Barbados

Abstract

In the words of the noted Antillean geologist C.T. Trechmann (1937, p.337), ‘Barbados, 21 miles long, 14 miles wide, rising to 1101 feet, is probably the most considerable Pleistocene non‐volcanic bleb on the face of our planet, at least in the Antillean region.’ The island's geology shows a stark contrast between the allochthonous siliciclastic succession of an accretionary prism, deposited in water depths measurable in kilometres, and the autochthonous Pleistocene raised reef cap exposed over 90 per cent of Barbados.