86°W 85°W 84°W 82°30'W Correlation of Map Units

83°W
11°15'N 11°15'N
Qs Qvp Quaternary
Qvd
QTvi QTvig

Nicaragua
QTsc Ti
Tv
Tertiary
TKss TKsd

11°N 11°N
TJb Cretaceous
Caribbean Kp

Jurassic
Sea

DESCRIPTION OF MAP UNITS

SURFICIAL DEPOSITS

Alluvial and colluvial deposits (Quaternary)--Includes landslide,

Qs
fanglomerate, marsh and beach deposits

VOLCANIC AND SHALLOW INTRUSIVE ROCKS

Proximal facies of modern volcanic rocks (Quaternary)--Lava flows,

Qvp
agglomerates, lahars, and ash

Distal facies of modern volcanic rocks (Quaternary)--Primarily laharic

Qvd
deposits

Ignimbrites (Quaternary and Pliocene)--Andesite to rhyolite ash-flow tuffs

QTvi
with intercalated fluvial deposits

Intergraben volcanics (Quaternary and Pliocene)--Strongly alkalic lava flows

QTvig
and pyroclastic rocks

Tv Tertiary volcanic rocks (Tertiary)--Andesite flows, tuffs, and tuff breccias

Ti Intrusive rocks (Tertiary)--Gabbro to granite and subvolcanic rhyolite

10°N 10°N SEDIMENTARY ROCKS

Volcaniclastic sedimentary rocks (Eocene to Quaternary)--Grades from

QTsc
volcaniclastic breccia to sandstone, includes some marine carbonate rocks

Shallow-water sedimentary rocks (Cretaceous to Pliocene)--Neritic limestone,

TKss
sandstone, and siltstone

Deep-water sedimentary rocks (Cretaceous to Quaternary)--Limestone,

TKsd
sandstone, shale, and turbidite

OCEAN-FLOOR ROCKS

Peridotite Complex (Cretaceous?)--Layered and massive peridotite and

Kp
harzburgite

Sea-floor basalts (Jurassic to Eocene)--Theolitic basalt, with intercalated

TJb
pelagic sediment

Contact

Extent of mapping
Panama
Faults and photolineaments

Thrust fault

9°N 9°N Caldera margin

Pacific

Ocean

Scale = 1 to 500,000

One inch equals approximately 13 km

10 0 10 20 30 40 Miles

10 0 10 20 30 40 50 Kilometers

Lambert Conformal Conic Projection

1st standard parallel = 9 degrees, 20 minutes north

2nd standard parallel = 14 degrees, 40 minutes north

Central meridian = 85 degrees west

8°N 8°N
85°W 84°W 83°W 82°30'W
86°W

Geologic Map of Costa Rica