Bahama Banks

For the sand bank in the Irish Sea near the Isle of Man, see Bahama Bank.
The Bahama Banks: Little Bahama Bank in the north, Great Bahama Bank in the south, and Cay Sal Bank in the west; and the Caicos Bank of the Turks and Caicos Islands in the east
Map of 1888 showing the banks of the Lucayan Archipelago from Navidad Bank or Bajo Navidad north of the Dominican Republic in Hispaniola to Little Bahama Bank in The Bahamas

The Bahama Banks are the submerged carbonate platforms located in the archipelago of The Bahamas within the Lucayan Archipelago. The term is usually applied in referring to either the Great Bahama Bank around Andros Island, or the Little Bahama Bank of Grand Bahama Island and Great Abaco, which are the largest of the platforms, and the Cay Sal Bank. The three banks of the Turks and Caicos Islands, namely the Caicos Bank of the Caicos island group, the Turks Bank of the Turks island group, and the submerged Mouchoir Bank, and the two banks north of the Dominican Republic in Hispaniola, namely the submerged Silver Bank and Navidad Bank, are geographically and geologically part of the Lucayan Archipleago, which entire carbonate platform is often generally referred to as the Bahamas platform.[1][2]

  1. ^ Shipper, Kenneth; Mann, Paul. "Crustal Structure, Deformational History, and Tectonic Origin of the Bahamas Carbonate Platform". Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 25 (6). doi:10.1029/2023GC011300. ISSN 1525-2027.
  2. ^ "Geology". Museum of Geology - SDSMT. Retrieved 2024-09-26.