The Jacaguas Group is here named. Includes the intertonguing Augustinillo Formation and its Collores and Monserrate Members and Naranjo Formation and its Miramar, Coamo Springs Limestone, Rio Descalabrado, and Guayo Conglomeratic Sandstone members.
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The Jacaguas Group of Pessagno (1960a) is here adopted, as well as the Miramar, Guayo, and Rio Descalabrado Members of the Naranjo Formation of Pessagno (1960a) and the Los Puertos Member of the Naranjo of Pessagno (1960b). The Miramar Conglomerate Member is removed from the Rio Prieto Formation and revised as the Miramar Formation of the Jacaguas. [The Miramar was described as a member of both the Naranjo and the Rio Prieto]. Formations of the Jacaguas are, in ascending order: Miramar, Los Puertos, Raspaldo, disconformity, Cuevas, Guayo, Rio Descalabrado. Age is Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) to middle Eocene. The Miramar may be a transgressive unit that ranges in age from Maastrichtian in the southeast to Paleocene(?) and Eocene in the Jayuya quadrangle to the northwest.
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The Miramar Member of the Naranjo Formation of Pessagno (1960) is here revised as the Miramar Conglomerate Member of the Rio Prieto Formation, here named, which is an interfingering complex of several members: the basal Miramar Member, an algal limestone member, a volcanic sandstone and mudstone member, and a lapilli tuff and volcanic sandstone member at the top. Type localities are given for each of the members. Unconformably overlies Cretaceous and plutonic rocks; gradationally underlies the algal limestone member or the volcanic sandstone and mudstone member. Thickness is as much as 130 m. Age is middle Eocene based on fossils.
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