Usage:
Yauco Formation (PR*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous to early Tertiary (Campanian to Eocene?)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: exposures on Route 128 north of Escuela Arturo Lluberas (Puerto Rico Meter Grid System 106,930 E.; 31,220 N.), northwestern Yauco quadrangle, Puerto Rico. Two reference localities designated (Mattson 1967).
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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Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).