Usage:
Figuera Lava (PR*)
Geologic age:
Early Cretaceous (Albian?)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposures along Highway 982 (Puerto Rico Meter Grid System 233,580 E.; 50,740 N. to 233,720 E.; 50,660 N.), Fajardo quadrangle, northeastern Puerto Rico (Briggs, 1973).
[Named from exposures on east coast of Punta Figuera, Punta Puerca and Fajardo quadrangles, northeastern Puerto Rico.]
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.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).