Usage:
Canovanas Formation (PR*)
[Spelled Canóvanas (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, ca. 2000).]
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Turonian to Santonian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: exposures along Quebrada Cambalache extending 700 m upstream from the point where the stream leaves Gurabo quadrangle (Puerto Rico Meter Grid System 211,420 E.; 59,120 N. to 211,390 E.; 58,540 N.). Named from exposures in Barrio Canovanas, [northeast Gurabo quadrangle], northeastern Puerto Rico (Seiders, 1971).
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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