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Geologic Unit: Santa Ana

Usage:

Santa Ana Limestone Member of Maravillas Formation (PR*)


Geologic age:

Late Cretaceous*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Outcrops on and near Cerro Santa Ana, a peak about 3 km east-northeast of Coamo, Coamo quadrangle, Puerto Rico (Glover, 1961).


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.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).