Cayman Trough

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The caiman Trough, (also referred to as the caiman Trench, Bartlett Deep and Bartlett Trough) may be a complicated remodel fault zone pull apart basin that contains alittle spreading ridge on the ground of the western Caribbean between Jamaica and also the island. It’s the deepest purpose within the Caribbean and forms a part of the tectonic Boundary between the North yankee Plate and also the Caribbean Plate. It extends from the Windward Passage, going south of the Sierra Maestra of Cuba toward Central American nation. The remodel continues onshore because the Motagua Fault, that cuts across Central American nation and extends offshore beneath the ocean, wherever it intersects the center America Trench geologic process zone.
The comparatively slender trough trends east-northeast to west-southwest and encompasses a most depth of seven,686 metres (25,217 ft). Among the trough may be a slowly spreading north-south ridge which can be the results of associate offset or gap of roughly 420 kilometres (260 mi) on the most fault trace. The caiman spreading ridge shows a semipermanent gap rate of 11-12 mm/yr. The japanese section of the trough has been named the Gonâve Microplate. The Gonâve plate extends from the spreading ridge east to the island of Hispanola.
It is delimited on the north by the Oriente and Septentrional fault zones. On the south the Gonâve is delimited by the Walton fault, the Jamaica restraining bend and also the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault zone. The 2 bounding strike slip fault zones square measure left lateral. The motion relative to the North yankee Plate is eleven mm/yr to the east and also the motion relative to the Caribbean Plate is eight mm/yr.

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