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Spatial Extent of Data

Place Keywords

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

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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