Acknowledgements
The authors wish to thank Gren Draper for their comments on the geology
of the Dominican Republic. We would also like to thank support and
infrastructure provided by the Servicio Geológico Nacional of the
Dominican Republic, particularly to Santiago Muñoz. The collaboration in
some fieldwork of Pol Uriane, Jacques Monthel, Ángela Suárez and Alberto
Díaz de Neira is much appreciated. Part of the analytical work had the
invaluable help of Martin Robyr, Alexey Ulianov, Claudia Baumgartner and
Peter O. Baumgartner of the ISTE, Université de Lausanne. Richard Abbott
provided a careful review of a first version of the manuscript. The
research was funded through CGL2012-33669/BTE and PID2019-105625RB-C22
projects and PRX18/00055 stay grant to the first author of the
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación of the Spanish Government.