Usage:
Lares Limestone of Rio Guatemala Group (PR*)
Lares Limestone (PR)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (late? Oligocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: north of Lares, where it forms the Cuesta and an extensive area of haystack or 'pepino' hills, north-central Puerto Rico (Zapp and others, 1948).
AAPG geologic province:
Caribbean region*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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