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Geologic Unit: Pueblo Creek

Usage:

Pueblo Creek Formation of Datil Group (NM*)


Geologic age:

Tertiary*
Oligocene*


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

Type area: from Aspen Mountain, in Bull Basin quadrangle, to 2 km south of mouth of Bear Canyon, in Saliz Pass quadrangle, Catron Co., NM (Ratte, 1989).


AAPG geologic province:

Basin-and-Range province*


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 ([ ]).