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Spatial Extent of Data

Place Keywords

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

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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