The purpose of this message is two-fold:

 

First, I wanted to let everyone know that I am now at the Department of Geology, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez.  (contact information below)

 

Second, I have made the following document available as a web page.

 

Rogers, R. D., 2003, Jurassic-Recent tectonic and stratigraphic history of the Chortis block of Honduras and Nicaragua (northern Central America), The University of Texas at Austin, Ph. D. dissertation, 289 p.

at http://www.uprm.edu/geol/Faculty%20webpages/Rogers/Rogers2003/Rogers2003.htm

A PDF version of this document is at http://geology.uprm.edu/Rogers.htm (112MB)

 

This is “progress report” on four episodes in the history of the Chortis block as well a synthesis that places these episodes in the larger context of the evolution of the Caribbean, the Cocos system and the southern North America Cordillera in Mexico.  The book contains the following five chapters and a new geologic map of Honduras:

Chapter 1: Epeirogenic uplift above a detached slab in northern Central America

Chapter 2: Plate tectonic controls on two styles of active, transtensional deformation along the North America-Caribbean plate boundary zone (northern Central America and offshore Honduran borderlands)

Chapter 3: Late Cretaceous amalgamation of the western Caribbean plate by collision between the continental Chortis block and intraoceanic Caribbean arc and oceanic plateau

Chapter 4: Cretaceous intra-arc rifting, sedimentation and basin inversion in east-central Honduras

Chapter 5: Tectonic terranes of the continental Chortis block (Honduras and Nicaragua) inferred from integration of regional aeromagnetic and geologic data

 

Each chapter is a stand-alone paper that has either been published or is in review.   (see http://geology.uprm.edu/Rogers.htm for a list of papers and co-authors).  I will be presenting a large portion of this work at the 17^th Caribbean Geological Conference in San Juan in 2005.

 

Cheers,

 

Robert Rogers
Department of Geology
University of Puerto Rico
P.O. Box 9017 Mayaguez, PR  00681

rrogers@...

http://www.uprm.edu/geol/

Departmental Office Phone: 787.265.3845