翻訳と辞書 Words near each other ・ Geography of Sydney ・ Geography of Syria ・ Geography of São Tomé and Príncipe ・ Geography of Taiwan ・ Geography of Tajikistan ・ Geography of Tamil Nadu ・ Geography of Tanzania ・ Geography of Texas ・ Geography of Thailand ・ Geography of the African Union ・ Geography of the Alps ・ Geography of the Arab League ・ Geography of the Bahamas ・ Geography of the British Indian Ocean Territory ・ Geography of the British Virgin Islands ・ Geography of the Cayman Islands ・ Geography of the Central African Republic ・ Geography of the Comoros ・ Geography of the Cook Islands ・ Geography of the Czech Republic ・ Geography of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ・ Geography of the Dominican Republic ・ Geography of the Edge Chronicles ・ Geography of the European Union ・ Geography of the Falkland Islands ・ Geography of the Faroe Islands ・ Geography of the Federated States of Micronesia ・ Geography of the Gaelic Games ・ Geography of the Gambia ・ Geography of the Heard and McDonald Islands Dictionary Lists mini英和辞書 mini和英辞書 Webster 1913 Latin-English FOLDOC Wikipedia English ウィキペディア

翻訳と辞書　辞書検索 [ 開発暫定版 ] スポンサード リンク Geography of the Cayman Islands ： ウィキペディア英語版 Geography of the Cayman Islands The Cayman Islands are a British dependency and island country. It is a three-island archipelago in the Caribbean Sea, consisting of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman. Georgetown, the capital of the Cayman Islands is south of Havana, Cuba, and northwest of Kingston, Jamaica, and are between Cuba and Central America. Georgetown’s geographic coordinates are 19.300° north, 81.383° west.〔 The Cayman Islands have a land area of approximately 1.5 times the size of Washington, D.C. and just larger than Saint Kitts and Nevis. The Cayman Islands have a coastline of . The Cayman Islands make a maritime claim of a exclusive fishing zone and a territorial sea of . ==Geology== The islands are located on the Cayman Rise which forms the northern margin of the Cayman Trough. The trough is the deepest point in the Caribbean Sea and forms part of the tectonic boundary between the North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate. The Cayman Rise extends from southeastern Cuba along the northern margin of the Cayman Trough toward Costa Rica and resulted from Paleocene to Eocene island arc formation with associated volcanism along an extinct subduction zone.〔(H. Sigurdsson, et al., ''History of circum-Caribbean explosive volcanism: 40Ar/39Ar dating of tephra layers,'' Ch. 20 in ''Volume 165, Proceedings of the Oceanic Drilling Program,'' 26 May 2000, ISSN 1096-7451 ) 〕 The islands are formed of marine limestone and dolostone that was uplifted during the late Miocene epoch.〔J.E. Davies and M.A. Brunt (1994), "Scientific Studies in the Cayman Islands", in: (''The Cayman Islands: Natural History and Biogeography'', Volume 71 ), edited by M. A. Brunt. Springer. p. 1. ISBN 9780792324621.〕 Due to the Islands location, the Cayman Islands do get Earthquakes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Geography of the Cayman Islands」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.