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Ponce Limestone includes beds of brown clay and has a maximum estimated thickness of 850 meters. [4] It consists mostly of yellowish-orange, soft to moderately hard, fossiliferous limestone and appears almost continuously as a narrow band extending from Bahía Montalva in Patillas to Río Pastillo, in Barrio Canas.
The forest is located in the Puerto Rico southern karst region and as such all of its geological formations contain limestone, particularly the Ponce limestone.It is often said that the reddish-colored limestone is what gives its name to the municipality and city of Cabo Rojo (Spanish for "red cape").
The Parque Nacional de las Cavernas del Río Camuy (English: Camuy River Cave National Park) is a cave system in Puerto Rico. It is located between the municipalities of Camuy, Hatillo, and Lares in northwestern Puerto Rico, but the main entrance to the park is located in Quebrada, Camuy.
Ponce Limestone: Early Miocene-Early Pliocene [122] Aymamón Limestone: Mid-Late Miocene [123] Aguada Limestone: Early-Late Miocene [124] Quebradillas Limestone: Middle Miocene [125] Cibao Formation: Aquitanian-Burdigalian [126] Lares Limestone: Late Oligocene-Early Miocene [127] Guayanilla Formation: Late Oligocene [128] Guatemala Group: Cibao ...
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Cueva Ventana (English: Window Cave) is a large cave situated atop a limestone cliff in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, overlooking the Río Grande de Arecibo valley. It is visible from the PR-123 but is accessible from a trail that begins adjacent to a Puma gas station located along PR-10 on kilometer 75. The cave and surrounding land are privately owned.
Geography of Ponce — a major city and municipality of southern Puerto Rico. Subcategories. ... Ponce Limestone; R. Rafael Cordero Santiago Port of the Americas;
Carboniferous Limestone – Limestone deposited during the Dinantian Epoch of the Carboniferous Period; Coquina – Sedimentary rock that is composed mostly of fragments of shells; Coral rag – Limestone composed of ancient coral reef material; Chalk – Soft carbonate rock; Fossiliferous limestone – Limestone containing fossils