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Within the Dominican Republic, the central Cordillera Septentrional spans the strike-slip fault boundary between the North American and Caribbean plates. Faults and folds from the Paleocene to the Pliocene in marine sedimentary rocks indicate its history of uplift, beginning in Eocene pelagic carbonates.
The Cibao Valley (Dominican Republic) is the largest and the most important valley of the country. This long valley stretches from North Haiti, where is called Plaine du Nord , to Samaná Bay. It can be divided in two sections: the northwestern part is the Yaque del Norte Valley (or Línea Noroeste ) and the eastern Yuna Valley (or Vega Real ...
Gonâve microplate showing main fault zones.. The Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone (EPGFZ or EPGZ) is a system of active coaxial left lateral-moving strike slip faults which runs along the southern side of the island of Hispaniola, where Haiti and the Dominican Republic are located. [1]
Topographical map of the Pico Duarte massif and its location in the Dominican Republic. The mountain's elevation was debated for decades, up until the mid-1990s, when it was still held to be 3,175 metres (10,417 ft) high. In 2003, it was measured by a researcher using GPS technology, and it was found to be 3,098 metres (10,164 ft) tall. [4]
Geologic formations of the Dominican Republic (2 C, 13 P) P. Paleontology in the Dominican Republic (2 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Geology of the Dominican Republic"
The La Toca Formation is a geologic formation in the northern and eastern part of the Dominican Republic.The formation, predominantly an alternating sequence of marls and turbiditic sandstones, breccias and conglomerates, is renowned for the preservation of insects and other arthropods in amber, known as Dominican amber.
Geology of the Dominican Republic (2 C, 4 P) L. Landforms of the Dominican Republic (9 C, 3 P) Landmarks in the Dominican Republic (3 C) N. National parks of the ...
Location of the Sierra de Bahoruco mountain range. The mountain range is a massif of volcanic origin from the Cretaceous period (from 145 to 66 million years ago) and later covered by a layer of calcareous sediment of marine origin, this means that the entire mountain range was once submerged under the sea and in mostly inhabited by corals that left their sediments.