Speightstown, Barbados

Natural Coral Foreshore, Speightstown, Barbados.
With the exception of some volcanic ash bands, the rock succession in Barbados is entirely sedimentary in origin. Donovan et al. (2005) states that 85% of the island is covered by Pleistocene coral reef limestone cap (Coral Rock), while the remaining 15% is an inlier of Tertiary sedimentary rocks of marine origin, which crop out in a triangular region in northeast Barbados called the Scotland District, over an area of 40 km2.