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.