Cuba is an example of [[subduction]] generating an orogenic belt. The subduction progressed from an oceanic environment through a region of relatively recent [[oceanic crust]] between North and South America and, finally, became inactive at the southern margin of the North American continent. The main difference relative to most of the well-known marginal orogenic belts is that the [[Thrust fault|thrust]] sheets that accompanied the subduction rode onto and over a much depressed and fragmented continental margin (with fragments now in the Bahamas Basin, Gulf of Mexico, Yucatan) relatively far away from a fully continental craton. | Cuba is an example of [[subduction]] generating an orogenic belt. The subduction progressed from an oceanic environment through a region of relatively recent [[oceanic crust]] between North and South America and, finally, became inactive at the southern margin of the North American continent. The main difference relative to most of the well-known marginal orogenic belts is that the [[Thrust fault|thrust]] sheets that accompanied the subduction rode onto and over a much depressed and fragmented continental margin (with fragments now in the Bahamas Basin, Gulf of Mexico, Yucatan) relatively far away from a fully continental craton. |