2 O6...Arroyo Sabana and Jagua Clara mélanges in the Dominican Republic (Draper et al. 1991, Schertl et al. 2012)...R Sierra del Convento, Cubac Rı́o San Juan complex, Dominican Republicd www.annualreviews.org • Jadeitites |
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