Draper, Grenville
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Overview
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- 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 Republic. GEOLOGICA ACTA. 11:149-+.Full Text via DOI: 10.1344/105.000001841 Web of Science: 000320469300002
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2011Mass flow in serpentinite-hosted subduction channels: P-T-t path patterns of metamorphic blocks in the Rio San Juan melange (Dominican Republic). JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES. 42.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2011.01.011 Web of Science: 000294984200003
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2011Ar-40/Ar-39 DATING OF ALUNITE FROM THE PUEBLO VIEJO GOLD-SILVER DISTRICT, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. ECONOMIC GEOLOGY. 106:1059-1070.Full Text via DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.106.6.1059 Web of Science: 000294394900008
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2011Garnet-bearing ultramafic rocks from the Dominican Republic: Fossil mantle plume fragments in an ultra high pressure oceanic complex?. LITHOS. 125:393-404.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2011.02.021 Web of Science: 000292663600025
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2008Some speculations on the Paleogene and Neogene tectonics of Jamaica. GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL. 43:563-572.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/gj.1124 Web of Science: 000261563700005
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2008The dynamics of intra-oceanic subduction zones: A direct comparison between fossil petrological evidence (Rio San Juan Complex, Dominican Republic) and numerical simulation. LITHOS. 103:106-137.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2007.09.003 Web of Science: 000257527200006
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2007Optical anisotropy of the human cornea determined with a polarizing microscope. APPLIED OPTICS. 46:8351-8357.
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2007Petrogenesis of UHP eclogite from the Cuaba Gneiss, Rio San Juan Complex, Dominican Republic. INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW. 49:1069-1093.Full Text via DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.49.12.1069 Web of Science: 000251588900001
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2007UHP magma paragenesis revisited, olivine clinopyroxenite and garnet-bearing ultramafic rocks from the Cuaba Gneiss, Rio San Juan Complex, Dominican Republic. INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW. 49:572-586.Full Text via DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.49.6.572 Web of Science: 000247156600005
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2006P-T path for ultrahigh-pressure garnet ultramafic rocks of the Cuaba Gneiss, Rio San Juan complex, Dominican Republic. INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW. 48:778-790.Full Text via DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.48.9.778 Web of Science: 000240249900002
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2005Plate-kinematics and crustal dynamics of circum-Caribbean arc-continent interactions: Tectonic controls on basin development in Proto-Caribbean margins. CARIBBEAN-SOUTH AMERICAN PLATE INTERACTIONS, VENEZUELA. 394:7-52.Full Text via DOI: 10.1130/2005.2394(01) Web of Science: 000271394900002
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2005UHP magma paragenesis, garnet peridotite, and garnet clinopyroxenite: An example from the Dominican Republic. INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW. 47:233-247.Full Text via DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.47.3.233 Web of Science: 000227403000002
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2003Kinematics of throughgoing fractures in jointed rocks. TECTONOPHYSICS. 376.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2003.10.001 Web of Science: 000187437500002
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2000Constraining the Late Mesozoic and early tertiary tectonic evolution of southern Mexico: Structure and deformation history of the Tierra Caliente region. JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. 108.Full Text via DOI: 10.1086/314414 Web of Science: 000088192400004
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1996Thrust emplacement of the Hispaniola peridotite belt: Orogenic expression of the mid-Cretaceous Caribbean arc polarity reversal?. GEOLOGY. 24.Full Text via DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<1143:TEOTHP>2.3.CO;2 Web of Science: A1996VZ94200022
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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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1986BLUESCHISTS AND ASSOCIATED ROCKS IN EASTERN JAMAICA AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE FOR CRETACEOUS PLATE-MARGIN DEVELOPMENT IN THE NORTHERN CARIBBEAN. GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN. 97.Full Text via DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1986)97<48:BAARIE>2.0.CO;2 Web of Science: A1986AYD7600005
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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 GEOLOGY. JOURNAL OF GEOLOGICAL EDUCATION. 32.Full 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 TERRAINS. JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. 89.Full 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 REPLY. GEOLOGY. 7.Full 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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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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Discussion
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1985GEOLOGY AND HYDROCARBON PROSPECTS OF JAMAICA - DISCUSSION. AAPG BULLETIN.Web of Science: A1985AJY2200014
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Editorial Material
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2012Reply to Comment on "Garnet-bearing ultramafic rocks from the Dominican Republic: Fossil mantle plume fragments in an ultra high pressure oceanic complex?" by Jan CM De Hoog. LITHOS. 335-339.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2011.12.002 Web of Science: 000301762300021
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2010Comments on "Corundum-bearing garnet peridotite from northern Dominican Republic: A metamorphic product of an arc cumulate in the Caribbean subduction zone," by Hattori et al. [Lithos 114 (2010) 437-450]. LITHOS. 322-326.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2010.03.011 Web of Science: 000278731800021
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1999Late Jurassic oceanic crust and upper cretaceous Caribbean plateau picritic basalts exposed in the Duarte igneous complex, hispaniola: A discussion. JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY.Full Text via DOI: 10.1086/314358 Web of Science: 000082161600008
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1988DEFORMATION AND PLATE-TECTONICS. GEOLOGY.Full Text via DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1988)016<0283:DAPT>2.3.CO;2 Web of Science: A1988M656100022
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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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Meeting Abstract
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1991DEFORMATION IN THE BLUESCHISTS OF THE GREATER ANTILLES - SUBDUCTION VERSUS COLLISION PROCESSES. TECTONOPHYSICS.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(91)90074-3 Web of Science: A1991FT06900021
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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
Works By Students
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- Growing Community Roots for the Geosciences in Miami, FL awarded by National Science Foundation 2012 - 2015
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- Grenville Draper
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- https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0978-1774 (confirmed)
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