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Geologic Unit: Cotui

Usage:

Cotui Limestone (PR*)


Geologic age:

Late Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian)*


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

Type locality: exposures in Barrio Cotui along Road 314, 1.25 km south of Sabana Eneas, 350 m northeast and 150 m southwest of the intersection of Road 314 with an unnumbered road from the south (Volckmann, 1984).


AAPG geologic province:

Caribbean region*


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