
Overview
overview
- Dr. Draper is associate director of liberal studies and a professor of Earth and Environment. He is a geologist whose research focuses on the use of structural and metamorphic information to develop models for the tectonic evolution of the Caribbean. His research has included field studies in Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Puerto Rico. Dr. Draper is Chair of the Standing Committee of the Caribbean Geological Conference series and is on the editorial boards if International Geology Review and Geologica Acta.
research interests
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Caribbean Geology
The Caribbean region is a varied and complicated part of the Cordilleran system of the Americas and the overall goal of Dr. Draper's research is to use structural and metamorphic information to constrain and develop models for the tectonic evolution of that region.
In order to do this, Dr. Draper's research has focused largely, but not exclusively, on field studies deformation, metamorphism and tectonic implications of metamorphic complexes in the Caribbean. He has examined blueschist and other metamorphic complexes in Jamaica and the northern Dominican Republic. In addition, he has participated in regional tectonic studies in Dominican Republic, Cuba and Puerto Rico that have helped to understand the development of the Early Cretaceous to mid-Eocene Greater Antilles island arc. Several of these studies have involved documenting brittle fault and ductile shear zone kinematics.
Current Interests:
Investigating the tectonic significance of garnet pyroxenite lenses in a mafic gneiss terrane in the northern Dominican Republic that have been exhumed form more than 100km depth
Understanding how transtension may lead to highly linear fabrics in Jamaica's blueschists
Scholarly & Creative Works
selected publications
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Article
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2013The Case for UHP Conditions in the Cuaba Terrane, Rio San Juan Metamorphic Complex, Dominican RepublicFull Text via DOI: 10.1344/105.000001841 Web of Science: 000320469300002
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2011Ar-40/Ar-39 DATING OF ALUNITE FROM THE PUEBLO VIEJO GOLD-SILVER DISTRICT, DOMINICAN REPUBLICFull Text via DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.106.6.1059 Web of Science: 000294394900008
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2008Some speculations on the Paleogene and Neogene tectonics of JamaicaFull Text via DOI: 10.1002/gj.1124 Web of Science: 000261563700005
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2007Optical anisotropy of the human cornea determined with a polarizing microscopeFull Text via DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.008351 Web of Science: 000254673900020
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2007Petrogenesis of UHP eclogite from the Cuaba Gneiss, Rio San Juan Complex, Dominican RepublicFull Text via DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.49.12.1069 Web of Science: 000251588900001
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2006P-T path for ultrahigh-pressure garnet ultramafic rocks of the Cuaba Gneiss, Rio San Juan complex, Dominican RepublicFull Text via DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.48.9.778 Web of Science: 000240249900002
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2005UHP magma paragenesis, garnet peridotite, and garnet clinopyroxenite: An example from the Dominican RepublicFull Text via DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.47.3.233 Web of Science: 000227403000002
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2003Kinematics of throughgoing fractures in jointed rocksFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2003.10.001 Web of Science: 000187437500002
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1991An overview of the geologic and tectonic development of HispaniolaFull Text via DOI: 10.1130/SPE262-p1
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1985Neotectonics of a strike-slip restraining bend system, Jamaica.Full Text via DOI: 10.2110/pec.85.37.0211
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1984A SIMPLE DEVICE TO AID PLOTTING OF PI-DIAGRAMS IN STRUCTURAL GEOLOGYFull Text via DOI: 10.5408/0022-1368-32.3.184 Web of Science: A1984SR59300010
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1981DENUDATION RATES, THERMAL EVOLUTION, AND PRESERVATION OF BLUESCHIST TERRAINSFull Text via DOI: 10.1086/628625 Web of Science: A1981MF63300005
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1979VARIATION IN STRAIN AND STRAIN RATE DURING UNDERTHRUSTING OF TRENCH DEPOSITS - COMMENT AND REPLYFull Text via DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1979)7<419a:CAROVI>2.0.CO;2 Web of Science: A1979HH58600001
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1976Grain size as an indication of shear strain in brittle fault zonesFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(76)90073-1
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Book
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Book Chapter
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2005Plate-kinematics and crustal dynamics of circum-Caribbean arc-continent interactions: Tectonic controls on basin development in Proto-Caribbean margins. 7-52.Full Text via DOI: 10.1130/2005.2394(01) Web of Science: 000271394900002
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1991Geology and tectonic evolution of the northern Caribbean margin. 77-140.Full Text via DOI: 10.1130/dnag-gna-h.77
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1991History of geological investigation in the Caribbean region. 1-14.Full Text via DOI: 10.1130/dnag-gna-h.1
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Conference
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Letter
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1978Coaxial pure shear in Jamaican blueschists and deformation associated with subduction [12]. 735-736.Full Text via DOI: 10.1038/275735a0
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Note
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1988Deformation and plate tectonics. 282-283.Full Text via DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1988)016<0282:DAPL>2.3.CO;2
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Other Scholarly Work
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1999Late Jurassic oceanic crust and upper cretaceous Caribbean plateau picritic basalts exposed in the Duarte igneous complex, hispaniola: A discussion. 505-508.Full Text via DOI: 10.1086/314358 Web of Science: 000082161600008
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1991DEFORMATION IN THE BLUESCHISTS OF THE GREATER ANTILLES - SUBDUCTION VERSUS COLLISION PROCESSES. 415-416.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(91)90074-3 Web of Science: A1991FT06900021
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1988DEFORMATION AND PLATE-TECTONICS. 283-283.Full Text via DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1988)016<0283:DAPT>2.3.CO;2 Web of Science: A1988M656100022
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1985GEOLOGY AND HYDROCARBON PROSPECTS OF JAMAICA - DISCUSSION. 1028-1029.Web of Science: A1985AJY2200014
Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
Research
co-principal investigator on
- Growing Community Roots for the Geosciences in Miami, FL awarded by National Science Foundation 2012 - 2015
Contact
full name
- Grenville Draper
Identifiers
ORCID iD
- https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0978-1774 (confirmed)
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