Usage:
Ponce Limestone (PR*)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (late Miocene and Pliocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: exposures extending 55 km, from hills 5 km southeast of Juana Diaz to Ponce, and westward from Ponce to Bahia Montalva, Ponce quadrangle, Puerto Rico (Berkey, 1915).
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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