Faster access than browser!
88 relations: Atlantic Ocean, Barbados, Belize, Boconó Fault, Caribbean large igneous province, Caribbean Sea, Cayman Trough, Central America, Central America Volcanic Arc, Clarkforkian, Cocos Plate, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Earthquake, El Pilar Fault System, El Salvador, Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone, Eocene, Eurotamandua, Fauna, Geofísica Internacional, Geological Society of London, Gonâve Microplate, Great American Interchange, Greater Antilles, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Hispaniola, Honduras, Isthmus of Panama, Itaboraian, Journal of Geophysical Research, Kick 'em Jenny, La Grande Soufrière, La Soufrière (volcano), Land bridge, Las Aves archipelago, Leeward Antilles, Lesser Antilles, Lesser Antilles subduction zone, Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc, List of earthquakes in Guatemala, List of tectonic plates, Martinique, Mid-Cayman Rise, Montserrat, Motagua Fault, Mount Pelée, ..., Nazca Plate, Nicaragua, North American land mammal age, North American Plate, Oceanic crust, Opossum, Pacific Ocean, Panama Plate, Petroleum, Piacenzian, Plate tectonics, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Trench, Saint Vincent (Antilles), Seismology, Soufrière Hills, South America, South American land mammal age, South American Plate, Subduction, Swan Islands Transform Fault, Thanetian, Thrust fault, Tiffanian, Tiupampan, Tobago, Transform fault, Trinidad, Tsunami, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, Volcanic arc, Volcano, Walton fault zone, Xenarthra, Ypresian, Yucatán Peninsula, 2010 Haiti earthquake. Expand index (38 more) »
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Atlantic Ocean · See more »
Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of North America.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Barbados · See more »
Belize
Belize, formerly British Honduras, is an independent Commonwealth realm on the eastern coast of Central America.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Belize · See more »
Boconó Fault
The Boconó Fault is a complex of geological fault located in the Eastern Ranges of northeastern Colombia and the Mérida Andes of northwestern Venezuela.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Boconó Fault · See more »
Caribbean large igneous province
The Caribbean large igneous province (CLIP) consists of a major flood basalt, which created this large igneous province (LIP).
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Caribbean large igneous province · See more »
Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea (Mar Caribe; Mer des Caraïbes; Caraïbische Zee) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Caribbean Sea · See more »
Cayman Trough
The Cayman Trough (also known as the Cayman Trench, Bartlett Deep and Bartlett Trough) is a complex transform fault zone pull-apart basin which contains a small spreading ridge, the Mid-Cayman Rise, on the floor of the western Caribbean Sea between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Cayman Trough · See more »
Central America
Central America (América Central, Centroamérica) is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with the South American continent on the southeast.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Central America · See more »
Central America Volcanic Arc
The Central American Volcanic Arc (often abbreviated to CAVA) is a chain of volcanoes which extends parallel to the Pacific coast line of the Central American Isthmus, from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and down to northern Panama.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Central America Volcanic Arc · See more »
Clarkforkian
The Clarkforkian North American Stage on the geologic timescale is the North American faunal stage according to the North American Land Mammal Ages chronology (NALMA), typically set from 56,800,000 to 55,400,000 years BP lasting.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Clarkforkian · See more »
Cocos Plate
The Cocos Plate is a young oceanic tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of Central America, named for Cocos Island, which rides upon it.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Cocos Plate · See more »
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a sovereign state largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Colombia · See more »
Costa Rica
Costa Rica ("Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica (República de Costa Rica), is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Ecuador to the south of Cocos Island.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Costa Rica · See more »
Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Cuba · See more »
Earthquake
An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Earthquake · See more »
El Pilar Fault System
The El Pilar Fault System (Falla El Pilar) is a complex of geological faults located in state of Sucre in northern Venezuela.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and El Pilar Fault System · See more »
El Salvador
El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador (República de El Salvador, literally "Republic of The Savior"), is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and El Salvador · See more »
Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone
The Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone (EPGFZ or EPGZ) is a system of coaxial left lateral-moving strike slip faults which runs along the southern side of the island of Hispaniola, where Haiti and the Dominican Republic are located.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone · See more »
Eocene
The Eocene Epoch, lasting from, is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the Cenozoic Era.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Eocene · See more »
