Also 1) the uplift continues today and 2) Honduras was likley above
sealevel before the uplift (no marine strata since early tertiary).

-Rob

--- In cenamgeology@yahoogroups.com, "Rob Rogers" <sutawala@...>
wrote:
>
> The age of the limestone is Cretaceous (Mostly Aptian to Albian).
The
> uplift (1-2km) of all of northern Central America date to between
3
> and 8 m.y. ago (see Rogers et al., 2002 Geology). pdf is on
Honduras
> Geology website.
>
> -Rob Rogers
>
> --- In cenamgeology@yahoogroups.com, "Ferdinando Didonna"
> <directorejecutivo@> wrote:
> >
> > Hello, we are exploring caves in Olancho and we would like to
know
> the
> > period of rise up of the mountain out of the oceans.
> > We would like to quote eventual references in our speleological
> > publications.
> >
> > Thank You
> >
> > Ferdinando Didonna
> > GEA www.anthros.org
> >
>