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This is a list of prominent people from the Eastern Caribbean, the Guianas, and the Bahamas. It does not include [[List of Cubans|Cubans]], [[List of Dominicans|Dominicans (from the Dominican Republic)]], [[List of Puerto Ricans|Puerto Ricans]], [[List of Jamaicans|Jamaicans]] or [[List of Haitians|Haitians]]. Because of the close proximity of these countries, some people are listed under more than one heading.
[[Image:Bridge across continents iceland.jpg|thumb|250px|Bridge across the Álfagjá rift valley in southwest [[Iceland]], the boundary of the Eurasian and North American continental tectonic plates.]]
'''Plate tectonics''' (from [[Greek language|Greek]] τέκτων, ''tektōn'' "builder" or "mason") is a [[theory]] of [[geology]] which was developed to explain the observed evidence for large scale motions of the [[Earth]]'s [[Crust (geology)|crust]]. The theory encompassed and superseded the older theory of [[continental drift]] from the first half of the 20th century and the concept of [[seafloor spreading]] developed during the 1960s.
==[[Antigua and Barbuda]]==
The outermost part of the [[Earth]]'s interior is made up of two layers: above is the [[lithosphere]], comprising the [[Crust (geology)|crust]] and the rigid uppermost part of the [[Earth's mantle|mantle]].
===Writers and intellectuals===
Below the lithosphere lies the [[asthenosphere]]. Although solid, the asthenosphere has relatively low [[viscosity]] and [[shear strength]] and can flow like a liquid on geological time scales. The deeper mantle below the asthenosphere is more rigid again.
*[[Marie-Elena John]]
*[[Leonard Tim Hector]]
*[[Jamaica Kincaid]]
*[[Gregson Davis]]
*[[Basil Hill]] -
===Political leaders===
The lithosphere is broken up into what are called ''tectonic plates''—in the case of Earth, there are seven major and many minor plates (see list below). The lithospheric plates ride on the asthenosphere. These plates move in relation to one another at one of three types of plate boundaries: [[Convergent boundary|convergent]], [[Divergent boundary|divergent]], and [[Transform fault|transform]]. [[Earthquake]]s, [[volcano|volcanic activity]], [[mountain]]-building, and [[oceanic trench]] formation occur along plate boundaries. The lateral movement of the plates is typically at speeds of 0.66 to 8.50 centimeters per year.
*[[Vere Cornwall Bird]]
*[[Lester Bird]]
*[[James Carlisle]]
*[[Robert Hall]]
*[[Tim Hector]]
*[[Wilfred Jacobs]]
*[[Baldwin Spencer]]
*[[Reginald St. Clair Stevens]]
*[[Sydney Walling]]
*[[George Walter]]
===Religious leaders===
== Synopsis on development ==
*[[George McGuire]]
Plate tectonic theory arose out of the hypothesis of [[continental drift]]. The concept of [[seafloor spreading]] was first articulated in the early 1960's by [[Robert S. Dietz]], but [[Harry Hammond Hess|Harry Hess]] is usually given credit (see below). Following the recognition of [[Geomagnetic reversal|magnetic anomalies]] defined by symmetric, parallel stripes of similar magnetization on the seafloor on either side of a [[mid-ocean ridge]], plate tectonics quickly became broadly accepted. Simultaneous advances in early seismic imaging techniques in and around [[benioff zone|Wadati-Benioff zones]] collectively with numerous other geologic observations soon solidified plate tectonics as a theory with extraordinary explanatory and predictive power. Study of the deep [[ocean]] floor was critical to development of the theory; the field of deep sea [[marine geology]] accelerated in the 1960's. Correspondingly, plate tectonic theory was developed during the late 1960s and has since been essentially universally accepted by scientists throughout all geoscientific disciplines. The theory has revolutionized the [[Earth science]]s because of its unifying and explanatory power for diverse geological phenomena.
===Actors and Comedians===
==Key principles==
*[[Bert Williams]]
[[Image:Plates tect2 en.svg|thumb|350px|The tectonic plates of the world were mapped in the second half of the 20th century.]]
*[[Anna Maria Horsford]] - Actress (of Antiguan descent)
The division of the outer parts of the Earth's interior into [[lithosphere]] and [[asthenosphere]] is based on their [[mechanics|mechanical]] differences and in the ways that heat is transferred. The lithosphere is cooler and more rigid, whilst the asthenosphere is hotter and mechanically weaker. Also, the lithosphere loses heat by [[conduction]] whereas asthenosphere transfers heat by [[convection]] and has a nearly [[adiabatic]] temperature gradient. This division should not be confused with the ''chemical'' subdivision of the Earth into (from innermost to outermost) [[Earth#The core|core]], [[Mantle (geology)|mantle]], and [[Crust (geology)|crust]]. The lithosphere contains both crust and some mantle. A given piece of mantle may be part of the lithosphere or the asthenosphere at different times, depending on its temperature, pressure and shear strength. The key principle of plate tectonics is that the lithosphere exists as separate and distinct ''[[tectonic plate]]s'', which rides on the fluid-like (visco-elastic solid) asthenosphere. Plate motions range from a few millimeters per year (about as fast as our fingernails grow) to about 15 centimeters per year (about as fast as our hair grows).
*[[Conrad Roberts]]
===Artists===
The plates are around 100 km (60 miles) thick and consist of lithospheric mantle overlain by either of two types of crustal material: oceanic crust (in older texts called ''[[Sima (geology)|sima]]'' from [[silicon]] and [[magnesium]]) and continental crust (''[[sial]]'' from silicon and [[aluminium]]). The two types of crust differ in thickness, with continental crust considerably thicker than oceanic (50 km vs 5 km).
* [[Shermain Jeremy]]
* [[Gregory Abbott]] - Singer
* [[King Short Shirt]] - Calypsonian
* [[Swallow (Calypsonian)]] - Calypsonian
* [[King Obstinate]] - Calypsonian
* [[Burning Flames]] - Soca Band, (Official Web site [http://www.onyanandburningflames.com])
* [[Claudette "CP" Peters]] - Soca Artist
*[[Marie-Elena John]] - Author
===Athletes===
One plate meets another along a ''plate boundary'', and plate boundaries are commonly associated with geological events such as [[earthquake]]s and the creation of topographic features like [[mountain]]s, [[volcano]]es and [[oceanic trench]]es. The majority of the world's active volcanoes occur along plate boundaries, with the Pacific Plate's [[Pacific Ring of Fire|Ring of Fire]] being most active and famous. These boundaries are discussed in further detail below.
