Usage:
Malo Breccia (PR*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: on a foot trail along east flank of Cerro El Malo (Puerto Rico Meter Grid System 153,830 E.; 37,830 N.). Named from Cerro El Malo, a peak on the Cordillera Central in the southeast-central part of Orocovis quadrangle, central Puerto Rico (Briggs, 1967).
AAPG geologic province:
Caribbean region*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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