Yucatán Platform
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The Yucatán Platform or Yucatán Shelf is a geologic or physiographic province, and a continental and carbonate platform, in the Maya Block of the southernmost portion of the North American Plate. It comprises the Yucatán Peninsula and its continental shelf, located between the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.[note 1]
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Yucatán Platform
Yucatán Shelf | |
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Coordinates: 20.445647°N 89.588987°W / 20.445647; -89.588987 | |
Location | Belize, northern Guatemala, southeastern Mexico |
Part of | Maya Block |
Geology | |
Area | |
• Total | 163,730 sq mi (424,100 km2) |
Dimensions | |
• Length | 563 mi (906 km) |
• Width | 381 mi (613 km) |
USGS geologic province number | 5308 |
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