. The building of an island : being a sketch of the geological structure of the Danish West Indian island of St. Croix, or Santa Cruz. Geology -- Virgin Islands of the United States Saint Croix. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. The Island, ns Posri'ioN and Si/k. The Danish West Indian island of St. Croix, or Santa Cruz, lies in the northeast corner of the Caribbean Sea. 11 has an elonifjated form, stretching Ironi east-northeast to west-southwest and measures a Irille over 22 English miles in length, while its greatest breadth is only about miles. Its area is abcjut 80 English sq. miles, say thre
. The building of an island : being a sketch of the geological structure of the Danish West Indian island of St. Croix, or Santa Cruz. Geology -- Virgin Islands of the United States Saint Croix. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. The Island, ns Posri'ioN and Si/k. The Danish West Indian island of St. Croix, or Santa Cruz, lies in the northeast corner of the Caribbean Sea. 11 has an elonifjated form, stretching Ironi east-northeast to west-southwest and measures a Irille over 22 English miles in length, while its greatest breadth is only about miles. Its area is abcjut 80 English sq. miles, say three fourths the size of the Isle of Wight or a little over one third of the size of Bornholm. It is the largest of the three Danish West Indian Islands, St. Thomas containing about 23 English s(|. miles and St. .lohn 20- miles. Cumparing it with a few of the smaller liritish islands in these seas we find that it is about half the size (jf Barbadoes, three fourths the size of Antigua and a little over the size of St. Kitts. TiiK SriiMARiNE Santa Ckiz. When we examine a chart of the island shewing the soundings around its shores, we lind that while it rises rather abrLiptIv from the sea on the north- west and west, it is bordered on all other sides by an extensive bank, nn which the depth of water only at a few points along the edges exceeds 20 fathoms, and is commonly very much less, and from which the descent into the deep sea is steep, though not so steep as in the northwest. This bank, which on the map is enclosed by the 100 fathom line, and is at least as extensive as the island itself, may be looked upon as a sort of submarine Santa Cruz, and the study (){ it, as we shall see later, throws a Hood of light on the story of the building up of the island. I'-QRM 01^ TIIK IS[-.'\ TiiE Westeun' Oblong. The .Xeck. TiiE ICastern Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and app
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