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Geologic Unit: Santa Ana
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Santa Ana Limestone Member*
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
Publication:

Glover, Lynn, III, 1961, Preliminary report on the geology of the Coamo Quadrangle, Puerto Rico: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map, I-335, 1 sheet, scale 1:20,000


Summary:

The Santa Ana Limestone Member of the Coamo Formation, here named, consists of light-gray limestone composed largely of shell fragments in a matrix of clayey to tuffaceous limestone. Overlies the San Diego Lapilli Tuff Member and underlies a southward-thinning wedge of tuff breccia in the Coamo. Age is Late Cretaceous.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Santa Ana Limestone Member*
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
    • Areal extent
Publication:

Mattson, P.H., 1967, Cretaceous and lower Tertiary stratigraphy in west-central Puerto Rico, IN Contributions to stratigraphy: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1254-B, p. B1-B35.


Summary:

In west-central PR the Coamo Formation is restricted to the massive volcanic rocks, excluding the bedded units (San Diego Lapilli Tuff Member, Santa Ana Limestone Member, and unnamed conglomerate and sandstone and siltstone units) below the massive volcanic units. The conformably underlying Maravillas Formation has been defined to include the sequence below the restricted Coamo and limestone blocks and lenses in the Maravillas may be correlative with the Santa Ana Member and lapilli tuff and tuff lenses in the Jayuya quadrangle may be correlative with the San Diego Member. In the Jayuya quadrangle, the Coamo consists of coarse-grained tuff, lapilli tuff, and fine-grained volcanic breccia. Upper contact of the Coamo is removed by erosion. Thickness is 300 m. Age is Campanian to Maestrichtian based on fossils.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Santa Ana Limestone Member*
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
Publication:

Glover, Lynn, III, 1971, Geology of the Coamo area, Puerto Rico, and its relation to the volcanic arc-trench association: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 636, 102 p. [Available online from the USGS PubsWarehouse: http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/pubs/pp/pp636]


Summary:

In the Coamo area the Maravillas Formation includes the basal Sabana Hoyos Limestone Member, reassigned from the underlying Cariblanco Formation, the San Diego Member, here redefined from Tuff Member to Member, the Santa Ana Limestone Member, reassigned to the Maravillas Formation from the overlying Coamo Formation, and younger unnamed map units of mudstone, pyroclastic rocks, limestone, and conglomerate,

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


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