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The Geology of Jamaica is formed of rocks of Cretaceous to Neogene age. The basement consists of Cretaceous island arc and back-arc basin sequences that formed above a subduction zone. The cover is of mainly Eocene to Miocene shallow water limestones, that have been uplifted due to the presence of a restraining bend along the major strike-slip faults that bound the southern edge of the Gonâve Microplate to the north of the island.

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Geology of Jamaica

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1692 Jamaica earthquake

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Geography of Jamaica

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Port Morant Formation

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Formation is a geologic formation in Jamaica. It preserves fossils. Earth sciences portal Jamaica portal Paleontology portal List of fossiliferous stratigraphic...

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Falmouth Formation

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Formation is a geologic formation in Jamaica. It preserves fossils. Earth sciences portal Jamaica portal Paleontology portal List of fossiliferous stratigraphic...

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Outline of Jamaica

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Moneague Formation

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The Moneague Formation is a geologic formation in Jamaica. It preserves fossils dating back to the Neogene period. Earth sciences portal Caribbean portal...

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Bowden Formation

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The Bowden Formation is a geologic formation in Jamaica. It preserves fossils dating back to the Neogene period. Earth sciences portal Caribbean portal...

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Manchioneal Formation

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The Manchioneal Formation is a geologic formation in Jamaica. It preserves fossils. If can be found outcropping at the Titchfield High School along the...

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Port Royal Cays

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Goreau and Kevin Burke: "Pleistocene and Holocene Geology of the Island Shelf near Kingston, Jamaica", Marine Geol. 4 (1966), 207-225 Sailing Directions...

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Yellow Limestone Group

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The Yellow Limestone Group is a geologic group in Jamaica. It preserves fossils dating back to the Paleogene period. Earth sciences portal Caribbean portal...

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Coastal Group

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List of tectonic plates

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Henry De la Beche

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France, Jamaica and Switzerland. In Jamaica he stayed on his estate, Halse Hall, Clarendon Parish, in 1823–1824 and published his geological account of Jamaica...

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Stapleton Limestone

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Limestone is a geologic formation in Jamaica. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period. Earth sciences portal Jamaica portal Paleontology...

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Lucas Barrett

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director of the Jamaican Geological Survey from 1859 to 1862. He was a young member of the Geological Society and became England's Government Geological Inspector...

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Troy Limestone

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Saint Elizabeth Parish

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White Limestone Group

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