Usage:
Bunker Trachyandesite (CO*)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (Miocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Notable exposures in Bunker Hill, Sugar Loaf, etc., Silver Cliffs-Rosita region, central southern CO. Forms greater part of Rosita Hills (Cross, 1890).
AAPG geologic province:
Las Vegas-Raton basin*
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 ([ ]).