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Geologic Unit: Corozal

Usage:

Corozal Limestone (PR*)


Geologic age:

early Tertiary (Paleocene to early Eocene)*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type locality: near Corozal, north from 54,620 N. to 165,720 E.; 54,750 N. (Puerto Rico Meter Grid System), Corozal quadrangle, northern Puerto Rico (Nelson, 1966).


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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