Protoliths of the Loma Caribe peridotites melted at 1–2 GPa and 1250 °C–1500 °C.
Peridotites record initial low degrees of melting of a garnet lherzolite precursor.
Melting in the spinel stability field was triggered by flux of slab fluids/melts.
Peridotites formed during incipient subduction beneath the Greater Antilles paleo-arc.
Most ophiolites in the N Caribbean are related to subduction and not to a plume.