Yucatán Platform
Yucatán Platform
Yucatán Shelf | |
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Extent of the Yucatan Platform / in 2006 map by French & Schenk / via USGS, Esri, Natural Earth | |
Yucatán Platform | |
| Coordinates: 20°26′44″N 89°35′20″W / 20.445647°N 89.588987°W | |
| Location | Belize, northern Guatemala, southeastern Mexico |
| Part of | Maya Block |
| Geology | |
| Area | |
| • Total | 163,730 mi2 (424,100 km2) |
| Dimensions | |
| • Length | 563 mi (906 km) |
| • Width | 381 mi (613 km) |
| USGS geologic province number | 5308 |
The Yucatán Platform or Yucatán Shelf is a geologic or physiographic province, and a continental and carbonate platform, in the Maya Block of the southernmost portion of the North American Plate. It comprises the Yucatán Peninsula and its continental shelf, located between the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.