Usage:
Quebrada Arenas Limestone Member of Cibao Formation (PR*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary (late Oligocene to early Miocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: 360 m north of south edge of Manati quadrangle and 3,900 m west of east edge. Named from exposures on Route 645 on slope down to Quebrada El Toro from the Escuela Quebrada Arenas, Puerto Rico (Monroe, 1962).
AAPG geologic province:
Caribbean region*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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