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The Northern Range of Trinidad

  • C. T. Trechmann
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The northern mountain range of schistose rocks of the Island of Trinidad reaches an altitude of 3,012 feet in Mount Tucutche and consists of a wild and tumbled mass of ridges with deep intervening valleys clothed from top to bottom with tropical vegetation, the abode of a practically undisturbed fauna and flora. Westwards the range is continued in the rugged and precipitous islands of Monos, Huevos, and Chacacare between which are the Bocas through which ships pass in entering the Gulf of Paria from the north. The entrance to the Gulf is famous for its scenic beauty. North-eastwards the schist-range reappears in the island of Tobago, but no limestones are reported to occur among the rocks there. Westwards the high range of schistose mountains continues along the northern coast of a great part of Venezuela,4 and over 800 miles further west at Santa Marta in the Kepublic of Colombia I have seen a series of schists very similar in lithology to those that form the northern range of Trinidad.

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page 544 note 1 See chaps, i and ii of Evolution, in the Light of Modem Knowledge, 1925.

page 544 note 2 Since writing this paper Professor Joly's book The Surface History of the Earth has appeared. In it many of the problems and difficulties are discussed at greater length than in the original Phil. Mag. papers of 06 and 07, 1923.

page 544 note 3 Nature, 19th 09, 1925, p. 432.

page 544 note 4 See Dalton, L. V., Geology of Venezuela, Geol. Mag., 12., V, Vol. IX, 05, 1912, p. 203.

page 544 note 5 Report on the GEOL. MAG Trinidad, Memoirs of the Geol. Survey, 1860, p. 13.

page 545 note 1 The Metamorphic Rocks of Trinidad, Report Govt. Geol. Council Paper, No. 76, 1907, pp. 5–9.

page 546 note 1 Harris, G. D., and Hodson, Floyd, The Rudistids of Trinidad, Palaeontographica Americana, vol. i, No. 3, 1922, pp. 119162.

page 546 note 2 Some Cretaceous mollusca from this district have recently been described by Mr. Newton, R. B., Proc. Malacological Soc., vol. xvi. pt.iii, pp. 140–8, 12., 1924.

page 548 note 1 Parkinson, J., Geol. Mag., Vol. LXII, No. 729, 03, 1925, pp. 133–6.

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