Eurotamandua
Eurotamandua ('European tamandua') is an extinct genus of mammal that lived some 47 million years ago, during the early Eocene.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Eurotamandua · See more »
Fauna
Fauna is all of the animal life of any particular region or time.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Fauna · See more »
Geofísica Internacional
Geofísica Internacional is a quarterly peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal published by the Instituto de Geofísica of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Geofísica Internacional · See more »
Geological Society of London
The Geological Society of London, known commonly as the Geological Society, is a learned society based in the United Kingdom.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Geological Society of London · See more »
Gonâve Microplate
The Gonâve Microplate forms part of the boundary between the North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Gonâve Microplate · See more »
Great American Interchange
The Great American Interchange was an important late Cenozoic paleozoogeographic event in which land and freshwater fauna migrated from North America via Central America to South America and vice versa, as the volcanic Isthmus of Panama rose up from the sea floor and bridged the formerly separated continents.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Great American Interchange · See more »
Greater Antilles
The Greater Antilles is a grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean Sea: Cuba, Hispaniola (containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and the Cayman Islands.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Greater Antilles · See more »
Grenada
Grenada is a sovereign state in the southeastern Caribbean Sea consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines island chain.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Grenada · See more »
Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe (Antillean Creole: Gwadloup) is an insular region of France located in the Leeward Islands, part of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Guadeloupe · See more »
Guatemala
Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala (República de Guatemala), is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, Honduras to the east and El Salvador to the southeast.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Guatemala · See more »
Hispaniola
Hispaniola (Spanish: La Española; Latin and French: Hispaniola; Haitian Creole: Ispayola; Taíno: Haiti) is an island in the Caribbean island group, the Greater Antilles.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Hispaniola · See more »
Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras (República de Honduras), is a republic in Central America.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Honduras · See more »
Isthmus of Panama
The Isthmus of Panama (Istmo de Panamá), also historically known as the Isthmus of Darien (Istmo de Darién), is the narrow strip of land that lies between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, linking North and South America.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Isthmus of Panama · See more »
Itaboraian
The Itaboraian age is a period of geologic time (59.0—57.0 Ma) within the Paleocene epoch of the Paleogene used more specifically with South American Land Mammal Ages.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Itaboraian · See more »
Journal of Geophysical Research
The Journal of Geophysical Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Journal of Geophysical Research · See more »
Kick 'em Jenny
Kick 'em Jenny (also: Kick-'em-Jenny or Mt. Kick-'Em-Jenny) is an active submarine volcano or seamount on the Caribbean Sea floor, located north of the island of Grenada and about west of Ronde Island in the Grenadines.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Kick 'em Jenny · See more »
La Grande Soufrière
La Grande Soufrière, (French: "big sulphur outlet"), is an active stratovolcano on the French island of Basse-Terre, in Guadeloupe.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and La Grande Soufrière · See more »
La Soufrière (volcano)
La Soufrière (Vincentian Creole: Soufray) ("The Sulfurer") or Soufrière Saint Vincent is an active volcano on the island of Saint Vincent in the Windward Islands of the Caribbean.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and La Soufrière (volcano) · See more »
Land bridge
A land bridge, in biogeography, is an isthmus or wider land connection between otherwise separate areas, over which animals and plants are able to cross and colonise new lands.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Land bridge · See more »
Las Aves archipelago
The Las Aves Archipelago is a pristine archipelago in the Caribbean Sea, and is part of the Federal Dependencies of Venezuela.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Las Aves archipelago · See more »
Leeward Antilles
The Leeward Antilles (Dutch: Benedenwindse Eilanden) are a chain of islands in the Caribbean – specifically, the southerly islands of the Lesser Antilles (and, in turn, the Antilles and the West Indies) along the southeastern fringe of the Caribbean Sea, just north of the Venezuelan coast of the South American mainland.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Leeward Antilles · See more »
Lesser Antilles
The Lesser Antilles are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Lesser Antilles · See more »
Lesser Antilles subduction zone
The Lesser Antilles subduction zone is a convergent plate boundary on the seafloor along the eastern margin of the Lesser Antilles island arc.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Lesser Antilles subduction zone · See more »
Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc
The Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc is a volcanic arc that forms the eastern boundary of the Caribbean Plate.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc · See more »
List of earthquakes in Guatemala
Earthquakes are relatively frequent occurrences in Guatemala.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and List of earthquakes in Guatemala · See more »
List of tectonic plates
This is a list of tectonic plates on the Earth's surface.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and List of tectonic plates · See more »
Martinique
Martinique is an insular region of France located in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of and a population of 385,551 inhabitants as of January 2013.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Martinique · See more »
Mid-Cayman Rise
The Mid-Cayman Rise or Mid-Cayman Spreading Center is a relatively short (110 km long) divergent plate boundary in the middle of the Cayman Trough.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Mid-Cayman Rise · See more »
Montserrat
Montserrat is a Caribbean island in the Leeward Islands, which is part of the chain known as the Lesser Antilles, in the West Indies.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Montserrat · See more »
Motagua Fault
The Motagua Fault (also, Motagua Fault Zone) is a major, active left lateral-moving transform fault which cuts across Guatemala, continuing offshore along the southern Pacific coast of Mexico, returning onshore along the southernmost tip of Oaxaca, then continuing offshore until it merges with the Middle America Trench near Acapulco.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Motagua Fault · See more »
Mount Pelée
Mount Pelée (pronounced; Montagne Pelée meaning "bald mountain" or "peeled" mountain") is an active volcano at the northern end of Martinique, an island and French overseas department in the Lesser Antilles island arc of the Caribbean.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Mount Pelée · See more »
Nazca Plate
The Nazca Plate, named after the Nazca region of southern Peru, is an oceanic tectonic plate in the eastern Pacific Ocean basin off the west coast of South America.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Nazca Plate · See more »
Nicaragua
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the largest country in the Central American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Nicaragua · See more »
North American land mammal age
The North American land mammal ages (NALMA) establishes a geologic timescale for North American fauna beginning during the Late Cretaceous and continuing through to the present.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and North American land mammal age · See more »
North American Plate
The North American Plate is a tectonic plate covering most of North America, Greenland, Cuba, the Bahamas, extreme northeastern Asia, and parts of Iceland and the Azores.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and North American Plate · See more »
Oceanic crust
Oceanic crust is the uppermost layer of the oceanic portion of a tectonic plate.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Oceanic crust · See more »
Opossum
The opossum is a marsupial of the order Didelphimorphia endemic to the Americas.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Opossum · See more »
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Pacific Ocean · See more »
Panama Plate
The Panama Plate is a small tectonic plate sandwiched between the Cocos Plate and Nazca Plate to the south and the Caribbean Plate to the north.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Panama Plate · See more »
Petroleum
Petroleum is a naturally occurring, yellow-to-black liquid found in geological formations beneath the Earth's surface.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Petroleum · See more »
Piacenzian
The Piacenzian is in the international geologic time scale the upper stage or latest age of the Pliocene.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Piacenzian · See more »
Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics (from the Late Latin tectonicus, from the τεκτονικός "pertaining to building") is a scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of seven large plates and the movements of a larger number of smaller plates of the Earth's lithosphere, since tectonic processes began on Earth between 3 and 3.5 billion years ago.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Plate tectonics · See more »
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Puerto Rico · See more »
Puerto Rico Trench
The Puerto Rico Trench is located on the boundary between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Puerto Rico Trench · See more »
Saint Vincent (Antilles)
Saint Vincent is a volcanic island in the Caribbean.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Saint Vincent (Antilles) · See more »
Seismology
Seismology (from Ancient Greek σεισμός (seismós) meaning "earthquake" and -λογία (-logía) meaning "study of") is the scientific study of earthquakes and the propagation of elastic waves through the Earth or through other planet-like bodies.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Seismology · See more »
Soufrière Hills
The Soufrière Hills volcano is an active, complex stratovolcano with many lava domes forming its summit, on the Caribbean island of Montserrat.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Soufrière Hills · See more »
South America
South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and South America · See more »
South American land mammal age
The South American land mammal ages (SALMA) establish a geologic timescale for prehistoric South American fauna beginning 64.5 Ma during the Paleocene and continuing through to the Late Pleistocene (0.011 Ma).
