Usage:
No current usage.
(†Mal Paso Formation (PR) abandoned.)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (early middle Eocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: along Route 416, for distance of 2.7 km, beginning from north border of the Rincon quadrangle, Barrios Mal Paso and Piedras Blancas, Municipio de Aguada, Rincon quadrangle, west-central Puerto Rico (McIntyre and others, 1970).
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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