- Usage in publication:
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- Nambe Member
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Sandstone
- Sand
- Silt
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Estancia basin
- San Juan basin
Summary:
Pg. 45-53. Nambe Member of Tesuque Formation of Santa Fe Group. Predominantly alluvial fan deposits. Consists of: (1) lower arkosic conglomeratic sandstone; and (2) upper sand, silt, bentonitic and ashy strata, and conglomeratic lenses. Color is a distinctive light pink to light red. Thickness at type section 450 feet. Nonconformably overlies crystalline rocks or Picuris Tuff; underlies Skull Ridge Member of Tesuque Formation. Fossiliferous. Age is middle Miocene (late Hemingfordian), based on fossils.
Type locality: in parts of secs. 11, 13, and 14, T. 20 N., R. 9 E., and in part of sec. 18, T. 20 N., R. 10 E., Santa Fe Co., north-central NM.
Type section: in sec. 11, T. 20 N., R. 9 E., Santa Fe Co., north-central NM.
Named from the Nambe Indian Pueblo, 6 mi to south.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1520, p. 217); GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).
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