THE MARINE GEOLOGICAL CARTOGRAPHY OF CUBA, ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERSPECTIVES
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Cuba has achieved significant results in the geological mapping of its marine-coastal territory. Since the second half of the last century, the oceanographic institutes of Cuba and the USSR began the geological survey of the country's marine-coastal territory at a scale of 1: 1,000,000. In 1985, the Geological Research Center of MINBAS, currently the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM), published the Geological Map of Cuba at scale 1: 500 000, which covered up to the insular slope. In 2016, the Institute of Geology and Paleontology-Cuban Geological Service (IGP-SGC) completed a new geological map with the same territorial extension, but at a scale of 1: 100 000. The IGP-SGC has initiated a Subprogram of the Geological Cartography of Cuba at scale 1: 50 000 (CARTAGEOL 50K), framed in the Geology Development Program until 2030, to raise the geological knowledge of the country, standardizing, increasing and completing its geological cartography. It consists of 420 sheets, 287 of them located totally or partially in marine territory. This work is carried out by the GeoCuba Empresa de GeoCuba Estudios Marinos (GEOEM) and the IGP-SGC. Its main objective is to expose the level of cartographic knowledge on the geology of the marine-coastal territory of Cuba and how it has been developing over the years, specifically within the CARTEGEOL 50K, which already has the required Methodological Instruction and the execution of 13 sheets and their respective explanatory memories, corresponding to the Santa Lucia Bay section, Pinar del Rio-Santa Fe, Havana (9 sheets); Nueva Gerona, Isle of Youth; Siboney, Santiago de Cuba and Buena Vista, Villa Clara, one in each case.
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