St. Lucia is located in the Lesser Antilles. The chain of islands (Cuba to Tobago-basically) are created from volcanic activity as a result of the Caribbean Plate subducting beneath the South and North American Plates.
'blah blah blah...were are the pics?'
In this picture, yours truly, is standing next to an excellent contact between what I believe to be an andesite conglomerate (tuff perhaps) overlain by a basaltic lava flow.
Here is another picture of the same contact looking across the beach and at some nice resort rooms.
Here is another picture of the same contact looking across the beach and at some nice resort rooms.
And here is some pillow lava at Pigeon Island's Fort Rodney at the north end of the island.
That's all the geology I cared to do on this trip. The sun, pool bar and food were too much of a distraction. Better luck next time.
Hi Joe! Nice holiday pix. Guess you must have enjoyed your St Lucia stay. BTW, just wanna give a little shout out that The Next Post has got its own domain address at www.thenextpost.com. Hope you can update it in your blogroll, but no hurry. Thanks mate!
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