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Geology
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Seamount
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Cayman Trough
The Cayman Ridge is an undersea mountain range on the northern margin of the Cayman Trough in the Caribbean Sea. It extends from the Sierra Maestra in the east to the Misteriosa Bank and Rosario Bank in the west, a distance of about 1,500 km (930 mi). The Cayman Ridge also includes the Cayman Islands.[1]
The ridge formed as an island arc when the Cayman Trough was the site of a subduction zone during the Paleocene and Eocene epochs. As the dynamics of the area changed, the subduction zone became a transform fault zone with a pull-apart basin during which time volcanism had dwindled along the entire length of the arc. The Cayman Ridge is now an inactive volcanic zone.[1]
^ ab"The Cayman Islands: A Geological View". 2008-05-01. Archived from the original on 2015-05-09. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
The CaymanRidge is an undersea mountain range on the northern margin of the Cayman Trough in the Caribbean Sea. It extends from the Sierra Maestra in...
contains a small spreading ridge, the Mid-Cayman Rise, on the floor of the western Caribbean Sea between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. It is the deepest...
(102-square-mile) territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, which are located south of Cuba and north-east of Honduras...
8–49 metres (42–161 ft). It is part of the CaymanRidge. It is part of a cluster of seamounts of the Cayman mountain range contained in Honduras (Misteriosa...
geology of the Cayman Islands includes carbonates deposited and periodically eroded over the last 30 million years. The underlying CaymanRidge is proposed...
than its current area and extending east to the Nicaragua Rise. The CaymanRidge and Bartlet Trough formed from longitudinal faults at the crest of the...
Islands, 112 km to the south. It is part of a cluster of seamounts of the Cayman mountain range contained in Honduras (Misteriosa, Rosario, Maud, Albion...
Block a southeast motion of 0.9 centimetres (0.35 in) per annum, and the CaymanRidge a southwest-northeast rifting of 2 centimetres (0.79 in) per annum (Authemayou...
000 km2 (1,063,000 sq mi). The sea's deepest point is the Cayman Trough, between the Cayman Islands and Jamaica, at 7,686 m (25,217 ft) below sea level...
predation. The morphology is quite different from other caimans but the bony ridge that occurs in other caimans is present. The head is large and heavy, an...
Antarctic Plate Aves Ridge – A ridge in the eastern Caribbean Sea west of the Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc CaymanRidge – A ridge in the eastern Caribbean...
located just south of Grand Cayman in the Caribbean, on the north side of the Mid-Cayman Spreading Centre in the Cayman Trough. Approximately 24 kilometres...
depths. One Grimpoteuthis sp. specimen was captured 60 km southeast of Grand Cayman at 7279m, but this depth is uncertain (as the specimen may have been captured...
Mid-Cayman Rise, Piccard and Von Damm hydrothermal vent fields. Rimicaris kairei Watabe & Hashimoto, 2002 – Indian Ocean, Central Indian Ridge, Kairei...
active places, areas where tectonic plates are moving apart at mid-ocean ridges, ocean basins, and hotspots. The dispersal of hydrothermal fluids throughout...
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beginning an anticyclonic loop over the central Atlantic, steered by a blocking ridge to its north, the system transitioned to a tropical depression. Don then...
time the storm's center passed over Cayman Brac and Little Cayman shortly thereafter. An unofficial anemometer on Cayman Brac at an elevation of 240 ft (73 m)...
continuous variation. Male extending dewlap Florida female Female Grand Cayman juvenile In Taiwan, the investigation had discovered that distribution of...
(Vetigastropoda: Trochoidea: Turbinidae: Skeneinae) from the Von Damm Vent Field, Mid-Cayman Spreading Centre, Caribbean. Journal of the Marine Biological Association...
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