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Spatial Extent of Data

Place Keywords

Saline-Comalcalco Basin (5304), Macuspana Basin (5306), BZ, Neogene Volcanic Belt (6108), DM, GY, Cayman Trough (6120), Costa Rica, HT, KY, JM, North Caribbean Deformed Belt (6116), Venezuela, Grenada, Puerto Rico, Aves Ridge (6109), LC, VC, Barbados, Barbados Accretionary Complex (6127), NI, Turks and Caicos Islands, Dominica, CO, Aruba, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (6105), Monserrat, Gulf Cenozoic OCS (5098), Belize, Colombia, MQ, Bonaire Basin (6101), AG, Middle Magdelena (6090), PA, Caribbean, Sierra Madre de Chiapas-Peten Foldbelt (5310), Cayman Islands, Haiti, Guyana, Grenada Back-Arc Basin (6126), El Salvador, Venezuelan Basin (6110), Virgin Islands, Guyana-Suriname Basin (6021), Cayman Ridge (6121), Chiapas Massif-Nuclear Central America (6122), Cuba, Panama, Antigua and Barbuda, CU, Middle America Province (6113), Yucatan Platform (5308), United States, US, Ocean (0), Choco Pacific Basin (6087), St. Vincent and the Grenadines, GD, Barinas-Apure Basin (6097), Tobago Trough (6103), South Nicaraguan Rise (6115), Dominican Republic, TC, VE, Villahermosa Uplift (5305), Lower Magdelena (6091), PR, SV, Beata Ridge (6111), Guadeloupe, HN, BB, Llanos Basin (6096), Pacific Offshore Basin (6088), Guajira Basin (6095), Bahamas, Guyana Shield (6002), British Virgin Islands, AI, TT, AN, Perjira-Venezuela-Coastal Ranges (6093), Maya Mountains (6125), BS, Florida Peninsula (5050), VQ, CR, MS, Gulf Cenozoic OCS (5097), Cesar Basin (6094), Yucatan Basin (6123), St. Lucia, KN, Colombian Basin (6112), Falcon Basin (6100), Puerto Rico Trench (6118), Guatemala, Maracaibo Basin (6099), Netherlands Antilles, Anguilla, Cariaco Basin (6102), Greater Antilles Deformed Belt (6117), GP, GT, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Ocean (1), Trinidad and Tobago, DO, Martinique, St. Kitts and Nevis, North Nicaraguan Rise (6114), VI, South Caribbean Accretionary Prism (6104), Honduras, West-Central Cordillera (6106), Bahama Platform (6119), East Venezuela Basin (6098), AW, Mexico, MX, Lesser Antilles Deformed Belt (6107)

Surface Geology of the Caribbean Region (geo6bg)

This dataset includes polygons that describe the geologic age of surface outcrops of bedrock of the Caribbean region (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States, Venezuela, and the Virgin Islands (named countries may not be completely shown on map)).

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Author(s) Christopher D. French, Christopher J Schenk orcid
Publication Date 2004
Beginning Date of Data 2004
Ending Date of Data 2004
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P938YEBH
Citation French, C.D., and Schenk, C.J., 2004, Surface Geology of the Caribbean Region (geo6bg): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P938YEBH.
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Metadata Date 2021-05-24
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