Usage:
Cariblanco Formation (PR*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in PR: Hacienda Larga Tuff Member, Jobo Dulce Limestone Member, La Guaba Lava Member, Pio Juan Limestone Member.
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from outcrops along northeast-trending ridge which contains prominent peak known as Cerro Cariblanco, southeast of center of Coamo quadrangle, south-central Puerto Rico (Berryhill and others, 1960).
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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