* [[Vivian Richards|Sir Issac Vivian Richards]] - Cricketer
* [[Curtly Ambrose]] - Cricketer
* [[Richie Richardson]] - Cricketer
* [[Andy Roberts]] - Cricketer
* [[Ledley King]] - Footballer
* [[Speedy Claxton|Craig Speedy Claxton]] - Basketball player (of Antiguan descent)
* [[Maurice Hope]] - Boxer
* [[Emile Heskey]] - Football player (of Antiguan descent)
* [[Colin Kazim-Richards]] - Football Player (of Antiguan descent)
==[[The Bahamas]]==
Tectonic plates can include [[continental crust]] or [[oceanic crust]], and typically, a single plate carries both. For example, the [[African Plate]] includes the continent and parts of the floor of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The distinction between continental crust and oceanic crust is based on the density of constituent materials; oceanic crust is denser than continental crust owing to their different proportions of various elements, particularly, silicon. Oceanic crust is denser because it has less silicon and more heavier elements ("[[mafic]]") than continental crust ("[[felsic]]"). As a result, oceanic crust generally lies below sea level (for example most of the [[Pacific Plate]]), while the continental crust projects above sea level (see [[isostasy]] for explanation of this principle).
===Athletes===
*[[Christine Amertil]]
*[[Christopher Brown]]
*[[Tonique Williams]]
===Political leaders===
==Types of plate boundaries==
*[[Janet Bostwick]]
[[Image:Tectonic plate boundaries.png|thumb|right|350px|Three types of plate boundary.]]
*Sir [[Milo Butler]]
Three types of plate boundaries exist, characterized by the way the plates move relative to each other. They are associated with different types of surface phenomena. The different types of plate boundaries are:
*[[Perry Christie]]
# '''[[#Transform (conservative) boundaries|Transform boundaries]]''' occur where plates slide or, perhaps more accurately, grind past each other along [[transform fault]]s. The relative motion of the two plates is either [[sinistral]] (left side toward the observer) or [[dextral]] (right side toward the observer).
*Dame [[Ivy Dumont]]
# '''[[#Divergent (constructive) boundaries|Divergent boundaries]]''' occur where two plates slide apart from each other (examples of which can be seen at mid-ocean ridges and active zones of rifting (such as with the East Africa rift)).
*[[Hubert Ingraham]]
# '''[[#Convergent (destructive) boundaries|Convergent boundaries]]''' (or ''active margins'') occur where two plates slide towards each other commonly forming either a [[subduction]] zone (if one plate moves underneath the other) or a [[orogeny|continental collision]] (if the two plates contain continental crust). Deep marine trenches are typically associated with subduction zones. Because of friction and heating of the subducting slab, volcanism is almost always closely linked. Examples of this are the [[Andes]] mountain range in South America and the [[Japan]]ese [[island arc]].
*[[Fred Mitchell (Bahamas)|Fred Mitchell]]
*Sir [[Lynden Pindling]]
*[[Cynthia Pratt]]
*Sir [[Stafford Sands]]
*[[Brent Symonette]]
*Sir [[Roland Symonette]]
*Sir [[Orville Turnquest]]
*[[Tommy Turnquest]]
===Actors===
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*[[Calvin Lockhart]]
*[[Earl Maynard]]
*[[Sidney Poitier]]
*[[Roxie Roker]]
==[[Barbados]]==
===Divergent (constructive) boundaries===
===Athletes===
{{main|Divergent boundary}}
*[[Andrea Blackett]]
At divergent boundaries, two plates move apart from each other and the space that this creates is filled with new crustal material sourced from molten [[magma]] that forms below. The origin of new divergent boundaries at [[triple junction]]s is sometimes thought to be associated with the phenomenon known as [[hotspot (geology)|hotspots]]. Here, exceedingly large convective cells bring very large quantities of hot asthenospheric material near the surface and the [[kinetic energy]] is thought to be sufficient to break apart the lithosphere. The hot spot which may have initiated the Mid-Atlantic Ridge system currently underlies [[Iceland]] which is widening at a rate of a few centimeters per century.
*[[Anson Carter]]
*[[Joel Garner]]
*[[Gordon Greenidge]]
*[[Conrad Hunte|Sir Conrad Hunte]]
*[[Malcolm Marshall]]
*[[Earl Maynard]]
*[[Garfield Sobers|Sir Garfield Sobers]]
*[[Obadele Thompson]]
*[[Clyde Walcott|Sir Clyde Walcott]]
*[[Everton Weekes|Sir Everton Weekes]]
*[[Kevin Weekes]]
*[[Anson Carter]]
*[[Frank Worrell|Sir Frank Worrell]]
*[[Pierre Browne]]
===Mariners===
Divergent boundaries are typified in the oceanic lithosphere by the rifts of the [[Mid-ocean ridge|oceanic ridge]] system, including the [[Mid-Atlantic Ridge]] and the [[East Pacific Rise]], and in the continental lithosphere by rift valleys such as the famous [[Great Rift Valley|East African Great Rift Valley]]. Divergent boundaries can create massive fault zones in the oceanic ridge system. Spreading is generally not uniform, so where spreading rates of adjacent ridge blocks are different, massive [[transform fault]]s occur. These are the [[fracture zone]]s, many bearing names, that are a major source of submarine earthquakes. A sea floor map will show a rather strange pattern of blocky structures that are separated by [http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/baseball.html linear features] perpendicular to the ridge axis. If one views the sea floor between the fracture zones as conveyor belts carrying the ridge on each side of the rift away from the spreading center the action becomes clear. Crest depths of the old ridges, parallel to the current spreading center, will be older and deeper (from thermal contraction and [[subsidence]]).
*[[William Shorey]]
===Musicians===
It is at mid-ocean ridges that one of the key pieces of evidence forcing acceptance of the sea-floor spreading hypothesis was found. Airborne [[Earth's magnetic field|geomagnetic]] surveys showed a strange pattern of symmetrical [[magnetic reversal]]s on opposite sides of ridge centers. The pattern was far too regular to be coincidental as the widths of the opposing bands were too closely matched. Scientists had been studying polar reversals and the link was made. The magnetic banding directly corresponds with the Earth's polar reversals. This was confirmed by measuring the ages of the rocks within each band. The banding furnishes a map in time and space of both spreading rate and polar reversals.
*[[Grandmaster Flash]]
*[[Anderson Armstrong]]
*[[Arturo Tappin]]
*[[Terry Arthur]]
*[[Adrian Clark]]
*[[Rupee (musician)|Rupert Clarke]]
*[[Rayvon]]
*[[Terencia Coward]] (TC)
*[[Mighty Gabby]]
*[[Grynner]]
*[[Alison Hinds]]
*[[Lil Rick]]
*[[Mac Fingall]]
*[[Jackie Opel]]
*[[Red Plastic Bag]]
*[[Zeeteah Massiah]]
*[[Rihanna]]
*[[Shontelle]]
*[[Edwin Yearwood]]
*[[Contone]]
*[[Pong]]
*[[Peter "Ram" Wiggins]]
*[[Richard Stoute]]
*[[Karl "Agany" Payne]]
*Natalie Burke
*Doug E. Fresh
===Political leaders===
===Convergent (destructive) boundaries===
*Sir [[Grantley Adams]]
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*Sir [[Courtney Blackman]]
The nature of a convergent boundary depends on the type of lithosphere in the plates that are colliding. Where a dense oceanic plate collides with a less-dense continental plate, the oceanic plate is typically thrust underneath because of the greater buoyancy of the continental lithosphere, forming a [[subduction zone]]. At the surface, the topographic expression is commonly an [[oceanic trench]] on the ocean side and a mountain range on the continental side. An example of a continental-oceanic subduction zone is the area along the western coast of [[South America]] where the oceanic [[Nazca Plate]] is being subducted beneath the continental [[South American Plate]].
