Haiti, On The Gonave Microplate Between the North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate

The Gonave Microplate

Haiti sits on a piece of the earth’s crust one-thousand and one-hundred kilometers long called the Gonâve Microplate.  The plate is bounded to the north by the coaxial left lateral moving Septentrional-Oriente fault zone and to the south by both the Walton Fault Zone and the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden Fault Zone.  Both of the these faults zones are strike-slip and therefore transformative.  The fault zone to the east is a convergent fault zone. The microplate suffers most of the transformative action between the two major tectonic plates.  The Gonave Microplate is subducted and accreted to the North American Plate. Both faults merge into the Cayman Trench to the west. Gonave Microplate.