Usage:
Leprocomio Siltstone Member of Guaynabo Formation (PR*)
Leprocomio Mudstone Member of Frailes Formation (PR*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Outcrops near Leprocomio (Insular leper hospital) north of the bend in Rio Grande de Loiza at Trujillo Alto and in quarries east and west of Highway 181, San Juan quadrangle, northeastern Puerto Rico (Kaye, 1959).
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.
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