*[[J.M.G. Adams]]
*[[Owen Arthur]]
*[[Errol Barrow]]
*[[Bussa]]
*[[Anne C. Cools]]
*Sir [[Clifford Husbands]]
*[[Clyde Mascoll]]
*Dame [[Billie Miller]]
*[[Richard B. Moore]]
*[[Charles O'Neale]]
*[[Clement Payne]]
*[[Erskine Sandiford]]
===Writers and intellectuals===
While the processes directly associated with the production of melts directly above downgoing plates producing surface volcanism is the subject of some debate in the geologic community, the general consensus from ongoing research suggests that the release of volatiles is the primary contributor. As the subducting plate descends, its temperature rises driving off volatiles (most importantly water) encased in the porous oceanic crust. As this water rises into the mantle of the overriding plate, it lowers the melting temperature of surrounding mantle, producing melts ([[magma]]) with large amounts of dissolved gases. These melts rise to the surface and are the source of some of the most explosive volcanism on earth because of their high volumes of extremely pressurized gases (consider [[Mount St. Helens]]). The melts rise to the surface and cool forming long chains of [[volcano|volcanoes]] inland from the continental shelf and parallel to it. The continental spine of western [[South America]] is dense with this type of volcanic [[orogeny|mountain building]] from the subduction of the [[Nazca plate]]. In [[North America]] the [[Cascade Range|Cascade mountain range]], extending north from California's Sierra Nevada, is also of this type. Such volcanoes are characterized by alternating periods of quiet and episodic eruptions that start with explosive gas expulsion with fine particles of glassy volcanic ash and spongy [[cinders]], followed by a rebuilding phase with hot magma. The entire Pacific Ocean boundary is surrounded by long stretches of volcanoes and is known collectively as ''The Ring of Fire''.
*[[Edward Brathwaite]]
*[[Austin Clarke]]
*[[Geoffrey Drayton]]
*[[Alan Emtage]]
*[[George Lamming]]
*[[Glenville Lovell]]
==[[Dominica]]==
Where two continental plates collide the plates either buckle and compress or one plate delves under or (in some cases) overrides the other. Either action will create extensive mountain ranges. The most dramatic effect seen is where the northern margin of the Indian Plate is being thrust under a portion of the Eurasian plate, lifting it and creating the [[Himalaya]]s and the [[Tibetan Plateau]] beyond. It has also caused parts of the Asian continent to deform westward and eastward on either side of the collision.
===Writers and intellectuals===
*[[Irving Andre]]
*[[Lennox Honychurch]]
*[[Jean Rhys]]
===Political leaders===
When two plates with oceanic crust converge they typically create an [[island arc]] as one plate is [[subducted]] below the other. The arc is formed from volcanoes which erupt through the overriding plate as the descending plate melts below it. The arc shape occurs because of the spherical surface of the earth (nick the peel of an orange with a knife and note the arc formed by the straight-edge of the knife). A deep undersea trench is located in front of such arcs where the descending slab dips downward. Good examples of this type of plate convergence would be [[Japan]] and the [[Aleutian Islands]] in Alaska.
*[[Phyllis Shand Allfrey]]
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*Dame [[Eugenia Charles]]
|[[Image:Oceanic-continental convergence Fig21oceancont.svg|thumb|Oceanic / Continental]]
*[[Pierre Charles]]
|[[Image:Continental-continental convergence Fig21contcont.gif|thumb|Continental / Continental]]
*[[Rosie Douglas]]
|[[Image:Oceanic-oceanic convergence Fig21oceanocean.gif|thumb|Oceanic / Oceanic]]
*[[Edison James]]
|}
*[[Patrick R. John]]
*[[Edward Oliver LeBlanc]]
*[[Nicholas Liverpool]]
*Sir [[Clarence Seignoret]]
*[[Oliver Seraphine]]
*[[Vernon Shaw]]
*[[Roosevelt Skerrit]]
*[[Crispin Sorhaindo]]
===Religious Leaders===
Plates may collide at an oblique angle rather than head-on (e.g. one plate moving north, the other moving south-east), and this may cause [[Geologic fault#Strike-slip faults|strike-slip faulting]] along the collision zone, in addition to subduction.
*[[Kelvin Felix]]
==[[French Guiana]]==
Not all plate boundaries are easily defined. Some are broad belts whose movements are unclear to scientists. One example would be the Mediterranean-Alpine boundary, which involves two major plates and several micro plates. The boundaries of the plates do not necessarily coincide with those of the continents. For instance, the North American Plate covers not only North America, but also far eastern Siberia and northern Japan.
===Writers and intellectuals===
*[[Léon Damas]]
*[[René Jadfard]]
===Political leaders===
==Driving forces of plate motion==
*[[Justin Catayée]]
Plates are able to move because of the relative density of oceanic lithosphere and the relative weakness of the asthenosphere. Dissipation of heat from the mantle is acknowledged to be the original source of energy driving plate tectonics, but it is no longer thought that the plates ride passively on asthenospheric convection currents. Instead, it is accepted that the excess density of the oceanic lithosphere sinking in [[subduction zones]] drives plate motions. When it forms at mid-ocean ridges, the oceanic lithosphere is initially less dense than the underlying asthenosphere, but it becomes more dense with age, as it conductively cools and thickens. The greater [[density]] of old lithosphere relative to the underlying asthenosphere allows it to sink into the deep mantle at subduction zones, providing most of the driving force for plate motions. The weakness of the asthenosphere allows the tectonic plates to move easily towards a subduction zone.
*[[Constant Chlore]]
*[[Félix Éboué]]
*[[Gaston Monnerville]]
*[[Victor Schoelcher]]
==[[Grenada]]==
Two and three-dimensional imaging of the Earth's interior ([[seismic tomography]]) shows that there is a laterally heterogeneous density distribution throughout the mantle. Such density variations can be material (from rock chemistry), mineral (from variations in mineral structures), or thermal (through thermal expansion and contraction from heat energy). The manifestation of this lateral density heterogeneity is [[mantle convection]] from buoyancy forces.[http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/97/23/12409 Tanimoto 2000]. How mantle convection relates directly and indirectly to the motion of the plates is a matter of ongoing study and discussion in geodynamics. Somehow, this [[energy]] must be transferred to the lithosphere in order for tectonic plates to move. There are essentially two types of forces that are thought to influence plate motion: [[friction]] and [[gravity]].
===Athletes===
*[[Alleyne Francique]]
===FrictionPolitical leaders===
*[[Jean Augustine]]
;Basal drag : Large scale [[convection]] currents in the upper mantle are transmitted through the asthenosphere; motion is driven by friction between the asthenosphere and the lithosphere.
