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Geologic Unit: Jobos

Usage:

Jobos Formation (PR*)


Geologic age:

early Tertiary (Oligocene and Eocene?)*


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

Type section: exposure about 3 km north-northeast of Quebrada Jobos on the east side of the Rio Grande de Arecibo (Puerto Rico Meter Grid System 127,720 E.; 56,880 N.), Utuado quadrangle, central Puerto Rico (Nelson, 1967).


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 ([ ]).