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Any reconstruction of the geological history of the Central America land bridge is dependent on conjectural motions of several lithospheric plates. The most important aspect of a timing sequence for a link between the North and South America land masses is apparently the creation of the Caribbean Plate. The geological record, however, which details a tectonic evolution of the Caribbean Plate and its margins is so enigmatic that many critical questions remain unresolved, and every developed model is couched in some incompatibilities.
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Smith, D.L. (1985). Caribbean Plate Relative Motions. In: Stehli, F.G., Webb, S.D. (eds) The Great American Biotic Interchange. Topics in Geobiology, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9181-4_2
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