*[[Maurice Bishop]]
;Slab suction : Local convection currents exert a downward frictional pull on plates in subduction zones at ocean trenches. Although, one could in effect argue that Slab-suction is actually merely a unique geodynamic setting wherein which basal tractions continue to act on the plate as it dives into the mantle (although perhaps to a greater extent -- acting on both the under and upper side of the slab).
*[[Nicholas Brathwaite]]
*[[Tubal Uriah Butler]]
*[[Bernard Coard]]
*[[Henri Christophe]]
*[[Julien Fédon]]
*[[Eric Gairy]]
*[[T.A. Marryshow]]
*[[David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead]]
*[[L.C.J Thomas]]
===GravitationMusicians===
*[[Mighty Sparrow]]
;Gravitational sliding : Plate motion is driven by the higher elevation of plates at ocean ridges. As oceanic lithosphere is formed at spreading ridges from hot mantle material it gradually cools and thickens with age (and thus distance from the ridge). Cool oceanic lithosphere is significantly denser than the hot mantle material from which it is derived and so with increasing thickness it gradually subsides into the mantle to compensate the greater load. The result is a slight lateral incline with distance from the ridge axis.
==[[Guadeloupe]]==
Casually in the geophysical community and more typically in the geological literature in lower education this process is often referred to as "ridge-push". This is, in fact, a misnomer as nothing is "pushing" and tensional features are dominant along ridges. It is more accurate to refer to this mechanism as gravitational sliding as variable topography across the totality of the plate can vary considerably and the topography of spreading ridges is only the most prominent feature. For example:
===Writers and intellectuals===
:1. Flexural bulging of the lithosphere before it dives underneath an adjacent plate, for instance, produces a clear topographical feature that can offset or at least effect the influence of topographical ocean ridges.
*[[Jean Louis Baghio'o]]
:2. [[Mantle plume]]s impinging on the underside of tectonic plates can drastically alter the topography of the ocean floor.
*[[Maryse Condé]]
*[[Daniel Maximin]]
*[[Paul Niger]]
*[[Saint-John Perse]]
*[[Simone Schwartz-Bart]]
===Political leaders===
;Slab-pull : Plate motion is driven by the weight of cold, dense plates sinking into the mantle at trenches. There is considerable evidence that convection is occurring in the mantle at some scale. The upwelling of material at mid-ocean ridges is almost certainly part of this convection. Some early models of plate tectonics envisioned the plates riding on top of convection cells like conveyor belts. However, most scientists working today believe that the asthenosphere is not strong enough to directly cause motion by the friction of such basal forces. Slab pull is most widely thought to be the greatest force acting on the plates. Recent models indicate that trench suction plays an important role as well. However, it should be noted that the North American Plate, for instance, is nowhere being subducted, yet it is in motion. Likewise the African, Eurasian and Antarctic Plates. The over-all driving force for plate motion and its energy source remain subjects of on-going research.
*[[Gerty Archimède]]
*[[Louis Delgrès]]
*[[Victor Hugues]]
*[[Joseph Ignace]]
*[[Hégésippe Légitimus]]
*[[Patrick Reason]]
===ExternalReligious forcesleaders===
*[[Jean Baptiste Labat]]
In a study published in the January-February 2006 issue of the ''Geological Society of America Bulletin'', a team of Italian and U.S. scientists argued that the westward component of plates is from Earth's rotation and consequent tidal friction of the moon. As the Earth spins eastward beneath the moon, they say, the moon's gravity ever so slightly pulls the Earth's surface layer back westward. It has also been suggested (albeit, controversially) that this observation may also explain why Venus and Mars have no plate tectonics since Venus has no moon, and Mars' moons are too small to have significant tidal effects on Mars. [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/01/0124_060124_moon.html] This is not, however, a new argument.
===Filmmakers===
It was originally raised by the "father" of the plate tectonics hypothesis, [[Alfred Wegener]]. It was challenged by the physicist [[Harold Jeffreys]] who calculated that the magnitude of tidal friction required would have quickly brought the Earth's rotation to a halt long ago. Many plates are moving north and eastward, and the dominantly westward motion of the Pacific ocean basins is simply from the eastward bias of the Pacific spreading center (which is not a predicted manifestation of such lunar forces). It is argued, however, that relative to the lower mantle, there is a slight westward component in the motions of all the plates.
*[[Sarah Maldoror]]
==[[Guyana]]==
===Relative significance of each mechanism===
===Writers and intellectuals===
[[Image:Global plate motion.jpg|thumb|350px|Plate motion based on Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite data from NASA [http://sideshow.jpl.nasa.gov/mbh/series.html JPL]. Vectors show direction and magnitude of motion.]]
*[[Jan Carew]]
The actual vector of a plate's motion must necessarily be a function of all the forces acting upon the plate. However, therein remains the problem of to what degree each process contributes to the motion of each tectonic plate.
*[[Martin Carter]]
*[[Wilson Harris]]
*[[Edgar Mittelholzer]]
*[[Walter Rodney]]
*[[A.J. Seymour]]
*[[Clive Thomas]]
*[[Eric D. Walrond|Eric Walrond]]
===Political leaders===
The diversity of geodynamic settings and properties of each plate must clearly result in differences in the degree to which such processes are actively driving the plates. One method of dealing with this problem is to consider the relative rate at which each plate is moving and to consider the available evidence of each driving force upon the plate as far as possible.
*[[Brindley Benn]]
*[[Forbes Burnham]]
*[[Arthur Chung]]
*[[Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow]]
*[[Cuffy (person)|Cuffy]]
*[[Jack Gladstone]]
*[[Bernie Grant]]
*[[Sam Hinds]]
*[[Desmond Hoyte]]
*[[Cheddi Jagan]]
*[[Janet Jagan]]
*[[Bharrat Jagdeo]]
*[[Eusi Kwayana]]
*Sir [[Shridath Ramphal]]
*[[Clement Rohee]]
*[[Rupert Roopnaraine]]
===Musicians===
One of the most significant correlations found is that lithospheric plates attached to downgoing (subducting) plates move much faster than plates not attached to subducting plates. The pacific plate, for instance, is essentially surrounded by zones of subduction (the so-called [[Pacific Ring of Fire|Ring of Fire]]) and moves much faster than the plates of the Atlantic basin, which are attached (perhaps one could say 'welded') to adjacent continents instead of subducting plates. It is thus thought that forces associated with the downgoing plate (slab pull and slab suction) are the driving forces which determine the motion of plates.
*[[Eddy Grant]]
*[[Dave Martin (musician)|Dave Martin]]
*[[Shaya (singer)|Shaya]]
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===Athletes===
The driving forces of plate motion are, nevertheless, still very active subjects of on-going discussion and research in the geophysical community.
