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The geology of Antigua and Barbuda is part of the Lesser Antilles volcanic island arc. Both islands are the above water limestone "caps" of now inactive volcanoes. The two islands are the surface features of the undersea Barbuda Bank and have karst limestone landscapes. [1] Barbuda is primarily flat and formed from coral reefs.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... The Antigua Formation is a geologic formation in Antigua and Barbuda. ... Notes on the Geology of the Island of Antigua ...
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Antigua and Barbuda. Categories: Geography of Antigua and Barbuda. Geology by country. Geology of North America by country. Geology of the Caribbean.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Geology of Antigua and Barbuda (5 P) L. Landforms of Antigua and Barbuda (6 C, 2 P)
Antigua and Barbuda (UK: / æ n ˈ t iː ɡ ə ... b ɑːr ˈ b uː d ə /, US: / æ n ˈ t iː ɡ w ə ... b ɑːr ˈ b j uː d ə /) is a sovereign archipelagic country in the Caribbean.It lies at the conjuncture of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean in the Leeward Islands part of the Lesser Antilles.
The geology of the Collectivity of Saint Martin consists of andesite tuff and tuff breccia from the middle and late Eocene, intruded by hypabyssal basalt, quartz diorite and younger andesite. Volcanic activity led to metamorphism of many rocks and the tilting and folding of the tuff series. Limestone and marl was later unconformably deposited ...
Antigua and Barbuda is an island nation made up of: Antigua island, which is divided into six parishes; and of the two dependencies of Barbuda island and Redonda island. [a] Although Barbuda and Redonda are called dependencies, they are integral parts of the state, making them essentially administrative divisions. Dependency is simply their title.
This category has the following 17 subcategories, out of 17 total. Geologic formations of the Caribbean (13 C, 38 P) Paleontology in the Caribbean (6 C, 4 P) Volcanism of the Caribbean (1 C, 1 P)