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Table of Contents - Special Paper 277:

Southern Lesser Antilles Platform: Pre-Late Miocene Stratigraphy, Structure, and Tectonic Evolution

Abstract

Introduction

Regional Structure and Tectonics

Plates and Seismicity
Southern Lesser Antilles Arc System

Structure of the Arc Platform

Morphology
Crustal Structure
Flank Structures
Crestal Structure
Neogene Magmatism

Geology of the Islands

Introduction
Grenada
Carriacou
Union Island
Prune Island
Jamesby
Baradel
Mayreau
Canouan
Mustique

Synthesis of Island Geology

Stratigraphy
Magmatism
Sedimentary Depositional Environments
Deformation

Tectonics

Six-Stage Evolution of the SLAAP
Regional Correlations and Interpretations
Paleogene Magmatic Arc
Uplift, Westerly Contraction, Neogene Magmatism

Acknowledgments

References Cited