*[[Clive Lloyd]]
*[[Lance Gibbs]]
*[[Ramnaresh Ronnie Sarwan]]
*[[Shivnarine Chanderpaul]]
*[[Rohan Bholalall Kanhai]]
*[[Carl Hooper]]
==Major plates[[Martinique]]==
===Writers and intellectuals===
The main plates are
*[[Mayotte Capécia]]
*[[African Plate]], covering [[Africa]] - Continental plate
*[[Aimé Césaire]]
*[[Antarctic Plate]], covering [[Antarctica]] - Continental plate
*[[Patrick Chamoiseau]]
*[[Australian Plate]], covering [[Australia]] (fused with [[Indian Plate]] between 50 and 55 million years ago) - Continental plate
*[[Raphaël Confiant]]
*[[Eurasian Plate]] covering [[Asia]] and [[Europe]] - Continental plate
*[[Frantz Fanon]]
*[[North American Plate]] covering [[North America]] and north-east [[Siberia]] - Continental plate
*[[Édouard Glissant]]
*[[South American Plate]] covering [[South America]] - Continental plate
*[[Gilbert Gratiant]]
*[[Pacific Plate]], covering the [[Pacific Ocean]] - Oceanic plate
*[[Étienne Léro]]
*[[René Maran]]
*[[Joseph Zobel]]
===Political leaders===
Notable minor plates include the [[Indian Plate]], the [[Arabian Plate]], the [[Caribbean Plate]], the [[Juan de Fuca Plate]], the [[Nazca Plate]], the [[Philippine Plate]] and the [[Scotia Plate]].
*[[Joséphine de Beauharnais]]
*[[Alfred Marie-Jeanne]]
===Filmmakers===
The movement of plates has caused the formation and break-up of continents over time, including occasional formation of a supercontinent that contains most or all of the continents.
*[[Euzhan Palcy]]
The supercontinent [[Rodinia]] is thought to have formed about 1000 million years ago
and to have embodied most or all of Earth's continents, and broken up into eight continents around 600 million years ago. The eight continents later re-assembled into another supercontinent called [[Pangaea]];
Pangea eventually broke up into [[Laurasia]] (which became North America and Eurasia)
and [[Gondwana]] (which became the remaining continents).
==[[Netherlands Antilles]], [[Aruba]] now a Protectorate of the Netherlands, [[Bonaire]], [[Curaçao]], [[St.Maarten]], [[St.Eustacius]], and [[Saba]]==
;Related article
===Political leaders===
*[[List of tectonic plates]]
*[[Betico Croes]]
[[Image:Plate tectonics map.gif|600px|center|Plate tectonics map]]
*[[Daniel De Leon]]
*[[Wilson Godett]]
*[[Moises Frumencio da Costa Gomez]]
*[[Ben Komproe]]
*[[Maria Liberia-Peters]]
*[[Claude Wathey]]
===Continental driftAthletes===
*[[Sidney Ponson]]
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*[[Andruw Jones]]
==[[Saint Kitts and Nevis]]==
''Continental drift'' was one of many ideas about tectonics proposed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The theory has been superseded by and the concepts and data have been incorporated within plate tectonics.
===Writers / Intellectuals / Filmmakers / Artists===
*[[R.C.O. Benjamin]]
*[[Christene Browne]]
*[[Caryl Phillips]]
*[[Pogus Caesar]]
*[[Burt Caesar]]
===Political leaders===
By 1915, [[Alfred Wegener]] was making serious arguments for the idea of the first edition of ''The Origin of Continents and Oceans.'' In that book, he noted how the east coast of [[South America]] and the west coast of [[Africa]] looked as if they were once attached. Wegener wasn't the first to note this ([[Francis Bacon]], [[Benjamin Franklin]] and [[Snider-Pellegrini]] preceded him), but he was the first to marshal significant [[fossil]] and paleo-topographical and climatological evidence to support this simple observation (and was supported in this by researchers such as [[Alex du Toit]]). However, his ideas were not taken seriously by many geologists, who pointed out that there was no apparent mechanism for continental drift. Specifically they did not see how continental rock could plow through the much denser rock that makes up oceanic crust. Wegener could not explain the force of continental drift.
*[[Clement Arrindell]]
*[[Robert Bradshaw]]
*[[Denzil Douglas]]
*[[Alexander Hamilton]]
*[[Rawlins Lowndes]]
*[[Lee Moore]]
*[[Cuthbert Sebastian]]
*[[Kennedy Simmonds]]
*[[Paul Southwell]]
===Athletes===
Wegener's vindication did not come until after his death in 1930. In 1947, a team of scientists led by [[Maurice Ewing]] utilizing the [[Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution]]’s research vessel ''Atlantis'' and an array of instruments, confirmed the existence of a rise in the central Atlantic Ocean, and found that the floor of the seabed beneath the layer of sediments consisted of basalt, not granite which was common on the continents. They also found that the oceanic crust was much thinner than continental crust. All these new findings raised important and intriguing questions.<ref> [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Winter2001/ewing.html Maurice Ewing and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory] Living Legacies, Laurence Lippsett. Retrieved [[14 October]] 2006. </ref>
*[[Kim Collins]]
==[[Saint Lucia]]==
Beginning in the 1950s, scientists including Harry Hess, using magnetic instruments ([[magnetometer]]s) adapted from airborne devices developed during [[World War II]] to detect [[submarine]]s, began recognizing odd magnetic variations across the ocean floor. This finding, though unexpected, was not entirely surprising because it was known that [[basalt]] -- the iron-rich, volcanic rock making up the ocean floor-- contains a strongly magnetic mineral ([[magnetite]]) and can locally distort compass readings. This distortion was recognized by [[Iceland]]ic mariners as early as the late 18th century. More important, because the presence of magnetite gives the basalt measurable magnetic properties, these newly discovered magnetic variations provided another means to study the deep ocean floor. When newly formed rock cools, such magnetic materials recorded the [[Earth's magnetic field]] at the time.
===Writers and intellectuals===
*[[Derek Walcott]]
*[[John Robert Lee]]
*[[Roderick Walcott]]
===Political leaders===
As more and more of the seafloor was mapped during the 1950s, the magnetic variations turned out not to be random or isolated occurrences, but instead revealed recognizable patterns. When these magnetic patterns were mapped over a wide region, the ocean floor showed a zebra-like pattern. Alternating stripes of magnetically different rock were laid out in rows on either side of the mid-ocean ridge: one stripe with normal polarity and the adjoining stripe with reversed polarity. The overall pattern, defined by these alternating bands of normally and reversely polarized rock, became known as magnetic striping.
*[[Kenny Anthony]]
*[[Winston Cenac]]
*[[George Charles]]
*Sir [[John Compton]]
*[[Julian Hunte]]
*Sir [[Allen Lewis]]
*[[Vaughan Lewis]]
*Sir [[Allan Louisy]]
*Dame [[Pearlette Louisy]]
*[[George Odlum]]
===Economists===
When the rock [[stratum|strata]] of the tips of separate continents are very similar it suggests that these rocks were formed in the same way implying that they were joined initially. For instance, some parts of [[Scotland]] and [[Ireland]] contain rocks very similar to those found in [[Newfoundland]] and [[New Brunswick]]. Furthermore, the [[Caledonian Mountains]] of Europe and parts of the [[Appalachian Mountains]] of North America are very similar in [[Structural geology|structure]] and [[lithology]].
