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Geologic Unit: Jacaguas

Usage:

Jacaguas Group (PR*)


Subunits:

(Glover & Mattson, 1967) Miramar, Los Puertos, Raspaldo, Cuevas, Guayo, Rio Descalabrado Formations (PR*); (Seiders & others, 1972) Rio Culebrinas Formation (PR*)


Geologic age:

Late Cretaceous to early Tertiary (Maastrichtian to Eocene)*


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

Type area: Rio Jacaguas, near town of Juana Diaz, Ponce quadrangle, south-central Puerto Rico (Pessagno, 1960a).


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 ([ ]).