Usage:
Mucarabones Sand of Rio Guatemala Group (PR*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary (late Oligocene to early Miocene?)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: along Highway 861, 700 to 2,000 m northwest of its intersection with Highway 827 (Puerto Rico Meter Grid System 173,770 E.; 59,550 N.), near northwest corner of the Naranjito quadrangle. Named from Barrio Mucarabones, Naranjito quadrangle, northern Puerto Rico (Nelson, 1966).
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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