Selected Abstracts on Tectonics in the Caribbean

3-D gravity analysis of the northeast Caribbean and the development of the Puerto Rico Trench [abs.], in press, Martin, J.L., ten Brink, U.S., Dillon, W.P., and Nealon, J.W.: Geological Society of America, National Meeting, November 2001, Boston, Massachusetts.

Tectonics of the Puerto Rico/Virgin Island microplate [abs.], 2000, Nealon, J.W., Dillon, W.P., ten Brink, U.S., Danforth, W.W., and Roth, E.G.: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, v. 32 no. 7, p. 436.

Multichannel seismic profiles showing deformation of the North American plate and plate boundary zone near the northeastern corner of the Caribbean plate [abs.], 1999, Dillon, W.P., Uchipi, E., ten Brink, U.S., Acosta, J., Anton, C.H., and Lee, M.W.: GSA Penrose Conference, Subduction to strike-slip transitions on plate boundaries, Puerto Plata Dominican Republic, Keynote Talks and Poster Abstracts volume, unpaginated.

Structure in the transition from subduction to transform motion, northeastern Caribbean [abs.], 1998, Dillon, W.P., ten Brink, U.S., Acosta, J., Uchupi, E., Vegas, R., Munoz, A., and Taylor, M.: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 79 no. 17-supplement, p. S172.

High-resolution geologic mapping of the coastal ocean: application to coastal and sea-floor management [abs.], 1997, Schwab, W.C., Butman, B., Buchholtz ten Brink, M.R., and Danforth, W.W.: Expanding Research Capabilities in Today's U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Geological Survey Workshop, Harpers Ferry, Virginia, February 1997, nonpaginated.

Linear rippled scour depressions in the nearshore: possible indicators of cross-shelf sediment transport? [abs.], 1995, Schwab, W.C., Twichell, D.C., R.W., R., Thieler, E.R., Allison, M.A., and Gayes, P.T.: Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, November 1995, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Plate responses to the transition from subduction to strike-slip motion in the northeastern Caribbean; origin of the Puerto Rico Trench [abs.], 1994, Dillon, W.P., and Coleman, D.F.: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 26 no. 7, p. A475.

Plate responses to the transition from subduction to strick-slip motion in the northeastern Caribbean [abs.], 1994, Dillon, W.P., Coleman, D.F., and Scanlon, K.: Proceedings, U.S. Geological Survey/JOI-USSAC Subduction Conference, in Scholl, D., Bebout, G., and Kirby, S., convenors, SUBCON, An Interdisciplinary Conference on the Subduction Process, Sponsored by U.S. Geological Survey, JOI/USSAC and NSF, Abstracts volume, p. 72-75.

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