Usage:
Aden Basalt Flow of Potrillo Volcanics (NM)
Aden Basalt (NM)
Geologic age:
Quaternary
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
[Type locality not stated.] "Named" on map legend. Unit mapped in southwestern part of Las Cruces 7.5-min quadrangle, southwestern NM (Kottlowski, 1960).
AAPG geologic province:
Orogrande 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 ([ ]).