Usage:
Milagros Formation (PR*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Eocene, middle*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposures along Rio Angeles about 1.5 km east-southeast of Milagros, btw. 46,740 N. and 46,240 N. (Puerto Rico Meter Grid System), Bayaney quadrangle, northwest-central Puerto Rico (Nelson and Tobisch, 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.
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