Usage:
Aguada Limestone (PR*-local)
Aguada Formation (PR*-local)
Recognized locally in San Juan area.
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (early Miocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures near the town of Aguada, near west coast of Island, Aguadilla quadrangle, Puerto Rico (Zapp and others, 1948).
Reference section: Highway 110 between km posts 15.6 and 17.0, 9 km northeast of Aguada (Monroe, 1968).
AAPG geologic province:
Caribbean region*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).