New!!: Caribbean Plate and South American land mammal age · See more »
South American Plate
The South American Plate is a tectonic plate which includes the continent of South America and also a sizeable region of the Atlantic Ocean seabed extending eastward to the African Plate creating the Mid-Atlantic Ridge The easterly side is a divergent boundary with the African Plate forming the southern part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and South American Plate · See more »
Subduction
Subduction is a geological process that takes place at convergent boundaries of tectonic plates where one plate moves under another and is forced or sinks due to gravity into the mantle.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Subduction · See more »
Swan Islands Transform Fault
The Swan Islands Transform Fault is a left-lateral (sinistral) strike-slip fault zone that forms part of the boundary between the Caribbean Plate and the North American Plate.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Swan Islands Transform Fault · See more »
Thanetian
The Thanetian is, in the ICS Geologic timescale, the latest age or uppermost stratigraphic stage of the Paleocene Epoch or series.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Thanetian · See more »
Thrust fault
A thrust fault is a break in the Earth's crust, across which older rocks are pushed above younger rocks.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Thrust fault · See more »
Tiffanian
The Tiffanian North American Stage on the geologic timescale is the North American faunal stage according to the North American Land Mammal Ages chronology (NALMA), typically set from 60,200,000 to 56,800,000 years BP lasting.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Tiffanian · See more »
Tiupampan
The Tiupampan age is a period of geologic time (64.5—62.5 Ma) within the Paleocene epoch of the Paleogene used more specifically with South American land mammal ages (SALMA).
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Tiupampan · See more »
Tobago
Tobago is an autonomous island within the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Tobago · See more »
Transform fault
A transform fault or transform boundary is a plate boundary where the motion is predominantly horizontal.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Transform fault · See more »
Trinidad
Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Trinidad · See more »
Tsunami
A tsunami (from 津波, "harbour wave"; English pronunciation) or tidal wave, also known as a seismic sea wave, is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Tsunami · See more »
Venezuela
Venezuela, officially denominated Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (República Bolivariana de Venezuela),Previously, the official name was Estado de Venezuela (1830–1856), República de Venezuela (1856–1864), Estados Unidos de Venezuela (1864–1953), and again República de Venezuela (1953–1999).
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Venezuela · See more »
Virgin Islands
The Virgin Islands are the western island group of the Leeward Islands, which are the northern part of the Lesser Antilles, and form the border between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Virgin Islands · See more »
Volcanic arc
A volcanic arc is a chain of volcanoes formed above a subducting plate, positioned in an arc shape as seen from above.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Volcanic arc · See more »
Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Volcano · See more »
Walton fault zone
The Walton fault zone is a major left lateral (sinistral) strike-slip fault, forming part of the southern boundary to the Cayman Trough.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Walton fault zone · See more »
Xenarthra
The superorder Xenarthra is a group of placental mammals, extant today only in the Americas and represented by anteaters, tree sloths, and armadillos.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Xenarthra · See more »
Ypresian
In the geologic timescale the Ypresian is the oldest age or lowest stratigraphic stage of the Eocene.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Ypresian · See more »
Yucatán Peninsula
The Yucatán Peninsula (Península de Yucatán), in southeastern Mexico, separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico, with the northern coastline on the Yucatán Channel.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and Yucatán Peninsula · See more »
2010 Haiti earthquake
The 2010 Haiti earthquake (Séisme de 2010 à Haïti; Tranblemanntè 12 janvye 2010 nan peyi Ayiti) was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake, with an epicenter near the town of Léogâne (Ouest), approximately west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital.
New!!: Caribbean Plate and 2010 Haiti earthquake · See more »
Redirects here:
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean_Plate
