Figure 3.
Outcrop photographs of some Cuban geologic units. (A) Recumbent fold in Jurassic continent-derived siliciclastics, Guaniguanico terrane, Alturas de Pizarra del Norte, Pinar del Río. (B) Aptian-Albian pelagic cherts of the Proto-Caribbean seafloor. Sierra de Rosario, Guaniguanico terrane, Pinar del Río. (C) Layered gabbros of the Moa-Baracoa Ophiolites, near Moa. (D) Block of mid-oceanic-ridge-basalt–derived epidote-Na-Ca amphibole eclogite in serpentinite mélange (north of Santa Clara city, central Cuba). (E) Intercalated well-bedded fine-grained green tuff with conglomerate and sandstones of the Brujas Formation (Cretaceous volcanic arc) at Palmarito Dam, south of Santa Clara. (F) Eocene pillow basalts and green ribbon cherts of the Paleogene arc at Sierra Maestra.