Usage:
Cajul Basalt (PR*)
Geologic age:
Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous (Tithonian to Aptian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: exposures in Quebrada Cajul (Puerto Rico Meter Grid System 77,890 E.; 16,680 N.), about 150 m south of highway bridge, Sierra Bermeja, [Parguera quadrangle], southwestern Puerto Rico (Mattson, 1973).
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.
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