To address the question of the initiation and mechanisms involved in the process of
subduction zone formation, we explored most of the available evidence for the subduction …

Our study aims to reconstruct the palaeogeography of the northern part of the Lesser Antilles
in order to analyse whether emerged areas might have existed during the Cenozoic …

Intriguing latest Eocene land-faunal dispersals between South America and the Greater
Antilles (northern Caribbean) has inspired the hypothesis of the GAARlandia (Greater …

Abstract Relative Caribbean‐North American plate motion is partitioned over the trench and
intra‐Caribbean plate faults that bound large scale tectonic blocks. Quantifying the kinematic …

Abstract The Grenada Basin separates the active Lesser Antilles Arc from the Aves Ridge,
described as a Cretaceous‐Paleocene remnant of the “Great Arc of the Caribbean.” …

Phylogenetic studies of present-day terrestrial organisms suggest that faunal dispersals
between South America and the Greater Antilles may have occurred during the Cenozoic …

Oblique collision of buoyant provinces against subduction zones frequently results in
individualizing and rotating regional‐scale blocks. In contrast, the collision of the Bahamas …

Montagne Pelée is one of the most active volcanoes of the Lesser Antilles arc, with two to
three magmatic eruptions per millennium and an estimated magmatic production rate in the …

This study presents an extensive geochemical data set of 23 samples from St. Barthélemy
Island, which belongs to the extinct branch of the Lesser Antilles arc and is currently …

Saint Barthélemy is the only island of the northern Lesser Antilles where it is possible to
investigate in the detail the chronostratigraphy of the mixed carbonate-volcaniclastic …