Usage:
Monserrate Formation (PR*)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (middle Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: on Rio Cerillos Road (Route 139), near km post K6H9 (Puerto Rico Meter Grid System 135,910 E.; 27,190 N.), Ponce quadrangle, central Puerto Rico. Named from Hacienda Monserrate on the Rio Cerillos (Pessagno, 1960).
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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