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Guyana Geology and Mines Commission

Tel: (592) 22 52862, 52865,
Fax: (592) 22 53047
e-mail: ggmc@sndp.org.gy

Guyana Geology and Mines Commission

%

Geological Map
of

IC
NT
LA
AT

Port Kaituma
%
Matthews'
Ridge
%

50

0
20

Kilometers

20
Miles

Kurupung

100
60

Georgetown
%Y %
Vreed-en-HoopParadiseMahaica
%
Mahaicony
Cheddi Jagan Int. Airport %
Fort Wellington
Bartica
%
%
Rosignol Rose Hall

%#

Linden

Omai

Corriverton

Imbaimadai

Mahdia
%

50
40

N
EA
OC

Oko

Scale 1:3,500,000

Anna Regina

VENEZUELA

Wenamu

Guyana

Mabaruma

56

Ituni

Kwakwani

Guyana

South America
Pacific Ocean

LITHOLOGY (DOMINANT)
TAKUTU GRABEN

Continental sands and silts, under thin Tertiary cover

Andesite flows

Rewa Group; Takutu Fm

Apoteri Volcanics

Basalt & Dolerite Dykes

Apatoe Suite
Muri Alkaline Suite

Gabbro-norite sills and large dikes

Fluviatile sands & conglomerates; bands of vitric tuff
Sub volcanic granites
Acid/intermediate volcanics
Fluviatile sand; cherty mudstone

Avanavero Suite
Roraima Group
Iwokrama and Kuyuwini Fms

TRIASSIC

UPPER PROTEROZOIC
Nepheline syenites and inferred carbonatite
MIDDLE PROTERZOIC

TRANS-AMAZONIAN TECTONO-THERMAL EVENT

Small granitic Intrusions
Granitoids
Pyroxene granites
Migmatite
Ultramafics and gabbros; Kaburi anorthosite

LOWER PROTERZOIC SUPRACRUSTALS

Greenstone belts, dominantly metasediments

Greenstone belts, metasedimentary and metavolcanic
Greenstone belts, dominantly metabasic rocks
High grade gneisses
Granulites and charnockites

Atlantic Ocean

FORMATIONS

Lethem
%

SURINAME

Muruwa Fm
Younger Granites
Badidku Suite

Aishalton
%

Barama-Mazaruni
Super Group
Kwitaro Group
Kanuku Group

STRUCTURAL SYMBOLS

Fault
Dyke

Wakadanawa

OTHER SYMBOLS

Main Road (paved)

Main Road (unpaved)
Other Road
River or Canal
International Boundary

Airport

Y City

Mining
# Town
%

Geology compiled from maps at the scales of

1:200,000, 1:500,000 and 1:50,000 by the
Guyana Geology and Mines Commission, 1982-2001.
Topographic base compiled from maps at the scale of
1:50,000 by the Lands and Surveys Department.
Map authors: E. Cole and L.J.Heesterman

Village

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