* Sir [[Arthur Lewis (economist)|Arthur Lewis]]
===Floating continentsArtists===
*[[Dunstan St. Omer]]
The prevailing concept was that there were static shells of [[strata]] under the continents. It was observed early that although granite existed on continents, seafloor seemed to be composed of denser basalt. It was apparent that a layer of basalt underlies continental rocks.
*[[Cedric George]]
*[[C. Eudovic]]
===Actors===
However, based upon abnormalities in plumb line deflection by the Andes in Peru, [[Pierre Bouguer]] deduced that less-dense mountains must have a downward projection into the denser layer underneath. The concept that mountains had "roots" was confirmed by [[George B. Airy]] a hundred years later during study of Himalayan gravitation, and seismic studies detected corresponding density variations.
*[[Joseph Marcell]]
===Musicians===
By the mid-1950s the question remained unresolved of whether mountain roots were clenched in surrounding basalt or were floating like an iceberg.
*[[Ronald "Boo" Hinkson]]
*[[Nicole David]]
*[[Gregory'Shining'Emmanuel]]
===Plate tectonic theoryAthletes===
*[[Darren Sammy]]
Significant progress was made in the 1960s, and was prompted by a number of discoveries, most notably the [[Mid-Atlantic ridge]]. The most notable was the 1962 publication of a paper by American geologist [[Harry Hess]] ([[Robert S. Dietz]] published the same idea one year earlier in ''Nature''. However, priority belongs to Hess, since he distributed an unpublished manuscript of his 1962 article already in 1960). Hess suggested that instead of continents moving ''through'' oceanic crust (as was suggested by continental drift) that an ocean basin and its adjoining continent moved together on the same crustal unit, or plate. In the same year, [[Robert R. Coats]] of the U.S. Geological Survey described the main features of island arc subduction in the Aleutian Islands. His paper, though little-noted (and even ridiculed) at the time, has since been called "seminal" and "prescient". In [[1967]], [[W. Jason Morgan]] proposed that the Earth's surface consists of 12 rigid plates that move relative to each other. Two months later, in 1968, [[Xavier Le Pichon]] published a complete model based on 6 major plates with their relative motions.
*[[Dominic Johnson]]
==[[Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]]==
====Explanation of magnetic striping====
===Political leaders===
[[Image:Oceanic magnetic striping example.gif|thumb|Seafloor magnetic striping.]]
*Sir [[Charles Antrobus]]
The discovery of magnetic striping and the stripes being symmetrical around the crests of the mid-ocean ridges suggested a relationship. In 1961, scientists began to theorise that mid-ocean ridges mark structurally weak zones where the ocean floor was being ripped in two lengthwise along the ridge crest. New [[magma]] from deep within the Earth rises easily through these weak zones and eventually erupts along the crest of the ridges to create new [[oceanic crust]]. This process, later called seafloor spreading, operating over many millions of years continues to form new ocean floor all across the 50,000 km-long system of mid-ocean ridges. This hypothesis was supported by several lines of evidence:
*Sir [[Frederick Ballantyne]]
# at or near the crest of the ridge, the rocks are very young, and they become progressively older away from the ridge crest;
*[[Milton Cato]]
# the youngest rocks at the ridge crest always have present-day (normal) polarity;
*[[Joseph Chatoyer]]
# stripes of rock parallel to the ridge crest alternated in magnetic polarity (normal-reversed-normal, etc.), suggesting that the Earth's magnetic field has flip-flopped many times.
*[[Arnhim Eustace]]
By explaining both the zebralike magnetic striping and the construction of the mid-ocean ridge system, the seafloor spreading hypothesis quickly gained converts and represented another major advance in the development of the plate-tectonics theory. Furthermore, the oceanic crust now came to be appreciated as a natural "tape recording" of the history of the reversals in the [[Earth's magnetic field]].
*[[Ralph Gonsalves]]
*Sir [[David Jack]]
*[[Ebenezer Joshua]]
*Sir [[James F. Mitchell]]
*Sir [[Louis Straker]]
====Subduction discovered=Musicians===
* [[Kevin Lyttle]]
A profound consequence of seafloor spreading is that new crust was, and is now, being continually created along the oceanic ridges. This idea found great favor with some scientists who claimed that the shifting of the continents can be simply explained by a large increase in size of the Earth since its formation. However, this so-called "[[Expanding earth theory]]" hypothesis was unsatisfactory because its supporters could offer no convincing mechanism to produce a significant expansion of the Earth. Certainly there is no evidence that the moon has expanded in the past 3 billion years. Still, the question remained: how can new crust be continuously added along the oceanic ridges without increasing the size of the Earth?
* [[Mattafix]]
* [[Jamsie P]]
===Athletes===
This question particularly intrigued [[Harry Hess]], a [[Princeton University]] geologist and a Naval Reserve Rear Admiral, and [[Robert S. Dietz]], a scientist with the [[U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey]] who first coined the term ''seafloor spreading''. Dietz and Hess were among the small handful who really understood the broad implications of sea floor spreading. If the Earth's crust was expanding along the oceanic ridges, Hess reasoned, it must be shrinking elsewhere. He suggested that new oceanic crust continuously spread away from the ridges in a conveyor belt-like motion. Many millions of years later, the oceanic crust eventually descends into the [[oceanic trench]]es -- very deep, narrow canyons along the rim of the Pacific Ocean basin. According to Hess, the Atlantic Ocean was expanding while the Pacific Ocean was shrinking. As old oceanic crust was consumed in the trenches, new magma rose and erupted along the spreading ridges to form new crust. In effect, the ocean basins were perpetually being "recycled," with the creation of new crust and the destruction of old oceanic lithosphere occurring simultaneously. Thus, Hess' ideas neatly explained why the Earth does not get bigger with sea floor spreading, why there is so little sediment accumulation on the ocean floor, and why oceanic rocks are much younger than continental rocks.
* [[Keneke Alexander]]
* [[Pamenous Ballentyne]]
* [[Adonal Foyle]]
* [[Sancho Lyttle]]
* [[Madonna Hickson]]
* [[Sophia Young]]
* [[Gailene Gordon]]
* [[John Gardiner]]
* [[Tenicia Gittens]]
* [[Shanna Brown]]
* [[Delroy Burke]]
* [[Isha Sam]]
* [[Orande Quammie]]
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====Mapping with earthquakes====
===Writers and intellectuals===
During the 20th century, improvements in and greater use of seismic instruments such as [[seismograph]]s enabled scientists to learn that [[earthquake]]s tend to be concentrated in certain areas, most notably along the oceanic trenches and spreading ridges. By the late 1920s, seismologists were beginning to identify several prominent earthquake zones parallel to the trenches that typically were inclined 40-60° from the horizontal and extended several hundred kilometers into the Earth. These zones later became known as [[Wadati-Benioff zone]]s, or simply [[Benioff zone]]s, in honor of the seismologists who first recognized them, [[Kiyoo Wadati]] of [[Japan]] and [[Hugo Benioff]] of the [[United States]]. The study of global seismicity greatly advanced in the 1960s with the establishment of the [http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/station_book/WWSS_NETWORK.html Worldwide Standardized Seismograph Network] (WWSSN) to monitor the compliance of the 1963 treaty banning above-ground testing of nuclear weapons. The much-improved data from the WWSSN instruments allowed seismologists to map precisely the zones of earthquake concentration world wide.
