Iturralde-Vinent, M.A., García-Casco, A., Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Proenza, J.A., Murphy, J.B., Stern, R.J. (2016) The geology of Cuba: A brief overview and synthesis. GSA Today, Geological Society of America: 26 (10): 4-10.

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Plain Text	Iturralde-Vinent, M.A., García-Casco, A., Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Proenza, J.A., Murphy, J.B., Stern, R.J. (2016) The geology of Cuba: A brief overview and synthesis. GSA Today, Geological Society of America: 26 (10): 4-10.

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	Torró, L., Cambeses, A., Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Butjosa, L., Iturralde-Vinent, M., Lázaro, C., Piñero, E., Proenza, J.A., Garcia-Casco, A. (2020) Cryptic alkaline magmatism in the oceanic Caribbean arc (Camagüey area, Cuba). Lithos, 376. 105736pp. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105736
	LÁZARO, C., GARCÍA-CASCO, A., ROJAS AGRAMONTE, Y., KRÖNER, A., NEUBAUER, F., ITURRALDE-VINENT, M. (2009) Fifty-five-million-year history of oceanic subduction and exhumation at the northern edge of the Caribbean plate (Sierra del Convento mélange, Cuba) Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 27 (1) 19-40 doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.2008.00800.x
	Blanco-Quintero, I.F., Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Proenza, J.A. (2024) Subduction, accretion, and collision in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Iberia: a tribute to the career of Antonio García-Casco. International Geology Review, 66 (1) 1-5 doi:10.1080/00206814.2023.2272173
	Blanco-Quintero, I. F., Garcia-Casco, A., Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Rodriguez-Vega, A., Lazaro, C., Iturralde-Vinent, M. A. (2010) Metamorphic evolution of subducted hot oceanic crust (La Corea Melange, Cuba) American Journal of Science, 310 (9) 889-915 doi:10.2475/11.2010.01
	Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Kröner, A., García-Casco, A., Somin, M., Iturralde-Vinent, M., Mattinson, J. M., Millán Trujillo, G., Sukar, K., Pérez Rodríguez, M., Carrasquilla, S., Wingate, M. T. D., Liu, D. Y. (2011) Timing and Evolution of Cretaceous Island Arc Magmatism in Central Cuba: Implications for the History of Arc Systems in the Northwestern Caribbean. The Journal of Geology, 119 (6) 619-640 doi:10.1086/662033
	Lázaro, C., García-Casco, A., Blanco-Quintero, I.F., Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Corsini, M., Proenza, J.A. (2015) Did the Turonian–Coniacian plume pulse trigger subduction initiation in the Northern Caribbean? Constraints from 40Ar/39Ar dating of the Moa-Baracoa metamorphic sole (eastern Cuba) International Geology Review, 57 (5) 919-942 doi:10.1080/00206814.2014.924037
	Hu, Haoyu, Rojas-Agramonte, Yamirka, Carrasquilla, Sandra, Lázaro, Concepción, Vinent, Iturralde, Garcia-Casco, Antonio (2024) Exotic vs local Caribbean origin for the arc-related Mabujina Amphibolite Complex (Cuba): implications for segmentation of the Caribbean arc during the Cretaceous. International Geology Review, 66 (1) 254-277 doi:10.1080/00206814.2023.2225080
	Lázaro, C., Blanco-Quintero, I.F., Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Proenza, J.A., Núñez-Cambra, K., García-Casco, A. (2013) First description of a metamorphic sole related to ophiolite obduction in the northern Caribbean: Geochemistry and petrology of the Güira de Jauco Amphibolite complex (eastern Cuba) and tectonic implications. Lithos, 179. 193-210 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2013.08.019
	Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Hu, H.Y., Iturralde-Vinent, M., Lewis, J., de Lepinay, B, Mercier, García-Casco, A. (2024) A Late Cretaceous Adakitic intrusion from Northern Haiti: additional evidence for slab melting and implications for migration of ridge-trench-trench triple junction during the Cretaceous in the Greater Antilles. International Geology Review, 66 (1) 228-237 doi:10.1080/00206814.2021.1998800
	Iturralde-Vinent, Manuel A., Otero, Consuelo Díaz, García-Casco, Antonio, van Hinsbergen, Douwe J.J. (2008) Paleogene Foredeep Basin Deposits of North-Central Cuba: A Record of Arc-Continent Collision between the Caribbean and North American Plates. International Geology Review, 50 (10) 863-884 doi:10.2747/0020-6814.50.10.863
	García-Casco, Antonio, Rodríguez Vega, A., Cárdenas Párraga, J., Iturralde-Vinent, M. A., Lázaro, C., Blanco Quintero, I., Rojas Agramonte, Y., Kröner, A., Núñez Cambra, K., Millán, G., Torres-Roldán, R. L., Carrasquilla, S. (2009) A new jadeitite jade locality (Sierra del Convento, Cuba): first report and some petrological and archeological implications. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 158 (1) 1-16 doi:10.1007/s00410-008-0367-0

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