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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 ...
Jamaica lies 140 km (87 mi) south of Cuba and 190 km (118 mi) west of Haiti. At its greatest extent, Jamaica is 235 km (146 mi) long, and its width varies between 34 and 84 km (21 and 52 mi). [1] Jamaica has a small area of 10,992 km 2 (4,244 sq mi). [1] However, Jamaica is the largest island of the Commonwealth Caribbean and the third largest ...
Carube noted that Jamaica's geology, "... is similar to that of Chile, Argentina and the Dominican Republic – all productive mining jurisdictions." Mining on the sites began in 2017. Tourism, which is the largest foreign exchange earner, showed improvement as well.
Charles Alfred Matley. Charles Alfred Matley (1866–1947) was a British paleontologist and geologist in India, the British West Indies and Wales . Matley was educated at Birmingham University, and earned a doctorate in geology (D.Sc.) from the University of London in July 1902. [1]
James Gay Sawkins (1806–July 20, 1878) was an artist, geologist, copper miner, and illustrator. He was a member of the Geological Society of London who joined and led research during England's West Indian Geological Surveys of the islands of Trinidad and Jamaica. [1] [2] [3] He also worked in the mining industries of Jamaica, Peru, Hawaii ...
Metallogeny is the study of the genesis and regional-to-global distribution of mineral deposits, with emphasis on their relationship in space and time to regional petrologic and tectonic features of the Earth's crust . The term metallogeny (métallogénie) was created by Louis de Launay, a professor at the Ecole des Mines de Paris, in his 1913 ...
Geologic formations of Jamaica (3 C, 12 P) ... Pages in category "Geology of Jamaica" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Bauxite with US penny for comparison. QEMSCAN mineral maps of bauxite ore-forming pisoliths. Bauxite ( / ˈbɔːksaɪt /) is a sedimentary rock with a relatively high aluminium content. It is the world's main source of aluminium and gallium. Bauxite consists mostly of the aluminium minerals gibbsite ( Al (OH)3 ), boehmite (γ-AlO (OH)) and ...