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Spatial Extent of Data

Place Keywords

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