Skip Nav Destination
GEOREF RECORD
Possible structural link between yucatan and cuba
Lyle F. Baie
Possible structural link between yucatan and cuba
The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin (1970) 54 (11): 2204-2207
Possible structural link between yucatan and cuba
The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin (1970) 54 (11): 2204-2207
Index Terms/Descriptors
- Antilles
- Atlantic Ocean
- Caribbean region
- Caribbean Sea
- Cuba
- geophysical methods
- geophysical profiles
- geophysical surveys
- Greater Antilles
- marine geology
- North Atlantic
- oceanography
- ridges
- seismic methods
- seismic profiles
- structural geology
- structure
- surveys
- West Indies
- Y
- Yucatan Peninsula
- seismic
- bathymetric
- ridge
- cuba-yucatan
- structural link
Latitude & Longitude
Abstract
Oceanographic investigations along the eastern margin of the Yucatan Peninsula (Quintana Roo Territory) have revealed the presence of two ridges separated by a depression, which parallel the Yucatan coast. The strike of the eastern, or Outer Ridge (north-northeast) changes to northeast at the northern end of this ridge and reaches toward the Cuban shelf. The origin of the Outer Ridge is unknown, but possibly it is a remnant of a Paleozoic fold belt that connects the basement rocks beneath the ridge east of British Honduras (Turneffe Island well) with basement rocks on the Isle of Pines (Cuba).
ISSN: 0002-7464
Coden: AAPGBS
Serial Title: The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin
Serial Volume: 54
Serial Issue: 11
Title: Possible structural link between yucatan and cuba
Author(s): Baie, Lyle F.
Pages: 2204-2207
Published: 1970
Text Language: English
Publisher: American Association of Petroleum Geologists,
Tulsa, OK,
United States
Accession Number: 1970-038290
Categories: OceanographyStructural geology
Document Type: Serial
Bibliographic Level: Analytic
N16°00'00" - N21°38'60", W92°00'00" - W86°49'60"
N09°00'00" - N22°00'00", W78°00'00" - W60°00'00"
N19°49'60" - N23°15'00", W85°00'00" - W74°00'00"
Country of Publication: United States
Secondary Affiliation: GeoRef, Copyright 2019, American Geosciences Institute. Reference includes data from Bibliography and Index of North American Geology, U. S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States
Update Code: 1970