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The Silica Lines of British Honduras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Leslie H. Ower
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British Honduras may be briefly described as a 3,000 feet peneplain of upper Carboniferous slates, surrounded by thick dense Oligoceue and Miocene limestones. The slates have a strike of about 250° conforming to the general Central American trend, produced at the close of the Palaeozoic. Granodiorite and quartz-porphyry were intruded at this period. The newer formations with their extension through Yucatan into Western Cuba, curve from north to north-east parallel to the rim of the 2,500 fathom Yucatan basin.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 65 , Issue 11 , November 1928 , pp. 507 - 510
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1928

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