*[[Aphra Behn]]
*[[Anton de Kom]]
===GeologicalPolitical paradigm shiftleaders===
*[[Jules Ajodhia]]
The acceptance of the theories of continental drift and sea floor spreading (the two key elements of plate tectonics) may be compared to the Copernican revolution in [[astronomy]] (see [[Nicolaus Copernicus]]). Within a matter of only several years [[geophysics]] and geology in particular were revolutionized. The parallel is striking: just as pre-Copernican astronomy was highly descriptive but still unable to provide explanations for the motions of celestial objects, pre-tectonic plate geological theories described what was observed but struggled to provide any fundamental mechanisms. The problem lay in the question "How?". Before acceptance of plate tectonics, geology in particular was trapped in a "pre-Copernican" box.
*[[Henck Arron]]
*[[Bram Behr]]
*[[Dési Bouterse]]
*[[Ronnie Brunswijk]]
*[[Fred Derby]]
*[[Johan Ferrier]]
*[[Otto Huiswood]]
*[[Harry Kisoensingh]]
*[[Jagernath Lachmon]]
*[[Johan Adolf Pengel]]
*[[Pretaapnarian Radhakishun]]
*[[Ram Sardjoe]]
*[[Ronald Venetiaan]]
*[[Jules Wijdenbosch]]
===Inventors===
However, by comparison to astronomy the geological revolution was much more sudden. What had been rejected for decades by any respectable [[scientific journal]] was eagerly accepted within a few short years in the 1960s and 1970s. Any geological description before this had been highly descriptive. All the rocks were described and assorted reasons, sometimes in excruciating detail, were given for why they were where they are. The descriptions are still valid. The reasons, however, today sound much like pre-Copernican astronomy.
*[[Jan Earnst Matzeliger]]
==[[Trinidad and Tobago]]==
One simply has to read the pre-plate descriptions of why the [[Alps]] or [[Himalaya]] exist to see the difference. In an attempt to answer "how" questions like "How can rocks that are clearly marine in origin exist thousands of meters above sea-level in the [[Dolomites]]?", or "How did the convex and concave margins of the Alpine chain form?", any true insight was hidden by complexity that boiled down to technical jargon without much fundamental insight as to the underlying mechanics.
===Writers and intellectuals===
*[[Valerie Belgrave]]
*[[Lloyd Best]]
*[[Rafael de Boissiere]]
*[[Dionne Brand]]
*[[Rosa Guy]]
*[[Merle Hodge]]
*[[C. L. R. James]]
*[[Earl Lovelace]]
*[[Mustapha Matura]]
*[[Alfred Mendes]]
*Inga "[[Foxy Brown]]" Marchand
*[[Shiva Naipaul]]
*[[V.S. Naipaul]]
*[[Charles Petioni]]
*[[Marlene Philip]]
*[[Michel Philip|Michel Maxwell Philip]]
*[[Kenneth Ramchand]]
*[[Lall Sawh]]
*[[Leslie Scotland]]
*[[Samuel Selvon]]
*[[Eric Williams]]
*[[Dharmesh Michael Persad]]
*[[Aleth Bruce]]
*[[Stokely Carmichael]]
===Athletes===
With plate tectonics answers quickly fell into place or a path to the answer became clear. Collisions of converging plates had the force to lift the sea floor to great heights. The cause of marine trenches oddly placed just off island arcs or continents and their associated volcanoes became clear when the processes of subduction at converging plates were understood.
*[[Inshan Ali]]
*[[Stephen Ames]]
*[[Marvin Andrews]]
*[[Ian Bishop]]
*[[Marlon Black]]
*[[Ato Boldon]]
*[[Darel Brown]]
*[[George Bovell|George Bovell III]]
*[[Marc Burns]]
*[[Learie Constantine]]
*[[Hasely Crawford]]
*[[Rajindra Dhanraj]]
*[[Mervyn Dillon]]
*[[Ansil Elcock]]
*[[Daren Ganga]]
*[[Gerry Gomez|Gerald "Gerry" Gomez]]
*[[Anthony Gray]]
*[[Shaka Hislop]]
*[[Clayton Ince]]
*[[Stern John]]
*[[Brian Lara]]
*[[Russell Latapy]]
*[[Leonson Lewis]]
*[[Gus Logie|Augustine "Gus" Logie]]
*[[Clint Marcelle]]
*[[Deryck Murray]]
*[[David Nahkid]]
*[[Jerren Nixon]]
*[[Sonny Ramadhin]]
*[[Manny Ramjohn]]
*[[Dinanath Ramnarine]]
*[[Anthony Rougier]]
*[[Phil Simmons]]
*[[Jeffrey Stollmeyer]]
*[[Victor Stollmeyer]]
*[[Evans Wise]]
*[[Dwight Yorke]]
===Political leaders===
Mysteries were no longer mysteries. Forests of complex and obtuse answers were swept away. Why were there striking parallels in the geology of parts of Africa and South America? Why did Africa and South America look strangely like two pieces that should fit to anyone having done a jigsaw puzzle? Look at some pre-tectonics explanations for complexity. For simplicity and one that explained a great deal more look at plate tectonics. A great rift, similar to the [[Great Rift Valley]] in northeastern [[Africa]], had split apart a single continent, eventually forming the Atlantic Ocean, and the forces were still at work in the [[Mid-Atlantic Ridge]].
*[[David Abdullah]]
*[[Yasin Abu Bakr]]
*[[Tubal Uriah Butler]]
*[[Rudranath Capildeo]]
*[[Simbhoonath Capildeo]]
*[[Stokely Carmichael]] a.k.a. [[Kwame Ture]]
*[[George Chambers]]
*[[Carson Charles]]
*[[Arthur Andrew Cipriani]] (A.A. Cipriani)
*[[Ellis Clarke]]
*[[Winston Dookeran]]
*[[Knowlson Gift]]
*[[Albert Gomes]]
*[[Geddes Granger]] (Makandal Daaga)
*[[Noor Hassanali]]
*[[Karl Hudson-Phillips]]
*[[A.P.T. James]]
*[[Roy Joseph]]
*[[Franklin Khan]]
*[[Fuad Khan]]
*[[Gillian Lucky]]
*[[Errol Mahabir]]
*[[Ramesh Maharaj]]
*[[Patrick Manning]]
*[[Bhadase Maraj|Bhadase Sagan Maraj]]
*[[Ralph Maraj]]
*[[Errol McLeod]]
*[[Kamaludeen Mohammed]]
*[[Roodal Moonilal]]
*[[Wendell Mottley]]
*[[George Padmore]]
*[[Basdeo Panday]]
*[[Kamla Persad-Bissessar]]
*[[David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead]]
*[[George Richards|George Maxwell Richards]]
*[[A. N. R. Robinson|A.N.R. Robinson]]
*[[Keith Rowley]]
*[[Adrian Cola Rienzi]] (born [[Krishna Deonarine]])
*[[Eric Williams]]
*[[Eric A. Williams]]
*[[Gerald Yetming]]
===Musicians===
We have inherited some of the old terminology, but the underlying concept is as radical and simple as "The Earth moves" was in astronomy.
