Usage:
Achiote Conglomerate (PR*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Santonian to Maastrichtian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: on Route 149 (Puerto Rico Meter Grid System 144,220 E.; 35,200 N. to 144,145 E.; 34,060 N.), southeastern Jayuya quadrangle, central Puerto Rico. Named from exposures on west side of the valley of Quebrada Achiote, southeastern Jayuya quadrangle, central Puerto Rico (Mattson, 1967).
AAPG geologic province:
Caribbean region*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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