Usage:
Alamogordo Member of Lake Valley Limestone (NM*)
Alamogordo Member of Lake Valley Formation (NM*)
Geologic age:
Early Mississippian (Kinderhookian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: Deadman Canyon, in sec. 3, T. 17 S., R. 10 E., near Alamogordo, Otero Co., southern NM (Laudon and Bowsher, 1941).
AAPG geologic province:
Orogrande basin*
Pedregosa 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 ([ ]).