Origin of the Caribbean Plate (2009)

Where did the Caribbean Plate come from?  Did it originate in the Pacific Ocean, as most geologists believe, or did it develop in situ, as Dr Keith James and Prof. Maria Antonieta Lorente believe? 

The debate opened with a statement of the "in situ heresy" by James and Lorente in the September issue of Geoscientist.  This was followed by a rebuttal from Cardiff University Postrgraduate, Iain Neill, in the November issue.

Subsequent contributions will be published online only (with reminders in the print issue).

Ted Nield, Editor

• Read the statement of the "In situ" theory by James and Lorente
• Read the riposte by Iain Neill
• Prof. Emeritus Karsten Storetvedt (Norway) proposes a radical new theory
• Iain Neill remains unconvinced; problems with the Pacific Ocean Paradigm should not make us throw the plate tectonic baby out with the Caribbean bathwater.
• Keith James replies to Neill and Storetvedt
• Don L Anderson joins the debate
• NEW! James Pindell, John Dewey withdraw from the debate in a joint letter