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Geologic Unit: Andrecito

Usage:

Andrecito Member of Lake Valley Limestone (NM*)
Andrecito Member of Lake Valley Formation (NM*)


Geologic age:

Early Mississippian (Kinderhookian)*


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

Type section: along south wall of Andrecito Canyon, in NW/4 sec. 8, T. 18 S., R. 4 E., San Andres Mountains, [Dona Ana Co.], southern NM (Laudon and Bowsher, 1949).


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 ([ ]).