*[[André Tanker]]
*[[Attila the Hun (calypsonian)|Atilla the Hun]] ([[Raymond Quevado]])
*[[Winifred Atwell]]
*Inga "[[Foxy Brown]]" Marchand
*[[Anil Bheem]]
*[[Pat Bishop]]
*[[Nisha Bissambhar]]
*[[Chalkdust]] ([[Hollis Liverpool]])
*[[Rasika Dindial]]
*[[Devanand Gattoo]]
*[[Haddaway]]
*[[Ray Holman|Raymond Holman]]
*[[Lord Invader]]
*[[Lord Kitchener (calypsonian)|Lord Kitchener]] ([[Alwyn Roberts]])
*[[Lord Melody]]
*[[Lennox Mohammed|Lennox "Bobby" Mohammed]]
*[[Machel Montano]]
*[[Billy Ocean]]
*[[Ken Philmore|Ken "Professor" Philmore]]
*[[Sundar Popo]]
*[[Richard Ramnarine]]
*[[David Rudder]]
*[[Adesh Samaroo]]
*[[Jit Samaroo]]
*[[Hazel Scott]]
*[[Lennox Sharpe|Len "Boogsie" Sharpe]]
*[[Lord Shorty]]/[[Ras Shorty I]] ([[Garfield Blackman]])
*[[Mighty Sparrow]] ([[Slinger Francisco]])
*[[Mighty Spoiler]]
*[[Black Stalin]] ([[Leroy Calliste]])
*[[Anand Yankaran]]
*[[Rakesh Yankaran]]
*[[Destra Garcia]]
*[[Heather Headley]]
*[[Denise Plummer]]
*[[Denise "Saucy Wow" Belfon]]
*[[Maximus Dan]]
*[[KMC]]
*[[Bunji Garlin]]
===Dancers===
==Biogeographic implications on fauna and flora==
*[[Satnarine Balkaransingh]]
Contentinental drift theory helps biogeographers to explain on the disjunct biogeographic distribution of present day plants and animals found on different continents but having similar ancestors (Moss and Wilson 1998).
*[[Mondira Balkaransingh]]
*[[Percival Borde]]
*[[Eugene Joseph]]
*[[Torrance Mohammed]]
*[[Pearl Primus]]
*[[Susan Mohip]]
*[[Sandra Sookdeo]]
===Artists===
==Plate tectonics on other planets==
*[[Isaiah Boodhoo|Isaiah James Boodhoo]]
* '''Mars'''
*[[Michel-Jean Cazabon]]
As a result of 1999 observations of the [[magnetic field]]s on Mars by the ''[[Mars Global Surveyor]]'' spacecraft, it has been proposed that the mechanisms of plate tectonics may once have been active on the planet - see [[Geology of Mars]].
*[[LeRoy Clarke]]
* '''Venus'''
*[[Willie Chen]]
{{seealso|Geology of Venus}}
*[[Jackie Hinkson]]
Venus shows no evidence of active plate tectonics. There is debatable evidence of active tectonics in the planet's distant past; however, events taking place since then (such as the plausible and generally accepted hypothesis that the Venusian lithosphere has thickened greatly over the course of several hundred million years) has made constraining the course of its geologic record difficult. However, the numerous well-preserved [[impact crater]]s has been utilized as a [[dating methods|dating method]] to approximately date the Venusian surface (since there are thus far no known samples of Venusian rock to be dated by more reliable methods). Dates derived are the dominantly in the range ~500 Mya - 750Mya, although ages of up to ~1.2 Gya have been calculated. This research has led to the fairly well accepted hypothesis that Venus has undergone an essentially complete volcanic resurfacing at least once in its distant past, with the last event taking place approximately within the range of estimated surface ages. While the mechanism of such an impressionable thermal event remains a debated issue in Venusian geosciences, some scientists are advocates of processes involving plate motion to some extent.
*[[Shastri Maharaj]]
* '''Galilean satellites'''
*[[Edwin Hing Wan]]
Some of the [[Galilean satellites|satellites]] of Jupiter have features that may be related to plate-tectonic style deformation, although the materials and specific mechanisms may be different from plate-tectonic activity on Earth.
*[[Geoffrey Holder]]
*[[Sonnylal Rambissoon]]
*[[Noel Vaucrosson]]
*[[Alfred Codallo]]
==Metaphoric uses=Aviators===
*[[Mikey Cipriani]]
Sometimes the idea of moving tectonic plates is used metaphorically, e.g. "a tectonic shift" in a [[BBC TV]] news program describing the political effects of [[Ariel Sharon]]'s illness on 4 January 2005.
*[[Herbert Julian]]
==[[United States Virgin Islands]] and [[British Virgin Islands]]==
In the late 1980s, Québec theatre director [[Robert Lepage]] created a large international production called Tectonic Plates, which used this image to illustrate the rifts between Europe and America and the drifting of various destinies, relative to one another.
===Writers and intellectuals===
*[[Barbara Christian]]
*[[Geraldo Guirty]]
*[[Ariel Melchior|Ariel Melchior, Sr.]]
*[[Arthur Schomburg]]
===Doctors and Scientists===
==See also==
*[[John Lettsome|Dr. John C. Lettsome]]
*[[List of plate tectonics topics]]
*[[List of tectonic plates]]
*[[List of tectonic plate interactions]]
*[[Geosyncline|Geosyncline theory]], obsolete explanation of mountain-building
*[[Plume tectonics]], an extension of plate tectonics that attempts to explain other aspects of the field
===Political leaders===
==References==
*[[Judah Philip Benjamin]]
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*[[Austin Hansen]]
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*[http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tecall1_4.mov Movie] showing 750 million years of global tectonic activity.
*[[William Thornton|Dr. William Thornton]]
*[http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tectonics.html More movies] over smaller regions and smaller time scales.
*[http://geology.com/nsta/ Easy-to-draw illustrations for teaching plate tectonics]
* [http://www.tectonic-forces.org An explanation of tectonic forces]
*[http://element.ess.ucla.edu/publications/2003_PB2002/2003_PB2002.htm Bird, P. (2003) An updated digital model of plate boundaries] also available as a large (13 mb) PDF file [http://element.ess.ucla.edu/publications/2003_PB2002/2001GC000252.pdf]
*[http://snobear.colorado.edu/Markw/Mountains/03/week3.html Map of tectonic plates]
*[http://www.mantleplumes.org/ MantlePlumes.org], the website that hosts the debate concerning whether deep mantle plumes exist or not
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