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Conceptual Model of the Bahamian Platform for the Last 135 Million Years

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The subsidence history of the Bahamian Platform points to a non-uniform rate of sea-floor spreading since the beginning of the Cretaceous. Lower Cretaceous rates of perhaps 5 cm/yr led to an active trench system at the boundary between the American and Caribbean lithosphere plates, and the rapid subsidence of the continental margin produced graben faults on the Bahamian Platform and normal faults in Cuba.

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LYNTS, G. Conceptual Model of the Bahamian Platform for the Last 135 Million Years. Nature 225, 1226–1228 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/2251226a0

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