The Landforms of the Cockpit Country and Its Borderlands, Jamaica |
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alluvium anticlinal appear base beds Black Grounds Black River bottoms carbon caves Central Inlier channels clay Cockpit Country proper cockpits and glades covered Cretaceous deep deposited dolines drained east edge eroded erosion exposed exposures extends fault field Figure flood flow follows fracturing gently Geological hills hundred feet impermeable interior valleys island Jamaica karst land landforms less lies lignites located Lower Lower Yellow Limestone major material Middle miles Montpelier Limestone Nassau Valley nearly northern northwest occurs Oxford photograph present Queen of Spains region relief residual ridge rise River rocks runs shallow sides sinks slopes soil soluble solution southern Spains Valley Spring Spring Vale steep streams studies surface surrounding topography tuffs underground Upper Yellow Limestone valley floor vertical View water table Western Upwarping White Limestone Formation Windsor Yellow Limestone Formation Zans