Usage:
Cuevas Limestone of Jacaguas Group (PR*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary (early middle Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Cerro de Las Cuevas, in southwestern part of Coamo quadrangle, Puerto Rico. Exposed along crest and flanks of range and Cerro Respalda which are in graben between Rio Jueyes and Esmeralda faults (Glover, 1961).
AAPG geologic province:
Caribbean region*
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